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Rh support these regulations, as Masters have done in all ages before you?

The Master is to answer, I do.

The presiding officer then addresses him :

Brother A. B., in consequence of your cheerful conformity to the charges and regulations of the Order, you are now to be installed Master of this new Lodge, in full confidence of your care, skill, and capacity to govern the same.

The new Master is then regularly invested with the insignia of his office, and the furniture and implements of his Lodge, accompanied by the following charge:

The Holy Writings, that Great Light in Masonry, will guide you to all truth: it will direct your path to the temple of happiness, and point out to you the whole duty of man.

The Square teaches us to regulate our actions by rule and line, and harmonize our conduct by the principles of morality and virtue.

The Compasses teach us to limit our desires in every station; that rising to eminence by merit, we may live respected and die regretted.

The Rule directs that we should punctually observe our duty; press forward in the path of virtue, and neither inclining to the right