20 APPENDIX 1. "THE QUALIFICATIONS OF AN ORANGEMAN"

An Orangeman should have a sincere love and veneration for his Heavenly
Father; a humble and steadfast faith in Jesus Christ, the Saviour of
mankind, believing in Him as the only Mediator between God and man. He
should cultivate truth and justice, brotherly kindness and charity, devotion
and piety, concord and unity, and obedience to the laws; his deportment
should be gentle and compassionate, kind and courteous; he should seek the
society of the virtuous, and avoid that of the evil; he should honour and
diligently study the Holy Scriptures, and make them the rule of his faith
and practice; he should love, uphold, and defend the Protestant religion,
and sincerely desire and endeavour to propagate its doctrines and precepts;
he should strenuously oppose the fatal errors and doctrines of the Church of
Rome, and scrupulously avoid countenancing (by his presence or otherwise)
any act or ceremony of Popish Worship; he should, by all lawful means,
resist the ascendancy of that Church, its encroachments, and the extension
of its power, ever abstaining from all uncharitable words, actions, or
sentiments towards Roman Catholics; he should remember to keep holy the
Sabbath day, and attend the public worship of God, and diligently train up
his offspring, and all under his control, in the fear of God, and in the
Protestant faith; he should never take the name of God in vain, but abstain
from all cursing and profane language, and use every opportunity of
discouraging those, and all other sinful practices, in others; his conduct
should be guided by wisdom and prudence, and marked by honesty, temperance,
and sobriety; the glory of God and the welfare of man, the honour of his
Sovereign, and the good of his country, should be the motives of his
actions.