o."

8th.--You promise to act honorably in all matters of office or
vocation, even to the value of the one-third part of a Roman
penny, and never to take any advantage therein unworthy the best
countenance of your companions, and this, that they shall not, by
your unworthiness, be brought into disrepute? "I do."

THIRD OBLIGATION.--I do now, by the hopes and power of the mark of
the Holy and Illustrious Order of the Cross, which I do now hold
to Heaven in my right hand as the earnest of my faith, and in the
dread presence of the most holy and Almighty God, solemnly swear
and declare that I do hereby accept of, and forever will consider
the cross and mark of this order as my only hope: that I will make
it the test of faith and fellowship; and that I will effect its
objects and defend its mysteries to the end of my days, with my
life and with my property--and first, that in the state of
collision and misunderstanding impiously existing among the
princes and pilgrims, defenders and champions of the Holy Cross of
Jesus our Lord, now assembled in the land and city of their peace,
and considering that the glory of the Most High requires the
greatest and strictest unanimity of measures and arms, the most
sacred union of sentiment and brotherly love in the soldiers who
there thus devote themselves to his cause and banner, I swear
strictly to dedicate myself, my life, and my property forever
hereafter to his holy name and the purposes of our mark, and to
the best interest of all those who thus with me become Knights of
the Cross: I swear forever to give myself to this holy and
illustrious order, confiding fully and unreservedly in the purity
of their morals and the ardor of their pious enthusiasm, for the
recovery of the land of their fathers, and the blessed clime of
our Lord's sufferings, and never to renounce the mark of the order
nor the claims and welfare of my brethren.

2d.--And that the holy and pious enthusiasm of my brethren may not
have slander or disgrace at my hands, or the order be injured by
my unworthiness, I swear forever to renounce tyranny and
oppression in my own person and place, whatever it may be, and to
stand forth against it in others, whether public or private; to
become the champion of the cross, to observe the common good; be
the protector of the poor and unfortunate; and ever to observe the
common rights of human nature