It is with no small amount of diffidence that I, a comparatively young member of the Craft, venture to offer you, my seniors by many years in Masonry, the opinions expressed in this paper; indeed, were it not for the fact that as a craftsman I am enjoined under the direction of skilful masters to carry out the work entrusted to my care, I would consider it almost a presumption to bring for your inspection and criticism such work as i, somewhat as yet untutored in the higher aspects of Freemasonry for which this Lodge stands, can conceive and carry out.
