Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

ATTIRED IN HER MASONIC APROX. 159
" clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners."
She dwells in the midst of deceit, teaching her
children to " bend their tongues like their bows for lies/ 9
Professing to " embrace in body and substance the whole
duty of man as a moral being;" (Gr. ChapteriV. York.
Town, p. 23.) professing to be, in the inimitable language
of the scriptures, a fountain of living waters; she is, indeed,
hewn out with men's hands, a broken cistern, that
can hold no water."
CHAPTER XXVI.
Royal Arch Masonry.
" Attention, Mark Master, you're called to appear
u Before our famed workman, the chief overseer-,
u Since our labours are finished, for wages prepare,
" The Lord of the vineyard will give each his share/'
F. Jtf. Library\ p. 215.
" There is no more occasion for level or plumb-line,
" For trowel or gavel,,for compass or square;
u Our works are completed, the Ark safely seated,
u And we shall be greeted at workmen most ran"
Ibid. p. 232.
COMMENCING this work with an earnest desire to do it up
thoroughly, my heart leaped with the hope of taking the
highest degrees of Free Masonry in a fraternity of Right
Honourables. Leisure, and wealth, and ambition to cam