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UNABRIDGED EDITION
Shaver's
masonic monitor,
CONTAINING
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THE EXOTERIC RITUAL OF THE WORK AND LECTURES OF THE THREE DEGREES OF
ANCIENT CRAFT MASONRY;

TO
WHICH
IS
ADDED
THE ANCIENT CEREMONIES OF THE ORDER, AND THE RITUAL OF A DOD'tE OF SORROW.
Compiled in Strict Confor-niity with
THE WORK.
WILLIAM M. SHAVER,
Past Grand Master of the M.'.W.'.Grand Lodge of Kansas,
COMPILER AND EDITOR.
TENTH EDITION.
TOPEKA, KANSAS:
WM.
M.
SHAVER
and A. K. WILSON, Publishers.
1907.
M\N.
Copyright,
1892,
BY
William M. Shavkr and Henry F, Toevs.
Copyright,
1899,
BY
William M. Shaver and Albert K. Wilson.
PRESS OF KETCHESON PRINTING CO. LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS.
OFFICIAL ADOPTIONS.
KANSAS. 1893. At the 37th Annual Communication of the M.-.W.-. Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. M. of Kansas^ held at Hutchinson February 15 and 16. A. D. 1893, A. L. 5893, the following action was taken M.-. W.-. David B. Fuller, Grand Master, in his annual address, recommended: " It is further recommended that Shaver's Monitor,' so-called be adopted as the Official Monitor of this Grand
:
'
Jurisdiction."
(See Proceedings
1893,
page
168.)
This address was referred to the Committee on Reports of Grand Officers, which reported "That so relative to this recommendation: much of said address as relates to the adoption of 'Shaver's Monitor,' so-called, be approved." This report was adopted by the Grand Lodge. (See same Proceedings, pages 196 and 198.)
OKLAHOMA,
1894.
At the 2d Annual Communication of the M.-.W.-. Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. M. of Oklahoma, held at Guthrie February 13 and 14, A. I>. 1894, A, L. 5894, the following action was taken "Onmotionof Bro.DouGLAS,the Grand Lodge adopted Shaver's Masonic Monitor as the Standard Monitor for the Jurisdiction of Oklahoma."
(
See Proceedings
1894,
page
41.)
995155
Certificate of Endorsement.
*THE
Monitor of Ancient Craft Masonry,
complied by Bro. William
M. Shaver,
Custodian of the Work, conforms to the
Work
fully
of the M.-.
W/. Grand
to the Craft.
Lodge of A. F.
and A. M. of Kansas, and as such we cheer-
commend
it
jas. p.
howe,
pond,
Geo.
F.
Custodians cf the Work, Grand Lodge of Kansas.
February,
1892.
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.

^T^HE demand
State, for
of the Craft throughout the
a practical, working-text Pocket Monitor of the Three Degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry, arranged in conformity with THE WORK in this Grand Jurisdiction, is the only excuse offered for this publication. The original editions of the Monitor popularly known as the "Kansas Monitor," being completely exhausted, the Compiler deemed it wisest to prepare this work from the original standards, rather than issue a corrected reprint of a work in which, unquestionablywere errors. The basis of the present Monitor will be found to be Webb's Freemason's Monitor, er'-tion of 1816, arranged in the form of working-text, according to the best standards,
in the precise order required in the Ritual.
and
In his researches in the preparation of this
work, the Compiler has found many, gems*
which he believes will be welcomed by the numerous band of Masonic workers who delight to embellish their monitorial ritual, and these are placed in proper position, in the form
of optional matter.
Not only the
Installation
Ceremony and the
Burial Service, but also a full compilation of
the Ancient Ceremonies, and the Ritual of a
Lodge
of Sorrow,
have been added, and,
it is
believed will be appreciated.
The Compiler acknowledges with

tude, the
grati-
kindly words of encouragement and advice received by him from eminent Craftsmen over the State, during the pro-
many
gress of this work, space alone preventing a
more extended acknowledgment. That the result of their joint efforts may meet the approval of their brethren, is the hope of Compiler and Publisher as they start
forth this
little
volume.
William M. Shaver,
Compiler.
January
i,
1892.
CONTENTS.
Page.
Opening and Closing the Lodge.

Forms of Prayer at Opening A Charge used at Opening Forms of Prayer at Closing
Benediction at Closing
13
14
15
17 17
Opening and Closing Odes

Section
The Degree of Entered apprentice.

i.
'
Interrogatories
21
Address to Candidate Prayer at Initiation

Scriptural Recitation
22
24 24
25
Light----
Great Lights Apron Lecture Another Form of Apron LectureAnother Form of Apron Lecture-
25
26 26 28
32
Working Tools
Sectio7t 2,
The Badge
of a
Mason
35
CONTENTS.
Section s.
A Lodge
The Form
Supports
36
36
36
37
Covering
Furniture
38
Ornaments
Lights
40 42
42
43
Jewels
How
To
Situated
Whom Dedicated Tenets Four Cardinal Virtues

Charge
44
45
47
51
The Degree of fellow Craft.

Section
j.
54
Working Tools
Section
2.
54
56
57
Operative Masonry
Speculative
Masonry
Globes
Of
the Globes
of the
58
The Use
5^
::
CONTENTS.
Of Order in Architecture Of its Antiquity

The Five Orders
Tuscan
Doric
Ionic
59
59
60
61
62
62
63 63
Corinthian
Of the
Of
Invention of this Order.
Composite
the Invention of Order in Architecture

of
64
The Five Senses

ture
:
Human
Na65
Hearing
Seeing
Feeling
66
67
Smelling
Tasting
67 68
The
Seven
Liberal Sciences
Arts
and
70
70
71
Grammar
Rhetoric
Logic
Arithmetic
71
lo
CONTENTS.
Geometry Of the Advantages

try
72
of
Geome72
73
73
Music
Astronomy
Music [Second Form of Lecture]
74
82
Of
the Moral Advantages of Geo-
metry
Charge
84
The Degree of master mason.

Section
i.
86
87 89
91
Working Tools
Section 2.
Masonic Dirge
Prayer at Raising a Brother Another Form of Prayer Lecture
Section j
92
93
King Solomon's Temple

Descriptive Lecture on the
ple
97
Tem99
CONTENTS.
H
103
103
The Three Steps inePotof Incense The Bee Hive Tha Book of Constitutions,
Guarded by the Tyler's Sword The Sword, Pointing to a Naked
Heart
103
104
105
105
The Anchor and Ark The Forty-Seventh Problem

Euclid
of
106
106
107
iii
The Hour Glass The Scythe

Lecture on Masonic Symbolism.-
Charge
Section i.
129
ANCIENT CEREMONIES OF THE ORDER.

General Regulations for Processions
132
Section 2.
Consecration,
Dedication
a
and
Constitution of
New
137
137
Lodge
General Remarks
CONTENTS.
Consecration Dedication
Constitution Section 3
140
__
.
154
155
156
Installation of Officers of a Lodge.
Section
4.
Installation
of
Officers
of
the
183
Grand Lodge
Section 5.
Laying Foundation Stones

Section
6.
209
225
Dedication of Masonic Halls Section 7.

Festival
Days
240
241
Section
8.
Grand
Section
Visitations
p.
Masonic Funeral Services General Directions Service in the Lodge-Room--Service at the House or Church
Service at the
Ritual for a
243
244 248
257
Grave
of
267
283
Lodge
Sorrow
OPENING AND CLOSING THE LODGE.

A FORM OF PRAYER THAT MAY BE USED AT OPENING THE LODGE.
Supreme Architect of Most merciful God Heaven and Earth! We beseech Thee to guide and protect these, Thy servants here
I
assembled, and fulfill at this time, that divine promise Thou wert pleased to make, to those who should be gathered together in Thy
Name.
Teach us
to
know and
serve Thee aright.

all all
Bless and prosper us in

/nay tend to
of
undertakings, and grant, that
our laudable our conduct
Thy
glory, to the
finally, to
advancement
Masonry, and
Response:
our salvation.
Amen!
So mote
it
be
ANOTHER FORM OF PRAYER THAT MAY BB USED AT OPENING THE LODGE.
Most hdy and glorious Lord God! The Great Architect of the Universe ! The Giver
13
14
OPENING AND CLOSING.
of
all good gifts and graces! Thou hast promised, that where two or three are gathered together in Thy Name, Thou wilt be in the
midst of them, and bless them. In Thy Name we assemble, most humbly beseeching Thee to bless wsin all our undertakings, that we may know and serve Thee aright, and that all our actions may tend to Thy glory, and to our
knowledge and virtue. Lord God, to bless our present assembling, and to illumi-
advancement
in
And we
beseech Thee,
nate our minds, through the intercession of

the Son of Righteousness, that
in
we may walk
;
countenance and when the trials of our probationary state are over, be admitted into THE TEMPLE not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens. Amen
the light of
!
Thy
Response:
So mote
it
be
A CHARGE USED AT OPENING THE LODGE.
Behold,
how good and how
pleasant
!
it is
for brethren to dv/ell together in unity

It
is
like the precious
head, that ran
down upon
ointment upon the the beard, even

:
IS
of his
Aaron's beard that went down to the skirts garments

;
As
the
dew
of
Hermon, and as the dew that

:
descended upon the mountains of Zion

there the Lord
life
for
commanded
the blessing, even
for evermore.
[Psalm CXXXIII.]
A FORM OF PRAYER THAT MAY BE USED AT CLOSING THE LODGE.
Supreme Architect of the Universe Achumble praises for the many mercies and blessings which Thy bounty has conferred on us, and especially for this friendly and
!
cept our
social intercourse.
Pardon,
we beseech
Thee,^
whatever Thou hast seen amiss in us since we have been together and continue to us Thy presence, protection and blessing. Make us sensible of the renewed obligations we are under to love Thee supremely, and to be
;
friendly to each other.
May
all
our irregular
daily
passions
be subdued, and
Faith,
in
may we
increase in
more especially
Hope and Charity; but that Charity, which is the
l6

of peace, and the perfection of every
bond
tliat,
virtue.
May we
so practice Tliy precepts,
through the merits of the Redeemer,

promises, and
we
may finally obtain Thy

and City
of our
entrance through the gates into
fmd an the Temple
God
Amen
it
Response:
So mote
be
ANOTHER FORM OF PRAYER THAT MAY BE USED AT CLOSING THE LODGE.
Great and glorious Lord God Ruler of Heaven and Earth We are now about to separate, and return to our respective places of abode. Grant that every brother may practice out of the Lodge those great duties which are inculcated in it, and with reverence study and obey the laws which Thou hast given us in Thy Holy Word and grant, O Lord! that brotherly love may prevail, and
! !
every moral and social virtue
cement
us.
Amen
Response:
So mote
it
be

BENEDICTION USED AT CLOSING THE LODGE.
May
and
all
the blessing of Heaven rest upon us, May brotherly love regular Masons
!
prevail,
and every moral and

!
social virtue
cement us Response:
Amen
So mote
it
be
The
following
Odes may be used
AN OPENING ODE.
Tune: Evan.
C.
M.
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in
our
tern
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gain,
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We'll raise our notes of grate-ful praise,
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With
nn
in
our
sonsf.
9^^^^S &
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Around our
altar's sacred shrine
Love's pure incense rise, Bearing upon its mystic flame Our music to the skies
!
May
"9
A CLOSING ODE.
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our so
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la
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fi
.
con
dence
re-
pos -ing,
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storm-y
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Thus
we'll pass life's
L^.'
cean.

OPENING
AN/) CLOSING.
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Kind -est
tho'ts
that ne'er de
cay.
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Land-ing
on
:l
hap- pier shore.
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fcf
d
in
:^
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Let US
each,
Time's commotion,
S^*^
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1 ,
*3*:
It
THE DEGREE OF ENTERED

APPRENTICE.
FIRST SECTION,
INTERROGATORIES TO BE PROPOUNDED TO A CANDIDATE PREVIOUS TO INITIATION.
Do you
friends,
seriously declare, upon your honor,
gentlemen, that, unbiased by and uninfluenced by mercenary motives, you freely and voluntarily offer yourself a candidate for the mysteries of Masonry? To be answered: I do. Do you seriously declare, upon your honor, before these gentlemen, that you are prompted to solicit the privileges of Masonry by a
before these
favorable opinion conceived of the Institution,
desire of
knowledge, and a sincere wish of
being serviceable to your fellow-creatures? To be answered: I do.
Do you
seriously declare,
before these gentlemen, that
upon your honor, you will cheer-
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ENTERED APPtÊNTlCE.
fully
conform to all the ancient established usages and customs of the fraternity?
To be answered:
do.
ADDRESS TO THE CANDIDATE.
As you have petitioned for Mr. admission into our Ancient and Honorable Order, and have been accepted by a unanimous ballot, it becomes my duty to inform
:
you that the Institution of which you are about to become a member, is by no means of a light and trifling character, but of high importance and due solemnity. Masonry consists of a course of hieroglyphical and moral instruction, taught agreeably to ancient usage, by types, emblems and allegorical figures. Even the ceremony of
your gaining admission within these walls is emblematical of an event which must sooner It is emblemor later overtake all mankind.
atical,
at
least
in
some small degree,
of
nothing less than your last great change, your transition from Time to Eternity.
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
2^
You are aware that whatever a man may have gained here on earth, whether of titles,
wealth, honors, or even his
own
merit, can
never serve him as a passport to the
Grand
but previous to his gaining admission there he must become poor and destitute, blind and naked, dependent upon the Sovereign Will of our Supreme Grand Master he must be divested of the rags of
;
;
Lodge above
righteousness, and be clothed in a garment furnished him from on high. And in order to impress these truths more deeply upon your mind, it will become necessary,
his
own
agreeably to the usages of Our Order, that
you
*************
to
Are you willing

tions?
[
submit
to these regula-
Candidate assents ] will now leave you in the hands of these true and trusty friends, who will give you all necessary instruction, and prepare you in a suitable manner, as all candidates have been
.
prepared before you.

* * *
* * *
**
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ENTERED APPRENTICE. PRAYER USED AT THE INITIATION OF A CANDIDA! fc.
Vouchsafe Thine
aid,
Almighty Father
of
the Universe, to this our present convention
and grant that this candidate for Masonry dedicate and devote his life to Thy service, and become a true and faithful brother among us Endue him with a competency of Thy divine wisdom, that, by the secrets of our art, he may be better enabled to display the beauties of Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth, to the honor of Thy Holy Name!
may
Amen
***
*
is
/Response:
So mote
*
*****
it
be
SCRIPTURAL RECITATION.
PSALM
CXXXIII.
Behold,
It is
how good and how
pleasant
it
for brethren to dwell together in unity

*
like the precious
ointment upon the
down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon,
head, that ran
:
ENTERED APPRENTICH,
and as the dew that descended upon the

tnountains of Zion
*
For there the

life
Lord
<:ommanded the
blessing, even
for evermore.
iVi
the beginning
earth.
God
created the heaven
and the
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Aiid the Spirit of God moved upon the face
vi the waters.
there
And God said. Let was light.
there be light:
and
In solemn commemoration of that sublime vent
********
GREAT LIGHTS.
taitli
The HOLY BIBLE is the rule and guide of the SQUARE, to square our actions and the COMPASSES, to circumscribe and
;
-3
26
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
keep us in due bounds with all mankind, but more especially with a brother Mason.
APRON LECTURE.
* * * A Lambskin, or White Leather Apron, which is an emblem of innocence, and the badge of a Mason more ancient than the Golden Fleece, or Roman Eagle; more honorable than the Star and Garter, or any other Order that can be conferred upon you at this time, or at any future period, by King, Prince, Potentate, or any other person, except he be a Mason and which I hope you will wear with equal pleasure to yourself and honor to
; ;
the Fraternity.
Take
it,
******
[Or the following Apron Lecture may be

used
*
:]
or White Leather an emblem of innocence, and the badge of a Mason, the distinguished badge of a Mason.
* *
A Lambskin,
is
Apron, which
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
27
It may be that, in the coming years, upon your head shall rest the laurel leaves of victory from your breast may hang jewels fit to grace the diadem of an Eastern Potentate nay, more than these, with light added to the coming light, your ambitious feet may tread round after round of the ladder that leads to fame in our mystic circles, and even the purple of our fraternity rest upon your honored shoulders but never again from mortal hands, never again, until your enfranchised
;
;
spirit shall have passed upward and inward through the pearly gates, shall any honor so distinguished, so emblematical of purity and all perfection, be bestowed upon you as It is yours this which 1 confer to-night. your name is inscribed upon it; yours to wear throughout an honorable life, and at your death to be deposited upon the coffin which incloses your lifeless remains, and with them laid beneath the clods of the valley. Let its pure and spotless surface be to you an ever-present reminder of a " purity of life
and
rectitude
of conduct," a
never-ending
28
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
for
argument
last these
nobler
deeds,
for
higher
at
thoughts, for purer actions.
And when
have come to the end of their toilsome journey, and from your nerveless grasp shall drop forever the working tools of life, may the record of your life and actions be as pure and spotless as the fair emblem which I place within your hands tonight. And when your trembling soul stands naked and alone before the Great White
feet shall
weary
Throne,
may
it
be
your portion, oh!
my
brother, to hear from
Him who
sitteth
as the
Judge Supreme the welcome words of " Well

done, good and faithful servant, enter thou
into the joys of
Thy
Lord."
Take
it,
* * *
[Or
used
*
:]
the following Apron Lecture
maybe
Lambskin, or White Leather of innocence, is an emblem and the badge of a Mason more ancient than the Golden Fleece, or Roman Eagle more honorable than the Star and Garter, or any other Order that can be conferred upon
*
Apron, which
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
29
any future period, by King, Prince, Potentate, or any othier person, except lie be a Mason and wliicii emblem, plain and unadorned, has, from a time whence
you at this time, or
at
;
the
memory
of
man
runneth not to the con-
trary, been the peculiar clothing of all Free
and Accepted Masons.
The
pires,
citizen toiling in
humble poverty, and
the Prince
commanding the resources of emhave alike worn it, in the conscious-
ness that it has lightened the labors of the one and added dignity to the power of the other. It may be that you now are, or yet
will be, so firmly intrenched in the confidence
of your fellow-men, or so deserve their grati-
tude, that they will elevate

position of honor, trust
you to the highest and emolument, and
cause your name to be inscribed high on the Pillar of Worldly Fame, but never before have you had, and never again, my brother, will you have, a higher mark of favor and confidence bestowed upon you than this,
which
I,
as the representative of these breth-
30
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
ren and the Craft throughout the world,
am
about to present to you. This emblem which Solomon wore when arrayed in all his glory, which invested with additional dignity the immortal Washington, and which has been eagerly sought and worthily worn by the best of men of your own generation, I now take pleasure in presenting to you. Its spotless white is emblematical
of that purity of heart

of
and
upright-
ness
manhood
which
we
expect
and
sincerely hope will hereafter distinguish the

all your personal and social affairs. This emblem is now yours to wear, we hope, with equal pleasure to yourself, and honor to the Fraternity. If you disgrace it, the disgrace will be augmented by the consciousness that you have been taught, in this Lodge, the principles of a correct and manly life. It is yours to wear as a Mason so long as the vital spark shall animate your mortal frame and at last, whether in youth, manhood or age, your spirit having winged its flight to that " House not made with hands,'
conduct of
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
3t
when amid
of
the tears and sorrows of surviv-
ing re/atives and friends,
and by the hands
sympathizing brother Masons, your body shall be lowered to the confines of that narrow house appointed for all living, it will still be yours yours to be placed with the evergreen upon the coffin that shall enclose your remains, and to be buried with them.
;
My brother, may you

ever stain
this
its
so
wear
this
emblem
upon
of spotless white that no act of yours shall purity, or cast a reflection
ancient and honorable institution that
has outlived the fortunes of Kings and the mutations of Empires. May you so wear it,
and
" So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night.
Scourged
to his
dungeon,
but, sustained
and soothed
By an
unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
Take
it,
32
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
WORKING TOOLS.
The Working Tools

tice are
of an Entered Appren-
the
TWENTY-FOUR INCH GAUGE

Gavel.
and
Common
The Twenty-four Inch Gauge is an instrument made use of by operative masons to measure and lay out their work but we, as Free and Accepted Masons, are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious purpose of dividing our time. It being divided into twenty-four equal parts, is emblematical of the twenty-four hours of the day, which we are taught to divide into three equal parts, whereby we find eight hours for the service of God and a distressed worthy brother eight hours for our usual avocations and eight for refreshment and sleep.
; ;
[The following clause on the use of the Twenty-four Inch Gauge may be added :]
A proper division of our time, and conforming as nearly as possible to that division, is of great importance in the transaction of
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
33
our worldly business.

set forth, is
The
division
above
admirably contrived for the pro-
motion of our comfort and enjoyments.

portion of our time
service of
is
thus allotted to the
God
of that beneficent
Being to
whom we
are indebted for our existence,
and
on whose bounty
comforts of this
we
life.
are dependent for the
What
duty
is
more
pleasing than that intercourse which every
reasonable creature ought to maintain with

the great Author of his being
?
The Common Gavel is an instrument made use of by operative masons to break

off
fit
the corners of rough stones, the better to

;
them for the builder's use but we, as Free and Accepted Masons, are taught to make use of it for the more noble and glorious
purpose of divesting our minds
sciences of
all
and conlife,
the vices and superfluities of
thereby fitting our bodies, as living stones, for that spiritual building, that " House not
made with hands,"
eternal in the heavens.
34
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
of the
[The following clause on the use Gavel may be added :]
We are
and
admonished by
of
this instrument to
divest our minds and consciences of the vices

superfluities
this
life.
Let
every
is
brother ask himself,
when
if
this instrument
presented before him,
and conduct he adheres to this admonition. Let him endeavor to curb those unruly passions which
in his life
;
produce dissension
ties
restrain those propensi-
and inclinations which lead to vice and folly let him give more attention to the in;
structions
contained in the
Book
of
Life,
which we revere as the guide of our

the rule of our faith, that he
better prepared,
lives
and
may
be the
when
the awful period of his
separation from the things of time and sense
approaches, for the enjoyment of happiness

in another and a better world, where moth and rust corrupt not, nor thieves break through and steal.
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
SECOND SEC HON.
THE BADGE OF A AVASON.

* * * The lamb has in all ages been deemed an emblem of Innocence he, therefore, who wears the Lambskin as a badge of Masonry, is thereby continually reminded of that purity of life and conduct, which is
,
essentially necessary to his gaining admis-
sion into the Celestial
Lodge above, where
the Supreme Architect of the Universe presides.

* * * *
* *
:?
THIRD SECTION.
The Third
Section explains the nature and
principles of our constitution,
and teaches us
to discharge with propriety the duties of our
respective stations.
Here, too,
we
receive
Form, Supports, Covering, Furniture, Ornaments, Lights and

instruction relative to the
Jewels of a Lodge,
how
it
should be situated,
dnd
to
whom
dedicated.
proper attention
36
is
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
also paid to
our ancient and venerable

A LODGE.
patrons.
a certain number of Masons duly assembled, with the Holy Bible, Square and Compasses, and a Charter or Warrant empowering them to work. Our ancient brethren usually met on a high hill, or in a low dale, the better to discover the approach of cowans and eaves* droppers, either ascending or descending.
is
A Lodge
THE FORM.
A LODGE is an oblong. from East to West ; its breadth, from North to South its height, from the Earth to the Heavens its depth, from its circumference to its center. It is of such vast dimensions to show the universality of Masonry, and that Masonic Charity should
The
FORM OF
Its length,
oe equally extensive.
SUPPORTS.
This
great fabric
is
THREE GRAND PILLARS*
SUPPORTED by called WISDOM.
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
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STRENGTH and BEAUTY

it is
so called because
necessary that there should be

all
Wisdom
under*
to contrive, Strength to support, to
and Beauty
adorn
great
and
important
takings.
They
are represented
by
*****
COVERING.
Its COVERING is no less than the clouded canopy, or starry-decked heaven, where all good Masons hope at last to arrive, by the aid of the theological ladder, which Jacob,
in his vision,
saw ascending from Earth
to
Heaven
ITY
;
the three principal rounds of which
FAITH, HOPE and CHARand which admonish us to have faith in God, hope in immortality, and charity to all mankind.
are denominated
is Charity, because be lost in sight, Hope ends in fruition, but Charity extends beyond the grave, through the boundless realms of
The
principal of these
our Faith
may
fternity.
50
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
FURNITURE.
The Furniture of a lodge
is
the
HOLY
The
Bible,
Square
and Compasses.
Bible points out the path that leads to

is
happiness, and
dedicated to
God
the
Square teaches us to regulate our conduct by

the principles of morality and virtue, and
dedicated
to
is
Master the Compasses teach us to limit our desires in every station, and are dedicated to the Craft.
the
;
The
Bible
is
dedicated to the service of
God, because to man,

to
*******.
it is
the inestimable gift of

^j-^g
God
Square
proper
the Master,
because, being
the
masonic emblem of his office, it is constantly to remind him of the duty he owes to the Lodge over which he is appointed to preside and the Compasses to the Craft, because, by a due attention to their use, they are taught to regulate their desires, and keep their passions within due bounds.
;
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
39
LThe following additional clause

the Furniture
relative to
may
be used
:] it
The
iting
Bible
is
valuable also, as
affords an
authentic history of mankind, and
the actual
manner
in
by exhibwhich societies
were formed, offers the best theory of the Its historical parts, whilst social compact. throwing much light upon the traditions of our order, tend also to show with great
probability, that those general principles of
morals prevalent amongst the rudest and most unlettered nations, and which have,
perhaps, been too hastily attributed to the
efforts of natural reason, are
to be ascribed to direct revelation,
appear, with
all
the errors
more rationally and will and impurities

of
which time,
corruption
situation,
and the proclivity
may have
produced, to have been

directly
the broken glimpses of a fuller and clearer

light,
originally
radiated
from
Heaven.
The
purity and sublimity of the morals of

in
the Bible, have at no time and in no country
been questioned
vain do
we
look
among
40
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
the writings of ancient pliilosophers for a
system of moral law comparable with it. From it may be collected a system of ethics in which every moral precept founded in reason, is carried to a higher degree of purity and perfection, than in any system of the wisest and most celebrated philosophers. Every moral precept founded on false principles is totally omitted, and many new
precepts
added,
particularly
religion.
corresponding
with the objects of
ORNAMENTS.
The Ornaments of a Lodge are, the MOSAIC PAVEMENT, the INDENTED TESSEL, and the BLAZING STAR. The Mosaic Pavement
of
is
the
;
ground
floor
of
King
a representation Solomon's
Temple
rounded
the Indented Tessel, that beautiful

border,
it;
tesselated
or skirting, which surand the Blazing Star, in the center, is commemorative of the star which appeared to guide the wise men of the East
to the place of our Savior's nativity.
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
4t
The Mosaic Pavement

liuman
life,
is
emblematic of
;
checkered with good and evil the beautiful border which surrounds it, those blessings and comforts which surround us,
by a faithful which is hieroglyphically represented by the Blazing

to obtain
reliance
and which we hope

on
Divine
Providence,
Star in the center.
[The following clause on the Mosaic Pavement may be added :]

Whilst the Mosaic Pavement
is
before us,
;
we
are instructed to boast of nothing are in adversity

;
have
compassion, and render assistance to those
who
to
walk uprightly and

is
with humility
for such
this present state
of existence, that there
is
no situation
is
in
which we can be placed, but

verses
;
subject to re-
to-day our feet tread in prosperity,
to-morrow we totter on the uneven paths of weakness, temptation and adversity. Whilst
we
tread this Mosaic, let every
Mason bear
these facts in remembrance, and as the dic-
-4"
49
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
tates of reason
and conscience prompt him,

LIGHTS.
live in brotherly love.
has THREE LIGHTS, situated East, West and South. There is none in the North, because of the situation of King Solomon's Temple it being situated so far North of the ecliptic that the sun or moon at their meridian height, could dart no rays into the north p'art of it so we Masonically term the North a place of darkness.
A Lodge
JEWELS.
JEWELS three IMMOVABLE and three MOVABLE. The IMMOVABLE JEWELS are the SQUARE, Level and PLUMB. The Square teaches morality the Level,
A Lodge
has SIX
equality
the Plumb, rectitude of
life.
The MOVABLE JEWELS are the ROUGH ASHLAR, the PERFECT ASHLAR, and the
TRESTLE BOARD.
The Rough Ashlar
the quarry in
its
is a stone as taken from rude and natural state. The
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
Perfect Ashlar
is
4|
made ready by the hands of the workman to be adjusted by the tools of the Fellow Craft. The Trestle Board is for the Master Workman to draw his dea stone
signs upon.
By the Rough Ashlar, we are reminded of our rude and imperfect state by nature by the Perfect Ashlar, that state of perfection at which we hope to arrive, by a virfuous education, our own endeavors, and the blessing
;
of
God
and by the Trestle Board, we are

operative
reminded, that as the

rules
workman
erects his temporal building agreeably to the
and designs
laid
down by
the Master on
his Trestle Board, so shall we, both operative
and speculative, endeavor

itual building
to erect our spir-
agreeably to the rules and dethe Supreme Architect of
signs laid
down by
the Universe in the
Book
of Life,
which
is
our Spiritual Trestle Board.
HOW SITUATED.
Lodges should be situated due East and West, because of the situation of King Solomon's Temple.
All
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
King Solomon's Temple was so situated because, after Moses had safely conducted the Children of Israel through the Red Sea, when pursued by Pharaoh and his hosts, he there^ by divine command, erected a Tabernacle, and situated it due East and West, in order to perpetuate the remembrance of that mighty east wind by which their miraculous deliverance was wrought and also to re;
ceive the rays of the rising sun.
And
as that
Tabernacle was an exact model of King Solomon's Temple, therefore all Lodges should be situated due East and West.
TO
WHOM
DEDICATED.
Lodges were anciently dedicated to KING because he was our first Most Excellent Grand Master but Masons of the present day dedicate theirs to ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, and ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, who were eminent patrons of Masonry and
Solomon,
since their time there
is
represented in every
regular and well governed Lodge, a certain
POINT WITHIN A CIRCLE:
the Point repre-
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
sentlng an individual brother, the Circle representing the boundary line of his duty to
God and man, beyond which he

betray him on any occasion.
is
never to
is
suffer his passions, prejudices or interests to
This Circle
embordered
by
TWO
PERPENDICULAR,
Parallel Lines,
were perfect
as
representing St. John the
Baptist and St. John the Evangelist,
who
parallels, in Christianity, as well

;
and upon the vertex rests the which point out the whole duty of man. In going round this Circle, we necessarily touch upon these Two Lines, as well as upon the Holy Scriptures and while a Mason keeps himself thus
Masonry
BOOK OF Holy Scriptures,
circumscribed,
materially
err.
it is
impossible that he should

TENETS.
The Tenets of our profession are BROTHERLY LOVE, RELIEF and TRUTH.
ÔF BROTHERLY LOVE.
By
the exercise of Brotherly Love,
we
are
taught to regard the whole
human
species as
46
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
;
the high and low, the rich and who, as created by one Almighty Parent, and inhabitants of the same planet, are On to aid, support and protect each other. this principle. Masonry unites men of every country, sect and opinion, and conciliates true friendship among those who might otherwise have remained at a perpetual distance.
one family
poor;
OF
RELIEF.
To
bent on
who
duty incummen, but particularly on Masons, are linked together by an indissoluble

relieve the distressed is a
all
chain of sincere affection.
To
soothe the un-
happy, to sympathize with their misfortunes, to compassionate their miseries, and to restore peace to their troubled minds, is the grand aim we have in view. On this basis we form our friendships, and establish our
connections.
OF TRUTH.
Truth
is
is
a divine attribute, and the foun-
dation of every virtue.
To
be good and true,
the
first
lesson
we
are taught in Masonry.
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
On this theme we
tates
contemplate, and by its dicour conduct. endeavor to regulate Hence, while influenced by this principle, hypocrisy and deceit are unknown among us',
and plain dealing distinguish us, and the heart and tongue join in promoting each other's welfare, and rejoicing in each
sincerity
other's prosperity.
THE FOUR CARDINAL VIRTUES TEMPERANCE, FORTITUDE, PRUDENCE AND JUSTICE.

