Merit

from the book Encylcopedia of Freemasonry & its Kindred Sciences
by Albert C. Mackey M. D.

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Merit - The Old Charges say, "all preferment among Masons is grounded upon real worth and personal merit only; that so the Lords Man be well served, the Brethren not put to shame, nor the Royal Craft despised. Therefore no Master or Warden is chosen by seniority, but for his merit" (see Preferments)