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CHICAGO, MAY, 1911
REAL SUCCESS
So, then, Elijah's life had been no
failure, after all. Seven thousand
at least, in Israel, had been braced
and encouraged by his example, and
silently blessed him, perhaps, for the
courage which they felt. In God's
world, for those who are in earnest,
there is no failure. No work truly
done, no word earnestly spoken, no
sacrifice freely made, was ever made
in vain.
Distinguish, therefore, between
the real and the apparent. Elijah's
apparent success was in the shouts
of Mt. Carmel; his real success was
in the unostentatious, unsurmised
obedience of the seven thousand
who had taken his God for their
God. — F. VV. Robertson.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE
WILLIAM IRVING PHILLIPS
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CONTENTS
Order of Harugari. 1
Secrets of Fraternal Societies Protected in
California 2
Governor Johnson's Veto 2
Order of Moose . 2
A Valuable Movement 3
. Painted Regalia 3
Boy Scouts are Opposed 3
A Law to Shelter Crime 4
Camorrists and Others 4
The Power of the Secret Empire. By Miss
E. E. Flagg 5
Contributions :
The Shame of the Church 8
A Call to Prayer 11
Reminiscences. By Ezra A. Cook 11
Editorial :
Anti-Free-Speechism 16
The Camorra 16
''Their Altars by His Altar" 17
A. Foreign National Festival , 18
Arthur Brisbane to the Hibernians. ..... 19
Beheaded in China , 20
Only Christian, so Profane 20
Homiletic Review Correspondence 22
Whisky and Instruction for Colored
Masons 22
Beast and Bird Flight 23
^'Et Tu, Brute?" .24
Testimonies of Pastors 25
Testimonies of Seceders 26
Testimonies of Statesmen 27
New^s of Our Work:
Secretary Stoddard's Report 28
/ Report of Indiana State President 29
Agent Davidson's Report 30
"What is Duty?".... 30
Mrs. Lizzie Woods' Letter 31
The Nebraska Bill 32
Canadian Correspondence 32
SERMONS AND ADDRESSES
SERMON ON SECRET SOCIETIES.
By Rev. Daniel Dow, Woodstock, Conn. The
special object of this sermon is to show the right
and duty of Christians to inquire into the real
character of secret societies, no matter what
objects such societies profess to have. 5 cents.
ODDFELIiOWSHIP A RELIGIOUS INSTI-
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WHY I LEFT THE REBEKA.H LODGE.
By Mrs. Elizabeth M. Rull. 6 pages ; post-
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cents.
PROF. J. G. CARSON, D. D., ON SECRET
SOCIETIES.
A most convincing argument against fellow*
shiping Freemasons in the Christiac; Church. 10
cents.
THE "GOOD MAN '* ARGUMENT.
God's Word or the Ofher Man's Conscience —
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LODGE BURIAL SERVICES.
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ARE INSURANCE LODGES CHRISTIAN?
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OUGHT CHRISTIANS TO HOLD MEMBER-
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ETHICS OF MARRIAGE AND HOME LIFE.
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MASONIC OBLIGATIONS.
Blue Lodge Oaths (Illinois Work) ; Masonic
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"Jesus answered him, — I spake openly to tlie wurid; aad io secret have I said nothing." John 18:20.
^^OLUME XLIV.
CHICAGO, MAY, 1911.
NUMBER 1
The business session of the annual
meeting will be held Thursday morning,
May 1 8th, in the West Chapel of Whea-
ton College, convening- sharply at ten
o'clock. All interested in meeting the
agents and other friends and hearing of
the progress of our work are' invited to
be present.
The afternoon session will be held in
the same place, and among the speakers
w^ill be Rev. J. E. Hartzler, our Indiana
State President; and Rev. I. B. Trout,
one of the editors and prominent work-
ers in the Church of the Brethren, will
be present, no providence preventing. In
the evening session we shall hear Presi-
dent Blanchard and Mr. E. Y. Woolley,
assistant pastor of the Moody Church.
He has had a many-sided experience,
and his addresses are always interesting,
informing and helpful.
We trust that the annual meeting will
be a season of spiritual blessings and a
renewal of strength for our great work.
In America the Lutheran church has
57 orphans' homes ; 33 homes for aged ;
3 homes for defectives ; 10 deaconess
mother-houses ; 48 hospitals ; 8 hos-
pices ; 18 immigrant and seamen's mis-
sions ; 6 home finding and children's
friend societies, and 5 city missions and
rescue leagues. These have a valuation
of $8,181,798, and an endowment of
$700,141.
Every great Christian reform will be
successful in proportion to the earnest,
believing prayers behind it. We are
grateful for the letters commending the
Prayer Circle. No letter has been richer
in its helpfulness than the following :
Orange City, la., R. 2, April nth, 191 1.
My Dear Bro. Phillips:
I have noted your desire to form a
Prayer Circle for the cause of your As-
sociation. Allow me to say that I have
remembered the National Christian As-
sociation in prayer every morning be-
tween 5 and 6 o'clock, since 1906, I
think. This is my hour for the "^linistry
of Intercession," as Dr. Murray calls it.
I shall gladly continue to do so for
the future. I can say, that this work
has already brought many a blessing to
me. Respect, yours,
J. B. Van den Hoek.
Carnes' Parsonage Christian Reformed
Church.
ORDER OF HARUGARI.
Organized in New York City in 1847,.
at a time when the Germans in the
United States, among other foreigners,
were antagonized b}^ the dominance of
native American sentiment, the society
was made up exclusively of Germans,
and formed not only an asylum or
refuge, but contemplated affording relief
to its members in sickness and distress
and caring for their widows and or-
phans. The Order was formed, in adch-
tion to the purposes specified, for the
preservation of the German language,
literature, customs, and traditions in
America. The name Harug'ari was iden-
tified with the ancient German tribe, the
Cherusci, which was conquered by the
Romans under Tiberius, but achieved its
independence, led by Arminius, when it
defeated the Romans under Varus. The
name was taken from the old German.
Haruc signified a forest, and the old
Teutons who met in the forests were
called Harug'aris. It now has about 300
lodges in twenty-seven States of the
Union, and a total membership of about
30,000 men and women. \W>men mem-
bers, wdio number about 7,000, meet
in separate lodges, which are governed
and conducted as are those for men. One
of the outgrowths of the organization is
the Harugari Singing Society, to which
20,000 members belong.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May, 1911.
SECRETS OF FRATERNAL SOCIETIES
PROTECTED.
Sacramento, California, March 3d. — A
fine not exceeding $500, or imprisonment
not exceeding one 3^ear, according to a
bill now passed b}- both houses of the
legislature, will be the punishment of any
person publishing, selling, offering for
sale, or even having- in his possession, the
ritual of any secret society or lodge. To
disclose any secrets is punishable to the
same extent. — The San Francisco Call.
GOVERNOR JOHNSON'S VETO.
Sacramento, CaL, March 24. — Gov-
ernor Johnson has vetoed Assem.bly Bill
718, making it unlawful for any one not
a member of a fraternal, benevolent or
secret society to have in his possession
or to print or sell any expose or state-
ment of the secret or unwritten work of
the society. Governor Johnson says that
he does not approve of the intent of the
proposed law in endeavoring to^ protect
something about which the law can know
nothino'.
The bill was drafted by Attorney
Grove L. Johnson, father of the gov-
ernor, and grand master of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows of this
state. The bill was introduced by As-
semblyman Cronin, at the request of
Johnson, Sr.
In his veto message. Governor John-
son says that the proposed law would
jeopardize the constitutional right of
freedom of speech, and freedom of press.
He points out that the bill cannot dis-
criminate between good and bad societies,
and that there have been many secret so-
cieties in the past whose rituals and oaths
were inimical to the government and sub-
versive to society, and says : I would not
make it a crime to expose the secrets of
such organizations.
He also points out that the law would
be difficult if not impossible of execution,
and that the only way to prove that an
expose was an expose would be to com-
pare it with the real work of the society,
which would be revealing the very se-
crets that the Bill was drawn to protect.
— San Jose Mercury, reprinted in The
Free Methodist.
A pleasant smile and a sweet voice are
great helps on life's journey.
ORDER OF MOOSE.
The Loyal Order of Moose was or-
ganized April i2th, 1888, at Louisville,
Kentucky. At a recent Supreme Lodge
meeting at Baltimore, Maryland, fifteen
thousand members were present.
The following titles are given to- the
officers in the lodge : Dictator ; Past Dic-
tator ; Vice Dictator ; Secretary ; Treas-
urer ; and Prelate.
Something of the character of this
order may be learned from the trial of
the Steward of the Moose Order at
Chambersburg Pennsylvania, for selling
liquor, for which he was convicted,
and following which the buft'et of the
Moose Lodge was closed. The Deputy
Supreme Organizer of the State, Mr.
Stull, on the witness stand said that he
supposed that there were about four
hundred lodges in Pennsylvania. He
stated that he selected the members when
organizing a lodge and then the Su-
preme Lodge passed upon them. He
said that the Supreme Lodge gave the
Subordinate Lodges a charter to run a
buffet. Mr. Stull said that the lodge
was not instituted with the idea of get-
ting around the license laws. Under
cross examination Mr. Stull said that he
knew nothing about the connection be-
tween the Supreme Lodge and the
buffet. He said that the Supreme Lodge
had nothing tO' do with the local buffet,
and that there is nothing in the charter
about a buffet. Geary McMichael, bar
clerk, said he is Past Dictator of the
lodge. He called it "an argument"
which followed when some of the mem-
bers decided to open a buffet. The
lodge never formally acted upon it. Mr.
W. W. Stitely, a trustee of the Cham-
bersburg Lodge, said that the proceeds
from the sale of liquor goes to- the profit
of the house, no individuals profiting,
and that there is a lodge treasurer and
a club treasurer. The club fund pays
rent for the house. He said he was told
there would be a buffet when he was
asked to join. . .
The above account of the trial is taken
from the Evening Herald of Waynes-
boro, Pennsylvania, and it seems
that a distinction is made between the
lodge and the club. Something within
the lodge is formed for the purpose of
handling the liquor and looking after
May, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
the profits. The judge remarked that
this case was very important ; and point-
ed out that the Moose Lodge had entered
Mont Alto, where Hquor Hcenses had
been refused retailers. The Moose are
said to be closely allied to the Order of
Elks and the Eagles. Such revelations
as the above ought to have a peculiar
interest to temperance advocates.
A VALUABLE MOVEMENT.
"Christian Association of Houghton
Seminary."
''The object of this association is to
gather and to disseminate information
concerning secret societies in their rela-
tion tO' Jesus Christ and to the home,
Church and State; to fortify the position
of the Wesleyan Methodist Church
against these societies ; to train students
of Houghton Seminary for aggressive
anti-secret work; to help the pastors and
Christian workers to devise and to op-
erate the best methods of dealing with
the subject; and to co-operate with all
who are interested."
PAINTED REGALIA.
In publishing' what purports to be the
description and history of an alleged por-
trait of Washington, the Toledo Times
Bee paper repeats the myth of member-
ship in Alexandria lodge from the date
of its charter until that of his death. We
are aware of no substantial reason for
believing that he ever held active rela-
tions with any loclge except the one in
Petersburg. From this we think he was
never transferred, though other lodges,
including Alexandria lodge, counted him
a nominal member, and Alexandria made
him nominal master. It was purely a
case of ''absent treatment."
As to the Master's collar shown in the
Toledo paper's picture, it is easy to paint
one. Judging by Washington's own
written statements, he appears to have
had no use for this part of what he called
"child's play."
Reference is made to what he wore
when he laid the corner stone of the
Capitol. We have always doubted
whether he knew of the existence of the
famous apron said to have been prepared
by Madame Lafayette, before he was
rather suddenly invested with it in a tem-
porary lodge into which a Masonic es-
cort took him for a brief halt on the way
tO' the ceremony. Lack of courtesy w^as
not his failing, and he wore the apron.
But he laid the corner stone as Presi-
dent ; another man was there as Masonic
master, to make it a constructively Ma-
sonic, as well as actually presidential,
corner stone laying.
Whatever apron he wore, and what-
ever regalia the original artist or any la-
ter one painted into the picture for the
glory of Masonry or the confirmation of
a myth, the cut published by the Toledr)
paper has no authority to contradict
words which the living man himself took
pains to write. Truthfulness is ascribed
to him by all not influenced by Masonry.
The notion that he presided over lodges,
he called an "error."
BOY SCOUTS ARE OPPOSED.
Central Labor Union Sees Danger in the
Organization.
The central labor union of Pittsfield has
started a movement against the Boy Scouts of
America. There are four companies of the
Boy Scouts at the Methodist church, while in
other churches companies are being organ-
ized. The following is a copy of the resolu-
tions adopted by the union :
"Whereas, an attempt is being made by cer-
tain Wall street millionaires, assisted by the
Young Men's Christian Association and vari-
ous other so-called religious societies, to or-
ganize the boys of our country into an organ-
ization known as the Boy Scouts of America,
a semi-military association ; and
''Whereas, we, as members of organized
labor, being pledged to the principles of
brotherhood and international peace among
the working classes of the world and loyalty
to each other, are forced to render an em-
phatic protest against this movement for the
following reasons :
"First. The pledge required from each re-
cruit requiring him to submit to blind obedi-
ence to the orders of so-called superior offi-
cers, which is a relic of the autocratic past.
"Second. The clause (article 2, scout law)
pledging its members to remain loyal to their
employers through thick and thin, which prac-
tically means the training of our young men
and boys to become 'scabs' and strike break-
ers in times of industrial conflict.
"Third. The attempt to arouse and instill
the spirit of medieval barbarism and mili-
tarism into the minds of future generations
of wage earners; therefore, be it
"Resolved by the delegates to the central
labor union of Pittsfield, Mass.. in regular
meeting assembled, that we condemn this so-
called benevolent movement, which under the
guise of philanthropy and the welfare of our
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May, 1911.
children seeks to make slaves and traitors of
our sons.
"Resolved that we request the membership
of each union here affiliated to withdraw all
support of whate\er nature to this movement
or the various societies engaged in aiding this
organization.
"Resolved, that a copj- of these resolutions
be spread upon our minutes ; and that each
imion be furnished with a copy." — Springfield
Republican, ]\Iarch 12.
The last clause of the "first" reason
may be undeniable, but in the mouth of a
labor unionist does not lack drollery. The
first resolution appears adaptable to
Freemasonry — more so. in fact, than to
Bov Scouting'. What is implied in the
word "request," used in the second reso-
lution, union members probably know ;
we do not assume to interpret the inno-
cent-lookino^ word. Yet it cannot have
hcen used in such a place with expecta-
tion of futility.
A LAW TO SHELTER CRIME.
The Oregon law prohibits copying
or circulating any part of the Masonic
ritual, one part of which is the pledge
to keep the secrets of a fellow member of
the third degree, "as inviolable as my
own, when committed to and received by
me as such, murder and treason except-
ed— and these, only, at my own option."
Murder and treason, these only, are ex-
cepted ; two crimes, two only, prove a
rule which covers the general mass of
crime. Crimes against property — theft,
robbery, burglary, arson — are secrets to
he kept as inviolable as any Mason's own.
Every possible crime against social pur-
ity and personal morality — adultery, for-
nication, incest, rape — must be covered by
the opaque Masonic veil. To protect a
Masonic brother whom he never saw be-
fore, another apron wearer must sacrifice
his nearest and dearest relatives ; he can
warn no man that loss of property is
impending ; he can hint to no mother that
she needs to guard her innocent daugh-
ter from a confessed design ; a Mason's
plans to do evil are sacred, if the evil
does not involve murder or treason. This
systematized villainy is covered by the
mantle of Oregon law. A commonwealth
offers the services of her courts to aid
clannish concealment of all crimes save
murder and treason only.
CAMORRISTS AND OTHERS.
"It would be a mistake to generalize
upon Italian character from the revela-
tions touching the Camorrists in the ex-
traordinary trial now going on at Vi-
terbo," remarks a well known daily pa-
per, which, after discussing the society
and certain conditions of southern Italy,
proceeds to consider related or similar
organizations which have existed in
America. It afifirms that :
"We in this country have not been free
from secret oath-bound organizations
terrorizing thousands who took no part
in their crimes. The Ku Klux organiza-
tion, formed tO' rid the South of carpet-
bag government, went from bad to
worse, and no doubt crimes of mere pri-
vate vengeance were perpetrated in its
name. The White Caps and the Night
Riders are instances of the same sort of
organizations for different purposes.
.Various oath-bound orders, known as the
Sons of Liberty, the Knights of the Gold-
en Circle, and' by other names, organized
in the middle West during the Civil war,
at first for the purpose, as it was de-
clared, of protecting Democrats in the
exercise of the elective franchise, grew
into a dangerous, potential insurrection,
having the object of releasing Confed-
erate prisoners, seizing forts, civil and
military ofihcers and supplies, and insti-
tuting such a fire in the rear of the ad-
ministration at Washington as should
force an armistice with the Confederacy.
There have been many other such secret
organizations in this country, some of
them wrested from a comparatively in-
nocent or positively patriotic purpose to
become the active agents of evil, which
abundantly proves that it is not alone
the Italian temperament and tradition
that are favorable to the growth of dan-
gerous underground influences."
The Lutheran Church has a larger
per cent of her men in the church than
any other of the leading denominations
— this per cent being 46.1. The Dis-
ciples come next with 40.0; then the
Baptists and the Methodists each with
38.5 ; the Presbyterians with 37.9, and
the Episcopalians with 35.5.
May, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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XXXI.
New Scenes and Old Faces.
Let the reader imagine me a necro-
mancer whose magic wand, waved Hghtly
over him, has the power of putting him
to sleep for about forty years ; for though
a great many things may happen in that
period of time very interesting to the
world at large, to say nothing of minor
events equally interesting in a smaller
way to the individual, none of which
would be omitted by a conscientious his-
torian or a careful biographer, I am
neither the one nor the other. I am sim-
ply telling the story of my experience
with Freemasonry ; and if, when nearly
all the states passed laws prohibiting ex-
tra-judicial oaths, and the churches of
Christ everywhere disfellowshipped ad-
hering Masons, the institution had act-
ually died down as it feigned to do, I
should probably make this my concluding
chapter, or, what is more likely, not have
written any story at all, preferring to
let the dead bury its dead in decent obliv-
ion.
But the wounded dragon of Masonry
did not yield up its life so easily. At the
South, under cover of the night-dark
wing of slavery, it hid in shame and dis-
honor, to slowly recover from its griev-
ous hurt, and finally creep forth again
into the light — not always under its true
name — while brave men and women,
fighting with tongue and pen for the
freedom of the slave, never dreamed what
chains were forging in secret, or how in
their own free North the time would come
when, under the intimidating power of
the lodge, men would dare not freely dis-
cuss its claims ; when editors of religious
journals would refuse, in their craven
fear of losing patronage, to publish arti-
cles ag'ainst it ; and even the Christian
ministers, while hating it at heart, should
be afraid — Oh, shame ! — actually afraid
to stand up in the pulpit and speak God's
truth concerning it.
But in passing over such an interim
of time, there must necessarily be many
scattered threads, which it behooves me
to gather up and knit into one general
whole before I proceed further.
Of the scores of persons actually par-
ticipating in the murder of Morgan or
consenting thereto, only five were con-
victed. Loton Lawson was sentenced to
two years' imprisonment, Nicholas G
Cheesboro to one, and Eli Bruce, Edward
Sawyer and John Whitney to varying
terms of one month or more, and this
was all that resulted from four years'
trials and investigations.
That these men were considered by
their brethren of the lodge, not as con-
victed felons but as martyrs to the Ma-
sonic cause, may be inferred from the
fact that they remained in full fellowship
therewith as members in good and regu-
lar standing ; that they were visited daily
while in jail by their Masonic brethren,
in many cases accompanied by their
wives and daughters ; that they wxre fur-
nished with every luxury money could
procure, and, when their term was up,
escorted from prison in triumph. But
O, most benevolent Masonry, where were
thy bowels of compassion for many an
unfortunate brother confined within
those very walls, not for kidnaping and
murder, but for debt?
Darius Fox came unexpectedly back
to Brownsville about a year after his
sudden flight — nowise improved by his
stay among the wild and reckless char-
acters of the Western frontier. Why he
chose to run the risk of returning ;
whether he had been led to believe that
all danger of conviction was over, or
whether his course was dictated by mere
braggadocio, is more than I can say. But
he talked swaggeringly about having
"come back to stand his trial," and had
his small circle of admirers, who sur-
rounded him in store and tavern, and
praised and cheered him as if he had done
a very brave and plucky thing in re-
turning.
Perhaps he had overlooked the possi-
bility that some of his associates in evil
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May, 191L
might turn state's evidence against him.
A few days after his unexpected appear-
ance in Brownsville one of the men con-
victed of abducting ^Morgan gave testi-
mony in regard to his own share in that
transaction that would inevitably have
consigned him to a felon's cell had he
not been found dead the next morning.
The cause of his sudden death was said
to be apoplexy, though a story, never ex-
actlv authenticated, was whispered about
and believed by many in Brownsville that
he had really hung himself in a moment
when remorse and fear of punishment
so acted on a mind unbalanced by drink
as to drive him to self-destruction ; and
his family, to avoid the dishonor attach-
ing to the name of suicide, had attempted
to cover up the fact by ascribing his un-
timely end to a cause which was not the
true one.
But whether he met death by his own
hand or in the common orderings of
Providence, Darius Fox went tO' his own
place, where, in the course of years, all
his companions in crime followed him ;
into that dim eternity towards which the
evil and the righteous are alike hasten-
ing, where the deeds done in the body
are either angel's wings ever raising us
higher in the scale of purified being, or
weights sinking us deeper and deeper
into the pit of final despair.
For three years the proprietor of the
Park Tavern tried to carry on his busi-
ness in the face of wrongs and outrages
that in number and petty malignity fell
to the lot of no other anti-Mason of those
days. Hear his own words on the sub-
ject:
"My help was hired to leave me ; others
sent who, after being hired, would get in
debt and prove unfaithful. Sham sales
of stage horses would be made to un-
principled drivers who would keep their
horses at my house on usual contracts,
and, when a quarterly bill was presented
against the ostensible owner, it would be
shoved off upon the driver, who was ir-
responsible and would abscond ; or, if
sued, pay the debt on the jail limits.
Merchants with whom I had dealt would
divide my accounts, and sue me on each
day's trade, causing me to pay unneces-
sary costs."
Nor did they stop short at personal
violence, as witness his further testi-
mony :
''My furniture was injured, and, in my
attempts to save it from destruction, I
have been choked in my own house till
my family were alarmed lest my life
should be taken. All this was done with
the avowed intention of tempting me to
commit assault and battery, or seek re-
dress by lawsuit, that they might avail
themselves of the law to destroy me ef-
fectually.''
The fight was too unequal. What
chance had one man, however just his
cause, against hundreds working in se-
cret conclave tO' accomplish his ruin?
Mr. Greene disposed of his business in
Batavia, and as a public lecturer did
more, perhaps, than any other man to en-
lighten the public mind on the real nature
of Freemasonry.
Undaunted by opposition, undismayed
by danger, though he once came very
near sharing the fate of Morgan, he
kept on his way, lecturing, editing, pub-
lishing, side by side with a young man,
William Lloyd Garrison by name, who
had just heard the bugle-call to another
conflict which was destined erelong to
be the one great absorbing issue that
should swallow up all others.
The Liberator and the Antiinasonic
Christian Herald were both published in
the same building and delivered by the
same carrier ; but, while one waxed and
grew, the other waned before the new
struggle for human rights. And when
a terrible punishment was at last meted
out to us ; when every newspaper was,
like the prophet's scroll, written through-
out with mourning and lamentation and
woe ; when Rachels wept their dead in
Northern and Southern homes alike, who
saw the secret hands working in dark-
ness and silence to prolong the contest ?
Good patriots on the Union side
blushed for the cowardice and incom-
petency that stayed idly in the trenches
for weeks and months; that led hosts of
brave men to inglorious slaughter or dis-
graceful flight before the enemy. Could
they have known that promotion did
not depend on bravery or merit, but on
the number of Masonic degrees ; could
they have witnessed those secret mid-
night meetings when Northern generals
fraternized with the enemy, they would
May, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
liave had a better understanding of the
whole subject. And when the guns of
the Rebelhon were silenced and the
smoke cleared away, could they have
seen delegations from Northern lodges
on a visit to Southern cities uniting in
brotherly union with Knights of the
Golden Circle, these same good people
would not have been so slow to recog-
nize, grinning under the mask of the
Ku Klux, the same old enemy against
which Samuel D. Greene so faithfully
warned his countrymen.
He died on the threshold of the on-
coming struggle — a new struggle with an
ancient foe, and saw not its end. Pur-
sued even to the last by the unsparing
hatred of the lodge he died as he had
lived, boldly testifying to "the truth as
it is in Jesus" against every ''unfruitful
work of darkness," and now, translated
into that great "cloud of witnesses," per-
haps he does see the end after all.
Bright, mischievous brother Joe mar-
ried early in life a fair acquaintance, of
Brownsville, who, I have reason to sus-
pect, was the same he accompanied home
from Jake Goodwin's party, and emi-
grated to Kansas in the early stages of
its struggle to be a free state, where, as
a friend and associate of John Brown, he
participated in more than one stirring
scene of that eventful era.
Sam Toller has long since passed from
earth, but there is still a circle, slowly
narrowing, who hold him in kindly re-
membrance.
Luke Thatcher has represented his na-
tive state in the legislature, and is looked
up to by his neighbors as an honest, far-
seeing man who is always on the right
side of every social and political question.
Mr. Jedediah Mills lost his lawsuit and
his farm — a result not hard tO' predict
from the beginning. Anxiety and trouble
SO wore upon him that he did not live
long after, and another name was added
to that hidden roll of martyrs to the
lodge which God keeps in his secret place
against the day "when he maketh in-
quisition for blood."
Mark Stedman's life has been one of
constant warfare with every prevailing
and popular form of sin. When the anti-
Masonic excitement died away, and even
he believed that the lodge had fallen
never to rise again, he turned his atten-
tion to the crime of American slavery.
At a time when the mere avowal of
Abolitionist principles cost more than the
present generation can readily conceive,
he preached, prayed and worked for the
emancipation of the slave. And careless
of fine and imprisonment, out of his own
slender store he and his good wife Han-
nah sent many a fugitive rejoicing on
their way towards the North Star — a
work in which Rachel and I not infre-
quently had the pleasure of helping, for
both families left Brownsville and m.oved
to Ohio about the same time, where we
settled in easy visiting distance of each
other.
We are a staid elderly couple now,
Rachel and I, with a number of grand-
children to spoil, and one or two grown-
up fledglings still lingering about the
home nest. But our little David never
went forth with sling and stone against
any of these moral Goliaths that from
time to time have come out from their
Philistine fastnesses to defy our Ameri-
can Israel. One bright summer day we
laid him under the green grass in
Brownsville cemetery, and on another
summer day as bright, there came to our
home a second little David. He sleeps
in his nameless grave at Antietam. Still
another of our boys donned the blue and
marched proudly away to die by slow
starvation in a Southern prison.
Oh, it is not in hours of joy that hearts
knit tog'ether the closest and strongest !
From that mighty baptism of anguish
Rachel and I came forth united in the
grand fellowship of suffering, without
which love is like gold that lacks the test
of the crucible.
And now, having brought ni}^ story
down tO' Anno Domini 1870 or there-
abouts, I take it for granted that the
reader is sufficiently interested to wait its
further development, first promising that
the end is not far off". For with Rachel
and me the shadows are bcQinnino- to
stretch eastward. She sits shelling beans
on the porch, which commands a view of
rich Ohio cornfields basking in the Au-
gust sun. a gray-haired, placid-browed
matron. But the fires of youth flash still
from her brown eyes, showing that she
has not materially altered from the quick,
imperious Rachel of former days.
If anv one doubts it, let him rouse her
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
^lay, 191L
indignation by some act of meanness or
duplicity, and if he doesn't have cause to
remember that day as long as he lives, I
am very much mistaken.
(To be continued.)
Cotttributtons.
THE SHAME OF THE CHURCH.
PRESIDEXT BLAXCHARD's LETTER.
For many years it has been the cus-
tom of various secret orders to ask the
privilege of coming" once a year into
some church and having a sermon
preached in glorification of the order.
\\'e have also known that on the occa-
sion of corner-stone laying, lodge men
have been accustomed to seek some no-
toriety for their lodges by having a
place given to them in the order of ex-
ercises. On funeral occasions also
lodges have been for many years accus-
tomed to seek to force their way into
homes and churches irrespective of the
wishes of the afflicted ones. Few men
have been conversant with the life of the
Church during the last twenty-five years
w^ho could not relate instances of one or
all these lodge impositions on the church
of Christ.
In our time, however, there is a new
and a most humiliating change in this
respect. Instead of the lodge begging
for the notice of the church, the church
appears on her knees before the secret
society. So far as we are informed this
movement began with some of our evan-
gelists. They, as w^as recently remarked
in the Cyxosure, began to invite various
lodges to attend their meetings, and a
rivalry was instituted among the secret
orders to see which one could or would
turn out the greatest number of men at
the Evangelist's meeting. This move-
ment seems to be on the increase at this
time.
It is natural that such a plan should
extend, and it is moving in that direction.
There lies before me as I write the
weekly circular of a rich Presbyterian
church of New York City. It mentions
the different meetings of the week, tells
of the special music which is to be ren-
dered, and then says that all the ^lasonic
lodges of the district in which it is lo-
cated are invited to attend the gather-
ings on Easter day. Of course all well
informed people know that secret so-
ciety men are not usually members of
churches and that they do not ordinarily
attend their meetings. It therefore seems
as if there is on foot an eft'ort to secure
a crowd on a few occasions by asking
lodgemen who do not care enough for
the church to become identified with it
to turn out and give it a boost.
What Is the Real Motive?
It is always dangerous to judge men's
motives. Wq can hardly be sure of our
own, and of course to know those of
other people is far more difiicult. The
natural feeling is that such eft'orts are
intended to increase the contributions.
It would probably be said by those who
adopt these means of getting in men
that the plan is adopted in order to get
men who- do not go to church ordinarily
to come. It would very likely be said
that it is a good thing to get men to
religious gatherings by any and all
means in order that they may be saved.
The character of the Evangelists who
have used this method, is such that we
ought to hope as firmly. as we can that
their intentions are not selfish, but be-
nevolent.
But whatever the actual motives may
be, we 'are fully persuaded that the re-
sult of such attempts will be evil, and not
good. Elijah invited the Priests of Baal
to his great meeting on Carmel. They
also came. But the meeting did not in-
volve any flattery of Baal or his serv-
ants. The Evangelist on that occasion
called for a decision between the two
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
objects of worship, and when the people
had declared that Jehovah was God he
had the prophets of the idols slain. If
the method of our modern preachers
were the same, there could be no objec-
tion to them on the score of infidelity to
God's word. We fear that they are not
the same; From what we have seen and
heard we cannot hope that prophets
who in our time invite lodgemen to
their meetings, are disposed to draw the
hne between the worship of Jehovah and
the false gods as Elijah did. On the
other hand, they seem disposed to mix
the two worships up, and to intimate, if
they do not say, that Jehovah and Baal
can in our time work in perfect har-
mony if their followers will try to do
.good.
If the Bible is true, this is an awful
mistake. It does not give us the least
reason to suppose that the real antago-
nism between Christ and his rivals has
lessened with the lapse of time. If
Elijah were to conduct a meeting in Chi-
cago it would go forward on the very
hues of Carmel. No man has w^arrant
■from Scripture for proceeding on any
•other. In fact it appears to us a fear-
fully dangerous thing to attempt any
modification of the pattern set before
us in the mount. We are not speaking
•of the death penalty the prophet inflict-
•ed, but of the declaration of an irrepres-
sible conflict which he made.
The Beast and the False Prophet.
We have heretofore spoken of these
two great enemies of God and man and
do not purpose to repeat the argument.
W^e do, however, wish to recall the es-
sential facts and to give an illustration
from current history. The wild beast of
Revelation is a representative of godless
government, and the False Prophet is a
representative of Christ-rejecting reli-
gions. The godless government carries
the harlot church, and the harlot church
directs the wild beast. We may, there-
fore, expect to find members of the
Christ-rejecting lodges in legislative and
executive and judicial stations, and to
find government making provisions for
defending the false religions. The wild
beast carries the harlot, and the harlot
guides the wild beast.
The state legislatures of Ohio, Indi-
ana, California, Oregon and Nebraska
have all been attempting, recently, to
pass laws making it an offense punish-
able by fine or imprisonment to ''publish,
sell or oft'er for sale any book, pamphlet
or circular" exposing the secret work of
any fraternal society, except under the
supervision and authority of the grand
body of such fraternal society. These
laws mean that lodges may organize ^d
sell their ceremonies, oaths, and obliga-
tions to deceive, ensnare, humiliate and
paganize the young men and women of
our nation, and if any servant of God
and friend of humanity undertakes to
prevent the lodge doing so by revealing
its traps, snares, and pitfalls to the pub-
lic which it wishes to plunder and en-
slave, the state will step in and punish
him for doing so.
All students of the Word of God will
remember that both godless government
and the false prophet, or the harlot, are
to be cast into the lake of fire. That is
to be the end of them. ^leanwhile they
will do all the evil they are permitted to
do. We are not to fear them. Satan is
mighty, but God is Almighty. The Dra-
gon animates and controls both the wild
beast and the false prophet, but at the
end he also will be thrown into the lake
of fire. Thus far these attempts of god-
less government to defend Christless
rites and ceremonies have not succeed-
ed very well. Such attempts will not
succeed if God's people are watchful. If
they slumber and sleep they will justly
suft'er. But when the church is caught
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May, 191L
awav the wild beast, the false prophet
and the drai^on will work fearful havoc
among- the tribulation saints, until the}'
are cast into the fiery lake.
A Governor's Excuse.
The Governor of Oregon, one of the
states in which one of these laws was
recentlv enacted, replying to a remon-
strance, wrote as follows :
Dear Sir : —
I acknowledge receipt of your letter of
March •28th. I have received in the last few
days a number of letters of similar purport
to yours, several of them enclosing the draft
of the bill in question, and most of them being
circular letters signed by the party sending
them. It seems to me that those w^ho are
sending these letters (whose sincerity I do not
doubt) have been misinformed regarding this
bill. The bill, as I understand it, was framed
as a remed\- for recent occurrences in this
state, in which a man who had formerly been
a member of a secret society advertised him-
self as being authorized to confer the de-
grees and teach the ritual of this society. In
doing this he violated the oath which he had
voluntarily taken, and perjured himself for the
sake of financial gain. It was from this con-
dition that I understand that the bill came,
and I could see no harm to it and filed it with
the Secretary of State. I trust that its work-
ings will disabuse your mind of your belief in
its viciousness.
With kind regards and best wishes, I am.
Very sincerely,
Oswald West.
But the law was as follows :
''Section i. That it shall be unlawTTil
for any person, firm or corporation,
either directly or indirectly, to write,
print, indite or circulate, or procure to
be written, printed, indited, or circulat-
ed in any language, any signs, plates,
rituals, or secret work, or any part
thereof, of any fraternal order or fra-
ternal society, having a Grand or Su-
preme lodge in this state, or having a
Grand or Supreme lodge with jurisdic-
tion in this state, without the written
authority of such Grand or Su-
preme lodge. Any person, firm, or cor-
poration violating any oi the provisions
of this act shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine of
not less than $50 nor more than $500."
The reader will observe that this law
says nothing about seceding members of
secret orders, but forbids free speech to
any and all persons, firms and corpora-
tions. Just as slavery a few years ago
would not permit men tO' say anything
against the buying and selling of men,
women and children, so secret orders in
this state by this legislation are seeking
to gag every man who wishes to save his
fellow men froiii lodge bondage by re-
vealing the bloody oaths and foolish cer-
emonies by which it enslaves its victims-
But suppose the law was intended to
stop the mouths of seceding lodgemen
only ; in what respect would that im-
prove the situation ? Does a man lose
his right to free speech when he joins
a secret order? If he finds the order
evil, has he not a right to say so and to
seek to save men froui the trap into-
which he has fallen ?
Or suppose he is not moved by Chris-
tian motives but by desire of gain, what
then? Is it worse for him to sell the
secrets, for which he had paid, than it is.
for the lodge to do so? Is it the ofiice
of government tO' create monopolies in.
secret societies, and tO' let one set of men
sell what it punishes other men for sell-
ing?
No Buying or Selling Without the Mark of
the Beast.
The fact is that we have here another
case of the great movement above indi-
cated. If a man wishes to work and does
not wish to pay tribute to a lodge, put
him out of the shop, and if he comes,
back, kill him. If instead of a man it
is a woman who wishes to earn honest
bread without the permission of a secret
society, then kill her. And if some one
who has joined one of these organized
May, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
11
TDands of murderers wishes to come out
and warn his fellows against the order,
^end a sheriff after him and fine him or
put him in jail or do both.
Nullification in Our Public Schools.
It is sad to see that in some cases the
officers of our public school system are
failing to do their duty in regard to the
Tdov and eirl fraternities which were de-
stroying the morals and the scholarship
of our young people. This seems not-
ably true in Chicago, if we are tO' be-
lieve the newspaper reports. It is sig-
nificant, however, that the law in general
stands fast. In our state legislature a
bill proposing to regulate the public
schools in this particular was referred to
a committee of which a Freemason was
chairman. As, however, he was also' a
minister, and is strongly opposed to the
'liquor business, we trust that this will
not be a case of putting the lamb to
nurse with a wolf. As all know, there
are some Masons who value their duty
to the community more highly than their
lodge obligations ; we trust that this is
such a case. No' matter how this may
be, the argument is over, and the ver-
dict is rendered. The American people
know that secret societies are bad for
young folks, and even if they are foolish
or wicked enough to unite with such or-
ders themselves, they dO' not wish their
children to do it. Let us therefore take
courage and press on. — JVheaton Col-
lege.
A CALL TO PRAYER.
The enemy has come in like a flood.
False systems of philosophy, false wor-
ships, science falsely so called — all these
are rife. The Sabbath is desecrated.
Satan is ''transformed into an ang"el of
light." Churches, stumbled by the very
simplicity of the Gospel, and affrighted
at the clamor and boasted power of the
forces of evil, are trying to make
the truth more attractive. Alen are for-
cross is ceased," the truth has lost its re-
generative power. They forget the fact,
enunciated so clearly by the great re-
former, Martin Luther, that in religion
"What is not of God must needs be of
the devil." — D'Aiihigne's Hist., page 146.
How reassuring, how comforting in
such times of confusion and conflict are
God's promises. How simple, reason-
able and necessary are the conditions up-
on which we may claim them. ''If ye
abide in Me," if "My words abide in
you," "Ask what ye will, it shall be
done." "Ask anything in My name, I
will do it." "Nothing shall be impossi-
ble to you." And how gracious is God !
He does not stop with promises ; lest a
sense of our failure in meeting the con-
ditions should overcome our faith and
deter us, he commands us to "pray with-
out ceasing," to "continue in prayer."
And as we know not what to pray for,
oftentimes, the Spirit himself "helpeth
our infirmities."
How should we cry "day and night,"
and give Him no rest until He over-
throws Satan's substitutes for His way of
salvation. Specially in view of the Con-
vention of the National Christian Asso-
ciation soon to be held in Wheaton, 111.,
shall we not pray earnestly that those
who plan may have wisdom from above ;
and that the power of God may rest up-
on all who attend this meeting ? K.
REMINISCENCES.
gettmg
that, when "the offense of the
Discussion on C. & N.-W. Train.
BY EZRA A. COOK.
In the seventies I spent much time
along the line of the Iowa division of
the C. & N.-W. R. R.
Early one Saturday morning, when
speeding eastward, I was drawn into a
discussion that lasted more than an hour.
Our car had at first but twelve or fifteen
passengers, all men. but the entire car,
even to the aisles, was soon filled from
the other cars. The conductor, wearing
a large Masonic 32d degree gold bad^e,
standing near us, was an in.terested lis-
tener, except when his duties at stations
called him away. M}- interrogator
proved to be a Methodist minister, who
occupied the seat in front.
Although many of the verv words
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May,
1911.
''Yes, the grand hailing sign of
used in this debate are photographed on
mv memory. I have the aid of memo-
randa made immediately after the occur-
rence. The moment I handed this Ma-
sonic champion my business card in an-
swer to his query as to my business, he
attacked me viciously, and as was doubt-
less his intention, he gave me little op-
portunity to ask his name. I wdll give
the account in the dialogue form in
which it occurred.
^Minister (^turning to me) — "What
business are you in ? I handed him my
business card.
]\Iinister — "You publish a paper op-
posed to Secret Societies?"
Cook — "Yes, sir ; Christian Cyno-
sure.
^Minister (in a loud tone) — ''I met
one of your ilk the other day, and I gave
him a drubbing that he will not soon
forget. He began to tell me how he got
a free ride by giving the conductor a
^Masonic sig:n instead of his fare."
Cook
distress?"
3>Iinister — "That's what he called it, I
believe. He wanted to go on and tell
me more about it, but I shut him up
mighty quick and said, 'You infamous,
swindling scoundrel and hypocrite — you
pass as a Christian reformer, and yet
confess to have deliberately swindled a
railroad company.' He tried to quibble
and explain, but I told him to shut up."
Cook — ''For all you know he paid his
fare to the conductor, after he had prov-
ed that the sign he gave the conductor
worked as he expected. I have no doubt
that he did pay the conductor. You say
yourself that you refused to give him
any chance to explain, and you boast of
it ! Christ's picture of a Christian is a
man who does not strive or cry ; biit you
strive and cry out about a man that you
say you called the worst names you
could think of, though you had not prov-
ed him guilty of any offense against law
or morals. And you are so anxious to
proclaim your unfairness that you raise
your voice and call me a man of his *ilk,'
with the evident purpose of bringing
reproach upon me, a man whom you
never saw before. But please take no-
tice my friend that I am ready to de-
fend the truth of God, and my belief
that Freemasonry is a curse and an
abomination."
Minister — "Freemasonry is a moral
institution established by virtuous men
wdth the praiseworthy design of calling"
to remembrance the most sublime truths
in the midst of the most innocent and so-
cial pleasures, and is founded on liberal-
ity, brotherly love and charity. It is a
beautiful system of morality veiled in
allegory and illustrated by symbols.''
Cook — "That sounds pretty good to
3^ou, doesn't it? I have read it and heard
it before. It is a good cjuotation from
Sickels' Monitor."
Minister — "You outsiders know noth-
ing whatever about Masonry. The
Bible is the great light of Masonry. The
best men that ever lived have belonged
tO' the order. The immortal Washing-
ton was our Grand Master."
Cook — ^"You need to keep a little clos-
er to the book. Freemasonry simply
claims that the Bible is one of the fJiree
great lights, which are : the Holy Bible,
square and compass. As to the good
man argument, that hardly holds good,
I take it, or if it does, the bad man argu-
ment matches it. Aaron Burr was a
high Mason, and I believe Benedict Ar-
nold was also', and some of the vilest
men that have ever lived have been mem-
bers. Therefore, according to your
logic, it must be bad. If this good man
argument holds water, then that murder-
ous institution the Ku Klux Klan was
an ideal institution, for not only deacons
and elders, but ministers like yourself,
were honored members of that treason-
able order. By the bye, IMackey, your
great Masonic lawgiver, says that trea-
son is not Masonically a crime."
Minister — "I reiterate nw statement
that the Bible is the great light of Ma-
sonry. True, the square and compass
rest on the Bible, but they are speech-
less, while the Bible speaks to all human-
ity. I concede that scoundrels some-
times w^orm their way into Masonry, as
they dO' into the Church. You sneer at
what you call the good man argument,
but I say the best criterion of the char-
acter of any society is the men it pro-
duces ; and the membership of such men
as Washington, and all of our other
presidents of the Union, is the best possi-
ble proof that Freemasonry is the grand-
May, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
13
est institution on earth ; and as I said,
the Bible is its standard guide and law
book. Everywhere throughout the
world Freemasonry is known, revered
and practiced."
Cook — "You say Freemasonry is
known and practiced all over the
World?"
