Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

58 EMBLEMS OF FREE MA&ONKY.
after their most excellent, honourable and grand file-leader-.
The names and the titles in capitals, occupy a page, notwithstanding
all the abbreviations; e. g. M. £. John Snow,
G. G. King of the G. G. R. A. C. of the XL S. A.; also, G„
H. Priest of the Grand Chapter of Ohio. Truly, they are
" stuck o'er with titles" to such a degree, that their worthy
names are quite overwhelmed with the burden of honours*
Again. " We, the undersigned, officers of the General
Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the United States of America,
DO APPROVE AND RECOMMEND * The True Masonic
Chart 1 as entitled to the use and attention of the craft"
Here follow their most excellent names, and general
grand honours, eight in number.
Again. " Extract from the proceedings of the Most
Worshipful Grand Lodge of Connecticut, May, A. L.
5820.
" RESOLVED, that this Grand Lodge approve of the Masonic
Chart published by Brother Jeremy L. Cross, and recommend
it to be used as a masonic text book in all the
lodges working under this jurisdiction.
" A true copy from the minutes.
" Attest, * * G. Sec."
[The reader will see the name in the Chart.]
Still another is given in the original, but enough is here
to show the authenticity of the work as a masonic record.
We will see what it testifies.
The first twenty-four pages are filled with the emblems
of Masonry on the three first degrees, all which I have the
honour to understand, and can witness to their general
harmlessness and moral tendency. Example. A carpenter's
square in the chart, is thus explained in the Monitor: u It enables
the artist to form and fashion his works, and teaches us
symbolically to form and fashion our lives. It is an emblem
of morality, and instructs us in that most important moral
obligation, to do as we would be done unto, and to live
upon $he square with a]l mankind." This is all very well,