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Show [ 57 % | Unity, avoiding all Wrangling and Quarrelling, all Slander and Backbiting, nor permitting others to flander any honeft Brother, but defending his Character, and do-in<* him all good Offices, as far as is consistent with your Honour and^Safety, and no farther : A n d if any of them do you Injury, you muft apply to your own or his Lodge, [ and from thence you may appeal to the Grand Lodge at the Quarterly Communication, and from thence to the Annual Grand Lodge, as has been the antient laudable Conduct of our Forefathers in every Nation 5 never taking a legal Courfe, bat when the Cafe cannot be other-wife decided, and patiently liftning to the honeft and friendly Advice of Mafter and Fellows, when they would prevent your going to L a w with S. 'angers, or would excite you to put a fpcedy Period to all Law-Suits, that fo you may mind the Atfair of Mafonrv with the more Alacrity and SucceTij but with refpect to Brothers or Fe'fows at Law, the Mafter and Brethren fhould kindly offer their Mediation, which ought to be thankfully fqb-mitted to by the contending Brethren 5 and if that Sub-mimon is impracticable, they muft however carry on their Procefs or Law-Suit without Wrath and Rancor (not in the common W a y ) faying or doing nothing which may hinder Brotherly-Love, and good Offices to be re-new'd and continu'd 5 that all may fee the benign Influence of Mafonry, as all true Mafons have done from the Beginning of the World, and will do to the E n d of Time. Amenfo mote it be, General |