l grip of a
Fellow Craft Mason; the name of it is JACHIN; it is given in the
following manner: If you wish to examine a person, after having taken
each other by the grip, ask him, "What is this?" A. "A grip." Q. "A
grip of what?" A. "The grip of a Fellow Craft Mason." Q. "Has it a
name?" A. "It has." Q. "Will you give it to me?" A. "I did not so
receive it, neither can I so impart it." Q. "What will you do with
it?" A. "I'll letter it or halve it." Q. "Halve it, and you begin." A.
"No; begin you." Q. "You begin." A. "JA." Q. "CHIN." A. "JACHIN." Q.
"Right, Brother JACHIN, I greet you."

After the Master gives the candidate the pass-grip and grip, and their
names, he says, "Brother, you will rise and salute the Junior and
Senior Wardens as such, and convince them that you have been regularly
passed to the degree of a Fellow Craft Mason, and have got the sign
and pass-grip, real grip, and their names." [I do not here express it
as expressed in Lodges generally; the Master usually says you will
rise and salute the Wardens, &c., and convince them, &c., that you
have got the sign, pass-grip, and word. It is obviously wrong, because
the first thing he gives is the sign, then the due-guard, then the
pass-grip, and their names.] While the Wardens are examining the
candidate, the Master gets an apron, and returns to the candidate, and
says, "Brother, I now have the honor of presenting you with a
lamb-skin, or white apron, as before, which I hope you will continue
to wear, with honor to yourself, and satisfaction to the brethren; you
will please carry it to the Senior Warden in the West, who will teach
you how to wear it as a Fellow Craft Mason." The Senior Warden ties on
his apron, and turns up one corner of the lower end of the apron, and
tucks it under the apron string. The Senior Deacon then conducts his
pupil to the Master, who has by this time resumed his seat in the
East, where he has, or ought to have, the floor carpet to assist him
in his explanations. Master to the candidate, "Brother, as you are
dressed, it is necessary you should have tools to work with; I will,
therefore, present you with the tools of a Fellow Craft Mason. They
are the Plumb, Square, and Level. The Plumb is an instrument made use
of by operative masons to raise perpendiculars; the Square, to square
their work; and the Level, to lay horizontals; but we, as Free and
Accepted Masons, are taught to use them for more noble and glorious
purposes; the Plum