CLC - Master Mason - 05.30.17

T ROWEL The trowel is a thin, flat, pointed metal tool for applying and shaping mortar, as in bricklaying. The Apprentices hew the stone from the rock face and begin to shape it with the common gavel according to the architect’s plan. The Fellow Crafts evaluate the Apprentices’ work by means of the square, set the stone and verify its proper position with the level and plumb. But the Master Mason alone, having examined all of this work and proven the stone true and trusty, secures it permanently in place by spreading, with the trowel, the cement that irrevocably binds the stones together.

As an operative Master Mason uses the trowel to spread the cement which unites all parts of the building into one common mass, you must now spread the cement of affection and kindness which unites all people, of whatever race, color or creed, whithersoever dispersed over the globe, into one companionship of brotherly love and affection.

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