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Entered Apprentices served their Masters in former times, and so should
they in modem, with Freedom, Fervency and Zeal. They are represented by
chalk, charcoal and clay. Because there is nothing freer than chalk, which
upon the slightest touch leaves a trace behind; nothing more fervent than
charcoal, to which, when properly lighted, the most obdurate metals will
yield; nothing more zealous than clay, our mother earth, which is
constantly employed for men's use, and is an emblem to remind him that as
from it we came, so to it we must all return.
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