Brethren, We are about to quit this sacred retreat of friendship and virtue, to mix again with the world. Amidst its concerns and employments forget not the duties which you have heard so frequently inculcated and so forcibly recommended in this lodge.
Be diligent, prudent, temperate, discreet. Remember that around this altar you have promised to befriend and relieve every brother who shall need your assistance.
You have promised, in the most friendly manner to remind him of his errors, and aid a reformation.
These generous principles are to extend further. Every human being has a claim upon your good offices. Do good unto all. Recommend it more especially to “the household of the faithful.”
Finally, Brethren, be ye all of one mind; live in peace; and may the God of love and peace delight to dwell with and bless you.
So mote it be!