OF TEMPERANCE.
Temperance is that due restraint upon our and passions, which renders the body tame and governable, and frees the mind from the allurements of vice. This viraffections
tue should be the constant practice of every
Mason, as he
is
thereby taught to avoid ex-
cess, or contracting
any
licentious or vicious
habit, the indulgence
of
which might lead

to conceal anii
him
to
disclose
some
of those valuable se-
crets,
which he has promised
48
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
never reveal, and which would consequently

subject him to the contempt and detestation
of
all
good Masons,
********
when
OF FORTITUDE.
Fortitude
of the mind,
is
that noble and steady purpose whereby we are enabled to un

peril or
dergo any pain,

dentially
danger,
pru-
deemed expedient. This virtue is equally distant from rashness and cowardice;
and, like the former, should be deeply im-
pressed upon the mind of every Mason, as a
tack that
safeguard or security against any illegal atmay be made, by force or otherwise, to extort from him any of those secrets with which he has been so solemnly entrusted and which was emblematically represented upon his first admission into the Lodge, * *
OF PRUDENCE.
Prudence teaches us to regulate our lives
and actions agreeably to the dictates of reason, and is that habit by which we wisely judge, and prudentially determine, on all
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
<l(,
things relative to our present, as well as to
our future happiness.
This virtue should be
the peculiar characteristic of every Mason,
not only for the government of his conduct
while in the Lodge, but also

the world
;
when abroad
in
it
should be particularly attended
to in all strange
and mixed companies, never

word,
to
let
fall
the least sign, token or

secrets of
whereby the
lawfully obtained,
*****
Masonry might be un-
OF JUSTICE.
Justice
right,
is
that standard, or boundary, of

to render to every
which enables us
is
man
his just due, without distinction.
This
virtue
not only consistent with divine and

Is
human
laws, but
the very cement and sup;
port of civil society
and, as justice in a
great measure constitutes the real good

so should
it
man,
of
be the invariable practice
every Mason never to deviate from the minutest principles thereof,

* *
;0
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
[The following may be used :] * * Our Mother Earth, which aione of all the elements, has never proved unfriendly to man. The bodies of water deluge him with rain, oppress him with hail, and drown him with inundations. The air rushes in storms, prepares the tempests, and fire lights up the volcano but the earth, ever kind and indulgent, is .found subservient to
*
;
his wishes.
Though constantly
harassed,
more
to furnish the luxuries than the neceslife,
saries of
she never refuses her accus-
tomed yield, spreading his path with flowers, and his table with plenty. Though she
produces poison,
dote,
still
she supplies the anti-
and returns with interest every good committed to her care and when at last we are called upon to pass through the " dark valley of the shadow of Death," she once more receives us, and piously covers our remains within her bosom thus admonishing us that as from it we came, so to it we muse
;
;
all
return.
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
51
Brother
CHARGE TO THE CANDIDATE.
As you
are
now
introduced into
I
tlie first
principles of
Masonry,
congratulate you on
being accepted into this ancient and honorable Order; ancient, as having subsisted from time immemorial, and honorable, as
tending, in every particular, so to render all men who will be conformable to its precepts.
No
institution
was
ever raised on a better

;
principle, or
more
solid foundation
nor were
ever more excellent rules and useful maxims laid down than are inculcated in the several
Masonic Lectures. The greatest and best of men in all ages have been encouragers and promotors of the Art, and have never deemed their dignity to level it derogatory from themselves with the Fraternity, extend their privileges, and patronize their assemblies. There are three great duties, which, as a Mason, you are charged to inculcate,to God, your neighbor and yourself. To God, in never mentioning His name, but with that reverential awe which is due from a creature
52
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
;
to his Creator
to implore His aid in
all
your
'laudable undertakings,
;
and to esteem Him as the chief good to your neighbor, in acting upon the square, and doing unto him as you wish he should do unto you and to yourself, in avoiding all irregularity and intemperance, which may impair your faculties, or debase the dignity of your profession. A zealous
;
attachment to these duties will ensure public and private esteem.

In the State,
you are
to be a quiet
and
peaceful subject, true to your government,
and just to your country you are not to countenance disloyalty or rebellion, but patiently submit to legal authority, and conform with cheerfulness to the government of the country in which you live. In your outward demeanor be particularly careful to avoid censure or reproach. Let not interest, favor, or prejudice, bias your integrity, or influence you to be guilty of a dishonorable action. Although your frequent appearance at our regular meetings is earn;
,
estly
solicited,
yet
it
is
not
meant that
ENTERED APPRENTICE.
5}
Masonry should
neglected
;
interfere
with your necessary
vocations, for these are on no account to be

neither are
for the institution to lead
you to suffer your zeal you into argument
with
who, through ignorance, may At your leisure hours, that you may improve in Masonic knowledge, you are
those
it.
ridicule
to converse
will be
with well informed brethren,

to give, as
who
will
always as ready
you
be ready to receive instruction.

Finally,
keep sacred and
inviolable
the
mysteries of the Order, as these are to distinguish you from the rest of the community,
and mark your consequence among Masons. If, in the circle of your acquaintance, you fmd a person desirous of being initiated into Masonry, be particularly attentive not to recommend him, unless you are convinced he will conform to our rules that the honor, glory and reputation of the Institution may be firmly established, and the world at large convinced of its good effects.
;
THE DEGREE OF FELLOW CRAFT.

FIRST SECTION.
Amos
* *
vii, 7-8.
Thus he shewed me
And, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line
in his
*
* *
hand.
the Lord said unto me,
seest thou
?
And
*
Amos, what
And
said,
I
A plumb-line. Then
will
said
the Lord, Behold,

the midst of
*
*
I
set a plumb-line in
my
people Israel
will
not again pass by them any
*******
more.
WORKING TOOLS.
the
The Working Tools of a Fellow Craft PLUMB, SQUARE and LEVEL.
are
FELLOW CRAFT.
55
The Plumb is an instrument made use of by operative Masons, to raise perpendicuthe Square, to square their work, and lars
;
the Level, to lay horizontals
but we, as Free
and Accepted Masons, are taught to make use of them for more noble and glorious purposes the Plumb admonishes us to walk up;
rightly in our several stations before
God
and man, squaring our actions by the Square of Virtue, and remembering that we are traveling upon the Level of Time, to ''that undiscovered country, from whose bourne no
traveler returns."
[The following clause on the use
of the
fair and honand cautions us against any deviation from an upright conduct in all our transactions, whether public or private, keeping steadily in view that course of conduct, which will lead us to the heavenly mansions of eternal rest. The Square is an emblem of morality, and instructs in the golden maxim,
Working Tools may be added:] The Plumb is an emblem of a

life,
orable
56
FELLOW CRAFT.
"do unto others as you would that others should do unto you." The Level serves as a memento that we are equally subject to
diseases, to accidents
and various
all
;
afflictions;
that
we
are equally under the protection and
care of the
are equally
Great Parent of
the dust,
doomed to die, and to corrupt.
to be leveled
and that we with
SECOND SECTION.
OPERATIVE MASONRY.
By OPERATIVE MASONRY we
proper application
architecture,
figure,
allude to a
rules of
of
the
useful
whence a structure will derive strength and beauty, and whence will
due proportion, and a just corresspondence in all its parts. It furnishes us with dwellings, and convenient shelters from the vicissitudes and inclemencies of seasons and while it displays the effects of human wisdom, as well in the choice, as in the arresult a
;
FELLOW CRAFT.
^t
rangement, of the sundry materials of which an edifice is composed, it demonstrates that a fund of science and industry is implanted in man for the best, most salutary and beneficent purposes.
SPECULATIVE MASONRY.
By SPECULATIVE MASONRY we
learn to
subdue the passions, act upon the square, keep a tongue of good report, maintain secrecy, and practice charity. It is so far interwoven with religion as to lay us underôbliga-.
pay that rational homage to Deity, which at once constitutes our duty and our happhiess. It leads the contemplative to view with reverence and admiration the glorious works of the creation, and inspires him with the most exalted ideas of the perfections of
tions to
his Divine Creator.
******
*
* *
**
created
Because
in six
days
God
the heavens and the earth, and rested upon the
seventh day
the seventh, therefore, our an-
cient brethren consecrated as a
day of rest from
58
FELLOW CRAFT.
their labors, thereby
enjoying frequent op-
portunities to contemplate the glorious
works
*******
Creator.
of the creation,
and
to
adore their Great

*
*
OF THE GLOBES.
The Globes
are
two
artificial
spherical
bodies, on the convex surface of
represented the countries, seas,
which are and various

other
par-
parts of the earth, the face of the heavens,
the planetary
ticulars.
revolutions,
and
The Sphere with

delineated on
its
the parts of the earth

is
surface,
;
called the
TER-
RESTRIAL Globe
stellations,
and that with the conand other heavenly bodies, the
Celestial Globe.
THE USE OF THE GLOBES.
.Their principal
use,
besides
serving
as
maps
earth,
to
to distinguish the
outward parts of the

is
and the
situation of the fixed stars,
illustrate
arising
phenomena from the annual revolution, and the

and explain
the
FELLOW CRAFT.
diurnal rotation of
axis.
tiie
55
earth round
its
own
Tiiey are the noblest instruments for
improving the mind, and giving it the most any problem or proposition, as well as enabling it to solve the same. Contemplating these bodies, we are inspired with a due reverence for the Deity and His works, and are induced to encourage the studies of astronomy, geography, navigation, and the arts dependent on them, by which society has been so much benefited.
distinct idea of
OF ORDER
IN
ARCHITECTURE.
is
By Order
of all
in
Architecture
meant a system
;
the members, proportions and ornapilasters

or, it is
ments of columns and

of a building,
regular arrangement of the projecting parts
which, united with those of a column, form a beautiful, perfect and complete whole.
OF
ITS ANTIQUITY.
From
in
the first formation of society, Order
Architecture
may
be traced.
When
the
6o
FELLOW CRAFT.
of seasons
rigor
obliged
men
to
contrive
from the inclemency of the weather, we learn that they first planted trees on end, and then laid others across, to support a covering. The bands which connected those trees at top and bottom, are said to have given rise to the idea of the base and capital of pillars and from this simple hint originally proceeded the more improved Art of Architecture.
shelter
;
The Five Orders are thus classed the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite.
:
of the Five Orders is here accordance with the text of Webb's Freemason's Monitor, edition of 1816, but it is recommended that the same be omitted, and to proceed directly to the clause entitled Of the I n vention of Order in Architecture.
[The description
in
given
'
'
'
'
The Tuscan,
cany, whence
is
it
is
the most simple and solid

It
of the five orders.
was invented
it
;
in
derives
seven diameters high
name. and its
Its
Tuscolumn
base
capital,
and entablature have but few mouldings. The simplicity of the construction of this column
FELLOW CRAFT.
renders
it
6i
eligible
where ornament would be
superfluous.
the
The Doric, which is plain and natural, is most ancient, and was invented by the
Greeks. Its column is eight diameters high, and has seldom any ornaments on base or capital, except mouldings though the frieze is distinguished by triglyphs and metopes, and triglyphs compose the ornaments of the
frieze.
The
it
solid composition of this order
gives
preference in
structures
where
strength
required.
and a noble simplicity are chiefly
The Doric
the orders.
is
the best proportioned of

several parts of
all
The
which
it
it
is
composed are founded on the natural position

of solid bodies.
In its first invention
in
its
was
In
it
more simple than

after times,
present state.
to be adorned,, for
gained the
the
when it began name of Doric

;
when
it
was
constructed in
primitive and simple fcrm, Tuscan was conferred on it. Hence the Tuscan precedes the Doric in rank.
its
name
of
6a
FELLOW CRAFT.
its
on account of
its
resemblance to that
pillar in
original state.
The Ionic bears a kind of mean proportion between the more solid and delicate orders. its capital Its column is nine diameters high is adorned with volutes, and its cornice has dentals. There is both delicacy and ingenuity
;
displayed in this
pillar,
the
invention
of
which is attributed to the lonians, as the famous Temple of Diana at Ephesus was of this order. It is said to have been formed after the model of an agreeable young
woman,
hair
of an elegant shape, dressed in her
as
contrast
to
the
Doric
order,
which was formed robust man.
after that of a strong,
The Corinthian, the

orders,
is
richest
of the five
deemed a master-piece of art. Its column is ten diameters Kigh, and its capital is adorned with two rows of leaves and eight volutes, which sustain the abacus. The frieze is ornamented with curious devices the cornice with dentals and modillions.
FELLOW CRAFT.
This order
structures.
is
63
used in stately and superb
OF THE INVENTION OF THIS ORDER,

It
was invented
is
machus, who
said to
of the capital of this
Corinth, by Callihave taken the hint pillar from the following

at
remarkable circumstance. Accidentally passing by the tomb of a young lady, he perceived a basket of toys, covered with a tile, placed over an acanthus root, having been left there by her nurse. As the branches grew up they encompassed the basket, till, arriving at the tile, they met with an obstruction, and bent downwards. Callimachus, struck with the object, set about imitating the figure; the vase of the capital he made to represent the
basket, the abacus the
the bending leaves.
tile,
and the volutes
orders,
The Composite is compounded of the other and was contrived by the Romans. Its capital has the two rows of leaves of the Corinthian, and the volutes of the Ionic.
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FELLOW CRAFT.
Its column has the quarter-round as the Tuscan and Doric order, is ten diameters high,
moThis pillar is generally found in buildings where strength, elegance and beauty
its
and
cornice has dentals or simple
dillions.
are displayed.
OF THE INVENTION OF ORDER
IN
ARCHITECTURE.
The
ancient and original orders of archi-
by Masons, are no more than and Corinthian, which were invented by the Greeks. To these, the Romans have added two the Tuscan, which they made plainer than the Doric, and the Composite, which was more ornamental, if not more beautiful, than the Corinthian. The first three orders alone, however, show invention and particular character, and essentially differ from each other the two others have nothing but what is borrowed, and differ only accidentally the Tuscan is the Doric in its earliest state, and the Comtecture revered
three, the Doric, Ionic
;
posite
Ionic.
is
the Corinthian enriched with the

the Greeks, therefore, and not to
To
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65
Romans, we are indebted great, judicious and distinct in

the
for
what
is
architecture.
THE FIVE SENSES OF HUMAN NATURE.

HEARING, SEEING, FEELING. SMELLING AND TASTING.
of the Five Senses is here accordance with the text of Webb's Freemason's Monitor, Edition of 1816, but it is recommended that the Monitorial description be omitted.]
[The description
in
given
Hearing
is
that sense by which
we
it
distinall
guish sounds, and are capable of enjoying

the agreeable charms of music.
By
we
are
enabled to enjoy the pleasures of
society,
and reciprocally to communicate to each other our thoughts and intentions, our purposes and desires while thus our reason is capable of exerting its utmost power and energy.
;
intended,
The wise and beneficent Author of Nature by the formation of this sense, that
should be social creatures, and receive the and most important part of our
we
greatest
66
FELLOW CRAFT.
knowledge by the information of others. For these purposes we are endowed with hearing, that, by a proper exertion of our rational
powers, our happiness may be complete. Seeing is that sense by which we distinguish objects, and in an instant of time, without change of place or situation, view armies in battle array, figures of the most,
stately structures,
and
riety displayed in the
all the agreeable valandscape of nature.
By
this sense
we
find our
way
in
the path-
less ocean, traverse the globe of earth, deter-
mine its figure and dimensions, and delineate any region or quarter of it. By it we measure the planetary orbs, and
make new
dis-
coveries in the sphere of the fixed stars. Nay,
more, by
it
we
perceive the tempers and dis-
positions, the passions
and
affections, of our
fellow creatures,
when they wish most

so
to
conceal
them
that though the tongue
may
to
be taught to lie and dissemble, the countenance would display the hypocrisy
the
discerning
eye.
In
fine,
the rays
of light
which administer
to this sense, are
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67
the most astonishing parts o^ the animated creation, and render the eye a peculiar object
of admiration.
Of
The
all
the faculties, sight
is
the noblest.
its
structure of the eye,
and
appurten-
ances, evinces the admirable contrivance of
nature for performing
all its
various external
and internal motions

to their several
while the variety disof

life,
played in the eyes of different animals, suited
ways
clearly
demon-
strates this
organ to be the masterpiece of nature's work. Feeling is that sense by which we distinguish the different qualities of bodies
as heat and cold, hardness and
;
such
softness,
solidity,
roughness and smoothness, figure, motion and extension.
Smelling
is
that sense by which
we
dis-
tinguish odors, the various kinds of which
convey different impressions to the mind. Animal and vegetable bodies, and indeed most other bodies, while exposed to the air,
continually send forth effluvia of vast subtilty,
as well in the state of
life
and growth, as
in
68
FELLOW CRAFT.
sta;.e
the
of fermentation
and putrefaction.
These
all
eifluvia,
being drawn into the nostrils

air,
along with the

that there
in
is
are the
bodies are smelled.
means by which Hence it is evident,
a manifest appearance of design
the Great Creator's having planted the organ of smell in the inside of that canal,
through which the

respiration.
air continually
passes
in
Tasting- enables us to
of this
make
a proper dis-
tinction in the choice of our food.
The organ
of
sense guards the entrance
the
alimentary canal, as that of smelling guards the entrance of the canal for respiration.
From the
situation of both these organs,
it is
by nature to distinguish wholesome food from that which

plain that they were intended
is nauseous. Everything that enters into the stomach must undergo the scrutiny of tasting, and by it we are capable of discerning the changes which the same body undergoes in
the different compositions of
art,
cookery,
chemistry, pharmacy, &c.
FELLOW CRAFT.
69
nected, and
Smelling and tasting are inseparably conit is by the unnatural kind of life
lead
in
men commonly
natural offices.
society, that these

fit
senses are rendered less
to
perform their
On
pend
;
the mind
all our knowledge must dewhat, therefore, can be a more proper
subject
By
for the investigation of Masons? anatomical dissection and observation, we

;
become acquainted with the body but it is by the anatomy of the mind alone we discover its powers and principles.
To sum up the whole of this transcendent measure of God's bounty to man, we shall
add, that memory, imagination, taste, reasoning,
moral
perception,
and
all
the
active
powers of the
and boundless field for philosophical disquisition, which far exceeds human inquiry, and are peculiar mysteries, known only to nature and to nature's God, to whom we and all are indebted for creation, preservation, and every
soul, present a vast
blessing
we
enjoy.
FELLOW CRAFT.
The
first three,
Hearing, Seeing and Feel'

* * *
ing, are
most revered by Masons,
THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRAMMAR, RHETORIC, LOGIC, ARITHMETIC. GEOMETRY, MUSIC AND ASTRONOMY.
[The description of the Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences is here given in accordance with the text of Webb's Freemason's Monitor, edition of 1816, but it is recommended that
same be omitted, except the clauses en"Geometry" and ''Of the Advantages of Geometry," following which give the second arrangement of the Lecture on Music]
the
titled
:
Grammar teaches
the proper arrangement
of words, according to the idiom or dialect of
any particular people and that excellency of pronunciation which enables us to speak or write a language with accuracy, agreeably to
;
reason and correct usage.
Rhetoric teaches us to speak copiously and on any subject, not merely with propriety alone, but with all the advantages
fluently
FELLOW CRAFT.
of force
71
and elegance
wisely contriving to
of argument and beauty of expression, whether it be to entreat and exhort, to admonish or applaud.
captiVate the hearer
by strength
Logic teaches us
cretionally
in
to guide our reason dis-
the
general
knowledge
of
things,
It
and
directs our inquiries after truth.
consists of a regular train of argument,

infer,
whence we
deduce, and conclude, ac-
cording to certain premises laid down, admitted, or granted

faculties
;
and
in
it
are employed the
of
conceiving, judging,
;
reasoning
and disposing all of which are naturally led on from one gradation to another, till the
point in question
is
finally determined.
Arithmetic teaches the powers and propernuipbers, which is variously effected, by letters, tables, figures and instruments. By this art, reasons and demonstrations are given for finding out any certain number, whose relation or affinity to another is already
ties of
known
or discovered.
FELLOW CRAFT.
GEOMETRY.
Geometry, or the Fifth Science, * * * * Geometry treats of the powers and properties of magnitudes in general, where length, breadth and thickness are considered from a foint to a line, from a line to a super/ices, and from a super/ices to a solid. A Point is a dimensionless figure, or an
;
indivisible part of space.
Lijie
is
a Point continued, and a figure
of one capacity, namely, length.
A Superjices is a figure of two dimensions, namely, length and breadth. A ^c'/zV is a figure of three dimensions, namely, length, breadth and thickness.
OF THE ADVANTAGES OF GEOMETRY.
By
this science, the architect is enabled to

;
construct his plans, and execute his designs

the general to arrange his soldiers
neer to
;
the engi-
mark out ground

and
all
for
encampments
therein
the geographer to give us the dimensions

of the world,
things
con-
tained, to
delineate the extent of seas,
and
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specify the divisions of empires,
73
kingdoms
astronomer is enabled to make his observations, and to fix the duration of times and seasons, years and cycles. In fine. Geometry is the foundation of architecture, and the root of the mathe;
and provinces
by
it,
also, the
matics.
Music
so as to
teaches the art of forming concords,
compose delightful harmony by a
mathematical and proportional arrangement of acute, grave and mixed sounds. This art, by a series of experiments, is reduced to a demonstrative science, with respect to tones, and the intervals of sound. It inquires into the nature of concords and discords, and enables us to find out the proportion between, them by numbers.
Astronomy
is
that
divine art, by which
we
wisdom, strength and beauty of the Almighty Creator in those

are taught to read the
sacred
pages,
the
celestial
Assisted by Astronomy,
we
hemisphere. can observe the
motions, measure the distances, comprehend

the magnitudes and calculate the periods
and
-6
74
FELLOW CRAFT.
heavenly bodies. By it we system of the world, and the preliminary law of nature. While we are employed in the study of this
eclipses of the
learn the use of the globes, the
science,
we must
perceive unparalleled in-
stances of
wisdom and goodness, and, through
the whole creation, trace the Glorious Author
by His works.
MUSIC.
[Note. Second Arrangement of Lecture on Music, the use of which is recommended This Lecture should be in place of the first. given, whenever possible, with organ accompaniment. The organist should commence playing with the beginning of this Lecture, using soft stop combinations, playing with crescendo and diminuendo effects, throughout the entire Lecture, yet never loud enough to interfere with the voice of the speaker.- At the word " War," the speaker will pause while the organist plays, with full organ, the strain indicated from the '' Marseillaise"; then the soft accompaniment is resumed while the speaker continues the Lecture until the words: "Home, Sweet Home," when there is another pause, while the organist softly plays the strain indicated
:
FELLOW CRAFT.
from " Home, Sweet

continues,
Home ". As the speaker the soft accompaniment is resumed until the word " Universe," when the Lodge is called up, and all unite in sing:
ing, with full organ accompaniment, " Be God, exalted high," etc., to the Thou, tune: ''Old Hundred," as indicated. With the display of a little taste a fme effect can be
produced.]
Music
is
the passions
thatelevated science which affects by sound. There are few who
have not
its
It is
felt its
charms, and acknowledged
expressions to be intelligible to the heart.
a language of delightful sensations, far

;
more eloquent than words
it
;
breathes to the
it
ear the clearest intimations
touches and
gently agitates the agreeable and
sublime
passions;
it
wraps us
;
elevates us in joy
it
it
melancholy, and dissolves and inflames

in
;
melts us in tenderness, and excites us to
war.
FELLOW CRAFT.
Air: Marseillaise
I
Full Organ.
Hymn.
\-
The martial strains of national airs heard on the rough edge of battle, have thrilled the
soldier's heart, causing him to burn with an emulous desire to lead the perilous advance, and animating him to deeds of heroic valor and the most sublime devotion; amidst the roar of cannon, the din of musketry, and the
FELLOW CRAFT.
carnage
life,
of
battle,
he sinks to
the dust;
raising himself to take one long, last look of
he hears
in the distance that plaintive
strain,
" Home, Sweet Home,"

air: Home, Sweet Home.
-#T^-
.V~^
:t4
rc;
r^
It
was our mother's evening hymn
that
us to sleep in infancy ; and the mellowing tides of old cathedral airs, vibrating
lulled
8o
FELLOW CRAFT.
aisles
through
ruffled spirit,
and arches, have stilled the and sweeping away the discordant passions of men, have borne them along
its resistless
current, until their united voices

in
sounding aloud the chorus of the heaven-born anthem, " Peace on earth, good will toward men ;" but it never sounds with such seraphic harmony, as when employed in singing hymns of gratitude to the Creator of the Universe.
-
have joined
[Note. Lodge
called
up.
All
unite
in
singing:]
Tune Old Hundred.

:
L.
M
4-
^
I
-6^ -^- -6^
Be Thou,
God, ex
alt
ed high
mm
sg
FELLOW CRAFT.
-A
8l
L
L-^-l
r^-J
=^n
And
-?$>-
1
glo
-
i^s
the
m
sky,
as
-tr-
Thy
ry
fills
^-
if: l^/rs
^^^^m^
-So
let
it
be
on earth dis-played,
Till
Thou art here,

-$i.
I
as there,
-*$!-
o
--
beyed,
-^-
^^^
-^-r-<?-
1^
i^^
:ti:
[Note. Lodge
is
seated.]
82
FELLOW CRAFT.
* * *
*,*
:ic
Xc
OF THE MORAL ADVANTAGES OF GEOMETRY.
Geometry, the first arid noblest of sciences basis on which the superstructure of Masonry is erected. By Geometry, we may curiously trace nature through her various windings to her most concealed recesses. By it we discover the power, the wisdom and the goodness of the Grand Artificer of the Universe, and view with delight the proportions which connect this vast machine. By it we
is tlie
discover
how
the planets
move
in their differ-
ent orbits, and demonstrate

revolutions.
of seasons,
By
it
we
various account for the return

their
and the variety of scenes which
each season displays to the discerning eye. Numberless worlds are around us, all framed by the same Divine Artist, which roll through the vast expanse, and are all conducted by the same unerring law of nature.
her beautiful
survey of nature, and the observation of proportions, first determined man to imitate the divine plan^ and study
FELLOW CRAFT.
83
symmetry and order. This gave rise to socieThe ties, and birth to every useful art. architect began to design, and the plans which he laid down, being improved by experience and time, have produced works which are the admiration of every age.
The
laid
lapse
of time, the
ruthless
hand of
ignorance, and the devastations of war, have
and destroyed many valuable which the utmost exertions of human genius have been emEven the Temple of Solomon, so ployed. spacious and magnificent, and constructed by
waste
monuments
of antiquity on
so
many celebrated artists, escaped not the unsparing ravages of barbarous force. Freemasonry, notwithstanding, has still survived.
The
Attentive Ear receives the sound from
are safely lodged in the repository
the Instructive Tongue, and the Mysteries of
Masonry
otFaitliful Breasts.
architecture are selected
Tools and implements of by the Fraternity to
imprint on. the

truths
;
memory wise and serious and thus, through a succession of
FELLOW CRAFT.
ages, are transmitted unimpaired the excellent
tenets of our institution.
Brother
Being advanced to the Second Degree of Masonry, we congratulate you on your preferment. The internal, and not the external qualifications of a man, are what Masonry regards. As you increase in knowledge, you will improve in social intercourse. It is unnecessary to recapitulate the duties which, as a Mason, you are bound to discharge, or enlarge on the necessity of a strict adherence to them, as your own experience must have established their value. Our laws and regulations you are strenuously to support, and be always ready to
assist
in
seeing them duly executed.
You
are not to palliate, or aggravate, the offenses

of
your brethren
but, in the decision of every
trespass
against our rules, you are to judge
with candor, admonish with friendship, and reprehend with justice.
FELLOW CRAFT.
85
The study
able
of the Liberal Arts, that valu-
branch of education, which tends so effectually to polish and adorn the mind, is earnestly recommended to your consideration
;
especially the Science of
Geometry, which
is
established as the basis of our Art.

try,
or
Masonry,
originally
Geomesynonymous
terms, being of a divine and moral nature, is
enriched with the most useful knowledge

Vvhile
it
nature,
it
proves the wonderful properties of demonstrates the more important
truths of morality.
Your past behavior and regular deportment have merited the honor which we have nowconferred and in "your new character it is expected that you will conform to the prin;
ciples of the
Order, by steadily persevering
in
the practice of every commendable virtue.
Such
is
the nature of your engagements as
a Fellow Craft,
and to these duties you are bound by the most sacred ties.
THE DEGREE OF MASTER MASON.

