Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

PRAYER FOR THE NOVICE. 67
mity and reproachnpon the institution, the master of ceremonies
is furnished with this part of the charge, to cheer
the heart of the newly made brother, to sustain him with a
solemn assurance that that which seems to his young eyes
to be just nothing* is, indeed, the most ancient, and honourable,
and stable, and pure, and excellent, and useful institution
that ever was formed; and with the recollection that
Washington, and Franklin, and Warren, were members of
the fraternity.
These things are, to the young brother, Jike hartshorn to
a fainting sou), necessary and useful. He is revived, and
goes on, in due time, to the fellow craft's degree, which
holds out something splendid, and in whioh he hopes, with
much confidence, to find new and peculiar beauties, as promised.
Let us accompany him.
CHAPTER XII.
Containing an account of the sciences taught by Free Masonry..
M Then, like an idiot guting on the brook,
" We leap at itan, and fasten in the mud."— Young.
THE MONITOR of Col. Webb introduces this degree in the
most formal manner. I copy from his work as follows:
F. M. M. p. 49. chap. 10.—Remarks on the second degree.
" Masonry is a progressive science, and is divided into
classes or degrees, for the more regular advancement in the
knowledge of its mysteries. According to the progress we