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onsidered the subject

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a Satan, the '! god of

lodge. He v,„„ .„ „

thirdly .., the
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1,0]., ti.iollj-

U T»««W^Mo.,'d brethren, we°Jr,y,0,, in

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„.,;.»■;,»,, Jfceomtinein them, outrage

«' "X! 7' '"*" "» "»«»<•<■, aad .oil
(Unl*™ "int.*), »i,h d,„„,d Bulpi0|„.

chosen is k deal thy bread toll, !,'„„"' '"'"', ! ?b™C* wb° w"> ktP' sober long enough to
bring the peer that are oast out lo thy houl" piseV "lv:"1""1 '" "" """'J™™"! de-

«nd that thou hi„ ,>..,'l,y,,.ij:,,!.'t,1 !,,?„,! ™!i!'a'i°v',b,"i<''h°' """"""J' ""' h« »W*
flesh." They tharge the church tviih fail I 'esistanoe of the powers of darkness

In the,. p,r.ie*«, and lay the flattering"." .ign.^rXtT' "'c !? "T" a,M' j'6"
t.on their soul.,., by ,»,„ „„,y ,i, dul, i. LSJodbll £'" "'f ° ""'""V H*
tally eiernpl.Sl This claim, everywhere escape , In v.,,a

driven by passion and falsehood, revel alike in
blood of the innocent and the guilty,
n irresponsible power, fostered only in ■

"m » « false as it is hostile
,il.ly the order, ran; be pretty fair rout

nolhingmore. Theyiack il.er, , v ,., „ ,

inly.

What leneroleut^n

wrested from another

ng.ro

u. element in a republic

and st

eh precedents. This i. no

rtuils

uded,

raise, uuder God, such

ofth

aeoret and dangerous as

ofuj

r.ghl men, who shall eve

mdg

re of good men.

PERscunoN.

m^rtitfrx

-Tspoutioa i- imiLitignted wick,

1° do>"s: , ]l h not Pev -«i. , it 1 I

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through all IbA r0]«tjonH „'ad MSo^aSteEoSv!™ „!'

r j ; "'^Jir-i Ilrifil I,, ..■.-.jiccal it^ppy ,

"n-olii;V\;rv..'ki-1.h'r11till;,M1,-'.ii'tl",.iv

foa Eample of b

enevolencethat iso

benevolenco o

World etn loie

do for tbeir on

est selfishness.

and makea no apj

J^^Kf

OullTcS

do good and len

, hoping for notlnn

monopoly of it,

and there m no c

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parls." He then opened i

; wilh the omitted

vmi might Ilhto "sought

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THE CHRISTIAN BANNER:

CHICAGO, JULY '25. 1868.

from eight I
Dt in before
ord, faiih a

d credit of

no. judge Of the merits or demerits of a society. [
not competent thus to judge, we cannot have

would be sin. You say : '• We would not buy a

PARADOX COLUMN. |

Unles. .kvery w.i «n esoeption. neYot sine, 1 j^°" ,""*
»»«■■ "ve F, .:,■ il-.m,.' Prominent Epiaeo-] H^.Tunrt >u

who alili lives' ami w
ion. New York, Jky

he mighty tvnkitfg u

1. 1S0S:

'Xt«'»L*i

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her! The many I»y in
here Srat applied tcthem

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iJMhft or to.

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mtantly, on

Ezra A. Co
o, Illinois, v

p on this

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POLITICS— CHIEFJUSTICE CH4SE.

Forty j.,ts ,g0 ,ho intimotioa of no opin-
io, ir, politic,, by „ religion, p,,p„ „h[ro
parlies were divided, was scarcely or never

info our religion. At first, mere worldly poli-

THE CHRISTIAN BANNER: CHICAGO, JULY 25, 1868.

„..„,,•!■,':'••'

worldly interest *
political » Nashya"

little else but polit:

Salmon P. Chn«o

V. S„) opposed sln

disturbed by the
by opposing ,

o the right uor left.

side c

■HI, I 1,0 V'lh

POPERY fcT

The

■■■.lli.l...

pD FREE MASONRY.

t path 'of th<

ich other. The n«(nr«

together, (fho vrriier of tl
luded) arc now shocked an

Hon 11, platform; as he di

U when he vrenl to the Sen,!,

cans a "Liberty platform,

d have been compelled in

degraded and demornliiM
•PRofP

era. ITo found 1
■aid "the church 1
1 do nothing for h

ion platform. This

1

^-"Jtheirprav,
■Wl lives with h

-— JL-antl typ,

;;

e to, ,uf»

i8 Car open ami lii.; .urn -i
\pply ourselves steadily t.

