ever country you travel, when you meet a true Mason, you will
find a brother and a friend, who will do all in his power to serve you;
and who will relieve you, should you be poor or in distress, to the
utmost of his ability, and with a ready cheerfulness.

Pure patriotism will always animate you to every call of your country.
And this institution demands that you shall be true to your government.
But should you, while engaged in the service of your country, be made
captive, you may find affectionate brethren, where others would only
find enemies. And should you be the captor of one who belongs to this
noble fraternity, remember that he is your brother.

FELLOW CRAFT.

First Section--Reception.

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Thus he shewed me: and behold the Lord stood upon a wall made by a
plumb-line, with a plumb-line in His hand.

And the Lord said unto me: Amos, what seest thou? and I said, A
plumb-line. Then said the Lord: Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the
midst of my people Israel;

I will not again pass by them any more. Amos, vii. 7, 8.

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The Working Tools.

The Working Tools of Fellow Craft are the Plumb, the Square and the
Level, and are thus explained:

The Plumb is an instrument used by Operative Masons to try
perpendiculars, the Square to square their work, and the Level to prove
horizontals; but we, as Free and Accepted Masons, are taught to use 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, ever remembering that we are traveling
upon the Level of Time to that "undiscovered country from whose bourne
no traveler returns."

SECOND SECTION.

You now represent a young F. C. on his way to the M. C. of K. S. T., to
have his name enrolled among the workmen, and to be taught the wages of
a F. C. Masonry is divided into two classes, operative and speculative.
We have wrought in speculative Masonry, but our ancient brethren wrought
both in operative and speculative. They wrought at the building of K. S.
T., and many other Masonic edifices. They wrought but six days in a
week, and rested upon the seventh. The seventh, therefore, our ancient
brethren consecrated as a day of rest, the better to enable them to
contemplate the glorious works of creation and to adore their great
Creator.

On our way to the