Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

DEJIMOTT'S AHIMAN REZON. Ig5
; - Charge for the management of the craft in working;"
which will mightily help to discover the true origin of the
order.
" All Masons should work hard and honestly on working
days, that they may live reputably, and appear in a decent
and becoming manner on holidays, 11 &c. Work means
work in this charge; but preserved in modern lodges, it
means nothing and less; if it bore some proportion to play,
it were a redeeming quality in the modern masonic application
of the term; but it is a true minus quantity, difficult
for beginners to understand, and serving the expert Mason
in a pinch, as x serves an algebraist, for any unknown thing.
u A master Mason only must be the surveyor or master
of the work, who shall undertake the lord's work reasonably,
shall dispend his goods as if they were his own, and
shall not give more wages than are just to any fellow or
apprentice." [A. Rezon, p. 28.]
Master Masons were the highest needed in that age.
Men would not then have known at what employment to
set a royal arch. It will appear in due season, that masters
in that day alone had charge of the work; and that u the
holy royal arch," and all the sublime degrees, have had
their being since the time, when the landlord's work in
stone masonry began to be perverted for her profit and
praise, to the Lord's work in Free Masonry. " Mark, Jew !"
" The master and the masons shall faithfully finish the
lord's work, whether task or journey; nor shall they take
work at task, which hath been accustomed to journey. (A.
Rezon, p. 28.)
It was evidently the design of these ancient mechanics
to favour a system of rules and prices of work, which they
call journey "work, in opposition to task work, or work, the
price of which was to be agreed upon without reference to
the fixed rates of the craft.
" None shall show envy at a brother's prosperity, nor supplant
him, nor put him out of his work, if capable to finish
it. All Masons shall meekly receive their wages without