Excerpt from The New England Anti-Masonic Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1831 Jachin. Give us thy hand, worthy brother. Thou art emblematical of our instij tution. In another year it will personify the walking skeleton. Year after-year rm loseth its flesh. Bereft of public favor, it pineth and wasteth away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.