IT is rendered ftill more fecure if the members grow more and more united in judgment and affection to each other, and in their attachment to the antient constitutions, privileges and principles of the craft. This is the more neceffary at the present day, because one of our most formidable opponents commences the deduction of his "Proofs" with an account of " the fchifms in Mafonry."

LET me, therefore, in the third place, enjoin it upon you to be of one mind.

AMONG the variety of duties incumbent upon you, remember that there is none more effential to the preservation, none more efficacious to the welfare of our inftitution than UNANIMITY. This makes the cement, the great principle of cohesion, which gives compactnefs to all the parts and members; forms them into a regular ftructure, into one uniform building; and adds harmony and beauty, firmness and ftability to the whole, Or, it may be likened to the key-stone which compacts and strengthens the arch on which the edifice is fupported and upheld.

A CORDIAL affection is the life and foul of all focieties, and must be much more so of those who pretend to affociate together upon the nobleft maxims of charity and friendship.

UNITY is the golden chain which binds our willing hearts, and holds together our happy fociety: the principle on which depends its internal harmony and its outward prosperity.

JARS and difcords among the brethren will not only loosen the cement of the well joined fabric, but fap its very foundation. "Need I mention, fays a Rev. Brother, need I mention the malicious triumph which any schism or conteft among us would give to the enemies of our antient Craft? A factious spirit would foon check the progress of true Masonry, and ftrengthen every vulgar preju dice against us."*

As in the erecting of the temple of SOLOMON every thing was fo prepared that "there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was building;"

Dr. JAMES GRANT's Sermon at Greenwich, June 24, 1774.

fo of Free Mafons it has always been the boast that they perfect the work of edification by quiet and orderly methods, "without the hammer of contention, the axe of divifion, or any tool of mischief."

I SPEAK then a language harmonious in your ears and congenial to your hearts, when I fay that you are "kindly affectioned one to another." and "perfectly joined together in the fame mind and the fame judgment ;' walking by one rule and following the fame thing.

HAVING but one intereft and one object; the benefit and the advancement of the whole; be perfuaded to pursue it with concurring harmony and joint agreement. While particularly interested in the welfare of the lodge to which you individually belong, be regardful of the general welfare. And let there be no other conteft among you than that moft honorable of all contefts, who fhall do the most good.

"BEHOLD, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard; that went down to the skirts of his garments. As the dew of Her mon, and as the dew that defcended upon the mountains of Zion; for there the LORD commanded the bleffing, even life forevermore !"

To bind you more firmly together in the bonds of unity, and to ftrengthen the ties of brotherly love, has been an aim ever kept in view in my difcourfes before the fraternity: and, in this my final address, "I beseech you, brethren, that ye all speak the fame thing, and that there be no divifions among you !" "Fulfil ye my joy that ye be like-minded, having the fame love, being of one accord, of one mind."

I have but one direction more.

LIVE IN PEACE,

THIS is a natural effect, and will be the certain refult of that unanimity and concord of which I have just spoken.

So often have I, on former occafions, expatiated upon the pacific genius of Free Mafonry, and on the neceffity and beauty of a correfpondent conduct in its members, that I need now only repeat my carnest defires that you would invariably, unitedly, and affectionately "follow after peace," and "ftudy the things that make for peace" and are conducive to mutual edification.

It has been well obferved that, "no fplendor of talents, no endowment of body or mind, can be put in competition with those humble but lovely virtues which serve to make us endearing and endeared. Abilities alone may excite admiration, the tribute of the UNDERSTANDING ; but, joined with amenity of manners, they never fail to conciliate affection, the better tribute of the HEART."

LET it always be known that we belong to a fociety, cemented by union, and edified with peace where all the members are inviolably attached to the general good, and harmoniously confpire in its promotion; where unfeigned affection prevails; where