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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 11, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 2.

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A Mason's Emblem

By J. H. Hartog

AFTER engaging a new salesman recently, I started to introduce him to the other salesmen. As I presented him to the first one, expressing the hope that they would get along harmoniously, he replied, "I'm sure we will, for I know he's all right." "Why, do you know him?" I asked. "Never met him," he answered, with a knowing smile; and raising his coat lapel, which carried the Masonic emblem, he added, "But I know he's all right."
The thought flashed through my mind, that I have often experienced a similar fellow feeling when meeting a person who had accepted the Sabbath truth, and in spite of sacrifice, had decided to obey God's law. I too had "never met him," but knew he was "all right," for we both carried the same emblem, though inwardly—the emblem which God calls the sign between Him and His people, as defined in Ex. 31: 17 and elsewhere in the Scriptures.
J. H. HARTOG.