Minister — "Yes, wherever man is
found this fraternity blesses him."
Cook— "Is the Bible found on the Ma-
sonic altar in Mohammedan countries ?"
Minister — "Well, no ; the Koran is
used there."
Cook — "With square and compass up-
on it?"
Minister — "Yes, of course, they don't
have the Bible in a Mohammedan coun-
try."
Cook — "Or in any country except in
a Christian country?"
Minister — "No, I suppose not."
Cook — "Did you ever take the Bible
on the Masonic altar and read from it,
in the lodge or chapter?"
Minister — "No, we have Monitors,
where the prescribed Scripture passages
are printed, and we use those."
Cook — "You say the 'prescribed pas-
sages.' Then, certain passages only may
be read. And the prayers too are pre-
scribed, are they not? You don't dare
pray in the name of Christ, but must
use the prayers found in the Monitor?"
Minister — "Emphatically no ! I pray
as I please, and I use the name of Christ
always, and I always shall."
Cook — "Even when Jews are present?
You know perfectly well that in con-
nection with the prayers printed in the
Monitor, there is a note saying that all
prayers must be of like tenor, i. e.,
Christless.
"You make a great ado about Grand
Master Washington. The Masons could
not wait until Washington's mouth was
closed in death before they began to use
his name as a bait to draw men into the
order. So generally was this h'ing story
of Washington's Masonic leadership
published, that even Rev. Snyder, whom
Washington had appointed his historian,
was deceived and wrote to Washington
about it. In Washington's reply he said
on this subject: 'The fact is, I preside
over none, nor have I been in one more
than once or twice in the last thirty
years.' Still further, Edward Livingston
and Andrew Jackson, both Freemasons
of high degree, were the two men who
opposed a vote of thanks by Congress
to Washington when he retired to pri-
vate life.
"After Washington's death Freema-
sons again began to talk about Grand
Master Washington. A little later, in a
most singular manner, the question of
Washington's Masonic connection was
carefully investigated, and it was not
only proved that Washington had never
held Masonic office, but that any Ma-
sonic honors would be distasteful to
him. When it was proposed to honor
Washington by Congressional action at
the close of his wonderfully noble, self-
denying patriotic services, the only men
who opposed such a vote of thanks were
Livingston and Jackson, both high Ma-
sons. The man who, after reading
Washington's farewell address, could be-
lieve him capable of promoting the in-
terests of such an institution as Ma-
sonry must consider him the champion
hypocrite of the age. Li^ndoubtedly
these prominent public men and high
Masons knew of his letter to Rev. Mr.
Snyder and considered Washington a
seceder."
Minister — "I don't care what the
Monitor says. I pray as I think right
and best. I am a Freemason and a free
man. What you say about W^ashington
is a pack of lies invented by reckless
men."
Cook — ^"Well, of course, you know
that prayers in the name of Christ are
unmasonic. Have you ever been in a
lodge with Jews?"
Minister — "I don't know, and I don'r
care. You anti-Masons are all of the
time lying about Masonr}-. Of course,
it depends on the chaplain as to the
prayers. Some use the prayers from the
Monitor, but I don't."
Cook — "Well, I suppose these gentle-
men listening are perfectly willing to ad-
mit that you are lawless. Some of them
will tell you that, if you ever do pra}" in
a lodge where there are Jews, the Wor-
shipful Master, if he knows his busi-
ness, will certainly publicly call you
down. You brao- of the universalitv of
14
CiiRISTlAN CYNOSURE.
May, 1911.
the order, ami yvi llic 'real moral stand-
ard" is the sacred b(">Dk of an\- counti-y ;
and that L^reat li.^ht. as you call it, is
always whatever will catch gudgeons.
"Doubtless yoti have orated about the
great age of the order. You know that,
strictK <]H'aking, histe)rically, the order
is abmit 1 30 }ears of ag'e — born in a
ta\ern. as was appropriate, the Apple
d'ree TaNern. of London, in i/i/. I am
willing to admit that its principles are as
old as sin. You are a Ivoyal Arch Ma-
son ?"
.Minister — ^"Yes, I have taken the
Holy Royal Arch Degree and am a High
Priest of the Chapter, wliich I consider
a oreat honor, as several gentlemen here
])resent know. And 1 am not used to the
discotirteous treatment \ have received
at \-onr hands. Y^ou know nothing about
?\lasonr\-, nor does any one else, who is
not a ?\lason, know anything whatever
of the character of this order. Their
])retended knowledge is a fratid. They
would show true wisdom by minding
their own business. They can't hurt the
order which has lived for ag'cs un-
harmed— never loved and more highly
appreciated than to-day; while the
wretches who have broken their solemn
obligations wn'll rot in dishonored graves.
^^_)ti have made a great ado about the
exclusion of the name of Christ from
Masonic ])ravers. His name is not ex-
cluded in m\- lodge or chapter either,
vour lies to the contrary notwithstand-
ing; but I don't blame those who do omit
His nanie. or even those who have n<i
other religious belief than in that of the
(ireat Architect of the llniverse. I still
insist that the Ihble is the great light
of Masonr) , in this country at any rate."
Cook — 'Tt seems to me al)out time this
discussion about the r)ible being the Ma-
sonic guide and the Masonic use of the
name of Christ was settled. T refuse to
adnu"t that, in comparis(^n with Albert
G. Mackev. Robert Morris. 1). I)., IX. D.,
and Daniel Sickels, 33(1 degree Masons,
men who have made Masonry, the Ma-
sonic champion here knows very much
about Freemasonry. It grieves me to
feel compelled to say to him : You are
not honest in stating what you do know.
You are not only a Royal Arch Mason,
but at the head of your Chapter — its
Hii'li Priest. \'ou have confessed that
you do not read the Scriptitres in either
the lodge or chapter directly from the
Bible. Y^ou have tried to deny the au-
thority of these books, even while using
theiu. There is no Monitor in as general
use as Sickels, but the Scripture read-
ings are the same in all of the Monitors.
What is the Scripture reading in the
Mark Master or 4th degree, and in the
Royal Arch degree?"
Minister — ^''Froiii ist Peter, 2d chap-
ter, and 2d Thess., 3d chapter.''
Cook — ^"Yes, Quotations from the
New Testament. That does not betoken
a time immemorial in age, does it? Nor
does it confirm as valid the plea that the
barbarous oaths of the order are the
relic of ancient lieathenism, which
clings to a savagery practiced at the
time this ancient order was born ; but
this is neither the oiily nor the worst
fraud. In this Mark Alaster's degree
the name of the Lord Jesus is cut out
of His own Word! In the Monitor we
read : 'Wherefore, brethren, lay aside all
malice, and guile, and hypocrisies, and
envies, and all evil speakings. If sO' be
ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious ;
to whom coming, as unto a living" stone,
disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of
(lod and precious ; ve also, as living
stones, be ye built u]) a spiritual house,
an holy priesthood, to oiTer up sacrifice
acceptable to God.' In the IToIy Royal
Arch degree the name of the Lord Jesus
is also cut oitt of His own Word. In the
Monitor we read : 'For we hear that
there are some which walk among" you
disorderly, working not at all, but are
Ixisybodies. Now them that are such,
we command and exhort that with quiet-
ness they work, and eat their own bread."
Thus it is shown that in both of these
passages Masonry cuts out the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ from His own
Word.
"The truth is that this order, fatuous,
or infamous, for its power to shield crim-
inals and promote favoritism and misrule,
is infinitely more dangerous as a false
religion — a religion without Christ, yet
definitely promising its votaries salva-
tion.
"Robert Morris, D. D., LL. D., says
Freemasoiu"}^ is a relig-ion. Albert G.
Mackey says. Freemasonry is a religion
in which all men can agree; and in his
May, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE
15
Ritual he uses these words, which are
burned into my memory all the deeper
when I think of the murder and resurrec-
tion play which all Masonic writers say
forms the basis and the subject of 'their
Sublime degree of Master Mason.' Most
of you who are listening to this friendly
debate know exactly to what I refer; and
when you were the victims of that mur-
der play some of you were Christians,
and probably those of you who were not
promised Almighty God you would never
engage in such a horrible tragedy again
in any capacity. The quotation I refer
to is as follows : 'The Master Mason rep-
resents man when youth, manhood, old
age and life itself have passed away as
fleeting shadows, yet raised from the
grave of inicjuity and quickened into an-
other and better existence.' But for the
horror with which such passages filled
me (and there are many more of like
tenor), I should never have entered the
fight ag"ainst this devils' religion. If
any of you object to my designation of
the ordei: which my opponent delights
to term the handmaid of religion, please
note the justice and accuracy of my de-
scription. All must agree that at best
the religion of Freemasonry is not the
religion of Christ, whom they exclude
from the order, and whose name they
even cut out of His own Word. It is no
more than just to say that Freemasonry is
gentile worship. That great expositor of
Christianity, Paul, says the things which
the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to
demons, and not to God. Friends, it is
a terrible, terrible thing to sell your-
selves to Satan. There is only 'one name
given under Heaven among men where-
by we must be saved,' and Freemasonry
robs yon of that name which is above
every name."
Minister — "Of all the contemptible
screeds to which I have ever listened,
this is the worst — the most contemptible ;
and you, my lodge brethren, must agree
with me that this debate has gone be-
yond the bounds of common decency.
This ignoramus insists on forcing us to
judgment on statements by men whose
authority I dispute and repudiate. I am
the slave to nobody's opinion or teach-
ings. As I have said, I am a Freemason,
but a free man, and will do honiage to
no one."
Cook — "Well, I will 'appeal from
Caesar drunk to Caesar sober.' This
sounds like charging the dominie with
drunkenness. I do not mean that he has
been imbibing real corn juice, but I do
charge that he is drunk with his own
importance, and I can see that you agree
with me. More than one high Mason,
who knows that I have as extensive a
Masonic library probably as is found in
the State of Illinois, has frankly said,
'Mr. Cook, you know a great deal more
about Masonry than I do.' My ministerial
friend will, I believe, concede, v.hen
he cools off, that all wisdom, even all
Masonic wisdom, will not die with him.
Gentlemen, I thank you for your cour-
tesy extended toward me in this debate. I
assure you that the Golden Rule is the
rule of my life, and its author, Jesus
Christ, is the one whom my soul loveth.
I shall meet you at the bar of God. If I
am to greet you as a fellow inhabitant
of a mansion in glory, I know it will be
because you have abandoned yourselves
to Jesus Christ, and decided no longer to
remain in fellowship with an institution
which has cast out as vile that name
which is above every name in earth or
Heaven."
Wheaton ! called a brakeman. I knew
that we were nearing the lovely town
where I should meet beloved children
who were attending what seemed to me
the best school in the world — Wheaton
College, but I did not realize that we
were so near the town, and I was startled
at the brakeman's cry. And if I was
startled, what shall I say of my trem-
bling, dejected ministerial antagonist,
who an hour and a half previously had
so recklessly, not to say brutally, at-
tacked my personal character and the
cause of Christ, which includes anti-^Ia-
sonrv as well?
The man called to a great Avork must
not waste his life on trivial things. He
must not act like the keeper of the
lighthouse wdio gave to the people in
the cabins about him the oil which was
intended for the mighty lanterns of the
se3..—Maetc?'Ii}ick.
lo
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May, 1911.
€DitonaL
ANTI-FREE-SPEECHISM.
Those who swear men to blindfold se-
crecy, naturally wish to enforce secrecy
upon those who do not submit to their
oaths of darkness. In their interest, and
to further this mediaeval design, the Ore-
gon legislature has subserviently passed
House^Bill No. 6, entitled, "A Bill for an
Act prohibiting the writing, printing, or
circulating of the secret work of frater-
nal orders without express authority of
such orders, and providing a punishment
therefor.
''Be it enacted by the Legislative As-
sembly of the State of Oregon :
''Section i. That it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm, or corporation,
either directly or indirectly, to write,
print, indite, or circulate, or procure to
be written, printed, indited, or circulated,
in any language, any signs, plates, rit-
uals, or secret w^ork, or any part thereO'f ,
of any fraternal order or fraternal so-
ciety, without the expressed authority of
such fraternal order or fraternal society.
"Section 2. Any person, firm, or cor-
poration violating any of the provisions
of this act shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction there-
of shall be punished by a fine of not less
than $50, nor more than $500."
We note a few implications and ef-
fects of this inquisitional legislation.
1. It betrays the lack of previous en-
lightenment in Oregon.
2. It betrays vestiges of the tenth
century still traceable in the twentieth.
3. It offers that protection to the
Jesuit order, together with the federa-
tion of societies under its control, which
is adapted to facilitate its purpose to
make American education parochial, and
inefficient.
4. It makes a misdemeanor, punish-
able upon conviction, of mentioning in
print, or making known in a letter of
warning to an intended victim, anything
accounted secret by any Chinese Tong,
Clan-na-Gael, Mafia, Mollie Maguire, or
kindred conspiracy against public or pri-
vate welfare. A man cannot write such
a letter to a member of his family, with-
out breaking Oregon law.
5. The bill is a complete endorse-
ment of exposures and rituals as correct
and true. It recognizes that the secrets
are not secret.
6. It is of the nature of the old laws
belonging to union of Church and State.
It savors of the colonial mustiness of
some Atlantic coast early history ; it even
smells of the old Spanish dungeons.
7. No more than the edicts of earlier
paganism, can this kind of prohibition
extinguish the light of Christian civiliza-
tion so that it cannot shine into the dark
corners where the devotees of darkness
wish to hide. The servants of Christ,
free elsewhere, have still a large range
in which to teach Christian truth even in
Oregon. The bill does not cover all
Christian service ; it does not suspend its
penalty over every act of light bearing
patriotism. Besides this, it can dig a
dark dungeon for ''Giants Pope and Pa-
gan" only within the fields of Oregon.
THE CAMORRA.
"Americans have become familiar with
the 'Black Hand,' an organization of
Italian criminals which has instigated
many crimes in this country, and which
extorts money under threats of violence
and murder. It is also' known that this,
in America, is a mere extension to this
country of the methods of what is known
as 'The Camorra,' in Southern Italy. This
is an organization, with a well-known
head, man}^ of the members of which are
also known ; but it is so skillfully man-
aged, and has so many members, that its
crimes can seldom be traced tO' any one
person, and its members are sO' hig"h in
official position that the guilt of any
member can seldom be proved.
"The Italian government has been try-
ing for years to suppress the Camorra,
but has not been successful. At last, dis-
coveries have been made which it is
hoped will lead tO' the execution of some
of the leading members, and the break-
ing up of the organization. About three
years agO' a member of the Camorra was
found to have been murdered. His name
was Genarro Cuocolo, and his wife was
also found to have been murdered. For
three years the government detectives
have been working on the case, and have
at last obtained proof of the complicity
May, 1911.
CHRISTL\N CYNOSURE.
17
of the head of the Camorra, Enrico Al-
fano, or Erricone, and other prominent
leaders in the crime. They have been ar-
rested, and the testimony in the trial is
expected tO' implicate many prominent
persons in Southern Italy in member-
ship in this criminal organization. The
trial is expected to last two or three
years, and it will be one of the famous
legal cases of history. It is hoped that
the result will be a death blow to the
Camorra, and Americans are interested
because it will also aid authorities in this
country in identifying' and punishing
members of the 'Black Hand,' and in
putting an end to its crimes." — The
Watchman (Boston).
"THEIR ALTARS BY HIS ALTAR."
On the fourteenth day of June, at
the exactly calculated hour when the
Masonic grand lodge of Oregon con-
venes at Portland, three representative
members will convene a grand lodge ses-
sion on the slope of Mt. Moriah, at Jeru-
salem. Doubtless many of the more su-
perstitious members of the order will
feel this to be an impressively closer rec-
ognition of Solomon, whose name is
falsely used in the Masonic ritual, though
even high Masonic authority denies that
he ever knew anything* about Freemason-
ry. Essentially Masonic his conduct may
have been, when, after having- built a
temple dedicated tO' Jehovah, he was se-
duced in later years into complicity with
paganism.
"For it came to pass, when Solomoii
was old, that his wives turned away his
heart after other gods ; and his heart was
not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was
the heart of David his father. For Sol-
omon w^ent after Ashtoreth, the goddess
of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the
abomination of the Ammonites. * * *
Then did Solomon build a high place for
Chemosh. the abomination of Moab, in
the mount that is before Jerusalem, and
for Molech, the abomination of the chil-
dren of Ammon."
We have, in fact, been assured by a
Freemason that he knew of no reason for
supposing that Solomon was ever any-
thing but a Sun-worshiper. One of the
fraternity, who has, longer than any oth-
er of those bowing to the East as Sun-
worshiping Masons, served continuous-
ly as Masonic grand chaplain, is to enact
the scene at Jerusalem, opposite the
Mount of Offense, in conjunction with
two companions of the same cult, like a
pagan ''suckled in a creed outworn."
We are naturally turned back to Mil-
ton, who, reviewing the mustered forces
of the fallen aspirant, tells us that :
"The chief were those who, from the pit of
Hell
Roaming to seek their prey on earth, durst' fix
Their seats, long after, next the seat of God,
Their altars by His altar, gods adored
Among the nations round,
>l< :i: ;|; ^; ^ ;); ^
And with their darkness durst affront His
light.
First, Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with
blood
Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears.
^ >i^ >i^ >i< ^ >i; >f;
^,- -1= * tj^g wisest heart
Of Solomon he led. by fraud, to build
His temple right against the temple of God,
On the opprobrious hill ; and made his grove
The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence
And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.
Next Chemos, th' obscene dread of Moab's
sons,
>!; ;|< ;|c ;■< 5j; ^ ^
Peor his other name, when he enticed
Israel in Sittim, on their march from Nile,
To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.
Yet thence his lustful orgies he enlarged
Even to that hill of scandal, by the grove
Of Moloch homicide ; lust hard by hate ;
Till good Josiah drove them thence to Hell.
»T» 'j^ r^ 'fc ^-» y^ 5jC
•-!< ^ ^ With these in troop
Came Astoreth, whom the Phoenicians called
Astarte, queen of Heaven, with crescent horns ;
To whose bright image, nightly b}^ the moon,
Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs ;
In Sion, also, not unsung, where stood
Her temple on the offensive mountain, built
By that uxorious king, whose heart, though
large.
Beguiled by fair idolatresses, fell
To idols foul."
And now, long afterward, luitaught by
sacred writer or by poet, the devotees of
the like cult return to the valley side, to
bow toward the East almost opposite the
other hill where the ancient high place of
pag'an abomination affronted the sacred
cit}^ and the Temple of its God. Already
Mohammedan superstition has mounted
the height; Masonic superstition, crawl-
ing after, halts on the slope. So mote
it be.
Praise is encouraging; it brings out the
best that is in a man, and inspires him to
do his duty cheerfullv and faith fullv.
18
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May, 191L
A FOREIGN NATIONAL FESTIVAL.
In giving our readers a chance to read
part of an editorial taken from the Hi-
bernian, we call attention to a few points
on \\hich the secret order is congratu-
lated by the editor. It is the leading edi-
torial,, and its heading, "Our National
Festival,'' refers solely to the Irish na-
tion. It may be recollected that a Penn-
sylvania priest identified the MoUie Ma-
guires with the Hibernians. This Ro-
man Catholic society may, for aught wc
know, be more exclusively national in the
Irish sense than the Knights of Colum-
bus, but it shares with that order in be-
ing of the group of combined secret or-
ders of which the Jesuit is the head.
It is to be noticed that the editor is
pleased with recognition of the festal
day as if it were an authorized American
holiday. The order of the New York
postmaster is copied in full ; the same
conditions are said to have prevailed in
all other public offices in New York City ;
at the Catholic Cathedral, city, state and
United States officials joined the arch-
bishop, who was formerly chaplain of the
Hibernian society, in reviewing the pa-
rade. The military marched with this
secret order as if with something national
in the American sense. With the state
militia was associated the driUed Hiber-
nian Military Company. After making
these notes, we now call special atten-
tion to this statement :
'Tor the first time in the history of
the postoffice in that city, St. Patrick's
Day was officially recognized on exactly
the same grounds as a legal holiday."
We quote the first part of the Catholic
secret society editorial, asking the reader
to note the points to which we have
cahed attention :
"We predicted in our last issue that tlie
celebration of our National Festival would
this year be attended by more than the
usual enthusiasm and would surpass all for-
mer demonstrations in numbers and mag-
nificence.
"Our words, we are glad to say, have
been fully verified, and we can look back on
the celebration of 1909 as the most success-
ful, from every point of view, that has yet
taken place.
"In many parts of the country the day
assumed thei proportions of a national holi-
day, and citizens of all classes and condi-
tions, native as well as adopted, joined
most heartily Avith our fellow-countrymen in
adding eclat to the festivities.
"In the city of New York, the great me-
tropolis of the nation, where our people
abound in large numbers, this was especially
the case. For the first time in the history
of the post office in that city St. Patrick's
Day was officially recognized on exactly the
same grounds as a legal holiday, as can be
seen from the following order issued on.
March 16 by Postmaster E. M. Morgan:
" 'The attention of superintendents of di-
visions, departments and stations of this
office is directed to the fact that Wednes-
day, March 17, 1909, will be observed as a
holiday by many of our citizens, and they
are directed to grant excuses from duty on
that day to all employes making application
therefor, when the same can be done with-
out interfering with the requirements of the
service, as has been done heretofore on days,
observed as holidays.
" 'E. M. Morgan, Postmaster.'
"This was not only a recognition of Ire-
land's National Festival, 'but it showed the
general observance of the day, for it carries
with it the intimation that business would
be generallj^ suspended and that the services,
of the postal officials would not be required.
"The same conditions prevailed in all oth-
er public offices, and many prominent busi-
ness houses suspended operations for the
day.
"New York, of course, surpassed all other
cities in its grand parade, which made a.
magnificent spectacle as it moved up Fifth
avenue to St. Patrick's Cathedral, where it
was reviewed by Archbishop Farley, pur
former National Chaplain, and the city, state
and United States officials.
"At the head of the parade marched the
military, composed of the historic Sixty-
ninth Regiment, the First Brigade of the
Irish Volunteers, St. Anthony's Military Ca-
dets and the Hibernian Military Company,
numbering in all over five thousand men.
as well drilled as any soldiers in the United
States; clean-cut, active and stalwart in ap-
pearance and marching in a manner that
elicited the most enthusiastic applause from
the hundreds of thousands of spectators that
crowded along the line."
A sad but common experience of
mankind is to have an appreciation of
our privileges born only at the burial
of our opportunities.
May, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
19
ARTHUR BRISBANE TO THE HIBER-
NIANS.
Several months ago Arthur Brisbane,
■of the Nezv York American, was a
speaker at a gathering reported by the
National Hibernian, which said :
"Undoubtedly the most enthusiastic
'godspeed' ever given to any delegates
bent upon a mission of national peace
and unity was that tendered by the Hi-
bernians of New York County to Rev.
Father Philip J. O'Donnell, pastor of
St. Philip's Church, Boston, and Na-
tional President Matthew Cummings, by
over four hundred members of our or-
der on Friday morning, April 2, at Shan-
ley's Roman Court, Broadway and 42d
street. New York."
Mr. Brisbane was introduced as one
who needed no introduction to the Irish
of New York. Early in his speech he
remarked :
"I suppose that I am about as Irish
as anybody here really. My great-
grandfather was born in Dublin, and my
mother was born in Sligo. But, at the
same time, I will talk to you as an or-
dinary American citizen, without any
special pretensions to a hearing from
you, about what I believe is the good in-
fluence of your organization, entirely
apart from Irish matters."
Mr. Brisbane then proceeded at once
as follows :
''Of course, you know that I am a
newspaper writer, and I am employed
b)y a newspaper that expresses dissatis-
faction very often and protests. Now,
I believe the most important thing in
America, as in Ireland, is eneroetic, de-
termined and continued protest against
injustice. (Applause.) Your organi-
zation, which has lasted under its pres-
ent name or other names for centuries,
is one of the most protracted, deter-
mined, dionified and ceaseless protests
against injustice that the world has ever
known. You have kept it up for cen-
turies. You have seen the same kind of
thing die out in other countries. You
have seen rebellions — and submissions.
But the Irish people have kept up the
light, and it is as vigorous now as it
has ever been in the history of the long
struggle. (Applause.)
"Now, your own officers will tell you
what they expect to do ; what they hope
to accomplish directly in Ireland or for
Ireland. I want to tell you that I be-
lieve that you are doing a great thing
as an example in America. The things
that are done gradually in this country
are as harmful and threatening in the
long run as if they had been done in a
more brutal, tyrannical and public way
across the ocean."
Later in his speech to the Hibernians
he said :
"The glorious thing for the Irish to
remember is that they are a ruling race.
Wherever they go they rule out of all
proportion to their numbers. That is
an inspiring thing. A man need not be
discouraged because he does not win
right away. We ought to be conscious
of the fact that keeping alive Irish feel-
ing and nationality is the main consid-
eration. There is not a man that can
help respecting the Jews, for the reason
that they have stuck to their own peo-
ple and belief. They have not a single
bit of country that they can call their
own, but they stick together, and if you
hurt one of them, another one is apt to
hurt you. The Irish people have got that
to keep in their minds."
Finishing his address to this Irish
secret society, he closed with these
words :
"This is almost a speech, so I will
end it. I am verv much oblis^ed to vou
for listening to me. I thank you for
inviting me, and I advise you above all,
if I may advise you, to stick close to-
gether. You are 225,000 men in Amer-
ica, and that is really a nation, and
that is a remarkable nation, because it
is a nation of successful men, picked
men, and you are successful men, and
you possess enough power in that to do
almost anything. The thing is to stick
and for the next five or ten years to
keep up your protest. You set a good
example for the rest of the world, and
you keep alive the real Irish nationalitv,
which is Irish thought and patriotism
and character." (Applause.)
At this point, we remind the reader
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May, 191L
that Arthur Brisbane is the leading edi-
torial writer of a newspaper called Tlie
A 111 erica Ji.
BEHEADED IN CHINA.
Secret societies existed in China cen-
ttn-ies before the first grand lodge of Ma-
sons was formed in England, or the still
older Jesuit order was organized. One
of the first Chinese orders w-as the Ver-
milion Eyebrows, the members of which,
in order to scare their enemies, actually
painted their eyebrow^s before going into
battle. The Iron Heads, the Brass
Shins, and others followed, until at
length, though still hundreds of years
ago, the Triad, or Society of Heaven
and Earth, began its murderous career.
About that time warlike monastic Chi-
nese had saved the empire by defeating
a hostile army, but their prow^ess having
caused jealousy, the emperor was per-
suaded to destroy them. Trapped in
their fortress by night, they fought des-
perately until all but five were slain.
These five survivors founded the order
of the Triad.
Their Heaven and Earth society has
since then attacked government officials,
murdered officers wdio killed any one
connected with the Triad, fought gov-
ernment troops, and headed every Chi-
nese revolution. So obnoxious to the
government is this rebellious order, that
any man found in China with a ticket of
the society in his possession is forthwith
beheaded.
The Triad has extended its power into
other parts of the world wherever China-
men have gone. Secret societies in the
E^nited States having Chinese lodges or
Tongs, send thousands of dollars every
year to China for the support of the
Heaven and Earth society. Branches of
the Triad itself are in all American cities
having Chinese settlements. For ex-
ample, much more than half the Chinese
in Los Angeles belong to the Triad. All
of them could be sent suddenly to join
revolutionary forces in China and fight
for the overthrow of the present dynasty.
Their society is said to have been origi-
nally formed for the purpose of support-
ing the old dynasty of Chinese emperors :
it is said to have for its present object
the overthrow of tlie rulers of the dynas-
t}^ bearing rule.
One member of this secret society is
Leon Ling, suspected of the murder of
Elsie Sigel. The Triad will protect him^
and probably no other Tong w^ould dare,
if it wished, to fail to share in his pro-
tection. It is probable that he belongs to
some other order, if not more than one^
and he may be a Royal Arch Mason, un-
der its shield for crime — murder not ex-
cepted. To give information leading to-
the arrest of ihis famous, or infamous,
member of the Triad fraternity, or to fail'
to assist him in trouble, would be to in-
cur an almost Masonic penalty : both ears
would be cut ofif, and one hundred and
eighty blows would be laid on the bare
back. In America members of the Triads
though well known, can still live ; in
China as soon as discovered they must
die. Here they can be Highbinders or
Masons, they can join any sort of Tong;
there they are sent at once to keep only
the secrets of the dead.
ONLY CHRISTIAN, SO PROFANE.
"The eyes of the profane are upon us
all as Masons, and they are particularly
focused upon those who are in atithor-
ity. It becometh us, therefore, to walk
worthy of the vocation wherewith we
are called, for 'By their fruits ye shall
know them.' It is not all of Masonry
to wear a Masonic pin nor to know cer-
tain letters better than the Ten Com-
mandments."
The Fraternal Record, which prints
these words from a P. G. M., adds the
following from another Mason : "My
brethren, let us not forget that Masonry
is founded on principles that have stood
the test of time. It stands to-day the
peer of any order or institution, and its
future is firmly established as the Rock
of Ages."
The peer of any instittition is the peer
of each among all institutions — at least
the peer of the best. Masonry is the peer
of the family; Masonry is the peer of the'
school ; Masonry is the peer of the Sun-
day-school ; Masonry is the peer of the
Christian church.
Rock of Ages is the name given ta
May, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
21
Christ in one of the best known hymns.
Another hymn sings : ''The church's
one foundation is Jesus Christ the
Lord." The future of Masonry is ''as
firmly estabhshed" as Jesus Christ. The
peer of the church, with its future as
firmly established as Jesus Christ, is Ma-
sonry. What madness seems sometimes
to smite the sun-worshipino- mind !
Another writer is allowed by the Rec-
ord to represent "the work of Masonry"
in a way that is no doubt charming to
the Masonic ear, as a work "the full ac-
complishment of which we are promised
in that Celestial Lodge where the Su-
preme Architect of the universe pre-
sides." This should be encouraging to a
Chinese Buddhist, or a Turkish Moham-
medan fresh from Armenian massacres,
or to a Parsee or a Hindoo Mason.
From the same journal we learn that
ninety years "have passed since Wiley,
Welch, Duncan, Rushworth and Cheat-
ham, the original quorum, humbly, yet
in faith, planted the seeds of Friendship,
Love and Truth on the American con-
tinent." The exact ninety year date was
April 26, 1909, hence the planting re-
ferred to took place in the spring of
1819. We had the impression that
friendship had not continued to be un-
known from the time of settlement
through the Colonial and Revolutionary
periods. Ten years before this seed-time,
Washington died ; five years later than
this alleged planting of Friendship, La-
fayette revisited America. We have had
the idea that when he came to the rest-
ing place at Mount Vernon he was re-
garded as a friend visiting the grave of
one who was his friend until death. If
there was friendship between these two
it showed itself at least fifteen years be-
fore this visit to the tomb.
A little further along we read : "We
turn to our own country for a conspic-
uous example of friendship. Washing-
ton and Lafayette were united in a com-
mon cause, and history records that they
had a strong attachment for each other.
Friendly ties bound these great soldiers
and statesmen."
Did not John Alden love Priscilla in
Plymouth times, almost two centuries
before this alleged planting of the seeds
of love in America? Or if a different
type of love is demanded, is any type
wanting from the record of the colonies,
the Revolution, and the first score of
years under constitutional American gov-
ernment? As to truth, were its seeds
planted two hundred 3^ears after surviv-
ing Pilgrims planted the hill beside Ply-
mouth rock to conceal the graves of mar-
tyrs to the truth ? Something better than
boasted Oddfellowship came far earlier
and is still here.
The Fraternal Record rather wisely
says: "When you put a pistol in your
pocket you have it there for a purpose.
You may salve your own conscience by
saying that you have it there to defend
your own life, but the truth is that you
have it there to take a life if you become
offended, and in your heart of hearts you
think that the provision of the Constitu-
tion of the United States permitting the
bearing of arms justifies you in what
you are doing,"
But the Record fails to proceed and
show how the same principle applies to
murderous, and otherwise immoral lodge
oaths. The Record thus advises :
"Don't stand on the corner of the
street and growl about what they are do-
ing at the lodge. Go up and 'kick.' No
one may pay any attention to you, but it
won't hurt the lodge, and the exercise
may do you good. The 'kicking' at long
range has a tendency to dislocate the
joints, because it misses the mark so
often. Close range 'kicking' always does
the kicker good, and he is the brother
who needs it most."
That is what we keep doing.
We also find this in the Record : "The
Master has a right to be firm in his de-
cisions, but he has no right to forget the
humble origin from which he was called,
and which its proximity to the northeast
of the lodge should ever remind him. By
slow degrees he has reversed the position
in which he then stood, but in this
triumph he should exhibit self-abnega-
tion. He is now a ruler, he was then
but a servant, but his rule should be as
gentle as his obedience was then sin-
cere."
And this in the New Testament, "No
man can serve two masters."
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May, 1911.
HOMILETIC REVIEW CORRESPOND-
ENCE.
In the department for Preachers Ex-
changing \'iews,, a correspondent of the
Hoinilctic Rci'lczv who asked in Septem-
ber what reason can be given for asking
Masons to lay church corner-stones con-
demned the custom as unfit and offensive.
John Erler rephed in December, and to
the complaint that when a corner-stone
was laid for a church some profane and
godless ]\Iason often read the prayer,
replied that Masonry never admitted a
godless ^Nlason often read the prayer,
arise from using the word in two senses.
The objector could mean ungodly — god-
less in the sense of being without God ;
the defender could Masonically mean an
Atheist. To him no other would be god-
less. Universal Masonry must accept
men of all beliefs — Christian, Moham-
medan, or Pagan. No one is Masonical-
ly godless until he burns his last idol.
There is no Masonic reason why a Pagan
could not read the prayer at a church
corner-stone laying. Though Mr. Erler
indicates truly that no extreme Atheist
can be a Mason, he does not squarely
meet and fully remove the objections
made in September. If the corner-stones
of Christian churches are often laid with
prayer formally read by profane and un-
godly men, complaint is merited.
While attempting to defend the cus-
tom, Mr. Erler adds the claim that the
Bible is the only text-book of Masonry.
Yet the authoritative text-book of Ma-
sonic jurisprudence would have taught
him that the Bible need not be on ev-
ery Masonic altar. The New Testament
need not be on a Jewish altar, and the
proper book for a Mohammedan lodge is
the Koran. Chinese Pagans often be-
come Masons, while Masonic lodges are
numerous in India'. Can Mr. Erler im-
agine that Masonic Buddhists are Bible
students? Even an American lodge is
no Sunday-school room, and any one
can become a full-fledged Mason without
reading one page of the Bible.
The text-book already cited says :
"The precepts of Jesus could not have
been made obligatory upon a Jew," and
declares that "The Mohammedan must
have rejected the law of Moses."
In like manner another Masonic text-
book, "Chase's Digest of Masonic Law,"
says : "The Jews, the Chinese, the Turks,
each reject either the New Testament or
the Old or both, and yet we see no good
reason why they should not be made Ma-
sons."
To claim a book which multitudes of
iMasons never study or even read, and
which multitudes more of Masons point-
edly reject, as the sole text-book, is to
ignore such books, for example, as Mack-
ey's Text-Book and his Monitor, Webb's
Monitor, Chase's Digest, Anderson's
Constitutions, Sickles' Ahiman Rezon or
Ereemason's Guide. Only these need be
mentioned to disprove that a largely ne-
glected or repudiated book is the only
one that Masons study. Erom the class
of works to which these belong Masons
can learn matters pertaining to Masonic
ritual, doctrine, and conduct, but neither
Masons nor any one else could acquire
them from the Bible. The ritual is not
in the Bible ; the doctrine is not in agree-
ment with the Bible, and the moral teach-
ings do not coincide with Biblical mor-
als. It would be an erratic Mason who
made the Bible his only text-book. He
w^ould verify that high Masonic dictum,
"The fact is that Masonry has nothing
whatever to do with the Bible; it is. not
founded on the Bible ; if it were found-
ed on the Bible it would not be Masonry;
it would be something else."
WHISKY AND INSTRUCTION FOR
COLORED MASONS.
The Enterprise, published in Arkan-
sas, is said to be a Masonic paper edited
by negroes.
As printed, the names of the ''pub-
lishers and editors" are M. A. Clark and
J. M. Murchison. One of them has
contributed this signed letter to the
paper :
Marianna, Ark., Aug. 21, 1907-
This is to certify that I am wholly
and solely responsible for all ads that
appear in the columns of The Enter-
May, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
23
prise- That is part of my work as
business manager. I have the business
side of the Enterprise excKisively in
hand, and the editor hasn't any right
to set aside any business contract which
has for its object the financial strength-
ening of the company's project. As
business manager and full partner of
The Enterprise, I reserve the right to
advertise any lawfully authorized com-
modity of our town. The company
has protested against whisky ads es-
pecially, but I have not yet conceded
to their wishes. The fact that the
editor is a minister and despises the
drug as the devil does holy water, I
have some regret that it becomes
necessary for us to continue such ads,
but would have it understood that I
have no respect for a certain class of
men who speak deridingly of news-
papers that carry whisky ads when, at
the same time, they are continuously
under the influence of whisky-
M. A. Clark,
Managing Editor.
The same issue contains a long article
on ''The Masonic Order," in which it
is said that ''The mother of all Masonic
lodges of the three craft degrees was
the Premier Grand Lodge of England,
organized in 1717."
This refers to the first Masonic
Grand Lodge ever formed in the world.
At that time, we are not sure that more
than one degree was known, or that it
was identical with any now existing.
No doubt there were three degrees not
many years afterward, possibly within
ten. The year is correctly given, and
we will add that the exact date was the
17th of June. The place was a London
tavern-
The article claims, with truth, that
"there are many Free Masons in India,
citing, also, by name, one who is a
Parsee. It avers that "Masons may be
Jews, Moslems, or Christians," and that
"the order merely teaches the larger
doctrines of all religions."
"The Knights Templars are the dis-
play feature of the order, and their
drills at triennial encampments are im-
mensely popular as spectacles. The
Ancient Order of Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine is not a regular Masonic body,
but only thirty-second degree masons
are eligible for membership." (Knights
Templar are also eligible. ) "The order
of the Eastern Star is an auxiliary body,
composed of wives, daughters, sisters,
and widows of masons. . . . Unlike
most fraternal orders, the masons have
no insurance feature"
When speaking of the Anti-masonic
political party of about 1830, he men-
tions that Thurlow Weed was quoted
as saying of the body that was found,
that it was a good enough Morgan
until after election, but the writer fails
to explain that the quotation was gar-
bled, and that what Mr. AA^eed said was
"a good enough Morgan for us until
you bring back the one you carried
off." The writer also asserts that
"masonry has long ceased to afTect or
be affected by politics." Such an asser-
tion needs either support, or qualifica-
tion, or retraction.
BEAST AND BIRD FIGHT.
The Boston Herald reported that
there was "a clash of the Owls at the
State House. James A. Watson, of
Roxbury, and Thomas J. Coffey, of
East Boston, mixed it up. Just how
it happened, is a matter about which
there is little agreement. The New
England order of Owls, of which Mr.
Coffey is a member, was having a hear-
ing before the legislative committee on
insurance, the state insurance depart-
ment having taken exceptions to the
Owls doing business here without au-
thority. Therefore the Owls sought
to incorporate under the Massachusetts
laws. Mr. Watson, who is a member
of the independent order of the Moose,
appeared. Watson says that Coflfey
called him names. Watson resented
this with a blow. A second afterward
Coffey had Watson by the neck, and
a dexterous twist landed Watson on
the concrete floor. The battle con-
tinued from the fifth floor of the State
House to the Hooker statue in the
yard. The Moose representative went
one way, and the Owl another."
W. B. Stoddard sagely observed that
"Just why a man calling himself a
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May, 1911.
]Moose should object to another's caUing-
him names is not apparent." ^Moose
are h.orned cattle any way and given
to hght'ng, bnt \\hat scn-t of insurance
the Owls may have hatched we do
not know. The whole flock of night
birds must be blinking- Owls, so far
as knowledge of the necessary prin-
ciples and conditions of insurance is
concerned ; and one should be blind in
daylight, to risk anything in such or-
ders without the most searching in-
vestigation of plans, since it is a kind
of insurance that without chart or com-
pass has commonly sailed in the fog
toward wreck. \\'e fear that, like otlier
flitting flocks, trying to hide from the
inexorable laws of mathematics, these
Owls will find themselves lost in the
woods. It may be that the Massa-
chusetts commissioners and the Fra-
ternal Congress wnll, between them,
cage these particular financial birds,
and compel them to hang on a reason-
ablv safe perch until their patrons get
tired of what, even yet, is liable to
be unsatisfactory insiu-ance. Yet if
the Owls have the wisdom of Miner-
va's bird, they may surprise us all and
really insure their patrons. More ihan
a fight, how'Cver, appears to be risked.
"ET TU, BRUTE?"
Wq have feared that Brown Uni-
versity influence was too much thrown
into the wrong side of the scale, but
we are noAv encouraged by news relat-
ing to an investigation conducted in
that ancient yet progressive institution.
It appears that Dean Meiklejohn has
reduced the question to arithmetical
terms, and ascertained the definite
answer. As might hav,e been expected,
the results obtained at Brown and
those already discovered elsewhere are
practically identical. Scholarship
being the subject of inquiry, it is
known there that the standard of fra-
ternity scholarship and that of non-
fraternitv scholarship do not '-orr^-
spond. The difference appears favor-
ably in the higher standard maintained
by students not connected with Greek
letter societies. Above a lower average
standard, members of secret societies
do not succeed in rising. Scholarship
is evidently put at a disadvantage. The
prospects of a student loaded with this
clog are less encouraging.
This cannot be set aside as the prej-
udiced opinion of an instructor speak-
ing for himself; it is the niecessary re-
sult derived from a study of class
records in the form of regular scholar-
ship markings made without reference
to this question, and made by no less
competent an examiner than the Dean
of a great University. It is a statistical
sttidy ascertaining facts by means of
figures recorded for a different purpose.
Moreover, the results are in distinct ac-
cord with those already known as ob-
tained in the same dispassionate and
mathematical way elsewhere. Morals
are not now the only consideration.
Vice and virtue are not solely under
present inquiry. Scholarship has been
called to the bar, and the verdict is
known. If to a lower standard of
morals must be added a lowier standard
of scholarship, the matter is for one
more imperative reason, not to be left
to students, and alumni, and faculties.
It is to be canvassed beforehand in the
home of the prospective freshman be-
fore he leaves that home to enter col-
lege. Parents have primary and para-
mount rights in their own sons.
In answer to a request in the April
Cynosure, Rev. J. S. Baxter, 1306 W.
2y^ street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
writes that he will attend a convention in
Kansas, if oue is held, and give one or
more addresses as may be desired. Our
friends in Kansas will please make a
minute of this.
We shall do so much in the years to come,
But what have we done to-day?
Wc shall give out gold in a princely sum,
But what did we give to-day?
We shall lift the heart and dry the tear,
We shall plant a hope in place of fear,
We shall speak with words of love and
cheer,
But what have we done to-day?
— Nixon Waterman.
The greatest grief may be buried
under a big dinner. The greatest joy
or the greatest possibility of mind or
soul may suffer a like fate.
May, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
25
TESTIMONIES OF PASTORS
REV. E. 9^, GOODWIN, 2), T>.
Late Pastor First Congre-
gational Church, Chicago
Why, the very claims that put Masonry back into antiquity, if they arc to be granted, would
only prove it heathenish.
A. J. GORDON, D. D.
Late Pastor Clarendon Street
Baptist Church, Boston
The heart cannot be halved; and he who attempts to love the church of God with one
hemisphere of his heart, and the secret society with the other, will speedily find that he is very
much more of a lodgeman than a churchman.
REV. B. T. ROBERTS
Late Editor of
The Free Methodist
For us to keep silent respecting Masonry, and thus tacitly
endorse the idea that a man can both accept Christ and deny
Him — that is, be a good Mason and a good Christian at the
same time — would be treason to Christ.
REV. B. T. ROBERTS
REV. 0. "P. GIFFORD
From an address deli'v-
ered in Boston in J889
The multitude of secret societies is something wonderful.
It would be easier to take the census of the frogs in Egypt,
or the lice on the persons of Pharaoh's people.
