our friendship, and a sincere heart to our labours. May the entrance be a sweet recollection to him. May each visit improve his hopes and enlarge his virtues. May our virtues shine together with brighter light, and the everHasting glory of our God be upon us, Amen.

ANOTHER.

At raising a brother to the sublime degree of a Master Mason.

Thou, O God! knowest our down. sitting and our up rising, and understandest our thoughts afar off.

Shield and defend us from the evil intentions of our enemies, and support us under the trials and afflictions we are destined to endure, while travelling through this vale of tears. Man that is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee; thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot

pass; turn from him that he may rest, till he shall accomplish his day. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. But man dieth and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up, so man lieth down, and riseth not up till the heavens shall be no more. Yet, O Lord! have compassion on the children of thy creation, administer them comfort in time of trouble, and save them with an everlasting salvation..... Amen.

Response by the brethren-So mote it be, or Amen.

ANOTHER.

At the constitution of a Lodge. Great, Adorable and Supreme Being! We praise thee for all thy mercies, and especially for giving us desires to enjoy, and powers of enjoying the delights of society. The affections, which thou hast implanted in us, and

which we cannot destroy without violence to our nature, are among the chief blessings which thy benign wisdom hath bestowed upon us: Help us duly to improve all our powers to the promotion of thy glory in the world, and the good of our fellow creatures. May we be active under thy divine light, and dwell in thy truth.

Extend thy favour to us who are now entering into a fraternal compact under peculiar obligations. Enable us to be faithful to thee, faithful in our callings in life, faithful Masons in all the duties of the Craft, and faithful to each other as members of this society. Take us under the shadow of thy protection; and to thy service and glory may we consecrate our hearts. May we always put faith in thee, have hope in salvation, and be in charity with all mankind. Amen.

ANOTHER

To thee we lift up our hearts, Great Nature's adorable and wondrous Architect, Almighty Parent of the world, wise Former of man; imploring on

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this, and all our other laudable undertakings, thy favour, thy blessing, thy aid; without which, vain and fruitless are all the efforts of feeble man.

It is from thee, that we have received the heart to feel, the hand to labour, the eye to behold, the ear to hear, the tongue to proclaim; and all the faculties which make us partakers of natural, and susceptible of moral good! Teach us, then, to delight in them, to improve them as thy blessing: And, through the beauty, order, and excellence of created things, to view, contemplate, and adore thy uncreated excellence and beauty.

Formed as thy temple, and enriched with thy wisdom, we look up to thee, to inspire us with understanding, with science, with virtue, with all that can dignify, refine, and exalt our nature, and render the temple at least not whol ly unworthy of its sacred inhabitant.

Enable us to perform every duty with exactness and honour; and, by our attention to all the sweet and blessed offices the endearing charities of social life in particular; teach us to

win those who unite in those tender offices with us: And as fathers, husbands, friends-as worthy men and worthy Masons-to distinguish and adorn our profession.

And while, through thy bounty, rich Dispenser of every blessing! our cups overflow with plenteousness, and wine, and corn, and oi, delight and cheer our boards, O may our full hearts never be wanting in gratitude, and in the voice of thanksgiving to thee; in liberal sentiments towards every laudable undertaking; in the quickest sensibility and readiest relief we can give to the woes and distresses of our fellow creatures-of all mankindof every being, universal Lord, who bears thine image, and looks up to thy providence, who is fed by thy hand, hopes for thy future and all comprehending mercy, and can and will triumphantly unite with us-with the general voice of Masons and of men, earnestly and emphatically saying,

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." Amen.