of the Order, entrusted to your care, you are carefully
to preserve; and never suffer them to be infringed, or countenance
a deviation from the established usages and customs of the
fraternity.

"Your virtue, honor, and reputation are concerned in supporting,
with dignity, the character you now bear. Let no motive,
therefore, make you swerve from your duty, violate your vow, or
betray your trust: but be true and faithful, and imitate the
example of that celebrated artist whom you this evening represent:
thus you will render yourself deserving the honor which we have
conferred, and merit the confidence that we have reposed."

Here follows the Lecture on this degree, which is divided into three
sections.

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FIRST SECTION.

Question--Are you a Master Mason? Answer--I am; try me; disprove me if
you can.

Q. Where were you prepared to be made a Master Mason? A. In a room
adjacent to the body of a just and lawfully constituted Lodge of such,
duly assembled in a room, representing the SANCTUM SANCTORUM, or HOLY
OF HOLIES, of King Solomon's Temple.

Q. How were you prepared? A. By being divested of all metals; neither
naked nor clothed; barefooted nor shod; with a cable-tow three times
about my naked body; in which posture I was conducted to the door of
the Lodge, where I gave three distinct knocks.

Q. What did those three distinct knocks allude to? A. To the third
degree in Masonry; it being that on which I was about to enter.

Q. What was said to you from within? A. Who comes there? Who comes
there? Who comes there?

Q. Your answer? A. A worthy brother, who has been regularly initiated
as an Entered Apprentice Mason, passed to the degree of a Fellow
Craft, and now wishes for further light in Masonry, by being raised to
the sublime degree of a Master Mason.

Q. What further was said to you from within? A. I was asked if it was
of my own free will and accord I made this request; if I was duly and
truly prepared; worthy and well qualified; and had made suitable
proficiency in the preceding degree; all of which being answered in
the affirmative, I was asked by what further rights I expected to
obtain that benefit.

Q. Your answer? A. By the benefit of a pass-word.

Q. What was that pass-word? A. TUBAL CAIN.

Q. What was next said to you? A. I was bid to wait till the Worshipful
Master in the East was made acquainted with my request, and his answer