They tell us to spare this or that secret order, but it will
not do. They are all organized on a false basis of morality, and our eye must not spare, any
more than did Samuel when he slew Agag.
REV. M. C. "liANSEEN
Vice-President S%edish
Lutheran Augustana Synod
From personal observation, as well as from authors on the secret lodge system, I have more
and more come to the conclusion that the principles underlying the secret orders, and operating
therein, are radically different from the principles laid down in the Word of God, and governing
true Christianity. Faith, hope and charity in the secret societies are not the true Christian faith,
hope and charity.
REV. P. S. HENSON, D. D.
'Pastor Baptist
Church, Boston
Secret political organizations are utterly foreign to the
genius of our free American institutions. Whatever plea
may be made for their necessity under despotic governments,
where free speech is throttled and death is the penalty of
attempting reform, surely there can be no excuse for such
secret oath-bound cabals in a republic like ours, where the
people are the sovereigns and every man has absolute liberty
of political action. * * *
Wc are often told in vaunting speech of the illustrious
names that have given their sanction to secret societies.
No matter for that — the name of Jesus is above every name,
and His name is recorded in reprobation of them
s>3. r. ;; henson
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May, 1911.
TESTIMONIES OF SECEDERS
PRESIDENT a G. FINNEY, OBERLIN, OHIO
T*3.stor, E'vangelisi and
a renouncing Mason
" How can we fail to pronounce Freemasonry an antichrisdan institution ? Its morality is
unchristian. Its oath-bound secrecy is unchristian. The administration and taking of its oaths
are unchristian, and a violation of a positive command of Christ. Masonic oaths pledge its mem-
bers to commit most unlawful and unchristian deeds ; to conceal each other's crimes 5 to deliver
each other from difficulty whether right or wrong ; to unduly favor Masonry in political actions and
in business transactions; its members are sworn to retaliate,
and persecute unto death the violators of Masonic obliga-
tions. ^ ^' "^" Its oaths are profane, the taking of the
name of God in vain. The penalties of these oaths are
barbarous, and even savage. Its teachings are false and
profane. Its design is partial and selfish. Its ceremonies
are a mixture of puerility and profanity. Its religion is
deistic. It is a false religion, and professes to save men upon
other conditions than those revealed in the Gospel of Christ.
It is a virtual conspiracy against both church and state.
Those who adhere intelligently and determinedly to such an
institution have no right to be in the Christian church.
* -jf if jf Freemasonry is a sin, a sham, an abomination,
as I know it to be, and as you also know, then there is but
one way open to us, or to any honest man who knows what
Freemasonry is, and that way is to bear a most decided and
persistent testimony against it, cost what it may. If any
man will withhold his testimony against so great a wrong
to save his infiuence he will sooner or later lose it."
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PRES. C. G. FINNEY
9?£K m. L. HANEY
Pastor of M. E* Church, E<van-
getist and a seceder from Masonry
"I have seen the church prayer-meeting nearly desolate in
every part of the country, because many of its members had
their hearts divided with the lodge. I have demonstrated, in
thirty years of evangelism, that it is well-nigh impossible to
have a wide, deep, thorough revival of religion in any com.-
munity, town, or city which has been honey-combed by the
influences of the lodge. In my seventy-ninth year, and before
I depart to God, I felt I must leave the above testimony."
REV, M. L. HANEY
COL. GEORGE R. CLARKE
Founder of the Pacific Garden
Mission and a renouncing Mason
"I have been a member of several secret societies. I was a 32° Mason in Chicago
before the fire; I also belonged to the Blue Lodge and other intervening orders. In all those that
I belonged to, the association was with the men of the world, without respect to their religion,
whether they had any or had none at all. Such men as atheists, infidels, Mohammedans, Catho-
lics and Protestants can all unite together in these secret associations on an equality, in a bond
which they call the 'bond of brotherhood. '
May, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
27
TESTIMONIES OF STATESMEN
T>ANIEL WEBSTER
Ame rtca n Si a tes -
and Jurist
man
DANIEL WEBSTER
the formation of all such obligations, should be
20, 1835.
GENERAL U. S. GRANT
' ' I have no hesitation in saying that how-
ever unobjectionable may have been the
original objects of the institution, or however
pure may be the motives and purposes of the
individual members, and notwithstanding
th« many great and good men who have
from time to time belonged to the order,
yet, nevertheless, it is an institution which
in my judgment is essentially wrong in the
principle of its formation j that from its very
nature it is liable to great abuses ; that among
the obligations which are found to be im-
posed on its members, there are such as are
entirely incompatible with the duty of good
citizens 5 and that all secret asiociationSy the
members of which take upon themselves
extraordinary obligations to one another, and
are bound together by secret oaths, are nat-
urally sources of jealousy and just alarm to
others^ are especially unfavorable to harmony
and mutual confidence among men living
together under popular institutions, and are
dangerous to the general cause of civil liberty
and good government. Under the influence
of this conviction it is my opinion that the
future administration of all such oaths, and
prohibited by law." — Letter dated Boston, November
**A11 secret, oathbound political parties
how patriotic the motives and principles which
CHARLES SUMNER
Eminent American States-
man, Senator and Orator
*'I find two powers here in Washington
in harmony, and both are antagonistical to
our free institutions, and tend to centraliza-
tion and anarchy — Freemasonry and Slavery,
and they must both be destroyed if our
country is to be the home of the free, as our
ancestors designed it.'' — Letter to Samuel
D. Greene, Chelsea, Mass.
CHARLES FRANCIS
cADAMS
"Every man who takes a Masonic oath
forbids himself from divulging any criminal
act, unless it might be murder or treason
that may be communicated to him under the
seal of fraternal bond, even though such
concealment were to prove a burden upon
his conscience and a violation of his bounden
duty to society and to his God.
"A more perfect agent for the devising
and execution of conspiracies against Church
and State could scarcely have been con-
ceived.-'
are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or
first bring them together." — In his autobiography.
., ^^
CHARLES SUMNER
2S
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May, 1911.
|l(iU0 of §\it Woxk
We have been privileged to see a let-
ter written by Prof. H. R. Smith of
Houghton Seminar}^, New York, which
has interested us very much. The letter
refers to a movement originating in the
Seminary, but the effort extends beyond
the school, and centers around the Wes-
leyan JNIethodist denomination. The mov-
ers in this effort realize the compromis-
ing- tendency of all the reform churches
and the remedy for it. Prof. Smith
writes : "It has been in my mind for a
long time that denominational schools
ought to play a more definite part than
they do, in the training of young people
for aggressive reform service. If re-
form churches are to live, they must pro-
claim their reforms. They cannot do this
successfully unless their schools co-op-
erate in the work."
God bless the "Christian Association"
of Houghton Seminary.
SECRETARY STODDARD'S REPORT.
Boston, Mass., April 17th, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure :
Never was the N. C. A. work needed
more than now. A paper condemning
the Catholic Church in its rejection of
the Bible was applauded by a gathering
of Pastors here this morning. A part of
them would not have complimented a pa-
per showing lodge folly and sin. It has
been my privilege to participate in meet-
ings in the First Covenanter and First
United Presbyterian Churches of this
city. A Presbytery meeting gave op-
portunity to speak to some unacquainted
with the N. C. A. work. There is a no-
ticeable tendency to let down and give
way to lodges in some quarters among
those who recognize the evil. There are,
however, those contending for the right,
and some new ones joining our ranks.
Surely there is no reason for discourage-
ment, but every reason to press forward
with renewed faith in God. One week
from to-night there is to be a public
meeting in the First Covenanter Church ;
addresses by Dr. Atchison, pastor of the
Eighth Street Covenanter Church, Pitts-
burg, Pa., and Amos R. Wells, of the En-
deavor movement. The addresses will be
directed especially in opposition to the
school fraternities.
Some days spent at Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, discovered new friends and cen-
ters for work. What is known as the
Pauline Mission has been recently
opened by our good friend J. P.
Grosvenor. I gladly responded to an in-
vitation to address the friends in this
mission, being assured there was no pad-
lock to be put on the expressions of any
needed truth there. Some members of
the I. O. O. F. lodge had renounced their
lodge allegiance and come out on the
side of Christ. An organization of our
Free Methodist brethren has been ef-
fected in Worcester. A desire for our
aid in their anti-lodge efforts was ex-
pressed. There was a call for literature
and a lecture. Several Swedish pastors
expressed sympathy with our efforts, but
did not find themselves in a position to
give much anti-lodge light, or invite oth-
ers to do' so. My work was centered in
Pennsylvania, in towns north of Phila-
delphia, for more than a week. The Al-
lentown, Pa., Cynosure list was consid-
erably enlarged. There was an open door
for addresses in the Mennonite churches
of AUentown and Zionsville. Brother
Preheim,who ministers to this people, has
attended our meetings in Chicago when
training in the Moody school. He backed
my effort with a strong endorsement. An
extensive but inaccurate account of my
address was published in the AUentown
Call.
1 found New York City alive as ever.
In the days of work there I came in touch
with many people, and believe our cause
was strengthened. Stephen Merritt is
alive and at work. He is still with the
great undertaking establishment bearing
his name. He had been nearly blind, but
is praising God for the partial recovery
of -sight. It is his hope to again read
the Cynosure. The copies are carefully
preserved as they come. He reported
wonderful blessings and help in his mis-
sion work among the "bums," as they
are known. Recently receiving Masonic
grips in his audience from those ad-
vanced in Masonry, he went to the plat-
form and warned against trying to live
sober Christian lives while in connection
May, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
29
with the lodge. As he had been Master
of the largest Masonic lodge in the State,
he could of course, "speak as one having
authority." Lodges make outcasts, but
do' not lift the fallen. I visited several
city missions. A brother at the old John
Street Mission was giving a series of
excellent addresses to the business men
at noon, on the life and work of John
the Baptist. He dwelt upon his fearless,
straightforward utterances and the un-
popularity of his message. He deplored
the tendency to cut out and omit needed
truth, to please an unregenerate audience.
Reference to many sins not commonly re-
buked was made, but the lodge was not
of this number. It is to be hoped that
he was not afraid of the opinion of his
audience. As a reader of the Cynosure,
he knows the lodge evil. If any one
thinks it is easy to bear testimony against
the lodge while addressing a popular au-
dience, let him take up this cross and try
it ! Brethren and friends, let us "earnest-
ly contend for the faith," and when enu-
merating evils of our day, don't let us
overlook pne of the greatest.
God willing, ere this reaches the
Cynosure family, I shall be at work with
you at the Center. May God bless this
year's Annual Meeting at Wheaton, Illi-
nois, and make it a power for good.
W. B. Stoddard.
REPORT OF INDIANA STATE PRESI-
DENT.
Elkhart, Ind., April ist, 191 1.
Wm. I. Phillips, Chicago, 111.
Dear Brother Phillips :
Because of many duties since my re-
turn home I have been delayed in com-
plying with your request in giving a re-
port of my work during the past winter
in the interests of anti-secrecy. In the
first place permit me tO' say that my du-
ties through the year have JDeen primarily
along evangelistic lines and Bible lec-
tures. However, as opportunities pre-
sented themselves, I did deliver a num-
ber of anti-secret lectures. My work for
the past year was through parts of In-
diana, Michigan, Ontario, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. In many places the lodge
seemed to have quite a strong hold, but
in every place the lectures were well at-
tended and due respect was given by the
audiences.
Facts are stubborn things, yet most
convenient things. I have found in my
earlier experience with the lodge ques-
tion that the presentation of the facts
concerning secrecy is sufficient for any
or most fair-minded men. Men of rea-
son and of any degree of moral character
or self-respect are able themselves to
decide as to the propriety or impropriety
of the secret work and conduct of the
modern lodge. I have often found that
the revelation of the secret work of the
lodge is sufficient to offset the intentions
of a fair-minded man in his contempla-
tion of joining the lodge. My efforts
have been largely along lines of informa-
tion and instruction having in view the
object of prevention. I am convinced
that what the coming generation of
young men and women need is informa-
tion concerning the works of darkness,
and our victory will be largely won.
Lodge men themselves have admitted
this statement to be true. In fact, an
editor of a newspaper (himself being
a leading man in the I. O. O. F.) con-
fessed through his paper, while comment-
ing on one of my lectures, that the ele-
ment of secrecy in the lodge serA^ed as
one of the greatest agents in gaining re-
cruits. A number of cases have come
under my observation, both through per-
sonal interviews and lectures, in which
men who were contemplating the act of
joining, or had already joined the lodge,
gave up such intentions or were con-
verted and gave up their order.
For myself as an evangelist and pas-
tor, I am thoroughly convinced, and am
teaching on every proper occasion, that
modern secrecy is anti-Christian ; that it
robs the church of men and money ; that
it hinders very materially every Chris-
tian professor (who is a lodge member)
in his or her duties and relations to the
church ; that it hinders in the first place
many men and women in becoming
Christians ; that the result of secrecy is
that of deceiving men rather than en-
lightening them, and that it leads men
away from God rather than to Him ; and
finally, that there is not one legitimate
or righteous reason for the existence of a
secret order anywhere on the face of the
earth. J. E. Hartzler,
President, Indiana Christian Assn.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May, 191L
AGENT DAVIDSON'S REPORT.
Shreveport, La., April 13th, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure :
Since my last letter I have not been
very well, bnt I am still on the firing' line.
Some of the subjects of the Secret Em-
pire are growing" desperate because
the CvxosuRE is continually throwing
out the calcium light of truth upon their
unfruitful works of darkness, and re-
proving' their evil deeds of sworn se-
crecy.
A very prominent grand officer leader
a few days ago^ accosted me here and
with some excitement and indignation
said : "Sir, I think you ought tO' preach
the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and let secret
societies alone. Secret societies are do-
ing' Christian work. We are sending our
checks .every week for from $100 to $200
to the poor. If that ain't Christian work,
I don't know what Christian work is. I
think if you preach the gospel you will
have 3'our hands full. There is not an-
other minister in this state who is identi-
fied with the Christian Cynosure, and
who would dare to write for such a dirty
paper, but you. I think you ought to
keep in touch with the other city preach-
ers and sa}^ nothing against secret socie-
ties. A'^ou are going to hurt yourself and
church by fighting secret societies. The
President of the United States is a secret
order man, and all of the best people in
America are secret order people. All of
the leading men and women of your
church are secret order people, and it re-
flects on them for you to be associated
with such men as are connected with that
dirty Cynosure. I am a Christian, and
I know there is nothing in secret societies
that prevents me being a Christian : if it
did I would leave the lodge at once."
This poor man is a preacher; he is
held in very high esteem, and I really be-
lieve he is a good man, honest and sin-
cere, but he has simply gone wild after
the idols of secrecy, and has not per-
mitted Christ to reign supreme in his
heart. I assured him that I was not
ignorant as to how lodge men will blind-
fold folks and lead them captive by the
penalties prescribed.
We will be having secret society anni-
versaries in different churches every
Sunday now until November. The senti-
ment expressed by this supposed preach-
er of righteousness, shows convincingly
how the lodges are victimizing their sub-
jects and leading them on and on into sin
and folly.
I assured him that to preach the gospel
meant to reprove sin whether in church,,
lodge or private individual, and if I
could not preach the g'ospel of separation
from sin in Shreveport, I could preach it,
and would preach it elsewhere. I told
him: "1 am a man, and I decline to be
forced or whipped into line b}^ the lodge
people." I will not yield my private
judgment to any man or set of men, even
thoug'h they be supreme lodge digni-
taries.
May God bless the faithful who are
standing on 2 Cor. 6:14-18, and enable
them to be faithful, and to pray most
earnestly for the deliverance of the faith-
ful few. I am still laboring, preaching
and enduring hardness. I don't know
what the lodgeites may resort to^ here to
silence my tongue, but I shall continue to
work while it is yet day.
Yours in the Lord,
J. F. Davidson.
"WHAT IS DUTY?"
The above is the caption of W. L.
Brown's letter in the April number of
the Cynosure.
I have had similar experiences to his.
I could not get right with God while re-
maining
in such a church. I took the
Masonic oaths and read them to the
lodge members, and tried as best I could
to show them how opposed such oaths
were to the spirit of Christianity ; that a
man that was governed and ruled by such
oaths could not be governed and ruled
by the Holy Spirit, but he would be a
child of the Devil. I tried to show them
the inconsistency of trying to live the
Christ-life and the Masonic-life. Their
oaths made men Masons, but the Holy
Ghost made men Christians, and so
Christ-like, and it was an impossibility
for them to be both.
Now the church is the body of Christ.
In the 1 2th chapter of ist Corinthians
the church is set forth and described as
the mystical body of Christ. Woyld any-
one dare to say that the horrible oaths of
Masonry had any place in Christ's mys-
tical body — the Church?
I was the means of many giving up
May, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
31
their lodge, and I wanted the church to
vote it out of its fellowship ; but this they
would not do, so the time came when I
had to leave them, that I might be right
with God. I could not endorse, protect,
uphold and defend the receiving into fel-
lowship in the church members of this
vile, sacrilegious, blasphemous and idol-
atrous ''masterpiece of Satan" for the
leading of immortal souls into hell.
Hence I asked for and received a letter
of dismission from them and joined the
Holiness Baptist Church, the members
of which have no desire to belong to any
such ungodly order of the World. In
this church we all see alike, because the
Spirit leads. Any organization calling it-
self a church and harboring persons pos-
sessed of the spirit of the devil, is not
a church, but a synagogue of Satan.
' A. J. Millard.
Little Rock, Ark.
MRS. LIZZIE WOODS' LETTER.
Dermott, Ark., April nth, 191 1.
Mr. Wm. I. Phillips.
Dear Sir ! I was at Portland last month
visiting a woman's meeting. Where I was
entertained I asked that night, ''Are all
of your family Christians?" The mother
said, "My boy and I are Christians, and
my little girl is a sinner." She did not
say whether her husband was a Chris-
tian or not.
I read Psalms 85 :8 : "I will hear what
God the Lord will speak, for he will speak
peace unto his people, and to his saints ;
but let them not turn again to folly." I
said "Let us examine ourselves and see if
we have turned again to folly." I looked
to hear her husband say a word, but he
was silent. I wondered what was the
matter with him. I talked about back-
sliding. I said, "I believe if we are lost
after being converted, it is because we
back our way into hell." jer. 3:12: "Say,
Return, thou backsliding Israel." I said :
"Now, that verse shows that we have
been with the Lord, but somehow we have
gotten away from him by crawfishing,
going backward to hell. Some back off
into the saloon ; some into the lodge."
When I named the lodge, the old man
straightened up and said, "Is the lodge
wrong?" I said, "Yes, it is wrong." He
said, "I don't think so, because I belong
to the best lodge in the world 1' It is
more like the church than any of the se-
cret fraternities." I said, "What lodge
do you belong to?" "I am a Mason." I
said, "Brother, your lodge is like Jero-
boam the son of Nebat, who caused
Israel to sin, because all of the other
lodges came out of yours, and they have
caused the people to forsake the church
of God." "Do you belong to the church?"
He said, "I used to belong to the church,
but they had some kind of a charge
against me, and wanted me to answer to
the charge, and I never did go to see what
the charge was." "How long have you
been out of the church?" He said, "Six-
teen years."
His wife and son were so- glad that I
spoke about the lodges, for that was the
very reason he quit the church, his wife
said. He was a good Christian, and is
a good husband and father, but he has
given up the church for the lodge. She
said, "He tells me, My lodge came from
the Bible, and is as good as the church."
He did not say any more about the
lodge that night, but next morning he
asked me to tell him how the lodges were
wrong. I said, "Do you feel as safe in
the Masonic lodge as you did in church,
when you think about where you are go-
ing to spend eternity?" "That is the very
thing that is troubling me," he said, with
a trembling voice. "May be you can help
me right now, because I don't feel safe,
and yet the preacher says it is all right,
all based on the Bible. I love the lodge,
but I am not satisfied about my soul."
I then told him how wicked all the
lodges were, and how they had taken
God's people away from the church. I
told him so many of his secrets that he
was afraid for me. He said, "I am glad
you came. You have helped me more
than the preachers." I said, "Don't talk
about the preacher. You will have to go
back in fellowship with God. and when
you go, the preacher will be the ver}^ one
to welcome you back again into the fold
of God."
He says, "Well, I see my wrongs this
morning as I never have before, and I
am going back to the church. Will you
pray for me? I have started to go back
a good many times, but when I see how
wrong the preacher is, I get weak." I
said to him. "The preacher that is in the
lodge is just as blind as you are ; he is to
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
May, 1911.
be pitied, for he does not know that the
lodges are wrong', any more than yon
did; he has lost his spiritual strength,
just as you have, and he don't know the
cause. The devil has him in a trap. When
the devil caught him, then he caught
you, and most of the flock, and all iike
sheep have gone astray' and broken out
of the fold of God, each wandering a
dift'erent way, but all the downward
road."
He used to be a deacon in the church,
now he is a senior deacon in the lodge.
He said. "Sister, here is fifty cents; send
me one of the old Baptist Hymn Books.
I am going back to Jesus, back to the
church and fill my place as a child of
God. I said, "Will yoii give up the
lodge?" He said, 'T think I will — just
give me time. I feel a peace this morn-
ing in my soul that I have never felt in
all these years before, because I have
made up my mind to go back to the
church." I caught his hand in mine and
asked my heavenly Father to give him
the moral courage to go back to the
church, and to gO' to work for the Mas-
ter, and leave that old serpent church
called the Lodge.
"I am so afraid some of the lods^e men
will kill you, just as sure as some of them
know for certain that you are exposing
their secrets ! They will kill you." I said,
*'A\^ell, I will die for the truth, for there
are so many in the dark as you were be-
fore I made it plain to you, and some-
body has got to cry against this great
sin."
His wife said, ''We cannot give you
up, don't say any more about them. I
am afraid for you, and yet I know that is
the thing that has caused my husband
to backslide. I said, "Well, you pray for
me that I may have more boldness to
stand up for Jesus."
Lizzie Woods.
THE NEBRASKA BILL.
In a letter under date of April 12th
John L. Marshall, Jr., Pastor, says ; "The
legislature of Nebraska has adjourned
and the bill making it unlawful to pub-
lish the secret work of fraternal socie-
ties was not passed. Thank God ! He
heard prayer in the matter.
"The bill did not pass either house. On
March 31st it was considered in the
Committee of the Whole in the Senate
and indefinitely postponed. In the House
of Representatives it was placed on Gen-
eral File, and on April 6th all bills in the
House on General File were postponed.
"I doubt not that God used the opposi-
tion to the bill, which came from vari-
ous directions, tO' keep the bill from get-
ting any farther than it did."
Wiseman, Ark., April 12th, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure ;
The Masons and Odd Fellows are
holding their own pretty well here. But
I know of several men who have left the
lodges in this part of the country. My
brother is one. He was an Odd Fellow,
but has quit the lodge, and freely admits
the exposition you publish is true ; and he
did the first time he saw it.
I've been preaching against the lodges
for the past three years, and I never
heard of your publications until about a
year ago. I expect tO' sell all the books
and tracts I can.
Yours for the truth,
^ - D. H. Boles.
CANADIAN CORRESPONDENCE.
Coblenz, Sask., April 14th, 191 1.
Dear Brother Phillips ;
I am still pegging away endeavoring
to arouse the English, German, Nor-
wegian and French speaking Canadians
on the lodge question. Quite recently I
received an encouraging letter from a
French Canadian brother in Montreal, a
D. D., who says, among other things ; "I
am in full sympathy with the principles
enunciated by Dr. Torrey on Freemason-
ry. I have never been able to compre-
hend how Christians, still less pastors,
could conscientiously participate in these
organizations." Most of the Norwegians
are Lutherans and opposed to the lodges.
Since coming to Saskatchewan I have
spent considerable time among the Nor-
wegians, and I am now able to corre-
spond with them in their own language.
Your Prayer Circle is a good sugges-
tion. In order to cope efifectually with
the powers of darkness, we must retain
connection with the great Source of light
and of power. — Moses H. Clemens.
CHICAGO, JUNE, 1911
The
King's Battle Prayer
^ Jehovaht there is none
besides Thee to help be-
tween the mighty and
him that hath no
strength: help us, O Jeho-
vah our God; for we rely
on Thee, and in Thy
name are we come against
this multittide* O Jeho-
vah, Thoa art oar God;
let not man prevail
against Thee^
—2 Chron. 14:11 (R. V,)
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NUMBER 2.
THE CONVENTION HALL.
We met in Wheaton College chapel on
Wednesday evening for prayer and
testimony, and the time was fully and
profitably occupied. We were favored
in having as the leader, Rev. D. S. War-
ner of the Free Methodist Publishing-
House, whO' gave as the ke3^-note of the
session "Separation." There were more
prayers than testimonies, which was an
omen of good for the coming conference.
The remarks of J. Alex. Mackenzie on
the Labor Union movement made a
strong impression. To state his three
fundamental criticisms of the unions
without his amplification is weakening,
but the best that we can do is to mention
the three points. First. The restricted
output, which forbids the best workmen
to dO' more than the poorest. Second.
The level wage that pays the infcrior
workman the highest price. Third. The
closed shop, which means starvation or
murder for those who from conscience
or other reasons cannot join the union.
The Board of Directors met on Thurs-
day morning preceding the meeting o+
the corporate bodv, and held their final
session for the year. It was impossible
for the corporate body to finish its work,
and, hence, the business encroached a
little on the afternoon meeting. AA'e pub-
lish some of the reports in this number.
W^e wish that all might ha\'e Ijcen jires-
ent with us. It was g'ood to greet ?\[rs.
Emma Wdfitham of Pontiac, Illinois, at
the convention for the third )ear in suc-
cession. AA^c expected, of course, to see
Mrs. X. F. Kellogg', wlio for -o manv
years has rendered faithful service as
recordino" secretarv. Init ^\■e are al\v<ivs
in danger of forgetting these faithful
ones whose (piiet and unrequited service
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CHRISTIAN CYNO'SURE.
June, 1911.
refreshes and blesses like the dew from
heaven. Mr. J. AI. Hitchcock has served
the association for nearly a quarter of
a century in an official capacit}' and per-
haps is as well known to our readers as
any other member who has not been met
by them personally. Notwithstanding;-
the frail condition of his health, he glad-
dened everyone by his presence and by
his contributions to the convention. There
was much sorrow and sympathy felt at
the breakdown which has come to our
brother Ezra A. Cook, and we feel sure
that all will unite in prayer for his re-
covery. ]\Iany have expressed their in-
terest in his reminiscences which have
appeared in the last three numbers of the
Cynosure, and another of which will ap-
pear in this number. There has been no
conflict between righteousness and un-
righteousness during his life that he has
not been actively engaged on the side of
his Lord and Master.
It was a beautiful sight to see so many
of our Mennonite friends present, both
men and women, and to hear from
Brethren Rutt, Leaman, Wiens, Hartz-
ler, and others. It is the first time that
we have met and heard in our confer-
ence the Rev. B. L. Olmstead of the
Free Methodist Church, and Rev. Mar-
tin Doerman of the Lutheran Church,
but we hope to see them often hereafter.
It was a very thoughtful and fit thing for
the students of the North Park College
of the Swedish Friends Covenant Mis-
sion denomination to send a delegate and
representative to our annual meeting
with their greetings, which were ably
and very pleasantly given by their Mr.
P. W. Rood. The response was given
by Rev. E. B. Stewart of the United
Presbvterian Church.
The crowning treat of the convention
was the address by Mr. E. Y. Woolley on
''A Many Sided Experience." Mr.
Woolley has a very pleasing and efifective
delivery, and made a strong impression.
We were thankful to see so many young
men and women in the audience.
There were many interesting letters re-
ceived and read so far as time would
permit, extracts from which we hope to
print in a future number of the Cyno-
sure, as well as to give our readers the
benefit of the very able address of Rev.
J. E. Hartzler of Elkhart, Indiana.
THE REPORT OF THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
For the Year 1910-1911.
It would be difficult, if not impossible,
to cultivate and bring to fruition a single
stalk of wheat all by itself. The buffet-
ings of the winds, rains and hail would
probably overpower it while standing as
a unit.
The farmer has learned that this diffi-
culty is overcome by multiplying" the unit
blade a myriad fold, covering thousands
of acres of the Dakotas' broad prairies.
The magnitude of these boundless wheat
fields seems to bid defiance to the storms.
It was upon some such principle that
the National Christian Association was
organized forty years ago.
The founders were neither weaklings
nor cowards. Like the Pilgrim Fathers,
they were men of conviction and daring ;
yet individually and alone these stalwart
reformers felt inadequate for the task of
a formidable opposition to the rapidly
growing secret organizations. Such were
the conditions that inspired the federa-
tion of anti-secret forces known as the
National Christian Association.
For some reason the fathers thought
wise to make Chicago the storm center of
this reform, and the Constitution pro-
vides for the annual election of eleven
Directors, whose business is to care for
and advance the interests of this Associa-
tion. No provision was made for remun-
erating their services, nor has any been
required.
At our last Annual Meeting, held in
the Moody Church, Chicago, Thursday
and Friday, April 7th and 8th, 1910, the
following named were duly elected a
Board of Directors : Pres. Charles A.
Blanchard, Mr. E. A. Cook, Mr. George
Windle, Mr. George W. Bond, Rev. C.
J. Haan, Rev. E. B. Stewart, Rev. J. T.
Logan and Mr. J. M. Hitchcock. These
eight Directors were empowered to fill
the three remaining vacancies.
Giving an account of our stewardship
is the object of this report.
It is altogether proper that we rever-
ently pause for a brief moment before
proceeding further with this review, to
recognize God's hand in His providential
dealings with this Board.
It is not the first, second or even third
time that death has. uninvited, invaded
June, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
our circle. In this instance it has been
our beloved brother, Prof. H. F. Kletz-
ing, who was removed from us with only
a few hours' warning. He had served
upon this Board intermittently for many
years, and had endeared himself to us all
by his affable, intelligent, industrious de-
votion to the cause. In our finiteness we
would have done differently, but we rev-
erently bow to the behests of One who
doeth all things w^ell.
A few years since, almost as suddenly
and with as few premonitions of dissolu-
tion, our brother, C. J. Holmes, then
President of our Board, was taken from
our midst.
While yet writing this report, as late
as May 9th, 191 1, the news reaches us
that our beloved L. N. Stratton has just
fallen asleep. Brother Stratton had for
many years shared the labors of this
Board, and was always found to be a
wise and safe counselor. His age, ex-
perience and methods placed him as a
sort of connecting link between the old
and new g-eneration. We seem to hear
the plaudit, "Well done, good and faith-
ful servant ; thou hast been faithful over
a few things, I will make thee ruler over
many things ; enter thou intO' the joy of
thy Lord.''
Some years previous to this event the
Rev. Edgar B. Wylie, yet in the zenith
of his powers, who had for years so
faithfully and efficientl)' served as Sec-
retary of this Board, was called to his
reward.
It is within the easy recall of those on
this Board that Mr. Henry L. Kellogg,
whose trenchant pen in an earlier day
contributed so largely to the literature
of this Association, with little warning
w^as removed from his sphere of useful-
ness.
Fresh in our memories, with the af-
flictive wound still agape, is the depar-
ture only last year of our dearly beloved
Samuel H. Swartz, who, despite the op-
position of his owni ministerial l^rethren,
stood as a formidable 1)rcastwork against
the inroads of secrcc)- upon his denomi-
nation.
Such a mortuary record should stimu-
late us who survive to more energetic
action.
It is the least we may do, and yet pos-
sibly all WT can do, to make honorable
and affectionate mention of our past as-
sociates, and to assure their surviving*
friends that tlieir meuK^ries are }'et cher-
ished. These were worthv sons of noble
sires. They all fell while active in the
harness, with breasts hard pressed to the
collar.
Within the memory of us \\ho tarry
for a day. have fallen the fathcr> of this
lAssociation — men whose shoe latchets
we would have been scarce worthy to un-
loose. These have died unfaltering in
the faith of the righteousness of a cause
which they, one after another, have trans-
mitted to a younger generation. Who,
without a trembling sense of responsi-
bility, dares presume to don the toga of
a Jonathan Blanchard, a Philo Carpen-
ter, a Chas. G. Finney, an H. H. Hinman,
a James P. Stoddard, a Rathburn, Ro-
nayne or Barlow ? Who can contemplate
the condition without devoutly praying,
"O Lord, raise up, in a single day, giants
to fill these vacancies" ?
The first Board meeting for the year
was held April 26th, 1910. in a commit-
tee room of the First National Bank
Building, Chicago. Secretary Phillips
announced the names of the recently
elected Directors, and prayer was offered
by Mr. George W. Bond.
A temporary organization was eft'ected
by the election of Mr. George W. Bond
as Chairman, and J. M. Hitchcock, Sec-
retary.
At this first meeting Prof. H. F. Kletz-
ing and ]\Ir. Joseph Amick were elected
to the Board of Directors to fill two of
the three vacancies.
The following committees were elect-
ed : Publication : Rev. J. T. Logan, ]\Ir.
E. A. Cook and Mr. Joseph Amick. Fi-
nance : Prof. H. F. Kletzing, ]\Ir. George
W. Bond and Rev. E. B. Stewart. Build-
ing's: Mr. W. I. Phillips. 'Mr. George
Windle. Rev. C. J. Haan. Field and
W^ork: Pres. C. A.' I'.lanchard, :^Ir. J. M.
Hitchcock and Mr. W. I. Phillips. " Au-
diting. The Finance Committee, with
the addition of :\[r. J. P. Shaw.
The services of Secretary and Treas-
urer W. I. Phillii^-^, also the Eastern
Secretary and Lecturer. Rev. A\'. B.
Stoddard, were by vote continued on
same terms as in former years. .V copy
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
June, 1911.
oi tlie contract with each may be found
on page ^y oi the Secretary's book.
The services oi the Rev. C. G. Sterling
were continued with the understanding
that his salary and the direction of his
labor be left with the Committee on Field
and Work. Satisfactory arrangements
Avere also niade with the Rev. F. J. Da-
vidson for work in the South.
The temporar}- organization of the
Board was made permanent, and the
Rev. C. T. Haan was elected Mce-Chair-
man .
At the Board meeting June 9th, 19 10,
Mr. Phillips was elected to fill the only
A'acancy on the Board of Directors.
The Committee on the Annual Meet-
ing, which had served the Board so- faith-
fully for 1910, was elected on August
29th to serve in like capacity for 191 1.
At the same session. August 29th, the
Chairman and Secretary of the Board
vcere authorized and instructed to pre-
pare suitable resolutions on the life and
services of the late Rev. H. H. Hinman
and Prof. H. F. Kletzing ; and it was
directed that these be published in the
Cynosure, and that copies be sent to
surviving friends.
At our meeting on Saturday, Decem-
ber 24th. Rev. A. B. Rutt, wdio so fitting-
ly represents our Alennonite brethren,
was unanimously elected to fill the va-
cancy in the Board occasioned by the
death of Prof. H. F. Kletzing.
At this session of the Board it was re-
ported that the services of Rev. C. G.
Sterling had been discontinued with the
most cordial and amicable relations be-
tween himself and the Association.
The Committee on Annual Meeting re-
ported correspondence with Rev. Chaides
M. Sheldon. D. D.. of Topeka, Kansas,
and Rev. Dr. J. ]\L Haldeman, of New
York City, with a view of securing their
services for the Annual Meeting. These
men were found to be in hearty sympathy
with the objects of our Association, but
could not be present at our Annual Meet-
ing.
The oft'er to this Association by
Mrs. Louisa R. Coryell of a lot near
Mackinac Island, Michigan, for a sum-
mer home for X. C. A. w^orkers, was ac-
cepted with thanks.
A copy of a letter to the Rev. J. W.
Cha])man was read, also with his reply,
showing that he has no afiiliation with
any secret society, yet declines to public-
ly antagonize theni.
In most beautiful contrast with Dr.
Chapman's letter upon secret orders was
an unusually strong letter, a few weeks
later, by the Rev. R. A. Torrey, entitled
''Why I Have Not Joined the Masonic
Fraternity." Dr. Torrey enumerates five
reasons for giving Masonry a wide berth,
any one of which should be sufficient to
keep any obedient child of God as dis-
tant as possible from all secret orders.
This letter of Dr. Torrey's, in addition
to being- published in the Cynosure, has
been multiplied by the thousands, and
sown beside many waters, through the
eft'orts of Secretary Phillips. These let-
ters from Drs. Chapman and Torrey
were secured by the National Christian
Association, and serve to illustrate a fea-
ture of the Association's w^ork. After
the Association had given this corre-
spondence to the public, many church pa-
pers and a few other publications made
good use of it, and in this way Dr. Tor-
rey's letter has been published in various
languages.
Several of otn' prominent evangelists
have during the year been emboldened
to testify against the evils of secrecy.
Possibly men in responsible public posi-
tions are entitled to more sympathy for
apparent cowardice than we are ready to
give them. The midnight-train passen-
gers, reniote from civilization, may not
necessarily be cowards for obeying the
command "Hands up" when confronting
a band of conscienceless highw^ay . rob-
bers with flashing daggers and cocked re-
volvers. "Discretion is" often "the better
part of valor."
It is not more certain that this Associ-
ation is opposed to the principles of Se-
cret Societies than that they are relent-
lessly opposed to us. Even our courts
and juries are often so prejudiced against
this Association that we find it difficult
to secure our most primar}^ and funda-
mental rights. Instruments conveying
property of our friends to this Associa-
tion are misinterpreted, are tested in the
courts, and tricks and chicanery are re-
sorted to in order to defeat justice.
We have just now been obliged to
compromise a case which has been in the
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37
courts a dozen years, and all because of
a demoniacal hatred of this Association.
Men who covet darkness become insensi-
ble to light and to righteousness.
As has ever been the case, our princi-
pal means for enlightening the public
upon the subject of secrecy are the
Platform and the Press.
If it were possible to multi])ly the
Stoddards and Sterlings tenfold, so as
to cover ever}- niche and corner of our
land with intelligent lectures, as Mr.
Stoddard has covered some portions of
Pennsylvania and other States, it would
seem that some damaging inroads would
then be made upon our enemies' fortifica-
tions. But alas ! we lack the sinews of
war. Mr. W. B. Stoddard, whose fre-
quent reports arc found in the Cynosure,
seems to possess a peculiar penchant for
getting- into the churches and the homes
and into the confidence and the pockets
of the people. He is successful in se-
curing many subscriptions to the Cyno-
sure. The Rev. Mr. Sterling is a most
pleasing, forceful, convincing lecturer,
beloved by 'all, yet less successful in se-
curing openings and the needed revenue.
Our Southern agent, Rev. F. J. David-
son, is doing a noble, creditable work,
but limited for the lack of money.
The Christian Cynosure, edited by
Mr. Wm. I. Phillips, continues to be the
authoritative mouthpiece of the Associa-
tion, and is the only publication wholly
given to the consideration of Secret So-
cieties. There are many other periodicals
thoroughly anti-secret in character, but
Avhich, of course, can give but little space
comparatively to the discussion of se-
crecy. The Cynosure is expected to
lead, while others follow. Realizing, as
the editor does, his responsibility, he is
always on the alert for the latest develop-
ments pertaining to the secret kingdom.
The lodges do not always sound a trum-
pet when about to perpetrate an iniqui-
tous act. In former years they have been
content to come to our churches and
schools and inveigle our young men into
their lodges, where thev receive their first
lessons in anarchy. Recently several of
our States, through their legislatures,
have prohibited the truth being told about
lodges, that otu- young men ma^' not be
ensnared bv them. Throuiih his constant
vigilance, the editor of the Cynosure has
been able in several instances to contrib-
ute to the defeat of this diabolical at-
tempt at legislation.
One of the strong features of the Cy-
nosure continues to be the monthly con-
tribution of President Blanchc'ird's Let-
ter. Giant-like in strength, it is always
as fresh and fragrant as the June rose.
Through the Publication Committee, a
tract has been issued entitled "Washing-
ton Dates," disproving and showing the
absurdity of many statements regarding
Washington as a j\Iason.
The sixth edition of ''Modern Secret
Societies," by President Blanchard, is
now out. This volume has been given to
every member of the graduating classes
in the McCormick Theological Seminary,
the Moody Bible Institute, the Chicago
Theological Seminarv and the Evaneeli-
cal Lutheran Theological Seminary. It
is reported that the Church of the Breth-
ren has given out 2,000 copies of this
book to its ministers.
There continues to be a demand for our
literature, to supply the libraries in vari-
ous schools of higher grade. Selected
books from this lAssociation, as well as
volumes of the Cynosure, may be found
upon the shelves of the Congressional Li-
brary at Washington, D. C, and in many
of the libraries of our principal colleges.
At the commencement of the Associa-
tion year a booklet of sixty pages, enti-
tled "Let There Be Light," was issued bv
this Association. It embodies the testi-
monies of the ]\Ioody Church Pulpit
against Secret Societies, and is well cal-
culated to strengthen the faith of the fal-
tering.
More than of most organizations, it is
expected that this Association will be
uncompromising in principle. It is well
for us to consider what was the primarv
object of this Association. It is known
that its founders stood four square upon
all moral subjects, but their forces were
not to be weakened in an efifort to correct
every evil under the sun. All other re-
forms were to be subordinate to a united
eft'ort in opposing the encroachments oi
Secret Societies.
Of all the moral reforms, \\-c believe
there is none that equals the anlisecret
reform. It slioukl challenge the ettorts
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
June, 1911.
oi the brightest intehects. and is worthy
of those of the devoutest Christian. We
fear none of its has caught the broadness
of God's vision for this work. We be-
Heve He \\ould have us cast off our swad-
dhng' bands and launch out into the deep.
STATEMENT BY SECRETARY
PHILLIPS.
A few itenis not given in the Report
of the Board of Directors may be of in-
terest. The total number of copies issued
of the Cyxosure has been 38.100. an av-
erage of 3.175 copies per month, and the
magazine may be said to have paid ex-
penses. AMiat a valuable volume of lit-
erature on the reform has been the vol-
ume just closed! I do not wonder that
the Librarian of the Congressional Li-
brarv at Washington wrote asking for as
manv back volumes as we could furnish,
saving that they would be well bound and
kept on file for reference in the Public
Library of the nation. There has been a
wide range of topics. Let me mention a
few important ones. Among the perplex-
ing questions that pastors have to deal
with are the demands of lodge funerals.
Some of you will remember, for example,
the W'oodmen's attack upon Rev. George
Alilton at Elgin, Illinois, because he in-
sisted on following the widow's wishes in-
stead of the Lodge's. The last volume
of the Cyxosure treats quite fully of
Lodp-e funerals, and various ministers
give their experiences. A related subject,
also treated, is that of Lodge Memorial
Days in the Church, to the shame of the
latter. Other articles are such as the
Relation of the Christian to the Lodge,
by Rev. Dr. J. AL Gray, of the Aloody
Bible Institute ; How Can Man Be Justi-
fied with God, or the Two Altars, by
President Blanchard ; The Mission
Church and Oddfellowship, by Rev. Dr.
Wm. Dallman ; Shall We Advise Young
yien to Join the Lodge? by Rev. Dr. H.
H. George. To name only a few more
I call your attention to : How to Use the
Lodge Ritual : Families, Churches, Sen-
ates and Juries^ — Are these Secret So-
cieties ? The Benevolences of Lodges
in Settling- a Preacher, in .Supporting a
Teacher, in Prolonging War ; Lodges
and the Law of the Land ; Enemies of the
Republic ; Disloyal Secret Oaths ; The
powerful petition of the Lutheran
Church Against the "Ohio Bill." Al-
though enough has been said, doubtless,
about the Cynosure, yet, if time permit-
ted, I would like to quote from letters
received from fathers whose sons have
been blessed, and from patriots and pas-
tors who have been heartened and helped
by it.
Rev. W. B. Stoddard, our Eastern
Secretary, will report to you in person.
Perhaps sufficient has been said in the
Report of the Board of Directors as to
the work of Rev. C. G. Sterling and Rev.
F. J. Davidson, but a word here about ^
several others who may be named volun-
teer agents will not be amiss. President
Blanchard has not only responded to
calls for addresses, but has borne testi-
mony where some would have faltered.
