Brethren,
the roll of the workmen has been called, and these Master Masons have
not answered to their names. The listed brethren have laid down the
working tools of our Craft and with them have left that mortal armor for
which they have no further use.
Their labors here below, have taught them to divest their hearts and
consciences of the vices and superfluities of life, thereby fitting
their minds as living stones for that spiritual building – that house
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Strengthened in their labor here by faith in God, and confident of the
expectation of immortality, they have sought admission to the Celestial
Lodge above...