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16. Personal or domestic attendants should be chosen from among the
members of the Order when possible, and great tact and courtesy are to
be employed in dealing with them.
17. They, on their part, will render willing and intelligent service.
18. While in Lodge, and on special occasions, they are to be treated
as Brothers, with perfect equality; such behaviour is undesirable
during the hours of service, and familiarity, subversive as it is of
all discipline and order, is to be avoided by adopting a complete and
marked change of manner and address.
19. This applies to all persons in subordinate positions, but not to
the Brethren Servient in the Profess-Houses of the Order, who, giving
service without recompense, are to be honoured as hosts.
20. In case of the sickness of any Brother, it is the duty of all
Brethren who know him personally to attend him, to see that he want
for nothing, and to report if necessary his needs to the Lodge, or to
Grand Lodge itself.
21. Those Brethren who happen to be doctors or nurses will naturally
give their skill and care with even more than their customary joy in
service.
22. All Brethren are bound by their fealty to offer their service in
their particular trade, business, or profession, to the Grand Lodge.
For example, a stationer will supply Grand Lodge with paper, vellum,
and the like; a bookseller offer any books to the Library of Grand
Lodge which the Librarian may desire to possess; a lawyer will execute
any legal business for Grand Lodge, and a railway or steamship owner
or director see to it that the Great Officers travel in comfort
wherever they may wish to go.
23. Visitors from other Lodges are to be accorded the treatment of
ambassadors; this will apply most especially to Sovereign Grand
Inspector Generals of the Order on their tours of inspection. All
hospitality and courtesy shown to such is shown to Ourselves, not to
them only.
SEVENTH HOUSE
24. It is desirable that the marriage partner of any Brother should
also be a member of the Order. Neglect to insist upon this leads
frequently to serious trouble for both parties, especially the
uninitiate.
25. Lawsuits between members of the Order are absolutely forbidden, on
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