We remember, for example, that in a let-
ter from Rev. J. A. Alexander, United
Presbyterian pastor, for whom Presi-
dent Blanchard conducted special evan-
gelistic services, he speaks with commen-
dation of the words spoken from time
to time on the Lodge during the revival
effort. At the next communion, the
church, as a result of the meetings, re-
ceived nineteen, and more were coming.
Such preaching is likely tO' give the best
and most permanent results.
The work of Mrs. Lizzie Woods, not-
withstanding she has been attending
school most of the year, has lost none of
its interest or effectiveness. Her letters
read like stories, and have been one of
the marked features of the Cynosure.
Few workers' reports have been as in-
teresting as that of Rev. J. E. Hartzler,
printed in this month's Cynosure. His
method of work is especially to be com-
mended. His itineracy extended through
parts of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Penn-
sylvania and Canada.
Rev. G. L. Coffin heard of the N. C. A.
work for the first time through an N. C.
A. tract some eight years ago, and he
has had few, if any, rivals in constant and
faithful work with voice, tracts and
books up and down the Pacific Coast.
We shall take too much of your time
if we write of the good seed sown by
Evangelists F. M. Dalton, J. E. Wolfe,
G. A.^egram. ]. R. Beveridge, A. J. Mil-
lard, L. V. Harrell, J. S. Baxter, A. D.
Cline, George O. Stales and others, who
June, 1911.
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39
have reported to your Secretary from
time to time.
It ought to be mentioned, however,
that Rev. John Nelson of Des Moines,
Iowa, and Rev. B. E. Bergesen of Seat-
tle, Washington, have done not only good
field service, but hold themselves ready
to respond to calls for addresses or lec-
tures. This is also true of Mr. C. G.
Fait of Ellendale, North Dakota, and of
Rev. Moses H. Clemens of Coblenz,
Sask., Canada. Mr. Clemens has begun
a good work in his country in trying to
bring the many friends of this cause in
the Dominion into some sort of contact
or united effort. The Board of Direct-
ors offered them space in the Cynosure
for a ■ Canadian Department, whenever
they might be ready for it.
In this connection it ought not to be
forgotten that we receive every year a
contribution from South America as a
thank offering for the helo rendered by
this Association through its literature to
the native Presbyterian Church in Brazil.
Not long since we received a letter
from a worker in South Africa who se-
cures his printed ammunition from our
headquarters, telling of his work among
ministers and others. Another has writ-
ten from Africa, asking the privilege of
translating President Finney's work on
Masonry into Dutch for use in South Af-
rica.
.^ Pastor J. C. Lawson of Allahabad, In-
dia, wrote last fall thanking us for the
Cynosure, and expressing how glad he
was for such an association as the N.
C. A. He says that it is easy to see
the evil effects of Freemasonry in India.
Hindoos and Mohammedans who are
drawn into the fellowship of the Masonic
Lodge cannot be expected, he declares, to
ever become interested in Christianity.
The common people of India, he say's,
call the Masonic building Jadoogur : The
Home of Sorcery. The Lodge here in
Wheaton is planning the erection of a
"Jadoogur."
It is well to recall at such a time as
this, when the Lodge is flourishing 'like
a green bay tree." our thousands of
friends and co-workers among the Lu-
therans, Christian Reformed," IMennon-
ites, Free Methodists, Wesleyans. and
others. The Lodge may be stronger ap-
parently than ever today, but we ought
not to sit down under a juniper tree,
but rather remember the thousands that
have been helped and heartened by the
N. C. A. Alany of them have borne wit-
ness to the fact, and we ourselves are
braced and encouraged in turn. Not a
small blessing for which we give thanks
to God today are the many church papers
and magazines that have given such clear,
ringing testimony the past year against
lodgery ; and also for those who have
written books and pamphlets and tracts
which most of us never see, but which
are doing their silent and mighty work
for God.
We are seeing again, in the Interna-
tional Sunday School Lesson of today,
the movement of the government of God
in Palestine and among the nations, and
we ought to be quickened by the fact
that here in the United States and among
the other nations of the earth ''He is
just the same today," and that it is as
impossible to thwart His purposes now
as then. G. Campbell Morgan said in his
comments on the Sunday School Lesson
of April 1 6, which related the Queen's
destruction of all the seed royal, as she
thought : "Yet her fury was restrained
by the august and awful government of
God." And "A baby [the infant King
Joash] and God were against all the
forces of evil, and together moved for-
ward tO' victory."
"Blessed are they that keep His testi-
monies.
That seek Him with the whole heart."
ANNUAL REPORT.
BY SECRETARY \\'. B. STODDARD.
Dear Friends of the Anti-Secrecy Cause,
Greeting :
It would be of little profit that I re-
cite here a detailed account of my travels
for the year past. The principal events
have been chronicled in the Christian
Cynosure from month to month. God
has supplied health. The work has been
pushed in the usual way, with good re-
sults. Travels have extended as far west
as Nebraska, and to the New England
States in the East.
It is always a delight to present the
Gospel hope. I have ever sought to so
In-ing the light that the deluded and be-
fo"ec(l in the lodije \Uc\\ (hscover a wav
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
June, 1911.
out, ami that those without may see their
danger.
I ha\-e held hefore those to wheini I
have been privileged to speak, the great
fact, that we must not only believe in "a
God." but in the deity of our Lord Jesus
Christ and in His atonement if we are
saved. The great battle that is in prog-
ress on this earth is joined between the
god of this W(Trld and the King of Glorv.
It is the belief of many that Satan is mar-
shaling his forces in the secret assembly
formed and now forming ; that we are
now on the very verge of tremendous
upheavals in the moral and political
world. To what purpose is this increase
of anarchy and secret plotting?
Why do millions, before hearing- the
evidence, rise up to declare the innocence
of men with whom they have no- personal
acquaintance, accused of the most dia-
bolical crimes that were ever perpetrat-
ed? The National Christian Association
believes it is informed as to the reason,
and it is the duty of her agents to speak
forth in trumpet tones, that men ma}^ be
warned. During the year past we have
seen the press reciting clay after day the
details of lodge doings that chill the blood
and stir the soul. The rumblings of
these volcanoes of sin are heard every-
where. A\Tiat eruptions shall belch forth
upon us, God only knows. Shall we be
silent or careless in such an hour as this?
Surel}- the call to battle rings in our ears.
Clad with the Gospel armor, following
closely the Captain of our salvation, w^e
haA'e found, and always will find victory.
If the anarchists do ])lot, if the dyna-
miters do destroy life and property, the
detectives are on their track, and sooner
or later their sin and folly will be made
manifest.
The doors opened for my messages of
other years are largely open today. Here
and there lodges have gotten control of
churches formerly working with us, but
if some few doors are closed, others
open. I always have more invitations
than I can reach. The lodges have grown
to alarming proportions. The numbers of
seceders have also increased. Some of
the city churches opposing the lodges are
stronger numerically than those making
no protest. That they are stronger spir-
itually goes without saying. I have trav-
eled not less than 20.000 miles during the
year. My expense In travel has been
$505.42. Collections on the field, not in-
cluding moneys received for the State
conventions, have been $314.31 ; for sub-
scriptions to the Cynosure, $887.25.
All the State conventions have been
unusually well attended. This is due, in
part, no doubt, to the efforts made in
their preparation, but especially to the
fact that they were held in localities
where our friends were not few, the Di-
vine favor of course being our principal
aid.
At West Liberty. Ohio, the preparation
w^as not difficult to- make, our Mennonite
friends opening their church and making
us welcome at once. At Orange City,
low^a, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania,
there was not only the usual lodge oppo-
sition, but the fears of many of the
friends to overcome. In each Instance,
however, the outcome was a splendid
convention, as we believe, for the glory
of God and the good of many souls.
Contributions to the direct support of
our Association, though not large, have
been more than usual. This surely is a
g'ood sign, and an occasion for thanks-
giving to God. Larger contributions are
under contemplation, which, I trust, may
be reached during the coming year.
There Is every reason to believe compe-
tent men may be secured to aid in push-
ing* the work if funds are provided for
their support. The removal by death of
some of our strong men has saddened
our hearts and caused us to feel more
than ever our dependence on Him whose
we are and whom we serve. He wdio
gave us our leaders in other years can
bring forward those who shall serve the
present day and generation. Let us never
fail tO' keep our eyes upon Him.
IN MEMORIAM.
Every year our Association has been
called to record the passing of some of
its honored members to the better life.
The past has been no exception.
Rev. Henry L. Kletzing, of Naperville,
Illinois, publisher of the Christian Wit-
ness of Chicago, and for many years an
honored director of the National Chris-
tian Association, was called suddenly to
his reward. Llis was a beautiful Chris-
tian life, especially marked in his untir-
June, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
41
ing labors in the advancement of Christ's
Kingdom.
Edmond Ronayne, late of Chicago, was
a worker long to be remembered. His
position as Past Master of Keystone
Lodge of Masons gave him opportunity
to study the system from the inside. His
exposure of the sins and follies came at
an opportune time for our Association.
The books which he wrote have a wide
circulation.
Rev. R. J. George, D. D., of Allegheny,
Pennsylvania, was a faithful advocate of
the principles of our Association. As
pastor and instructor in the theological
seminary of the Covenanter church his
opportunity for the dissemination of re-
form truth was great. Through those
receiving instruction at his hand multi-
tudes will be influenced for the right.
Rev. M. S. Steiner, of Columbus
Grove, Ohio, was a man of sterling integ-
rity, trusted and honored by those who
knew him best. He was a great leader
in a great church. He delighted to help
our Association, and served us as State
Secretary in Ohio one year.
Samuel Berlin, of Tyrone, Pennsyl-
vania, was a quiet, faithful friend : a man
who loved God and eschewed evil. His
love for the National Christian Associa-
tion's work was manifest in the provision
made for an annual gift in its support.
Rev. J. A. Richards, of Fort Scott,
Kansas, was a warrior of many conquests
and victories, an able advocate of re-
form, a faithful servant of Him who is
"The Light of the World."
Mrs. Sarah L. Johnson, of Morning
Sun, Iowa, was for many years a school
teacher, later the wife of an honored min-
ister. She came in touch with many
lives. Her testimony in opposition to the
lodge was backed by a generous gift to
our Association.
Rev. Cyrus Smith, of Leon, Iowa, was
a Radical United I^)rethren minister of
faith and courage. Lie was truly a sol-
dier of the Cross, as well as of the Civil
War. In his long life he ministered
to many people in many places. His con-
tributions printed in the Cynosure will
be remembered.
Rev. N. L. Stratton, D. D., of ^^'heat(>n,
Illinois, was closely identified with our
work, and was for many years an officer
in our Association. His will be remem-
bered as a cheerful, kindly life. He did
effective work as editor, educator, pastor
and reformer. We miss his cordial greet-
ing at our annual gathering.
IT. IT. McMillan, of Cedarville, Ohio,
was a man of great value in the com-
munity where he lived and died. He was
an Elder in the Reformed Presbyterian
Church for over forty years. Ours was
among the many good causes receiving
his sympathy and support.
Mr. N. Keyser, of Alameda, California,
was very helpful in the circulation of our
literature. He published many leaflets
at his own expense. The number helped
by his faithful labors may not be known
to men, but will be counted in his re-
ward.
Rev. Isaac Hyatt, of Poland, Xew
York, was an honored minister of the
Free Will Baptist Church, and seceding
Mason. His was a life counting much
in this reform and in the uplift of hu-
manity.
Elder Samuel M. Good, of San Diego.
California, was a secedini^ Mason of high
degree, who spent much of his life in
Des Moines, Iowa, where he had valua-
ble property. After his conversion to
Christ he bore faithful testimony against
the evil character of the lodge, and was
well known in the cities where he lived
as an evangelist.
Rev. Samuel F. Porter, of Oberlin.
Ohio, lived nearly one hundred years. He
was a graduate in theolog}' of the first
class of Oberlin College under Presi-
dent Finney. He served our Associa-
ti(:>n in ivjtting libraries into man}' South-
ern colleges, and he also contributed in
sup])ort of the X. C. A. work as his
mcan< permitted.
Philip liacon, of \\"indst)r. wa> a faith-
ful worker in the New England States.
His anti-lodge principles were well
known. He gladly took ui) the cross
when it meant much of persecution to
work for Christ in opposition to the pow-
ers of darkness.
Truly these are all blessed, and they
rest from their labors, while their works
do follow them.
RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas. In the good providence of
( iod we are ])rought to another .Vnnual
Meeting of (^ur Association, and
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CHRI STI AN C YNO'SU'RE.
June, 1911.
AMiereas, The conflict in which we en-
gag-e is not ours, but God's, therefore.
Resolved, ist : That we praise Him for
ah the godly men and women who have
labored with us in other years and for
all the work that has been accomplished
in His name, and for His g-lory by our
Association.
Resolved 2d : That it becomes us to-
ever bear in mind we are a Christian As-
sociation, and while we contend ag^ainst
a foe that assails every high calling in
life, its attack upon Christ and the Chris-
tian Religion is our chief concern. The
success of Christianity means the over-
throw of every foe to humanity.
Resolved 3d : That it is difficult to
adequately measure the progress our As-
sociation makes from year to year. The
attitude taken by our National Educators
reo-ardins: the school fraternities shows a
general awakening among those who
study cause and effect. The arrest and
exposure of leaders of labor unions
known to be murderous in character and
teaching, who naturally seek the secrecy
of the Lodge, give reason for encour-
agement, while the multiplicity of lodges
increased in membership, as also in folly
and sin, reminds that human nature is
still weak and more likety to run after a
humbug than that which makes for their
highest good.
Resolved 4th : That we rejoice to note
that the truly great evangelists and the
spiritually strong among Christian work-
ers are with us, and feeling the need of
such information as God -is permitting
us to put forth.
Resolved 5th : That in the numerous
bills introduced in the various State Leg-
islatures during the year past we note
the increasing fear that the so-called se-
crets of the various lodges may lose their
charm by being commonly known, and
therefore unappreciated. As a rule the
Lodge robs its members by giving little
in return for what it asks. The public
exposure of its so-called secrets natu-
rallv shows this fact, and makes mem-
bership undesirable.
Resolved 6th. That the increase of the
Lodges, calling themselves Elks, Owls,
Moose and the like, with their buffets,
gives just cause for alarm to those en-
listed in the Temperance Cause. We
believe sobriety and clean living find no
greater foe than in the character and
working of these lodges.
Resolved 7th : That we pray God for
more men and money to push our work.
Our ranks are depleted, but He who has
given can give. We believe a strong, ag-
gressive campaign against the secret
lodge system is for the glory of God
and the good of humanity.
W. B. Stoddard. ^' ■'
(Mrs.) Amanda Leaman.
Geo. Windle. ...
Rov D. Becker.
(Mrs.) W. S. Orvis. ;■
Life without a plan,
As useless as the moment it began,
Serves merely as a soil for discontent
To thrive in.
— Cowper.
There are w^ays in which even silent
people can belong to God and be a
blessing in the world. A star does not
talk, but its calm, steady beam shines
down continually out of the sky, and is
a benediction to many. Be like a star
in your peaceful shining, and many will
thank God for your life. — /. R. Miller,,
D.D,
HE WAS A JOINER.
He joined the Elks and Eagles, he joined
the K. of P.'s, he blowed in all he had to pay
initiation fees. He borrowed money from,
his friends and put them on the bum to take
out life insurance in El Kafoozelum. He was
a Modern Woodman and he headed the pa-
rade, an axe upon his shoulder that had a
wooden blade ; his wife at home was wrestling
with a gnarly knot, to try to split a splinter off
to keep the cook stove hot. He went into the
.Workmen, but had no love for work, a kind
of lodge bacillus in his system seemed to lurk,
and when he went up town to buy potatoes,
meat or tea, he was very apt to spend the
cash in taking a degree. One night the lodge
combined and gave a banquet rare, and you
bet your bottom dollar the "jiner" he was
there. He ate some cheese and pickles and a
plate of oysters fried, then took a first-class
founder and went straight home and died.
Now when the fact was proven by the sad and
weeping wife, she was handed twenty thou-
sand insurance on his life. She said, "I see
that everything has come my way at last," and
she got another husband before the year had
passed. — Franklin Repository.
H life were but a plaything this might
do — ^at least for the wife; but life is a
serious matter, and yet how many like
the poor fool here portrayed are trifling
with it.
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43
LEMUEL NATHAN STRATTON,
Rev. Lemuel N. Stratton, a well-
known clergyman of the Congregational
denomination, died of pneumonia, May
9, 191 1, at the home of his daughter at
22 East ii6th St., Chicago. He was yy
years old, and was born in Bureau Coun-
ty, Illinois.
Dr. Stratton was graduated from
Wheaton College in 1860, and was one of
the oldest, if not the oldest, living alum-
nus of the college. He had been for
30 years one of its trustees. The Rev.
l)r. Stratton was editor of the Wesleyan
Methodist and other ])ublications of that
denomination at Syracuse, New York,
for some twelve years. Later he was
President of the Wesleyan Theological
Seminary, and he held various pastorates
in and about Chicago until his retirement
a few years ago. He was widely known
in religious and educational circles.
He was one of the most active friends
of the National Christian Association at
the time of its organization and did much
valuable work in the State of New York.
He was for a number of years a mem-
ber of the Board of Directors of our As-
sociation, and always maintained a lively
interest in its work.
He is survived by a widow and two
sons and two daughters. His eldest son.
Mr. Owen Stratton, did missionary serv-
ice in China for several years, and died
there very suddenly a year or two since.
The funeral was held at Wheaton in
the College church on Thursday after-
noon. President Blanchard. Rev. J. C.
Armstrong, D. D., Prof. George H.
Smith and Rev. J- G. Brooks spoke words
of appreciation of one who had credit-
ably performed the work of a minister.
educator, editor and reformer.
44
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
June, 1911.
ClJe 3^otoer of t|)e Secret Cmpire
obh Wi3!5 <K, ©♦ Brno,
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XXXII.
The Mystery of Iniquity.
Rachel finished shelling her pan of
beans and carried them into^ the kitchen.
Then, in obedience to a certain thrifty
custom nearly obsolete now but very
common with industrious housewives of
a former oreneration who did not choose
to allow Satan even so small a vantage
ground as a few idle moments between
sundown and dark, she took out a half-
finished sock on which her needles flew
brisklv until she had knit about six times
around, when her inward musings took
shape in this terse sentence :
'■'I don't see into it."
"Don't see into what, mother?" I
asked. For we had now reached that
comfortable stage in our matrimonial
journev when to address each other by
the parental title seems the most natu-
ral thing in the world.
"How Anson Love joy can be a Mason.
Xow I really like the man, and always
have liked him from the very first. But
when I find that he can take part in such
ridiculous, blasphemous folly, and be
himself actually Master of a lodge, in-
itiating others into it, I — well, really, I
don't know what to think except that
there is one more fool in the world than
I had supposed."
And Rachel knit vigorously several
more rounds while I pondered the subject
in silence. I, too, liked ,Anson Lovejoy
in spite of the fact that he was not only
a :\Iason, but held the office of Worship-
ful Master of Fidelity Lodge, located in
the flourishing village of Granby, Ohio;
said lodge numbering among its members
one or two ministers, a saloon keeper, one
deacon, several notorious gamblers and a
general sprinkling of the lowest char-
acters in the place, all ''meeting on the
level" in felicitous union and fellow-
ship.
"Well, mother," I said, finally, ''a man
isn't always a fool because he does fool-
ish things. The fact is. I've had a little
talk with him on the subject of Masonry,
and I have come to the conclusion that
it isn't the system as it really is that he
admires, but an ideal existing only in
his own imagination of something it
might, could, would or should be if it
was only properly understood, and more
care exercised in admitting candidates ;
such delightfully impossible conditions,
in short, that I was strongly reminded of
the old couplet :
" 'If wishes were horses beggars would
ride ;
If 'twas a sword it would hang by vour
side.'"
"Now, father" — and Rachel laid down
her knitting in her earnestness — "why
don't you put it right to him about the
oaths and obligations and ceremonies ?
You have been through them yourself
and know all about it, so you are just the
one. What if this man's soul should be
required at your hands?"
"I did 'put it right to him.' I told him
he had sworn to conceal the criminal
acts of brother Masons, to warn them of
approaching danger and help them out
of all difficulties, no matter what wrong-
doing might be the cause. But he had
one answer for every objection, and that
was that he did not so understand Ma-
sonry, and only considered its obligations
binding when they failed to conflict with
any superior duty he owed to God or to
Government. I asked him if that was
the way he explained them to candi-
dates. He assured me it was. I told
him flat that such teaching of Masonic
obligations was a mistake and a contra-
diction ; that Masonry owns no law and
no authority outside of or superior to
herself; that when she ceases to be a
complete despotism ; when she allows her
members to put their own interpretation
on the oaths and penalties ; above all,
when she elevates the Bible from a mere
piece of lodge furniture on a level with
the square and compass, to be what the
old Westminster divines called it, 'the
only sufficient rule of faith and practice,'
June, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
45
her power has fled. She simply cannot
exist under such conditions."
''And what did he say to that?" asked
Rachel.
"Well, that fellow Jervish came in just
then and broke up our talk. I suppose
he thinks me a fool and a fanatic. I
consider him an honest, well-meaninj;;'
man, whose chief mistake is in thinking
that he can do what the Scriptures de-
clare impossible — 'Bring a clean thing out
of an unclean.' "
"Well, I don't understand it," repeated
Rachel, decidedly. "There must be some-
thins: wronsr somewhere when a man
can't see the plain truth put right before
him."
For Rachel was like most practical,
matter-of-fact people, not subject to
glamours of any sort. When she saw
a truth she saw it clearly — a sun-
illumined mount of God piercing heaven
unclouded by bewildering fogs and mists,
and could not understand why any honest
mind should fail to perceive it, too. But
I knew better how men like Anson Love-
joy can be made the apologists and de-
fenders of a lie ; how they naturally seek,
the first disappointment over, tO' reconcile
the teachings of Masonry with their own
standard of human dutv, and onlv sue-
ceed by an ingenious system of interpre-
tations that, carried into practical effect,
would annul the whole thing. My grand-
father so reasoned till the murder of
Morgan opened his eyes. But a man like
Anson Love joy, who belonged tO' a gen-
eration that knew not Morgan — must an-
other tragedy as fearful shock the public
mind and rouse in even the dullest that
indignation so terrible because it is a
dim shadow of the divine wrath against
evil-doers, before he could be made to
see?
This question I silently asked myself
while Rachel rolled up her knitting and
called to Grace, our youngest, to light a
lamp.
"Yes, mother," answered Grace, and
rose promptly from her seat on the back
steps, where she was giving his first les-
son in astronomy to a favorite nephew
named Joe, of whom I can only say that
he had already begun to develop a talent
for mischief that bade fair in time t(^
cast all the youthful exploits of the orig-
inal Joe quite into the shade. At the
same moment the gate swung open and
admitted a female figure with a tin pail.
"Mother, there is Mary Lyman come
tO' borrow some yeast."
"Well, Grace, you can get it for her."
And Rachel drew up her chair within
the circle of the light and took her sew-
ing, while she invited the newcomer, \\ith
a kindly smile, to sit down.
She was a girl of not more than seven-
teen— hardly that. Her large blue eyes,
regular features and heavy braids of
tawny gold hair made her face one of
singular beauty. But there was a sad,
depressed look about her mouth, and a
lack of youthful elasticity in her na-
tions that made her seem older than she
really was.
She took her pail of yeast and de-
parted with a murmured word of thanks.
Rachel sewed very fast for several min-
utes till she snapped her thread. Then
she broke out —
"I say, it is a shame."
"What now, mother?"
"To keep that girl as they do. I
know how it is just as well as if I saw
it ; drudge, drudge from morning till
night. Not a minute in the twenty-
four hours she can call her own. No
chance for improvement, but plenty of
chances for everything else. It is too
bad, poor, orphan child!" added Rachel,
who had all the large-hearted instincts
of true motherhood, and its capabilities
of indignation also.
"Weil, I know it is too bad; but she'll
be free in a vear or so. That's one com-
fort."
"I wish her time was out now,'' re-
sponded Rachel. "Grace can't keep
school and help me much. And I believe
if I could have the training of ]Mar}-
for a while I might make something out
of her yet."
"What! at eighteen?" I asked, with
natural incredulity.
"Y'^es, at eighteen," answered Rachel,
biting her thread with an air of de-
cision. "It is a mistake to think the die
for good or evil must be cast at a partic-
ular age. It all depends on circum-
stances. Now, this girl makes me think
of some tiger-lilies I remember grew be-
hind the barn when I was a child. I
don't know how they ever came there,
in that sunless corner, but there thev
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
June, 1911.
were, growing- and blossoming- in about
the same fashion that she is ripening- into
womanhood. All she wants is a chance
to develop herself. If I could give her
that I should feel that I had done one
good Avork in the world before I leave
it.'' .
''Why. mother: your life ha,s been
nothing- but giving- and doing for forty
years."'
''Well. I don't know about 4:hat, fa-
ther," answered Rachel, with a little
shake of her head. But I could see
that her husband's praise was very sweet
to her. nevertheless.
The girl of whom we had been speak-
ing was. as Rachel said, an orphan w^hom
fate, personified by the selectmen of
Granby. had delivered over to be the vic-
tim of a species of white slavery in the
family of a Air. Simon Peck. To scrub
^floors, feed the hogs, fetch the water
and lug a heavy baby about wdien there
was nothing else for her to do, was the
routine of her daily life, varied by such
small tyrannies and exactions from the
younger Pecks as the ingenuity of their
own minds or the example of their elders
might suggest. .
It was not strange that all Rachel's
w^omanly feelings had been roused in be-
half of the girl. A natural refinement
had kept her from assimilating- with her
rough and coarse surroundings, and she
was now growing up to a dower of sin-
gular beauty. Who should say whether
it would prove a blessing or a curse?
Rachel sewed aw^ay in silence for a
few moments, and when she again spoke
it was to recur to our- former subject of
talk.
"Well. I don't see. as I said before,
how such men as Anson Love joy can de-
fend Masonry, but I think I understand
the reason why I don't understand it."
"What do you mean, mother?"
"Why. it is the 'mystery of iniquity.'
We talk about 'the mystery of godliness'
that cannot be known except by Chris-
tians, but we forget there is something-
corresponding to it on the other side.
There are depths of Satanic craft, just
as there are depths of Redeeming Wis-
dom. We can't understand either. They
are beyond us. It is the 'deceivableness
of unrighteousness,' 'the strong delu-
sion.' Mystery; that is just what it is —
the mystery of iniquity." ■ , '
And Rachel resumed the w^ork which
she had let fall in her earnestness, while
I pondered over her words, and con-
cluded that she was about right.
(To be continued.)
REMINISCENCES.
How and Why I Became Publisher of the
Cynosure. \^ ^
• ■ BY EZRA A. COOK. -'V'f--
In the autumn of 1867 the Lord clear-
ly and definitely called me to enter the
stationery business at 88 La Salle street.
Chicago, of w^hich fact I am glad to offer
proof. The place was a stone front
building- on the Court House square.
Work for bankers was the principal spe-
cialty, as I had just served a three-
years apprenticeship in this line. A one-
storv brick building in the rear was for
my printing plant. Space was after-
wards secured for lithographing on the
third floor, as well as for the editorial
room for the Christian Cynosure.
Years before this, in answer to most
blessed communion with Him on the
subject, the Almighty and ever-blessed
God my Savior had been pleased to en-
ter into partnership with me for time and
eternity ; nor was this partnership vague
and indefinite. I was overwhelmed at
His marvelous love in actually inviting
me tO' be a co-laborer with Him ; and I,
oh, so gladly ! promised that I would,
by His grace, never forget His conde-
scension in not only inviting this part-
nership, but, amazing grace ! adopting
me into His family, wdiere He might
wdiisper His plans and purposes for and
in me, and in the storms of life "hide
me in His pavilion," "in the secret of
His tabernacle."
Oh, how sweet it was to have the Holy
Spirit continually bringing to my mind
the things of Christ — yes, showing them
unto me ; and none were quite so pre-
cious to me as those about the fellowship
of His suffering, such as "If we suffer,
we shall also reign with Him." Think
of it ! Oh, glorious anticipation ! My
heart would in ecstasy cry out, with the
beloved disciple (Rev. 22:20), "Come.
Lord Jesus !" "Come quickly." How
inexpressibly sweet to dwell on those
June, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
47
heavenly meditations of my beloved
Paul: "If children, then heirs; heirs of
God, and joint-heirs with Christ ; if so
be that we suffer with Him, that we may
be also glorified tog"ether." (Rom.
8:17.) No' wonder the Apostles who
had, while Christ was on earth, suffered
with Him, now that the promised Holy
Spirit had come in His place, were (Acts
5:41) "Rejoicing- that they were counted
worthy to suffer shame for His name,"
in view of the promised seat on the
throne with Him, and the assurance that
they should "be also glorified together."
How inexpressibly sweet to know by ex-
perience, and with Paul (Ephesians 1:3)
say, from a full heart, amid the horrors
of war, with screeching" missiles of death
filling the air every moment, "Blessed be
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who hath blessed us with all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places in
Christ." Yes, God is my witness, that,
in this literal reign of death, I found a
heavenly place, heaven was open, and my
Savior bade me look up into His smiling
face.
r
In July, 1868, the first number of the
''Christian Banner/' which was changed
to Christian Cynosure, was issued,
with Ezra A. Cook as publisher. I well
knew the intolerant, hateful character
of Freemasonry, being familiar with the
history of the abduction and murder of
Capt. Wm. Morgan for exposing the
order. I had also witnessed its hellish
work in the army, but the Senior Part-
ner gave me guidance and courage. I
had published a second edition of the-
minutes of an anti-Masonic convention
held at Aurora, Illinois, a few months
before.
I was well aware that publishing the
Christian Cynosure meant relentless,
cruel persecution ; but it gave me an op-
portunity to suffer with Him, and, won-
drous love ! claim the right tO' reign with
Him who died for me, and wa's now
Senior .Partner, I could not hesitate,
though I knew from the human stand-
point financial ruin was assured. I also
knew whom I had believed, and was per-
suaded that He would keep me against
that day. "I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee." "I will hide thee in my
secret pavilion." And I cried : "It is
enough, blessed Lord. I will not fear
what man shall do unto me. By thy
grace, dear Partner, I will be strong and
of good courage."
You, dear Cynosure readers, who
took the Cynosure in 1868-9, learned,
through its columns, something (com-
paratively little, however) of this his-
tory. Are you interested to know how
God planned my life for me from in-
fancy ; at times lovingly set aside my
plans, because Llis were better, and be-
cause, as my Lord, He had agreed to
direct me? In August, 1864, eleven
days before my three-year term of serv-
ice in the Union Army expired, I was
discharged, because of the shattering of
my right hand by a bullet and buckshot
at very close range, at the battle of
Drury's Bluff, under the guns of the out-
works of Richmond, Virginia. Natural-
ly, the details are of thrilling interest
to me ; but I will barely touch on the
facts.
The Lord most' clearly called me into
the army, took away absolutely all fear
of death, and even g'ave my beloved sis-
ter Louisa, two and a half years older
than I, so positive an assurance that He
would preserve my life that, on one occa-
sion, .when President Jonathan Blanchard
asked her of my welfare, she expressed
perfect confidence that I was to come
home, safe in due time, and, when he said,
"But how do you know that Ezra will
come home, since thousands are falling
in battle?" her answer was: "Because
He has told me so." I knew nothing of
this until I did come home.
In the army mv blessed Savior gave
me ample opportunity for Christian serv-
ice, for comrades; and. at one time, for
several months, when on detached duty,
for labor for the negroes on the plan-
tation where the great Southern states-
man John C. Calhoun was l)orn and
brought up. I was the recognized lead-
er in Christian work, by the L". S. Chris-
tian Commission. Except when I was
reading it, my Bible was always in my
blouse pocket, in an oiled-silk bag, used
to protect it 'even when I was soaked
with rain. I read it through seven times
during my army service.
When in battle my right hand was
shattered, as related. 1 tliouoht that it
might mean the loss of ni}- hand, if not
of mv life; but I had God's assurance
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June, 1911.
that He wanted m}- life for Himself; and
I was so sure that He wanted to use ni}'
right hand also that I depended wholly
on Him for gnidance. Fainting from
loss of blood, after safely rnnning the
gauntlet of at least a hundred shots, a
dear Christian conu-ade aided me till we
came to a pool of cold swamp water, in
which I soaked a large silk muffler and
wrapped it around my hand. After a
walk of something over a mile, I was
helped into a car with other wounded. A
little later, as God had used the cold wa-
ter to stop the flow of blood, and I felt
stronger. I eliml)ed out of the car when
it came to another group of wounded.
This was all "of the Lord," but soon
after, the rebels, who outnumbered us
five to one, captured that car. with a
Comrade Lenscomb. of my own com-
pany, who, with a wounded arm, re-
mained in the car. Poor, dear comrade.
He was a ]\Iethodist brother, and I trust
a saved man.
When quinine and whisky was served
to the men, I refused to touch it. When
a comrade asked for my ration, I refused
to acknowle(^ge ownership of the hell
broth, except on one occasion, when
Pliney F, Root, a Christian comrade,
who was suffering' from bowel trouble,
asked that he might have it. Fie was
a true Christian. He soon became help-
less, lingered along some weeks, and
passed away to heavenly rest, in a hospi-
tal tent, wdiile the officers in the next
tent, "gloriously drunk," were having a
spree on medical whisky. ^ Poor Lens-
comb (the wounded comrade alluded to),
so far as I know, never drank his quinine
and whisky ration ; but he received it,
and sold it to others, and, sad to say,
the curse of God seemed to follow this,
for later he bought from the regimental
sutler some blackberry brandy, that they
said was not intoxicating, sold it to his
comrades, and, greatly to my sorrow, got
"boozy" on it himself. When I reached
home, father or mother showed me the
obituary notice of Comrade Lenscomb.
He died from his wound (less dangerous
than mine) in the Confederate hospital
at Petersburg.
Although I witnessed the attack I have
referred to, when this hospital car and
many soldiers were captured, I was out
of sight, neac by. in the woods, and
w^alked on to camp with a sword which
I had picked up on the way. Surgeon
Clark, who examined my shattered hand,
urged the great importance of keeping it
soaking in cold water. About thirty-six
hours later a steamer took me, with other
wounded, up the coast to the great hospi-
tal grounds of David's Fsland, New York
harbor. It was a night trip, ending bare-
ly at daybreak, the i8th of May, 1864.
AH night long I spent pouring the cold*
ocean water on the wounds of mv com-
rades, many of them far less dangerous
than my own. But I felt the importance
of keeping my own hand soaked with the
cold water, and so refused to trv to sleep.
We landed before the surgeons went
on duty. Soon nurses brought each a
glass of wdiisky. I told the nurse that
I wished to see the doctor before taking
mine. When he came I courteously
stated my temperance principles, and
asked to be excused from taking it. The
doctor said : "Would you like some
wine? You shall have the best the de-
partment affords." I asked to be ex-
cused from taking alcohol in any form ;
and then Dr. Thompson, who proved to
be a most noble Christian man, told me
that his views coincided with mine per-
fectly, but he was a man under authori-
ty, and was obliged to offer alcoholic
stimulants to all the wounded, but was
not ordered to make them take it.
In body I Avas now very weak, from
loss of both blood and sleep ; and I
learned afterward that not only the
nurses, but other surgeons, were greatly
astonished that Dr. Thompson did not
promptly amputate my hand. He saw,
without asking me, that I wanted to save
my hand, or that God wanted it saved,
and I am sure that he prayerfully set
about doing his part. He told me that
taking anything to deaden the pain (an
anesthetic) would derange my system,
which it was important to keep in perfect
health, and I at once assented. He
motioned to his assistant to hold my wrist
while he began operations, when, with-
out hesitation, I told him it was unneces-
sary. Evidently he believed it, for he
went right to work, and my hand lay
there on my cot as if in a vise. An
angel held it ! It was a miracle ! The
doctor's attendant could not possibly
have held it as still ; for there was not
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
49
so much as a "twitch" at the burning-
and cutting, which were more painful
than amputation would have been. This
burning with bromine daily, and then
shaving off the burned flesh, continued
for about four weeks, until but a skeleton
hand remained.
The crisis came when the torn flesh
had been burned and cut away. The bro-
mine did not seem to burn the bones or
tendons, but there was an artery. Dr.
Thompson was prayerfully watching
events, and God's angel, who held my
hand so wonderfully day after day, and
saved me from even a groan, was watch-
ins:, too, I believe. Everv shred of torn
flesh must be removed, for it was all
gangrenous. Dr. Thompson was at my
bedside early when the last flesh was to
be removed, and, when the artery burst,
he promptly staunched the blood. I was
his only patient that J^^ne day ; for he
worked over me the entire day. going
without his noon meal, and leaving my
cot after sunset. From this time on im-
provement was increasingly rapid. When
the healing fairly beo-an. our pavilion was
thronged with other wounded, often on
crutches, when the wound was exposed
for dressing, and the other surgeons
showered the good doctor with compli-
ments on his skill. They wTre all de-
served; but, of course, none knew, as
I did, about the angel that God sent daily
to hold my hand : much less could they
know how happy I was in spite of the
agony of body.
I had taught those dear colored peo-
ple on the Calhoun plantation every night
and Sunday that I was not on military
duty, and the Lieutenant in command of
the detachment had ap])ointed me their
guardian, so far as seeing that they were
not harmed by wicked soldiers was con-
cerned. The Christian Commission, hear-
ing of my work, furnished me primers.
I had learned to join in singing their
weird religious melodies ; but I wanted
some good Sabbath school hymns, and
ordered some Sunday school hymn books
from New York a couple of weeks be-
fore leaving Braddock's ]A)int, but they
failed to arrive. The Sabbath school
was very popular with my colored folks,
particularly with the very old, at least
two of whom must have passed the cen-
turv mark, as their gTav-haired great-
grandchildren plainly indicated ; yet they,
as all of the others, desired to be taught.
The Christian Commission primers were
excellent, had simi)lc words and large
type, and were illustrated. One teacher
had been the most profane man in the
regiment ; but, before the Sunday school
was started, I believe he was converted
in the meetings which were held every
night in the week, whether I was present
or not, and I w^as there about three nights
out of four, being on military/ duty about
one-fourth of the time. The other teach-
ers were a drummer boy, and several
children l)etween eight and twelve who
had somewhere been taught to read.
These taught grand and great-grand])ai--
ents.
The delayed Sunday school song books
referred to, after having the address
changed many times, reached me at
David's Island Hospital in time to prove
a great comfort to me and to comrades
who gathered around my cot, while we
made the pavilion ring with God's praise,
r think that I then fully realized how
happy Paul and Silas were in that old
jail, in spite of their bleeding backs and
the torture of the stocks, as they sang
so loud that ''the prisoners heard them."
And all of this story to tell how I hap-
pened to be a business man and ])ublisher
of the Cynosure instead of a teacher. I
intended to be a teacher, and had secured
a teacher's certificate before I enlisted.
I was discharged, at my request (as the
doctor said I was entitled to stav in the
hospital for six months yet, and draw ni}-
pay besides). Though my hand, then
but partly healed, was almost double nor-
mal thickness, and was twisted almost at
right angles wdth my wrist, yet I could
w^rite in a readable fashion, but it was
hardly a fit copy for a student to fol-
low. I did not realize, however, what a
drawback this w^as until I came to teach
school in the winter of '64 and '65.
(To be continued.)
Men mete out their own temporal
joys and eternal pleasures by the
measure of charitable, loving, con-
siderate, patient dispositions they
manifest toward others.
To let our light shine is to be just.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
June, 1911.
€5itoiiaL
ITALIAN CHILDREN.
"Many of lis seem to have the im-
pression that the Italian is of a lawless
nature, especially so of those who have
but lately come to our country from the
south of Italy and Sicily," remarks the
Jii-i'cnile Court Record in an article
on "The Italian child and the juvenile
court." "Chicago has had its quota of
so-called Black Hand outrages. The
police nets are stretched, and some-
times hundreds of the residents of the
Italian quarter known as Little Italy
are rounded up to be searched and
questioned by the officers of the law.
These campaigns against the secret so-
ciety methods of the Sicilian avail but
little, and the police are generally no
wiser after the round-up than before.
"One wonders that these constant
agitations in the Italian district do not
cause and stimulate more delinquency
upon the part of the children of the
district than they do- The Italian
youngster hears talk of vendettas,
feuds, and secret organizations, from
babyhood up, but still he does not be-
come what we would justly term a bad
boy, as a class."
There is perhaps no other country,
reckoned as predominantly Roman
Catholic, which has sent us a very large
immiigration within the last half cen-
tury, and has, in doing this, contributed
a more promising population, so far as
readiness for American life soon after
arrival is concerned. Those who re-
member more remote immigration and
who know the Italians as they now ar-
rive, may be cherishing hopes that, in
shorter time, the Italian will achieve
respectable success as an American.
Besides, an Italian often seems loosely
attached to Roman Catholicism, or even
alienated from it, and more open to en-
lightenrnent. This is encouraging when
we reflect that the bar tender, the graft-
er, the ward politician, and the dan-
gerous voter would have been to-day
a valuable reinforcement of American
citizenship, if only they had been evan-
gelized when they came. There is hope
of an evangelization of the Italian im-
migrants, which will be extensive
enough to secure a large contingent of
intelligent and moral citizens.
Yet how much firmer might have
been their present grasp of public re-
spect and confidence if their secret so-
cieties had not cast so wide a shadow
of distrust. Out of the "hundreds" of
suspects questioned by the Chicago po-
lice, it is possible that there are many
who belong to no such society. At all
events, it is easy to presume that mul-
titudes not called to account are as free
as natives of this country, from affilia-
tion with the Mafia or any similar nest
of mischief- Yet the suspicion of con-
nection with such things, or of charac-
ter fit for such associations, seems liable
to work injustice toward many new
citizens worthy of trust. How fortu-
nate it would be if the secret soc'ety
factor could at once be eliminated from
the Italiano-American problem. Free-
dom from suspicion, with actual free-
dom in citizenship, would then appear
more ful]}^ the possession of this new
resident.
TAMENESS EMPTYING CHURCHES?
Dr. J. M. Buckley, in the Methodist
CJiristimi Advocate has this to say:
"When Christianity dispenses wholly
with controversy it will be like a sleep-
ing man — harmless and helpless.
"We were entertained at the house of
a friend in New Hampshire, where Hen-
ry Ward Beechcr was spending a day or
two. It was his birthday and he was
jubilant.
"He conducted prayers, and his utter-
ances were equal to any of his published
prayers in beauty, simplicity and com-
prehensiveness.
''Immediately after he arose, he called
the writer to him and pointed to a large
picture hanging on the wall, represent-
ing a huge mastifif sound asleep with a.
piece of meat placed before him, and a
lap-dog quietly drawing it away. Said
Mr. Beecher, pointing to the sleeping
mastilT: 'That is Orthodoxy,' and to the
little dog: 'That is Heterodoxy.'
"So it is, and ever will be. Contro-
versy was the life of Paul's works — po-
lite controversy, brotherly controversy,
but strong in exposing error and bu-ild-
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
•51
ing up the truth. The Epistles are full
of controversy. Moreover, many of
Christ's sayings were strictly contronjer-
sioL
"It is more than a fine art to combine
in one sermon the forcible overthrov^^ of
an error and a heartfelt appeal; but it is
po.ssible to attain unto it."
In the May Cynosure wc called at-
tention to the number of eleemosynary
institutions carried on by the Lutheran
church in this country. A friend writes
us that the fact is that they have thirteen
children's friends' societies instead of six
as printed, making a total of one hun-
dred and ninety charities carried on by
that church.
A RIGHT TO KNOW.
An Eastern religious newspaper ends
an editorial on the question, "Are the
labor leaders dynamiters?" by saying
that ''If organized labor has been be-
trayed by its leaders it is best for the
workino-meh of this countrv to know it."
It is best for all men of the country to
know it, and it is tO' be hoped that secret
society influence will not be powerful
enough to so far suppress knowledge of
truth as to disqualify any who wish to
judge from reasonably demonstrated
"facts. The editorial referred to says in
part : ''Ever since the trial of William
D. Haywood, secretary of the Western
Federation of Miners, and two others,
for the murder of Governor Steunen-
berg of Idaho, and the confession of
Harry Orchard, a strong suspicion has
existed that some unknown parties were
carrying on a systematic plot to destroy
the property and lives, if necessary, of
those proceeding in building b}^ the use
of non-union labor."
