Labour is one of the most beautiful features of the Masonic Institution, it teaches not only the necessity, but the nobility of labour. From the time of opening to that of closing, a Lodge is said to be at labour. This is but one of the numerous instances in which the terms of Operative Masonry are symbolically applied to Speculative. As in the case where Operative Masons were engaged in the building of material edifices, so Free and Accepted Masons are supposed to be employed in the erection of a superstructure of virtue and morality based upon the foundation of the Masonic principles which they were taught at their admission into the Craft. When the Lodge is engaged in reading petitions, hearing reports, debating financial matters, etc., it is said to be occupied in business; but when it is engaged in the form and ceremony of initiation into any of the Degrees, it is said to be at work. Initiation is Masonic labour. As Freemasons, we labour in our Lodge and aspire to make ourselves a perfect building without blemish.