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a. Disobedience to the constitutions. And 4. Ceasing to meet for one year or more. To these lam disposed to add, 5. The indiscriminate making of immoral candidates, whereby the reputation of the institution in the vicinity"of the Lodge is impaired. The second mode by which a Lodge may be dissol;ved is by, a voluntary surrender of its warrant. This must be by the act of a majority of the members, and at a communication especially called for that purpose. But it has been held that tIle Master must concur in this surrender; for, if he does not, being the custodian of the instrument, it cannot be taken from him, except upon trial and conviction ofa competent offence before the Grand Lodge. As the warrant of constitution is so important at. instrulnent, being the evidence of the legality of the Lodge, it is essentially necessary that it should be present and open to tIle inspection of all the members and visitors at ~ach communication of the Lodge. The ritnal requires that the three great lights of Masonry should always be present in the Lodge,* as necessary to its organization ass just • I cannot refrain from quoting here, although not strictly a legal90bjeot, the b-..antiful language of the Committee of Foreign Correspondence of tbfa Grand Lodge of New Jersey, in 1849: 4.( The Bible is found in every Masonic assembly.. Nor ia it there asa '!lighted and neglectedsynlbolof the Order. Upon its pages often resta 1be band and falls the eye of the candidate from the moment the first star of
Masonry riSes upon his vi¡don to l the breaking of the dominion of the infidel over the Holy Sepulcbre, by the tried steel and strong arm of valoroul Jmip:ht'. To the authority of that volume Masonry appeals for the solemnity rlherobUgations and the purity of her principles. It shines in her templel