Allusion is made to the alleged con-
fession of McDougal, covering the sacri-
fice by dynamite of more than a hun-
dred human victims. It is a startling
fact that for the six months preceding the
arrest of the secretarv of the Interna-
tional Association of Bridge and Struc-
tural Iron Workers, dynamite outrages
averaged one a week. It might have
lielped the labor unions if they could
have kept Gompers quiet at the time
when McNamara was arrested, or at
least have censored out his "gompering"
whine about the conspirac}' of capital to
bring odium u[)on labor by doing this
dynamiting that was attracting recent
attention. Ital}- holds its right to know
about Camorra stilettos, America has the
right to know about no less secret dyna-
mite.
ENCOURAGING WORDS.
We have just now ha]j])encd to see
again a few words of an article by W. B.
Stoddard which we saw in print last
winter, and there is something like spring
sunshine in them. Speaking of the work
in which Jonathan Blanchard and his as-
sociates were engaged, he declares that
"No mortal can estimate the value of the
souls helped in the right by this great
movement. Its accomplishments are too
numerous even to mention in this writ-
ing.'' If a v^orker has fallen into such
a mood as makes him ready to sigh,
"Who hath ludieved our messa^'e? and
to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been
revealed?" this assurance from the
grandson of the champion whom he
names, and from one who has fought in
the same ranks as the associates he hon-
ors, and from a witness who knows the
contested fields of a quarter of a century,
is like a fresh breeze in a sultrv day.
We half fear to follow him when he
ventures so far as to estimate, in view of
the check u])on initiations, that "Had it
not been for the National Christian As-
sociation, and the associated bodies, keep-
ing before the world by spoken and writ-
ten word the facts as they pertain to this
giant evil, it is safe to say millions Avould
have been misled who are now free."
Mr. Stoddard speaks of "constantlv meet-
ing those who have reason to give thanks
for the work our association is doing."
Let us turn to our work with fresh-
ened hope: not all seed can fall among
thorns. If discouragement paralyzes, so
that work ceases, then reward is not
ours: but if sorrowing }-et rejoicing,
weak yet strong, faint yet pursuing, we
press on. we shall come where victorA' is
going, and where harvests are ripening.
"They that sow in tears shall reap in
joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth.
bearing seed f(^r sowing, shall doubtless
come again with joy, bringing his sheaACs
with him."
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
June, 1911.
MURDER IS MURDER.
This well-chosen title litly heads a sen-
sible article relating to the dynamite
cases, written for the Outlook by ]Mr.
Roosevelt. The plain arg-ument is forci-
bl}' used by the very man who seems to
represent the arraignment of lawless cap-
ital, ^lalefactors of great wealth found
a disturber in that writer, who says of
Mr. Burns : "He has proceeded with
impartial severity against the most in-
fluential politicians and the richest busi-
ness men. It happens that the men whom
he has now arrested are members of a
labor organization; just as men whom
he formerly arrested were members of
the Republican or Democratic parties, or
of great and wealthy corporations."
Again he says: ''It is grossly improper
to try to create a public ooinion in favor
of the arrested men simply because the
crime of w^hich they are accused is one
committed ag"ainst a capitalist or a cor-
poration, and because the men who arc
charged with committing it are members
of a labor union. This is an inicjuity as
gross as it would have been if, when,
three years ago, the Sugar Trust was in-
dicted for swindling operations in the
New A^ork Custom House, the forces of
organized capital had been put behind
the indicted men on the ground that the
attack on capitalists guilty of crime
meant an attack on all capital." The
article concludes : "AVhether the man at-
tacked is a capitalist or a socialist, a
wage-worker or a professional man, has
nothing whatever to do with the ques-
tion ; and whether the man attacking him
does or does not belong to any organiza-
tion, whether of labor or capital, whether
social or religious, has nothing to do
with the question. The one and only
question is as to the guilt or innocence
of the men accused. Any man who^ seeks
to have them convicted if they are inno-
cent is guilty of a crime against the
State, and any man who seeks tO' have
them acquitted if guilty is also guilty of
a crime against the State."
This plain statement of a principle as
broad in possible application as it is sim-
ple in nature ought to be welcomed by
any true citizen. It should, moreover,
be tested more widely; for just as mur-
der is murder, whether committed by a
capitalist or a unionist, so, also gomper-
ism is gomperism, whether practiced by
one who belongs to a secret order call-
ing itself Union, or by another who be-
longs to a secret order calling itself Ma-
son. It may be that AIcNamara can get
help from unions, which is legitimate in
some features, or possibly not obviously
so in other aspects. We do not know,
however, that any trade union compels a
member by explicit rule or sworn oath
to go all lengths in aiding a known crim-
inal to escape the due results of his own
])ersonal crimes. If, however, McNa-
mara is a Royal Arch Mason as well as
a unionist it can no longer be said, in the
language of Mr. Roosevelt, "The one
and only cjuestioii is as to the guilt or
innocence of the man accused." Neither
is the prisoner any longer dependent o'l
mere lodge custom or on such sympathy
as fellow-workmen may show. An oath
sworn under death penalty assures him
of extrication from the difficulty in
which he is involved, "Whether he be
right or wrong." The sole question is
not guilt or innocence, but membership
in a certain degree of the Masonic Union
is the only question. That is gomperism
pure and simple, formulated before Gom-
pers was known. Mr. Roosevelt is an
adherent of the order in which are found
salient principles of this kind ; yet the
principle vigorously advocated in his
Outlook article allows no exception or
abatement, even when the pot calls the
kettle black. It is the familiar anti-Ma-
sonic principle, freshl}/- elucidated and
applied.
A CAGED FRATERNITY.
The most striking feature of the pic-
ture of the Camorra murder trial which
some of the magazines have used anions:
recent illustrations, is the great cage in
which thirty-six members of the Camor-
ra are shut from the rest of the world
within bars like birds of prey. The
scene renders the invisible bars of the
secret society, and the secret segrega-
tion of members from the rest of the
world, Adsible.
As a secret society this one dates back
for generations, and there seems to have
been an earlier time when it made no
pretense of concealing its criminal pur-
poses and misdeeds. The present trial is
June, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
53
for a secret society murder committed
about five years ago, when a man and his
wife were killed after betraying" secrets.
Four members are said to have been del-
egated tO' slay the traitors. Instead of
using a boat, like the selected murderers
of a famous Freemason, they committed
their murder on the shore, whither the
victim had been enticed, and where in
a truly Italian way they stabbed him.
His widow was then slain in her sleep by
two of the murderers who stole into her
chamber.
Hundreds of witnesses have testified
in one way or another, l)ut there is no
doubt that the body of the man was
found bearing thirty-nine stiletto wounds.
This exceeds by many those of that
earlier Italian, Caesar, whom the earlier
conspirators g'ashed with twenty-three
wounds. The man now murdered was a
famous receiver of stolen goods ; the
woman had been a procuress ; both were
credited with influence in the secret so-
ciety.
A Berlin paper remarks that "This
trial afl^ords the best insight into the
Latin mind the northern races have had."
The cage stands over the tomb of Loren-
zo de Viterbo, a costly copy of one of
whose paintings has lately been bought
for the British Museum. The tomb is in
an old church, where, 'Tn the chancel
are the set seats for the three judges,
the royal prosecutor and the clerk of the
court. Li the transept are seats for the
jury. In another transept is an immense
iron cage for the accused. Next to it is
a much smaller cage for the informer,
one Abbatemaggio. Between the transepts
the lawyers and the witnesses are accom-
modated. The nave accommodates the
clamorous and curious public."
Perhaps the chief figures among the
accused are Father A^itozzi, wdio in his
priestly robes blesses friend and foe and
administers spiritual consolation to his
fellow-prisoners, and Erricone, one of
the leaders of the Camorra, a slender,
swarthy, short, and nervous creature,
said to- have instigated the murders.
The irresistible power of the secret
society made it impossible to hold the
trial in Naples. As a political machine
the society appoints official employes of
the government with unrelenting favorit-
ism. All the worthy brothers play into
one another's hands, and impunity
through secret society influence is boast-
ed by members of the Camorra. ''All,
from the electoral lists to the cleaning of
the streets, from public records to ])ublic
instruction, from the distribution of the
water to the task of seeing to the public
gardens, from the concession of public
franchises to the burial of the dead, is
tainted." ''One comes across public of-
ficials in the city hall a hundred times
guilty, one hundred times punished and
meriting dismissal, Init a hundred times
allowed to remain, receiving instead of
disgrace prizes and emoluments and hon-
ors. 'This seems impossible to all who
do not know what the Camorra is.' "
SEEN FROM OUTSIDE.
"It is eas}- enough for people in other
countries to shake their heads over these
powerful Italian secret societies," ob-
serves the London A'cws, "of which the
Alafia and the Camorra are the most
powerful examples. 'The present mur-
der trial has indeed brought home to all
of us the terrible nature of their work-
ings ; but we forget that Italy has but
recently emerged from a period of an-
archic government, and nothing is so pro-
ductive of secret societies as misgovern-
ment.'
"Neapolitan characteristics have cer-
tainly exemplified themselves in a mode
bewildering to all Europe during the six
weeks that have elapsed since this great
state trial opened. '•' ''' '■' There have been
moments when the entire body of pris-
oners in the cage was weeping together.
* * ''' Pandemonium reigns in court at
every tense moment. '•' * * Women faint
by scores. Prisoners swoon." One day
George B. McClellan, who was Mayor of
New York when Lieut. Petrosini arrest-
ed Enrico Alfano, the alleged head of
the Camorra, visited the court, and that
(la\' the disorder \\-as excessive, the pris-
oners in the cage continually interrupt-
ing the testimony of Abbatemaggio and
shouting curses. The former Mayor of
New York seemed to be an object of in-
terest to the prisoners, evcrv one of
whom may have known well not onlv
why Petrosino died, but also how. The
American ex-Mayor remarked on the
niethods of the court, which to him were
unusual }et seemed in many respects ad-
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSiUiRE.
June, 1911.
inirable. After one stormy demonstra-
tion which the court had difficulty in
quelHng', the witness Sortino turned to-
ward J\Ir. jMcClellan, saying: *''If we are
acquitted here, we will go to America,
where you will accuse us of the murder
of Petrosino."
Ugly epithets and imprecations con-
tinually interrupted the informer, Ab-
batemao-oio, after he had shown that the
Camorra existed in organized form in-
side as well as outside prisons, and had
included the explanation of the way it
was so managed that the members who
had taken the final oath and those still
on probation should not be grouped to-
gether or enabled to communicate with
each other while in prison.
Discussing his experience at the trial, Mr.
McClellan said: "Two points struck me;
first, the absence of red tape, which enabled
the president to get at the bottom of every-
thing during the trial, and, second, the won-
derful ability of Abbatemaggio and the ac-
cused Sortino. The whole criminal procedure
differs from ours, as the presumption is not
the same. With us the accused is assumed to
be iimoccnt until he is proved guilty. Here the
reverse is the case. Bearing this fact in mind,
your procedure seems to be admirably adapted
to determine fairly the guilt or innocence of
the accused.
Mr. McClellan continued : "Your court is
not confined to our rules of evidence and is
able to cut many legal knots with speed, which
is certainly extremely admirable. The most
■dramatic feature today was the confrontingof
Abbatemaggio Avith Sortino, the proceeding
liaving no parallel in Anglo-Saxon countries.
Abbatemaggio impressed me as abnormally
clever. He stood the regular cross examina-
tion by President Bianchi and a half dozen
lawyers without a slip or contradiction. The
other prisoners, like Abbatemaggio, are very
intelligent in appearance, looking hke a body
of fairly progressive business men.
"I conversed with the priest Vitozzi, and
never saw more expressive facial play or ges-
tures. Alfano, the alleged head of the Camor-
ra, has as intelligent a face as I have ever
seen. He sits in the front row of the prison-
ers's cage, dominating his associates and
handling them like a prompter in a theatrical
performance. The trial interested me pro-
foundly. Its scope is more extended than the
mere conviction of the murders of Cuocolo.
The Camorra itself is on trial, and every true
friend of Italy must earnestly hope that the
admirable body of carabineers will succeed in
the end in their patriotic mission of purifying
Naples."
The World To-Day notes that "The
trial has been marked by what seemed
to Americans extraordinary disorder in
the courtroom," and regards it as hav-
ing "particular interest to America, as
there are springing up in the United
States groups of Italian criminals who,
in the name of the 'Black Hand,' are
levving blackmail and committing: mur-
ders. Our government has not yet found
a way of dealing with these criminals,
but it is to be hoped that this condition
of affairs will not be continued indefi-
nitely."
Doubtless our government, as a whole,
has not yet found a way to deal with
these criminals, yet Oregon and some
other States seem tO' be making an at-
tempt to find a way. For example, the
Oregon Legislature is understood to
have passed in its twenty-sixth regular
session House Bill No. 6, which appears
to make it unlawful and punishable for
any person, firm or corporation, either
directly or indirectly, to write, to print,
indite, or circulate, or procure to be
written, printed, indited or circu-
lated, in any language, any such
secrets as the Camorra. Mafia. Jes-
uit order, or any similar society, may
esteem desirable to be kept from the
knowledge of the government or of its
citizens. After all. we are still inclined
to fear, with the editor of the magazine,
that the real way to deal with the secret
evil has not yet been found.
Get high enough up and you will be
above the fog ; and while the men down
in it are squabbling as to whether there
is anything outside the mist, you, from
your sunny station, will see the far-off
coasts, and haply catch some whiff of
perfume from their shores, and see
some glinting of a glory upon the shin-
ing turrets of "the city that hath foun-
dations."
"To love equally as much the grace
that comes through being 'instructed
how to be hungry' and to suffer, as
you love the faith required to know
how to be 'full' and to abound in
health — that is victory. (Phil. 4, 12.) -;
You have to walk in all the light to
keep justified. And if you have ever
been sanctified you have to keep
sanctified by faith. -
June, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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Settle of §\tt Pori
LECTURERS.
Mr. C. G. Fait, who has studied the
subject of secrecy and its relation to the
various interests of our times for the
past thirty years, will answer calls with-
in reasonable distance from his home if
his traveling expenses are paid. Address
Mr. C. G. Fait, Ellendale, N. D.
EASTERN SECRETARY'S MAY RE-
PORT.
Chicago, III, May 15, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure:
I will send a few lines today, as the
work of the Annual Meeting will soon
take my time. During the past month
my work has been in New York, Wash-
ington, D. C. ; Baltimore, Md. ; Zanes-
ville, Columbus. Cedarville, Xenia and
Dayton, Ohio; Richmond, Berne and Ft.
Wayne, Ind. I have found encourage-
ment in all these centers, and ministered
to the people as there was time and op-
portunity.
Some eighty subscriptions were taken
to the Christian Cynosure en route to
this city. Berne, Indiana, conies forward
with the banner list. Our Mennonite
friends are there, as always, in the lead.
A Sabbath was spent with the Free
Methodists in Columbus, Ohio, where
Rev. R. B. Niles of Zanesville was hav-
ing successful evangelistic meetings. He
speaks out plainly in opposition to the
Lodge. A conference of Ohio Synod
Lutheran pastors was in session in their
publication building'. In a paper read by
Pastor Troutman of Lancaster, Ohio,
the Lodge was mentioned with other
false worships and popular deceptions.
This conference gave me an opportunity
to greet several friends from Colum-
bus and adjacent cities.
At Cedarville, Ohio, I missed the
genial smile and kindly aid of our good
friend H. H. McMillan. He is among
those who have recently passed to their
eternal reward. Mr. Fred Roggs and
Mr. F. A. Requarth, members of the
Ohio Synod Lutheran Church, Dayton,
Ohio, are also among our translated
helpers. Their memories will be precious
because of their lives.
Pastor J. Beck of Richmond, Indiana,
is one who always gives special cheer.
For more than twenty-five years he has
stood faithfully with us. So many were
very helpful at Berne, Indiana, I hesi-
tate to make mention of any. I was very
glad to find Rev. S. F. Sprunger, the
senior pastor, still able to minister to his
immense congregation. Rev. J. W.
Kliewer, pastor in charge, leaves in Sep-
tember to take the presidency of Bethel
College at Newton, Kansas. He will
carry with him the esteem of the entire
community. Only a most urgent call
would have taken him from his devoted
people.
Ft. Wayne, Indiana, was found to be
full of need for work in our line. A
Mardi Gras carnival of Elks was hold-
ing forth in an appeal to the appetites
and passions of the foolish who could
be persuaded to patronize them.
The Bible Training School reported in
usual number. The greeting for vour
representative was cordial as ever. A
sermon was preached for them in the
morning, and an address on the Lodge
evil given in the Mennonite Mission in
the evening. Brother King is getting
several to give up their lodges and be-
come Christians.
A Sabbath here in Chicago gave op-
portunity to minister in three of the Men-
nonite missions. Am to speak at a fourth
(D. V.) tonight. Friends from all these
missions hope to be with us in our An-
nual Meeting this week. It is a great
pleasure tO' note the extension of the
Mennonite work. They have now six mis-
sions in Chicago, supplied with pastors
and workers. A central mission build-
ing has been erected during- the vear at
a cost of some $18,000. The need for
such work here is very great. Let us
thank God He is raising up those who
are willing to do it. A visit to North
Park College, sustained by our Swedish
Mission friends, found them enjoying
their usual prosperity. They stand
squarely against the Lodge. My address
to the student body was well received
and a delegate was appointed by them
to carry their greeting to our Annual
Meeting.
Rev. E. B. Stew^art, President of our
Association, and pastor of the Third
L^nited Presbvterian Church, this citv.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
June, 1911.
gave me opportunity to address those
^vho gathered in the weekly prayer meet-
ing". So many ph\ees call for work, I
scarcely know w hich held to enter.
W. B. Stoddard.
MRS. LIZZIE WOODS' LETTER.
Dermott. Ark., i\Iay 6, 191 1.
^Ir. Wm. I. Phillips.
Dear Sir: The writer was at Luna,
Ark., the first Snnday in last month. I
met a large congregation, and after talk-
ing over the needs of onr school, we took
lip onr Bible lesson. \A^e fonnd in the
first verse that Naaman was a great
man with his master and honorable, bnt
that he was a leper. I said : "We have a
great many great men now, but they are
lepers. And this disease is incurable. No
man can cure it. It is a symbol of sin.
Sin can not be cured by man. God will
have to take the case in hand if one is
ever to be cured of sin. There are many
great men in the churches of today, but
they are lepers ; they have gone off into
the world (James 2:15), and have lost
their love of God. Your leaders are so
wrapped up in the lodges that you have
lost the spirit of God ( Ezek. '13:3)."
One brother said : "It is our preach-
ers ! Sister, right over here at Mount
Horeb Church today, not more than a
"mile from this place, they have an instal-
lation going on. Three different lodges
are installing their officers /// the Jioiisc
of God, and after it is over tjiey will
have wine drinking." I said: "Brother,
not in the church ?" He said : "Yes, in
the church." I then asked : "Are you
a lodge man?" He said: "Yes, l)ut I
would not do a thing like that. I put
mv church first." "Brother, Christ is the
head of the Church. The Church is the
Body of Christ (i Cor. 12:27-28)."
"Well." he said, "my lodge is just
like the church." I said: "I don't
see anvthing about lodges in the 'Body.'
Are ybu a Mason?" "Yes." "Well, we
will look at verse 28 of the Bible lesson,
and see if He set any Masons in His
Body." We looked, but could not find
anything. He said : "Well, I am a
preacher myself."
"Yes," I said, "you are a great man,
but vou are a leper. You had better
get under the blood and get baptized and
then come out and teach the people. You
are the leader." He said: "Sister, the
biggest men we have belong to the Ma-
sons." I answered : "Yes, brother, but
Blell is big enough to hold all your big
men. lAnd Christ has no big men in his
Church (Math. 18:1-4)."
After the lesson was over, the broth-
ers and sisters all gathered around me to
see my books and tracts against lodges.
I told the brothers how they were made
into lodge men. One man said: "Sister,
how on earth did you get our secrets ?
W^e Masons can not stand that. We will
have to carry you in our ante-room —
you will have to join us. You must be
stopped in some way or other." I said
"By the other way is meant the way
Captain Morgan went." One woman
said : "Brother, hush, the lodge has been
going on ever since the world has been
in existence. Who can stop it?" I re-
plied : "Sister, God does not want to
stop it : He is going to get His children
out of it, and let the Devil have his own.
Those that remain in them after coming
to the knowledge of the truth, are like
those who (Matt. 23:31-33, 23:9-12,
24:15) 'compass sea and land to make
one proselyte, and when he is made ye
make him two-fold more the child of
Hell than yourselves.' "
Brother Phillips, two of those Masonic
preachers came to the house where I
was stopping" and said : "You have all of
our secrets, and everything you said
about the devilment in the Masonic lodge
is true. It is the leader of all other
lodges ; the headcjuarters of all devil-
ment. We quit them years ago." I said :
"Have you told the people you are lead-
ing that they are wrong?" They both
said: "No, if we tell it, they will kill us."
I said : "If you don't -^arn the people
( Ezek. 33 :6 ) , what will the Lord do to
you? Will you hold your peace and keep
silence? (Isaiah 62:'6-'/) .'^ They said:
"Well, you pray for us. We are cow-
ards. We are afraid of public senti-
ment." I said: "Paul was not afraid to
lose his head for the Gospel's sake, now
what is the matter with Clod's preachers
of today? Have you the qualifications?
(Titus T :6) : 'blameless, the husband of
one wife, having faithful children, not
accused of riot, or unruly. For a bishop
must be blameless, as the steward of
June, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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God ; not self-willed, not soon angry, not
given to wine, no striker, not given to
filthy lucre.' There are so many preach-
ers striking for higher wages, or filthy
lucre, leaving one congregation to go to
posts where they can get higher wages ;
and some are not lovers of hospitality,
neither are they lovers of good men, nor
sober, just and holy. Most of them say
you cannot live holy — so, iike priest, like
people.' 'Blind leading the blind, and all
falling into the ditch.' *Ye serpents, ye
generation of vipers, how can ye escape
the damnation of Hell?' (Matt. 23:33)."
I said: ''This is what Jesus said to> the
false leaders."
Brother Phillips, one of those preach-
ers broke down in tears, and said : "We
are to blame for the way the people are
doing." Then I prayed : "O God, de-
liver these poor ministers."
Yours for Christ,
Lizzie Woods.
FROM OUR SOUTHERN AGENT.
Natchitoches, La., May 10, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure :
Since my last letter I have really im-
proved physically, thank the Lord.
My article in the May issue created
quite a stir in the Secret Empire here.
One of the mysterious strangers was so
greatly incensed, he carried the article to
a number of homes and tried tO' convince
a number of good people that the article
was disparaging" to the church. He de-
clared, by his vow in the mysterious em-
pire of the unfaithful works of dark-
ness, that he intended to stir up confu-
sion in my church and make things in
general unpleasant. This of course is
in perfect accord with his obligation.
Another Baptist pastor told one of my
church officers that he would come to the
church and bring his congregation to
assist us, but since he heard me preach
against secret lodges he had decided to
have nothing to do with me or my
church. For' nine years past this same
lodge-bound preacher has been conspicu-
ous in his helping of my present church
by keeping himself absent from all its
services. How can we reconcile this
blind guide, leader of the blind, and his
statement with the great commission
(Matthew 28:19-20, Mark 16:15-16)?
Here is a man wlio claims to be an
apostle of the lowly Xazarene, who, when
he w^as reviled, resented not. and when
He was bruised, opened not his mouth,
yet this blind leader has grown too
prejudiced against a fellow apostle to
even visit his church because its shepherd
dared to sound an alarm to the flock
(Ezek. 33). These two splendid speci-
mens of lodge ])roducti()n are an undeni-
able proof of the sin of sworn secrec}'..
I shall continue to declare the whole
counsel of God though the sons of dark-
ness froth at their mouth and shout de-
fiance to Jehovah. I have preached at
Weils, Alexandria and Natchitoches, La.,
since my last report. It is sad indeed in
ihis gospel age to see how men and
women are worshiping idols and at false
altars in secret lodge rooms, and }-et
these same idolaters are constantly
preaching- and ranting" about the idola-
trous worshipers under Jeroboam, Omri,
Ahab and all of the idolatrous kings and
priests. Although there arc many who
will not read the Cynosure and who will
not speak one good w^ord for an anti-se-
cretist, yet, many others are seeing the
light through its columns. Let the good
work gO' on. Yours for a clean church
and pure gospel.
F. T- Davidson.
HOUGHTON SEMINARY ASSOCIA-
TION.
Though the Christian Association of
Houghton Seminary has been in exist-
ence only a few months, it has sent out
letters and tracts to over five hundred
Wesleyan Methodist elders and licen-
tiates. In answer to these letters the
Association has hundreds of calls for
free anti-secret literature. As fast as
funds are furnished to cover the actual
expense of postage and printing, stu-
dents and members of the faculty of
Houghton Seminary respond to these
calls, charging nothing for their work.
This plan enables AA>sle}au ^Methodists
or others to have antisccret tracts sent
to their friends witli the least possil)le
expense to the cause, and at the same
time enables students to form the hal^it
of doing practical and aggressive work
in reform.
On ]\ra\- TOth in the Seminary Chapel,
was held one of the semi-annual anti-
secret meetings provided for by the As-
sociatitin's Constitution. Tlie Rev. A. T.
58
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
June, 1911.
Jennings, editor of the U'cslcyaii Mctli-
odist. delivered a very able address, treat-
ing- recent legislative attempts against
antisecrecy. comparing secrecy and
Christianity as to their foundation prin-
ciples, and setting' forth the duty of
Christians to inform themselves thor-
ouo-hlv in regard to the nature of both
secrecy and Christianitv. Chairman E.
W. Bruce presided, Treasurer Harold
Hester spoke of the work of the student
association, and a quartet furnished good
music. The interest shown in this meet-
ing seems to indicate that Houghton
Seminary intends to do lasting work in
the much neglected field of antisecret re-
form, H. R. Smith, Jr.
IMay 15, 191 1.
from #ur HaiL
Claytonville, 111., May i, 191 1.
Dear Brother Phillips :
I must write you a few lines, and am
glad to tell you that I am still at the
old stand, and that God is finding plenty
for me to do here and elsewhere.
About three weeks ago I had the
pleasure of talking on the lodge question
to Mr. F. Gilbreath, our Superintend-
ent of Schools. I began directly after
supper, and continued until nearly mid-
night. He is a Mason, bright, intelli-
gent, and conscientious, but nof a pro-
fessor of Christianity. I found the dear
man willing and anxious to hear what I
had to say regarding the lodg'e abomina-
tions. I pointed out the great evils of
Masonry ; and he never disputed a single
statement that I made, but acknowledged
the truth like a man.
His mother-in-law, and his sister-in-
law — one of the best school teachers in
this county, and a devoted Christian
woman — were both present during the
whole conversation, which they greatly
enjoyed, and in which they were intense-
ly interested. The teacher was at my
house this morning, and received a fine
package of rituals, pamphlets, and
Cynosures, and also one of Bro. Blanch-
ard's books. She was influenced into the
Royal Neighbors' lodge not long ago, but
is now inclined to question the pretended
goodness of that lodge, and of all the
other lodges as well. I denounced the
whole lodge system, and spared none of
them, and gave what I regard as good,
and more than ample, reasons. She is
going to investigate the lodge system
thoroughly,
I might speak of other important con-
versations, but will not do so now. I
want to say, that, of all the hindrances in
the way of the deliverance of the world
of captive souls, the false prophet of the
false church is one of the greatest. One
might be led to think that there is about
one Elijah to four hundred prophets of
Baal, and one John the Baptist to a
whole host of hypocrite scribes and
pharisees. Some of the popular modern
churches (so-called) seem to be paying
homage at the shrine of an imaginary
Christ, and an imaginarv God ; and when
the real Christ appears, they may prove
to be no more like Him than were the
pharisees and sadducees of old.
The soul-infernalizlng lodges are con-
trolling many denominations to- which
men and women are looking for light
and help ; and hence the sun refuses to
shine, the stars are falling, and gross
darkness covers the minds of the people,
and makes them easy victims of the hell
powers. I know of many preachers,
against whose injurious influence I would
shield my boy as I would shield him
against the old bloat of a saloon keeper.
These false prophets would influence my
boy to enter intO' the fatal snares of these
soul-demoralizing lodges.
These are hard things to say ; but they
are true, and who can deny it? There
is no doubt in my mind that we do too
much side stepping and dodging
around the stump, and that the greater
part of our energy is spent in vain, be-
cause it is spent in the wrong direction.
Can't you see the lodge controlling
various church denominations? and can't
you see churches being carried into per-
dition by the Beast of pagan idolatry? I
tell you, my dear brother, if Jesus were
here, as He was nineteen hundred years
ago. His biggest fight would be with the
recreant denominations, and the blind
guides who are criminally responsible for
the thralldom of these eternity-bound
souls. Your brother in Christ,
(Rev.) L. V. Harrell.
June, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
59
ELKS, LIONS AND WOLVES.
Decatur, 111., Feb. 28th, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure :
Some time last sprin.j;^' I asked you for
information regardino- the Elks' lodge. I
consider it my duty now to express my
thanks to you for the ample instruction
which I was able to gather from the De-
cember, 1910, number of the Cynosure.
While waiting" for enlightenment from
you regarding the character of the Elks'
lodge, I was by no means inactive, but
privately and openly waged war against
the Elks and all the other animals of the
devil's menagerie. With the Lord's help,
through His Word, I have won, and am
positive of gaining more victories.
Thanks be to God that I am working"
for His cause in a church which openly
opposes all oath-bound secret societies,
and at present serve a congregation
which will not tolerate lodge members as
communicants or voting members.
I now know from my own experience
that the Elks are by no means that harm-
less, benevolent social organization
which they pretend tO' be. The princi-
ples of the Elks tend to make those who
adhere and follow them unscrupulous
and deceitful hypocrites. In this respect
they seemingly surpass their mother —
Freemasonry. A young man who had
been attending my church regularly, and
had the intention of becoming a mem-
ber of my church, joined the Elks. I
asked him for his reasons for doing so.
He answered by lavishly praising the
noble principles and deeds of the order,
and the high-grade character of its
members. This knowleds^e he declared
to have been obtained chiefly from the
constitution and by-laws of the order be-
fore joining. Though he has promised,
time and again, to furnish me with a
copy of this desirable literature, he has
thus far failed to do' so, and even has
lost track of his cop}^ He furthermore
insisted that he had joined the order
without giving an oath or a pledg'e. While
debating with him on this question a
friend of his happened along; and, in re-
ply to a few questions to this friend, he
declared : *'The Elks' lodge is the most
ironclad oathbound society in existence."
That, of course, was a A^ery undesirable
statement just then, and my friend gave
in. It is not an easv task tO' induce a
person who resorts to such a shamefaced
lie to ward oft" the suspicion that he is an
unprincipled character, to admit that his
oath given to his lodge is blasphemous.
Any intelligent person, knowing- what an
oath is, namely an invocation of the liv-
ing God to be a witness of the truth and
an avenger of falsehood, should readily
see that a self-respecting person cannot
give an oath to keep a secret, the nature
of which has not and cannot be miade
known to him. But either the oathbound
lodge member. — poor, benighted soul — ■
''cannot see it that way," or he gets an-
gry, and declares that he "knows his own
business." It certainly requires an im-
measurable amount of effort to rouse
such a conscience.
Frequently members of Elks and other
lodges will mention the fact, which they
consider to be praiseworthy and a re-
deeming" feature of the order, that every-
body who would join them must believe
in a ''Supreme Being." "A person not
believing in a Supreme Being cannot be-
come an Elk." If that is the case, they
are doing the thing which they most em-
phatically declare they are not doing;
namely, teaching religion. The founda-
tion of every religion is the dogma of
the God whom the adherents of various
religions adore. Teaching a Supreme
Being is teaching a religion, "eo ipso,"
confessing a Supreme Being is confess-
ing a religion. Who or what is the Su-
preme Being which the lodges profess?
Has the true and living God, who has re-
vealed Himself in His Word, by His
names and works, applied unto Himself
names and acts of such an indefinable
nature as would justify us in applying to
Him such an indefinable equivalent as
Supreme Being? "I am the Lord: that
is my name ; and my glory will I not
give to another." Thus we read in Isaiah
42:8.
In Exodus, 32d chapter, we read how
the Israelites worshi]^ed a golden calf,
saying: "These are thy gods, O Israel,
which brought thee up out of the land
of Egypt." "And Aaron made procla-
mation, and said, to-morrow shall be a
feast to Jehovah." Thc\- intendl^d to
worship the God who brought them out
of Egy])t. But for choosing their own
style of w(M-slii]Mng God. the Lord's
wrath waxed hoi aijain>t them. If we
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
June, 1911.
would worship and adore the true and
living God. it nui>t be aceording- to His
name and His revelation which He has
made known. "According to thy name,
O God. so is th)- praise unto the ends of
the earth." Professing and worshiping a
"Supreme Being." is idolatry. To me
this truth seems to be the A B C of
Christianity : yet ever so many Chris-
tians, at least church goers, seemingly
have not the faintest conception of this
fact, but rather imagine that thc}^ can
worship God in whatever way they may
choose, and to suit their own "fancy.
\Mio is to be blamed for such igno-
rance? I say. that, if every minister or
preacher who has been called to preach
the gospel would really do so, instead of
devoting his sermons to other topics —
e. g., politics, science, art and literature
■ — then people would not be sO' ignorant
and worship a ''Supreme Being."
As a rule, the last refuge of a lodge
man is the argument: "The lodges can-
not be bad, since so many preachers be-
long to them." Xo doubt, bv this aro-n-
ment a great many weak Christians are
entrapped by various lodges. It has al-
ways been one of Satan's wily tricks to
persuade men to find an excuse for their
sins in the sins of others. Rather than
to say, with David (Ps. 119:105,) "Thy
word is a lamp unto ni}' feet, and a light
unto my path," they use the fact that
DaA'id transgressed the Lord's com-
mandment, as a pretext for their own
transgressions. In Matthew^ 23 we read
that Christ warns his hearers thus : "The
scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses'
seat. All therefore whatsoever they bid
you observe, that observe and do ; but do
not ye after their w^orks." But undoubt-
edly a great man}^ preachers are sadly
ignorant in those things which they
should teach others.
A young man of my congregation was
a witness not long ago to the following
incident : His employer was formerly a
member of my church (Ev. Lutheran),
but was expelled because he joined the
lodge, and would not leave it. This gen-
tleman was one day approached by a
pastcTr of one of the large congregations
of our city, and asked why he was not a
church member. "My church expelled
me because I joined the lodge." Pastor:
*'I do not see why a church should do
that ; there is nothing wrong in the lodge,
I myself belong to several of them. I
think it is a good thing." Well, my
church said : "The lodge does not pray
in the name of Jesus, and therefore re-
jects the Son of God." Pastor: "Now,
look here : Does not the Lutheran church
use the Lord's prayer? and in it the name
of Jesus is not mentioned ; therefore it is
not ofifered in His nam.e."
How is it possible that a preacher who
has grown old and gray in the ministry,
and considers it his duty to show people
the way to salvation, can be so ignorant?
He certainly is "a blind leader."
Lately there has come to our city an
organizer of what is claimed to be a new
lodge, and the best of all — "The Royal
Order of Lions.'" Of course every me-
nagerie must have lions. These lions are
undoubtedly of the same class which
Peter warns us against, saying: "Your
adversary the devil,' as a roaring lion,
w^alketh about, seeking whom he may de-
vour."
The dear Cyx^osure is a real blessing
to many, and I confidently believe that
we, with God's help, will win.
Yours for the cause,
(Rev.) Theo. Lohrmann.
Ossian, Ind., May 16, 191 1.
Dear Brother Phillips :
I heartily commend the "prayer circle"
to relieve the country from the oppres-
sion of the secret lodge system. No one
but God knows the number of prayers
being ofi^ered in behalf of the great anti-
secrecy movement. Clark E. Chupp.
At the 29th annual meeting of the
Bethlehem Orphan Asylum Association
at New Orleans, La., (Southern Dist.,
Mo. Synod) the total receipts for the
year reported were $14,369.43. There
are 83 children in the Home, the largest
number in its history.
Love can neither be bought nor
driven. That which goes by force or
comes for pay, is only misnamed
love.
Happy is the man who will gladly
suffer wrong to have the privilege of
forgiving the actor, and the enjoyment
of the blessing that follows.
June, 1911.
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Illiistratiou — 'Chicago Aveune (Moody's)
Church 65
Sunday Class Initiation 65
A Fancy Breed of Goat 6C
Fraternity Sunday 6G
Memorial Services 66
The Ethics of Secrecy. By Rev. A. C.
Dixon, D. D 67
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Amanda Smith's Address at Annual Meet-
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Joins Lodge ; May Not Live 75
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Masonic Head in Rome 80.
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Cartoon — And the Public Is in Sympathy
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"Will Watch with Interest"— War on Chi-
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"Secret ^Societies and Kindred Evils" in
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Stealing a Part of Initiation 83
"The World Seems Sick" 83
Chinese Graduate of American College. ... 83
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Troi Arrested Notwithstanding Lodge In-
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Prevalent Perjury 85
A Text for the Master's Workers 85
Tennessee Law to Protect Secret Orders.. 86
Irish Caricatures S5
The Blind Filter 88
An Inquiry 89
Black Hand Criminals Sentenced 89
Quaboag Lodge Anniversary 89
Grand Army of the Republic. By Col.
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One of the AVorkers 89
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VOLUME XLI.
CHICAGO, JULY, 1908.
NUMBER 3
\
CHICAGO AVENUE CHURCH.
■'■' REV. A. C. DIXON, PASTOR.
Last month's great Republican Nation-
al Convention recalls an interesting- fact,
that the first National Political Conven-
tion, for the nomination to the chief of-
fice in our country, was held by the Anti-
Masonic party, in September, 1830,
which convention adjourned to meet in
Baltimore, September, 1831, the anniver-
sary of the abduction of Capt. William
Morgan. At this National Convention
William Wirt was nominated for Presi-
dent and Amos Ellmaker for A'ice-Presi-
dent.
The A^ezvs, of Grand Rapids, Mich., on
I'^b. 28th published an interview with
Charles PI. Thomas, great lieutenant
coi.nmander of the Maccabees, in which
lie stated : "To the best of my knovv'.cdge
tlic statement that the expenses of the of-
fice have been $75,5^^0 'he last y-.r.- ^. while
tiie net gaiji in n -.inbership has been b it
400, is true," said T'::omas "I: is ii'.ie
Stevens added 12,000 new members to
the order during the year, but there was
a falling off of 11,600, so that the net
gain is but 400. Two hundred and eighty
lodges have suspended in the past few
years."
It has been pointed out locally that at.
$75,500 lor a net gain of 400 members,.
Li;e order has been pa}'ing $188.75 each.
SUNDAY CLASS INITIATION.
A newspaper report in a I\Ionda}' is-
sue said: "The Forester's celebration^
yesterday, was the cause of more excite-
ment than has happened for many a Sab-
bath day, and justly so, for the meeting
was one of the largest and most enthusi-
astic ever held in ihis city. Over 50a
Foresters were present in the city hall.''"
CO
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
July, 1008.
Tlie occasion ^^'as a class initiation of al-
most a IVnnclred new members. The may-
or of the city, being introduced, wel-
comed the grand officers and members,
■expressing- also his appreciation of his
•own membership in the Foresters.
A FANCY BREED OF GOAT.
Sunday was the day when a New En-
gland lodge selected hfteen men to go
•and become members of what a newspa-
per cp/iled a burlesque order, so that,
after returning, they could initiate others
in the (Oriental Order of Humility and
Perfection i How wonderful that title
sounds, and how exquisitely it harmon-
izes with the adjective combination, Nc-
ule Grand I All who join must first be
Odd Fellows, as all who join the Arabic
order of tlie r.Iystic Shrine, in its import-
■ed form, must first be Masons. The
Llaymakers constitute a similar society,
-Tidmitting none who are not also Red
JMen.
After existing in Canada for some
y^ears, this humble and perfect order has
"be£:-un to infest United States territory
as an imported pest.
FRATERNITY SUNDAY.
Sunday observance is growing toward
an observance of distinctively designated
■days, and some questions arise that are
-disturbing. Between customs, requestjs
sent by mail, and the aggressions of
lodges, a pastor almost begins to wonder
what will become of his Sundays by and
hy. One of the most trying observances,
to a pastor who is intelligently conscien-
tious, is threatening to become general,
if we read rightly the signs. Flowever,
the shadow may be settling slowly, for
Holyoke, Mass., a large manufacturing
city, held its sixteenth annual observance
■of Fraternity Sunday, May loth, when
an audience of twelve hundred met in
the Presbyterian church. The societies
present included the Knights of Malta
and the Dames of Malta, Knights of
Pythias, Masons, Odd Fellows, the De-
gree of Rebekah, Spanish War Veterans
and auxiliary, Manchester Unity Odd
Fellows and Odd Ladies, Sons of Veter-
ans and auxiliaries, the Grand Army and
Woman's Relief Corps, Sons of St.
George and the Daughters of St. George,
Caledonians and Ladies of Caledonia,
Clan iMcClaren and Ladies of Scotia.
]\Iiss Mary E. Woolley, successor of
Mary Lyon of sainted memory, gave the
address on "A Modern Interpretation of
an Ancient Teaching." It is hardly more
startling to find these worldly and anti-
christian organizations making a display
in the church suggestive of Knox and
Calvin, and the strong orthodoxy of
Scotland and America, than to see this
teacher involved. In some, if not most
of these lodges, it would at the best be
an unlawful thing condoned, if the name
of Jesus should chance to be used ; and
to know this makes such a display seem
incongruous. Many who attended church
that day, when their lodge could be glori-
fied, wdll likely enough attend church
little and theater much, worship publicly
but little if at all, yet dance in public
places to the limit, the rest of the year.
MEMORAL SERVICES.
If angels ever weep it must be at such
services as the one held not long since in
New Brighton, Pennsylvania. It was
like such services generally. It was a
memorial service for the dead of the past
year who had been members of the sa-
loon lodge called ''Eagles." The first
prayer was by Chaplain Holt. "The ad-
dress of the afternoon was made by Rev.
C. L. Boring, of the United Brethren
Cliurch," who is a minister of the pro-
lodge U. B. church, not the Radical. A
Mason, who is also a Presbyterian and a
teacher in the public schools, gave a talk
on Fraternalism. The lodge Chaplain
pronounced the benediction, after the
singing of ''Nearer, my God, to Thee!"
Any one who has an intelligent appre-
ciation of what the Eagle lodge stands
for, and what the Christian Church
stands for, will write over such memo-
rial services : "What communion hath
light with darkness ? What part hath he
that believeth with an infidel ? What
agreement hath the temple of God with
idols?"
The work of a man may be the doing
of little things only, yet if he does them
well his faithfulness is no little thing.
July, 1908.
CHRISTIAiN CYNOSURE.
A. C. DIXON.
THE ETHICS OF SECRECY.
Address delivered in Chicago, May 22. 1008,
by REV. A. C. DIXON. D. D., at the Animal Meet-
ing of the 'National Christian Association.
I was twenty-five years coming to the
light on the question of organized se-
crecy ; or rather, not until I was over
twenty-five years of age did it enter my
head that secret societies were wrong.
When I was a boy twelve years old, I
was inveigled into a secret order, and I
discovered .great wickedness within it,
and was sorry that I was in it, but attrib-
uted the wickedness not to the secrecv,
even indirectly, but to the characters of
the members.
While I was in college I joined a semi-
secret society, was disgusted with the ini-
tiation and so much evil in its workings,
but it never occurred to me that secrecv
was the cause of it.