FIRST SECTION.
Ecclesiastes
*
xii, 1-7.
,
in the days thy youth, while the evil days come not, * Nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not
Remember now thy Creator
of
darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain * In the day when the keepers of the
house shall tremble, and the strong men shall
bow
*
themselves,
*
And
the grinders cease because they

out
of
are few,
*
and those that look
the
the
low,
windows be darkened,
*
streets,
And the doors shall be shut when the sound of the grinding
in
is
and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low
;
*
is
Also
when they shall be

86
afraid of that
which
high, and fears shall be in the way,
MASTER MASOM
87
* * * And the almond tree shail flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and
desire shall fail * * * Because
man
goeth to his long

streets
:
home, and the mourners go about the
Or
ever the silver cord be loosed, or the
golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be brokea at the fountain, or the wheel broken
at the cistern.
*
* *
it
earth as
Then shall the dust return was and the spirit shall
:
to the
return
unto
God who gave
it.
WORKING TOOLS.
of a Master Mason are the implements of Masonry indiscriminately, but more especially the TROWEL. The Trowel is an instrument made use of
The Working Tools
all
by operative masons to spread the cement which unites a building into one common mass but we, as Free and Accepted Masons,
;
are ta'oght to
make use
of
it
for the
more
;
noble and glorious purpose of spreading the
cement
of Brotherly
Love and Affection
that
88
MASTER A\ASON.
into
cement which unites us

or society of friends
one sacred band,

exist,
and brothers, among

but
whom
who
no contention should ever
that noble contention, or rather emulation, of best can work, or best agree.
of the
[The following clause on the use

Trowel
may
be added
:]
The Trowel teaches that nothing can

perfection of a building
be
united without proper cement, and that the
manner
together.
in
must depend on the which the materials are joined Charity, the bond of perfection
union,
and
social
must connect
in
one,
separate interests, so that like the radii of a

circle,
which extend from the center
to every
part of the circumference, the principle of
universal benevolence may be diffused to every member of the community. This is a further spiritual use which should be made or the Trowel, by Free and Accepted Masons.
SECOND SECTION.
MASTER A\ASON.
Tune:
Pifvel's Hvinn.
fa
a-i=
Sol
-
2
emn
JSL
strikes the
J3.,'
is:
fu
-
n'ral
chime,
w
n ^
SL
i&-
4^
'^.
JSL
JZ.
L^
\

MASTER MASON.
Mortals,
now
indulge a tear,
!
For Mortality is here See how wide her trophies wave O'er the slumbers of the grave
3
;
Here another guest we bring Seraphs of celestial wing, To our fun'ral altar come, Waft our friend and brother home.
Lord of
Fill
all
below
above
on high.
our hearts with truth and love When dissolves our earthly tie,
Take us
to
Thy Lodge
MASTER MASON.
PRAYER AT RAISING A BROTHER TO THE SUBLIME DEGREE OF A MASTER MASON.
knowest our down-sitting and understandest our Shield and defend us from tliougiits afar off. the evil intentions of our enemies, and support us under the trials and afflictions we are
Thou, and our
!
God
up-rising,
destined to endure, while traveling through
Man that is born of a of tears. w-oman, is of few days and full of trouble. He Cometh forth as a flower, and is cut -down he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth Seeing his days are determined, the not. number of his months are with Thee Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass turn from him that he may rest, till he For there is hope shall accomplish his day. of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. But man dieth and wasteth away yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he ? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up, so man lieth
thii, v?.le
^
; ;
92
MASTER MASON.
down, and riseth not up till the heavens shall Lord have compassion be no more. Yet, on the children of Thy creation, administer them comfort in time of trouble, and save them with an everlasting salvation. Amen " Response: So mote it be
[Or the following prayer may be used
:]
Thou
great and glorious Lord
God who.
!
canst alone defend amidst the manifold dangers which beset our pathway through life; shield and defend us from the evil intentions of our enemies, and support us under the trials and afflictions we are destined to endure while traveling through this vale of tears. And God we pray that Thou wouldst raise this our brother from his fallen estate, and guide him evermore in an upright
walk and conversation.

voice of
May
Thy
the
'still
small
Thy
Spirit
;
whisper
let
in his ear the
words of wisdom
fatherly
hand
ever be about him, and do Thou,

direct his feet in the paths of peace
;
God may his
breast safely keep and guard the trust which
MASTcn; A\Ai>ON.
93
friendship there reposes

shall
and when at
last
he
have
diligently executed in the
rough
quarries of earth the designs
hast
which Thou upon his trestle-board, and shall be stricken down by the ruthless settingmaul of Death, may he be raised to the life eternal, be found worthy of fellowship with the good, and in the Grand Lodge above be permitted to see Thee face to face, to worship Thee there in the beauty of holiness for ever and ever. Amen Response : So mote it be
inscribed
!
The Sacred Volume informs us that David,

King of
Israel,
had determined
to
erect a
magnificent Temple for the service of the
Most High God, and
for that purpose
collected materials in gold, silver, iron
brass; but "the word of
had and the Lord" came
unto him, saying, "thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars ; thou shalt not build an House unto My Name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the
94
MASTER MASON.
earth in
My sight. Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round
:
shall be Solomon, and ! and quietness unto Israel in his days. He shall build an House for My Name and he shall be My Son, and I will be his Father and I will establish the throne
about
for his
name
will give peace
kingdom over Israel forever." David, bowed down by the weight of years and infirmities, and drawing near his end,
of his
assembled
the
chiefs
of
his
people
and
acquainted them with his design to have built
a magnificent repository for the Ark of God,
but found that

îhis
it was the Divine Will that work should be accomplished by jiis son Solomon. He desired them to assist so laudable a work, and directed that when it should be completed, that the Ark should
great
.'n
be deposited therein, together with the Holy Vessels. David died soon after in the seventieth
year of his age, having reigned seven'

all Israel.
years in Hebron over the house of Judah, and

thirty-three over
MASTER MASON.
95
Solomon ascended the throne
of
Israel
amidst the acclamations of his people, and under the most favorable circumstances. Having made peace with his enemies, and firmly settled the affairs of his kingdom, he determined to carry into execution the important work of erecting the Temple. He commenced it in the fourth year of his reign, in the second month, and that he might prosecute. the work with greater expedition, he applied to Hiram, King of Tyre, the
ancient friend and ally of his father, to furnish
trees
him with timber in abundance, cedar trees, fir and algum trees, out of Lebanon, and also to send him a man ''cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue," and
Hiram, of Judah and Jerusalem. King of Tyre, cordially responded, not only furnishing the cedar and cypress of Lebanon, but he also sent him Hiram, the son of a
that could "skill to grave with the cunning
men"
widow
most
of the tribe of Napthali.
He was
the
skillful
and accomplished
artist of his
96
MASTER MA:bON.
age, "to
work
in gold,
and
in silver, in brass,
in iron, in stone,
and
in timber, in purple, in
;
and in fine linen, and in crimson also grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which should be put to him." From his designs and under his direction, all the rich and splendid furniture of the Temple, was begun, carried on and finished. So highly was this distinguished man esteemed by Solomon, for his talents, his virtues and unblemished integrity, that he appointed him Deputy Grand Master, and principal surveyor and master of the work. The work on the Temple was progressing.
blue,
to
THIRD SECTION.
In
the
Third
Section
many
particulars
relative to
King Solomon's Temple are con-
sidered.
This Section also illustrates certain
hieroglyphical emblems, and inculcates

useful
many
lessons
to
extend
knowledge and
promote virtue.
MASTER MASON.
97
KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.
This
magnificent
Temple,
which
Ion?
challenged the admiration of the world, far exceeded in splendor all other structures
It was which had hitherto been erected. begun in the month of April, A. M. 2992, four hundred and eighty years after the Children of Israel came out of Egypt, and was finished in October, A. M. 2999, and one thousand and five years before Christ. It was located on Mount Moriah, near the place where Abraham was about to offer up his son Isaac, and where Davia met and appeased the Destroying Angel, which was visible over the threshing-
floor of
Oman,
the Jebusite.
The
construction of this grand edifice
was
attended with two remarkable circumstances.
From Josephus we learn that although more than seven years were occupied in building it, yet during the whole term it rained not in the day-time, that the workmen might not be obstructed in their labor; and from sacred
history
it
appears that there
was
neither the
tool
sound of the hammer, nor axe, nor any
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iron,
of
heard
in
the
house while
it
was
building.
three
The Temple was symbolically supported by Grand Masonic Pillars, called Wisdom,
;
Strength and Beauty so called because it is necessary that there should be Wisdom to contrive, Strength to support, and Beauty to
adorn,
all
great and importai/t undertakings.
They
are represented
by
famous fabric was supported by hundred and fifty-three columns, and two, thousand nine hundred and six
This
fourteen
pilasters,
all
hewn from
the fmest
Parian
marble.
There were employed

three
in building the
Temple,
Grand Masters,
three thousand three
hundred Masters, or Overseers of the Work,

eighty thousand Fellow-Crafts
tains
in
the
Moun-
and in the quarries, and seventythousand Entered Apprentices, or bearers of burdens. All these were classed and arranged in such a manner by the wisdom of Solomon,
neither envy, discord nor confusion, were suffered to interrupt that universal peace
that
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and tranquility which pervaded the world at

this important period.
[The following descriptive Lecture on The Temple may be used :]

for this Temple were There were employed in it vast quantities of gold, and silver, and precious stones. Everything was made ready before
The
preparations
immense.
it
came
to the spot, that
nothing
was
to do
but join the materials.
The
top of
Mount
Moriah, on which it was erected, was inclosed with a wall. Into this there was an entrance on every side. Into this outer Court, every clean Hebrew, or proselyte of the covenant, might enter. In the middle of the outer Court but nearer to the west end, there was a Court of the Levites, stretching from east to west, and surrounded by a low wall, of about four feet high, that the people might, over the top of it, see what was doing by the priests. This Court had two entrances, one on the north side, the other on the south. In
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end of the Temple, stood the brazen altar, and the brazen sea and lavers. The Temple, properly so-calledj stood from east to west, near the west end of the Court of the Priests. On each side of its entrance, at the Porch of the Temple,
this Court, just before the east
stood the two

the promise of
celebrated
Pillars
of brass
they were regarded as a striking

the throne of
Israel
memento
of
God, that he would establish David, and make the nation of
strong in His might. Passing through Porch you entered the Sanctuary, or Holy Place, at the west end of which stood the golden candlesticks, on the south side, and on the north, the ten golden tables, containing the loaves of shew-bread and the innumerable
this
golden vessels for the service of the sanctuary,
middle between them stood the Passing through the Sanctuary lengthwise, you entered by a 'fine veil and a two-leaved door of olive-tree, into
and
in the
golden altar of incense.
the Oracle, or
Most Holy
Place, into
which
the High Priest only might enter, and that
only once each year on the
Day
of
Atonement.
.WASTER .MASON.
In the
loi
Most Holy Place stood the Ark with its furniture and Solomon made two new cherubim of olive-tree, which overshadowed the two golden ones and stretched their wings tlie whole breadth of the House. The wall of the House was reared with alternate layers of fine cedar wood and hewn marble the inside was carved with figures of cherubim and palm trees, and the whole inside, floor, walls and roof, was overlaid with gold, and set with innumerable diamonds and precious stones.
;
;
In
the erection
of
this
superb
edifice,
we
of
perceive not only the piety, but the
wisdom
had reached their highest state of perfection, and every species of knowledge peculiar to -Freemasonry was lavished upon it. About eleven months after the building was finished, and just before the Feast of the Tabernacles, this Temple was furnished with the Ark and other sacred utensils, and it was dedicated with solemn prayer by Solomon, and by seven days' sacred feasting, and by a peace offering of twenty thousand oxen and
Solomon.
arts
The
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sheep.
of
its
one hundred and twenty thousand Nothing ever equaled the splendor
consecration.
Israel sent forth her
thousands,
and the assembled people beheld,

adoration,
accepted.
altar,
in awful vast sacrifice of Solomon The flame descended upon the
the
and consumed
glory
of
t)ie
offering
the shadow
and
the
Eternal
proclaimed his
of the
presence between the Cherubim, and the voice

of His thunders told to the faithful
Craft that the perfectness of their labor approved.

THE THREE STEPS.
was
The Three Steps usually delineated upon

the Master's Carpet, are emblematical of the
life Youth, Youth, as Entered Apprentices, we ought industriously to occupy our minds in the attainment of useful knowledge; in Manhood, as Fellow Crafts, we should apply our knowledge to the discharge of our respective duties to God, our neighbors and ourselves that so in Age, as Master Ma'sons, we may enjoy the happy reflections
three principal stages of
human
Manhood and Age.
In
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consequent on a well-spent
life,
and
die in the
hope of a glorious immortality.
****
;
MASONIC EA\BLEMS.
*
is
****
an emblem of a pure heart, which is always an acceptable sacrifice and, as this glows with fervent to the Deity heat, so should our hearts continually glow with gratitude, to the great and beneficent Author of our existence, for the manifold blessings and comforts we enjoy. The Bee-Hive is an emblem of industry, and recommends the practice of that virtue to all created beings, from the highest seraph in heaven to the lowest reptile of the dust. It teaches us, that as we came into the world rational and intelligent beings, so we should ever be industrious ones never sitting down contented while our fellow-creatures around us are in want, when it is in our power to relieve them, without inconvenience to our;
The Pot of Incense
selves.
When
man,
in
wê
take a survey of nature,

infancy,
we view
and
his
more helpless
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;
brute creation he lies languishing for days, months and years, totally incapable of providing sustenance for himself, of guarding against the attack of the wild beasts of the field, or sheltering himself from the inclemencies of the weather. It might have pleased the Great Creator of
indigent tlian the
heaven and earth to have made man independent of all other beings but, as dependence is one of the strongest bonds of society, mankind were made dependent on each other for protection and security, as they thereby
;
enjoy better opportunities

duties of reciprocal love
of
fulfilling
the
and friendship. Thus was man formed for social and active life, the noblest part of the work of God; and he
that will so demean
himself as not to be endeavoring to add to the common stock of knowledge and understanding, may be deemed a drone in the hive of nature, a useless member of society, and unworthy of our
protection as Masons.
The Book of Constitutions^ guarded by the Tyler's Szvord, reminds us that we should
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be ever watchful and guarded in our thoughts, words and actions, particularly when before
ever bearing in Masonry remembrance those truly masonic virtues, Silence and Circumspection. The Sword, pointing to a Naked Heart,
the enemies of
;
demonstrates that justice will sooner or later overtake us and although our thoughts, words and actions, may be hidden from the
;
eyes of man, yet that

All-seei7ig Eye,
whom
the Sun,
Moon and
Stars obey, and
under whose watchful care even comets perform their stupendous revolutions, pervades the inmost recesses of the human heart, and will reward us according to our merits. The Anchor and Ark are emblems of a well-grounded Hope and a well-spent Life. They are emblematical of that Divine Ark
which safely wafts us over this tempestuous sea of troubles, and that Anchor which shall safely moor us in a peaceful harbor, where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary shall find rest.
rob
MASTER MASON.
T/ie Forty-seventh
Problem
of Euclidt
was an invention
of our ancient friend and
brother, the great Pythagoras,
travels through Asia, Africa

initiated
who, in his and Europe, was

priesthood,
into
several orders of
and raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason. This wise philosopher enriched his mind abundantly in a general knowledge of tilings, and more especially in Geometry, or Masonr>^ On this subject he drew out many problems and theorems, and among the most distinguished, he erected this, which, in the joy of his heart, he called Eureka, in the Grecian language signifying, " I have found it," and upon the discovery of which, he is said to have sacrificed a hecatomb. It teaches Masons to be general lovers of the arts and
sciences.
The Hour-Glass
life.
is
an emblem of
human
Behold
how
swiftly the sands run,
and
how
rapidly our lives are drawing to a
close.
We
cannot, without
particles
astonishment,
behold the
in this
little
which are contained
machine
how they pass away almost
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imperceptibly,
107
and
yet, to
short space of an hour, they are
our surprise, in the all exhausted.
the tender leaves of hope
To-day, he puts forth to-morrow, blossoms, and bears his blushing honors thick upon him the next day comes a frost, which nips the shoot, and when he thinks his
!
Thus wastes man
greatness
is
still
aspiring,
he
falls,
like
autumn leaves, to enrich our mother earth. The Scythe is an emblem of Time, which
cuts the brittle thread of
intC'
life,
!
and launches us
what havoc the Scythe of Time makes among the human the race if by chance we should escape
eternity.
Behold
numerous evils incident to childhood and youth, and with health and vigor arrive to the years of manhood, yet withal \\e must soon be cut down by the all-devouring Scythe of Time, and be gathered into the land where our fathers have gone before us.
Thus we close the explanation of the emblems upon the solemn thought of death.
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MASTER AiASON.
which, without revelation, is dark and gloomy; but we are suddenly revived by the evergreen and ever-living sprig of Faith, which
strengthens us, with confidence and composure, to look forward to a blessed immorand we doubt not, that on the glorious tality
;
morn
rise,
of
the Resurrection,
our bodies will

souls.
and become as incorruptible as our
[See note following.]
Then let us imitate * * * * * in his virtuous and amiable conduct; in his unfeigned piety to
to his trust
;
that
God in his inflexible fidelity we may welcome the grim

;
tyrant, Death,
and receive him as a kind messenger sent from our Supreme Grand Master to translate us from this imperfect to that all-perfect, glorious and celestial Lodge above, where the Supreme Architect of the Universe presides.
[Note In place of the last clause the following may be used. When the lecture on " Masonic Symbolism " is used, this should be omitted.]
MASTER .MASON.
log
let us see to it, and so by the Plumb-line of Justice, squaring our actions by the Square of Virtue, that when the Grand Warden of Heaven
Now,
brethren,
regulate our lives
shall call for us
we may
be found ready.
Let
us cultivate assiduously the noble tenets of
our profession, Brotherly Love, Relief and
Truth, and from the Square learn Morality, from the Level, Equality, and from the Plumb, Rectitude of Life. Let us imitate our * * * * in his amiable and virtuous conduct, his unfeigned piety to God, and his inflexible' fidelity to his trust. As the * * * which * * * * bloomed at the betrayed
^
the place of
so
may
virtue,
by
its
ever-
blooming loveliness, designate us as Free and Accepted Masons.- With the mystic Trowel let us spread liberally the cement of brotherly
love and affection
;
circumscribed by the
all
Com-
passes,
let
us ponder well
;
our thoughts,
words and actions let all the energies of our minds, and the affections of our souls be employed in the attainment of our Supreme
Grand Master's approbation
that
when
the
no
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hour of our dissolution draws nigh, and the cold winds of Death come sighing around us, and his chill dew already glistens on our foreheads, we may with joy obey the summons of the Grand Warden of Heaven, and go from our labors here on earth to everlasting refreshment in the Paradise of God; where, by the benefit of a pass, of a pure life, and a firm reliance on Divine Providence, shall we gain a ready admission into that
Celestial
i^rchitect
Lodge above, where the Supreme

of the Universe presides
;
-where,
seated
at the right
Grand Master, He
shall
our Supreme will be pleased to pro-
hand
of
nounce us just and upright Masons.
Then
that
we
indeed be
that
fitly
prepared, as living
stones,
for
Spiritual
Building,
" house not made with hands," eternal in the heavens where no discordant voice shall be heard, but all the soul shall experience shall be perfect bliss, and all it shall express shall be perfect praise, and love divine shall ennoble
;
every heart, and hosannas exalted employ every tongue.
ftVASTER A\ASON.
ill
A\ASONIG SYMBOLISM.
[Arranged
Symbolism
of
from Mackey's work: Freemasonry."]
"The
[Note. With the hope that this beautiful Lecture may encourage more of the Masonic candidates to become Masonic students, its use is recommended, should the time permit.]
J/y Bi'other: Among the many beautiful and appropriate definitions given of Freemasonry none is more comprehensive than
the one to be found in the English lectures
:
"Freemasonry is a science of morality, veil. J in allegory and illustrated by symbols." Freemasonry presents itself most prominently In to our view as a science of Symbolism.
tracing the progress of Freemasonry,
we
shall
fmd
it
so intimately connected with the history
of philosophy, of religion,
and of art,
in all
ages
of the world, that
it is
evident that no
Mason
can expect thoroughly to understand the nature of the institution, or to appreciate its character, unless he shall carefully study its annals, and make himself conversant with
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MASTER A\ASON.
the facts of history, to which and from which

it
gives and receives a mutual influence.
The
in
brother
who
unfortunately supposes that the
only requisites of a skillful Mason consist

or in correctly opening or in
repeating with fluency the ordinary lectures,
and closing the Lodge,

accuracy the
giving with
sufficient
modes of
recognition, will hardly credit the
assertion, that-
he whose knowledge of the
"royal art" extends no farther than these

preliminaries has scarcely advanced beyond
the rudiments of our science.
There is a far nobler series of doctrines with which Freemasonry is connected, and which no student ever began to investigatewho did not And himself insensibly led on, from
step to step in his researches, his love
and
its
admiration of the order increasing with the
augmentation of his acquaintance with

character.
It
is
this
which constitutes the
science and the philosophy of Freemasonry,
and
it
is
this
alone which will return the
scholar
who
devotes himself to the task a
sevenfold reward for his labor.
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113
Freemasonry is a science a phllosopliy system of doctrines which is taught, in a
manner
peculiar to itself,
Its
by
allegories
and
ceremonies are external additions, which affect not its substance. If we seek the origin and first beginning of the Masonic philosophy, we must go away back into the ages of remote antiquity, when we shall fmd this beginning in the bosom of kindred associations, where the same philososymbols.
phy was maintained and taught. But if we confound the ceremonies of Masonry with the philosophy of Masonry, and seek the origin
of the institution,
moulded
into
outward form
as
it is
to-day,
we can
scarcely be required to
look farther back than the beginning of the
eighteenth century, and indeed, not quite so

far.
The philosophy
in the
of
Freemasonry
is
engaged
contemplation of the divine and

;
human
self-
character
existent
of
GOD
in
as one eternal,
contradiction
to
being,
the
mythology of the ancient peoples, which was burdened with a multitude of gods and
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A\ASTER MASON.
goddesses, of demigods and heroes

life
of
MAN
as an immortal being, preparing in the present

for
an eternal future,
ancient
in like contradiction
to
the
philosophy, which
circum-
scribed the existence of

life.
man
to the present
There is no science so ancient as that of Symbolism, and no mode of instruction has

ever been so general as
was
the symbolic in
former ages. by symbols.
Man's
earliest instruction
was
The
objective character of a
symbol
is
best calculated to be grasped by the

that
or individually.
in
infant mind, whether the infancy of
mind be considered nationally
And
its
hence, in the
infancy,
all
first
ages of the world,
propositions,
theological,
in the
political or scientific,
were expressed
in
form of symbols. It is not to be hoped,
the short space of a
ground of Masonic Symbolism, a subject upon which volumes have been written, and eminent and learned men of various ages have spent years of
brief lecture, to cover the
ripened research, but
if
the entrance to the
MASTER MASON.
115
mine be but uncovered, and a glimpse of the

untold treasures be but obtained, the enquiring
mind
will necessarily delve for itself into the
and the object of this lecture will be There will be but time to briefly glance at one class of Masonic symbols, and try to read a few lessons from the language. Looking then, in this way, at the philosophy of the institution, coming down having to us, as it has, from a remote age, passed unaltered aud unscathed through a thousand revolutions of nations, and engagriches,
attained.
ing, as disciples in its school of
the intellectual of
all
times, the
it
mental labor, first thing

is
that
must naturally
arrest the attention
the
singular combination that

art
presents of an
an with a science the technical terms and language of a mechanical profession with the abstruse teachings of a profound philosophy. We are taught that Freemasonry is of two kinds, operative and speculative. We work, it is true, in speculative Masonry only, but
operative with a speculative organization
our ancient brethren wrought in both opera-
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MASTER MASON
tive
and speculative.
Now,
the operative art
having, for us, ceased, we, as speculative Masons, symbolize the labors of our predecessors by engaging in the construction of a spiritual temple in our hearts, pure and spotless, fit for the d.-velling place of Him who is the author of purity where God is to
be worshipped whence every

passion
is
in
spirit
evil
and thought
in
truth,
and
and
unruly
to be banished, as the sinner
and
the Gentile were excluded from the sanctuary

of the Jewish Temple.
To
construct
his
earthly
temple,
the
mason followed the architectural designs laid down on the Trestle Board, or
operative
tracing
board,
or
book
of
plans
of
the
architect.
By
;
these he
hewed and squared

;
by these he raised his walls by these he constructed his arches and by these strength and durability, combined with grace and beauty, were bestowed upon the edifice which he was constructing. The Trestle Board becomes, therefore, one
his materials
of our elementary symbols.
For
in
the Masonic
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117
reminded that, as the operative artist erects his temporal building, in accordance with the rules and designs laid down on the trestle board of the Master Workman, so should he erect that
is
Mason
type, in obedience to the rules
which the material is a and designs, the precepts and commands, laid down by the
spiritual building, of
Grand
Architect
of
the
Universe, in the
Bible, the
greatbook of nature and revelation,
which constitutes the spiritual trestle board of every Freemason. But the operative mason required materials wherewith to construct his temple. There was, for instance, the Rough Ashlarthe stone in its rude and natural state unformed and unpolished, as it had been lying in the quarries of Tyre from the foundation of the earth. This stone \âs to be hewed and squared, to be fitted and adjusted, by simple, but appropriate implements, until it became
the Perfect Ashlar, or well finished stone,
ready
to
take
its
destined
place
in
the
building.
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MASTER MASON.
Here, then, again, in these materials do

find other elementary symbols.
we The rough
and unpolished stone is a symbol of man's natural state ignorant and uncultivated; but when education has exerted its salutary influences in expanding his intellect, in restraining his hitherto unruly passions, and purifying his life, he is then represented as
the Perfect Ashlar, or finished stone, which,
under the skillful hands of the workman, has been smoothed, and squared, and fitted for
its
appropriate place in the building.

;
There are other elementary symb<:>ls the three described, however, the rough ashlar, the perfect ashlar, and the trestle board, and which, from their importance, have received
the
name of ''jewels," will be sufficient to give some idea of the nature of what may be
"symbolic alphabet" of Masonry. Let us now proceed to a brief consideration of the method in which this alphabet of. the
called the
science
is
applied to the more elevated and
abstruser portions of the system, and which, as the Temple constitutes

its
most important
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type,
of
Iig
may
be called the
"Temple Symbolism
Masonry." Both Scripture and tradition inform us that, at the building of King Solomon's Temple, the masons were divided into different classes, each engaged in different tasks. The mode in which these three divisions of workmen labored in constructing the temple, has
been beautifully symbolized
in
speculative
Masonry, and constitutes an important and interesting part of temple symbolism. Thus we know, from our own experience among modern workmen, who still pursue the same method, as well as from the traditions of the Order, that the implements used in the quarries were few and simple, the
work
there requiring necessarily, indeed, but
two tools, namely, the Twenty-four Inch Gauge, or two foot rule, and the Common Gavel, or stone-cutter's hammer. With the
former implement, the operative mason took the necessary dimensions of the stone he was about to prepare, and with the latter, by repeated blows, skillfully applied, he broke
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MASTER MASON.
off
every
it
unnecessary
tlie
protuberance,
fit
and
rendered
its
smooth and square, and

building.
first
to take
place in
And
thus, in the
degree of speculative
Entered Apprentice receivej these simple implements, as the emblematic
Masonry, the
working
operative
tools of his profession, with
their
appropriate symbolical instruction.
To
the
and practical use alone is signified, and nothing more of value does their presence convey to his
their mechanical
mason
mind.
of
To
the speculative
of
Mason the
far
sight
them }s suggestive
;
nobler
and
they teach him to measure, not stones, but time not to smooth and polish the marble for the builder's use, but to purify and cleanse his heart from every
sublimer thoughts
;
vice
unfit for
and imperfection that would render it a place in the spiritual temple of his
hi
body,
the symbolic alphabet of
Free-
masonry, therefore, the Twenty-four inch Gauge is a symbol of time well employed the Common Gavel, of the purification of the
;
heart.
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121
At the building of tlie Temple, the stones having been thus prepared by the workmen of the lowest degree, we are informed that they were transported to the site of the edifice on Mount Moriah, and were there placed in the hands of another class of workmen, who are now technically called the Fellow Crafts. At this stage of the operative work more extensive and important labors were to be performed, and accordingly a greater amount of skill and knowledge was required of those to whom these labors were intrusted. The stones, having been prepared by the Apprentices, were now to be deposited in their destined places in the building, and the massive walls were to be erected. For these purposes implements of a higher and more complicated character than the gauge and gavel were necessary. The Square was required to fit the joints with sufficient accuracy, the Level to run the courses in a horizontal line, and the Plumb to erect the whole with due regard to perfect perpendicularity. This portion of the labor finds its
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MASTER MASON.
in the
symbolism
lative science,
and
second degree of the specuin applying this symbolism

to
we
still
continue to refer
the
idea
of
erecting a spiritual temple in the heart.
The necessary preparations, then, having been made in the first degree, the lessons having been received by which the aspirant is taught to commence the labor of life with the purification of the heart, as a Fellow Craft he continues the task by cultivating those virtues which give form and impression to the character, as well adapted stones give
shape and stability to the building. And hence the Working Tools of the Fellow Craft are referred, in their symbolic application, to these virtues. In the alphabet of symbolism, we find the Square, the Level and the Plumb,
,
appropriated
to
this
second
degree.
The
a symbol denoting morality. It teaches us to apply the unerring principles of moral science to every action of our lives, to see that all the motives and results of our conduct shall coincide with the dictates of divine justice, and that all our thoughts^
Square
is
MASTER MASON.
123
words and deeds

lik**
shall
harmoniously conspire,
the
well-adjusted and rightly-squared

of virtue.
is
joints
of an edifice, to produce a smooth,

life
unbroken
The Plumb
a symbol of rectitude of
life
conduct, and inculcates that integrity of
and undeviating course of moral uprightness, which can alone distinguish the good and As the operative workman erects just man. his temporal building with strict observance of that plumb-line, which will not permit him
to
deviate a hair's breadth to the right or to

left,
the
so the speculative Mason, guided
the unerring principles of right
by and truth
inculcated in the symbolic teachings of the
same implement,
of truth, neither
of
is
steadfast in the pursuit
bending beneath the frowns
adversity nor yielding to the seductions of
prosperity.
The
Level, the last of the three working
tools of the operative craftsman, is
of equality of station.
civil
or
onlv in
a symbol Not that equalitv of social position, which is to be found the vain dreams of the anarchist or
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MASTER A\ASON.
the Utopian, but that great moral and physical

equality which affects the whole
human
Father,
race,
as the children of one

alike,
common
who
on
causes His sun to shine and His rain to

all
fall
and
universal lot
leveler of all
visit
has so appointed the of humanity, that death, the
Who
human
greatness,
is
made
to
with equal pace the prince's palace and

symbolic allusions
the peasant's hut.

