See preceding Section.
[72] Masonry founded on Scripture, a Sermon preached in 1752, by the Rev.
W.Williams.
[73] That is, advance him, from the subordinate position of a serving man or Apprentice, to that of a Fellow Craft or journeyman.
[74] This is also the regulation of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina.
[75] Proceedings of Grand Lodge of New York, for 1845.

He excepts, of course, from the operation of the rule, those made by dispensation; but this exception does not affect the strength of the principle.
[76] Preston, edition of Oliver, p.

12 (U.M.L., vol.iii., p.

10).
[77] Transactions of the G.L.of New York, anno 1848, p.

73.
[78] Edition of 1723, page 71 (U.M.L., vol.xv., book 1, p.