Behaviour
Section 32. A Brother violating any of the provisions of these By-Laws, or behaving in such a manner as to disturb the harmony of the lodge, may be admonished by the Worshipful Master, or after due trial, subjected to such punishment as the brethren may have the power to inflict; or his case may be reported to a higher authority.
By-Laws for the Government and Regulation of Centennial-King George Lodge No. 171

I now present to you the W.T. of a F.C. They are the Square, the Level, and the Plumb-rule. The Square is to try and to adjust rectangular corners of buildings and to assist in bringing rude matter into due form. The Level is to try and to prove horizontals; and the Plumb-rule is to try and to adjust uprights, when fixing them in place. However, we are not operative Masons, but rather free and accepted or speculative Masons; we therefore apply these tools figuratively to our morals. In this sense, the Square teaches us to regulate our lives and actions by the Masonic rule and line, and so to correct and harmonize our conduct as to render us acceptable to the Divine Being, from Whom all goodness emanates, and to Whom we must give an undisguised account of our lives and actions. The Level demonstrates that we all spring from the same stock, partake of the same nature, and share in the same hope; and although distinctions among men are necessary to preserve subordination and to reward merit and ability, yet no eminence of station in life should make us forget that we are brothers, and that he who is placed on the lowest spoke of fortune’s wheel is as much entitled to our regard as he who has attained the highest; because the time will come, and the best and wisest know not how soon, when all distinctions save those of goodness and virtue shall cease, and death, the grand leveller of human greatness, shall reduce us all to the same level. The infallible Plumb-rule, which, like Jacob’s ladder, connects Heaven and Earth, and is the criterion of rectitude and truth, teaches us that to walk uprightly and with humility before God, turning neither to the right nor left from the path of virtue, is a duty incumbent upon every Freemason. It also teaches each one of us not to be a persecutor, a slanderer, or a reviler of religion; not to bend towards avarice, injustice, malice, revenge, or the envy and contempt of our fellow-creatures; but to give up every selfish propensity which might injure others. To steer the bark of this life over the seas of passion without quitting the course of rectitude is the highest perfection to which human nature can attain. As the builder raises his column by the Level and the Plumb-rule, so ought every Freemason to carry himself uprightly in this life, to observe a due medium between avarice and profusion, to hold the scales of justice with equal poise, and to make his passions and prejudices, coincide with the exact lines of his duty. In all his pursuits a Freemason should have eternity in view. So the Square teaches us morality, the Level equality, and the Plumb-rule justness and uprightness of life and action. Thus, by square conduct, level steps, and upright actions, we hope to ascend to those ethereal mansions where the Just will assuredly receive their reward.
The Canadian Working of British Columbia.

The consequences of the action of Union Lodge in joining the Grand Lodge of British Columbia did not end there so far as RW Brother Henry Holbrook was concerned. At a meeting of Union Lodge held prior to the abandonment of the English charter (it is now impossible to ascertain whether it was the one at which it refused to recognize his jurisdiction and the Lodge’s appeal to MW Brother Powell to lay the Foundation of the Mortuary Chapel, or whether it was the one at which it resolved to abandon the English warrant and come under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia), RW Brother Holbrook was present and, after a heated argument during which all the other members opposed him, he refused to obey the commands of the WM and left the Lodge without his permission and without the customary salutation of respect to his position. In October, 1872, the Lodge wrote the GrS for instructions as to what course should be pursued, and he advised that RW Brother Holbrook should again be asked to apologize. If he still refused to do so, the Lodge should exclude him from membership, but the GM would be glad if he could be prevailed upon to retain his membership in the Craft in the province. It was evident that Brother Holbrook would not apologize, and again the Lodge sought advice as to what could be done. The GM approved the action of the Lodge in calling any brother to account for non-obedience to the WM in Lodge assembled, and asserted that no brother, however high in possession, could be justified in leaving that Lodge without his permission and on salutation. It appears that Brother Holbrook had been suspended pending action by the United Grand Lodge of England, but it no longer had any authority in British Columbia, and the GM suggested that the Lodge, in default of an apology, should dispose of the matter by ordinary form of trial, and on conviction impose a penalty of suspension, admonition, or exclusion, as the Constitution directed. The GM, however, counseled reciprocal moderation on the part of RW Brother Holbrook and the Lodge, and trusted that the lapse of time might have softened the ill feelings of the past, and that RW Brother Holbrook might be willing to submit to the wishes of the British Columbia brethren and pay due respect to the ancient charges "which so often have had his solemn assent" No doubt that the Lodge acted on the advice of the GM; that no apology was made; and that the usual proceedings, in such cases were taken, charges laid, summons served, and hearing ordered; and on that hearing, which Holbrook probably did not attend, he was suspended for un-Masonic Conduct. In the Proceedings of Grand Lodge of 1873, there appears the name "Henry Holbrook" under the heading "Suspended for un-Masonic Conduct." In view of the contribution Henry Holbrook has made to Freemasonry, it would seem to be unfortunate and unfair to him that such an entry should be made in the published records of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia without some explanation. "Un-Masonic Conduct" might include any form of criminality and Henry Holbrook was no criminal. In a fit of passion, he may have transgressed some of the Rules of the Craft, and no doubt he did, but his contribution to the Craft was really tremendous as we shall endeavour to portray in the next few paragraphs.