The first dawn of light I received was
at a funeral in my pastorate in Asheville,
North Carolina, when I noticed among
the white-aproned men standing arouncl
the casket and the grave, the dead sticks
of my church — those so dead that they
ought to have been buried, and the fact
that they were not buried made their
presence offensive. I mean that they
were dead spiritually. They were the
wealthier men, the more intelligent men,
and with one exception, and he not mucii
of an exception, the men in my church
who didn't come to prayer-meeting, after
whom 1 would put an interrogation point
as to their piety, the men who in the
community stood for the lowest possible
t}pe of spiritual life. I said to myself
as I left that funeral, "There is some-
thing the matter.'' Yet it did not dawn
u[ion me clearly that secrecy was the
cause of the trouble ; that organized se-
crecy w^as sapping the life out of my
church and really destroying the u-^c ful-
ness of these men.
I w^ent to Brooklyn and there was in-
veigled into a secret order. 1 didn't
know I was joining one — they called it a
mutual insurance society. I would be
ashamed to describe the initiation. It
^v•as not as bad as I have heard described
this afternoon, but it was just as
foolish. When I got inside and
found, presiding over the idiotic or-
my deacon, one of the most
in the church, and found
h.im putting me through that sort of pro-
ceeding, and some of the prominent
cliurch-members with him, I felt like a
fool, and I had half a conviction that
they felt a little the same way. I felt I
had lost some of my influence with these
men by submitting to the indignities of
that initiation — such as boys would go
through and laugh over, but when men
come down to them they are certainly
iiidiQiiities, if not insults. I felt extreme-
gies _
dignified
'o>
ly undignified and humiliated by the pro-
ceeding, but that was not all. Before the
first meeting was over, the chairman of
the Annual Ball Committee made a re-
]»ort and informed us that the tickets for
the public ball were there for distribu-
tioii, and each one of us was expected to
distribute so man^^ and urge his friends
to attend. "Well, well," I thought, 'T
am in it ; I never thought I would get in-
to a thing like this.'' So I did not have
.'tny more sense than just to get up and
say. 'T am not in the habit of attending
i)ublic balls, I do not know how to to sell
tickets to ])ublic balls ; T believe that your
public ball is an abomination unto heav-
en, and I cannot advise any of the mem-
bers of my church to go." My old dea-
con sat there and looked at me out of
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OIIUISTIAN CYNOSURE.
July, 1908.
the corner of his eye, as if that was a
sort of new revelation to him. When I
jiad said the same thing perhaps a dozen
times to individuals privately, I went
home feehng a little twinge of con-
science; and I confess 1 did not go to
sleep quite as early as usual that night. I
had gotten mixed up with unbelievers,
unequally }'oked. I could not manage
them ; they had all the 3^oke on their side,
and they were just carrying me headlong
hke a blind ox yoked in with them; I
could not do a thing but kick and bellow,
■and I did that.
Within a few weeks I received a nicely
printed card, announcing a progressive
•euchre party under the auspices of that
secret order, and inviting me and family
.and friends to come. I sat down and
■wrote: *'My dear sir — I do not play pro-
g'ressive euchre ; it is gambling ; and I do
not want my family to play it. I there-
fore return the card." I thought that
"Was the best testimony I could give.
About three months afterwards anoth-
■cr, more beautifully embossed card came,
inviting me, and not my family, to a stag
party. The words ''stag party" were in
quotation marks and printed in capital
letters. I said, "What is a stag party?"
I found, after interpretation by one who
Ivnew, that the stag party was a vaude-
ville show in which women in undress
•danced before husbands whose wives
were at home. When I learned that, I
sat down and wrote to the secretary of
the lodge: "My dear sir — I don't believe
in your balls, and I don't believe in your
progressive euchre parties, nor your stag
|)arties ; and as I cannot influence this
•concern for good, I offer my resigna-
tion.*'
Xow the question came up: What are
3'ou going to do next Sunday morning?
There is your old deacon, and there are
twenty-five members of your church in
that lodge — the most prominent men.
What are you going to do ? Are you go-
ing to compromise ? Are you going to
flinch? I said, "Lord, I started out to
please Thee, and I told Thee at ordina-
tion tliat if Thou wouldst help me, I
'\vould simply please Thee, and try to
please nobody else as long as I live." (I
liad broken that resolution once. I
preached a sermon to please a dear old
deacon, on the subject of women talking
in public. He was opposed to it ; was
about to leave the church with his
wealth}' family. I thought I could sail
betv^een Scylla and Charybdis, and satis-
f}^ him without repelling others, and hold
him in the church. By skillful naviga-
tion I ran into both Scylla and Charybdis,
and went down on a rock between the
two. The man got so mad that he not
only :-left my church, but left the towi^
and moved from Baltimore to New York.
I said then, "Lord, if you will excuse me
for that, I will never do it again ; I will
try to please Thee ever hereafter.")
Well, the next Sunday morning after I
sent in my resignation to the lodge, I
came before my congregation resting up-
on God, and in as kind tones as I could
(I am afraid they did not sound very
kindly) I said, "Brothers, I joined a se-
cret society, thinking I was joining an in-
surance society. They advertised a public
ball and made me their agent. That or-
der had a progressive euchre party and
wanted me as a guest ; they got up a stag
paity to appeal to the sensual nature of
its members. I have resigned from that
order, and I call upon you deacons who
are members, and every member of this
chmxh, to revolutionize that thing or get
out of it."
They didn't do either. They stayed in
it, as far as I know, and didn't even get
mad. I have always felt that I did not
quite do my duty. They just went along
and smiled ; but I smiled too. I felt good
on the inside ; I felt I had done exactly
wnat the Lord Jesus Christ would have
me to do. Even yet my eyes were not
opened. I thought there was something
the matter with the organization of that
secret order, but that all secret orders
surely were not bad. I held this opinion
until I went up to Boston. I had been
there just a few months when a tall, gray-
headed, gray-bearded, venerable old gen-
tleman came around to see me ; he said,
"I have been appointed by the committee
of our order" — the name of the order
was so big I cannot recall it, and his offi-
cial title was so big I cannot speak it, and
the list of officers was so big it would tie
up my tongue just to try them — he said,
JrJy, 1908.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
GO
^'1 have been authorized to invite you to
innke the anniversary address- on Sun-
day evening-. We will give you the big-
:gest crowd of men you ever saw, and we
will give you the biggest collection you
<tver had. Our last meeting was in Trc-
mont Temple ; we gave the largest collec-
rlion that ever had been given at a
Thanksgiving service, and we presented
to the church a lectern worth ( I believe
lie said) about six hundred dollars. We
-will give you the best time you ever
-saw." I was getting ready to do it. T
:said, ''What does your order represent ?"
■U^ told me some good things it repre-
sented. I said, "What do you want me
'to do?" "You talk about twenty min-
utes." "And what are you going to do .^"
T asked. "We will have Mr. So and So
S^ive an address and we will have our
band there ; we will form at the hall and
tnarcli to the church with our band and
Tegimentais, and we would like to have
■seats reserved for several hundred of the
•prominent members ; after we have ex-
plained the object of the order, then you
•can speak." I said, "Are you a Chris-
tian ?' ■ He said, "Oh, no, I am not a
Christian." "Ever been a Christian?'
^'Yes," he said, "I was a member of a
church down in Maine twenty-five years
:aeo ; I have had nothins;- to do with it
•since. I joined the church then, but I
•soon learned that the church is not doing
anything worth while ; the secret socie-
ties are doing it all, and there is little
need of any church. When you speak to
tis you will have something worth while
to talk about." Well, well ! I looked at
liirn again. He struck me as a curiosity
•on iiict. a curiosity walking around. I
-said, "Look here, man, you want to make
Tny rjiurch an advertising pole for your
■society, the very object of which you tell
iT.e is to kill my church. I will have to
think about that."
1 have been thinking about it ever
-since ; I could not get over thinking about
it, and it settled down as conviction in
my soul, that secrecy itself was at tlie
t)ottom of the thing, wrong in principle,
?.nd it made wrong good men ; it turned
them aside from deep spirituality, even
from righteousness.
As a result of that conversation with
tlie lodge representative I made my maid-
en address against secret orders, that
I'rother Woolley this afternoon said he
heard ; that was the first time I attempt-
ed to s])eak on the subject in public. In
a few months it grew on me that I ought
to bear my testimony to my church. I
learned that a large proportion of the
members were members of secret orders.
A brother told me, 'Tf you do it you will
de]:)lete your congregation." A pastor,
you know, likes a large congregation ; I
rlo not remember meeting many that
liked to scatter a crowd, and see them go
off and never come back. I waited for
5.everai weeks before I had the grace to
speak out, but one Sunday evening the
burden was so heavy upon my heart that
I just could not help it, and I announced
that the next Sunday evening I would
preach on secret societies. The people
were all there, too. They were not there
after that. My congregation decreased
30 per cent, perhaps 50 per cent. The
iiext Sun.day there were vacant seats, but
I tell you, God gave us the victory all the
same. I learned this, that it takes more
grace to talk to the backs of pews where
people used to sit, than it does to a crowd
of five thousand people. I had one of
the richest experiences of my life, ham-
mering the gospel into the backs of pews.
In that I did just the best I could. There
were, to be sure, a good many people
there to hear, but 33 per cent of my con-
gregation was gone for at least six
weeks.
Dr. Armitage of New York said that
he preached enough gospel into the backs
of his pews to run three theological sem-
inaries twenty-five years. I do not know
why he did it, but there is a real joy in
preaching to the backs of pews and chairs
when you have the consciousness that
you please God, and you can hear the
Spirit of God singing in your soul, and
go home and sleep well without a twinge
of conscience.
So far as I know, we did not lose a
single member ; but I confess I was a lit-
tle frightened after that first sermon. T
am no hero. My first impulse, ^vhen I
see danger coming, is to run. Now you
think that is ignoble, perhaps, but I am
talking the truth. I heard one of the
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
July. 190^.
bra^'est soldiers in the Civil ^^'ar say that
wheji he entered battle tlie lirst impulse
was to run. Zebnlon A'ance, who be-
came Senator, said once, "On my first
going- into battle, I turned over a little
brush-heap and a big rabbit ran back and
went over the hill. I saw the little cotton
tail going over, and I turned around and
said. 'Go on. ^lolly Cottontail: if it were
not lor ni}' reputation, I would be with
you.' '"
Idiere is no doubt about it in the
^vor]d ; these brave old soldiers that have
never run, some of them have trembled
mightily. jMy ideal of a hero is a man
that is scared to death and won't run ;
who just stands up and fights for God,
with all the strength of God. A brother,
who was a member of a secret order,
after the evening service which depleted
the crowd, came up to me and said,
"Have vou got anybody to go home with
you?" 'l said, "No." "Weh," he said,
''1 have a company of men here to go
with you for your protection." "Protec-
tion from what?" I asked. "Well," he
said, "you had better let them go with
you." He knew; he was a member of a
secret order, and he knew what secrecy
did and what secrecy would do ; and he
Vv'as afraid for me. I was ashamed to go
w^th them. I slipped ofif and went up a
bark street, and ran so fast that nobody
could catch me, because I did not want
to go home with a bodyguard.
Thus my conviction became more set-
tled, that there was something the matter
with the secret orders — with organized
secrecy.
i was expected to conduct the funeral
of a young lady, a member of our Bible
School. I went around and had a little
bit of a service, and then there were two
or three orders present to take charge of
the rest of the services. They went
through a lot of tomfoolery, that did not
mention Jesus Christ, and had no refer-
ence to the God that I loved ; and among
them were some as wicked people as you
could find in that part of the city. I
called to pay a visit of condolence after-
v;ards. I said to the mother of the girl,
"Are you a Christian?'' "No," she said.
"Do you ever go to church?" "No, I
am a member of nine secret societies." I
did not know there were so many as th.it
a.round. "Yes," she said, "I have worked
niyself up to a high position in several
oi them. I have no time for the church."'
She would not admit that the Church of"
Christ had a place on earth. "Why/' she
said, "at one of our secret society anni-
versaries, a few months ago, the subject
of the orator was, 'The Church Efiete.' "
"Which church effete?" "Every cliurch
effete ; there is no need for the church
any more ; the secret orders are doing the
work." She said her husband was iit
juember of seven orders. Sixteen secret
orders supported by the two! and they
were not wealthy people.
I baptized a woman, the wife of a.
physician, who lived just around the cor-
ner from the church. He was one of the-
eminent physicians of the community. I
knew he hated the church, and did not
love me. I knew he did not believe in the-
I'ible. After the baptism of his wife, I
thought I ought to call around to pay a:
pastoral visit. I found that that man-
was a member of twenty-one secret or-
ders ! He told me he was, and that he-
was high up in several of them. A mem-
ber of twenty-one secret societies, and he-
hated the Church, and hated the Eiblc^
and hated Christianity, with a hatred!
that was cruel. He loved his wife, hon-
ored her, respected her ; but he had no-
use for the Bible, and no use for Chris-
tianity. He was enthusiastic on the sub-
ject of secret societies.
Well, I thought, it is about time I set-
tled this matter of secrecv. So I turned!
to my Bible, and began to investigate,,
and tried to find out the foundation. Per-
haps my first discovery was that there
are some things mentioned in the Bible
that are secret, and ought to be, in the
sense that they are private. We ought
to go sometimes in secret — certainlv not
with a view to publicity. "Let not your
left hand know what your right hand do-
eth." There is such a thing as secret
prayer ; you close your door and are ;shut
up with God ; you pray in secret and the
Father will reward openly. There i.?-
such a thing as secret fasting; let 3'our
fasting be with God — between you an'i'
God, not between you and your fellows^
But in the cases of giving, and prajingf^
July, 1008.
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71
snd fasting, there is no real secrecy ; it is
jv-rivacy, really. If you were to organize
for the purpose of making prayer, and
of fasting, and of giving, secretly, you
would publish them by the very fact of
_your organization.
The difference between secrecy and
privacy is this : A home is private, but
not secret, in the technical sense ; that is,
you are not compelled to swear to con-
'Ceal the things which take place in the
;home. A secret organization is a so-
•cicty of men or women that have sworn
not to divulge anything that is done, or
xevealed to them, in secret sessions.
Things can be private without being
^secret. There is no secret oath about
praying, or about fasting, or about giv-
ing, or about the family. That was the
iirst thino- that struck me.
The next thing that struck me was
this: that organized secrecy is opposed
to the tenets of Christianity. Christian-
ity is revelation, not concealment. Je-
.6US said, 'T am the Light of the world."
It is the mission of light to reveal, not ro
conceal. Jesus said that what we hear in
secret we should proclaim upon the
housetops. "Well," I said to myself, "if
that is true, no man has a right to keep
3. truth secret that is good for the world."
No man has a right to put under lock and
"key what is good for humanity. No man
;has a right to put into a back room, and
just give out to a little coterie of special
favorites, what he knows is good for all
men. That is sinful. It is opposed to
the genius of Christianity. Christianity
would make us good, and then teach us
to do good to all the rest.
And then, certainly no man has a right
to keep secret what is bad, just for the
:sake of keeping it secret. If it is bad, it
•ought to be revealed; and if kept secret,
it will be to his hurt.
Then I notice this: the spirit of caste.
That is contrary to the genius of Chris-
tianity. I have been reading of caste in
India and in China, and missionaries tell
-us that the greatest obstacle to Christian-
-ity, in some heathen countries, is caste.
A certain class of people think they are
"better than other folks, and they call on
•each other and despise everybody else.
"The workings of secrecy are marked by
the same spirit, the spirit of caste. You
will find it in the public schools right
here in Chicago now. I want to say that
I praise God for the stand that the
school commissioners have taken when
they say that the secret societies shall be
abolished in the public schools. That de-
cision has been given lately. Our public
schools are divided up into little cliques
which are reproducing the Asiatic caste
spirit. Boys and girls will not associate
with others just because they do not be-
long to their secret order that has some
little pass-word and grip. Idiat is op-
posed to the spirit of Christianity, not
only in the public schools, but in colleges
and in society everywhere.
I find another thing : that organized se-
crecy is opposed to organized Christian-
ity. Christ said, ''Upon this rock I v:ill
build my church, and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it." The mo^it
important organization on this earth is
the Church of Jesus Christ. In my esti-
mate it is more important than govern-
ment. I mean the general organization
of the Church. The spirit that antago-
nizes the Church of Christ is the spirit
of the devil ; and so far as I can see, the
spirit of secrecy is antagonistic to organ-
ized Christianity. Not that every man in
a secret order is not a Christian ; but if
he remains a Christian, it will be in spite
of the things about him. Some men have
stamina enough to go into a secret order
and retain their Christian convictions and
integrity; but if they do it, it is against
the influence that surrounds them in the
order.
I notice a third thing: that organized
secrecy is opposed to free government.
In a country where there is a tyrant rul-
ing, where a coterie of bad people man-
age affairs, there might be some possible
excuse for the secret order that opposes
tyranny; but the genius of our govern-
ment is cauoht bv Bartholdi — the face of
his statue of "Liberty Enlig'htening the
World" is the face of a mother. God
does not want the light put under a bush-
el, and he does not want any secret so-
cieties controlling political aft'airs. The
great reason given to a man why iie
should join a secret order is that it will
help him politically, sczially, and linan-
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
July, 1008;
cially. You never heard any one say,
"Join the secret order and you will be a
blessino- to voiu" countr^^ to humanity."
Xo : it is "Join the secret order and you
will be helped by it." There is no ap-
peal to nobility, but simply to the selfish-
ness that would seek to get something
out of somebody else. Organized se-
crecy is opposed to the genius of free
government.
I find, in the next place, that organized
secrecy is opposed to God's method of
salvation. Now that may startle some.
]f you examine the books that give an
exposure of the secret orders, you will
find that Christ is not mentioned. That
is the one thing that kept me out of Ma-
sonry.
r\Iy dear old father is a Mason, anrl
when I was a boy, though he never asked
me to join, he kept intimating that it was
a very good thing to be in the Masonic
lodge. I don't think that he has attend-
ed a lodge for thirty-five or forty years ;
he is one of the silent sort. There are a
good many of the silent sort, who have
taken a wicked oath and think now that
it is better to be silent and not to break
their oath. I tell you, when yoti take an
oath on the devil's altar yoti wotild bet-
ter break it just as quick as you can, and
take the oath upon God's altar. An oath
to do a wicked thing is in itself wicked,
and the sooner you break a wicked oath
all to pieces the more it pleases God. I
believe that Charles G. Finney did the
right thing. When he got into Masonry
and found it w^as wrong, he came out
and exposed it, and protested against it,
in the name of God. I believe it is right
for a m.an to break a contract with hell
just as soon as possible, and to display
it to the world.
Secrecy is against God's way of salva-
tion. That kept me out of Masonry. I
learned that I could not take Jesus into
the first degree ; and then I learned that
I could not take Him into the second de-
gree— there was nothing about Him
there — and I could not take Him into the
third degree. And then I learned that
He is left out of all the first seven de-
grees, in order that infidels and tnibe-
lievers may go that far in Masonry.
Somehow I v/as j^-^^^^ simple enough not
to know how to go anywhere without
Jesus. I do not expect to go into heaven
without Him, and there is no place on
earth that I want to go into, where I can-
not take Jesus Christ with me. I do not
want to have anything to do with any-
thing that Jestis Christ cannot occupy
from top to bottom, and which is not ac-
cording to Him in every fibre of its struc-
ture. There is no salvation through the
blood, so far as I have been able to find,,
in secret orders. They recognize "the
god of nature," which is not explained-
There is no god of natiu'e except Jesus
Christ — ^"all things were made by Him,,
and without Him was not anything made
that was made." He was in the begin-
ning with God, and He was God, and'
when you talk about the god of natiu;e
without reference to Christ, yoti are talk-
ing about an idol, a mythical god. Jesus
Christ reveals the only God in the uni-
A^erse, and vvhen you have rejected Christ
you have rejected the only real God there
is ; and if you take any other, you have
taken an idol.
And then I found I could not go into-
a secret order because of some of the
oaths they administer. My, my, it makes
your blood curdle ! I read one of them
which said that if you shotild reveal any-
thinof that was commtmicated to vou, vou
should be willing to have your tongue
torn otit and buried at low v;ater down j^y
the sea side; and in another oath, if you
revealed anything that was made known
to you, yoti should be willing to have
your heart ])lticked out and given as a
prey to the fowls of the air. Well now,-
if that is business somebody has to do
it ; and when a secret order swears a man
that he is to have his tongue pulled out
and his heart cut out, they expect every
man there to do it when they tell him to ^
and I tell you some of them do do it, in
substance. There is no doubt about that ;
I am as clear on tliat as 1 could be. I
talked with one man about it, and he said^
'That doesn't mean anything. Of course
we go through that form, but it does not
mean anything." 'Tt doesn't? Well, if it
doesn't mean anything, you are guilty of
the vilest blasphemy that a man could
ever be guilty of — if you swear to da
something that is terrible and mean noth-
July, 1908.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
iiig by it. If you mean what you say,
you are a murderer; if you mean noth-
ing, you are a blaspliemer." Either case
is not a very attractive picture.
So 1 decided not to go in. I didn't see
liow I could.
And then again, I found that in a cer-
tain secret order they take an oath that
they will stand by each other in every-
thing, murder and treason excepted. Ev-
erything except murder and treason !
x\nd then in a degree above that they
swear that they will stand by every one
of their members, murder and treason
jiot excepted. Now I say that a society
like that is a menace to society, and a
inenace to the government, and a menace
to good morals, and a menace to life, and
a menace to everything that is true and
pure and uplifting.
I believe Dr. Blanchard said that God
is working like the dew and like the light,
manufacturing lightning. It takes light
to make lightning. It is tlie light that
lifts the clouds. It is the light that forges
the thunderbolt. It is the dew and the
light \vorking together— jthese influences
of prayer and education that you are
scattering here and there — by these are
being forged gradually thunderbolts of
power ; and the thunderbolt falls with a
crash, never gradually ; it does not work
slowly, it moves with tremendous rapid-
ity. I have been down South where the
lightning is flashing and the thunder bel-
lowing so you have to shut your eyes and
it makes you tremble. It is hitting the
saloons and hitting the saloon business,
and the same is going to take place in
regard to all evil institutions. I do not
know how long it will take, but God's
way is to work slowly, quietly — like the
dew, like the light — until lie gets His
thunderbolt ready. There will not be anv
evils in the millennium. I will ventu.re
that secret societies will be cleaned uj)
quickly. God may be pleased to clean
that evil up now, as lie did slavery and
as He is cleaning up tlie liquor business ;
hut I am willing to be patient, and be
happy with God, who bringeth in the
light and the dew in order that He may
strike when the time comes.
FROM EDMOND RONAYNE.
Harrison, Ark., lune lo, loaS.
Air. AV. I. Phillips:
Dear Sir : In my letter written pre-
vious to your Convention I said that
President Blanchard's letter had, to my
mind, flrst place in the May number of
the Cynosure, but in the June number it
is impossible to say which takes first
place, as it is all first and no second place
in it.
The Seceders' Conference was surely
grand ; and when reading over the sec-
end time the testimony of W. H. Boles,
I could not keep back the tears — tears of
sorrow and deep regret that along in the
early 70's in Chicago I was not a Chris-
tian, and had not the blessed privilege of
hearing some such man as J. P. Stoddard
or some other servant of God denounce
and expose Freemasonry.
I knew that there is no secret in it, but
yet I was wedded to its lodge sociability,
and did my best to retain my position as
a popular and well-posted Mason. But
the Lord cared for me, whether or no I
cared for Him, and He graciously led
me out of it in His own due time, and
now one of my chief regrets is that since
1875 I i^ave not worked for Him as
steadily and as faithfully as I ought. But
during these fast closmg days, broken in
health and living in this^ heathenish
place, I can truly say, 'The Lord is mv
Shepherd, I shall not want." Psalm 21,.
God is surely blessing and shall contin-
ue to bless the efiforts of the N. C. A.,
but the personal coming of the Lord is
the world's only hope, and which alone
will destroy every evil. Oh, that Lie
come soon. In Him, E. Ronayne.
Arise and toil in Jesus' strength:
Our God is true! fruit shall appear
The glories of the Upper World
Depend on faithful labor here.
— M. Waterburv.
It is no sin to be rich, but when a rich
man hoards his tren^ures as a miser or
squanders them to gratify the flesh he
is a sinner.
To be near to God is life.
The heart of all reform is the reform
of the heart.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
July, 1908.
AMANDA SMITH,
the ^^■elI-kno^vTl colored evangelist and
philanthropist, of Harvey, Illinois, spoke
as follows :
I have had two husbands. Both of
Iheni were members of secret orders —
the Oddfellows
and Freemasons. I
wa'^ greatly in sym-
pathy with them
for many years. Of
course a wife is in
sympathy with
what her husband
i does. A woman is
in sympathy with
everything that her
husband does that
is right, and some-
times with things
that are wrong,
and that she knows
is her husband,
I thought lodges were
A^IAXDA SMITH.
he
are wrong, but
A'ou know. So
a great thing in those days, and I never
would have seen differently had it not
been that God led me by His Holy Spirit
to seek a deeper knowledge of Himself.
I think just in proportion as good men's
and women's eyes are opened to the al-
mightiness of Jesus Christ, they are wil-
ling to let go of these other things which
fill up their lives but which do not sat-
is f}-.
There was a certain part of my life
when I thought, other people joined se-
cret societies and made great spreads
f3'0U know how my people like to do
that), and I felt it was right to be up to
date, with the bright regalia and all this
kind of thing. So I allied myself with
lodges. But v.dien the Lord opened my
eyes, and I began to see the ridiculous-
ness of it, and how the Lord Jesus Christ
could fill all your being, and take all of
that love for show and tinsel out of it
and put something in that was lasting
and tangible — when I found that out,
then I went to work to readjust myself,
and to loosen myself, and to throw off
some of these things that I had been tie<l
by, and I found it was very difficult. I
talked to m.y friends — I thought that was
the thing to do ; I went to my society, and
they ridiculed the idea of my leaving it.
"The idea! Why, what do yon mean?'
We are just preparing to make you some
big officer, and it will be such a pity, and.
you have paid so much in, and you ought
to go on with the society." It was very
hard for me to make them see that I was
honest in my convictions as to the way
God was leading me; they could not see
it at all, and they really thought I was
getting a little off my base, a little un-
balanced. They complained about the
way I did, and, you know, it hurt me, it^
cost me something, because many of
these people were my dear friends, asso-
ciated in the church with me, and in var-
ious departments of Christian work; I
had great respect for their honesty ancL
integrity in every way, and when they
began to cut me and kind of shun me^
well, it was very hard. You know how
you can do a good deal and not have to
say anything. My, how it did hurt mel'
but I kept on believing God and follow-
ing Him as the light came that He gave
me, and by the help of God I got a kind
of independence that lifted me above it,.
and I got to where, by the grace of God,.
I did not care, and I got through, and I
got out of the whole thing.
You know, in doing woriv — say for in-
stance the work the Lord has given me to
do lately, that is, taking care of my Col-
ored Orphans' Home — it is surprising^
how difficult it is to get people, especially
men, who are not tied up with some-
lodge,
I am feeling it as I never felt it
before. When you are associated with
people that are tied hand, foot and soul,-
it is tremendous, for it is up-hill work
and against the wind all the time. You
cannot feel the power of the Spirit of the
Lord unless you are free.
I am so glad that Jesus knows all"
about these things, that He is able to de-
liver. I am glad that a few people see-
somewhat alike in this secret society-
question. I think this antisecrecy move-
ment is something like the prohibition'
movement. A few years ago prohibition
was away down the hill, rolling over, and'
crawling, and tumbling about, but it has
got on its feet, and is running now. I am
thankful to-day to believe that this great
movement of antisecrecy is something'
like that. It is getting on its feet ; it will'
Juiy, 1008.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
ay
^et to running after a while. I am look-
ing for wonderful things to come to pass
through this antisecrecy organization —
one of the organizations that are work-
ing; for the glory of God and the salva-
tion of men.
May the Lord bless the National Chris-
tian Association.
€0nlnbutt0n0.
JOINS LODGE; MAY NOT LIVE.
JVIan Suffers From Injuries Sustained
While Being Initiated.
Noblesville, Iiid., March 23. — Charles Kas-
:«ubaiim, aged 21, is critically ill at his home
near this city from blood poisoning, the re-
sult of an accident that occurred >yhile he
was being initiated into the I. O. O. F. lodge.
During the secret work a gas pipe containing
-powder exploded. The fire shot out of the
wrong end of the pipe, severely burning one
■of Kassabaum's legs. But little attention
.was paid to the accident at the time, but
complications have arisen that make his re-
covery doubtful.
It is understood that Kassabaum was being
carried by several men when the explosion
occurred. The flash frightened them and
they let the candidate fall. It is now said
that the young man is suffering from internal
injuries resulting from the fall.
The above item was published in the
Indianapolis Star of March 24, and
again shows only too vividly how fool-
ish, and in many cases how hazardous,
the lodge initiation is for a candidate.
That this is not the only case of this
kind in the State of Indiana, or the
worst case that has happened in an Odd
Fellows' lodgeroom, has been proven
more than once. The reason that not
more of the brutal and injurious initia-
tion work of the lodges comes to light
in the newspapers is, because the candi-
date is, either forcibly or "gently," per-
suaded to keep his mouth shut. Another
reason is because plenty of money is
generally used to hush such things iu3,
and also because the newspapers of this
country pander and cater to the lodges
and their works of darkness.
If every man who applies for admis-
:sion into any lodge, be it Masonry, Odd-
ifellowship or even sensual and alcoholic
Elkdom, knew what a fool he
would be made, and that perhaps
his bones might be broken and his
body bruised, under the guise
of initiation and admission into a grand
and sublime organization, he would rise
in his manhood and throw off the shack-
les of Satanic delusion, and join hands
with those who arc seeking to open the
eyes of our rising generations and show
them that all this lodge business is mere
mockery and tomfoolery and will finally
cud Lip in hell. Any one who has any
pride for his person will not enter such
an organization, to be blindfolded and
maltreated with a piece of gaspipe load-
ed with power, and be made the
laughingstock of all his "good lodge
bretlr.-en," but he will go to those meet-
ings which are free and open, without
any initiation, where the body is not in-
jured and where the soul will be bene-
fited. He will go to the house of the
Lord and learn of Christ, the Savior of
the world, in whose blood alone there is
forgiveness and life eternal. — Rev C
W. iJaer.
PRESIDENT BLANCHARD'S LETTER.
Growth a Slow Process.
Dear Fathers and Brethren :
(3nce more I have the privilcGfe of ad-
dressing you regarding the great work
in which we are all interested. Growtli
is always, or at least usually, uncon-
scious. This is true not only of our
todies, but of our souls; and not only
of individuals, but of organizations and
movements. The analogy between the
physical and the spiritual is quite com-
plete. While all growth is unconscious,
there are alternating periods in living
beings. For a long time we find it dif-
ficult to see progress, and then in an
hour, as it were, great advances are made.
Boys and girls for a time seem as if
they never would be anything else ; and
at last, in a few months, they shoot up
into men and women.
No man can fix the time when infanti-
cide became unlawful in the highest civ-
tU
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
July, 1008.
ilizations. No man can tell precisely when
it became discreditable to kill slaves, or
to allow aged parents to die withont care.
The whole growth of Christian civiliza-
tion has been divided between these long
periods of apparent moral sleep, and
brief periods of upheaval and progress.
The conscience of the American na-
tion protested against slavery for more
than one hundred }'ears. Five years be-
fore slavery was abolished — two years,
even one year — no man could tell when
it should go. There was no darker day
for the friends of freedom in our coun-
try than the years of '57, '58 and '59.
Tlien came the great national agitation;
and finally, before we knew it was to
vanish, the end was at hand.
V\'e have another instance of the same
sort in the present attitude of the pub-
lic toward the liquor trade. For nearly
one hundred years we have been prophe-
sying against that iniquity. For the last
dozen years we have seemed to be in
a period of reaction. It has been a dis-
heartening time, but the last six months
have been a time of wonderful encour-
agement. It has seemed as if the end
were at hand: and we have occasion to
anticipate not so many years of appa-
rently unsuccessful labor as have passed.
Business corporations have been convert-
ed ; great church organizations have ceas-
ed to apologize for the liquor busi-
ness; they have ceased, apparently, to
fear it as they did ; it is certain that they
speak out against it; and we have rea-
son to hope that this infamy, with all
its attendant evils, will shortly be a thing
of the past.
More than Seven Thousand.
When Elijah was lamenting the fact
that the prophets, aside from himself,
were all dead, the Lord rebuked his de-
pression and fear by saying to him, "1
have a great number of true witnesses of
whom you do not know." It was even
so. They were hidden in out-of-the-way
places — some of them in dens and caves
of the earth ; but they were true-hearted,
and when the time came they appeared
and delivered their testimony. The great
cause moved on.
There came to my desk, .this week, two<
papers, one printed in Philadelphia, the
other in Boston; one devoted to the in-
terests of the Catholic church, the other
an advocate of evangelical Christianity
without sectarian affiliations. Both of
these papers contained articles on secret
societies. One of them covered a full
page and more — perhaps a page and a
half ; the other almost a page. The ar-
ticle in the Catholic paper was a defense
of that church against the charge that
it was itself a vast secret society. The
writer, who is a rather prominent clergy-
man, denied the charge, and affirmed
that the only real secrecy connected with
the Catholic church had to do with the
confessional. Incidentally he shows
that secrecy is always evil. He distin-
guishes clearly between the lawful pri-
vacy of honorable living, and the unlaw-
ful secrecy of secret organizations. He
says that secret societies demand obedi-
ence, and enforce it by fear. ''The Heart
with the Dagger Aimed at It,'' he says,
is often a prominent and suggestive sym-
bol in the halls of secret societies. It
is this "Blind Obedience" that introduces
a disturbing element into the government
of men. He says that in this world there
are but Caesar and Christ ; in other words,
the state and the church. All must be
subject to them; and of them it is true,
"He that is not with me is against me."
''The affairs of secret societies arc not
open for the investigation of either state
or church. These societies are a law unto
themselves."
The writer speaks of the sin of Merod.
The king swore that he would give the
daughter of Herodias what she should
July, 1908.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
I i
ask. He did not dream that she would
ask him to be a m.urderer; but he be-
came one — and became one because of
his j'path. . : And the objectionable thing
about his oath was, that it was liable to
call for that crime or any other. He re-
minds us again of the murder of Dr.
Cronin, a murder planned and executed
by nien prominent in society, men who
would naturally shudder at the thought
of murder, but who were made murder-
ers by the lodge to which they be-
longed.
The Lodges and the Church.
This writer speaks of the claim of the
lodges to humanitarian work — the visit-
ing of the sick, the burial of the dead,
the feeding of the hungry, and the re-
lieving of the widow and orphan. But
quoting the advocate of the lodge to
whom he replies, he uses this remark-
able sentence, ''How much would I give
if not reminded of it by my oath?" This
suggests one topic of my last month's
letter, *'A Compulsory Benevolence."
That is, the writer says, 'T would not
give unless I had sworn to; because I
have sworn to, I will." This makes the
oath of the secret society superior to the
law of God — superior even to the dic-
tates of humanity. And while profess-
ing to practice the Christian rehg'ioh, and
perhaps quoting the wprd of God, "Pure
religion and undefiled before God and
the Father is this, To visit the fatherless
and widows in their affliction," he direct-
ly affirms that he would not keep this
law, do this thing, except that his oath
compelled him. Of course a man who
has this spirit in him is not a Chris-
tian. A Christian is one who does the
will of God from the heart. One who
professes to do the will of God, and
with the same breath declares that he
would not do it unless a secret society
had obligated him to that effect, is evi-
dently not a Christian at all.
Religion Does Not Amount to Anything,
This same Catholic writer, referring
to the Masonic friend whom he quotes,
transcribes these words: "IVlien a Man
Goes Through Alasojiry, Religion Does
not Amount to Anything." That is to
say, the Christian religion does not
amount to anything. This Masonic
writer does not himself know that he is
a disciple of a heathen faith, that he is
worshiping at the altar of Satan, and that
the very spirit which he exhibits in his
eulogy of the lodge, shows that he has
not the Spirit of Christ. This Catholic
writer says very forcefully, 'AH that
has ever been said against secret so-
cieties, and all that ever will be alleged
against them, may be summed up in
these words of our Lord: ''Men loved
darkness rather than light, because "their
deeds were evil. For every one that
doeth evil hateth the light, neither com-
eth to the light, lest his deeds should be
reproved."
The position of this Catholic writer is
eminently sane. Every thoughtful Pro-
testant, who has studied the subject,
can echo it all. And it is interesting to
see, as I have repeatedly reminded you,
that in the editorial discussions and the
newspaper articles on the subject of high
school fraternities, every principle which
lias been affirmed by us in the arguments
of forty years, is declared to be unques-
tionably true respecting the high school
lodges. Some persons do not seem to
understand as yet, that the evils wrought
by the high school societies are exactly
like the evils wrought in other secret
associations. But this also will be clear
in time, and we can wait to see the case
grov^^ ■...•... -
Two or Three Witnesses.
The other article is written by a mem-
ber of the Society of Friends — a society
which perhaps might be considered the
antipode of the Romish church. But
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
July, 1908.
while his article is not so long, and does
not deal with the foundation principles
so full}',, the testiniony is, on the whole,
precisel}- the same. Some one had writ-
ten to a religious weekly, inquiring as
follows : "What opinion do Protestant
ministers hold as to secret societies? Do
thev regard them as inimical to Chris-
tianity?'' The religious weekly replied:
*'\\q cannot answer for the whole body
of Protestant ministers. We should
think, however, that very few regard
them as inimical to Christianity. Many
ministers belong to such societies and
liold office in them. They are eminent
and godly men, who certainly would re-
pudiate the societies, and give up their
iriembership, if they found them to be
opposed to Christianity."
The writer, criticising the editor, says
he should have informed his readers that
multitudes of ministers and of other good
men, who had been entrapped by these
lodges, have left them. He quotes Pres-
ident Charles G. Finney, of Oberlin Col-
lege, who, speaking of his conversion,
said : ''My new life instinctively and
irresistibly recoiled from any fellowship
with what I then regarded as 'unfruit-
ful v.'orks of darkness.' " He also quotes
the great evangelist, D. L. Moody, who
advised all Christians to get out of the
lodge, and who said to preachers, 'Tf
men will not hear you because you preach
the truth against lodges, let them go.
God will fill their places with better
men. When they are converted they may
return."' The writer speaks of the views
of Rev. R. A. Torrey, Rev. George C,
Needham, Dr. Pentecost, and others, all
01 whom have repeatedly and publicly
condemned these secret organizations.
This gentleman, writing to the re-
ligious weekly, was disappointed that
the editor made no rc^ly, either by pri-
vate letter or by placing the informing
note before his readers. The managing
editor and proprietor was then appealed
to, but it appears that the paper still de-
clined to live up to its program and con-
tinued the conspiracy against the light.
The writer, however, in the Boston pub-
lication quotes from a bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal church, who wrote
him on this subject as follows :
*T am obliged for your letter re-
ceived this morning. ... I
simply desire to say that I think
you have discovered [in treating
of the adaptation made of the prin-
ciple of secrecy] a truth which has
a great deal of influence in explain-
ing facts which we deplore. I
ought to state to you that / am
myself a Freemason, although I
liave not attended a meeting or had
any t hi Jig to do until the order for
over thirty years. I entered it
when, as a young man, I was in
])ursuit of other young men in the
interests of religion. When I com-
plained to such young men that they
failed to attend church, they would
answer me, 'We already belong to
a religious order, and we attend
service at its Temple.' I desired
to be able to say to them, T know
all about that, for I am a Mason
myself, and can tell you both how
inferior it is to the church, and how
inadequate is the worship.' I was
thus able to get some influence over
these young men, and to point
them to something higher. . .
As I have grown older, I have he-
come ratliet' more suspicious of all
these orders, and it may well be
that your dislike might be justified
if we knew the absolute truth about
them. / should be glad to see all
secret orders abolished on the
ground that tliey are all poor imi-
tations of the Church of Christ, and
are uiore or less inimical to its true
progress." (Italics ours.)
h^ollowing the letter from the bishop,
he gives an extract from another letter
which is equally decisive, and reads as
follows :
July, 1908.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
79-
''I love God's dear children of
every name, but there are so many
of them tied np to these Christless
institutions. Brother, believe me,
one of the [;reatest hindrances to
our gospel preachers of to-day is,
they are under bondage to these
lodges. While I pray for wisdom
from God to deal with them, and
when to speak, yet I have no sym-
pathy with them, and God generally
lets me give my testimony against
them. And yet I always pray that
the Lord will let me do it in such
a way that all can see it is in love.
This world is dying for Gospel
witnessing in love, and many of the
saints of God are leaving them
[the secret orders] and witnessing
against them, yet I wish more men
who have been delivered from them
were brave enough to testify
against them. Since Christ came in
my life with the fullness of grace,
I see so much the need of what-
ever we do to do it in the love of
Tesus, with a tender, compassionate
heart."'
We ought to be thankful that so many
good men are disposed to bear their tes-
timony, and that they still have access
to the public. We may rest assured that
in due time we shall reap from all our
sowing, if we faint not.
A Sad Case.
I was yesterday walking in the rain
down Dearborn street in Chicago. As
I was passing the Great Northern Hotel,
a gentleman whom I did not recognize
came up and offered his hand to me.
I looked at him inquiringly, and he said,
''Oh, well, you do not have to speak to
me unless you want to, but I shouldn't
think you would want to turn down an
old friend this way." I said, 'Tardon me,
sir, but I do not know you." *'Well,"
he said, "I know you. I have been the
conductor on your train for eleven
years." I said to him, ''That is quite
possible, but I do not know how that
is. What can I do for you?" "Well,"
he said, "I need seventy-two cents to-
pay charges on some baggage that be-
longs to my wife. I want to get it sa
that I can go home" with her. I have
eighty-four dollars coming to me to-
morrow, and I will come around to your
office and give you the money." Mean-
while he was industriously giving me the
grip of the Master Mason. I said to
him, ''Why are you giving me this Mas-
ter Mason's grip? Are you a Mason?"
"Oh, yes, I am a Mason." "Well," I
said, 'T am not a Mason, and I do not
know why you should give me this Ma-
son's grip." "Well," he said again,
"give me the money anyway ; I need the
money." I said, "No. You have been
drinking, and if I sliould give you money
you would drink some more. So I can-
not give you any money." "Well," he
said, "you can give me ten cents, any-
way. If I had ten cents I could go
honie with my wife." I said to him,
"That would be one whisky, or two
beers ; and I have no right to pay money
to the saloonkeepers. If you know me,
you know that all my life I have been
warring against the saloons ; and I have
no right to take God's money and give it
to them through you." He swore, four
or five times, that if I would let
him have ten cents, he would not spend
a penny of it for liquor, but would go
right home. I said, "No, I do not dare
to trust you. You are drunk now, and
you want money to drink some more."
I said, "Did the Masons teach you to
drink?" "Oh, no, the Alasons did not
teach me to drink." I said, "I don't
know. Many men learn to drink liquor
in the lodges. Perhaps you did. But at
all events, I do not dare to give you any
money while you are in this condition.
I am sorry for you, and wish that you
might become a real Christian instead of
a Freemason. Then you would not be
drinkinof whiskv."
so
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
July, 1908.
I was reminded by this incident of
one which occurred in Jersey City,
X. T.. many years ago. 1 was lecturing in
the Second United Presbyterian church,
and was guest with Dr. Robert Arm-
strong, a great-souled child of God who
lias now gone to rest. I was very fully
and candidly reported in the Jersey City
E-Z'cuiiig Journal, or some paper of about
that name. 1 said to Dr. Armstrong,
"I would like to meet this reporter." He
said, "He is a Freemason, but I will be
dad to introduce vou." Meeting him,
I said, "I am surprised that you report
me so intelligently and so honestly, as
I have been told that you are a Free-
mason." "Weh," he said, '1 suppose I
am. But I don't care much for Free-
masonry. No man has ever introduced
himself to me as a Mason without asking
for a cjuarter to get a drink."
As I remarked in my last letter, evils
are akin. One is naturally associated
with another; and when we fight the
battle which we are waging against
lodges, we are also warring against
liquor shops, gambling dens, brothels,
race tracks, and all other inicjuities that
destroy the souls of men. So let us be
of good courage, and push forward.
Sincerely and fraternally yours,
Charles A. Blanchard.