UR PLATFORM.

-niton uU*.- ideas, deny, o
The Isli ".-ss ' regards :

said lh« minister, "that Catholic
to the lodge." " But they do,"

MASONIC HARMONY.

j harmony, peace, and brotherly lov
eigns around its altars. Indeed, on
cely read a fewpagesin the ift/iticStai

t Chiti

:eer.tion to I

nt.-". ,V..rK,

eech of the guerrilla General V

were Masons, cannot wholly keep out of
the fact that he is a champion of one of
parties against the- other. Thoso who
Reynolds' pnper, puMi-hed m ?j

■Id in (his State, have
itices (indis

lllds t

. the harmony which car
lasonic lodge, made up o

lculcat

:!.,!„,,,

t temptations to
ng-doing. Hence the old adage, " The idle
l's brain is the devil's workshop,
'hat better remedy for intemperance than to
e the supply of good water always abundant

f Con(

o hydro

i best i

iat if they should append to the li-
ny shop-keeper, tavern-keepers in-
he shall always keep a supply of

>■.- in luepockote o
sumptuary and pr

thought to

e.eallyh:

.' i-i'i'l.LCtr h

lurlburt,

iitiK' this i

Thee

(the candidate.) was la
was in the lodge, arc

. And he— Hurl-
ey that no such
b judgment could

iarp l

emeu; the lodge mer
rand Master of the Srand Lodge of the Sta-
ho at that time was a Methodic preach
ving in Quincy, was called up to Belvidei

r fight i

and .

WHEATON_COLLEGE.

his college was started as the "/
it," by Wesleyan Methodists. Ei

us to its friends.

Under God, ou

s largely owing to

ous. God-fearing,

uMlic-n

who understand a

d love th

pr

nciple

Bible and the Dec]

he German people

loo, who

prepondc

and give of their

below, for the do

bio purp

se

f con

i, Bloomington, 111., July 0

iburgb.'last Novetubei'

highly e

'i!\.r.i_i.,

ignoi

of. He probably

I' I' I' '■

1 I I )1 1 iifeht or the left

(In? simplest truth? of ]>liy:

ngof the simplest].

whethci
left eid«

able to explain tl

regelablolifc. He
ten does not know-

ignoi

thr university, win) became u cont Libnr,>j

; college (Wheatou) eight years oh
it graduated class. I might alnios
honorable gentleman, seriatim, am
talogne of what the English school

spinal column lies the spleen. Th
professor and a little apparatus
philosophy and physics, iucludin
ind thermometer. There are ol
oology and botany, for animal ai
ifc. There is a careful and thor<
.rithmetic, and a fair commercial t

tell! Geography ami hiatal
classes in the preprint tory l

ular course of study in tl
ads over only about six j

tow enough of Greek J.

Liberal <*&'« Broad-Guage Christians.

Rev. Wm. G. Tierco of Elmwood, III., said tc
(he State Congregational Association:

h, Christ's day

:all themselves
hemsches sclf-
ind hypocrites;
1 with them is
ted sepiilelnv".

WANTED.

iving tracts, speech"-, pa;i,pM.."

of the Banner. If the member of the Suffolk
Committee of 1829, or whoever published his

ing persons honorary m

XV., king of Sweden

remarks in the catalogue of anti-Mnsonic books

His Royal Highness

scar, ofown prince of

distributed some years ago among the colleges
of the nation, or any one else, would send the

His Majesty Chrlstri,

His Royal Highness

vitch, grand duko of Ri

IX., king of Denmark.
Constantino Nioolaie-

gard it as a God-send at this time. Wo are en-
gaging, in a great moral war, and our stock of

SaTed" e0n"t'1 ^ P'n

oe of Achillo LoPrinoo

ammunition needs replenishing. The literature
of the secret orders is abundant as it is worth-
precious. Who will help us to the intellectual
materiel ot this holy war?

The supreme council
night, after being in ■
continue their session o
March next, 'CG, at tho

The profane world, n

adjourned late Saturday

n tho third Monday of
ily of Washington, D. C.

his is tho mother council

The Present Number

Is made up almost wholly by (he labor of tl
sub-committee, and is virtually a paper made u

Let those who semi in subscribers send ah
thoughts and facts briefly and tersely eipressei
aud;so lighten the heavy labors of the commitlo

But above all, send subscribers, and bcci

SPECIAL NOTICE.

