We meet for the purpose of admitting members to our fellowship,    to instruct them in the lessons and principles (of Masonry) and to strengthen each other in adherence thereto,   t  said George W. Speth,   in a public lecture in 1892. We meet to hand down to succeeding generations the knowledge and practice of certain ceremonies, which we have ourselves inherited from our Masonic ancestors, and the analogues of which can be traced in the remotest antiquity... Lastly we meet to practice our three grand principles of Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth.