In choosing a subject for my address this evening I have been influenced very largely by two very pronounced facts—viz., the importance placed in our Ritual on the Apron, and the paucity of space devoted to it, alike in the Ritual and in Lodge gatherings generally.
Not that stores of information are lacking in our Masonic writings—far from it—but beyond two pages in the First Degree and four lines in the Second, and another four in the Third, the Ritual is silent—silent on a subject of such vital importance.