'HISTORY OFTHE DEVIL.'

Mr. Alger, authoT^if several small
nga "History of the Devil," wh

What we expect to do.

Rev. Mr. Boird, who has taken seventeen d
ass, and paid four hundred and fifty dolla:

" What do yon espect to accomplish ' I

irelj-

I

r light, we cannot help si

by mon.AihJI.on of

Our Next Annual Meeting.

>e it at the best possible place and tic

WASHINGTON APRONED.

,rber-shops of Chicago and enviroi

iihoulttosay wheth-

Iliinois Asylum for the Insane.

"Not a Worthy Mason in Want."

The orator of last St. John's Day at Auroi
I., declared that there is not a worthy Masc
ir the orphan or widow of a worthy Mason, in

ot worlhy onef
-Ey-Presidei

An "Illustrious," "Royal," "Sover-
ereign," "Grand "Body.

; by money and membership

City of Charleston ilmirif- the

M.:l/k'rl:,?l):iI,,.|-Nl.,v ,- .-,[,,; .,,7'i Lunu- I; |

mu^woff S°mSnf Ltin ""^

liuguished men of this country and Europe

in Grand Pom-

mi p-siion- tit civil iiar, to k'ncol together

to lament tho dead an.l to Int.or for 'tl„"i!..,n.|,', '
-i^i,.y on, ,".,,„,- ,i„,| humanity.

During four teinbfc years our temples have
been for the most pan deserted, the a-hen -,i

' .-,11th.; :.,-,

I '"..'I Ml,;

i do little

ho fought for politic
nich they might be
ud honestly obeying

their brethren

MASONIC CORNER-STONE LAYING.

iriife = acJIy tnove in
ind a li'iigllicned n

Anti-.UiisoHic & ltiblical Review.

THE CHRISTIAN BANNER: CHICAGO, JULY

•V), iscs. \

(hei by Morgan, i

eing plac

aim

r.it.llo-lion ol (in Enl-r.;.| Api.r,'

p take di'cb no obligotioo, repe:

JS'j/prMii.Mor-Almijfttj-Gc

llful L-Il,, ol Free nod Acwptt

m.Vbm1v nd ber,oo, [Bibl
b^j most solemnly old sicwrc!

muieut now than a oouplot from

ON MASONRY.
obligations 0f Masonry are at war with th

death-blow at Christ, the central sun of th
Christian lystetu by leaving even the meniio
of hia namo out of its every authored prayt
—and as we believe the vaunting .mti-Cbrist I

ilury. L. N. £

of 1U- present at ive?, Hon. Thaddeus Sle'

sigh I

Thot Johnson cannot be impeached is no
longer a matter of opinion, but of history; and
Davis has the pledge of security which frequent
postponement and long delays usually presage.

acquittal! So intelligent anti-Masons have
generally believed or strongly suspected. It
was not possible they could do otherwise.

high Mason. It was so loudly boasted by the
Masons that the wisest and greatest of the no
belong to them, and that if a man would

with all their distrust of Masonic pretel
nearly all who succeed in elbowing their

they have

risked their political life to sore

u turn. Cut did anybody sugge

natural solution? For along tin

r writer, not an editor, not 'a stun

speaker, u

ot a mail nil the way from the gra

o Nasby, so much as hinted the po

bility of

ny such equation of this moat e

v.:n <l,..

men were assailed. The partisn

of the in

n of vetoes of course ascribed the

Oral

(; yet few hesitated to

their'

country, to reproach

they were scandalized

S

ff*SK£ft!£

e power of speech properly, but of epis-
tolary communication. Others were "not fa-
rorably situated as to forming an opinion,"

o whether these seveu were known to be Un-
ions or not, was solicited. One was evidently
»n the point of aaying ho believed Masonry
,vas concerned in securing the deplored result
if acquittal, when ho suddenly stopped short.

My pungent t

that really he did i
carcass. Another
£ably favorable for

avo heretofore been to claim thotn all as Mn-
hum we sought information in vain, has frankly

is, where Masonry id concerned, (o bo just,
very necessary that we should be so if wo

tho triumphant question, "How is it pos-

wus actually acquitted by the votes of anti-
Masonic Congressman is not truthful and

■I'iUv, , ili.l.

