V. A Lodge has the right to increase its numbers

by the admission of neiv members. The warrant of constitution having been granted permanently and for the general objects of Masonry, and not for a specific purpose and a prescribed period, as is the case with Lodges under dispensation, the quality of perpetuity is granted with it as one of the necessary conditions. But this perpetuity can only be secured by the admission of new members to supply the places of those who die or demit. t This admission may take place either b}^ the initiation of profanes, who acquire by that initiation the right of member- ship, or by the election of unaffiliated Masons. Both of these methods of increasing the members of a Lodge are controlled by certain regulations, which have been already discussed in previous portions of this work, and need not be repeated here. The reader is accordingly referred, for the subject of
* " The majority of every particular Lodge, when congregated, shall have the privilege of giving instructions to their Master and Wardens, before the assembling of the Grand Chapter or Lodge, at the three quarterly com- munications hereafter mentioned, and of the annual Grand Lodge too ; be- cause their Master and Wardens are their representatives, and are supposed to speak their mind." — Regulations of 1721, article x., Anderson, firs* edit., page 61.
T See Landmark. 10 and 12, ante,p. 26.
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admission by initiation, to Book III., chap. III., sec. I., p. 180, and for that of admission by election to the succeeding section of the same chapter, p. 196. The subject of honorary membership has also been fully discussed in pages 189-192.*