id to you? A. I was
asked what I most desired.

Q. Your answer? A. More light.

Q. On being brought to light, what did you discover different from
before? A. One point of the Compass elevated above the Square, which
denoted light in this degree; but as one point was yet in obscurity,
it was to remind me that I was yet one material point in the dark
respecting Masonry.

Q. What did you next discover? A. The Worshipful Master approaching me
from the East, under the sign and due-guard of a Fellow Craft Mason,
who presented me with his right hand in token of brotherly love and
confidence, and proceeded to give me the pass-grip and word of a
Fellow Craft Mason, and bid me arise and salute the Junior and Senior
Wardens, and convince them that I had been regularly passed to the
degree of a Fellow Craft, and had the sign, grip, and word of a Fellow
Craft Mason.

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