But

ither four, does he not taoitly admit thot./Ary

7, than to accuse him of being bribed! And
ot the dark shadow still visible!
But a majority of the Masons in the Senate
ted and voted for tho impeachment." Well,
if they had found means to compass their

The

scent. They would thus

to do with it, and signally illustrate the "su-
preme virture of Mason," to -wit': Secrecy.

threatened by nothing worse than the venality
and bribery of Senators ; but we greatly fear
that this venality is only the weakness of a few

as a means by which to wield a supreme and
euslaving control. We would be glad to be

1 be a weak and culpable credulity n
spicious, it is our duty to suspect thei
M'ty. Our suspicions may be exlrav

f the .

hat opinion.

OPEN SOCIETIES BEST FOR RELIEF.

>oundofcure. And here

lupplii

WAS WASHINGTON A MASON?
e saying that General Washington was a M

^n this matter the reckless

was neither a high Mason, nor an ossii

friend of it He was nearer a seceding S
than such a one as the Masons claim him i
It is an historic fact that he declined publ
eeptious as a Mason by the Lodges he v
in different parts of the country; that 1
clared Masonry lobe <-au institution t
capable of being used for the best purpoi
for the worst, but is for the most part

th body and soul. These ui
are seldom realized until those portions of the
world where the church of Chri
its utmost purity, arc contraste
places of the earth that are full

ndty.

Wits those regions of da

roneral change. Masonry may flo.

:ho moral midnight and its miseries

The Masonic pirate may spare tho v

i give the grand hailing sign of di

■s on with his work of plundering

ted. He may relieve occasionally the wants

liile <

chased away, and the poor suffering children i

They ore soon foun

ight mind, and Christianity git.

xn I I

supplies, by giving them immortal hope, o

by teaching them how. and inclining th
willingly to help themselves, and love one i

shall be welt to do by excluding all who i

Christianity endeavors ihnl her adherents ah
ill to do by teaching the poorest how

beggars and cripples, it comes to pass by thei

they usually denominate sectarian bigotry, that

rs than the church has. And then th<
ies hove a way of besl owing relief that it

int when in our late war there was* such o
ill for relieving want and suffering, as neve!
as before in a notion, the christian church
opped forward, and rallying all the willing-

Geo- H. Stuart and the Scotch Churches.

been forced by Charles into tho Scotch pulpits,

permitted, for the sake of peace, to retain their
pulpits. They appear to have been ruftiun-od-

A Bishop of their own (Episcopal) church said
of them:— "They were the worst preachers I

of them clearly vicious- They were a'tlisgrace

the northern ports Those of them that rose
above contempt and scandal, were men of such

as the others were despised." — (Burnet.) Hun-

ldly and repeatedly disregarded au'i

ody " and " Occas

ing martyr by n

Bpres

Rev. Theodore L. Cuylor, In tho Indtpmdtni
themselves Reformed Presbyterians, " and soy

to die "under the blasting contempt of chris
tendom." The Advance, Cont)rcyUioii.i!ist, an>

reply to whioh we respectfully suggest:. 1st

his church were, and could hove withdrawn i
he disapproved of them; and 2d- The piineiplt
oa which they justify and canonize Mr. Stuar
trill justify any church member, who has be

f adamant, rejecting slaveholders from

vangolical system of doolrino has been
madj and a kind of heathen morality or
substituted in the room of the gospel,"
churches have Blood firmly by lhi> Atopic
morality

.1 knowledge. W8 obser

EZRA A. COOK,

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A Correction — Ex-Presidenl Finney.

jrotigh I
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Christ. And
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guided into nil truth."

The

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isslonary,

•"»'<»''*. PAPERS,
SHBB4TH .„„„„., ri,|il;„ ,., ,

P,li

tei- and Pu

blisliei-

Minutes

of the Aurora

Iralion.

CorJ

HIMTES

OF THE riTTSBl'Bb

" nivsnw

THE

CHRISTIAN B

av"™'

/ftvilB ;

Jialyzcil,

Fellowship with

Aiiostaej from Christ! ™J

"-": . J ook.

imzhstttt:

AURORA

3f^

an open

Masonry has learned something t.y expe:
once. It will go more cautiously than it d

The former struggle was the dashing charge
and Masonry wont dosvn in the struggle. Th.

"la
Masonri

rrtith.uud tl

Opposed to Secret Soc^^
Minutes of the

National Christian Convention,

Held at Pittsburg,

National Christian Association,

REV. I. A. HART,

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