Builder, The.

The Builder is sometimes used to indicate Hiram Abif. The modern Freemason hopes and tries to be a speculative, symbolic, and moral builder, and the term has been used in an endless variety of essays, poems, etc., expressing that idea and its corollary, that the brethren become ”living stones in that spiritual building, that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” William Hutchinson and Dr. Oliver employed the term, The Smitten Builder, to mean Chr*st, but there seems to be no other Masonic authority therefor.

The Builder was the title of a very fine Masonic magazine published by the National Masonic Research Society (1915-1930).

The Builders is the title of a book first published in 1914 by the Reverend Joseph Fort Newton, Litt. D. It is the most popular Masonic book ever written. It has gone into numerous editions and been translated into several foreign languages.