7°
Provost and Judge
The
Seventh Degree, or Provost and Judge, has for its chief lesson the great
principle of justice. Those with the power of judgement should judge impartially
without any personal consideration, without prejudice or preconception
and without haste. Two kinds of injustice may be done a fellow-man, one
where a man does an injury to another, the other where he fails to avert
an injury both by God and man, yet the consequences remain. In judging
a wrong we should remember the motive and temptation. Some men are born
with noble instincts, while others are less fortunate. Perhaps the man
who leads a clean life has never had the temptation which came to his fallen
brother, so we should judge with charity and pitying kindness.
