names are Faith, Hope, and Charity; they teach us to have faith in God, hope in immortality, and charity to all mankind.”  The Master to the Senior Deacon, “You will now conduct the candidate out of this Lodge, and invest him with what he has been divested.”  After he is clothed, and the necessary arrangements made for his reception, such as placing the columns and floor carpet, if they have any, and the candidate is reconducted back to the Lodge; as he enters the door, the Senior Deacon observes, “We are now about to return to the middle chamber of King Solomon’s Temple.”  When within the door, the Senior Deacon proceeds, “Brother, we have worked in speculative Masonry, but our forefathers wrought both in speculative and operative Masonry.  They worked at the building of King Solomon’s Temple, and many other Masonic edifices; they wrought six days; they did not work on the seventh, because in six days God created the heavens and the earth, and rested on the seventh day.  The seventh, therefore, our ancient brethren consecrated as a day of rest; thereby enjoying more frequent opportunities to contemplate the glorious works of creation, and to adore their great Creator.”  Moving a step or two, the Senior Deacon proceeds, “Brother, the first thing that attracts our attention are two large columns, or pillars, one on the left hand, and the other on the right; the name of the one on the left hand is Boaz, and denotes strength; the name of the one on the right hand is Jachin, and denotes establishment; they collectively allude to a passage in Scripture, wherein God has declared in his word, ’In strength shall this house be established.’  These columns are eighteen cubits high, twelve in circumference, and four in diameter; they are adorned with two large chapiters, one on each, and these chapiters are ornamented with net work, lily work, and pomegranates; they denote unity, peace, and plenty.  The net work, from its connection, denotes union; the lily work, from its whiteness, purity and peace; and the pomegranate, from the exuberance of its seed, denotes plenty.  They also have two large globes, or balls, one on each; these globes or balls contain, on their convex surfaces, all the maps and charts of the celestial and terrestrial bodies; they are said to be thus extensive to denote the universality of Masonry, and that a Mason’s charity ought to be equally extensive.  Their composition is molten, or cast brass; they were cast on the banks of the river Jordan, in the clay-ground between Succoth and Zaradatha, where King Solomon ordered these and all other holy vessels to be cast; they were cast hollow; and were four inches, or a hand’s breadth thick; they were cast hollow, the better to withstand inundations and conflagrations; they were the archives of Masonry, and contained the constitution, rolls, and records.”  The Senior Deacon having explained the columns, he passes between them, advances a step or two, observing as he advances, “Brother, we will pursue our travels;