You must employ him some days, or else recommend him to be employed.

But you are not charged to do beyond your ability, only to prefer a poor Brother, that is a good man and true, before any other people in the same circumstances." This law thus laid down, includes, it will be perceived, as two important prerequisites, on which to found a claim for relief, that the person applying shall be in distress, and that he shall be worthy of assistance.
He must be in distress.

Ours is not an insurance company, a joint stock association, in which, for a certain premium paid, an equivalent may be demanded.

No Mason, or no lodge, is bound to give pecuniary or other aid to a Brother, unless he really needs.

The word " benefit," as usually used in the modern friendly societies, has no place in the vocabulary of Freemasonry.