In the third degree the
to the
Temple of Solomon, and the implements of Masonry employed in its construction, are extended and fully completed. At the building of that edifice, we have already seen that one class of workmen was employed in the
preparation of
tlie
materials, while another
was engaged
and
higher
in placing
those materials in
their proper position.
But there was a third

master
class
it
the
workmen
two
whose duty
was
to superintend the
other classes, and to see that the stones were
not only duly prepared, but that the most exact accuracy had been observed in giving to them their true juxtaposition in the edifice.
MASTER MASON.
It
125
was then only that the last and finishing was performed, and the cement was applied by these skillful workmen, to secure
labor
the materials in their appropriate places, and

to
unite the building in one enduring
and
connected mass. Hence the Trowel, wê are informed, was the most important, though, of course, not the only implement in use
among
the master builders.
They
did not
permit this last indelible operation to be per-
formed by any hands less skillful than their They required that the craftsmen own. should prove the correctness of their M'ork by the square, level and plumb, and test by these unerring instruments the accuracy of their
joints
;
and,
when
satisfied
of
the
just
arrangement of every part, the cement, which was to give an unchangeable union to the whole, was then applied by themselves. Hence, in speculative Masonry, the Trowel
has been assigned to the third degree, as its proper implement, and the symbolic meaning which accompanies it, has a strict and beautiful reference to the purposes for which it
126
MASTER MASON.
;
was used in the ancient temple for as It was there employed " to spread the cement which united the building in one common
as the symbol of cement whose object is to unite our mystic association in one sacred and harmonious band of brethren.
it
mass," so
is
selected
brotherly love
that
The Temple is now completed. The stones having been hewn, squared and numbered in the quarries by the apprentices having been properly adjusted by the craftsmen, and
finally
secured in their appropriate places,
with the strongest and purest cement, by the master builders the Temple of King Solomon presented, in its fmished condition, so noble an appearance of sublimity and grandeur as
to well deserve to be selected, as
it
for the type
or
symbol
of
that
temple of the body, to which Teacher significantly and symbolically alluded
has been, immortal the Great
when He
said,
I
" Destroy
it
this temple,
and
in
three days
speculative
will raise
up."
The Temple is indeed fmished, but as Masons our labor has not yet
\iastek mason.
it end until this mortal have put on immortality, and in that all-perfect and glorious Lodge above, where the Supreme Grand Master of the Universe presides, we shall have received the reward of good and faithful craftsmen. The search for the Word to fmd Divine Truththis, and this only, is a Mason's work, and the
ended, nor indeed can
sliall
Word
The
is
his reward.
aspirant enters on this search after
truth, as
an Entered Apprentice,
in
darkness,
wisdom, the light of truth, the light symbolized by the Word. For this im.portant task, upon which
seeking for light
light of
the
he starts forth gropingly, falteringly, doubtingly, in want and in weakness, he is prepared by a purification of the heart, and is invested with a first substitute for the true Word, which, like the pillar that went before
the Israelites in the wilderness,
is
to guide
weary journey. He is directed to take, as a staff and scrip for his journey, all those virtues which expand the heart and dignify the soul. Secrecy, obedihim onwards
in
his
128
MASTER MASON.
ence, humility, trust in

science,
God, purity
of con-
economy
first
of time, are all inculcated
by impressive'types and symbols, which

nect the
con-
degree with the period of youth.

journey.
And
then, next in the degree of Fellow
Craft, he fairly enters upon his
Youth has now passed, and manhood has come on. New duties and increased obligations press upon the individual. The thinking and working stage of life is here symbolized. Science is to be cultivated wisdom is. to be
;
acquired
still
the lost
Word Divine
to be
sought
for.
Truth is But even yet it is not
to be found.
And now
all
the Master
death.
Mason comes, with
the symbolism around him of old age
trials, sufferings,
And
here, too, the
aspirant, pressing onward,

still
cries aloud for

is
"
light,
always onward, more light." The
almost over, but the lesson, humiliating to human nature, is to be taught, that
search
in this life
carnal
pure
gloomy
truth has
and dark, earthly and no abiding place

substitute, the
and contented with a
good
MASTER A\ASON,
129
Mason calmly awaits his entrance into that Second Temple of Eternal Life, there to receive that true Word, that Divine Truth, which will fully reveal to us God, and His emanation, the human soul. Finally, my brethren, shall we not, one and all, so live, that, when the toils and cares of the world are over when from our nerveless grasp shall drop forever the working tools of life when felled by the grim destroyer, Death, our bodies shall, in corruption, lie far from the unfinished Sanctum Sanctorum, we may rest assured that in the fulness of time the Strength of the Lion of
the Tribe of
Judah
shall indeed for us prevail,
and we shall be raised to perfect fellowship with the God of Truth, and receive the welcome commendation " Well done, thou good and faithful servant enter thou into the yjy of thy Lord."
:
Brother
Your
zeal for the institution of
Masonry,
mystery,
the progress you have
made
in the
130
MASTER MASON.
and your conformity to our regulations, liave pointed you out as a proper object of our favor and esteem.
You
are
now bound by
duty, honor and
gratitude,
to be faithful to
your trust; to
support the dignity of your character on every

occasion
;
and
to
enforce
by precept and
example, obedience to the tenets of the order. In the character of a Master Mason, you
are
authorized
to
irregularities of your to
correct the errors and uninformed brethren, and

fidelity.
guard them against a breach of
To
for
preserve the reputation of the Fraternity

;
unsullied,
this
must be your constant care and purpose it is your province to recommend to your inferiors, obedience and submission to your equals, courtesy and
;
affability;
to
condescension.
are
larity of
your superiors, kindness and Universal benevolence you

;
always to inculcate and, by the reguyour own behavior afford the best example for the conduct of others less informed. The ancient landmarks of the order, entrusted to your care, you are carefully to
MAsTER MASON.
preserve
;
131
and
never
suffer
them
to
be
tlie
infringed, or countenance a deviation
from
of
established
Fraternity.
usages
and
customs
the
and reputation, are with dignity the character you now bear. Let no motive, therefore, make* you swerve from your duty, violate your vows, or betray your trust but be true and faithful, and imitate the example cf that celebrated artist whom you this evening represent. Thus you will render yourself deserving of the honor which we have conferred, and merit the confidence that v^ e have reposed.
virtue,
Your
honor,
concerned in
supporting
ANCIENT CEREMONIES OF THE ORDER.

FIRST SECTION.
GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR PROCESSIONS.
When the Fraternity appears in public procession, the Regular Order in Procession will be as herein indicated, subject however to such modifications as the peculiar ceremony demands, which modifications will be indicated under the appropriate sections.
GRAND LODGE.
When the Grand Lodge appears in public procession, the Regular Order in Procession will be as follows.
Grand Tyler, with drawn sword Grand Stewards, with rods Grand Pursuivant, with sword
; ;
of
state
Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer A Burning Taper, borne by a Past

Master
; ;
PROCESSIONS.
The Holy
ses,
Bible, Square and Compason a velvet cushion, borne by a Past Master Two Burning Tapers, borne by two Past Masters Grand Chaplain and Grand Orator The Tuscan and Composite Orders, borne by two Past Masters The Doric, Ionic and Corinthian Orders, borne by three Past Masters Past Grand Wardens Past Deputy Grand Masters Past Grand Masters Celestial and Terrestrial Globes, borne by two Past Masters Grand Junior Warden and Grand
;
;
Senior
Warden
Deputy Grand Master
The Book
of Constitutions, carried by the Worshipful Master of the the oldest Lodge present
The
MASTER, supported by the Grand Deacons, with rods, and .followed by the Grand Sword Bearer, with drawn Sword.
GRAND
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
When
lar
Lodges appear
in
Grand Lodge, they

Order
it
in procession with tlie will be arranged in Regu-
the
Grand Lodge, preceeding
Procession, and march before the Grand Tyler.
only,
be a procession of the Grand Lodge Entered Apprentices, Fellow Crafts, Master Masons and Past Masters, in the order named, by two and two, follow the Grand Stewards.
If
LODGE.
Lodge appears in public procession, the Regular Order in Procession will be as

a
When
follows
Tyler, with
drawn sword
Stewards, with rods
"2
Entered Apprentices, by two and two; Fellow Crafts, by two and two Master Masons, by two and two Past Masters, by two and two
;
"^
Secretary and Treasurer
'^
Junior and Senior
Wardens
The Holy Bible, Square and Compasses, borne by the oldest Member of the
Lodge not in office The Worshipful Master, supported by
;
the Deacons, with rods.
PROCESSIONS.
135
When the Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, or other officers, present or past, of the Grand Lodge, join the procession of a Lodge, proper respect is to be paid to the rank of such oftlcer or oftkers. Their position will be immediately before the Wardens of the Lodge, and two Deacons with rods, will be appointed to attend a Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master or a Grand Warden. When the Grand Master or Deputy Grand Master is present, the Book of Constitutions will be borne before him. The horor of carrying this Book belongs of right to the Worshipful Master of the oldest Lodge in th;
jurisdiction, whenever Book of Constitutions
in
he
is
present.
The
must never be borne

present.
a procession unless the Grand Master or
Deputy Grand Master be
Holy In entering public buildings, the Bible, Square and Compasses, and the Book of Constitutions, are to be placed in front of the Grand Master, and are to be surrounded
by the three Burning Tapers; the Grand Marshal and Grand Deacons must keep near the Grand Master. The post of honor in a Masonic procession is always in the rear. When two or more Lodges join in a procession, the Lodges take
precedence in the order of age, the oldest
36
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
being in the rear, unless otherwise arranged
by some
All
in the same order in which they set out. When a procession faces inward, the Deacons and Stewards will cross their rods, so as to form an arch for the brethren to pass beneath. Marshals are to walk or ride on the left The appropriate flank of a procession. costume of a Marshal is a cocked hat, sword and scarf, with a baton in his hand. The color of the scarf must be blue in the procession of a Lodge, and purple in that of the Grand Lodge. The proper clothing for brethren in procession, is dark clothes and hat, white gloves and apron. When a band of music occurs in the procession of the Grand Lodge, when othe*Lodges are also in the procession, it wiK immediately precede the Grand Tyler when in the procession of the Grand it occurs Lodge alone, it will follow the Grand Tyler; when it occurs in the procession of a Lodge it will follow the Stewards, if all the musicians be Masons, otherwise it will follow the Tyler. When Knights 1 emplar, in uniform, appear in the procession of the Grand Lodge, they will act as escort, and march just before the Grand Lodge; when in the procession of a
;
special provision. processions w-ill return
CONSECRATION NKW LODGE.
137
Lodge, they will act as escort, marching just after the Band, except in Funeral Processions, for which special provision is made. When members of other branches of the Masonic Fraternity appear in uniform in a precession, they will be assigned a position between the Master Masons and Past Masters.
SECOiND SECTION.
eONSECRATIOX, DEDICATION AND CONSTITUTION OF A NEW LODGE. GENERAL REMARKS.
Under the Law in this Grand Jurisdiction, any number of Master Masons, not less than seven, being desirous of forming a new Lodge, must apply by petition to the Grand Master, blank forms for which will be furnished by the Grand Secretary upon applicaSuch petition shall be signed by the tion.
who are desirous of being authorized open and hold the proposed Lodge, and to and every Petitioner shall work therein produce satisfactory evidence of dimission from the Lodge of which he was last a member, or show that such Lodge has ceased In such petition there shall be to exist. nominated one Brother for Master, one Brother for Senior Warden and one Brother for Junior Warden. Such petition must be
Brothers
to
;
138
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
place
recommended by the Lodge nearest to th where the proposed new Lodge is to bd located, and in such recommendation it must
:
;
be expressly stated first, that the petitioners are Master Masons in good standing second, that they have provided a suitable place in which to hold their meetings third, that the Master and Wardens nominated in the petition have satisfactorily exhibited their skill by an exemplification of the Work of Ancient
;
Craft Masonry.
As there is oftentimes a grave difference of opinion between the Grand Master and the local brethren as to the advisability of the forming of a proposed new Lodge, ample correspondence with the Grand Master, by which he is made thoroughly conversant with the peculiar facts and surroundings in the case, will sometimes save much time an4 labor upon a petition. Lodges, working under Dispensation, are merely the agents of the Grand Master granting the authority their presiding oificers arc not entitled to the rank of Past Masters their oftkers are not privileged with a vote or voice in the Grand Lodge ; they can not elect officers or make by-la\^'s the Master and Wardens are appointed in the Dispensation, and can not be changed without the special approbation and consent of the Grand Master
:
;
CONSECRATION
NEW LODGE.
ijy
the authority, or of the Grand the Master appoints the officers subordinate to the Wardens, and may fill any
granting
Lodge;
vacancy
in their stations.
The Master and
require no other authority than that contained in the Letters of Dispensation to assemble the petitioners and commence their labors, witliout any ceremonies of Consecrating, Dedicating or Constituting, The powers of a or Installing of Officers. Lodge under Dispensation are limited to accepting candidates for the Mysteries of
Wardens appointed
Masonry, and conferring the Degrees upon them they can not receive or act upon Petitions for Membership. In case of the
;
cessation of such Lodges, their funds, jewels
and other property, accumulated by initiations into the several degrees, become the property of the Grand Lodge, and must be turned over upon demand. When a Lodge under Dispensation shall have passed the required probation, and the Grand Lodge shall have granted a Charter, (if one be granted) they are then consecrated, dedicated and constituted, and have their officers installed, and are thus confirmed in the possession of their property, and possess all the rights and privileges of a regularly constituted Lodge, so long as they conform to tlie Constitutions of Masonry.
J40
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
After a Charter is granted by the Grand Lodge, the Grand Master appoints a day and hour for the performance of these ceremonies, or specially deputizes some competent and qualified Brother to fully act for him, congregate the Brethren, and consecrate, dedicate and constitute the Lodge, and install its officers. If the Grand Master, or a Past Grand Master, in person, conducts the ceremony, the Lodge is said to be constituted in if the Deputy Grand Master, or Grand Senior or Junior Warden, or an officer entitled to be addressed as Right Worshipful, it is said to be constituted in but if the power is vested in ; any other person, it is said to be constituted in FORM. The various officers of the Grand Lodge not present, have their places supplied by the presiding officer from tlie qualified brethren' pressnt.
AMPLE FORM;
DUE FORM
CONSECRATION.
the day and hour appointed, the Grand Master and his officers, or their representatives, meet in a convenient room near the Lodge to be consecrated, and open on the Degree provided for by Sec. 7, Art. II, of the Constitution of the Grand Lodge. The officers of the new Lodge are examined "by the Deputy Grand Master, and after assembling
On
CONSeCKAriON NEW LODGE.

in their to the
141
Lodge Room they send a messenger
Grand Master with
the
following
message Most Worshipful Grand officers and brethren of
Master:
The
Lodge,
are now assembled at their Lodge Room, have instructed me to inform you, that the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Kansas was pleased to grant them a Charter, authorizing them to form and open a Lodge of Free and
who
Accepted Masons in the town of They are now desirous that their Lodge should be consecrated, and their officers installed in due and ancient form ; for which purpose they are now met, and await the
pleasure
of
the
Most Worshipful
Grand
Master,
The Grand Lodge then walk

the
in procession
to the Hall of the new Lodge. As the Grand Master enters, the brethren are called up, and
Grand Honorsf
cf
are given
by the new
fThe Grand Honors
the Private, them are used on different occasions and for different purposes. ^ The Private Grand Honors are the D.'.GS.". and SS.\ of the three degrees, and are performed in a manner
Masonry are of three kinds the Public and the Funeral, and each of
; ;
i42
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
;
to the
the officers of which resign their seats Officers, and take their several stations on the left.
Lodge
Grand
the ceremonies are to be performed in Grand Marshal then forms the procession in the following order
If
public, the
A Tyler, with drawn sword Two Stewards, with rods

;
Entered Apprentices, two and two Fellow Crafts, two and two Master Masons, two and two Junior Deacons, with rods Senior Deacons, with rods
; ;
;
Secretaries
Treasurers
Junior
Senior
Wardens Wardens
Masters of Lodges; Past Masters.

known
only to Master Masons, and can only be used in a Master's Lodjje. They are practiced by the Craft only on four occasions: when a Masonic Hall is to be consecrated, a new Lodge to be constituted, a Master elect to be installed, or a Grand Master or his Deputy to be received on an official visitatio' to a Lodge They are used at all these ceremonies as tokens of congratulation and homage. It is evident from what has been said, that the mode and manner of giving the Private Grand '-'onors can only be communicated personally to Master Masons.
CONSECRATIONNEW LODGE.
143
of the arranged in Regular Order of Procession (see page 132), with the following addition immediately following the Secretary and Treasurer will come two brethren carrying the "Lodge"; the " Lodge," technically speaking, is a piece of furniture, made in imitation of the Ark of the Covenant. Where a rep;ularly-made Ark is not available, a temporary arrangement
NEW LODGE,
:
Then follow the officers and members
The Public Grand Honors, as their name imports, donot partake of this secret character. They are given upon all public occasions, except funerals, in the presence of the profane as well as the initiated. They are used at pubhc installations, at the laying of corner stones of public buildings, or in other services in which the ministrations of the Fraternity are required. They are given by striking the palms of the hands together, first, the rigiit hand upon the left three times, second, the left hand upon the right three times, third, the right hand upon the left three times, making nine concussions in all, or technically " three times three." The Funeral Grand Honors, as their name imports, are used at funeral or memorial services, and are given in the following manner: Both arms are crossed on the breast, the left uppermost, and the open palms of the hands sharply striking the shoulders; they are then raised above the head, the palms striking each other, and then made to fall smartly upon the thighs. This is repeated three times, and while the Honors are being given the third time, the brethren audibly pronounce the following words when the arms are crossed on the breast: "We cherish his memory here ;" when the hands are extended above the head "We commend his spirit to God who gave it;" and when the hands are extended toward the ground "And consign his body to the earth."
144
ANCIhNT CEREMONIES.
can be made of a box, of an oblong-square shape. In the procession, next after the officers and members of the New Lodge will come the Band of Musicians, if any ; following which will come the Grand Lodge, arranged in Regular Order of Procession (seepage 132), with the following addition between the Grand Pursuivant and the Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer will come
:
Brother, carrying a Golden Vessel containing
Corn (Wheat)
Two
The
Brothers, carrying Silver Vessels, one
containing Wine, the other Oil.

procession moves on to the church or house where the services are to be performed. When the front of the procession arrives at the door, they halt, open to the right and left, face inward, and the Stewards and Deacons cross rods, while the Grand Master and others in succession, pass through and enter the house. A platform is erected in front of the pulpit, and provided with seats for the accommodation of the Grand Officers.
The Holy Bible, Square and Compasses, and Book of Constitutions, are placed upon
a table in front of the
Grand Master
the
CONSECRATION NEW LODGE.
145
" Lodge" is placed in tlie center, upon a plat form covered with white linen, silk or satin, and is itself covered with a loose covering of white linen, silk or satin, and encompassed by the Burning Tapers, and the Vessels of Corn, Wine and Oil. The following services then take place
:
ODE.
Tune: State n
ii
Street. S.
M.
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
M r=* ^^ 5=^
4=1:
Oh,
in
^
Lord, a
-
Thy
tern -pie,
bove
9#
is:
1^:
1
I
î
ac
-
3^
cept
3
our praise.
Hear
and
9#
Shine on this festive day, Succeed its hoped design, And may our Charity display A love resembling Thine
May this fraternal band, Now consecrated blest

In union all distinguished stand,
In purity be drest
147
The following, or an prayer, will be offered by the

Great, Adorable
praise
for
!
extemporaneous
Grand Chaplain:
!
and Supreme Being We Thee for al Thy n cies, and especially giving us desire, to enjoy, and powers of
ety.
enjoying, the delights of so

tions
The
affec-
which Thou hast iir.planted in us, and which we can not destroy without violence
to our nature, are
amon^
*'
o chief blessings
which Thy benign wisdom hath trestowed upon us. Help us duly to improve all our powers to the promotion of Thy glory in the world, and the good [of our fellow-creatures. May we be active under Thy Divine Light, and dwell in Thy Truth. Extend Thy favor to us who are now entering into a Fraternal Compact under peculiar obligations. Enable us to be faithful to
Thee, faithful
in
our callings
in life, faithful
Masons
society.
tection
;
in
all
the duties of the Craft, and
faithful to
each other as members of this Take us under the shadow of Thy proto
and
Thy
service
consecrate our hearts.
May we
and glory may we always put
^
148
ANCIENT CEREMONIE}
Faith in Thee, have Hope in salvation, and be in Charity with all mankind. Amen
!
Response: So mote it be An Oration, or Sermon, upon the designs and principles of the Institution, is then delivered by the Grand Chaplain, or some competent Brother appointed for that purpose
!
after
which
is
sung the following Ode
ODE.
Tune
:
Dnke
Street. L.
M.
11
How
blest the sa
-
cred
tie
that binds
^^M:=^ -H^
fc^=4: - -<5^
-^mm
-<5^
A^ \ *f-
g
-
I^
m
!
In sweet com-mun-ion
kind-red minds
a.
i^
:îL^
i
^^
Q.
:0NSECRAT10N NEW LODGE.
How swift the heav'nlv
course thev run,
'^-
^
:2zS
-^-T
i
!
Si
ipl
:^
S3
1^
I
Whose hearts.whose faith .whose hopes are
one.
:^
Together
oft
they seek the place

smiling face strong their raptures swell,
tell.
Where Masons meet with
How
Nor
high,
how
There's none but kindred souls can

shall the
When
glowing flame expire, dimly burns frail Nature's fire Then shall they meet in realms above, A heaven of joy, a heaven of love.
;
ISO
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
The Grand Marshal then forms the officers of the new Lodge in front of tne Grand Master. The Deputy Grand Master addresses the Grand Master as
and members
follows
Most Worshipful Grand Master:

ber
of
A numin
brethren,
of
duly
instructed
the
having assembled together at stated periods, for some time past, by virtue of a Dispensation granted them for that purpose, do now desire to be Constituted into a regular Lodge, agreeably to the ancient usages and customs of the Fraternity.
mysteries
Masonry,
The Records
are then
:
presented
to the
if
Grand Master^ who examines them, and

found correct, proclaims
The
records appear to be correct, and are
approved.
Upon due
deliberation, the
Grand
Lodge have granted the brethren of this new Lodge a Warrant, establishing and confirming them in the rights and privileges of a Regularly Constituted Lodge; which the Grand
Secretary will
now
read.

After the Warrant Master then says
is
51
read,
the
Grand
We
shall
now proceed,
according to ancient
into
usage, to constitute these brethren
Regular Lodge.
Whereupon the
Lodge
deliver
several officers of the
new
up their jewels and badges to their Master, who presents them, with his own, to the Deputy Grand Master, and he to
the
Grand Master. The Deputy Grand Master presents the Master elect to the Grand Master, saying
: :
present Most Worshipful Grand Master whom the members of the you Brother Lodge noW to be constituted have chosen for their Worshipful Master.
I
The Grand Master asks the brethren

they
if
remain
[They bow The Blaster elect then presents severally* his Wardens and other. officers, naming them The Gra?id and their respective offices. Master asks the brethren if they remain satisfied with each and all of them. [They
satisfied with their in token of assent.]
choice.
bow
as before. T
152
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
officers
The
and members
of the
new Lodge
form in front of the Grand Master; and the ceremonies of Consecration commence.
The Grand Master and Grand Officers now form themselves in order around the "Lodge" all kneeling.
A
is
piece of solemn music
softly,
is performed, very '' upon the organ, while the " Lodge
being uncovered [that is, the loose covering removed]. After which, the first clause of the Consecration Prayer is rehearsed by the Grand Chaplain^ as follows
:
Maker Great Architect of the Universe and Ruler of all Worlds Deign from Thy Celestial Temple, from realms of light and
! !
glory, to bless us in
all
the purposes of our
present assembly
in all
We
humbly invoke Thee

all
to give us at this
and at
times,
Wisdom
our doings. Strength of mind in all our difficulties, and the Beauty of harmony in all our communications Permit us, Thou Author of Light and Life, great source of Love and Happiness, to erect this Lodge, and now solemnly to Consecrate it to the honor of Thy Glory Glory be to God on high
!

Resp07ise
155
by the
Grand Lodge:
is
As
it
was
be
;
in
the beginning,
now, and ever shall
world without end.

all the
Amen
Response by
be!
Brethren:
So mote
it
The Deputy Grand Master
presents the
Golden Vessel of Corn, and the Grand Senior and Jii7iior Wardens the Silver Vessels of Wine and Oil, to the Grand Master^ who sprinkles the elements of Consecration upon the "Lodge."
The Grand Chaplain then continues

Grant,
Lord our God, that those who are now about to be invested with the government of this Lodge may be endowed with
wisdom
duties.
to instruct their brethren in all their
May Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth always prevail among the members of this Lodge May this bond of union continue to strengthen the Lodges throughout the world
;
Bless
all
our brethren, wherever dispersed

relief to all
and grant speedy
who
are either
oppressed or distressed.
J54
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
to
We affectionately commena
members
and
in
Thee
all
the
they increase in grace, in the knowledge of Thee,

of
Thy whole
family.
May
the love of each other.