MASONIC HEAD IN ROME.
One Head for Both the Political and Re=
ligious Masonry of the World.
Secrecy guards the door to every
scheme of deception. It shielded the in-
fant rebellion in the South until it devel-
oped into a gigantic war. Anarchists,
assassins and thugs of every description
are indebted to secrecy for success in
their hideous business. "Secrecy and si-
lence" are jew^els Commended to the En-
tered Apprentice on his ''first admission
to a lodge of Freemasons." It is the
Alpha to an ingeniou ■ " constructed and
thoroughly organized body of men only.
The perfection of this system is de-
pendent upon a siiii^^Ie person invested
with absolute authority to wield the en-
tire structure. The Papacy does obei-
sance to this law of climax by proclaim-
ing the ''Pope, Vicar of Christ" on earth
liolding the key to heaven. It is a fixed
law in the nature of every despotic sys-
tem, and is readily traced in the Masonic,
order from the first to the last step in its
progress. In the Scottish, which is the
ruling Rite, there is not a missing link
from the first to the thirty-third degree,
as may be learned from its official docu-
ments and accredited publications.
Until a comparatively recent date the
Supreme Council has been the Ultima
Thule of the system, so far as known Lo
the uninitiated. An English student o\
the mysteries has penetrated to the deep-
er depths of the structure and there dis-
covered the one thin^- needful to com-
plete an absolute despotism. The ac-
count given by this author bears the
marks of authenticity as the result of
careful and thorough research. It is too
extended for insertion, even in abridged
form, but the gist of the whole case is
given in two short paragraphs, on pages
211 and 212 in his work entitled, "The
X Rays in Freemasonry," 1904, as fol-
lows :
Two Sovereigns.
"Albert Pike, Sovereign Grand Com-
mander of the entire ancient and accept-
ed Scottish Rite, whose chief seat was
at Charlestown in the United States, and
Mazzini were in correspondence about
the division of Masonic power. It was
finally agreed that Albert Pike should be
Sovereign Pontiff of Universal Masonry,
and Mazzini Sovereign Chief of Politi-
cal Action. This assumption of the title
Sovereign Pontiff * * "^ is dated
24th Sept., 1870. '^" "^^ -^ Andriano
Lemmi succeeded Mazzini as Sovereign
Chief of Political Action at Rome, and
on the death of Albert Pike in 1891 the
Sovereign Grand Pontificate passed from
Charlestown to Rome."
In the coronation of Adriano Lemmi.
Sovereign Pontiff' and Sovereign Chief
of Political Action, the Masonic structure
is complete and ready for action. Its en-
tire force may be directed to any particu-
lar point by the command of a single per-
July, 1008.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
81
f^on, who, like the Pope, is Sovereign
Pontiff over each and all of his loyal
■subjects. Thus it appears that a more
perfect despotism does not exist, nor can
a more complete instrument for enforc-
ing the decrees of a despot be conceived.
It includes the political and religious held
and covers the entire arena of liuman ac-
tion.
— Extracts from article by Rev, J. P.
Stoddard in Home Light.
A BAPTIST TESTIMONY.
The editor of The Paeifie Baptist, hav-
ing- been asked his opinion as to uniting
with a secret society, replies as follows :
"No Christian sliould unite witli a secret
■order, and tlierefore tlie Christian minister
Is emphatically barred. The chief reasons
for keeping out of such fraternities are as
I'olloAYS : •,
"]. Tlie Christian man in the act of bap-
tism unites himself to the only real 'fra-
ternity' recognized of God. 'One is your
Master, even Christ, and all ye are breth-
ren'
"2. The Christian man should never take
an oath of secrecy, as his divine Lord may
demand of him that he divulge the nature of
the oath.
"3. Such organizations as, for instance,
the Masons, use many passages of Scripture
in their degrees, but the name of Christ is
omitted from those that in the Bible contain
it. It is not enough to acknowledge God.
•Christ must also be acknowledged as God,
Saviour and King of men by the lodges be-
fore the disciple of Christ can feel himself
truly a 'brother.'
'•4. Men who at their conversion are great-
ly iuterested in lodges become less and less
so as they grow in grace. The obligations of
the Word of God and the duties and priv-
ileges of the Christian life leave no corners
for lodge meetings, ceremonies, banquets, etc.
Imagine Paul and Peter as 'joiners' !
"5. There is no good thing about the lodges
that should not be incorporated into the work
of the church.
"G. Joining a lodge to win men to Christ
lias seldom had such a result. The way to
Min men to Christ is to join one's self to
Chris L.
"7. Many of the lodge ceremonies violate
the simplicity and sincerity of the Christian
life and are pretentions, bombastic, even anti-
biblical in teaching.
"8. The lodges are doing a good deal to
alleviate suffering, furnish cheap insurance,
etc Full credit should be given them. But
one can get as good insurance elsewhere, and
it is the business of the Christian Church to
care for the sick, poor, sad-hearted and the
(lyiiife*.
"0. The various lodge 'hierarchies,' with
their ascending degrees, swelling titles and
childlike appeals to the imagination and
sense of mystery, arc all opposed to the dem-
ocratic simplicity aud humility required of
Christ's flock, where all arc equal and there
are no titles or special privileges. No, keep
out of the lodges. But do not fight them.
They are the best 'fraternities' that an un-
r-onverted man can contrive."
— Copied into TJie Journal and Messenger
(Baptist), Cincinnati, Ohio, May 28,
1908.
A brave testimony, and a needed one,
but the editor strikes a false note in his
"do not light them." In fact, his article
is the very opposite of his advice. It is
a good thing to raise corn and potatoes,
i,)ut don't fight the weeds ! Weeds are
the natural product of the earth, as se-
cret societies are of the natural m.an. To
be sure, weeds will choke and kill the
corn, just as lodges do the souls of men,
whom they bury in the grave in tlie hope
of tlie resurrection and of iieaven, while
denying Him who is the Resurrection
and the Life.
No, our business is to plant corn and
fight zueeds; to build up the kingdom of
righteousness and fight its enemies — sa-
loons, lodgery, and other foes. Nathan-
iel Colver, D. D., an eminent Baptist and
a seceding Mason, said, 'Tt (Alasonrv)
is Satan's masterpiece for the destruction
of the souls of men." Let us fight it
v/ith "the sword of the Spirit, which is
the word of God."
Often I find an aiticle in the Cynosu^'c
worth more than a year's subscription
price — if money could in any sense be
used as a recompense for the enunciation
of truth. j\Iary C. Baker.
^^d^ittle Springs, Tenn.. June 15, 1908.
We may glorify God in little things.
but no one should be content with sucli
a life. The duty of every man is "to at-
tempt great things for God."
The saloon is the hot-bed of anarchv
82
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
July, 1908.
And the Public Is In Sympathy With the Striker.
— From 7'he Fort Waijne News.
WILL WATCH WITH INTEREST.
A prominent Easterji newspaper pub-
lished tlie following paragraph May 6th :
*'The war conclncted by the board of ed-
ucation of Chicago a.gainst the iiigh school
fraternities is to be yet more vigorously pros-
ecuted. President Schneider has prepared
a program to be applied in connection with
the rule adopted proljibiting pupils from be-
ing members of Greek letter societies, under
the penalty of expulsion, which is to become
effective September 1. He proposes to se-
cure- a written pledge from every member of
a sororicy or fraternity 'renouncing' the se-
cret society in consideration of being permit-
ted to remain in the public schools. Parents
vxill be asked by the principals of the schools
to certify in writing that their sons or daugh-
t rs have withdrawn from the society. Mr.
MC'hneider intends to secure pledges from pu-
pils not members that they will not join any
secret society. School authorities all o\*er
the country Avill watch with interest the at-
tempt to execute this radical program."
July, 1908.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
83
♦'KINDRED EVILS."
Under the caption "To Discuss Frater-
nities/' a New England daily said, in
part, May 15th:
"The New England Association of School
Superintendents will convene in Boston 'next
Friday, and from tlie program which is an-
nounced for the meeting it is seen that the
subject of secret societies in the high schools,
a matter which has assumed prominence in
Springfield during the past year or two, wJU
be one of the most vital subjects considered.
Among the speakers at the meeting will be
Prof., Suzzallo, who will consider 'iSecret
Societies and Athletics in the High Schools.'
A letter sent out to the superintendents of
New England by Iloury D. Ilervy, of Mai-
den, the president of the organization, says
that the conviction is growing that the only
way to drive secret societies and kindred
evils from the high schools is for the school
authorities to recognize frankly that boys
and girls are social beings and to make wise
but adequate provision for their social needs.
The responsibility of the home must not be
lessened, however. This is the burning topic
which will be considered at the meeting of
the association, and a wide expression of
opinion is expected from superintendents
from all over New England, as well as visit-
ing authorities. Athletics also will not lack
attention, and it is evident from the program
that many restrictions on this interest of the
pupils will be suggested."
STEALING A PART OF INITIATION.
President Angell ordered the dissolu-
tion of one of the Michigan University
''frat" lodges. The faculty expelled two
members who had been arrested for theft
and fined fifty dollars. The young men
claimed that tlie thieving- was a part of
their initiation stunt. ■ ' ■
"THE WORLD SEEMS SICK. "
Once during her college days, Alice
Freeman, afterward the Wellesley col-
lege president, found it necessary to
teach twenty weeks in a high school. In
a letter to a college friend occurs the fol-
lowing passage, partly relating to secret
focicties in the University of ■Michigan:
"1 finished yesterday just half the
weeks I liave to teach, and the ten that
are left will pass too quickly, doubtless,
for the work which is to be done in them ;
but not when I think where the end of
them Avill take me. Once in a while I
dread going back to college. Not that it
isn't far pleasanter than teaching. But
sometimes the world seems sick. I can't
hel]) thinking of what you told me of the
secret societies. God help us all ! Let us
pray for the noble 3^oung men who are
going down unless an arm mighty to save
is quickly thrown around them. So S.
has gone, too ! I liked the boy so much.
PYn-haps it is better for him. But what
a loss to the class ! Really, in a year
there won't be much of a class left, at
this late. Oh, if we could only sit down
and talk it all over !"
At the eighteenth annual convention
of the City and Borough Superintend-
ents of the Pennsylvania Educational
Association, a decided action was taken
against the Colleges for not lessening
the hardships of the entrance examina-
tions while seemingly putting their faith
in the dance hall, card parties, fraterni-
ties and club life.
Superintendent F. E. Downes of Har-
risburg urged the enactment of a law re-
moving fraternities from the lower
schools.
CHINESE GRADUATE OF AMERICAN
COLLEGE.
Something like the ordinary plea can
be made for the Chinese secret society
called the Flep Sing Tong, for Warry
Charles, president of the Boston branch,
was a graduate of an American college,
and had been court interpreter. Nine
members — as has been previously noticed
— were convicted of murder. Ten mem-
bers were known as the jury, and these
met with the officers in a secret room.
Cliarles was accused, by a witness who
belonged to the jury at the time of tlie
murders, of saying: "Since the last few
years we are like dead ones. If you all
agree, I'll tell my suggestion. I want
to do as they do in New York : we must
kill some people. '^' '■'' "^ A\'e wanr
more memljers for the Hep Sing Tong.
^Ve will attack the people and they will
be afraid of us. "■' * * The attack
will make all Chinese men join the order.
* '•' * If we can frighten the people,
they will pay us money, and we will send
to other branches of the society, in New
I-if;
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"^'ork, Pliiladelphia and Chicago, for
liatclict men v.ho are nnknowrn, because
they can get away easier."
An Associated Press dispatch, dated
jNIarch 27, said: "A street murder, which
is l.^eheved to have been an outgrowth of
the recent trials of a number of China-
men for murder in Boston and Philadel-
])]iia, intensely excited the New York
Chinese colony for a time to-day. * '•: -^
P\er since the successful prosecution of
the Chinese murder trials in Boston and
Philadelphia, there have been freqtient
rumors, in Chinatowai, that some mem-
ber of the New York colony inspired the
evidence which resulted in the convic-
tions. \\dien the shooting occurred to-
day, it became noised about that Ing
Mow was one of the men who had been
imder suspicion. '•'' ^' '^ Three China-
men blocked his way. There was a short,
sharp argument, the flash and report of a
shot, and, as Ing collapsed and fell to
the sidewalk, the three assailants fled.
-■■'■ « >!«' Chinatown was in a panic of ex-
cit'^ment, and it became necessary to call
out a big detail of extra police. ^ ^ ^
Moy Don Yuk and Wan Yon, both of
whom live in Mott street, were taken into
custody."
This gives opportunity to see secret so-
ciety arrangements in connection with
people of a slightly different color, and
at a somewhat different angle. The prac-
tical difference could be greater.
Golden, 111., April 27, 1908. ,
National Christian Association,
Chicago, 111. :
My congregation stands as a unit
against secretism, opposing it in every
form whatever. They are all stauncii
German Lutherans, and with the Luther-
an church uphold the tenets of Holy
Scripture over against lodgeism. They
heartily approve my stand in devoting
special sermons against the evils of the,
fcCcret societies.
Wishing you continued success in your
work, I remain,
Yours respectfully, ■ •
(Rev.) Armin Paul Meyer.
€DitoriaL
We cannot give you all of the good
things that remain of our Annual Meet-
ing and Convention in this number, but
promise you more in due time.
We had the privilege of putting into
type the address of President Blanchard
wdiich he delivered before some 6,000 in
Des Moines, Iowa, on June 7th, and
sending it to about one hundred of the
leading religious papers of our coimtry..
It w^as especially fine because of the fun-
damental truths handled and because of
the manner in which they w^ere taken tip.
This is also one of the rich things in store
for future delivery to Cynosure read-
ers. • ■ . ■■ ■ ^ . • ■
The editor recently visited an old
friend of the Association, Mr. D. H.
Harrington of Columbus, Ohio. His ex-
perience in connection with lodge-wor-
ship reminded us of ours, when we join-
ed the Good Templars and found as
Chaplain one of the most profane young
Lien in the community.
A short time after Brother Harring-
ton's initiation, a neighbor's hen-roost
was robbed in the night and the thief
caught in the act. The culprit was none
other than the Chaplain, who had given
him moral instruction and read the pray-,
ers over him in the lodge. •.
Our readers will be ver}^ much inter-,
ested, we are sure, in the following let-
ter from the late President Charles G.
Finney, of Oberlin, Ohio, written to Mr.
Ilarrington in 1873, and never hereto-
fore Dublished.
Lvery life is a lighthouse or a beacon
of warning. Which is yours?
Oberlin, March 15, 1873.
D. H. Harrington, Esq. :
J)car Brother: Yours of the 13th in--
stant is received.
Your pastor a Freemason ! And does
he defend, and co-operate with Freema-
son^? I often ask myself how it is pos-
s'ble that a Christian can be an adhering
]''reemason, after all the light that has.
been shed upon this subject. Freema-
sonry puts out the eyes of conscience. It
destroys all moral discrimination, else it
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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v^'ere impossible for one to remain in
sympathy with the lodge.
As to your leaving the church, that
jJionld depend on circumstances. If the
body is controlled by Freemasons and
conducted in sympathy with their spirit,
it is not a church of Christ, although
there may be some good people belong-
ing to it. If the church, as a body, ap-
proves of the horrid oaths of Freemason-
ry, and justifies the selfish principle by
which Masons live, I should renounce
their fellowship. But,' if the church au-
thorities, and the church as a body, are
opposed to Freemasonry, I should re-
main in it, and use all my influence
against Freemasonry. . ,
As to the minister, I should deal plain-
ly with him before I refused to support
him. ]^)Ut after reasonable labor with
him, if he still clave to the lodge, I should
not bid him Godspeed, or express any
confidence in him by aiding in his sup-
port.
Dear brother, be Christ-like in love,
and in firmness oppose and denounce sin
in every form whilst personally you arc
kind to all.
God bless you. C. G. Finney.
The natural influence upon one's mind
of lodge obligations to aid and assist a
brother lodgeman is well illustrated by
the following incident from The North
American of Philadelphia, describing the
arrest of a lodge member by a policeman.
''In the meantime Sergeant Fenn was
having trouble with Troi. The man
fought like a wildcat, and was subdued
only after a vigorous beating*.
'' 'Save me, brothers and fellozv lodge-
members' he cried frantically, as the big
sergeant's grip tightened about his neck
and the Italians, with weapons drawn,
surged around the officer.
'' 'For God's sake, sergeant,' cried a cit-
izen, wlio vainly sought to gain
Fenn's side, 'don't take that man. These
fellows will kill you.'
" 'Not yet, friend,' answered the police-
man coolly, 'I'm a long way from death.'
With one slash with his club he sent two
would-be assailants to the asphalt, caus-
ing the poorly constructed club to break
with its impact upon their heads.
" 'You'll pay dearly for this,' raged the
frantic Troi. 'You are a marked man.
Remember that — you're marked.' The
next moment he had sunk into tempo-
rary oblivion. Sergeant Finn's remnant
of club had done its work." ,..
PREVALENT PERJURY.
A New York City judge says that di^
vorce cases are packed with perjuries;
and another judge is quoted as saying:
"People seem to have lost their respect
for the sanctity of an oath, and consider
tlie solemn vow to tell the truth but a
panoply for the more efTective detail of
matter for the side they wish to succeed.
The time has arrived when something
radical must be done to stem the torrent
of perjury which is engulfing the efforts
to administer justice in the courts of our
community."
Like other cities and villages. New
York is full of people habituated to tak-
ing oaths in lodges, and it is not to be
assumed that all take them seriously, or
observe them strictly. There is reason
to question whether there ds not a large
me;nbership that regards a lodge oath as
an almost empty form. Taking lodge
oaths lightly, as well as blindly, might be
expected to cultivate a loose habit of
mind. All oaths would thus share a ten-
dency to lose sacredness. This prevalent
custom of swearing as cultivated by
lodges may, therefore, partly account lor
the increase of the crime that judges ob-
serve.
This is not the sole cause, yet it can
naturally be reckoned as liable to be
among efficient causes ; at least one oath
is taken in each degree, and, whether
taken lightly or not, it is taken blindly.
Taking oaths blindly, or taking them
lightly, is a bad habit to cultivate in
lodges and practice in courts. :
A TEXT FOR THE MASTER'S
WORKERS.
What we, who have long labored, are
now needing in order to keep up hope
and courage, is the Christian grace of pa-
tience. So has it been, also, from the be-
ginning, when it was said to the disciples
of the first century, "Ye have need of
patience, that, after ye have done the
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July, 1008.
will of God, ye might receive the prom-
ise." Impatience cuts oil work midway,
so that nothing is perfected; therefore,
"Let patience have its perfect work, that
ye may be perfect and entire, wanting*
nothing-.'' If we \\an.t what belongs to
tiic final stage of discipline, losing tliis
through impatience, we fail of finished
character ; if we miss the conclusion of
an enterprise, we attain, instead, a failure.
The last few steps of mountain-climbing
arc the only ones that touch the summit;
the last year of school, alone, reaches
graduation; in the conclusion of a busi-
ness transaction, lies its profit.
Dangerously strong and influential
temptations to impatience, are various in
origin. Physical weariness can play its
part, disappointment is not easily over-
come or forgotten, the sting that ingrati-
tude cr want of sympathetic comradeship
can inflict is envenomed, and its poison is
sometimes paralyzing or benumbing. In
petulance, or in discouragement, effort
that ought to be patiently matured is lia-
ble to be relaxed or abandoned.
Yet in due season we shall reap if we
faint not ; your labor is not in vain in
the Lord. No place for impatience lies
this side the line where awaits the due
season ; until that line is reached, labor
does not cease to be "not in vain.'' We
should cling to these encouraging truths,
with faith in the Master of the field we
cultivate. While He has patience, we
should ; so long as He still expects re-
sults, we may ; until He relaxes purpose
or effort, we need not. We ought to
reach the end with Him.
His parable of the sower is an antidote
to impatience, and to disappointment that
fosters it. Some seed must fall where
the birds will catch it away, some where
there is not much deepness of earth, and
some where it is choked by thorns. W^e
cannot expect that ungodly men, already
profane, will hesitate to take reckless
lodge oaths, nor can we look to see dis-
honest men, or scheming politicians,
shocked by the baseness of certain secret
obligations. L,icentious men will not re-
gret that the agreement to limit vice so
as to exempt a few nearest relatives of
members of one degree, leaves most of
the world unmentioned. If they are re-
pelled by amtliing, it will be that limited
agreement. Men of the world and wom-
en of fashion cannot be expected to have
ears to hear appeals based on Christian
principles. vSupposed business or politi-
cal advantage can win men, dancing and
(hsplay attract women, and those of this
class can hear and weigh arguments like
these; our arguments, based on Christian
morals and faith, they have no ears to
hear. We have not failed, though the
great multitude throngs still the broad
road that leads to death ; the narrow path
is not closed. He that hath an ear will
hear; let us patiently lift up our voice for
him.
Surely shallow soil on rocky ground
will yet remain, birds of tiie air will catch
away our words, thorns will not cease to
grow and choke our Master's truth, how-
ever diligently we sow. Yet there is
good ground. There also remain seven
thousand who do not worship Baal. It
was after two-score years that Caleb,
whose ready and encouraging words
seemed vain, inherited the land of tlie
grape-cluster, and drove out the sons of
Anak, who had terrified his early com-
panions. Like him, we have need of pa-
tience, and having patience until the due
season, we shall receive what is prom-
ised, for our confidence hath great rec-
ompense of reward.
TENNESSEE LAW TO PROTECT
SECRET ORDERS.
Protection By Prohibiting.
The law enacted by the Legislature of
Tennessee, April 15, 1907, and printed in
the Cynosure, April, 1908, is entitled,
''AN ACT to protect fraternal, charit-
able, and benevolent societies, or secret
orders, by prohibiting the publication,
sale, or circulation, of any book, pam-
phlet, or other instrument, purporting to
be a copy of the secret or ritualistic work
of any such secrv^t organization ; and to
provide a penalty for a violation of the
same."
Review of the Law.
Section i declares it unlawful to pub-
lish, print, or import, or to sell or expose
for sale, anything purporting to be a copy
of secret or ritualistic work.
Section 4 makes violation of Section
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I a misdemeanor, for which the fine must
be not less than ten dollars, and may
be fifty.
Section 5 exempts officers of secret
orders.
Section 2 authorizes any citizen of
Tennessee, who is first authorized by the
chief officer of an order, to recover one
hundred dollars from a violator of Sec-
tion I. Fifty dollars shall belong to the
person suing, fifty to the State.
Section 3 empowers any citizen, au-
thorized as required by Section 2, to
take away from its possessor any prop-
erty of the kind described in Section i.
"Such citizen, when so authorized, shall
have the right to enforce the provisions
of this section by a writ of replevin."
Section 6 says that "this act shall take
effect from and after its passage, the pub-
lic welfare requiring it."
Out of Harmony With Federal Consti=-
tution.
Public welfare was thought to require
that the first amendment of the United
States Constitution should guarantee
that Congress could pass no law
"abridging freedom of speech or of the
press." The Constitution of Tennessee,
adopted soon after the Civil War, may
not have copied this clause of the Bill of
Rights, yet any American law out of har-
mony with it, however justifiable, seems
extraordinary. It requires imperative
reason.
Section i is criminal law. It is com-
pleted by Section 4, and applies to mat-
ter copyrighted under federal law. One
provision forbids any person to import
matter that is obviously liable to be
brought in by mail. Import might be
construed to cover obtaining by mail,
in a case of this kind.
However, Section 2 of Article IV of
the U. S. Constitution guarantees that
"The citizens of each State shall be en-
titled to all the privileges and immuni-
ties of citizens in the several States."
One of these must be ordinary use of
the mails.
Tennessee judges cannot ignore this
in favor of the State law, for the- U. S.
Constitution and laws "shall be the su-
preme law of the land; and the judges
in every State shall be bound thereby,
anything in the Constitution or laws of
any State to the contrary notwithstand-
ing." Moreover, all "judicial officers
both of the United States and of the sev-
eral States, shall be bound by oath or
affirmation to support this Constitution."
Decisions afl^ecting tlie U. S. mails
appear reviewable by a federal court;
besides, instead ot condemnmg, State
judges are sworn to protect their use.
Apparently, citizens of Tennessee still
share the universal right to receive print-
ed and copyrighted matter by mail.
Section 3 is common law. Without
such terms as unlawful, misdemeanor,
and fine, it prescribes forfeiture and a
method of enforcement. This might be
many times the amount of the largest
fine.
At Variance With Common Law.
In earlier common law, replevin was
apt to be restricted to loss by theft or
robbery, but now it includes anything
unlawfully detained from its rightful
owner. The plaintiff must prove right
of possession, and prove the defendant
to be holding wrongful possession.
Section 3, therefore, either assumes or
creates actual or constructive ownership.
Per contra, it assumes absence of owner-
ship or voids title. It does this where,
under protection of Tennessee law, an
ordinary business transaction has been
effected, with exchange of value. Cre-
ation, destruction, or transference of title,
without consideration, is against law,
custom, and public policy, transcending
even the right of eminent domain.
It is previous ownership, therefore,
that appears to be assumed for the plain-
tiff, and denied to the defendant. Own-
ership cannot accrue from purchase, but
exists in some way without. For ex-
am.ple, a box of books ordered, shipped,
and paid for, in Chicago, is not the
property of the purchaser to whom it is
delivered in Nashville. Through author-
ization of a citizen of St. Louis, it is
the property of some citizen of Nash-
ville, to whom its arrival is a surprise,
and who was not aware of its exist-
ence.
Whether goods shipped in Chicago,
and marked, Montgomery, Ala., could
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July, 1908.
be seized in fransiiii while crossing Ten-
nessee, is a natural question.
If, without replevin, any person should
take the box of books from the purchas-
er, who is here assumed not to be the
owner, would the court construe the act
as theft, or would the apparent thief
onlv become the defendant in a case of
replevin ?
Question for the Court.
An important qu.estion for court de-
cision relates to the effect of this law in
case a book contains brief quotations
from a ritual, but as a whole is not one
"purporting to be a copy of the secret or
ritualistic work." Not all antisecret lit-
erature is ritual, or direct exposure; all
is mailable to Tenriessee, and its posses-
sion is not made a crime in the eye of
Tennessee law\
An Open Door.
Even though purchase be construed as
criminal importation, illuminating matter
can be mailed gratuitously from outside,
flooding the State with light as never
before. Moreover, no section of the law
applies to sermons, lectures, or conversa-
tions ; and living teachers can do what
is forbidden to the press. Free Speech
has survived Freedom of the Press in
Tennessee.
IRISH CARICATURES.
Pat, the ignorant laborer who lived in
a shanty, is dead and buried, his son is
tending bar and running the city govern-
ment, and his grandriaughter is teachitig
the public school. Secret orders have
gathered in the younger members of the
clan, among which is the secret society
v/hosc members are usually called Fliber-
nians, though a priest of their church de-
clares that in Pennsylvania it was the Hi-
bernians who went by the name of Moi-
h'e Maguires. The following resolutio:-!
has been adopted by a state board of the
order •
Whereas, We view with iinicli regret and
iadlgnation a disposition on the part of many
persons to slander onr people, especially as
St. Patrick's day approaches, hy publication
of indecent newspaper and magazine carica-
tures and by exliibiting for sale at news-
stands and stationery stores post cards that
are grossly insulting to and libelous of the
Irish people,
We; therefore, the members of the state
board of Ancient Order of Hibernians, in
meeting assembled at Lowell, on the ninth
day of February, 1908, condenni the publica-
tion and sale of such caricatures and post
cards, and urge tlie officers and members of
our order to exert every lawful and reason-
able effort to suppress the sale and circula-
tion of such libelous caricatures and post
cards at all times, and particularly now, that
the feast day of our patron saint may be
observed with dignity instead of ridicule.
THE BLIND FILTER.
It is not the only difference between a
filter and a sieve, that one is for liquids
and the other for solids. The sieve re-
jects what is worthless, and keeps what
is valuable ; the filter, on the contrary,
keeps the sediment while losing what is
pure. It selects what it rejects, preserves
what it loses, or enhances the worth of
what it casts away. What it keeps with-
in itself when its work is done, is refuse.
In this respect the filter is like a Ma-
sonic lodge. For the lodge, also, gath-
ers good and bad material into itself, and
while one stream is constanth- pouring
in, another of almost equal volume is
flowing out. Moreover, the outflow com-
prises intelligence and moral worth which
cafinot be retained within the dark and
blind lodge. Like Washington, arnl
Marshall, and a multitude of wise and
noble men, the better members tend to
swell the outflow. Weak characters, how-
ever, and shallow minds are retained. The
lodge is a more natural place lor the
thoughtless who do not consider, the ig-
norant, who without understanding are
impressed while they cannot discrimi-
nate, or the wxak and vicious, to whose
tastes the lodge is not uncongenial, while
it promises a refuge to folly or v/icked-
ness.
Clinging to the lodge, like refuse in a
filter, these baser elements remain after
the more intelligent and better elements
pass out again. Hence, the lodge is like
a filter through which a stream of mixed
elemefits is forever flowitig, out of
which it catches and retains the more
worthless while losing- the best that it
receives.
Hospitality enlarges the soul.
July, 1908.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
89
AN INQUIRY.
Does the Bible require a man who has
assumed sinful obligations, to simply
coiifess that the obligations were sinful
and that he sinned in assuming them, or
is he further required to make known in
detail the nature and form of the sinful
obligations ? What is the bearing of Le-
viticus 5: 4, 5, and other scriptures upon
the point in question? Let us hear from
a number of the Cynosure readers.
BLACK HAND CRIMINALS SENTENCED
For the first time in Massachusetts a
Black Hand case has resulted in convic-
tion. The last day of March, in the af-
ternoon, Concetto Rizzo and Antonio AT 1 •
rabito were sentenced to State prison for
not less than six or more than ten years
by the judge of the superior criminal
court. I^>bruary 20th they sent threaten-
ing letters through the mail to Benjamin
Piscopo. The court denied a motion for
a new trial — the evidence was competent
and sufficient in amount and character to
justify the jur\'. Taking the accused at
their own words in the letter, they were
members of an organization formed to
kill if demands for money were not com-
plied with.
Asked by the court w^hether he had
anything to sa}^ upon the matter of sen-
tence, the district attorney declared that
the case differed widely from ordinary
blackmail, wdiere accusation of crime was
threatened in order to extort money. In
Black Bland cases the forfeit was the vic-
tim's life.
QUABOAG LODGE ANNIVERSARY.
Warren, Mass., has a lodge that has
lately reached its 50th anniversary anrl
enjoyed a grand celebration. Until a
late hour Saturday evening, the exercises
continued with great success, the presen-
tation of past masters' jewels being par-
ticularly interesting. One hundred and
twenty-five Masons w^ere present, and
ten of the fifteen past masters w'cre
present to be decorated with jewels at the
hand of the Grand Master. The celebra-
tion of the anniversary was continued in-
to Sunday morning, by going into the
Congregational church, where Rev. T. C.
Richards preached on the subject : 'The
Temple Builders." Among the no m
the church were seven officers of the
Grand Lodge. Although the celebration
jjroper was ended, two of the visiting
Masons spoke Sunday evening on "The
church and the brotherhood." A super-
intendent of schools from another place
presided in tlie church Sunday evening,
and the s])eakers were the grand lecturer,
and the district deputy grand inaster,
who is also principal of a normal school.
Thus the church was extensively util-
ized that Lord's Day, in the interest of
an order that makes a si)ecialty of dis-
honoring the name of LBm for whom
both house and dav were named.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
In 1889 Col. George R. Clarke, found-
er of the "Pacific Garden Mission," of
Cliicae'o, a Christian worker of national
reputation as well as an officer in the
Civil W^ar, speaking of his having been a
thirty-second degree Mason and a mem-
ber of the G. A. R., related the reasons
for his withdrawal from all secret asso-
ciations when he became a Christian. Of
the G. A. R. he said:
"For the same reason I was prevented
from reuniting wdth my old comrades in
arms in the Grand Army of the Repub-
lic. I suppose its objects are in the main
good and calculated to help the surviving
soldiers of the Rebellion; but I think,
though not as harmful as some, it is one
of those things which stand in the way
of the coming of Christ in the world;
Consequently, as one loyal to the pre-
cious Son of God who has suffered for
us, we must place it with all other secret
organizations, as harmful and retarding
the growth of our religion. Anything
that antagonizes the coming of our Lord
and the completing of His work ought to
receive our opposition.'' ,
ONE OF THE WORKERS.
I\Iissoula, Montana, April 15, 1908.
T think two young men that were
working for usdiad their eyes opened by
reading Modern Secret Societies (which
I had and gave to them to read), so they
will not try the societies.
(]\Irs.) E. A. Tozier.
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July, 1908.
|lciU0 0f §nx
The Association is represented this
}ear at" the Christian Reformed Synod
meeting at Muskegon, iMichigan, by Mr.
T. M. Hitchcock, so well known to the
readers of our magazine. We anticipate
a good note from him for the August
number. ■
THE DBS MOINES, IOWA, MEETING.
Covington, Ohio, June i8, 1908.
W. I. Phillips, Chicago,' 111. :
Dear Editor of Cynosure:
Wife and I have returned from our
Annual Conference at Des Moines, Iowa.
The meeting was largely attended, it be-
ing our Bi-centennial or tw^o hundredth
anniversary of our org'anization in Amer-
ica. There was an unusual amount of
business, and at times the discussions
were somewhat animated, or like that
Conference at Jerusalem — recorded in
Acts 15. "After much disputing" a very
conciliatory conclusion was arrived at on
all questions before the meeting.
Dr. Blanchard met his appointment on
Sunday afternoon. The Doctor seemed
to be in shape for the occasion. He de-
livered his message with interest and ear-
nestness. The assembly was estimated at
from six to eight thousand. All seemed
to listen with absorbing interest. After
his talk he was quickly thronged with a
large number who wished to grasp his
'hand in friendship ; among them were a
number with their secret badge-pins. One
of thern said, "This is my last lodge."
The occasion was one of interest.
, Yours as ever,
(Eld.) I. J. Rosenberger.
In correspondence with his brother J.
M., of this city, Mr. Thomas P. Hitch-
cock, of Toledo, Ohio, says : "The anti-
secret cause is attracting more attention
to-day than at any other time since I
was made acquainted with it. When we
stop to think that it is taught to our chil-
dren in the public schools, and by our
best instructors, I can only say. Praise
Cod for the hopeful prospects that are
f»efore us. In our Citv of Toledo, all
students who insist on maintaining
membership in these societies are de-
prived of school privileges."
CONVENTIONS.
The Ohio State Convention will close
its deliberations on June 30th, as this
Cynosure is being* printed. The public
leaders in Pandora are wiser than some,
and vvelcomed the Convention. Among
the speakers were Rev. C. W. Oyer, Rev.
W. J. Sanderson, R.ev. J. H. T Gordon,
Eld. I. J. Rosenberger, Rev. T. K. Leon-
ard, and Rev. F. W. Stanton. A report
of the Convention may be expected in
the Auc-ust number.
The Michigan State Convention will
be held (D. V.) on October 7th and 8th,
at Grand Rapids, in the Lagrave Street
Chrisiian Reformed church, Rev. Henry
lieets, pastor. President Blanchard has
been secured as one of the speakers. A
great meeting is assured.
It has been suggested that during Sep-
tember a Conference be held in the
Southwest — perhaps at Kansas City.
Such a location would permit the friends
in four States, cornering near Kansas
City, to attend. Let us hear from those
that are interested, about a Conference — -
say at Kansas City, on September 28th
and 29th.
The New York-New Jersey Conven-
tion will be held in October. A fuller
plan Vvdll be published in August.
It is now the purpose, as we under-
stand, to hold the Indiana State Conven-
tion in November. We expect a report
on it for the next Cynosure from Pres.
L. G. Bears. ■ .
How about Iowa? We hear that Pres.
J. S. McGaw has been tendered the po-
sition of lecturer for the National Re-
form Association. Why not have a rally
in northwestern Iowa, the last of this
month — say at Sioux City ? Rev. W. FJ.
Stoddard would assist in such a Confer-
ence if desired. We suggest a Citizens'
Conference for Aug. 24th and 2qth, next.
What do our friends in Sioux City say?
July, 1008.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
91
Would Rev. P. H. Tctley, of Canton, S.
Dak., second such a Citizens' meeting,
to take in the district comprising the cor-
ners of the four States which meet near
Sioux City — Iowa, Minnesota, South Da-
kota, and Nebraska?
MRS. LIZZIE WOODS' LETTER.
Pine Bhiff, Ark., May 26, 1908.
Dear Brother PhilH])s :
I have just got in from Elerson, Ariv.
I was there the first Sunday in this
month, but they had lieard of me and
woukl not kl me lecture. I went back
last Friday, to attend the sisters' Board
Meetino-. You know that was the sis-
ters, and of course my time to talk. So
on last Sunday I spoke to a crowded
house, and God certainly used my mouth.
The preacher at this place, and all the
women and children, belong to the same
order, so the Holy Spirit inspired me to
tell the evils of this calf-worship. When
I had sat down, the two preachers that
were there (both Masons) Vv^ent outdoors
and held a council with the members of
the church and the sinners of the lodge.
They were angr}^, but the sinners said I
was right ; they said the preachers ought
to keep out of lodges and preach the gos-
pel. They said, "That woman is right.
God did tell us not to swear, and told the
preachers to teach us Ilis command-
ments ; and they don't say anything to
us about swearing ; they swear them-
selves, just to get a little money, and then
they don't get it until death." I had told
them, while I was talking, that they could
not trust God to take care of them, so
they hired themselves out to the devil all
their lives for three hundred dollars, to
be paid off at death.
In the evening three men came to me.
Two of them were sinners and one bo-
longed to the church. They asked me
where I learned so much about lodges. I
told them, and gave them some tract -^.
Then one of them said, "You don't know
an3^thing about the Knights of Pythias."
I answered, "Are you brave?" They
looked at each other. Then I said, "Say,
what is this? A good thing. Most peo-
ple would say so. Some would. O,
would they? No doubt." When I said
this the whole crowd laughed, and one of
them said, "What did you make her tell
that for?" Then all the people at the sta-
tion began to laugh. Then one of the
men, a sinner, said, "Sister Woods, if
you were a man we would hang you to a
limb." I said, "There are men traveling
and saying the same things that I am say-
ing." He said, "All right, let one of the
scoundrels come down here and we will
kill him before the water gets hot." Then
I said, "You see the orders make you a
murderer." The man who belonged to
the clnuxii said, "N<^. Sister Woods, we
would not kill him, Init we would chain
him to a tree and wear two brand-nev/
buggy-whips out on his naked back, and
send him away from liere on railroad
time." I~Ie said, "A\'e will let you talk,
but no man had better ever come here
with that talk." AA'e all laughed, and I
kept on telling their secrets until- the
train arrived. They said, "Good-bye,
Sister Woods ; come again, and stay in
our houses as long as you please ; but no
man had belter come ; if he does, we will
string him up."
Tune 12, [908.
I was at Jefferson Springs a few days
ago, visiting the Sisters' Union, I lec-
tured to a f idl house. My talk was alto-
gether on the sin- of secret societies. We
had several ministers m the meeting. I
showed them how the people who were
in secret societies \\ ere spiritually dead,
and that the preachers were the cause of
it. I said, "These preachers who are
preaching these annual sermons are lead-
ing the people into the lodges, so that
they become spiritually dead, for they
cannot serve two masters at the same
time."
While I was talking I noticed that one
of the preachers had ou a Masonic pin.
I pointed at the pin and said, "Brother,
take that pin oft* and throw it away, and
let us Christians show to the world that
we belong to Christ because we love one
another."
One of the preachers was taking note
of all I said. He had just preached an
annual sermon the Sunday before this
meeting. When I sat down he got up
and tried to help himself out, but he
could not defend himself, for all three of
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
July, 1908.
the other ministers were on the Lord's
side and they told that hrother to stop
trying* to defend the Masons. They said,
*'You know \\'e are all wrong". We car-
ried the people upstairs, now let us come
down and bring the people down ; let us
bring them back to the Cliurch." They
said, "Go on, Sister Woods, with your
books and tracts, and show us the sin cf
the lodges." They said, "God bless the
National Christian Association, for it is
an eye-opener." The brother that had
on the gold IMasonic pin took it off at
once. The ministers said, "We are go-
ing- to fight the devil and bring- God's
people out of his old money-trap."
I read in the tenth chapter of Hosea,
the first and second verses, and proved
to them that the lodges were idolatry.
One of our great ministers here. Dr. J.
B. Bolden, preached at a funeral here
yesterday, of a w^oman who used to be a
ofood Christian, but who v/ent into the
lodges and lost all interest in the church.
She stuck to her two lodges and they put
her body in a fine casket. Accompany-
ing the body, the lodge -members came in,
carrying those long sticks with black
crape on them and a lot of little blue
books. Dr. Bolden said, *'Yoti had bet-
ter throw away those little blue rituals
that men made. Whatever from the Bi-
ble that you find in them was stolen by
men and put there to make fools of you.
Put the old sticks and books down, and
get your Bibles and read them, and teach
your chddren what God would have them
do. All of you are on your way to hell."
He looked down on their Noble Grand
and said, "Here is your leader, an old
sinner Noble Grand, on his way to hell,
and you are all following him, and this
dead woman 3^oti brought here is lost;
f-hc went to all your dances and card-par-
ties, and you ought to have carried her
straiglit to the cemetery." He said,
''Here are women and men who have not
been to a prayer-meeting this year, sit-
ting up here with your long sticks and
white gloves and blue rituals, wanting me
to say this vv^oman is in heaven, but I
cannot say so ; she followed up all your
dances and card-parties and moving-pic-
ture shows, so she died like she lived."
He said, "I know vou are hurt about
your lodge, but it is damning you all, and
I am God's watchman and must tell you
of your danger ; I will not compromise
with the devil by not telling you. Go
home and get your Bibles, and read, and
run for your lives."
The best thinking people are ashamed
to have any one know that they belong to
a lodge. God's ministers are coming out,
and as soon as Lot comes out of Sodom
God will consume it with the sword of
LL's mouth (IL Thessalonians 2: 8).
Yours for the work,
(Mrs.) Lizzie Woods.
MICHIGAN AGENT'S REPORT.
Brown City, Mich., June 19, 1908.
Dear Cynosttre — After the National
Convention at Chicago, I returned lo
hold some special meetings in the North
Muskegon M. E. Church. I preached for
one week. Eight or ten expressed a de-
sire publicly to lead a new life. The
Christian people seemed greatly encour-
aged.
The following week I went to Hart to
look after N. C. A. interests. I sold
some more books, and distributed tracts.
On Friday I came to Grand Rapids.
In the afternoon I preached for Rev. H.
A. Day at Walker W. M. Church, and
at night at Grand Rapids W. M. Church.
Both services were blessed and helpful.
The following Tuesday and Wednes-
day the Knights Templar of the State
met in Grand Rapids. So on Sunday
evening, before the sermon, I talked for
half an hotir on the history, principles
and practices of Knights Templarism,
vvdiich the audience appreciated. On
Tuesday I spoke on the same subject at
two Christian Reformed schools. It was
surprising to see the interest in and un-
derstanding of secret societies, which
some of these young folks have. I also
gave instruction on Knight Templarism
to two or three group meetings. The
Cynosure re-enters the homes of two old
subscribers, and nearly every old sub-
scriber renewed.
My next stopping place was Flint. Rev.
H. Voorhess is planning to do more ag-
gressive work against the Secret Emi-
pire.
After an absence of more than five
July, 1908.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
03
months I came to Elkton once more and
distributed tracts and sold some boolcs.
Some of the preachers of this town are
casting- their influence against tlie cause
of antisecrecy ; others are for the cause,
but preach against nearly everything else
imaginable, I^ut think it best to leave the
lodge very respectfully alone.
Yesterday I came to Sebewaing to look
after the Cynosure. It is difficult to get
to speak in a great many places, but i
scarcely fail to get some kind of antise-
cret literature, besides tracts, into every
place.
The cause of antisecrecy moves slowly
in Michigan, but it moves, nevertheless.
Yours for righteousness,
G. A. Peo;ram.
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AGENT DAVIDSON'S REPORT.
