Harris' masonic text-book; a concise historical sketch of masonry, and the organization of masonic grand lodges, and especially of masonry among colored men in America .. (1902)
Harris, Harrison Llewellyn · Petersburg, Va., The Masonic visitor company · leaf 157
or the cere-mony of initiating a candidate into our ancient in-stitution . The Badge of a Mason. Every candidate, at his initiation, is presentedwith a lamb skin or ivhite leather apron. The lamb has in all ages been deemed an emblem ofinnocence: the lamb-skin is therefore to remind himwho wears it…
Freemasons · African American freemasons
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