Q. What next did you discover?  A. The Worshipful Master approaching me a second time from the East, who presented me a lamb-skin, or white apron, which, he said, he hoped I would continue to wear with honor to myself and satisfaction and advantage to my brethren.

Q. What was you next presented with?  A. The working tools of a Fellow Craft Mason.

Q. What are they?  A. The Plumb, Square, and Level.

Q. What do they teach? [I think this question ought to be, “How explained?”] A. The Plumb is an instrument made use of by operative Masons to raise perpendiculars; the Square, to square the work, and 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 uprightly, in our several stations, before God and man; squaring our actions by the square of virtue; and remembering that we are all traveling upon the level of time, to that undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveler returns.

Q. What was you next presented with?  A. Three precious jewels.

Q. What were they?  A. Faith, Hope, and Charity.

Q. What do they teach?  A. Faith in God, hope in immortality, and charity to all mankind.

Q. How was you then disposed of?  A. I was conducted out of the Lodge, and invested of what I had been divested.

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SECOND SECTION.

Question—­Have you ever worked as a Fellow Craft Mason?  Answer—­I have, in speculative; but our forefathers wrought both in speculative and operative Masonry.

Q. Where did they work?  A. At the building of King Solomon’s Temple, and many other Masonic edifices.

Q. How long did they work?  A. Six days.

Q. Did they not work on the Seventh?  A. They did not.

Q. Why so?  A. Because in six days God created the heavens and the earth, and rested on the seventh day; the seventh day, therefore, our ancient brethren consecrated as a day of rest from their labors; thereby enjoying more frequent opportunities to contemplate the glorious works of creation, and adore their great Creator.

Q. Did you ever return to the sanctum sanctorum, or holy of holies, of
King Solomon’s Temple?  A. I did.

Q. By what way?  A. Through a long porch, or alley.

Q. Did anything particular strike your attention on your return?  A. There did; viz.:  Two large columns, or pillars, one on the left hand, and the other on the right.

Q. What was the name of the one on the left hand?  A. Boaz, to denote strength.

Q. What was the name of the one on the right hand?  A. Jachin, denoting establishment.

Q. What do they collectively allude to?  A. A passage in Scripture, wherein God has declared in his word, “In strength shall this house be established.”