her, as far as in my power. Furthermore, do 
I promise and swear, that I will obey all regular
signs and summons, given, handed, sent, 
or thrown to me by the band of a brother 
Fellow Craft Meson, or from the body of a 
just and lawfully constituted Lodge of such
provided it be within the length of my cable
tow, or a square and angle my own work. 
Furthermore, do 1 promise and swear, that I
will he aiding and assisting all poor and 
pennyless brethren Fellow Crafts, their widows 
and orphans, wheresoever disposed round the
globe, they applying to me as such, as fire as in
my power, without injuring myself or family.
To all which I do most solemnly and sincerely
promise and swear, without the least 
hesitation, mental reservation, or self-evasion of
mind in me whatever; binding myself under
no less penalty than to have my left breast 
torn open, and my heart and vitals taken
from thence, and thrown over my left shoulder
and carried into the valley of Jehosaphat,
there to become prey to the vultures of the air, if
ever I should prove willfully guilty of violating
any part of this my solemn oath or obligation
of a Fellow Craft Mason so help me 
God, and beep me steadfast in the due 
performance of the same.
 The Master then says: "Detach your bands
and kiss the book, which is the Holy Bible,
twice" The bandage is now (by one of the
brethren) dropped ever the other eye, and 
the Master says, "Brother, (at the same time 
laying his hand on the top of the candidate's 
bead,) what do you most desire ?" The 
candidate answers his prompter " More
light." The Master says, " Brethren, form
on the square. and assist in bringing our
new made brother from darkness to light; and
God said, let there be light, and there was
light." At this instant all the brethren, clap
their hands, and stomp an the floor, us in the
preceding degree, The Master says to the
candidate, " Brother, what do you discover
different from before ?" The Master says, 
after a short pause, "You now discover one
point of the compass elevated above the square
which denotes light in this degree; but as
one is yet in obscurity, it is to remind you
that you are yet one material point in the dark,
respecting Masonry."  The Master steps off
from the candidate three or four steps, and
says, " Brother, you now discover me as a
Master of this Lodge, approaching you from
the East, under the sign and due-guard of a
Fellow Craft Mason; do as I do, as near as
you can, keeping your position." The sign
is given by drawing your right hand flat, with
the palm of it next to your breast, across your 
breast, from the left to the right vide, with
some quickness, and dropping it down by your
side; the due-guard is given by raising the 
left arm until that part of it between the
elbow and shoulder is perfectly horizontal,
and raising the rest of the arm in a vertical
position, so that part of the arm below
the elbow, and that part above it, forms a
square: this is called the due-guard of a
Fellow Craft Mason.  The two given together,
are called the sign and due-guard of a Fellow
Craft Mason, and they are never given
separately, the Master, by 
the time gives his steps, sign. and 
due-guard arrives at the candidate, and says, 
"Brother, I now present you with my right

hand in token brotherly love and 
confidence, and with it the pass grip and word
of a Fellow Craft Mason." The pass, or more 
properly the pass-grip, is given by taking 
each ether by the right hand, as though going 
to shake hands, and each putting his thumb
between the fore and second finger, where 
they join the hand, and pressing the thumb 
between the joint. This is the pass grip of 
a Fellow Craft Mason; the name of it is 
Shiboleth. Its origin will he explained is 
the lecture—the pass-grip some give without 
lettering or syllabling, and others give it in 
the same way they do the real grip. The 
real grip , of a Fellow Craft Mason is given. 
by putting the thumb on  the joint of the 
second finger, where it joins the hand, and
crooking your thumb so that each can stick the 
nail of  his thumb into the joint of the other. 
This is the real grip of a Fellow Craft 
Ma-son; the name of it is Jachin; it is given in 
the following manner: If you wish to 
exam-ine a person, after having taken each other by 
the grip, ask him, "What is this?"  A." A 
grip." Q. "A grip of what?" A. "The
grip of a Fellow Craft Mason." Q. "Has it
a name?" A. "It has." Q. ‘ Will you give 
it to me?" A. ‘‘I did not receive it, 
nei-ther can I so impart it’ Q. "What will
you do with it ?" A.	I’ll letter it or halve
it.	Q. "Halve it, and you begin ?" A. 
"No; begin you." Q. "You begin " A.
"J A" Q. "C H I N" A. "J A C H I N.’
Q.	" Right, brother Jachin. I greet you."
Alter the Master gives the candidate the 
pass-grip and grip, and their names, he says,
"Brother, you will rise and salute the Junior 
and Senior Wardens us such, sad convince 
them that you have been regularly passed to 
the degree of a Fellow Craft Mason, and 
have got the sign and pass grip, real grip. and 
their names." [I do not here express it as 
expressed in Lodges generally; the Master 
usually says, ‘You will rise and salute the 
Wardens, &c. and convince them, &c., that 
you have got the sign, pass-grip and word." 
It is obviously wrong;  because the first thing 
he gives is the sign, then the due-guard, then 
the pass-grip, and their names.] While the 
Wardens are examining the candidate, the 
Master gets an apron and returns to the 
can-didate, and says, " Brother, I now have the 
honor of presenting you with a lamb shin, or 
white apron, as before, which I hope you will 
continue to wear with honor to yourself, and 
satisfaction to the brethren; you will please 
carry it to the Senior Warden in the West, 
who will teach you how to wear it as a 
Fellow Craft Mason." The Senior Warden ties 
an his apron. and turns up one corner of the 
lower end of the apron, and tucks it under 
the apron string. The Senior Deacon then 
conducts his pupil to the Master, who bas, 
by this time, resumed his seat in the East,
where he has, or ought to have, the floor car-