:
May we fmish all our work here Thy approbation and then have our transition from this earthly abode to Thy
Finally
below with
heavenly Temple above there to enjoy light, glory, and bliss, ineffable and eternal Glory be to God on high 'Response by the Grand Lodge: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen Response by all the Brethren: So mote it
; ! ;
!
be!
piece of solemn music
is
the Organ covered.
while
the
"Lodge"
performed upon again is
DEDICATION.
While the Organist is still playing, the Grand 3Taster ax\sts, and standing with his hands stretched forth over the "Lodge,"
exclaims
:
To the memory
of the
HOLY SAINTS
May
every
JOHN, we
dedicate this Lodge.
DEDICATION CONSTITUTION NEW LODGE.
155
Brother revere their character and

their virtues
imitate
Glory be to God on high Response by the Grand Lodge: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be
!
world without end. Amen Response by all the Brethreî:

!
So mote
it
be
A piece of music is played while the brethren of the new Lodge advance in procession to salute the Grand Lodge, with their hands crossed upon their breasts, and bowing as they pass. They then take their places as
they were.
CONSTITUTION.
The Grand Master then
rises
and Consti-
tutes the new Lodge in the following form, all the brethren standing at the same time :
Most Worshipful Grand and Accepted Masons of Kansas, I now constitute and form you, my beloved brethren, into a Regular Lodge From henceof Free and Accepted Masons. forth I empower you to meet as a Regular
In the
name
of the
Lodge
of Ancient, Free
Lodge, constituted
in
conformity to the
rites
II
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
of our Order, and the Charges of our Ancient and Honorable Fraternity and may the Supreme Architect of the Universe prosper, direct and counsel you in all your doings
; !
Amen
Response:
So mote
it
be
The Grand Honors
are then given
public
or private, as the case requires.
THIRD SECTION.
INSTALLATION OF THE OFFICERS OF A LODGE.
The new Lodge having been Consecrated, Dedicated and Constituted, the Officers are then to be installed. At every Annual Election in a Warranted Lodge, it is necessary that the oificers should be installed. This ceremony may be performed by the retiring Master, or by any Past Master. At the Annual Installation, the Installing Officer appoints some Present or Past Master, or, if none be present, an old well-informed Master Mason, to act as Marshal, whose duties will be to present the
officers elect severally in front of
the Altar for
installation.
The
personally present
Officers can be installed only when ofticers-elect not installed ;
fNSTALLATlON LODGE.
157
on or before St. John's Day, in December, can be installed only by authority of the Grand Master. The appointed officers may be installed at any time, and any such officer appointed to permanently fill a vacancy may be installed at any time the Master may direct. At some convenient time, prior to the ceremonies of Installation, a Lodge of actual Past Masters may convene, for the purpose investing the Master elect with the of Characteristics of the Chair. At this convocation there should be present at least three regularly-installed Masters or Past Masters. None but regularly-installec Masters and Past Masters of Wari-antec
Lodges are entitled to b^ present at these ceremonies ; Chapter Past Masters, who have never presided over a Symbolic Lodge, are not entitled to be present. The Master elect is then obligated to the faithful performai :e of his trust, solemnly inducted into the Oriental Chair of King Solomon, and invested with the characteristics of the Chair. When more convenient, these ceremonies may be performed after the Installation Ceremonies, and when, by reason of the non-attendance of a sufficient number of Masters or Past Masters, or other good cause, 't becomes impracticable to perform these
158
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
prior to, or upon, the day of installation, they may be attended to at the earliest ronvenient time practicable thereafter, it is not to be understood that the above
ceremonies
ceremonies are considered, in this Grand Jurisdiction, a necessary pre-requisite to a Master presiding over a Symbolic Lodge,- but their use is recommended by the Grand Lodge.
INSTALLATION CEREMONIES.
The time
for Installation
having arrived,
the jewels of the several officers art collected, and laid in an orderly manner upon the Altar, for convenient use. The Grand Master [or Installing Officer'] then says:
Right Worshipful Deputy [or Brother Marshal] H e you carefully examined the Master nominated in the Warrant [or elect],
:
and do you find him well skilled in the noble science and th jyal art ? The Deputy [or Marshal] replies Grand Master [or Most Worshipful Worshipful Master]: have carefully examined, and so find him.
:
G,
M.
[or /. 6>.]
You
will
then present
him
at the pedestal [or altar] for installation.
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159
The Deputy [or Marshal], taking the Master elect, presents him at the pedestal [or altar], saying
Master [or my worthy Brother, A. B., to be installed Master o^ this [new] Lodge. I find him to be of good morals, and of great skill, true and trusty; and as he is' a lover of the Fraternity, I doubt not he will discharge his duties with fidelity and with honor.
:
Most Worshipful Worshipful Master]
Grand
I
present
The Grajid Master [or Instatlingthen addresses him

:
Officer']
Brother
is
Previous to your investiture,
it
necessary that you should signify your assent to those Ancient Charges and Regulations which point out the duty of a Master a Lodge.
of
The Grand Master [or Installing Officer] then reads a summary of the Ancient Charges to the Master elect, as follows
:
I.
You
I
agree to be a good
man and
law.''
true,
and strictly to obey the moral Ans. do.
l6o
II.
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
You
in
I
cheerfully to conform
agree to be a peaceable citizen, and to the laws of the

reside
?
country
which you
do.
Ans.
III.
You promise
not to be concerned in
plots
and conspiracies against the government, but patiently to submit to the law and
?
the constituted authorities
Ans.
IV.
do.
You
agree to pay a proper respect to
the civil magistrates, to

creditably,
work
diligently, live
all
and act honorably by

do.
men
Ans.
V.
nal rulers
You
agree to hold in veneration the origi-
and patrons of the Order of Masonry, and their regular successors, supreme and suband to ordinate, according to their stations submit to the awards and resolutic is of your brethren, in Lodge convened, in every case consistent with the Constitutions of the Order?
;
A7ts.
do.
VI.
You
quarrels,
and
?
agree to avoid private piques and to guard against intenlperance
and excess
INSTALLATION LODGE.
A71S.
I
l6x
do.
VII.
You
agree
to
be cautious in your
behavior,
faithful to
courteous to
your brethren, and
your Lodge
do.
Ans.
VIII.
brethren, and to
and
all
promise to respect genuine discountenance impostors, dissenters from the original plan of
You
Masonry ^ Ans.
IX.
do.
You
agree to promote the general good
of society, to cultivate the social virtues,

10
and
propagate the knowledge of the mystic
art?
Ans.
X.
do.
to
You promise
Grand Master
officers
pay homage to the and to his when duly installed and strictly to
for the time being,
;
conform to every edict of the Grand Lodge, or general Assembly of Masons, that is not subversive of the principles and ground-work
of
Masonry? Ans. I do.
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES,
XI.
of
You admit
or
any man,
Ans.
XII.
I
tions in
that it is not in the power body of men, to make innovathe body of Masonry ?
do.
You promise a
regular attendance on
the committees and communications of the

to
Grand Lodge on receiving proper notice and pay attention to all the duties of Masonry
;
on convenient occasions?
Ans.
XIII.
do.
that no new Lodge shall be formed without permission of the Grand Lodge and that no countenance be given to
;
You admit
any
irregular
Lodge,
)r
to
y person
clandestinely initiated therein, being contrary
Charges of the Order? Ans. do. XIV. You admit that no person can be regularly made a Mason in, or admitted a member of, any regular Lodge, without previous notice, and due inquiry into his
to the Ancient
I
character ?
Ans.
do.
INSTALLATION LODGE.
l6j
XV. You
ation,
agree that no visitors shall be
Lodge without due examinand producing proper vouchers of their having been initiated into a regular Lodge?
received into your
A71S.
do.
These are the Regulations of Free and Accepted Masons.
The Grand Master
[or Installing- Officer'\
then addresses the Master elect as follows
Do you
promise
to
submit to these
support
in
these Regulations,
Charges, and as
you.''
Masters have done
au ages before
The Master having
signified his
cordial
:
submission, as before, the Grand Master [or Installing Ojfficer'] thus addresses him
consequence of your conformity to the Charges and Regulations of the Order, you are now to be installed Master of this Lodge, in full confidence of your care, skill and capacity to govern the
In
Brother A. B.:
same.
The Master is then regularly invested with the insignia of his office, and the Furniture and Implements of his Lodge. The \arious Implements of his profession are emblem atical
l64
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
of our conduct in lire, and upon this occasion are carefully enumerated.
The HOLY WRITINGS,

...asonry, will guide
llrect
that great light

all
in
you
to
truth
it
will
n^ô,
your paths to the temple of happiand point out to you the whole duty of
teaches us to regulate our
man.
The Square
actions
virtue.
by
rule
and
line,
and to harmonize
our conduct by the principles of morality and
The Compasses
desires
in
teach
us to limit our
that,
rising
to
every
station,
eminence by merit,
die regretted.
we may live we
respected and
The Rule-
directs that
should punctu-
ally observe our
duty
press iorward in the
path of virtue, and neither inclining to the right nor to the left, in all our actions have eternity in view.
The Line
tion
teaches us the criterion of moral
rectitude, to avoid dissimulatioii in conversa-
and
action,
and
to direct our steps to the
path which leads to immortality.
INSTALLATION LODGE.
The
BOOK OF CONSTITUTIONS
Cause
it
you
are
to search at all times.
it
to be read in
your Lodge, that none
may pretend
enjoins.
ignorance
of the excellent precepts
You now
receive in charge the

of
CHARTER,
by the authority
which
You
are carefully to
it
Lodge is held. preserve, and \a no case

this
it
should
control,
ever
be out of
and duly transmit
to
your immediate your successor
in office.
in charge the BY-LAWS your Lodge, which you are to see carefully and punctually executed. You will now be conducted to the East, where you will take your seat in the Oriental
You will also receive
of
Chair.
The Grand 3Taster

will then call
[or Installing- Officer']
up the Lodge, the new Master
being in the Chair, when the Grand Master [or Installing Officer'] will say:
Master, behold your brethren
Brethren, behold your Master
!
Let us salute him with the Grand Honors. The Grand Honors are then given public or private as the case requires. When the
^
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
private, after the Grand Installation is Honors are given, a procession is formed,
and the brethren pass around the Lodge, signifying their respect and obedience by the
usual Distinctive Marks in the different degrees as they pass the Master; during which time the following Installation Ode may be sung. If the Installation be Public the procession is omitted, and the Ode is sung only.
INSTALLATION ODE,
Tune: America.
6s, 4s.
^^m
Hail!
-3-ST-*
33
ry
di-vine, Glo-ry
q=p=t
of
m
I-
Ma - son
i^z? t^^=t
:1=t;
*3=ic=^
t=^
-^-0;
m.
reign
!
?3^
Where'er thy
1
ages shine
Long mayst thou
^^^
Ê=^
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167
^:o
Lodges stand,
3EF
î^
*=^=jE=ti:
1
May they have great command,
m^
And
al-\vavs grace the land
;
t^-t-
Thou art divine.
0- -^0- M
0-'-0-0-
^ *-- M
Great fabrics
still
arise,
And
grace the azure skiesnoble orders are
Great are thy schemes;
Thy
Matchless beyond compare^ No art with thee can share;
Thou
art divine.
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
Hiram, the architect, Did all the Craft direct How they should build; Sol'mon, great Israel's king; Did mighty blessings bring,
And
left us room to sing. Hail, Royal Art!
After the singing of the Ode, the Grand Master [or Installing Officer'] calls the Lodge to order, and the other officers are respectively presented in the same manner as the Master, by the Deputy [or Marshal] , when the Grand Master [or Installing Officer^ delivers to each a short Charge, as follows:
The Senior Warden.

Brother C.
D.:
You
are appointed
[or
*'have been elected"] Senior

of
Warden
of this
Lodge, and are your office.
now invested with the
insignia
The Level demonstrates that we are descended from the same stock, partake of the same nature, and share the same hope; and
tliough distinctions
among
m-^n are necessary
INSTALLATION LODGE.
to preserve subordination, yet
i6(J
no eminence of
station should
brethren; for he
make us forget that we are who is placed on the lowest
spoke of Fortune's wheel

wisest
tions,
may
be entitled to
our regard; because a time will come, and the
knows not how soon, when all distincbut that of goodness, shall cease; and Death, the grand levelerof human greatness, reduce us to the same state.
Your regular attendance on our
stated meetis
ings
essentially necessary.
In the absence
of the Master,
in his presence,
you are to govern this Lodge; you are to assist him in the
I
government of it. firmly rely on your knowledge of Masonry and attachment to the Lodge for the faithful discharge of the
duties of this important trust.
Look
in
well to
the West.
He
is
conducted to his station
the Lodge.
The Junior Warden.

Brother E. F.:
been elected"] Junior
You are appointed [or "have Warden of this Lodge,
,^Q
ANCIENT CEREMONIES..
tlie
and are now invested with

office.
badge of your
Tlie
Plumb admonishies us to walk uprightly

poise;
to observe the just
in our several stations; to hold the scales of
Justice in equal
medium between intemperance and pleasure; and to make our passions and prejudices coin-
To you is cide with the line of our duty. committed the superintendence of the Craft
during the hours of refreshment;
fore,
it is,
there-
indispensably necessaiy that you should

in-
not only be temperate and discreet in the
dulgence of your
own
inclinations, but caresuf-
fully observe that
none of the Craft be
fered to convert the purposes of refreshment

into intemperance
and excess.
Your regular
and punctual attendance is particularly requested, and I have no doubt that you will faithfully execute the duty which you owe to
your present appointment.
South,
Look
well to the
He
is
conducted
to his station.
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171
The Treasurer.
Brother G. H.: You are appointed [or "have been elected"] Treasurer of this Lodge, and are now invested with the badge of your office.
the hands of the Secretary;
moneys from keep just and regular accounts of the same, and pay them out by order of the Worshipful Master and the consent of the Lodge. I trust your regard
It is
your duty to receive
all
for the Fraternity will

ful
prompt you
to the faithoffice.
discharge of the duties of your

is
He
conducted to his place.
The Secretary.
Brother L K.: You are appointed [or "have been elected"] Secretary of this Lodge, and are now invested with the badge of your office. It is your duty to observe all the proceedings of the Lodge; make a fair record of all things proper to be written; receive all moneys due tlie Lodge, and pay them over to the
Treasurer.
Your good
I
inclination to
Masonry
and this Lodge,
hope, will induce you to dis-
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
charge the duties of your office with fidelity, and, by so doing, you will merit the esteem and applause of your brethren.
He
is
The Chaplain.
(According to the Constitution of Kansas this is not a recognized officer of a Lodge, but if a Clergyman be named to perform the various offices required of a Chaplain in the Ritual, he may be installed as follows:)
Rev. Brother L. M.: You are appointed Chaplain of this Lodge, and are now invested with the badge of your office. It is your duty to perform those solemn services
which we should constantly render
to
our Infinite Creator; and which, when offered by one whose holy profession is *'to point to heaven, and lead the way," may, by refining our souls, strengthening our virtues, and purifying our minds, prepare us for admission into
the society of those above,
will
whose happiness
be as endless as
is
it is
perfect.
He
INSTALLATION LODGE.
I75
The Senior andjiuiior Deacons.

Brothers L. M. and N. O.:
invested with the badge of your
It is
You
office.
are ap'
pointed Deacons of this Lodge, and are
now
your province to attend on the Master and Wardens, and to act as their proxies in the active duties of the Lodge; such as in the
reception of candidates into the different de-
grees of Masonry, the introduction and ac-
commodation of visitors, and

practice of our rites.
in
the immediate
intrust to
The Square and Comoffice,

I
passes, as badges of your

attention.
your care, not doubting your vigilance and
They
are conducted to their places.
The Senior and Junior Stezvards.

Brothers R. S. and T. U. You are appointed Stewards of this Lodge, and are now invested with the badge of your office.
:
You
are to assist the
Deacons and other

duties-
officers in
performing their respective
174
hncient ceremonies.
at our
'Vour regular and early attendance
meetings will afford the best proof of your zeal and attachment to the Lodge. They are conducted to their places.
The Tyler.
Brother V. W.:
this Lodge,
You
are appointed Tyler of
and I invest you with the implement of your oifice. {Giving a sword)
As
the sword
to
is
placed in the hands of the

effectually to
Tyler,
enable h.im
guard
against the approach of cowans and eavesdroppers, and suffer none to pass or repass
but such as are duly qualified, so it should admonish us to set a guard over our thoughts, a watch at our lips, post a sentinel over our actions; thereby preventing the approach of every unworthy thought or deed, and preserving consciences void of offense toward God and toward man. Your early and punctual attendance will afford the best proof of your zeal for the institution.
He
is
conducted to his station.
INSTALLATION LObaE.
I7J
CHARGES TO THE OFFICERS.
Worshipful Master: The Grand Lodge having committed to your care the superintendence and government of the brethren who are to compose this Lodge, you cannot be insensible of the obligations which devolve on you as their head, nor of your responsibility for the faithful
discharge of the im-
portant duties annexed to your appointment.
The honor,
Lodge
reputation and usefulness of your
depend on the skill and you manage its concerns; while the happiness of its members will be
will materially
assiduity with which
generally promoted,
in
proportion to the zeal
and
ability
with which you propagate the

imitation, consider the
genuine principles of our institution.
For
a pattern of
great luminary of
to
Nature, which, rising in
the East, regularly diffuses light and luster

all within the circle. In like manner, it is your province to spread and communicate light and instruction to the brethren of your Lodge. Forcibly impress upon them the dignity and
176
ANCIENT CEREA\ONIES.
;
high importance of Masonry and serious!]' admonish them never to disgrace it. Charge them to practice out of the Lodge those duties
which they have been taught in it and by amiable, discreet and virtuous conduct, to convince mankind of tlie goodness of the in;
stitution
so that
when
a person
is
said to be
a member of it, the world may know that he is one to whom the burdened heart may pour out its sorrows to whom distress may prefer its suit; whose hand is guided by justice, and whose heart is expanded by benevolence. In short, by a diligent observance of the ByLaws of your Lodge, the Constitutions of Masonry, and, above all, the Holy Scriptures, which are given as a rule and guide to your
;
faith,
you
will be enabled to acquit yourself
with honor and reputation, and lay up a Crown of Rejoicing, which shall continue, when time shall be no more. You Brother Senior and Junior Wardens are too well acquainted with the principles of Masonry, to warrant any distrust that you will be found wanting in the discharge of
:
INSTALLATION
LODGE.
Suffice
it
177
your respective
duties.
to say, tliat
what you have seen praiseworthy in others, you should carefully imitate; and what in them may have appeared defective, you should in yourselves amend. You should be
examples of good order and regularity for it is only by a due regard to the laws, in your
;
own
to
conduct, that you can expect obedience

others.
in
them from
You
are assiduously to
assist the
Master
the discharge of his
trust; diffusing light
and imparting knowlhe shall place under your care. In the absence of the Master, you will succeed to higher duties; your acquirements r.List, therefore, be such, as that the Craft may never suffer for want of proper instruction. From the spirit which you have hitheredge to
all
whom
to evinced,
entertain no doubt that your fu-
ture conduct will be such as to merit the
applause of your brethren and the testimonyof a good conscience.
The members of the Lodge all standing, the Grand Master (or Installing Officer) delivers
the following
J7l
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
CHARGE TO THE BRETHREN OF THE DODGE.
Such
is-the nature of our constitution, that
as some must, of necessity, rule and teach,

so others must, of course, learn to submit
obey.
Humility, in both,
is
and an essential
duty.
The officers who
are appointed to gov-
ern your Lodge are sufficiently conversant
with the rules of propriety, and the laws of the institution, to avoid exceeding the powers with which they are intrusted and you are of too generous dispositions to envy their
;
preferment.
I,
therefore, trust that
you
will
have but one aim,
to please each other,
unite in the grand design of being
and happy and
communicating happiness.
Finally,
my
may
brethren, as this association
has been formed and perfected in so much unanimity and concord, in which we greatly
rejoice, so
it
long continue.
May you
long enjoy every satisfaction and delight,

disinterested friendship can afford. kindness and brotherly affection distinguish your conduct, as men and as Masons.
which
May
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LODGE,
179
Within your peaceful walls, may your childt'in's children celebrate with joy and gratitude the annual recurrence of this auspicious
solemnity.
And may
the tenets of our pro-
fession be transmitted through your Lodge,
pure and unimpaired, from generation to generation.
At the Installation of the Officers of a new Lodge, the Grand Marshal then makes the following Proclamation
:
In the
name of
I
the Most Worshipful
Grand
Lodge
of
of Ancient, Free
Kansas,
of
and Accepted Masons proclaim this new Lodge by the

Lodge, No
.
name
legally consecrated, dedicated
and constituted,
private, as
and the
required
officers thereof
The Grand Honors
are then given.

:
public or
duly installed.
At the Annual Installation of the officers of a Lodge, the Marshal makes the following Proclamation
of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons
In the
of
name
I
Kansas,
proclaim the officers of
i8o
ANCIENT CEREMONIE
Lodge,
required,
No
duly installed.
The Grand Honors

The
are then given.

:
public or private, as
Ode
following, or some other approprial-i may then be sung
ODE.
Tune:
Italian
Hymn.
6s, 4s.
long pre-vail,
And bind us fast May harmo;
E5lfcf=i=|C
:^=t
t=t=t
INSTALLATION
LODOc.
\
l8l
m
^
-\ -J
^- -^ 5- -Si-dN
pi-ness in-crease,
ny and peace Our hap

Jl3Z|iZZlL
*:^:|c=^:
vz
t=t
2=
We on
the level meet,
And every
brother greet,
labor's past,
Skilled in our art;
And when our
Each brother's hand we'll grasp, Then on the square, at last,

Friendly we'll part.
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
3
May Wisdom
And By wliich we live That we at last may
be our care, Virtue form tlie square

join
The heavenly Lodge sublime, Where we shall perfect shine, With God above. The new Master may return thanks. The Grand Chaplain then pronounces the following, or some other appropriate
BENEDICTION.
Almighty and everlasting God, from whom Cometh every good and perfect gift, send down upon Thy servants here assembled the healthful spirit of Thy grace that they may truly please Thee in all their doings. Grant, Lord, power of mind and great understanding unto those whom we have this day clothed with authority to preside over and and so redirect the affairs of this Lodge plenish them with the truth of Thy doctrine, and adorn them with humility of life, that,
;
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GRAND
LODGE.
183
both by word and good example, they faithfully serve Thee, to the glory of
may Thy
all
Holy Name, and to the advancement, for good purposes, of our beloved institution.
Amen
Response
ation.
If it
:
So mote
it
be
This concludes the ceremonies of
Install-
cers of
be the Public Installation of the Offia new Lodge, the Grand Lodge and
brethren will return in procession to the Lodge room, and the Grand Lodge then returns to
its
own
hall
and
closes.
FOURTH SECTION.
INSTALLATION OF THE OFFICERS OF THE GRAND LODGE.
At the hour appointed for the installation of the officers of the Grand Lodge, the Installing
[who is the retiring Grand Master, or such Past Grand Master as he may appoint] will assume the chair, call to order, and announce the business before the Grand Lodge. The officers to be installed will then vacate
Officer
their places respectively [if any by them occupied], and substitutes will be appointed for
the occasion.
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
The Grand Master and other Grand Officers

elect, to
be installed, will be in waiting in the adjoining apartment. The announcement of the Installing Officer may be in the following form
:
Brethren
Your Grand Master and other
Officers for the ensuing year, having been duly elected, we are now in readiness to perform the ceremony of installation. The
Grand
W. Grand
that
Marshal
will
announce to them
his
we
are waiting to receive them.
The Grand Marshal \\\tnxtWrQ.s, and on

return reports
Most Worshipful
Grand Master and

office,
other
Grand Master: The Grand Officers elect

to
are without, in readiness to be installed into
when
it
is
your pleasure
receive
them.
will
The W. Grand Marshal Offi,cer. admit them, and conduct them to the Grand East before the altar. Should there be any objection to the installation of any or either of them, it must now be made. As they enter the room, the Grand Lodge is
Installing
INSTALLATION
GRAND
LODGE.
185
called
up by the Installing Officer in the usual manner, and remain standing. The Grand Marshal conducts them to the altar in procession, two and two, in order ot rank, the Grand Master elect and the Deputy Grand Master being first. He then says
Most Worshipful Grand Master: The Grand Officers elect are before you, and
await your pleasure.
I
have the honor to
present to you for installation R.
W.
Brother
A. B., who has been duly elected Grand Master of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Kansas for the ensuing year.
Installing Officer.
elect.]
[To the Grand Master'

Brother:
My
R.
W.
The
exalted
station to
which the free choice of your Breth-
ren has called you, involves great responsibilities,
and requires to be inaugurated by solemn sanctions. It elevates you to a position from which the power and prerogative may depart with the expiration of your term of service, but the honor and dignity, except by your own act, never. And as we are now upon the threshold of a
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
great
and important undertaking, Masonic
teacliings require tliat
we
sliould
bow
in sol-
emn prayer witli our W. Grand

Grand Chaplain.
Cliaplain.
Bretliren, let
us pray.
Tlie Grand Chaplain may then make an appropriate extemporaneous prayer, or use the
following
Eternal Source of Life and Light! We, Thine unworthy creatures, reverently bow before Thee in adoration and praise. As when
we first saw the light at our mystic altar, we first implored Thy guidance, protection, and aid, so now we seek Thee for Thy divine blessing and direction. In Thy might we are
strong,
and without Thee,
in our best
and
highest estate,
ings.
we
are but frail
and
feeble be-
We humbly implore Thy divine

services
favor
upon this occasion, and upon the

in
institution
whose
it
we
are
now
engaged.
Make
race,
it
yet more helpful and beneficial to our
and inspire all who are connected with with an ardent love to Thee, to each other, and to every member of the human family. Bless now Thy servant before Thee, who is
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about to assume a
to
his bretiiren.
;
new and important relation Give him wisdom give

;
Enable him so to bear rule that he may keep in view the best interests of the great brotherhood now about to be committed to his charge. Teach him to feel that he is about to assume great
him strength
give him love.
and trying
responsibilities,
to discharge
them as
him
to
and enable him so win all hearts. Add
Thy
blessing upon the brethren

in office.
who
are to be
associated with
May they feel
Thee and may they ever be faithful and zealous, and assist to uphold the hands of their chief in all good deeds. In Thee, Oh God, as in the days of our apprena just sense of their accountability to
to the Fraternity
;
and
ticeship,
do
we
faithful Friend,
put our trust. Be Thou our Conductor, and Guide, in the
unseen vicissitudes of life before us, and bring us all, at last, to see the Great Light,
inaccessible
ence,
and where we
:
full of glory, in
Thy
pres-
shall behold
Thee with un-
clouded vision forevermore.

Response
Amen
!
So mote
if
be
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
Installing Officer,
will conduct our R. to take
W. Grand Marshal, yob W. Brother to the altar,

office.
upon himself the obligation appertain-
ing to the duties of his
The Grand Marshal conducts him to the altar, where he kneels, the acting Grand Deacons holding their rods crossed over his head. The Installing Officer then administers the oath of oftke, the Grand Master elect repeating after him, as follows: I, A. B., in the presence of Almighty God, and before the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Kansas, do promise and swear, that, to the
best of
my ability,
will faithfully, honestly,
and impartially perform the duties of Grand Master of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons
in this jurisdiction
and that
of
will
during my term of office conform to and maintain the
Constitution, Laws, Rules,
and Regulations
of
The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge
Kansas, and the usages and customs of Free and Accepted Masons, and at all times enforce a strict obedience thereto. So help me
God.
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ducts
He then rises, and him near the
the Grand Marshal conchair of the Installing
Officer.
Most Worshipful Brothfrom henceforth you are entitled thus to be hailed] In inducting you to your chair of office, as a symbol of the commencement am perof your government over the Craft, forming a most solemn duty. By immemorial usage and the irrevocable land marks of Masonry, 'you are invested, as Grand Master of Masons, with powers and prerogatives which
Installing Officer,
er [for
are well nigh absolute.
The
interests of the
Craft, for weal or woe, are placed in your
hands during your term of office. The good resolutions, which doubt not that you have formed in your own mind that these powers shall not be abused or perverted by you, I would gladly strengthen by a word of admonition, which it will not become me henceforth
I
to utter.
The very consciousness
of the pos-
make a generous mind cautious and gentle in its exercise. To rule has been the lot of many,
session of a great power will ever
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
and requires neither strength of intellect or soundness of judgment to rule well has been the fortune of but few, and may well be the It is not object of an honorable ambition.
;
by the strong arm or the iron will that obedience and order, the chief requisites of good government, are secured, but by holding the
key
to the hearts of
office of
men.
is
The
tiquity
Grand Master
and
is
of great an-
and
respect,
one of the highest

aspire.
Its
dignities to
which we may
in-
cumbent, to rule well, should possess and practice several important requisites. As a Man, he should be of approved infreed tegrity and irreproachable morals; from the dominion of a hasty temper and illgoverned passions; of good repute in the world, and practicing, as an example to the Craft, the cardinal virtues of Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence, and Justice. As a Citizen, he should be loyal to his government, obedient to its laws, prompt in the duties he owes to society, and a pattern of fidelity in all social and domestic relations.
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As a Mason, he should cling to the old landmarks, and be sternly opposed to their infringement; be a proficient in the laws, language, and literature of the Fraternity be desirous to learn, and apt to teach though not for a time a workman, yet be master of the work, and qualified to earn his wages be prompt to aid and relieve, and slow to demand it; be ever mindful that, though elevated for a time above his fellows, that he is elevated by them, and that he is yet a Craftsman, more sacredly bound by a Craftsman's obligation and that he should cultivate everywhere, and at all times, the golden tenets of Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth. As an Officer, he should remember, first of all, that he is an individual Mason, sharing in that respect a common lot with his Brethren, and therefore interested in the welfare of each and all be devoid of undue ostentation and haughty overbearing, be accessible to all, cultivating the closest friendship and the most unlimited confidence with his associate officers* be eager to take counsel with his Breth; ;
;
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
;
and ready to give it be patient in invesand hearing be deliberate in judgment be prompt in execution be forbearing long and much with evildoers be ready to reward good be devoid of favoritism, and wholly impartial be watchful over the treasury; having an eagle eye upon every portion of his jurisdiction and breasting over the
ren,
tigation
;
lestless spirit of innovation.
Such are some of the most important qualiwhich a Grand Master should possess, and the leading errors which he should
fications
It may be that most, if not all, of your predecessors have failed to reach this standard but it is attainable and be it your purpose to reach it, and be a bright and shin.ing example to those who shall come after
avoid.
you.
It now but remains for me to clothe you with the external insignia of your rank and
authority.
I
this jewel of
now, with great pleasure, invest you with your office, whose symbolic mean-
! !
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ing will
now have a new and
striking signifi-
cance to you.
1
[Presents the jewel.}
also present -you with this gavel, as the
emblem of Masonic power, which, in your hands, should never be sounded in vain.
potent
[Presents gavel.}
1
now surrender to you this seat of authority

homage due
and render you this, to you as Grand
[Places him in the chair},
the first act of
Master.
The Grand Master, having been covered on taking the chair, the Installing Officer uncovers and bows very low.
Installing
Officer.
I
now
hail,
salute
and
Grand Master of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Kansas Brethren, behold your Grand Master
proclaim you
! !
Grand
Senior
Warden.
Brethren,
behold
our Grand Master
Grand Junior Warden. our Grand Master
Brethren,
behold
The
side of the lodge, double
brethren form procession on the north file, facing the East,
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
Grand Senior Deacon and Grand Senior and Junior Stewards, with rods, in advance, and march three times around the lodge, as
the
they pass the Grand East, saluting the Grand Master with the usual distinctive marks in each degree, during which time the following Ode may be sung
:
INSTALLATION ODE>
Tune: America.
6s, 4s,
I&3=EEi
Hail
!
SEt3
-
T=T
Ma
son
ry
di-vine, Glo-ry
of
m ^
^
ages shine
;
:N=i=N=)E
t=^
1
^^^^fe&^^
-0-
I-
-^ --
Long mayst thou reign Where'er thy

!
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I '
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195
^mîî^t^
Lodges stand,
May they have great command,
m^
And
^'"^
-f^
>=Pt
|i^^=|i=>=q|
1
^t
:S^ Pî^ê;
f^
.
J=^
t^
Thou art divine r:
;
\
al-wavs grace the land
^
Great fabrics
still
I
arise,
And
grace the azure skiesGreat are thy schemes;
Thy
noble orders are
Matchless beyond compare; No art with thee can share;
Thou
art divine.
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
Hiram, the architect, Did all the Craft direct How they should build; Sol'mon, great Israel's king; Did mighty blessings bring, And left us room to sing, Hail, Royal Art!
At the conclusion of the procession and
Ode
ors.
the brethren, under the direction of the installing officer, salute with the grand hon-
The retiring Grand Master may then address his newly- in stalled successor and brethren, and the Grand Master may, if he chooses, If he does also address the Grand Lodge. not wish to do so he may call down, and the brethren continue seated during the remainder of the installation, except as called up during the obligations. It will be proper for the Grand Master here to announce the names of the appointed officers, that they may be installed with the rest.
The installing officer then proceeds with the installation of the remaining officers, as follows
:
Installing Officer,
W. Grand
Marshal, you
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LODGE.
197
now
present the
Deputy Grand Master
elect for installation.
er
Grand Marshal. Most Worshipful Brothhave the pleasure to present to you, for installation, R. W. Brother C. D., who has been duly elected to the office of Deputy Grand
:
Master.
The foregoing address

ficer,
of the installing of-
and presentation by the Grand Marshal, may be used for all the remaining officers, simply changing the name and title of the ofInstalling Officer.
ficer.
will
er]
W. Grand Marshal, you conduct our R* W. Brother [or W. Brothto the altar, to take upon himself the ob-
ligation appertaining to the duties of his office.
tar,
The Grand Marshal conducts him to the alwhen he kneels, and is attended by the Grand Deacons, as in the case of the Grand Master, and takes the same obligation, with the change of name and designation of office.
Installing Officer. R.
W.
Brothen
You have
not been an inattentive observer of the cere-
mony
of installing the
M W.
Grand Master
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
for
you are aware
that, in case of his inca-
pacity to act in contingencies mentioned in
our Constitutions, you succeed to his duties and prerogatives, as you do also when acting as his substitute in any matters specially
delegated to you.
Your
office, therefore,
;
is
one of great dignity and importance and it was in view of these considerations that your Brethren selected you to fill it. Treasure up,
made to the M. W. you know not how soon they may have a personal application to you and remember, also, that usage, as well as our particular regulations, have placed you in most intimate and confidential relations to him, as supporter and counselor.
therefore, the suggestions
Grand Master
for
I now, with pleasure, proceed to invest you with your jewel of office [ gives it ] and proclaim you Deputy Grand Master of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Kansas. You will now be seated in your place, which is at
the right hand of the M.
W. Grand
Master.
He
is
now
conducted to his place by the
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199
before he is seated, the up the Grand Lodge, and thelDej:uty Grand Master is saluted with the Grand Honors. The other of the elective Grand Officers, viz: the Grand Senior Warden, Grand Junior Warden, Grand Treasurer and Grand Secretary, are presented and obligated in like
Installing Officer calls
Grand Marshal, but
manner as the Deputy Grand Master, but without being saluted with the grand honors. The appointed Grand Officers do not take the
obligation.
The charges
of the remaining officers in-
stalled [which may be varied at the pleasure of the Installing Officer, when special occasion requires,] are as follows
:
TO THE GRAND SENIOR WARDEN.
Right Worshipful Brother The position which you occupy in the Grand Lodge and among the Fraternity is one of no little importance. In the Grand Lodge, to control
:
practically the
admission of
all
visitors, to
announce specially those who are of rank or eminence, and to aid in the preservation of ordir, and at all times to render counsel and advice co the Grand Master, are high and re-
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
duties,
sponsible
vigilance,
requiring
;
circumspection,
but when to these is superadded the more onerous labor, in conjunction with the Grand. Junior Warden, of
and
reflection
diligently preserving the ancient
landmarks
throughout the jurisdiction,

trust of deep
it
then becomes a
moment
to the welfare of the
such a trust undoubtedly led to your selection for the office by your Brethren, and it will be your duty and pleasure so to act as to justify
Craft.
fitness for the discharge of
their confidence.
Your
fice,
you with the jewel of your ofand directing you to the place of your immediate oftkial action, in the West, I am
In investing
performing a grateful duty.

