prosperity.

Union is that kind of friendship that ought to appear conspicuous in
the conduct of every Mason. It is so closely allied to the divine
attribute, truth, that he who enjoys the one, is seldom destitute of
the other. Should interest, honor, prejudice, or human depravity ever
influence you to violate any part of the sacred trust we now repose in
you, let these two important words, at the earliest insinuation, teach
you to put on the check-line of truth, which will infallibly direct
you to pursue that straight and narrow path which ends in the full
enjoyment of the Grand Lodge above, where we shall all meet as Masons
and members of one family; where all discord on account of religion,
politics, or private opinion, shall be unknown and banished from
within our walls.

Q. What followed? A. The Worshipful Master in the East made a demand
of me of something of a metallic kind, which, he said, was not so much
on account of its intrinsic value, as that it might be deposited in
the archives of the Lodge as a memorial that I had herein been made a
Mason.

Q. How did the Worshipful Master then dispose of you? A. He ordered me
to be conducted out of the Lodge and invested of what I had been
divested, and return for further instruction.

Q. After you returned, how was you disposed of? A. I was conducted to
the northeast corner of the Lodge, and there caused to stand upright
like a man, my feet forming a square, and received a solemn
injunction, ever to walk and act uprightly before God and man, and in
addition thereto received too following charge. [For this charge see
pages 10-12.]

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SECOND SECTION.

Question--Why was you divested of all metals when you was made a
Mason? Answer--Because Masonry regards no man on account of his
worldly wealth or honors; it is therefore the internal, and not the
external qualifications that recommend a man to Masons.

Q. A second reason? A. There was neither the sound of an axe, hammer,
or any other metal tool heard at the building of King Solomon's
Temple.

Q. How could so stupendous a fabric be erected without the sound of
axe, hammer, or any other metal tool? A. All the stones were hewed,
squared, and numbered in the quarries where they were raised, all the
timbers felled and prepared in the forests of Lebanon, and carried
down to Joppa on floats, and taken from thence up to Jerusalem and set
up with wooden mauls, prepared for th