II. Our Morality. — Sound morality is the second dis-

position required in our society. Let a man's religion or mode of it be what it will,, we do not exclude him from the benefits and advantages of oar Order, provided he believes in the glorious Architect of heaven and earth,
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and practices the sacred duties of morality. We are directed to expand our hearts with the most generous sentiments, to root out bigotry, and stop the cruel hand of persecution. We are bid to unite with virtuous men of the most distant countries and opposite opinions ; to unite with them in the firm and pleasing bond of fra- ternal love; to regard them with the truest affection.
As a severe, cruel, gloomy, and unsociable philosophy disgusts men with virtue, we are desirous of rendering it amiable by the allurements of innocent pleasures, agreeable music, pure joy, and rational gayety. Our sen- timents are not what the profane world and ignorant vulgar imagine them to be; all the vices of the heart are banished from them, as well as irreligion, libertinism, ex- cess and debauchery.
We banish from our Lodge every dispute which may tend to alter the tranquillity of the mind and gentleness of the manner, or to destroy those sentiments of friend- ship and that perfect harmony to be found only in the retrenching all indecent excesses and discordant pas- sions.
The obligations that are laid upon us are to protect 3ur brethren by our authority, to enlighten them by our understanding, to edify them by our virtues, to sacrifice every personal resentment toward them, and diligently to seek for every thing that will best contribute to the peacej concord, and credit of our society.