TO THE GRAND JUNIOR WARDEN.
Right Worshipful Brother As the duties of your office and the qualifications of it are almost identical with those of the Grand Senior Warden, except as it respects the introduction of visitors, I will only add to the Charge
:
given to that
officer,
that you be equally vig-
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ilant
GRAND
LODGE.
at
aot
and circumspect, not only
your
sta-
tion in the
field
Grand Lodge, but
in
the broader
of action without, dividing with
labors,
him his and taking due care that the great
object of ^'our united solicitude shall remain

inviolate.
and repair whether in labor or at refreshment, that the High Twelve of observation do not find you with your work, and that of the Craft you superintend,
Accept the jewel of your
office,
to the South, being ever watchful,
unperformed. TO THE GRAND TREASURER. Right Worshipful Brother In intrusting

:
you with the books and funds of the Grand Lodge, as appertaining to your office, I am but their organ in placing them in your possession, as one well qualified to keep and manage them, as your past integrity, accuracy, and prompt business habits testify, an appreciation of which has been evinced by their choice of you as Grand Treasurer. The keys forming the jewel of your office have a twofold significance: They are in-
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
struments to bind as well as to loose; to

fast, as well as to open.
make
They
will never,
I am confident, be used by you in any other manner than the constitutions, laws, rules, and regulations of the Grand Lodge shall
direct.
TO THE GRAND SECRETARY.
Right
Worshipful
Brother:
Usage,
as
well as positive enactments from time to time,
have rendered the duties of the office of Grand Secretary more onerous and varied than that of any other officer. Brought by his official position more immediately into communication with the whole body of the Fraternity, it is requisite that he should possess ability, skill, and industry, to meet the various demands upon him. Placed in a position where he holds almost constant correspondence with our Masonic brethren of every State and country, upon him devolves, in a large degree, the good name and credit of the Masonic family
of this State.
The
it
Fraternity should en;
able
him
to maintain
he should strive that
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LODGE.
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be maintained.
to be elements in his
Courtesy and patience are manners and cliaracter.
Vigilance and fidelity must also be necessary

qualities.
Our
to
Constitutions,
my
Brother, point out
you
fully the duties of
will not recapitulate them.
your office, and Your capability for

I
their
prompt and
faithful execution
has
in-
duced your Brethren to confide this trust to you, and I feel assured that it is well placed. In investing you with your official jewel, the pens, I am persuaded that they will make an endearing record, not only to your praise, but to the welfare of a Craft so largely de-
pendent upon your experience and integrity.

TO THE' GRAND CHAPLAIN.
That Reverend and Worshipful Brother Holy Book, which is the chart and text-book of your sacred calling, is also the Great Light of Masonry, and forever sheds its benigxiant rays upon every lawful assemblage of Free and Accepted Masons. Teach intercede us from its life-giving precepts;
:
14
804
ANCIENT CEREMONIES,
for US with that Divine Majesty

fully reveals
and unfolds to us
by its lessons of infinite and you will have faithfully performed your sacred functions and fulfilled your important
trust.
It is fitting that an emblem of the sacred volume should be the jewel of your office, with which now invest you.
I
which it so and warm us wisdom and truth,

;
TO THE GRAND DEACONS.
the
Worshipful Brothers: As messengers of Grand Officers, and as useful assistants in our ceremonies, your respective official positions are of very great value and importance to the comfort and good order of the Grand Lodge. Vigilance and zeal are necessary requisites of your offices, and we know that you possess them.
this
As Grand Senior and Junior Deacons of Grand Lodge, you are now invested with
office,
the jewels of
together with these rods,
as tokens of your authority.
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The
LODGE.
205
TO THE GRAND MARSHAL.
Worshipful Brother;
office require
duties of your
energy, activity, and quickness
of perception.
ternity,
The good
order of the Fracare, skill
in its
general assemblies and pro-
cessions, depends
assiduity.
upon your
and
Possessing these qualifications,
you have been appointed Grand Marshal, and I now with pleasure install you into office, and invest you with your appropriate jewel. It denotes command, as the organ of the Grand Master, to whom you will be near at hand to execute his orders.
TO THE GRAND SWORD BEARER.
Worshipful Brother: The sword which you bear is the time-honored symbol of Jusdce and Authority. It reminds the -beholder of the dignity of the body whoe emblem it is. It is also the guardian and protector of the standard of the Grand Lodge. Be ever
faithful to
office
your trust. Let this jewel of your remind you of its nature.
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ANCIENT CERE.WONIES.
TO THE GRAND STEWARDS.
Worshipful Brothers In olden times, your province was to superintend and provide for the festivals of the Craft, and that duty still remains to you, although there is rarely occasion for its exercise. But we are taught that "it is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting," and hence on you has been appropriately
:
disposed the dispensation of our beneficent

charities.
hearts testify,
That it is a grateful duty, all and we know that yours most

it.
fully responds to
Receive the jewels of
your
office,
together with the white rods.
TO THE GRAND PURSUIVANT.
Worshipful Brother: You are to act as the messenger of the Grand Lodge, and tha herald to announce the approach of visitors and strangers. In so doing, possess yourself of the necessary information to announce their rank and position properly, and exercisi a sound discretion, so as not to interfere with
its
labors.
Be cautious and
vigilant, that
n<3
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may gain admittance. You, your keeping the clothing and jewels of the Grand Officers, which you should be careful to keep in a good condition, and neatly and orderly arranged for use at all times. Receive your emblem of oifice, and repair to your station inside the door.
Improper person
also,
have
in
TO THE GRAND TYLER.

The' importance of Worshipful Brother: the duties of your place can not be overrated. Care and watchfulness are indispensibly requisite, and in all cases, unless thoroughly satisfied with the character and identity ot those desiring admittance, let your doubts prevail. Ours is a sanctuary, intrusted to you faithfully and vigilantly to guard, and you have always at hand the means of being fully satisfied. Irreparable injury might result from a negligent or careless discharge of your duty. Your station is ever outside the door, and to which you will now repair with this jewel, and also with this implement of your office. ^Giving a Sword.']
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
The
stalled,
several officers being now duly inproclamation thereof will be made in
the following form. Before doing so, however, it may be proper and expedient to have an appropriate Ode or piece of music. The Grand Lodge is called up when the Installing Officer says:
Worshipful Grand Marshal

the several officers of
I now declare The Most Worshipful

:
Grand Lodge of Ancient', Free and Accepted Masons of Kansas duly installed into office forthe ensuing year, in AMPLE FORM. You will cause proclamation to be made in the
South,
West and
East.
in the
The Grand Junior Deacon proclaims
South, the Grand Senior Deacon in the West, and the Grand Marshal in the Grand East, each as follows:
In the name, and by the authority, of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of Kansas, I proclaim that its Grand Officers are now duly
installed in
Irethren:
AMPLE FORM.
response
After each proclamation,
by
the
So mote
it
be.
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209
The Grand Chaplain then concludes the ceremonies with an appropriate prayer, or
benediction.
The Grand Lodge
is
called
down.
FIFTH SECTION.
LAYING FOUNDATION STONES OF PUBLIC STRUCTURES.
This Ceremony is conducted by the Grand Master and his officers, assisted by the members of the Grand Lodge, and such officers and members of Lodges as can conveniently attend; or it may be conducted by some competent Present or Past Master, specially authorized by the Grand Master as a Special Deputy, wîth full power to convene some Lodge conveniently located, to which a Dispensation
issued for that purpose. and other civil officers of the place where the building is to be erected, also generally attend on the occasion. At the time appointed, the. Grand Lodge, [or Lodge] is convened in some suitable place. band of music is provided, and the brethren appear, dressed in dark clothes, with white gloves and aprons.
is
The Chief Magistrate
The Grand Lodge [or Lodge] is opened by the Grand Master [or Special Deputy]
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
on the First Degree, and the rules for regulating the procession to and from the place where the ceremony is to be performed, are
read by the
after
Grand
which the procession
Secretary [or Secretary], sets out in the
following order:
Drawn Sword; Stewards with rods; Entered Apprentices; Fellow Crafts; Master Masons; Two Deacons with rods; Secretaries and Treasurers;
Tyler with
Two
Junior Wardens;
Senior Wardens;
Masters of Lodges; Past Masters; Members of other branches of the Masonic

Fraternity, in uniform;
Band
If
of Music.
is
the ceremony
under the direction of
the
follows the Grand Lodge arranged in Regular Order of Procession [see page 132], with the following exceptions and additions: the three Burning
Grand Lodge, then
LAYING FOUNDATION STONES.
2l
Tapers will be omitted; following the Grand Pursuivant will come the Principal Architect, with Square, Level and Plumb; following the Globes will come the Chief Magistrate and Civil Oftkers of the place; the Grand Junior Warden will carry the Silver Vessel with Oil, the Grand Senior Warden, the Silver Vessel with Wine, and the Deputy Grand Master the Golden Vessel with Corn [Wheat.] If the Ceremony be under the dit-ection of a Lodge, after the first part of the Procession as herein provided, following the Band of Music, comes the Lodge having charge of the ceremony, arranged in Regular Order of Procession [see page 132], with the following additions and exceptions: immediately preceding the Secretary and Treasurer will march the Principal Architect with Square, Level and Plumb, pnd immediately following the Secretary and Treasurer will march the Chief Magistrate and Civil Officers of the place, and the Clergy and Orator; the special Deputy Grand Master will march after the Worshipful Master; the Deacons, with rods, supporting him nstead of the Worshipful Master; and the Junior Warden will carry the Silver Vessel with Oil, the Senior Warden, the Silver Vessel with Wine, and the*Worshipful Master the Golden Vessel with Corn [Wheat.]
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A triumphal arch is usually erected at the place where the ceremony is to be performed.
The
procession, arriving at the arch, opens
to the right
and
left,
Qrand Master,
[or
and uncovering, the Deputy Grand Master]
and his officers, together with the Architect, Clergy and Orator, Chief Magistrate and Civil Officers, pass through the lines to the
platform, .while the rest of the brethren surround the platform, forming a hollow square.
The Grand Master [or Deputy Grand Master] commands silence, and announces the purposes of the occasion, when the fol
lowing,
or
some other appropriate Ode
i is
3ung:
ODE.
Tune: Brownell.
L.
M.
?eS
S3
:^
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H-4-
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When earth's foundation first was laid.
iisa Z^tljE
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fr^^m^^m
213
f*^-^
S^l
Art
- ist's
By
the
Al-might
hand,
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m
F
'T was then our per-fect
laws were made.
9^^?
2:2:
Es
tab-hshed by His
strict
^
f^-
com-mand.
9~h^
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
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-ai
tefatihtepJitaq
Ei=:
All hail
!
PV-H-
mysterious, glo-rious Masonry!
In vain mankind for shelter sought, In vain from place to place did roam;
Until from Heaven he was taught To plan, to build, to fix his home.
All hail
!
mysterious, etc.
21$
(3)
we date our Art, Which now in beauteous piles appear; And shall to endless time impart How worthy and how great we are.
jllustrious
hence
(4) Nor we less famed for every tie, By which the human thought is bound; Love, Truth, and Friendship, socially Unite our hearts and hands around.
(5)
Our actions still by Virtue blest. And to our precepts ever true,
The world, admiring, shall request To learn, and our bright paths pursue.
The necessary preparations are now made for laying the stone, on which is engraved the year of Masonry, the name of the Grand Master, and such other particulars as may be deemed necessary. Its place i;s in the northeast corner of the building. The stone i?
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
tliat
raised purpose.
up by means of an engine
erected for
Chaplain, or a designated Clergyman, tlien delivers the following, or some other appropriate
PRAYER.
The Grand
Almighty God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto Thee and dost promise that, where two or three are gathered together in Thy name, Thou wilt grant their requests fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of Thy servants, as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of Thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen! Response: So mote it be! The Grand Treasurer \_or Treasurer^ by the Grand Master's [or Special Deputy's] command, then places under the stone a box containing various sorts of coin and medals. Masonic documents, and such other matters as may be of interest; a list of which is read aloud to the people by the Grand Secretary
;
;
lor Secretary'] .
Solemn music
is
introduced,
and the stone

let
217
down
into
its
place
by
tliree
distinct
motions.
Tiie Principal Architect tlien presents the working tools to the Grand Master [or Special Deputy] who hands the Square to the Deputy Grand Master [or Worshipful Master], the Level to the Grand Senior Warden [or Senior Warden], and the Plumb to the Grand Junior Warden [or Junior Warden;] when the Grand Master addresses the Grand Officers as fol-
lows:
[NOTE. If the ceremony be performed by a Lodge instead of by the Grand Lodge, the parts hereafter assigned to the Grand Master will be filled by the Special Deputy, that to the Deputy Grand Master, by the Worshipful Master, that to the Grand Senior Warden by the Senior Warden, and that to the Grand Junior Warden by the Junior Warden; the necessary changes to be made in addressing the various officers as is required.]
Grand
Master:
office?
Master.
What
is
R. W. Deputy Grand the proper jewel of your
Deputy Grand Master.

G.
The Square.
moral and Masonic
M.
}
What
are
its
uses
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
T>.
G. M.
To square our
actions
by the
office
Square of Virtue, and prove our work. G. M. Apply tlie implement of your
to tliat portion of tlie foundation-stone tliat
needs to be proved, and malê report. Tlie Deputy applies the Square to the stone
and says: D. G. M. Most Worshipful Grand Master: stone to be square. The CraftsI fmd the men have performed their duty. G. M. R. W. Grand Senior Warden:
What
is
the proper jewel of your

Senior
office ?
Grand G. M.
G. 5.
Warden. The Level. What is its Masonic use? IV. Morally, it reminds us of equality,
is
and
G.
its
use
to lay horizontals.
Apply the implement of your office to the foundation-stone and make report. This is done. G. S. W. Most Worshipful Grand,Master: I find the stone to be level. The Craftsmen have performed their duty.
G.
M.
M.
is
R.
W. Grand
Junior
Warden
What
the proper jewel of your office?
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Grand Junior Warden. The Plumb. G. M. What is its Masonic use?

it teaches rectitude of use it to try perpendiculars. G. M. Apply the implement of your office to the several edges of the foundation-stone,
G. y.
W.
Morally,
conduct, and
we
and make
This
I
report.
is
complied with.
G. /. W. Most Worshipful Grand Master: fmd the stone is plumb. The Craftsmen have performed their duty. G. M. This corner-stone has been tested by the proper implements of Masonry?-. I find that the Craftsmen have skillf.illy and faithfully performed their duty, and I do
declare the stone well formed, true,
and trusty,
and correctly
laid,
according to the rules of
our Ancient Craft. Let the elements of consecration

presented.
now
be
The Deputy Grand Master comes forward with the Golden Vessel of Corn, and scattering it on the stone, says
:
scatter this corn as
an emblem of plenty,
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
May the blessings of bounteous Heaven be showered upon us and upon all like patriotic and benevolent undertakings, and inspire the hearts of the people with virtue, wisdom and
gratitude.
Response
So mote
it
be!
The Grand Senior Warden then comes forward with the Silver Vessel of Wine, and
pours it upon the stone saying I pour this wine as an emblem of joy and gladness. May the Great Ruler of the Universe bless and prosper our national, state and city governments, preserve the Union of the States, and may it be a bond of Friendship and Brotherly Love that shall endure through all time.
:
Response
So mote
it
be!
for-
The Grand Junior Warden then comes

ward with the
i
Silver Vessel of Oil, pours upon the stone, saying :
which he
pour this
oil
as an emblem of peace.
May its blessings abide with and may the Grand Master
us continually,
of
Heaven
aiid
Earth shelter and protect the widow
and
22t
orphan, shield and defend them from trials and vicissitudes of the world, and so bestow his mercy upon the bereaved, the afflicted and the sorrowing, that they may know sorrowing and trouble no more.
Response
:
So mote
it
be!
The Grand Master standing in front of all and extending his hands, makes the following
INVOCATION.
May
the all-bounteous Author of Nature
bless the inhabitants of this place with an
abundance of the necessaries, conveniences, and comforts of life assist in the erection and completion of this building protect the work;
;
men
against every accident;

;
long preserve
to us all
the structure from decay
and grant
a supply of the Corn of Nourishment, the Wine of Refreshment, and the Oil of Joy.
Amen!
Response:
So mote
it
be!
The Grand Master
strikes the stone three
times with the gavel, and the Public Honors are given.
Grand
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The Grand Master then delivers over to the Principal Architect the implements of architecture,
saying
[or Brother]: of
Worthy Sir Grand Master

implements of
Having thus, as
foundation
deliver these
Masons,
I
laid the
stone of this structure,
now
your profession into
your
hands, intrusting you with the superintendence and direction of the work, having full
confidence in your skill and capacity to con-
duct the same.
The Grand Master ascends the platform, when an appropriate anthem may be sung. The Grand Master then addresses the assembly as follows
Men and Brethren here assembled Be it known unto you, that we be lawful Masons,
:
true
and faithful to the laws of our country, and engaged, by solemn obligations, to erect
magnificent buildings, to be serviceable to the
tect of the Universe.
and to fear God, the Great ArchiWe have among us, concealed from the eyes of all men, secrets which cannot be divulged, and which have
brethren,
223
never been found out

the laws of
but these secrets are
lawful and honorable, and not repugnant to

or man. They were inand honor, to the Masons of ancient times, and having been faithfully transmitted to us, it is our duty to convey them unimpaired to the latest posterity. Unless our Craft were good, and our calling honorable, we should not have lasted for so many centuries, nor should we have been honored
trusted, in peace
God
with
tlie
patronage of so
many
ever
illustrious
men
in all ages,
selves ready to
shown thempromote our interests and deall
who have
fend us from
adversaries.
We
are as-
sembled here to-day in the face of you all, to build a house, which we pray God may deserve to prosper, by becoming a place of concourse for good men, and promoting harmony and brotherly love throughout the world, till time shall be no more. Amen. Response : So mote it be If an orator has been provided, an address may be made at this time to the assembled
!
people.
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A voluntary collection is then made by the Grand Stewards among the Brethren for the needy workmen, and the sum collected is laid upon the stone by the Grand Treasurer, to be
placed in the proper hands. The Grand Chaplain then pronounces the following, or some other suitable
BENEDICTION.
Glory be
to
God on
high, and on earth
peace, and. good-will toward

to behold
men
O Lord,
;
we most heartily beseech Thee with Thy favor

and bless
this assemblage
pour
down Thy mercy

in the
like the
dew that falls upon
Thy servants engaged solemn ceremonies of this day. Bless, we pray Thee, all the workmen who shall be engaged in the erection of this edifice keep them from all forms of accidents and harm.
the mountains, upon
;
grant them in health and prosperity to live
and
finally,
we
hope, after this
life,
through
Thy
tain everlasting
mercy, wisdom and forgiveness, to atjoy and felicity, in Thy
bright mansion
in
Thy Holy Temple not

eternal
in
made with hands, Amen.
the heavens.
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225
Response :
So mote
it
be
After which, the procession returns in the same order to the place whence it set out, and the Grand Lodge is closed with the usual formalities.
SIXTH SECTION.
DEDICATION OF MASONIC HALLS;
This ceremony is conducted by the Grand Master and his officers, assisted by the members of the Grand Lodge, and such officers and members of Lodges as can conveniently attend; or it may be conducted by some competent Present or Past Master, specially authorized by the Grand Master as a Special Deputy, with full power to convene some Lodge conveniently located, to which a Dispensation is issued for that purpose. At the time appointed forthe celebration of the ceremony of Dedication, the Grand Master
[or Special
Deputy] and his
officers,
accom-
panied by the members of the Grand Lodge [if present], meet in a convenient room, near to the place where the ceremony is to be performed, and the Grand Lodge [or Lodge] is opened on the Degree provided for by Sec. 7, Art. II, of the Constitution of the Grand Lodge.
26
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
The Procession is then formed by the Grand Marshal [or Marshal] in the Regular Order of Procession, [see page 132], with the following additions: the Grand Junior Warden [or Junior Warden] will carry the Golden Vessel with Corn [Wheat], the Grand Senior Warden [or SeniorWarden] , the Silver Vessel with Wine, the Deputy Grand Master [or Worshipful Master] the Silver Vessel with Oil, and the Deputy Grand Master [or Worshipful Master] will be followed by four Past Masters carrying the "Lodge," covered with a loose covering of white linen, silk or satin. [See
page 143].
When the Grand Officers [or Special Deputy] arrive at the center of the Lodge-room, the Grand Honors, public or private, as required, are given. The Grand Officers [or Officers] then repair to their respective stations.'
The "Lodge" is placed in front of the Altar, toward the East, and the Gold and Silver Vessels and the Burning Tapers are
placed around it. In the following ceremonies, if they are performed under the direction of a Lodge, the parts assigned to the Grand Master will be performed by the Special Deputy Grand Master; to the Deputy Grand Master, by the

DtDICATION
OF
HALLS.
327
Worshipful Master; to the Grand Senior Warden, by the Senior Warden; and to the
Grand Junior Warden by the Junior Warden.
The arrangements being completed, the following or some other appropriate Ode is sung:
ODE.
Tune
:
Duke
V-
Street. L.
M.
^
I.
y-^
-
Mas
ter
Su-preme, ac-cept
our praise
-#^-
3i^## ^ ?^t
[
^ 0^ ^
S #
^
-
m
Still
ag:^
bless this
con
se
crat-
ed band
9fc:z:g
1^
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
^-*^
I I
Pa-rent of light
il
lume our ways,
9tFA=^^
mm^. I
Y^-p ^
1
A\- :^
i^g=
Thy
And
guide us by
sovereign hand.
-ty
gi^^
2
Ii*
^J :^
May
Faith, Hope, Charity, divine.
Here hold their undivided reign; riiendship and Harmony combine
To soothe our
3
cares, to banish pain.
May
pity dwell within each breast,
Relief attend the suffering poor;
Thousands by
Till
this, our Lodge, be blest, worth, distress'd, shall want no more.
DEDICATION OF WALLS.
229
The IVorshipful Master of the Lodge to which the Hall to be dedicated belongs, then rises, and addresses the Grand Master as follows
:
Most Worshipful
Brethren of
,
Grand Master:
The
Lodge,
being animated with a desire to proNo mote the honor and interest of the Craft, have erected a Masonic Hah, for their convenience and accomodation. They are desirous that the same should be examined by the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge and if it should meet their approbation, that it be solemnly dedicated to Masonic purposes, agreeably to ancient form and usage.
;
The Architect or Brother who has had the management of the structure then addresses the Grand Master as follows Most Worshipful Grand Master: Having
been entrusted with the superintendence and
management
of the
workmen employed
;
in the
construction of this edifice
and having,
ac-
cording to the best of
my ability, accomplished the task assigned me> now return my thanks

\
230
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
for the honor of this appointment,
and beg
leave to surrender up the implements which
were committed to
tion of this fabric
my care when the foundawas

laid, {presenting to the
Grand Master the Square, Level and Plumh], humbly hoping that the exertions which have been niade, on this occasion will be crowned with your approbation, and that of the Most
Worshipful Grand Lodge.
To which
the Grand Master replies
Brother Architect:
in
The
skill
and
fidelity
displayed in the execution of the trust reposed
you
at the
commencement
;
of this under-
taking, have secured the entire approbation

of the
Grand Lodge
and they sincerely pray and

liberality of its
that this edifice may continue a lasting monu-
ment of the
founders.
taste, spirit,
The Deputy Grand Muster then

says:
:
rises,
and
Most Worshipful Grand Master The Hall which we are now assembled, and the plan upon which it has been constructed, having met with your approbation, it is the desire of
in
; ; ;
DEDICATKDN OF HALLS.
231
the Fraternity that
Ft
shoiild be
now dedicated,
according to the ancient form and usage.
The "Lodge" is then uncovered, and a procession is made around it in the following form, during which solemn music is played; Grand Tyler, with dra\7n sword Grand Stc\7ards, v/ith rods Grand Pursuivant, v/ith s^7ord of state; Grand Secretary and Grand Treasurer A Burning Taper, borne by a Past Master The Holy Bible, Square, and Compasses, on a velvet cushion, borne by a
;
Two
Past Master;Burning Tapers, borne by two Past Masters Grand Junior Warden, with Golden Vessel
of Corn Grand Senior Warden, with
Silver Vessel of
of
Wine
Deputy Grand Master, with Silver Vessel
Oil;
The Grand Master, supported by the Grand Deacons, with rods, and followed by
Grand Sword Bearer, with drawn sword.
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
and
All the other Brethren keep their places, assist in singing, at the appropriate
times, the Dedication
Ode.
the Grand Lodge has made the First Procession around the "Lodge," and the Grand Master arrives in the East, it halts, music ceases, and the Grand Chaplain makes the following
CONSECRATION PRAYER:
When
Almighty and ever-glorious and gracious Lord God, Creator of all things, and Governor of everything Thou hast made, mercifully look upon Thy servants, now assembled in Thy name and in Thy presence, and bless and prosper all our works begun, continued and ended in Thee. Graciously bestow upon
us Wisdom, in all our doings, Strength of mind in all our difficulties, and the Beauty of harmony and holiness in all our communications and work. Let Faith be the foundation of our Hope, and Charity the fruit of our
obedience to
Thy
revealed will.
Thou
preserver of men! graciously ento dedicate this
able us
now
house which we
DEDICATION OF HALLS.
233
have erected, to the honor and glory of Thy name, and mercifully be pleased to accept this
service at our hands.
May
under
all
who
shall be lawfully appointed to
rule herein according to our Constitution, be
Thy
special guidance
and
protection,
all
and
faithfully observe
and
fulfil
their
Thee and to the Lodge. May all who come within these consecrated walls have but one heart and one mind, to love, to honor, to fear, and to obey Thee, as Thy majesty and unbounded goodness claim, and to love one another as Thou hast loved
obligations to
us.
May every discordant passion be here banished from our bosom. May we here meet in Thy presence as a band of Brethren
created Parent, are daily sustained
who were
by the same Almighty by the same beneficent hand, and are traveling the same road to the gates of death. May we here have
Thy Holy Word always present to our mind, and religion, and virtue, love, harmony, and peaceful joy reigning triumphant in our
hearts.
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ANCiENi- CEREMONIES..
the proper work of our institution be done in tliis house be such as Thy wisdom may approve and Thy goodness prosper. And, finally, graciously be pleased, Thou Sovereign Architect of the Universe, to bless the Craft, wheresoever dispersed, and make them true *and faithful to Thee, to their neighbor, and to themselves. And when the time of our labor is drawing near to an
tliat
May all may
end,
and the pillar of our strength
is
declining
to the ground, graciously enable us to pass
through the 'Valley of the shadow of death,"
Thy rod and Thy staff to those mansions beyond the skies where love and peace, and joy forever reign before Thy
supported by
,
throne.
Amen.
So mote
it
Response:
be!
Then is sung the first verse of the following Dedication Ode;
2^5
DEDICATION ODE.
Tune: Old Hundred.
L.
^:S^ r^
Ge-nius of
w^m
;^
:^^
-<&-
Ma-son-ry, de-scend,
-^-
m^ IS
gii
g^l^grng
-fZ-^
Md=d-^^s=:=^d=d^
And
with thee bring thy spotless train
;
-^
7^-
-^
=^
9^^
2z^:
:^=tt
^S
-t9-
:^=^ s: -x=^ St
-
:^
attend,
Constant our sa
'
cred rites
I
4-
-#
aSB
-I6
m
-i<9'
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
-<^
Si si'Tî^ja
While we a
-
^
:
-G-
dore thy peace-ful reign.
9fee^ S?
-^-
1^"
After the singing, the Grand Jnuior Warden presents the Golden Vessel of Corn to the Grand Master, saying:
Most Worshipful Grand Master:

