THE EQUINOX
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 beha-
viour is undesirable during the hours of service, and famili-
arity, subversive as it is of all discipline and order, is to be
avoided by adopting a complete and marked change of man-
ner 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.
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