Q. What did the Worshipful Master do with you?  A. He made an Entered Apprentice Mason of me.

Q. How?  A. In due form.

Q. What was that due form?  A. My left knee bare and bent, my right forming a square, my left hand supporting the Holy Bible, Square and Compass; I took upon me the solemn oath or obligation of an Entered Apprentice Mason.

Q. After you had taken your obligation, what was said to you?  A. I was asked what I most desired.

Q. Your answer?  A. Light.

Q. Was you immediately brought to light?  A. I was.

Q. How?  A. By the direction of the Master, and assistance of the brethren.

Q. What did you first discover after being brought to light?  A. Three great lights in Masonry, by the assistance of three lesser.

Q. What were those three great lights in Masonry?  A. The Holy Bible, Square and Compass.

Q. How are they explained?  A. The Holy Bible is given to us as a guide for our faith and practice; the Square, to square our actions; and the Compass to keep us in due bounds with all mankind, but more especially with the brethren.

Q. What were those three lesser lights?  A. Three burning tapers, or candles on candlesticks.

Q. What do they represent?  A. The Sun, Moon, and Master of the Lodge.

Q. How are they explained?  A. As the Sun rules the day, and the Moon governs the night, so ought the Worshipful Master to use his endeavors to rule and govern his Lodge with equal regularity, or cause the same to be done.

Q. What did you next discover?  A. The Worshipful Master approaching me from the East, under the sign and due-guard of an Entered Apprentice Mason, who presented me with his right hand in token of brotherly love and esteem, and proceeded to give me the grip and word of an Entered Apprentice Mason, and bid me arise and salute the Junior and Senior Wardens, and convince them that I had been regularly initiated as an Entered Apprentice Mason, and was in possession of the sign, grip, and word.

Q. What did you next discover?  A. The Worshipful Master a second time approaching me from the East, who presented me with a lamb-skin, or white apron, which he said was an emblem of innocence, and the badge of a Mason; that it had been worn by kings, princes, and potentates of the earth, who had never been ashamed to wear it; that it was more honorable than the diamonds of kings, or pearls of princesses, when worthily worn; and more ancient than the Golden Fleece or Roman Eagle; more honorable than the Star or Garter, or any other order that could be conferred on me at that time, or any time thereafter, except it be in the body of a just and lawfully constituted Lodge of Masons; and bid me carry it to the Senior Warden in the West, who taught me how to wear it as an Entered Apprentice Mason.

Q. What were you next presented with?  A. The working tools of an Entered Apprentice Mason.