dedications of Masonic Halls,
it
In the
has been of Immemorial custom to pour Corn upon the Lodge, as an emblem of nourishment. I therefore present you this Vessel of Corn, to be employed by you according to ancient usage. The Grand Master then, striking thrice with his Gavel, pours the Corn upon the
"Lodge" saying:
to
Name of the GREAT JEHOVAH, whom be all honor and glory, do solemnly
In the
I
dedicate this Hall to
FREEMASONRY.
The Grand Honors are then given once, public or private as required. All then unite
in
331
Ode
singing t'.ie second verse of the Dedication as follows:
Bring with thee Virtue, brightest maid! Bring Love,bringTruth, bring Friendship here; While social Mirth shall lend her aid To soothe the wrinkled brow of Care.
While solemn music is played the Second Procession is then made around the "Lodge," and the Grand Senior Warden presents the Silver Vessel of Wine to the Grand Master saying:
Most Worshipful Grand Master Wine, emblem of refreshment, having been used by our ancient brethren in the dedication and consecration of their Lodges, I present you this Vessel of Wine, to be used on the present occasion according to ancient Masonic form. The Grand tMaster X\-\tx\ sprinkles the Wine upon the " Lodge," saying
:
the
Inthe name of the HOLY SAINTS JOHN, I do solemnly dedicate this Hall to VIRTUE. The Grand Honors are twice repeated, public or private as required. All then unite in
23b
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
singing the third verse of the Dedication as follows
Ode
Bring Charity
with goodness crowned,

all
Encircled in thy heavenly robe
Diffuse thy blessings
around,
To every
corner of the Globe.
While solemn music is played, the third Procession is then made round the " Lodge," and the Deputy Grand Master presents the Silver Vessel of Oil to the Grand Master,
saying
:
Most Worshipful Grand Master
present
you, to be used according to ancient custom, this Vessel of Oil, an emblem of that joy which should animate every bosom on the completion of every important undertaking.
The Grand Master then sprinkles the Oil upon the " Lodge," saying III the name of the whole FRATERNITY, I do solemnly dedicate this Hall to UNI:
VERSAL Benevolence. The Grand Honors are thrice repeated,

lic
pub-
or private as required.
All then unite in
LcDICATION OF HALLS.
239
singing the fourth verse of the Dedication Ode as follows
To Heaven's High
Architect
all praise,
All praise, all gratitude be given,
Who
By
deigned the
human
soul to raise,
mystic secrets, sprung from Heaven.
The Grand Chaplain, standing before the " i.odge," then makes the following
INVOCATION.
And may
and perfect
sembled, in
the Lord, the giver of every good

gift, bless
all
the brethren here asin
their lawful undertakings,
and grant to each one of them,

refreshment, and the
Response:
needful
supply, the corn of nourishment, the wine of
Amen. oil of joy. So mote it be! The "Lodge" is then re-covered, the Grand Master retires to his chair, and the Grand Lodge and brethren are seated.
livered,
appropriate Oration may then be deand the ceremonies conclude with music. After which, the Grand Lodge is again formed in procession, asatfirst, returns to the room where it was opened, and is closed.
An
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ANCIENT CEREMONJHS
SECTION SEVEN.
FESTIVALS OF THE ORDER.
In every country where Freemasonry is en couraged, its festival days are celebrated witli great ceremony. These are, the festival of St. John the Baptist, on the 24th of June, and e Evangelist, on the 27th that of St. John of December. They are days set apart by the Fraternity to worship the Grand Architect of the Univer'ê; to implore His blessings upon the great family of mankind; and to partake of the feast of brotherly affection. It is therefore recommended to every Lodge, annually to celebrate one or both of these days in such way as will be most conducive to the advantage li the Lodge, and the honor and benefit of the institution. Whichever day may have been selected, the Lodge about to celebrate it should assemble at its usual place of meeting, and having been opened on the First Degree, the Lodge forms in Regular Order of Procession [see page 132]. If any Grand Officers be present, they must be placed in the rear of the prpcession, immediately in front of the two Wardens. Every officer must wear the jewels of his office. On arriving at the Church gate, the brethren uncover and open ranks to the right
'
FESTIVAL DAYS.
24X
and left as far as the Worshipful Master, who, followed by the brethren, passes between the lines, likewise uncovered, into the Church. 1 he same ceremony is observed on their return
to the Hall.
Divine service must be performed, and an appropriate sermon or address delivered by some competent brother appointed for the occasion. Hymns and anthems adapted to the occasion shall be sung, and after service a collection may be made at the Church doors from the brethren, in aid of the Charity Fund. After the return to the Hall, the Master may' deliver a charge from the Chair, upon such subjects connected with the Order, and the honor and happiness of the Craft, as he may think proper.
SECTION EIGHT.
CEREA\ONY OBSERVED AT GRAND VISITATIONS.
The Grand Master, accompanied by the Grand Officers, may, at least once a year, or
may deem expedient, visit the Lodges under his jurisdiction, to make the customary examinations. When this laudable duty becomes impracticable, from the extent of jurisdiction and large number of Lodges, the Grand Master may appoint any one or more of his Grand Officers, who shall
as often as he
242
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
visit
and inspect such Lodges as the Grand Master shall designate, and make report to
of the result.
him
The
following
is
the ceremony observed on
such occasions:
The Grand Secretary, or Grand Master, or Officer appointed to make the Visitation, notifies the Lodge of the intended visit. The Worshipful Master opens his Lodge on the Third Degree, and places his Deacons at the sides of the door, with their rods crossed.
The
brethren arrange themselves in a line from the door, on each side, inward face, to the Chair, in the East. This being arranged in this manner, tlie Worshipful Master deputes a Past Master to escort the Grand
Officers, in the order of rank, it being remembered that the post of honor in a Masonic pro-
cession is always in tlie rear. The Grand Tyler, if present, remains at the door. The Grand Officers proceed up to the East between the lines of brethren, when they open to the right and left, and the Grand Master, or presiding Grand Officer, passes through to the Chair; they then close, and take their seats on the right of the Worshipful Master. Tlie Worshipful Master receives the Grand Master according to ancient usage, with the Private Grand Honors, and resigns to him the Chair and Gavel, when the officers of the
GRAND VISITATIONS.
243
their seats to the corresponding Officers, if present. The Worshipful Master then delivers to the Grand Master, or inspecting officer, the Warrant of Constitu-
Lodge resign
Grand
tion, the
and a statement
Treasurer's and Secretary's books, of the funds of the Lodge,
Having examined them, for his inspection. he expresses his approbation, or makes such observations as the circumstances and situation of the Lodge may require. The Grand Master, or inspecting officer, then resigns the Chair to the Worshipful Master, and the Grand Officers leave their seats, and repair to the East. Should the Grand Officers retire before the Lodge is closed, the same ceremony must be observed as at their entrance.
SECTION NINE.
MASONIC FUNERAL SERVICES.
The services herein arranged for the Burial of the Dead, are adapted for all the purposes for which ceremonies of that character may be required. The arrangement is such that any portion of the service each part being complete^may be used as occasion requires.
not expected that the whole ceremony can be used at any one time. If the weather should be stormy, or the body of the deceased taken fc interment, to a distance,
It is
will or
244
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
it would be impossible for the brethren to attend, that portion of the service set apart for the Lodge-room, or at the house of the
where
deceased,
may
be performed.
General Directid7is.
I. No Freemason can be buried with the formalities of the Fraternity, unless it be at his own request, or that of some of his family, communicated to the iVlaster of the Lodge of which he died a member (foreigners or sO' journers excepted), nor unless he has received the Master Mason's Degree, and from this restriction there can be no exception. II. Fellow-Crafts or Entered Apprentices are not ehtitled to these obsequies; nor can they be allowed to unite, as Masons, in the funeral of a brother. III. No Lodge, or body of Masons, can unite in the ousequies of a person not a Mason, without permission of the Grand Master, or consent of the Grai.i Lodge. IV. The Master of the Lodge, having received notice of the death of a brother [the deceased having attained to the degree of Master Mason], and of his request to be buried with the ceremonies of the Craft, fixes the day and hour for his funeral [unless previously arranged by the friends or relatives
FUNERAL SERVIChS.
245
tlie
of the deceased], and issues the command to He may Secretary to summon the Lodge. invite as many Lodges as he may think proper, and the members of those may accompany their officers in form; but the whole ceremony must be under the direction of the Master of the Lodge of which the deceased
of a sojourner, who had expressed a u'ish to be buried with the Masonic ceremonies, the duties prescribed in Article IV, will devolve upon the Master of the Lodge within whose jurisdiction the death may occur; and if in a place where there be more than one Looge, then upon the Master of the oldest Lodge, unless otherwise mutually arranged. VL Whenever civic societies, or the military, may unite with Masons in the burial of a Mason, the bocy of the deceased must be in charge of the Lodge having jurisdiction. The Masonic services should in all respects be conducted as if none but Masons were in attend-
was a member. V. Upon the death
ance. VII.
the deceased was a Grand or Past the officers of the Grand Lodge should be invited; when the Master of the Lodge having jurisdiction, will invite the Grand oificer present, who has attained the highest rank, to conduct the buria': "
If
Grand
officer,
846
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
VIII. selected
The
pall-bearers should be
If
Masons,
by the Master.
^
the deceased
was
a member of a Chapter, Commandery, or Consistory, a portion ' the pall-bearers should be taken from these bodies severally. IXo The proper rlothing for a Masonic funeral is a black hat, black or dark clcthes, blfack neck-L white gloves, and a plain square whiu linen or Ir.iibskin apron, with a band of black crape around the left arm, nbove the Ibow, and a si^ rig of evergreen on the [eft breast, ^he Master's gavel, the Warden's columns, die Deacons' and Stewards' rods, the Tyler's sword, the Bible, the Book of Constitutions, and the Marshal's baton, should be trinmed with black crape, neatly
,
ribbonThe officers of the Lodge should, and Past Masters and Grand Officerr my, wear their official jewels. X. Whik the body is ly'ng in the coffin, t]-ere should be placed upon the latter a plain
tied v/ith '/hite
:
white
Jc. ibskin apron. XI. If a Pkst or Present Grand Master, irand Warden, Deputy' Grand M?=ter, oi should join the procession of a private Lodge, proper attention must be paid to them. They take place after the Master of the Lodge. Two Deacons, with white rods, should be appointed by the Master to attend a Grand Warden; and when the Grand Master or
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247
Deputy Grand Master is present, the Book of Constitutions should be borne before him, a Sword-bearer should follow, and the Deacons with white rods, should attend on his right
and
left.
When the head of the procession shall have arrived at the place of interment, or where the services are to be performed, the lines should be opened, and the highest officer in rank, preceded by the Marshal and Tyler pass through, and the others follow in
XII.
Upon arriving at the entrance of the cemetery, the brethren should march in open If the body is to order to the tomb or grave. be placed in the former, the Tyler should take his place in front of the open door, and the The lines be spread so as to form a circle. coffin should be deposited in the circle, and the Stewards and Deacons should cross their rods over it. The bearers should take their places on either side the mourners at the foot of the coffin, and the Master and other officers at the head. After the coffin has been placed in the tomb, the Stewards should cross their rods over the door, and the Deacons over the Master. If the body is to be deposited in the earth, the circle should be formed around the grave, the body being placed on rests over it; the Stewards should cross their rods over the
order. XIII.
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foot, and the Deacons over the head, and retain their places throughout the services.
XIV. After the clergymen shall have performed the religious services of the Church,
either at the house,
Church
or grave, the
join in
Masonic services should begin. XV. When a number of Lodges
funeral procession, the position of the youngest Lodge is at the head or right of the procession, and the oldest at the end or left, excepting that the Lodge of which deceased was a member walks nearest the corpse. XVI. The procession must return to the Lodge-room in the same order in which it marched to the grave. XVII. A Lodge in procession is to be strictly under the discipline of the Lodge-room; therefore, no brother can enter the procession or leave it without express permission from the Master, conveyed through the Marshal.
Service in the Lodge-i'oom

brethren having assembled at the Lodge-room, the Lodge will be opened on the Third Degree; the purpose of the Specia( Communication must be stated, and remarks upon the character of the deceased may be made by the Master and brethren. If the Service in the Lodge- room is not to be used, the Master will order the Marshal to
The
FUNERAL SERVICES LODGE ROOM.
249
form the brethren in procession, to repair to the house of the deceased.

If the Service in the Lodge-room is to be used, after the appropriate remarks the Master shall call up the Lodge, and will then proceed as follows:
IVor.
Master.
What man
is
he that liveth,
and
shall not see death? Shall he deliver his
soul from the
hand
of the grave
.^
His days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Jtin.
it,
Sen. Warden.
Warden.
it is
For the wind passeth over
and
gone; and the place thereof shall
know
S.
in
it
no more.
is
W. M. Where
darkness.
now our departed

in night;
Brother?
W. He dwelleth
he sojourneth
J. W. Man walketh in a vain shadow; he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
W. M. When he
him.
dieth,
he shall carry noth-
ing away; his glory shall not descend aftet
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
S.
W.
and
^/'orld,
For he brought nothing into the it is certain he can carry nothing
out.
/. W. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
W. M.
slow
S.
The Lord
is
merciful and gracious,

in
to anger,
and plenteous
is
mercy.
our glory,
W.
God
our salvation;
and the rock of our strength, and our refuge is in God.

/. W.
sins, nor
ties.
He hath not dealt with us after our rewarded lis according to our iniqui-
W. M.
Can we
offer
any precious
gift ac-
ceptable in the sight of the Lord to redeem
our brother?
5.
W,
We
gift or
are poor
and needy.
us,
We
are
without
/. W.
ransom.
Be merciful unto
Lord, be
merciful unto us; for
we
trust in Thee.
in
Our
hope and
salvation
are
Thy
patience.
Where
else
can
we
look for mercy?

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251
Let us endeavor to live the life of the righteous, that our last end may be like
his.
M.
S.
W. The Lord
is
gracious and righteous;
yea, our
God
is
merciful.
/.
W.
He will
W.
God is our God forever and ever; be our guide even unto death.
Shall
31.
our
brother's
name and
?
virtues be lost upon the earth forever
Response by the brethren: We will member and cherish them in our hearts.
re-
W. M.
ing unto
I
:
me
heard a voice from heaven, say''Write, from henceforth blessed
are the dead

saith the
who
die in the for they
Lord
rest
Even
so,
Spirit;
from their
labors."
Here the Worshipful 31aster w\\\ take the
SACRED ROLL
[a sheet of parchment or paper prepared for the purpose], on which have been inscribed the name, age, date of
initiation or affiliation, facts of his Masonic history, date of death, and any other matters relating to deceased that may be interesting
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
to the brethren; and shall read the same aloud, and shall then say Almighty Father! in Thy hands we leave, with humble submission, the soul of our de-
parted brother.
Respo7ise:
Amen
So mote
it
be
Public Grand Honors should then be given three times, the brethren to respond each time:
The
The
will of
God
is
accomplished.
Amen!
So mote it be. The Worshipful Master should then deposit

the Roll in the archives of the Lodge. The following, or some other appropriate Hymn,
may
then be sung
HYMN.
Tune: Evan.
C.
M.
fe
Few
i^:
are thy days,
and
full
of woe,
pst^^ fTF=f=?=i
f
I i
S=f=&

-
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
Behold the emblem of thy state In flowers that bloom and die Or in the shadow's fleeting form
That mocks the gazer's
eye.
Determined are the days that fly Successive o'er thy head The number'd hour is on the wing That lays thee with the dead.
Great God,
afflict not, in
Thy
wrath,
The short allotted span That bounds the few and weary days
Of
pilgrimage to man.
or Chaplain will
The Worshipful Master

propriate
then repeat the following, or some other ap-
Prayer.
Almighty and Heavenly Father infinite in wisdom, mercy and goodness, extend to us
the riches of
Thy
everlasting grace.
Thou
alone art a refuge and help in trouble and

affliction.
In this
Thee
for support
bereavement we look to and consolation. May we

believe that death hath no
!
255.
power over a faithand righteous soul May we believe that, though the dust returneth to the dust as it was, the spirit goeth to Thyself. As we
ful
mourn the departure
of a brother beloved from
the circle of our Fraternity, may we trust that he hath entered into a higher brotherhood, to
engage
in
nobler duties and in heavenly work,
to find rest
from earthly labor, and refreshment from earthly care. May Thy peace abide
within us, to keep us from all evil. Make us grateful for present benefits, and crown us
with immortal life and honor. And to Thy name shall be all the glory forever. Amen! Response: So mote it be
!
procession will then be formed, which will proceed to the house of the deceased, in the following order:
drawn sword; Stewards, with rods; Master Masons, by two and two; Members of the other branches of the Masonic
Tyler, with
Fraternity;
Past Masters, by two and two; Pall-bearers, by two and two;
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
Secretary and Treasurer; Senior and Junior Wardens;
The Holy
Bible,
Square and Compasses, on a
cushion, covered with a black cloth, and carried by the oldest member of the Lodge not
in office;
Worshipful Master, supported by the Deacons, with rods.

If a band of music has been provided, it will follow the Tyler, unless all the musicians be Masons, in which case they will follow the Stewards. When the head of the procession arrives at the entrance of the building, it should halt, and on the proper order being given by the Marshal it will open to the right and left, forming two parallel lines and facing inward, when the Marshal and Tyler will pass through the lines to the end, and escort the Master or Grand Officer inta the house, the brethren closing in and following, thus reversing the order of processionthe brethren with heads uncovered. If religious or Masonic services are to be held at the house, all the brethren, so far as practicable, will enter the house; if there are no services to be held at the house, none but the officers and pall-bearers will enter the
FUNERAL SERVICES HOUSE OR CHURCH.
257
house, in which case the pall-bearers will be the last to leave the lines and close in, the remaining brethren standing fast. The Tyler will take and maintain his place just inside of the door; the Marshal remaining outside in charge of the brethren, if the brethren remain outside, the Marshal will reverse the line^;, and open as before, bringing the right or front of the lines near the hearse, the left or rear near the door of the house, and leaving space in the rear for the officers to occupy as they leave the house.
Services at the
House of the Deceased^ or at

Church.
After the religious services, if any, have been performed at the residence, the Worshipful Master will take charge of the remains by taking his station at the head of the coffin, the Senior Warden on his right, the Junior Warden on his left; the brother carrying the Holy Bible will take his station at the foot of the coffin, the Treasurer on his right, the Secretary on his left; the Deacons and Stewards will stand, one on each side of the coffin, with rods crossed, the former near the head, ^he latter near the foot; the Chaplain taking his place by the side of the coffin near the center; the brethren forming a circle around all, so far as practicable.
258
.If it is
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
not intended to use the Masonic serresidence, after the officers have taken their stations as above provided, all will join in repeating the Lord's Prayer, the Chaplain or Master leading; after which the Master will order the pall-bearers to remove the remains, and the Worshipful Master and officers will retire from the house in the following order:
vice at
tiie
Tyler, with
drawn sword; Stewards, wi^h rods;
The
Secretary and Treasurer; Senior and Junior Wardens; The brother carrying the Holy Bible; Worshipful Master, supported by the
Deacons, with rods.
On leaving the house the Tyler and Stew ards will proceed at once to their place at the head of the procession near the hearse; the remaining officers taking their places at the rear of the procession, near the door of the residence, and separating to each side, and thus awaiting with all the brethren, with uncovered heads, the exit of the body.
The officiating Clergy and Chaplain will immediately precede the pall-bearers and the body, and the body will be followed by the immediate relatives and friends. As soon as
FUNERAL SERVICKS
HOUSE
OR CHURCH.
259
irimediate relatives and friends have jr-zcC. ":hi-ou:^h, the lines v/ill close^ commencing; -'r-t ".c the rear to prevent confusion by the ::'^ncrr.l 3r.it of friends fron the house
the
but making no forward head of the column moves, which will be '.b/J '-ê relatives have passed through to the r-^r/uiges. The lines will then move to the head of the procession, and prothroui^ the
li
2Zy
movement unti!
''
ic
ceed to the Church or place of interment, the order of the procession be'ng plainly indicated Ui thf remarks preliminary lo the Service at
Grave. uu remains are taken to a Church, on ari'ving at the Church the lines will again form from the Church-door to the hearse, and open order, facing inward and uncovering, the head of the procession being at the Church-door. The Tyler will pass through the lines and escort the officiating Clergy and Chaplain, who immediately precede the pallbearers with the body, the immediate relatives and friends following, the Master and officers and brethren closing in and f< 'lowing the mourners into the Church, thus again revers-he
'f
ing the order of the procession.
On
retiring
from the Church, the brethren will retire in regular order, as from the residence, viz: Tyler, Stewards, Master Masons, Members of th" other branches of theMasonic Fraternity,

26o
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
Past Masters, Secretary and Treasurer, Senior and Junior Wardens, the brotlier witli the Holy Bible, the Master with the Deacons, and will form outside from the Church-door to the hearse as at residence, and will be governed by the same rules. The Masonic services, at either the residence or Church, v/ill take place after the religious services are concluded, and will commence upon the officers taking their places about the
coffin
as before provided, all the brethren standing, and, if practicable, forming a circle around the officers and body, whereupon the service will proceed as follows:
The Worshipful Master or Chaplain \y\\\ repeat the following, or some other appropriate Prayer, if the Lord's Prayer be used, all the brethren will join:
Prayer.
be
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed Thy name. Thy kingdom come: Thy
done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
will be
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261
Worshipful Master. Brethren, we are upon by the imperious mandr-jte of the dread messenger Death, against whose free
called
entrance within the circle of our Fraternity
weapon offer no impediment, to mourn the loss of one of our companions. The dead body of our beloved brother A. B. lies in its narrow house before us, overtaken by that fate which must sooner or later overtake us all; and which no power or station, no virtue or bravery, no wealth or honor, no tears of friends or agonies of relatives can avert; teaching an impressive lesthe barred doors and Tyler's
son, continually repeated, yet soon forgotten,
must ere long pass through the valley of the shadow of death, and dwell in the house of darkness.
that every one of us
Senior Warden.
are in death; of
In the midst of
life
we
seek for succor but of Thee, Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased. Thou know?st. Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not Thy mercifu' ears to our prayer.'
whom may we
262
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
Junior Warden. Lord, let me know my end, and the number of my days; that may he certified how long I have to live.
I
W. M. Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months
are with
Thee;
Thou hast appointed
his
bounds that he cannot pass; turn fron him that he may rest, till he shall accomplish his day. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. But man dieth and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? As the v/aters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up, so man lieth down, and riseth not up till the heavens shall be no more. S. W. Our life is but a span long, and the days of our pilgrimage are few and full of
evil.
/. W.
we may
So teach us to number our days, that apply our hearts unto wisdom.
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IV.
263
work and evening of his day. The labor and work of our brother are finished. As it hath pleased the Almighty God to take the soul of our departed brother, may he find mercy in the great day when all men shall be judged according to the deeds done in the body. We must walk in the light while we have light; for the darkness of death may come upon us, at a time when we may not be
goeth forth to his
to his labor until the
M.
Man
prepared.
Take
when
heed, therefore, watch and
pray; for ye
know
not
when
the time
is;
ye
know
not
the Master cometh, at even,
at midnight, or in the morning.
We should
we
so regulate our lives
by the
line of rectitude
and
truth, that in the
evening of our days
be found worthy to be called from labor to refreshment, and duly prepared for a translation
may
from the terrestrial to the celestial Lodge, to join the Fraternity of the spirits of
just
men made
W.
perfect.
5.
Behold,
O Lord, we are
is
in distress!
Our hearts
are turned within us; there
to comfort us; our
sky
is none darkened with clouds,
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
'
and mourning and lamentations are heard
among
/. for a
us.
IV.
little
Our
life is a vapor that appeareth while, and then vanisheth away.
All flesh is as grass,
and
all
the glory of
man
as the flower of grass.
The grass
falleth
withereth,
away. go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men; and the living
and the flower thereof
W. M.
It is
better to
will lay
it
to his heart.
Respcmse by all the brethren: So mote it be. Here may be sung the following, or some
other appropriate,
Hymn:
HYMN.
Tune Naomi.
:
C. "M.
"0
ir
-
Here Death his sa
cred seal hath
set.
m^r^ *
1
U-1
i-
FUNERAL SERVICES AT THE GRAVE.
265
-i^+-
^
On
bright
IÎZ^
-#
ff#-
-<5-^
;
and
jfL
by
gone hours
-^.
^'
2^*1:
The dead we mourn
are with us
yet,
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
Ours, by the pledge of love and faith By hopes of heaven on high By trust, triumphant over death,
;
In immortalitv!
The dead are like the stars by day, Withdrawn from mortal eye;
Yet holding unperceived
their
way
Through the unclouded sky.

holy hope and love. hours serene. Connected with the Lodge above, Immortal and unseen.
By them, through
We feel,
in
The Worshipful Master or Chaplain^ will then repeat the following, or some other appropriate
Prayer.
Most glorious God author of all good, and giver of all mercy pour down Thy blessings upon us, and strengthen our solemn engagements with the ties of sincere affection May
!
the present instance of mortality remind us of our approaching fate, and draw our atten-
FUNERAL SERVICESAT THE GRAVE.

tion
267
toward Thee, the only refuge in time of that when the awful moment shall arrive that we are about to quit this transineed;
tory scene, the enlivening prospect of
Thy
gloom of death; and after our departure hence, in peace and in Thy favor, we may be received into Thine everlasting kingdom, to enjoy, in union with the souls of our departed friends, the just reward of a pious and virtuous life. Amen Response: So mote it be
dispel the
mercy may
the remains of the deceased are to be reto a distance where the brethren cannot follow to perform the ceremonies at the grave, or the weather be too stormy, the procession will return to the Lodge-room, and the
If
moved
Lodge
will close.
Service at the Grave.

of the deceased, to the church, or to the place of interment, should be in the following order: Tyler, with drawn sword; Stewards, with rods; Band of Music, if Musicians are Masons, otherwise they follow the Tyler;
The procession from the house
Master Masons;
18
268
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
Past Masters; Secretary and Treasurer; Senior and Junior Wardens;
The Holy
Bible,
Square and Compasses, on
a cushion, covered with black cloth, and carried by the oldest member of the Lodge not in office The Worshipful Master, supported by the
Deacons, with rods; and Chaplain; The Body, With the insignia placed thereon, and the pall-bearers on each side; Mourners.
Officiating Clergy
If the deceased was a member of a Royal Arch Chapter and a Commandery of Knights Templar, and members of those bodies should
unite in the procession, clothed as such, the former will follow the Master Masons, and the latter will act as an escort or guard of honor to the corpse, outside the pall-bearers, marching i. the form of a triangle; the officers of the Commandery forming the base of the triangle, with the Eminent Commander in the
center.
When the procession has arrived at the place 0^ \nterment, the members of the Lodge Should form a circle around the grave; when
269
the Worshipful Master, Chaplain, and other officers of the acting Lodge, take their position at the head of the grave, and the mourners at the foot; the Deacons and Stewards standing, with rods crossed, at the head and foot of the grave, respectively. After the Clergyman has performed the religious services of the Church, the Masonic service should begin.
The Chaplain^ or Worshipful Master, rehearses the following, or some other appropriate
Prayer.
adore Thee as the
Almighty and most merciful Father, we God of time and eternity. As it has pleased Thee to take from the light
of our abode one dear to our hearts,
we
beseech
Thee
to bless
and sanctify unto us
this dis-
pensation of
hearts with
Thy
providence.
Inspire our
may
glorify
wisdom from on high, that we Thee in all our ways. May we
realize that
Thine all-seeing eye is upon us, and be influenced by the spirit of truth and
love to perfect obedience
that we may enjoy

And when may we
the divine approbation here below.
our
toils
on earth shall have ended,
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
be raised to the enjoyment of fadeless light
and immortal life in that kingdom where faith and hope shall end, and love and joy prevail rightthrough eternal ages. And Thine,
eous Father, shall be the glory forever. Amen. Response: So mote it be
The following exhortation the Worship/id Master

Brethren
:
is
then given by
The solemn
notes that betoken
the dissolution of this earthly tabernacle, have
again alarmed our outer door, and another
has been summoned to the land where Again we are called to assemble among the habitations of the dead, fo behold the "narrow house appointed for all living." Here, around us, in that peace which the world cannot give or take away, sleep the unnumbered dead. The gentle breeze fans their verdant covering, they heed it not; thesunshineandthe storm passover th'em, and they are not disturbed stones and lettered monuments symbolize the affection of surviving friends, yet no sound proceeds from them, save that silent but thrilling admonispirit
our fathers have gone before us.
HUNERAL SERVICES AT THE GRAVE.

tion:
271
''Seek ye the narrow path
and the
straight gate that lead unto eternal life."
We
are again called upon to consider the
life; the immutable and the vanity of all human Decrepitude and decay are written pursuits. upon every living thing. The cradle and the
uncertainty of
human
certainty of death,
coffin
and
we
stand in juxtaposition to each other; a melancholy truth, that so soon as begin to live, that moment also we begin
it is
to die.
It
is
passing strange that, notwith-
standing the daily mementos of mortality that cross our path, notwithstanding the funeral bell so often tolls in our ears, and the "mournful procession"
will not
go about our streets, that we more seriously consider our approaching fate. We go on from design to design, add hope to hope, and lay out plans for the employment of many years, until we are sud-
denly alarmed at the approach of the Messenger of Death, at a moment when we least expect him, and which we probably conclude to be the meridian of our existence.
272
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
What,
then, are
all
the externals of
human
dignity, the
ôwer of wealth, the dreams of ambition, the pride of intellect, or the charms
when nature has paid her just debt? Fix your eyes on the last sad scene, and view life stript of its ornaments, and exposed in its natural meanness, and you must be persuaded
of beauty,
of the utter eir.ptiness of these delusions.
In
the grave,
all fallacies
all
are leveled,
ranks distinctions are done away.

