ffences of
your brethren; but in the decision of every trespass against our
rules, you are to judge with candor, admonish with friendship, and
reprehend with justice. The study of the liberal arts, that valuable
branch of education, which tends so effectually to polish and adorn
the mind, is earnestly recommended to your consideration; especially
the science of Geometry, which is established as the basis of our art.
Geometry, or Masonry, originally synonymous terms, being of a divine
moral nature, is enriched with the most useful knowledge; while it
proves the wonderful properties of nature, it demonstrates the more
important truths of morality. Your past behavior and regular
deportment have merited the honor which we have now conferred, and, in
your new character, it is expected that you will conform to the
principles of the Order, by steadily persevering in the practice of
every commendable virtue. Such is the nature of your engagements as a
Fellow Craft, and to these duties you are bound by the most sacred
ties."

I will now proceed with the Lecture on this degree; it is divided into
two sections.

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FIRST SECTION.

Question--Are you a Fellow Craft Mason? A. I am; try me.

Q. By what will you be tried? A. By the Square.

Q. Why by the Square? A. Because it is an emblem of virtue.

Q. What is a Square? A. An angle extending to ninety degrees, or the
fourth part of a circle.

Q. Where was you prepared to be made a Fellow Craft Mason? A. In a
room adjacent to the body of a just and lawfully constituted Lodge of
such, duly assembled in a room or place, representing the middle
chamber of King Solomon's Temple.

Q. How was you prepared? A. By being divested of all metals; neither
naked nor clothed; barefooted nor shod; hoodwinked; with a cable-tow
twice 'round my neck; in which situation I was conducted to the door
of the Lodge, where I gave two distinct knocks.

Q. What did those two distinct knocks allude to? A. To the second
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?

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

Q. What was then said to you from within? A. I was asked if it was of
my own f