Your regular and early attendance will afford the best proof of your zeal and attachment to the Lodge.
THE TILER.
Brother T. U., you are appointed Tiler of this Lodge; and I invest you with the implement of your office. As the Sword is placed in the hands of the Tiler to enable him effectually to guard against the approach of cowans and eavesdroppers, and suffer none to pass or repass but such as are duly qualified; so it should morally serve as a constant admonition to us, to set a guard at the entrance of our thoughts; to place a watch at the door of our lips; to post a sentinel at the avenue of our actions, thereby excluding every unqualified and unworthy thought, word, and deed; and preserving consciences void of offense toward God and toward man.
Your early and punctual attendance will afford the best proof of your zeal for the institution.
The officers having been thus installed, the new Master returns thanks, and the new officers resign their stations and places to the old officers, not to resume them again until St. John the Evangelist's day, when the Masonic year commences, unless the installation should have taken place on that day.
The Lodge is then closed.