are detected,
all
Here the scepter of the prince and the the beggar are laid side by side.
staff of
While we drop the sympathetic

the grave of our deceased brother,
tear over
let
us ca^t
around his foibles, whatever they may have been, the broad mantle of Masonic Charity, noj withhold from his memory the commendation that his virtues claim at our hands. Peraction on earth has never yet been attained the wisest, as well as the best of men, have gone astray. Suffer, then, the apologies of human nature to plead for him who can no
.
longer plead for himself.
273
Our present meeting and proceedings will have been vain and useless, if they fail to excite our serious reflections, and strengthen our resolutions of amendment. Be then persuaded, my brethren, by this example, of the uncertainty
of
all
human
its
life of the unsubstantial nature of
pursuits,
and no longer postpone the
all-important concern of preparing for eternity.
Let us each embrace the present moment, and while time and opportunity permit, prepare with care for that great change, which we all
know must come, when the pleasures of the world shall cease to delight, and be as a poison and, while we may, enjoy the to our lips happy reflection of a well-spent life in the exercise of piety and virtue, which, in that fatal hour, will yield the only comfort and consolation. Thus shall our hopes be not frustrated, nor we hurried unprepared into the presence of that all-wise and powerful Judge, to whom Let us the secrets of all hearts are known. resolve to maintain with sincerity the dignified May our faith character of our profession. be evinced in a correct moral walk and deport;
374
ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
ment;
may
our hope be bright as the glorious
mysteries that will be revealed hereafter; and
our charity boundless as the wants of our

fellow-creatures.
And having faithfully discharged the great duties which we owe to

God,
to our neighbor,
it
at last
shall please the
and ourselves; when Grand Master of the
Universe to
ence,
summon
us into His eternal pres-
may
the trestle-board of our whole lives
pass such an inspection that it may be given unto each of us to "eat of the hidden manna," and to receive the "white stone with a new
name," that will insure perpetual and unspeakable happiness at His right hand. The Worshipful Master then takes the apron from the coffin, and the body is lowered into the grave by three gradual motions. The Worshipful Master then holding the apron, continues
apron, is the emblem and the badge of a Mason. It is more ancient than the Golden Fleece or Roman Eagle; more honorable than the Star This and Garter, when worthily worn. emblem now deposit in the grave of our
The lambskin, or white
of innocence,
27;
deceased brother {depositing the apron in

the gravel.
By
it
we
are reminded of the
universal dominion of death.
The arm
of
his
friendship cannot interpose to prevent
coming; the wealth of the world cannot purchase our release nor will the innocence of youth, or the charms of beauty propitiate his purpose. The mattock, the coffin and the melancholy grave, admonish us of our mortality, and that, sooner or later, these frail bodies must moulder in their parent dust.
;
The Worshipful Master then holding the

evergreen, continues:
This evergreen, which once marked the temporary resting-place of the illustrious dead, is an emblem of our faith in the immortality of the soul. By this we are reminded that we have an immortal part within us, that shall survive the grave, and which shall never,
NEVER, NEVER,
die.
By
it
we
are ad-
monished that, though,
like
our brother, whose
remains lie before us, we shall soon be clothed in the habiliments of death, and deposited in the silent tomb, yet, through our belief in the
"
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
of
mercy
God, we may confidently hope that
our souls will bloom in eternal spring. This, too, I deposit in the grave, with the exclamation, "Alas,
my
brother!
brethren then move in procession around the place of interment, and severally drop the sprig of evergreen into the grave, with the same exclamation; after which, the Public Grand Honorsf are given.
The
The Wo7^shipfu I Master ceremony:
i\\tn
continues the
From time immemorial, it has been the custom among the Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, at the request of a brother, to accompany his remains to the place of int
The Grand Honors,
practiced
among Masons
"i
erals, whether in public or private, are given iowing- manner: Both arms are crossed on
at funthe folbreast,
the
nft uppermost, and the open palms of t.ie hands sharply striking the shoulders; they are then raised
above the head, the palms striking each other, and then made to fall smartly upon the thighs. This is repeated three times, and while they are being given the third time, the brethren audibly pronounce the following words when the arms are crossed on the breast: "We cherish his memory here;" when the hands are extended above the head: ''We commend his spirit to God who gave it;" and when the hands are extended toward the ground: "And consign his bodv to the earth."
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terment. and there to deposit them with the
usual Tormalities.
In conformity to this usage,
and
at the re-
quest of our deceased brother,
whose memory
we revere, and whose loss we now deplore, we have assembled in the character of Masons,
to offer
last tribute of
up to his memory, before the world, the our affection; thereby demon-
strating the sincerity of our past esteem for him, and our steady attachment to the principles of our Order.
The
great Creator having been pleased, out
remove our brother from the cares and troubles of this transitory existence, to a state of endless duration, thus severing another link from the fraternal chain that binds us together; may we, who survive him, be more strongly cemented in the ties of union and friendship; that, during the short space allotted us here, we may wisely and usefully employ our time; and in the reciprocal intercourse of kind and friendly acts, mutually promote the welfare and happiness of each other. Unto the grave we have consigned
of his infmite mercy, to
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
the body of our deceased brother; earth to earth {earth being sprinkled on the coffin'],
ashes to ashes \_7n0re earth], dust to dust [more earth]] there to remain till the trump shall sound on the resurrection morn. We
can cheerfully leave him in the hands of a Being, Who has done all things well Who is glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders. To those of his immediate relatives and
;
friends,
loss
who we have
are
all
sustained,
most heart-stricken at the we have but little
of this world's consolation to offer.
We
can
only sincerely, deeply, and most affectionately
sympathize with them in their aiflictive bereavement. But we can say, that He who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, looks down with infmite compassion upon the widow and fatherless, in the hour of their desolation; and that the Great Architect will fold the arms of His love and protection around those who put their trust in Him. Then let us improve this solemn warning that at last, when the sheeted dead are stir-
FUNERAL SERVrCES AT THE GRAVE.

ring,
279
when
the great white throne
is set,
we
from the Omniscient Judge, the thrilling invitation, "come, ye blessed, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."
shall receive
The
following
Ode
will then be sung:
Tune:
Pleyel's
-I
Hymn
=i^
Sol
-
^
emn
jo^
strikes the
:^
fu
-
n'ral
chime,
.^2.
45L
j2-
#.
:jf:
jS.
951? a-4-
W-
i
:
s^S
Notes of
our
.22.
-i5?-^
de
part
ing
JSL
.a.
time;
-P-
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
t
As
we
jour
ney here
be
low,
^
i
^=f^3tF.
#=
=
i
m
Thro'
jz.
a
.(SL
pil -
grim
age
-^9-
of
woe.
.a.'
î
T
Mortals, now indulge a tear, For Mortality is here See how wide her trophies wave O'er the slumbers of the grave!
!
Here another guest we bring ; Seraphs of celestial wing, To our fun'ral altar come, Waft our friend and brother home.

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Lord of
Fill
all
below above
;
our hearts with truth and love When discclvcs our earthly tie, Take l^ to Thy Lodge on high.
The servicec'-.-ill be concluded with the lowing or come other suitable

Prayer.
fol-
Most glorious God, author of

giver of
all
all
good and
blessings
mercy, pour
down Thy
upon us and strefigthen our solemn engagements with the ties of sincere affection. May the present instance of mortality remind us of our own approaching fate, and, by drawing our attention toward Thee, the only refuge in
time of need,
late
may we
be induced so to regu-
our conduct here, that

shall arrive, at
when
the awful
quit
moment
of
which we must
this transitory scene, the enlivening prospect
Thy mercy may dispel the gloom of death; and that after our departure hence, in peace and Thy favor, we may be received into Thine everlasting kingdom, and there join in union with our friend, and enjoy that uninterrupted
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ANCIENT CEREMONIES.
felicity
and unceasing
souls of just
which
!
is
allotted to the
men made
perfect.
Amen.
Response: So mote it be Worshipful Master. The will of

accomplished.
God
is
Response: So mote it be W. M. From dust we came, and unto dust
we must
return.
Response:
May we
all
be recompensed at
the resurrection of the just.
Amen
service ends, and the brethren may, if practicable open order and stand uncovered, while the relatives pass through the lines as they leave the cemetery; after which the procession will return in form to the place whence it set out, where the necessary business of Masonry should be renewed. The insignia and ornaments of the deceased, if an officer of a Lodge, are to be returned to the
Thus the
Master, with the usual ceremonies, and the Lodge will be closed in form.
RITUAL FOR A LODGE OF
SORROW.
Ritual for a Lodge of Sorrow for use in the Lodges. While necessarily of a funereal character, it differs In the essentially from the burial service. latter case, we are in the actual presence of the departed, and engaged in the last rites of affection and respect for one who has been
is
The following
recommended
life, and whose mortal remains we are about to consign to their last resting-place. The Lodge of Sorrow, on the
our companion in
contrary, is intended to celebrate the memory of our departed brethren; and while we thus recall to our recollection their virtues, and temper anew our resolutions so to live, that, when we shall have passed the silent portals, our memories may be cherished with grateful remembrance, we learn to look upon death from a more elevated point of view; to see in it the wise and necessary transition from the trials and imperfections of this world, to the perfect life for which our transient journey here has been the school and the preparation. Vocal and instrumental music are indispensable to the proper effect of the ceremony. The brethren should wear dark clothing, and white
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284
LODGE OF SORROW.
gloves and aprons. There is no necessity for any attempt at secrecy in the ceremonies of Sorrow Lodges. They may be held in churches or public halls, or in the presence of friends at the Lodge-room, with benefit to all concerned.
Preparation of the Hall.
The Lodge-room should be appropriately \. draped in black, and the several stations covered with the same emblem of mourning. II. On the Master's pedestal is a skull and
lighted taper.
III. In the center of the room is placed the catafalque, which consists of a rectangular platform, about six feet long by four feet wide, on which are two smaller platforms, so that three steps are represented. the third one should be an elevation of convenient height, on which is placed an urn. The platform should be draped in black, and a canopy of black drapery may be raised over the urn and platform. At each corner of the platform will be IV. placed a candlestick, bearing a lighted taper, and near it, facing the East, will be seated a brother, provided with an extinguisher, to be used at the proper time. V. During the first part of the ceremonies the lights in the room should burn dimly.
On
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285
Arrangements should be made to enVI. able the light to be increased to brilliancy at the appropriate point in the ceremony. VII. the catafalque will be laid a pair of white gloves, a lambskin apron, and if the deceased brother had been an officer, the appropriate insignia of his office. Vill. Where the Lodge is held in memory of several brethren, shields bearing their names are placed around the catafalque.
On
Opening the Lodge.

several officers being in their places, and the brethren seated, the Worshipful Master \n\\\ call up the Lodge, and say:
The
Worshipful Master. Brother Senior WarFor what purpose are we assembled.? Senior Warden. To honor the memory of those brethren whom death hath taken from us; to contemplate our own approaching dissolution; and, by the remembrance of immortality, to raise our souls above the consideraden
:
tions of this transitory existence.
W. M. Brother Junior Warden: What sentiments should inspire the souls of Masons on occasions like the present?
Junior Warden.
absence of our brethren
Calm sorrow for the who have gone before
286
LODGE OF SORROW.
us; earnest solicitude for our

fare,
own
etern-^.l
wel-
and a firrn faith and reliance upon the wisdom and goodness of the Great Architect
of the Universe.
W. M. Brethren: Commending these sentiments to your earnest consideration, and

invoking your assistance in the solemn ceremonies about to take place, I declare this Lodge of Sorrow opened. The Chaplain, or Worshipful Master, will
then offer the following, or some other suitable
Prayer.
Grand
Architect of the Universe, in
whose
holy sight centuries are but as days; to whose omniscience the past and the future are but as one eternal present; look down upon Thy children, who still wander among the delusions of time who still tremble with dread of dissolution, and shudder at the mysteries of the future; look down, we beseech Thee, from Thy glorious and eternal day into the dark night of our error and presumption, and suffer a ray of Thy divine light to penetrate \nto our hearts, that in them may awaken
LODGE OF SORROW.
287
and bloom the certainty of life, reliance upon Thy promises, and assurance of a place at
Thy
right hand. Amen. Response: So mote it be
The
Ode may
following, or some other appropriate here be sung
ODE.
Tune
:
Bradford. C. M.
^ g|4^
9-ltr
-;Î
S
I I
:fcN:1=: *^
^ ^
to rest;
Broth-er, thou art

r*5
gone
We
will
not
weep
I
for
thee
1^ ^
-#T
^ -^VT-*^ ^
:(2_-
-^
^ ^^-
;:
2S8
^
Vip^
LODGE OF SORROW.
1^-T*
^^ ârt
tSr-S-
^^
For ihou
nowwhere.oft on earth,
9^-Sfc
^^
#=^=q
-\r^
Tliy spir
it
^-s-*-_I
E3
be.
longed
to
i
2
Brother, thou art gone to rest

cares are o'er sorrow, pain, and suffering Shall ne'er distress thee more.
Thy toils and
And
now
And
That,
Brother, thou art gone to rest, this shall be our prayer
Thy
when we reach our journey's glory we shall share.
end,
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289
The Worshipful Master {taking the skull

in his ha7id'\ will then say:
Brethren: In the midst of

death, and the wisest cannot
life
we are in know what a

but to see
day may bring

those
land.
forth.
We
away
live
we
love passing
into the silent
Behold this emblem of mortality, once the abode of a spirit like our own; beneath this mouldering canopy once shone the bright and busy eye; within this hollow cavern once played the ready, swift, and tuneful tongue; and now, sightless and mute, it is eloquent only in the lessons it teaches us.
Think of those brethren, who, but a few days since, were among us in all the pride and power of life; bring to your minds the remembrance of their wisdom, their strength, and their beauty; and then reflect that "to this complexion have they come at last;" think of yourselves, thus will you be when the lamp of your brief existence has burned out Think
how
Man's
soon death, for you, will be a reality. life is like a flower, which blooms to-
ZQO
LODGE OF SORROW.
is
day, and to-morrow

trodden under foot.
faded, cast aside, and
The most
life;
of us,
my
brethren, are fast approaching, or have already
passed the meridian of

in
is
our sun
is
setting
the West; and oh

started
how much more
swift
the passage of our declining years than
upon the journey, and be,are too apt to believethat the roseate hues of the rising sun of our existence were always to be continued. When we look bacl<; upon the happy days of our childhood, when the dawning intellect first began to exercise its powers of thought, it seems as but yesterday, and that, by a simple effort of the will, we could put aside our manhood, and seek again the loving caresses of a mother, or be happy in the possession of a bauble; and could we now realize the idea that our last hour had come, our whole earthly life would seem but as the space of time from yesterday until to-day. Centuries upon centuries have rolled away behind us; before us stretches out an eternity of years to come; and on the narrow boundary between the past
lieved
wnen we
as the
young
LODGE OF SORROW.
aqi
and the present flickers the puny taper \v.i term our life. When we came into the world, we knew naught of what had been before us;
up to manhood, we learned we saw the flowers bloom as they had bloomed toi centuries; we beheld the orbs
but, as
we
gre\y
of the past;
of
day and night pursuing

;
their endless course

it
among
the stars, as they had pursued
from
the birth of light
we
learned
what men had
thought, and said, and done, from the begin-
ning of the world to our day; but only through we behold what is to come hereafter, and only through a firm reliance upon the Divine promises can we satisfy the yearnings of an immortal soul. The cradle speaks to us of remembrance the coffin, of hope, of a blessed trust in a never-ending existence beyond the gloomy portals of the tomb. Let these reflections convince us how vain are all the wranglings and bitterness engendered by the collisions of the world how little in dignity above the puny wTanglings of ants over a morsel of food, or for the possession of
the eye of faith can
a square inch of
soil.
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LODGE OF SORROW
shall survive us? Not, let us hope,
What
the petty strifes and bickerings, the jealousies
and heart-burnings, the small triumphs and mean advantages we have gained, but rather the noble thoughts, the words of truth, the works of mercy and justice, that ennoble and light up the existence of every honest man, however humble, and live for good when his body, like this remnant of mortality, is mouldering in
its
parent dust.
Let the proud and the vain consider how soon the gaps are filled that are made in society by those who die around them; and how soon time heals the wounds that death inflicts upon the loving heart; and from this let them learn humility, and that they are but drops in the great ocean of humanity.
the scroll of death,
sends his angel to us with let us look upon it as an act of mercy, to prevent many sins and many calamities of a longer life; and lay down our heads softly and go to sleep, without wrangling like froward children. For this at least
And when God
man
gets by death, that his calamities are not

LODGE OF SORROW.
immortal.
perately,
29:
To
bear grief honorably and tem-
and
to die willingly
and nobly, are

true Mason.
the duties of a good
man and
A solemn piece of music will now be performed, or the following Ode may be sung
:
ODE.
Tune
4--^
:
Naomi.
C.
M.
*
those
t-vVfwj
I
f
0
When
we
love are snatched a-\vay,
00
r0
iL?d5
\==t
V-V-4-
^îr^
LODGE OF SORROW.
Our
hearts the mournful
tribute
pay,
-r
0-
^ While pity prompts the rising sigh, With awful power imprest; May this dread truth, "I too must die,"
I
Sink deep
in
every breast.
Let this vain world allure no more: Behold the opening tomb It bids us use the present hour; To-morrow death may come-
LODGE OF SORROW.
29b
The
voice of this instructive scene
May
every heart obey

faithful
calls to
Nor be the
Which
warning vain watch and pray.
At its conclusion the Chaplain will read the following passages

Lo, He goeth by rne and I see Him not. passeth on also, but I perceive Him not. Behold He taketh away, who can hinder
He
Him?
Man that is born

and
flower,
of a
full of trouble.
and is cut shadow, and continueth

are determined, the
:
woman is of few days, He cometh forth like a down he fleeth also as a

;
not.
Seeing his days
number
of his
months
are
with Thee Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; turn from him that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Though
the root thereof
wax old in
the earth,
and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud and
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LODGE OF SORROW.
bring forth boughs like a plant.

dieth andwasteth
But man
giveth up
away;
yea,
man
the ghost, and where

fail
is he? As the waters from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up, so man lieth down, andriseth not; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
My days are passed, my purposes are broken even the thoughts of my heart. If wait, have made my bed the grave is mine house
off,
I
:
I have said to corruption, in the darkness. thou art my father. And where is now my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it? They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our
rest together is in the dust.
My
flesh.
bone cleaveth to
my
skin snd to
my
;
Oh, that my words were now
written
!
Oh,
that they were printed in a book
That
they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the And though after latter day upon the earth. my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my
flesh shall
I
see
God.
Whom
shall see for
LODGE OF SORROW.
myself, and mine eyes
shall behold,
297
and not
another.
For Thou cast

of the seas
; ;
me
into the deep, in the midst
and Thy
I
floods
compassed me
about all Thy billows and Thy waves passed over me. Then said, I am cast out of Thy sight yet will I look again toward Thy holy temple. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul, the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapt about my head. I said, in the cutting off of my days I shall go to the gates of the grave I am deprived of the residue of my years I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. Behold, for peace I had great bitterness but Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For the grave cannot praise Thee, death cannot celebrate Thee; the living, the living,
; ; ; ; ;
he shall praise Thee as I do this day. Are not my days few? Cease, then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, before I go whence I shall not return, even to
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LODGE OF SORROW.
the land of darkness, and the
shadow of death,
itself;
land of darkness, as darkness
and
of the
shadow
of death, without
any
order,
and where the
light is as darkness.
interval of profound silence will be observed. The general lights of the hall, if there be convenience, will be turned low, and the four brethren will extinguish the tapers near which they are placed.
An
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Our
Father
Who
art in
Heaven,
it
hath
those
pleased Thee to take from
among us
Let time, as it heals upon our hearts and on the hearts of those who were near and dear to them, noterase the salutary lessons engraved there but let those lessons always continuing distinct and legible make us and them wiser and better. And whatever distress or
the
who were
our brethren.
wounds thus
inflicted
trouble
may
hereafter
come upon
us,
ever be consoled by the reflection that
may we Thy
wisdom and Thy
love are equally infinite,
and that our sorrows are not the visitations of Thy wrath, but the result of the great !aw
T-3DGE OF SORROW.
299
is
being conducted to a good and perfect issue in the fullness of Thy time. Let the loss of our brethren increase our affection for those who are
of
harmony by which everything
make us more punctual performance of the duties that friendship, love and honor demand. When it comes to us also to die, may a firm and abiding
yet spared to us, and
in the
trust in
Thy mercy
dispel the
dread of dissolution.
gloom and Be with us now, and

spirit
sanctify the solemnities of this occasion to
our hearts, that
and understanding.
we may serve Thee in And to Thy name

Amen.
shal^
be ascribed the praise forever.
Response : So mote it be The Wardens, Deacons and Stewards^ will now approach the East and form a procession,
thus:
Two
Stewards, with rods

the
Two Wardens The Worshipful Master, supported by
Deacons, with rods. This procession will move once around the catafalque to slow and solemn music. On
arriving at the East, the procession will halt and open to the right and left. The Junior
20
goo
LODGE OF SORROW.
Warden will then advance to the catafalque, and, placing upon it a bunch of white flowers,
will
say
Junior Warden.
parted brethren
I
In
memory
of our de-
deposit these white flowers,
life to which they and reminding us that as these children of an hour will droop and fade away, so, too shall we soon follow those who have gone before us, and inciting us so to fill the brief span of our existence that we may
emblematical of that pure

called,
have been
leave to our survivors a sweet savor of re-
membrance.
Iht Junior Warden

place,
will
now
return to his
silence will
and an interval of profound
be observed. The procession will again be formed, and move as before, to the sound of slow music, twice around the catafalque. They will open as before, and the Senior Warden approaching the catafalque will place upon it a wreath of white flowers, and say
Senior Warden. As the sun sets in the West, to close the day and herald the approach of night, so, one by one we lay us down in the darkness of the tomb to wait in
LODGE OF SORROW.
its
y>i
shall pass
calm repose for the time when the heavens away as a scroll, and man, stand-
ing in the presence of the Infinite, shall realize the true end of his pilgrimage here below.
Let these flowers be to us the symbol of reof our brethren silent land, the token of that fraternal alliance which binds us while on earth and which we hope will finally unite us in heaven.
membrance of all the virtues who have preceded us to the
The Senior Warden returns to his place, and an interval of profound silence will be
observed. The procession will again be formed, and move three times around the catafalque to slow and solemn music, as before. Arrived in the East, the Worshipful Master v^\\\ advance and place upon the Urn a wreath of evergreen, and say
all
Worshipful Master, It is appointed unto men once to die, and after death cometh
the resurrection.
it
In the
The dust
all
shall return
to
the earth and the spirit unto
God who gave

;
grave
men
are equal
the good
deeds, the lofty thoughts, the heroic sacrifices
30a
LODGE OF SORROW.
alone survive and bear fruit in the lives of
those
who
strive to emulate them.
While, therefore, nature will have its way, tears will fall upon the graves of our brethren, let us be reminded by the evergreen symbol of our faith in immortal life that the dead are but sleeping, and be comforted by the reflection that their memories will not be forgotten; that they will still be loved by those who are soon to follow them that in our archives their names are written, and that in our hearts there is still a place for them. And so, trusting in the infmite love and tender mercy of Him without whose knowledge not even a sparrow falls, let us prepare to meet them where there is no parting, and where with them we shall enjoy eternal rest.
and our
The Worshipful Master

place,
and a period of
Chaplain will now where he will read
will return to his silence will obtain. The be conducted to the altar,
raised
But some man will say How are the dead up? and with what body do they come?
:
ÔDGE OF SORROW.
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened except it die and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shal be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat or of some other grain ; but God giveth it c body as it hath pleased Him, and to every
:
seed his
own
body.
;
same flesh but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of flshes, and another of birds.
All flesh is not the
There are also

restrial
:
celestial bodies,
and bodies
ter-
but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars ; for one star differeth from another star
in glory.
So
is
also is the resurrection of the

in corruption,
is
it
dead.
It
sown
;
is
raised
sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body,
in incorruption
it
it is
raised a spiritual body.
ural body,
and there
is
There is a nata spiritual body. And
so
it is
written, the flrst
man Adam was made
yH
LODGE OF SORROW.
a living soul, tlie last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural and afterward that which is spiritual.
;
The
first
second
man is of the earth, earthy; the man is the Lord from heaven. As is
is
the earthy, such are they also that are earthy
and as
the heavenly, such are they also
that are heavenly.
And
as
we have
borne
the image of the earthy,
we
shall also bear
the image of the heavenly.
Now
this
say, brethren, that flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of
God;
neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
shew you a mystery we shall not but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound, and
Behold,
I
:
all sleep,
the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and

shall be changed.
we
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be
LODGE OF SORROW.
305
brought to pass the saying that is written, death, death is swallowed up in victory. grave, where is thy where is thy sting?
victory?
the concluding grave, where is thy victory?" the lights in the hall will be raised to brilliancy, the four brethren seated around the catafalque will relight the tapers, while a strain of triumphant music will be played.
As the Chaplain pronounces
words,
"O
The Chaplain will return to his place in the East, and the following, or some other appropriate Ode, will be sung to music of a more cheerful character
ODE.
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LODGE OF SORROW.
Father's house, the many mansions be Nearer the great white throne Nearer the crystal sea.
jo^
Nearer
my
Where
Nearer
th-e
bound of
life,
lay our burdens Nearer leaving the cross ; Nearer gaining the crown.
Where we
down
But lying darkly between,

Is
Winding down through the night, the deep and unknown stream, That leads at last to the light.
Father, perfect my trust Strengthen the might of my faith ; Let me feel as I would when I stand On the rock of the shore of death.
Feel as I \^ôuld when my feet Are slipping over the brink For it may be, I am nearer home Nearer now than I think.
The Orator will then pronounce

him.
the Eulog-
Then follows the following, or appropriate Ode
some
other
508
LODGE OF SORROW.
ODE.
Tune: Old Hundred.
L.
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let grateful
fp"^^
O
Lord,
praise
Once more,
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ev-'ry heart
to
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LODGE OF SORROW.
309
Our
first,
our
best,
and changeless
-^ d
friend.
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hymn of praise, And bind our hearts in love divine Oh, may we walk in wisdom's ways, And ever feel that we are Thine.
Hear now our parting
Closing.
Worshipful Master.
Brother Senior
War-
den, our recollection of our departed friends
has been refreshed, ana we may now ask ourselves, were they just and perfect Masons, worthy men, unwearied toilers in the vineyard, and possessed of so many virtues as to overcome their faults and shortcomings? Answer these questions, as Masons should
answer.
Senior Warden.
He Whose
infinite
Man judgeth not cf man. and tender mercy passeth
310
all
LODGE OF SORROW.
comprehension,
judge.
Whose goodness endursth

Let
forever, has called our brethren hence.
Him
Egypt no one could gain admittomb until he had passed under the most solemn judgment before a grave tribunal. Princes and peasants came there to be judged, escorted only by their vh-tues and
In ancient
tance to the sacred asylum of the
their vices.
public accuser recounted the
history of their lives, and threw the penetrat-
ing light of truth on

evil life, his
all their
actions.
If it
were adjudged that the dead
man had
lead an
in the
memory was condemned
presence of the nation, and his body
was
denied the honors of sepulture.
has no such tribunal to sit in her dead ; with her, the good that her sons have done lives after them and the evil is She does require, interred with their bones. however, that whatever is said concerning them shall be the truth ; and should it ever happen that of a Mason, who dies, nothing good can be truthfully said, she will mourn;
But Masonry judgment upon
LODGE OF SORROW.
fully
3ir
and pityingly bury him out of her sight
in silence.
Worshipful Master. Brethren, let us profit of ihis solemn occasion, lay to heart the truths to which we have listened, and resolve so to walk that wher we lay us down to tlie last sleep it may b
by the admonitions
the privilege of the brethren to strew white
flowers upon our graves and keep our

ories as a pleasant
memto the
remembrance.
:
Erother Senior
Warden
Announce
brethren that our labors are

of
now
concluded,
and that it is my pleasure that this Lodge Sorrow be closed. Senior Warden. Brother Junior Warden The labors of this Lodge of Sorrow being ended, it is the pleasure of the Worshipful Master that it be now closed. Make due announcement to the brethren, and invite them
to assist.
Junior Warden
beir.g ended,
it is
{^calling
up the
Lodge'],
Brethren, the labors of this Lodge of Sorrow the pleasure of the Worshipful
Master that
it
be
now
closed.
312
LODGE OF SORROW.
W. M.
an invocation
Let us unite with our Chaplain to the Throne of Grace.
in
W. M.
closed.
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ANCIENT CRAFT MASONRY;

COMPILER AND EDITOR.

and A. K. WILSON, Publishers.

William M. Shaver and Albert K. Wilson.

PRESS OF KETCHESON PRINTING CO. LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS.

Monitor of Ancient Craft Masonry,

complied by Bro. William

Custodian of the Work, conforms to the

and A. M. of Kansas, and as such we cheer-

Custodians cf the Work, Grand Lodge of Kansas.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.

In his researches in the preparation of this

work, the Compiler has found many, gems*

Not only the

Ceremony and the

Burial Service, but also a full compilation of

the Ancient Ceremonies, and the Ritual of a

have been added, and,

believed will be appreciated.

The Compiler acknowledges with

gress of this work, space alone preventing a

Opening and Closing the Lodge.

Opening and Closing Odes

The Degree of Entered apprentice.

Address to Candidate Prayer at Initiation

Whom Dedicated Tenets Four Cardinal Virtues

The Degree of fellow Craft.

Of Order in Architecture Of its Antiquity

Invention of this Order.

the Invention of Order in Architecture

The Five Senses

Geometry Of the Advantages

the Moral Advantages of Geo-

The Degree of master mason.

King Solomon's Temple

The Anchor and Ark The Forty-Seventh Problem

The Hour Glass The Scythe

ANCIENT CEREMONIES OF THE ORDER.

Installation of Officers of a Lodge.

Laying Foundation Stones

Dedication of Masonic Halls Section 7.

OPENING AND CLOSING THE LODGE.

serve Thee aright.

Bless and prosper us in

undertakings, and grant, that

our laudable our conduct

ANOTHER FORM OF PRAYER THAT MAY BB USED AT OPENING THE LODGE.

OPENING AND CLOSING.

nate our minds, through the intercession of

A CHARGE USED AT OPENING THE LODGE.

how good and how

for brethren to dv/ell together in unity

like the precious

head, that ran

ointment upon the the beard, even

OPENING AND CLOSING.

Aaron's beard that went down to the skirts garments

Hermon, and as the dew that

descended upon the mountains of Zion