Crime is running rife over the land; our laws are 
deemed inadequate for the emergency and we are ex-
ponents of a vigilance inquisition to promptly execute
and punish the malefactor, the thief, the murderer, the
despoiler of innocence and virtue, the violator of obli-
gation and the desecrator of Masonic vow. Our purpose 
is to strike terror to the beart of the criminal class by
bringring them speedily and without mercy to the block
or to the bowstring of the Mystic Shrine. 
"To arrest, judge and execute within the hour, and 
thus take the law within our own grasp and summarily 
punish the malefactor. Blood for blood and life for 
life, and as our fleet-footed justice overtakes and pun-
ishes the evil-doer, aye, even in the heat of misdeed, it
will be a lesson to those who remain and know not the 
fate of the departed. 
"The day is not far distant when the name and the 
escutcheon of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine will 
strike a pallid terror to the wild devouring element of
crime, and the thankful prayers of the unprotected will
attest the justice of our cause. 
"I will now invest you with the salutations, signs,
grips and passwords of our order, 

Captain of the Guard. (discovering a member with
a female in the Temple in disguise, shouts)- "Most 
Noble Prophet and High Priest, a spy, an intruder, a
traitor is in the Temple!"
 All arise; confusion.    Officers of Ceremonies, Guide
and Priest proceed to the scene, 
Captain of the Guard.-"Most Noble Priest, I have but 
now discovered an intruder accompanied by a woman 
both without Secret Pass have gained admission into 
Temple." 
Pointed out and mask removed: 
Priest-"By our faith, Nobles, we are betrayed!" 
Both are seized by the Oriental Guide and Marshal 
and surrounded by Inquisitors, exclaiming,: 
"To the executioner with them!" 
Poeentate-Hold! stand all apart; disrobe our mantle