Centralia, 111., June 17, 1908.
Dear Cynosure : Since I last wrote
you I have attended the Baptist State
Convention at Duquoin, 111., where I had
the privilege of speaking". Rev. E. J.
Fisher, of Chicago, and Rev. E. Hall, of
Bloomington, preached powerful ser-
mons, during" which the Secret Empire
received a severe drubbing. I secured a
few subscriptions at each place.
I held a ten days' meeting here at the
Central Baptist Church. Secret societies
are very strong here. Churches are not
as well patronized, even by professed
Christians, as they should be, at any of
their services. It is almost impossible to
get more than five or six at any prayer
meeting. But the lodges are usually well
attended at all of their meetings. I have
secured quite a few Cynosure subscrib-
ers here and am m hope of leavening
this city with antisecrecy. I have dis-
tributed quite a number of tracts, which
has caused quite a stir in lodgedom.
I go next week to attend the State B.
Y. P. U. and Sunday School Convention
at Rockport, 111., where I shall endeavor
to give the lodge a blow. From there I
go South. Pray God's blessings upon
my v.ork. Yours sincerely,
F. James Davidson.
502 North Elm street, Centralia, 111.
What you are when no one is lookiup*
IS what you are. .,,
SECRETARY STODDARD'S LETTER.
Bluffton, Ohio, June 18, 1908.
Dear Cynosure : The month past has
brought much work, largely centered in
the Ohio State Convention, which we
hold, God willing, in I'andora, June 29th
and 30th. '
. The N. C. A. Annual Meeting was in-
deed a season of refreshing. Though not
quite in usual health, I enjoyed this our
best Annual Meeting. The opportunity
to visit kindred at Wheaton and else-
where was improved. ■
I hastened to Ohio that I might con-
sult with friends as to the best time and
place for the Ohio meeting. That there
are hundreds of places needing our meei-
ing goes without saying. I judge we
h.ave made no mistake in going to Pan-
dora. The friends who welcome us there
are of the Swiss Mennonite faith — an in-
dustrious, thrifty people.
En route to this section I held meet-
ings in the Free Methodist church, Co-
lumbus, Ohio. This work was w^ell sup-
ported by both pastor and people. Rev. O.
M. Shaw has been laboring among this
people with good success. They are look-
ing forward to the Annual Conference
which comes to them this year. I was
told some were present who had never
listened to a discussion of the Lodge
question, who, of course were forming
opinions. Our good brother Harrington
was not quite so well, but enjoying a
bright hope for the future. His home
was mine during my stay in the capital
city.
I have twice spoken, on invitation of
the pastor of the Missionary church.
Pandora, Ohio, to good-sized audiences
leathered for oraver meetino-s.
CD A. . , O
Leading" the devotions at the Bluffton,
Ohio, Mennonite College, I had opportu-
nity to meet the students and let them
know of my mission. The college year
just closing is reported as successful in
many ways.
At a meeting of the classis of the Ger-
man Reformed church for this section I
was given a hearing of fifteen minute.^.
There were two votes against giving me
this hearing, the newly-elected pastor of
Marion, Ohio, and the representative from
his church. The representative said 'ix.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
July, lOOS.
])elong'ed to three lodges and was prond
of it. During- the discussion as to wheth-
er J should be given a hearing the Alar-
ion minister said I should not, because
the Reformed church took no position on
the lodge question. Another minister
said that was just the reason why I
sliould be heard. Dr. John Buchmann,
pastor at Xew Knoxville, Ohio, said his
churcli did not receive lodgemen. My
address was in the nature of invitation
and information ratlter than discussion.
Some hoped tliere would be discussion
later.
Last Sabbath was spent with Wesleyan
Methodist friends at Dunkirk, Ohio.
Some of the churches were observing
"Flao" Da^■." Mv theme in the mornin::*"
was "The Christian Ensign." In the
afternoon a special meeting gave oppor-
tunity for the presentation of antisecrecy
truth. The baneful effects of the lodges
are much in evidence here. Many pas-
tors mourn tlie situation ; others say we
must make the be^t of the situation ;
while still others sinfully advocate the
lodge, even claiming their work better
than that of the church. This may be
true of some poor, sickly organization to
which they minister. President J. Blan-
chard used to say, 'Tt's a poor bird that
destroys its own nest," yet some short-
sighted men are doing this very thing ;
and the worst of it is, tlie}^ are so blind-
ed as to believe they are building the
nest. Brother Omerod, pastor of the
Wesleyan Methodist church at Dunkirk,
is sound in the faith, and doing a good
work, though meeting much opposition
of course.
I was glad to find Rev. F. W. Stanton,
pastor of the large M. E. church at Ada,
Ohio, on our side. He has seen mucli
of the evil of the lodge. It is his inten-
tion to address the Ohio convention.
I have visited towns in this section too
numerous to mention, and have been en-
couraged in those willing to ''come up to
the help of the Lord against the mighty. '
If I mistake not the general feeling, the
Ohio convention is to be blessed and to
be a blessing to many. A good program
is arranged. With the divine blessing,
all will be v/ell. There are many "Rad-
ical" United Brethren churches in thi^
section. The names of John Levington
and P. B. Williams are mentioned among-
the N. C. A. workers here in other years.
Oh, that God would stir those on the
field to carry the banner on to greater
victories ! It is harvest time. Let us
gather together for the reforms.
I go to the. United Presbyterian
church, Huntsville, Ohio, for Sabbath..
Several lectures are arranged.
W. B. Stoddard.
TERRIBLE EFFECT UPON CHILDREN.
It is an inexorable law of most all
lodges to admit no children under the
age of sixteen; and while fathers and
mothers deem it expedient to belong to-
a dozen or more orders at one time, what
can be the inevitable result of the neg-
lected fireside and nursery during attend-
ance at these midnight revels? Nothing
but the natural consequence, that these
children who are left night after night
until a late hour, will divert themselves
as their own taste of pleasure dictates;
and small wonder if the streets, or ques-
tionable resorts, are well populated by
lads and lassies of all ages from eight to
sixteen, who may thus soon become fit
subjects for the Society for Delinquent
Children, or the Reformatory, to which
the sad fact of the recently established
Juvenile Court has become a judicial ne-
cessity.
A recent editorial in the Portland!
Orcgonian makes this statement: "A de-
linquent child presupposes a delinquent
parent or parents, and a wilful, evil-dis-
posed child whose parents were delin-
quent may become a neglected waif of
the streets with a personality so strong
that their vices are distinguishing traits-
of character for several generations;,
hence we see the best efforts of humani-
tarians enlisted in the attempt to solve
the problem of the delinquent child. .
. . The Juvenile Court is the latest fac-
tor that has been brought into this prob-
lem, and humane, philanthropic, and in-
telligent men and women are giving it
their generous, unqualified support."
Can a sadder picture be painted?- But
when fathers and mothers voluntarily
stray from the delicate line of chaste
honor, and domestic duty, and wilfully
July, 1008.
CHRiSTlAN CYNOSURE.
95
neglect the evening fireside at home with
the family circle, for a continuous round
of initiation, banquets, and midnight de-
bauches, untit for the public eye, and
yet protected by public opinion, and even
legislative power, a dark cloud lowers
over that age and nation that portends a
surer desolation, and greater moral death,
than physical pestilence and plague.
Mrs. M. M. Burnap.
Touchet, Washington.
GENERAL OFFICERS
Of the National Christian Association for
the Year 1908=1909.
President — Charles A. Blanchard.
Vice-President — John Groen.
Ex-Officio Vice-Presidents — L. G.
Bears, of Indiana; J. S. McGaw, of
Iowa; J. W. Brink, of Michigan; F. M.
Foster, of New York; W. J. Sanderson,
of Ohio ; A. D. Zahniser, of Pennsyl-
vania.
Recording Secretary — Airs. Nora E.
Kellogg.
General Secretary and Treasurer — -
William I. Phillips.
Board of Directors — Charles A. Blan-
chard, B. 11. Einink, E. Breen, B. E.
Bergesen, J. M. Hitchcock, Robert
Clarke, George Windle, E. B. Stewart,
Ezra A. Cook, William B. Rose, Samuel
II. Swartz.
Auditors — J- T. Logan, Joseph P.
Shaw, H. F. Kletzing-.
MICHIGAN STATE OFFICERS.
President — Rev. J. W. Brink, 155 S.
Terrace street, Muskegon.
Vice President — Rev. H. G. Patterson,
R. F. D. 5, Birmingham.
Secretary — Rev. A. R. Merrill, 64 W.
Ninth street, Holland.
Treasurer — Rev. H. Voorhess, 72.4
Oak street, Flint.
OHIO STATE OFFICERS
For 1907=1908.
President — Rev. W. J. Sanderson,
Cedar ville.
Vice President — Rev. J. E. Williams,
Zanesville.
Secretary — Rev. A. B. Dickie, Kim-
bolton. ■ -^ ■' '
Treasurer — W. T. Guffv, Zanesville.
INDIANA STATE OFFICERS,
1907=1908.
President — Rev. L. G. Bears, 412 W.
13th street, Peru.
Vice Presidents — Rev. C. A. Mum-
mart, Huntington ; Rev. L. H. Ebey, ;
and Rev. D. Y. Schultz, Bible Training
School, Fort Wayne.
Secretary — Rev. H. C. Ingersoll, 1318
E. Creighton avenue, Fort Wayne.
NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY STATE
OFFICERS.
President — Rev. F. M. Foster, 345 W.
29th St., New York City.
First Vice President — Rev. D. Vander
Ploeg, 47 Hope Ave., Passaic, N. J.
Second Vice President — Rev. K. F.
Ohlson, 140 East 50th St., New York
City.
Third Vice President — Rev. H. Blews,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Secretary — Rev. G. Westenberg, 129
4th Ave., Paterson, N. J.
Treasurer — Rev. James Parker, 341
Webster Ave., Jersey City, N. J.
IOWA STATE OFFICERS.
President — Rev. J. S. McGaw, Morn-
ing Sun, R. F. D.
First Vice-President — Rev. H. P.
Gray, Auburn.
Second Vice-President — Rev. V. S.
Jensen, Brayton, R. F. D. i.
Secretary — Rev. T. J. Adrian, 723
Penn. Ave., Des Moines.
Treasurer — Abner Branson, New
Sharon.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE OFFICERS.
President — Rev. A. D. Zahnizer,
Blairsville.
First Vice President — I. N.
Beahm, of- Elizabethtown College.
Second Vice President — Rev. J.
Martin, of New Castle.
Secretary — Rev. O. G. Schoenlein, of
Castle Shannon.
Treasurer — H. C. Cassel, 2305 Ger-
mantown avenue, Philadelphia.
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CHICAGO, AUGUST, 1911.
NUMBER 4.
REPORT OF NATIONAL MEETING.
(Continued from
QUESTIONS AND REPLIES.
President Blanchard's Letter.
Dear Fathers and Brethren : ■ '
It has been suggested that I write you,
replying to various questions which were
asked at our recent Convention, in
Wheaton, and I accordingly do so.
The^first question submitted was this:
"Is there any sen'pfiire to justify the
expression, 'The fatherhood of God, the
brotherhood of man,' often quoted by
lodge members?''
There is no scriptural justification for
these expressions as ordinarily used.
Thev seem to teach — probably are in-
tended to teach — that all men are spir-
itually sons of God. Of course, if this
were true, then the expressions indi-
cated would be quite correct. If all
men are sons of God, then all men are
spiritually brethren. It is true here,
however, as it usually is, that there is a
bit of truth associated with a serious
error. The truth is relied upon to give
the error currency. It is true that all
men are the creation of God, and it is
true that Jesus Christ has purchased sal-
vation for all men, that "whosoever will
may come." On the natural plane, and
speaking as mere naturalists, we might
talk of the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of men. Rut spiritually all
men belong to him whom they love and,
serve.
Our Lord Jesus spoke directh' to this
point when Jews said that the\- were
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the children of (iod, that (jod was their
Father. Fie replied, "Ye are of }our
father the devil, and the lusts of your
father ye will do," and then he went
forward to tell what the works of Satan
were, which these children of Satan
would perform.
Lodges, speaking generally, omit all
reference to the mediation of Jesus
Christ. Speaking generally, they all
teach salvation by the deeds of the law.
For this reason it is that they sa}- to
us so many times, "If I can live up to
the teaching of my lodge. I shall be
as good a man as I need to be." This
impression is produced almost univer-
sally on the minds of secret society men.
IM'ofessed Christians and those who are
not professed Christians alike form this
()])inion, that if they live up to the teach-
ing of their order, they will be saved ;
and this without repentance, without
conversion, without the sacrifice, with-
out the intercession of Jesus Christ. Of
course any one who rests upon his own
works for salvation, no matter how good
the}' ma_\- be, is a l(^st person.
'I'he expressions therefore shuuUl
never l)e used by a Christian wiiluuit a
clear cxphmation as to wliat he means.
If he is speaking of the state of men
by nature as the creation o\ God. all
alike ruined and undone by sin. he has a
right to use this expression ; but of he
means to speak of the sj^iritual condi-
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tion of men. then only those persons are
sons of God who have accepted Jesus
Christ as Savior. "As many as received
Him. to them gave He pOAver to become
the sons of Goch'' He gave this power
to no others, he gives it to no others
now. All men are brethren in creation
and in the loss and ruin of sin, but they
are not brethren in the Kingdom of
God. unless they have received Jesus
Christ as Savior and Lord.
Another Question.
"The initiated of some seeret socie-
ties assiniie their obligations by on oath,
zeJiile others assume their obligations by
ailinnation or_ a simple agreement. Is
there any reason for this difference in
the manner of conferring the obligations
i)i the different orders?"
Probably there is. As I have repeat-
edly said hitherto, Freemasonry is the
mother of modern secret societies. It
was before the rest, excepting the Jes-
uits, and Freemasons have been leaders
in forming the other societies. Here we
run across a bit of history. In 1826
Freemasons murdered AVilliam Morgan
for revealing the secrets of Masonry.
The whole force of the executive in New
York was used to bring those lodge mur-
derers to justice, and the result was fail-
ure. Lodge men who were supposed to
be of the best character as citizens either
perjured themselves or refused to tes-
tif}'. A number of them went to jail
for refusing- to do so. Ministers and
members of churches throughout the
whole country abandoned the Masonic
order. Robert ^Morris, an eminent Free-
mason, says that there were only fifty
thousanrl Freemasons in the United
States at that time, and that forty-five
thousand of them left the lodges during
that agitation. It was not until 1861
that the ]\Iasonic lodge began to regain
in any large way the g-round which it
lost bv that murder.
When the Civil War began, yoimg
men entering the army were told that
if they would join the Freemasons they
would secure favor and help from rebel
Freemasons in case of need. The result
was that the membership of the Masonic
lodges in the United States doubled in
about five years. But before this great
increase in the Masonic lodges a lot
of lesser secret societies had been
formed. They were invented and oper-
ated by Freemasons, and their purpose,
so far as we are able to determine it, was
to break down the prejudices existing
against the principle of secret associ-
ation. People in general felt, as all hon-
est people naturally do, that the very
idea of secrecv is abhorent to worthy
people, and is opposed to the princi-
ple of Christianity and fair dealing.
So there were necessary pretenses of
various kinds put forth to get people
into secret societies, and the objection-
able features of Freemasonry were mod-
ified in the new societies. The temper-
ance orders are a case in point. The
pretended object was to promote the
cause of temperance. The ritual was
made comparatively unobjectionable. But
the meetings were to be secret, and this
helped to popularize the principle of se-
crecy, and at the same time helped to
do away with the objections against the
Masonic order. The Odd Fellows came
in during those same years. Their pre-
tense was to relieve the sick and suffer-
ing", and while the order was constructed
on the same plan as Freemasonry, with
slight modifications, they put their ob-
ligations in the form of solemn affirma-
tions instead of bloodthirsty oaths.
Statins: the reason for the difiference
in the phrasing- of lodge obligations in
a word, we would say that the orders
which use the simple affirmation are the
advance agents for the lodges which
impose the bloody oaths, and the affirma-
tion is used in the one case in order to
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avoid horrifying tender consciences.
When men have been trained in the af-
firming orders, they become ready to
take the oaths in the others.
The Third Inquiry.
"Is an obligation taken by an oath
more binding than an obligation taken
by consent or affirmation?"
Certainly not. lA Christian man is
absohitely held to any promise which he
deliberately makes. He has no more
right to lie than he has to swear falsely.
All civil conrts so far as I am informed
— certainly the conrts of onr own conn-
try — recognize this fact. No man is
compelled to swear in a civil conrt. If
he says, ''Yonr honor, I do not wish to
swear ; I will affirm," the court takes his
affirmation just as it would his oath.
This also agrees with the teaching of
Jesus Christ. There are large numbers
of most enlightened and worthy Chris-
tian people who entirely refuse to swear,
holding that Jesus has forbidden even
the civil oath or the ecclesiastical oath in
His teaching on that subject. There are
many Christian people who^ do not adopt
this extreme position, but I do not think
there is any Christian who would say
that a solemn affirmation is less binding
than an oath. Certainly no Christian
would say that it is lawful for himself
or any other Christian to lie, and if not,
then the lodges which bind men by
])romises, bind them as thoroughly as
if thev bound them by oaths.
The question may then arise, Wh}^
should not the Freemasons do away with
their oaths and their bloody penalties,
and thus avoid the objections which all
enlightened Christians have to this part
of their procedure? The answer is, that
Freemasonry does not like to change.
Small modifications have been made from
time to time in the ritual, so as to enable
the lodges to catch those who wish to
enter their assemblies without taking
their oaths. But in general, Freemason-
ry remains today what it was in the 1)C-
ginning— a dark, profane, bloody con-
spiracy against the rights of men and
the church of Jesus Christ. They do
not make any important changes, never
have, probably never will. There is ev-
ery reason to suppose that, to the end.
Freemasonry will be what it has 1)cen
from the beginning.
Question Number Four.
"JVhat should one do zvho Jias taken
tJie first degree in Masonry^ under the
assurance tJiat it would not conflict with
any of his duties, when lie becomes sat-
isfied that he ought to withdraw, but
that if he does so, it will injure him aiid
his friends?''
There are thousands of lodge men who
are held to their obligations and mem-
bership by this very fact. They know
that if they follow their conscience and
abandon the lodges their reputation will
be injured so far as possible, their busi-
ness enterprises will be destroyed, and
their lives will be actually endangered.
INlany men, from this fact alone, con-
tinue in the orders, wdio know they
ought to leave them, and who if they
were not afraid would do so.
We ought always to be kind and
sympathetic in our thought and speech
concerning such men. No man is sure
what he would do under those circum-
stances until he has been tried : and
rash, harsh criticisms are not onl\- un-
christian, but they are extremely fool-
ish, even from the human standpoint.
The question of duty, however, is a
different matter. \\q are not here in-
quiring what wc should say about per-
sons in view of their actions, but we
are asking wliat the actions of a Cln'ist-
ian man under certain circumstances
should l)e. ( )n this ground we arc abso-
lutely clear. Jesus said, that if we love
father or mother, or our own lives even,
better than we love Flim, we are not
worthv of Him. It is, therefore, the
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dut}- of all persons who have become
entangled in secret societies to abandon
them at every cost. This is the only an-
swer which a Christian teacher can
safel}' give to such a question as this.
Another remark, however, can be
made respecting the whole situation.
While God requires us to be true to Him
at all risks and every cost, still He has
a loving- and tender care for His people,
and those who are faithful to Him will
be protected from ten thousand ills
which they naturally fear and which
would naturally follow. Brother Jacoby
testified that one of the things which
made him fear to come out from his
lodges was the thoug'ht that his business
would be destroyed. Yet he says that
in the first year after he came out, for
Christ's sake, and had gone to work to
save men, his business actually turned
in a thousand dohars more than it had
realized for him diu'ing an}^ one year of
his business life. Of course, he was do-
ing business a Christian. He was phys-
ically, mentally, and morally in better
condition for doing business, than when
he was living in sin. But the fact that
God did not permit his withdrawal from
three or four different lodges to injure
his business has a bearing on the ques-
tion which is before us. No man has a
right to say that if a lodge man for
Christ's sake leaves his lodge he w^ill
make more money or as much money as
if he were to- continue the bondslave of
the orders. No man has a right to guar-
antee a man against murder because he
does his duty as a Christian man. But
we do have a right to say that God loves
to see His children believe and trust,
and that in ways without number, and
ways that we could not anticipate. He
cares for and protects them.
The life of our College at Wheaton is
a confirmation of this truth. Secret so-
ciety men for years have sought to con-
vert students and me from it. If it had
been possible they would have claimed
it long ago. But God has not permitted
this, and therefore the institution is
stronger today than ever before in its
history. This is not the result of hu-
man forces in operation, but is a proof
of the promise-keeping of God. So' we
have a right to say to all brothers who
have been entangled among the lodges,
''Come out from among them and be ye
separate, saith the Lord, and he will be
a Father unto you." What can any saint
desire greater than this? .
Fifth Question.
This was not submitted to me at the
Conference, but I know it is in the minds
of many persons, and I therefore deal
with it briefly in this place. The ques-
tion is this :
"IV hat attitude should Christian peo-
ple take respecting high schools zvhich
train young people to violate civil lazvf"
I am thinking of the Chicago high
schools. As nearly every one knows, the
secret societies were banished from those
schools by law years ago. Appeals were
made to the courts and the courts jus-
tified the Board of Education. The tes-
timony of the high school principals and
of the high school teachers was practical-
ly unanimous. The largest boards of ed-
ucation and courts of justice throughout
the country all spoke the same word. All
said that secret societies in public
schools were injurious and ought to be
forbidden, or that boards of education
had a right to forbid them if they con-
sidered them so. ...
True to their lodge nature, the frater-
nity young people, encouraged by the
older fraternity people, went forward
and violated the law — secretly where
they were compelled to, publicly where
they dared. Some of the Board of Ed-
ucation weakened and began to talk like
politicians, rather than educators. The
enforcement of the regulation was put
off for a time, so that young people who
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101
had been violating the order of the
Board while they were being educated at
public expense, could graduate from the
schools.
Df course when lawlessness comes in,
law and its representatives go out. Ac-
cordingly the Bible has been declared un-
fit for our public schools. No matter
about the reason assigned, this is the
substance of the decision. The Bible,
and Christian hymns and prayers, for
some reason or other, must be excluded
from our public school system. A
Christian people may be taxed for an
unchristian education. In pursuance of
this absurd and ridiculous, yet perfectly
natural situation, the Board of Educa-
tion in Belviderc were caused by a Cath-
olic priest to omit prayer and the bene-
diction from the graduating exercises of
the high school. To the great honor
of the class, be it said, that an over-
whelming majority of them declined to
have anything to do with a graduating
exercise of that kind. They met in a
]:)rivate home and had their exercises by
themselves, while three members of the
class and a small audience listened to
the address which had been provided
for the occasion.
The question which I raise respecting
this whole situation is this : What
should Christian people dO' when the
wells are being poisoned from which
their children are to drink? It seems
to me a very clear case. No educa-
tion at all is far better than one wdiich
shuts out the Bible and takes in fraterni-
ties, dancing parties, and the like. Our
fathers who planted the public school
system in this country were God-fearing
men and women. They had no patience
with idolaters of any kind. Thev put
the New Testament at the foundation of
public education. The whole system
was ])ermeated by the Christian spirit,
lluis the}- builded a magnificent empire
of states which has alreadv become the
pattern and example for the govern-
ments of the world. Thev hallowed
the Sabbath, they placed Christian mor-
ality at the foundation of church and
state. Their children prospered in the
land wdiich their toils had won, pros-
pered beyond all expectation, until the}'
have now become the w^ealthiest and in
some respects the mightiest nation of the
world.
The poor and oppressed of all nation >
have been flocking by millions to shelter
themselves under the temple of libert}'
which our fathers raised, and now' what
do we see? The very foundations of
law, order and religion uprooted b\'
those who live in luxury on the taxes
of a Christian people. A little handful
of men who but yesterday were in dan-
ger of being driven out of house, com-
ing to the United States and asking for
the privilege of driving the Christian re-
ligion out of the institutions whose
shelter they invoke.
But what should we do respecting
these matters ? I w-as reading todav
about what our Pilgrim fathers did when
their liberties were infringed, and the
lives of their children were in danger.
It is beautiful to read the story of that
day. How strong and brave and true
they were ! If the Christian people of
our time could have but half their cour-
age, this impudent interference with the
rights of the American people would
soon be a thing of the past. Are we not
a shameless and degenerate people if we
cannot maintain the rights wdiich were
preserved for us at such a price?
With best regards, I am now and al-
ways.
Your friend and brother.
Charles A. Blanchard.
There are ])eople who would do great
acts, but, because the\' wait for great
opportunities, life passes, and acts of
love are nin done at iiU.— -Selected.
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i()ll.
Cl)t J^otoer of t|)e Secret Cmpire
"Bh ^i)90 ©♦ ©♦ JFlacc
XXXV.
Masonry Protecting Murderers — Vox
Populi, Vox Dei.
One nio-ht about a week after these
events there was a meeting of two men
at a cross-road a Httle way out of the
village : which meeting was evidently not
accidental ; for one of the two had been
pacing restlesslv back and forth for
some time in a state of mingled agitation
and expectancy, and now greeted the
other with only these three abruptly
spoken words :
"SJic is dead!"
His companion started and a quick
change passed over his face. To a man
accustomed to taking a good position in
society and being flattered and smiled on
accordingly, the vision of possible arrest
at the hands of the law^ could hardly be
an agreeable subject of contemplation ;
but there is an old saying which tells
us to give even the Prince of Darkness
his due, and I am willing to believe that
[NTaurice Jervish felt for one instant a
real pang of remorse — though only a
passino; sentiment, quickly overpowered
]3v selfish considerations for his own
safety.
''This is a horrible business." he finally
answered. "There will be a tremendous
fuss made, I suppose, when the afifair
comes to be looked into."
'T shall have to lay low until it blows
over," returned the other. "So now,
Jervish, vou must let me have a hundred
dollars : I can't go without it ; my affairs
are in a devil of a fix."
"Haven't got more than fift}^ by me."
"Then borrow the other fifty, can't
you?" said his companion, impatiently.
"T must clear out of here tonight or it
is a jail matter.''
"You forget that this confounded ugly
bu-iness is likely to get me into a tight
box as well as you," said Jervish, un-
easily. "But I'm willing to do the best I
can. There's a private room in my of-
fice. Come down there with me and we'll
talk the matter over."
"T know you are thinking of your own
skin, but I've got some regard for mine,'*
answered the other, with cool contempt.
"And I w^ant you to understand that the
sooner I'm off and out of the reach of
pursuit the better for you. I might prove
a very inconvenient witness before the
coroner's jury.
"Oh. come." said Jervish, alarmed at
the threat. "What is the use of talking
like that. I'll "^et the'monev of Mont-
fort or some other member of the lodge.
They won't get wind of the aft'air before
to-morrow morning, and that will give
you plenty of time for a fair start."
"I've got the night before me. and,
luckily, a good fast horse," returned the
other, after a moment's reflection. "Per-
haps I had better go down to the oflice
and you can bring me the monev there.
Only be quick about it."
Jervish handed him the key of his
ofiice in silence and the two separated.
While this conversation was going on,
in a house that stood a little way back
from the road and not far from their
place of meeting lay all that w^as mortal
of Mary Lyman. The seal of the death
angel was on those fast-closed lids, and
the lines of weariness and pain left by
the last struggle made the beautiful face
look even sadder than in life, as, framed
in its rippling abundance of tawny gold
hair, it looked up white and silent, bear-
ing mute but awful witness that a deed
of murder had been done.
]*klean while ^Maurice Jervish. in no en-
viable frame of mind, was directing his
steps toward the house of Colonel Mont-
fort. It was decidedly the largest and
most pretentious in the village, for the
Colonel was a man of considerable prop-
erty, gained not so much in lawfifl busi-
ness as by certain shad}^ transactions al-
ready referred to. Ringing the bell he
was soon admitted into a room styled
the library, though the Colonel was not
a man of scholarly tastes, and spent
more time smoking than in reading any-
thing older than the morning newspaper
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
103
— and proceeded at once to state his
business, with which the reader is al-
ready famihar.
''The deuce ! This is goini^- a Httle
too far, Jervish, Of course the lodge
will do its best to bring- you off all right,
but the truth is we have got about
enough to shoulder already. A good
many liere in Granby are all ripe for an
Antimasonic excitement, and a less af-
fair than this would be quite sufficient
to kindle one. That infernal scceder,
Severns, is capable of turning the whole
neighborhood upside down, to say noth-
ing of the Methodist parson, his brother-
in-law." And with an amiable wish that
he might see us both consigned to
regions unmentionable — for I must stop
to remark that the Colonel was a man
of decidedly profane habits of speech,
which is nothing very surprising consid-
ering the fact that at one time and an-
other he had taken a matter of several
hundred oaths, each one far surpassing
in studied insult to Jehovah's name the
profanity of an ignorant Irish drayman
— he took out his pocketbook with a
rather disturbed air and proceeded to
count out some bills which he handed to
Jervish. ' . • ,
The latter clutched the money eagerly.
He had in truth been rather impatient
of the preceding lecture and cared little
for the possible "Antimasonic excite-
ment" so vividly present to the Colonel's
imagination, in the narrower and more
personal subject of alarm which now
absorbed his thoughts.
The Colonel, left alone, lit a cigar and
puffed away uneasily. What was it to
him — this foul murder of an unpro-
tected orphan girl? He was sorry the
aft'air liad happened. It was really un-
fortunate. Rut with all his Masonic de-
grees of knighthood did a single thrill
of indignation at this double outrage on
the weak and defenseless, attest to one
faint >park lingering- within him of the
true knigditly spirit of old? Did this
■'Prince of ]^Iercy,'' who had dared to
take at the same profane shrine one of
the divinest titles of the crucified Re-
deemer— a title the most precious to the
heart of his church on earth, and his
l)riohtest crown of glory among the
shining ranks of heaven — feel even a
throb of pure human regret or sorrow
for the young life whose lamj) had gone
out forever in such starless gloom?
I trow not. He finished his cigar, sat
down and wrote a few liurried lines, ad-
dressed tO' the village sheriff, also a
member of Fidelity Lodge, and having
sealed the note, transmitted it by a trusty
messenger. He had learned by certain
former experiences that it is not impos-
sible to make an affair even more "un-
fortunate" than this redound to the glory
of the lodge by a skillful use of those
secret tactics which such men know so
thoroughly.
Among- the many profane boasts by
which Masonry and its kindred order.
Odd-fellowship, seeks tO' ''exalt itself
above all that is called God or that is
worshiped," we hear it sometimes said,
"the members of secret lodges hang to-
gether better than the church." Now
this matter in the light of the above
scene, is certainly worth inquiring into.
It is a deplorable fact that a band of
thieves and murderers will sometimes
"hang together" when a party of philan-
tliropists will split asunder over some
miserable shibboleth ; but the reason for
this is not hard to seek. Selfishness is
a strong cement of union, and is it
strangle that wdth our imperfect human
race it is often stronger than the bond
of the most disinterested love? Besides,
it must be remembered that a band of
philanthropists do not need to ''hang-
together" for the purpose of shielding
each other's crimes — for this is reallv
all the argument amounts to, though like
other pieces of lodge sophistry it palms
itself off- on many an honest but unre-
flecting- mind for the truth. But how
long, () ye Christian pastors, will vou
let "the simple perish for lack of under-
standing?" How long- shall these false
teachers "bring in damnable heresies,"
and you. Gallio-like, "care for none of
these things?"
The night wore away. Like a queen
in gold of Ophir, all her garments smell-
ing of myrrh and aloes and cassia, rose
the fair regal morning without a cloud
on its glory ; and the light of day fell
at last on the white upturned face, and
slowly the village of Ch-anby woke to
the fact that murder had l:)cen done.
A coroner's ]uv\ was speedily im-
paneled and a post mortem examination
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left no doubt of the cause of Alary
T.AiTian"s death. The sudden fliqiit of
tlie physician at whose house she died
pointed him out conclusively as the
i^uilty tool, and a warrant was at once
issued for his apprehension.
A number of men started in pursuit,
the majority being g-ood and honest citi-
zens who owned allegiance to no power
but their lawful government, and to this
circumstance, quite as much as the delay
caused b}^ an accident tO' "the good fast
horse" on which he had relied for safety,
was due the fact that the doctor was
overtaken and brought back to Granby.
His witness before the jury cleared
up all remaining mystery about the case.
Perhaps he thought it w-ould be better
for himself if he made a clean breast of
the whole affair seeing that the evidence
of his gTiilt was too overwhelming to
be denied, and the result of his testi-
mony was most damaging proof against
Jervish, whO' still stayed about town,
knowing that his flight at this particular
juncture would only point suspicion
towards him as the real author of Mary
Lyman's death.
The proceedings were cs parte— the
jurv's business being simply to obtain
evidence against the guilty parties.
\\'hile we were in session — for, reader,
I was on that jury and know whereof
I affirm — at precisely the point when this
new witness, whose name was Dr.
Forsvth, thous^h the name is immaterial
as he has no after connection with my
story, was about to give his testimony,
we w^ere joined by lawyer Burroughs, a
practicing attorney of the village and a
member of Fidelity Lodge, who appar-
ently dropped in for no other purpose
than to kindly aid, with his legal knowl-
edge, the examinations of the jury. He
was a man whose words were softer than
oil and smoother than butter, though at
need they could be sharper than drawn
swords. ,A thrill of susoicion shot
through m^ when he entered, but it
seemed like a breach of charity to think
him actuated by any other motive than
the simple desire to serve justice, so in-
tently did he listen to the testimony,
so earnest did he appear to have all the
facts elicited which had a bearing on the
case. But when the closing of the pris-
oner's testimony left us nothing to do
but to draw up a formal warrant for
the arrest of Maurice Jervish, the be-
fore-mentioned attorney looked at his
watch and quietly remarked : .
"T need not stay longer now the wit-
ness is all in. I see it goes hopelessly
against my client, but as I am counsel
for Mr. Jervish I felt bound to stop and
see it through." And so saying he left
the room, unmindful of the indignant
surprise which was visible on every face,
unless I except the only Masonic mem-
ber of the jur}^ who sat in a corner
busily trimming his nails, from which
engrossing occupation he did not take
the trouble to lift his head as the door-
closed behind the retreating attorney.
But another surprise awaited us. The
coroner had just penned the warrant,
and it only waited our signatures, when
information was brought to the jury-
room that Jervish had fled, having
learned — no cloubt through the Masonic
lawyer — of Forsyth's arrest and his
own danger. Then, and not till then,
did we realize in what an impudent and
shameless fashion the jury had been
sold.
''Just like Burroughs to serve us such
a trick, the mean, sneaking rascal!"
broke out one of the jurors, ordinarilv
a quiet man, but just now roused to a
perfect white heat of indignant wrath
over this example of Masonic double
dealing.
"Well, the mischief is done," said an-
other ; "the best thing we can do is to
sign the warrant right off and get it
into the hands of the sheriff" as soon as
we can."
Quickly each man wrote his name —
all but the A/Tasonic juror. Oh, that
precious hour and a half wasted in try-
ing to argue with one whose stupidity —
if it had been real instead of pretended —
ought to have consigned him to an
asylum of imbeciles! But 1 have under-
stood better ever since how one Mason
can so obstruct the wheels of law as to
cause "truth to fall in the streets and
turn justice backward." For that hour
and a half was improved to the utmost
by Jervish in making his escape.
The next thing was to put the writ
in the hands of the sheriff", but in
vain we waited to hear news of
Jervish's arrest. Sheriff' Simonds had
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CHRISTIAN CYNO'SURE.
105
his own notions of Masonic duty which
aPTced verv weh with those entertained
by Colonel IMontfort. The latter's note
the previous evening had done its work,
though my knowledge that he influenced
the sheriff to betray his official trust by
a reference to his Masonic obligations,
and a promise that the lodge would
shield him from consequences, as well
as other incidents here related, has been
pieced out from the various disclosures
that leaked out at different times either
through legal investigation or the less
formal ]>rocess of hearsay.
Hour after hour passed. Men g-ath-
ered in knots, excited, indignant, and
talked the matter over, indulging in free
comments on the shameful inactivity of
the sheriff", as well as the conduct of
Burroughs in contriving to possess him-
self of all the testimony against Jervish,
and then going- straight from the jury--
room to warn his client. And as the
talk went on it w-as easy to see that the
smouldering fires of popular indignation
needed but slight fanning to burst into
a fierce flam'e. There is something awful
in such a rising of outraged justice when
the people unite as one man to execute
vengeance. T know of but one thing-
more terril)le to meet — the face of the
Judge in the Great Day of His wrath.
Before the sun set Colonel Montfort
-dud his clique were likely to get such
a dose of Antimasonic excitement as
tliey little calculated on.
"The sheriff is a Mason and an Odd-
fellow. He don't want to arrest Jer-
vish, that's plain to be seen," I heard
remarked in one of these excited groups.
Alasons and Odd-fellows are bound to
stand by each other. That's what the\-
all say."
"Well, T don't know much about the
( )d(l-fello\vs, only thev and the Masons
seem to be hand and glove together,"
observed another. 'T've heard it said
that Masonry was a good thing for
some of our men w-hen they fell into the
hands of the rebels in the war, but wlien
it comes to secreting and running off"
criminals there's two sides to the (jues-
tion." .
"I've got a story to tell on that jwint,"
spoke up a man who wore a soldier's
coat, "\\nien T w^as in the army I used
to see a good deal of Masonry — from
the outside ; I never was one myself. I
know of one of our colonels that in the
battle of South Mountain would have
been cashiered for cowardice if he
hadn't been a Mason. Somehow the
court-martial didn't convict, and not a
great while after he was promoted. But
that ain't the story I was going to tell.
I was in Custer's command and a batch
of us were taken prisoners ])y guerrilla-
(ieneral Mosby. He ordered that seven
drawn by lot be hung' in retaliation for
the hanging of seven of his men by the
Unionists. Among- those that drew the
marked ball was a lieutenant that I knew
very well. I never saw these men again.
They were carried off to a place near
Sheridan's headquarters and hung. I
and some others got exchanged after a
while and about a year afterward I met
this same lieutenant alive and well. T
thought you wan't in the land of the
living,' says I, when we came to speak.
M shouldn't have been,' says he, 'if I
hadn't been a Mason ; that saved m)-
life.' I tell you I thought Masonrv was
a mighty good thing after hearing that,
and I had a great idea of joining them
myself, but there's a sequel to it, as they
say. When the war was over I fell in
with a man that had been a Confederate
soldier and knew all about the hanging
of these men- — saw it done. Well, I asked
about the lieutenant. 'He w^as a Free-
mason,' says he; T saw him give the
sign to my colonel and saw him return
it. The colonel went oft" and a little
while after he came back with two pris-
oners of his own that he handed to the
(officer who had charge of the aft'air.
Thev were placed on the fatal line instead
of the lieutenant, who was set free, and
their two lives went for his." "
A thrill of horror ran through the
group, which was now consideraldy en-
lareed. The soldier's story had only
added fuel to the fire. Every minute
the excitement deepened as fresh cause in
the c(mtinued inactivity of the sheriff" or
seme rumor of a new attempt on the
|)art of the lodge to thwart justice,
fanned the flame.
Suddenh- the cr\- rose n|). at hrst
from a single throat, then caught up and
repeated by others. "Teai" down I'ur-
roughs' office! L\'nch the Masonic
scoundrel !"
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
August. 1911.
The mob spirit was fast taking pos-
session of the crowd, which, now swelled
to hundreds, had o-athered about the
court-house, when. a clear, commanding-
voice, addressing them from the steps
of the building, made a temporary
silence.
"These men are acting on their own
responsibility and not in accordance with
their obligations as Masons. While I
utterly denounce the conduct of the
sheriff as a most base betrayal of his of-
ficial duty, I appeal to you, fellow towns-
men and citizens, to come to the aid of
the law, and allow no deed of violence
to be committed which will only obstruct
its course. Justice shall be done. I ask
your help in ferreting out the murderer,
and when he is found rest assured that
no lodge obligation, real or fancied, shall
screen him from the punishment he de-
serves.''
The clear, ringing voice penetrated
to the farthest edge of the crowd. The
speaker himself stood in fair Anew, his
dark eyes glowing like coals of fire under
the full, massive brow, his pale face paler
by contrast. Everybody knew him —
Anson Lovejoy, Master of the lodge.
There is a mighty force in simple
sincerity. Not a man in that excited
throng' abhorred more intensely the crime
which had been committed than did he,
or felt a more burning desire to see in-
sulted law avenged in the speedy arrest
of the criminal. And when he threw
the odium of all this obstructing of jus-
tice on the shoulders of individual
Masons instead of the lodge itself, there
were enough who believed him in the
face of their own previous convictions,
not to say the evidence of their own
senses, to make a perceptible difference
in the attitude of the crowd. A more
calm and reasonable spirit was succeed-
ing the tumultuous excitement which
had threatened at one time to end in
mob violence. The advocates of lynch
law were silent and under the reaction
thus made the throng slowly and by
degrees dispersed.
A few hours later I was at home at-
tending to some duty about the farm
when Anson Lovejoy came hurriedly up,
his face still pale but settled into those
grave, determined lines which speak the
man whose whole soul is roused to meet
a crisis.
''Mr. Severns, I want the loan of your
fastest horse. I have just received news
that Jervish has left his hiding place
where he has been secreted all this time
and hired a man by the name of Leach to
take him across the river. This Leach
is a poor, worthless fellow, who never
has any money and is therefore easily
bribed."
''What will Masons think of your
action in this matter?" I said, as I threw
the halter over the neck of the beautiful
roan, acknowledged one of the fastest
steeds in the neighborhood, and led him
out. "Depend upon it, your part in to-
day's affair will never be overlooked or
forgiven by the lodge."
"I care not," he answered, "I am act-
ing up to my Masonic obligations as I
understand them. God do so to me and
more also if I knowingly leave a single
stone unturned that is hindering the way
of justice."
Tie spoke with solemn, almost fierce
earnestness — then, after an instant's
silence, added in his usual tone. "While
you are getting the horse ready I will
speak with Mrs. Severns a moment,"
and so saying he stepped quickly across
to the open side door where he had
always until now met with the ready
admittance accorded to a friend and
neighbor.
What he was going to say to Rachel
I know not, for he was given no chance
to say it, but I think a desire to have
her Godspeed in the task to which he
had set himself prompted the action.
Rachel met him just as he was enter-
ing, with stern face and forbidding ges-
ture. vShe had not heard his conversa-
tion with me or very likely would not
have addressed him exactly as she did.
"Not a step farther. No murderer or
companion of murderers crosses my
threshold."
"Mrs. Severns !" he exclaimed, star-
tled, astonished.
"I mean what I say," she answered,
firmly. "You uphold this dark, unclean
system of the lodge and thus make your-
self a partaker in the innocent blood it
has shed. Go !"
The reader must excuse Rachel, un-
just as she was, for her very soul was
boiling within her, and this passionate
outburst was due to a deeper cause than
the common feeling of indignation which
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
107
possessed the community at large. In
divine faith that she might yet redeem to
virtue and happiness the erring soul
which had mistaken a cold, deceiving-
mirage for the water of affection, and
for whom henceforth society would have
no use but to cast out and trample under
foot, she had planned and labored as
only a Christian woman can. And this
was the terrible ending ! The prey for
which she had wrestled with Satan had
been basely, cruelly torn out of her hand,
and she felt something of the fury of
the bereaved lioness when she confronted
Anson Love joy.
''I assure you, Mrs. Severns," he be-
gan again, and again she interrupted
jiim, though this time her voice was a
trifle softer, her manner a shade gentler.
''I^ accuse you of nothing but of being
allied to such a system. And that is
enough. Shall a man take fire in his
bosom and not be burned? No, Mr.
Love joy, no adhering Mason from
henceforth receives a welcome under
my roof."
And she turned from him and walked
away, leaving" the victim of this severe
castigation to recover from it as well
as lie could. And certainly for a moment
Anson Lovejoy looked rather dejected.
He was without domestic ties, his wife
having died in the first year of their
marriage, and I well understood, or
thought I did, how this sudden closing
against him of a home where he had
always been a welcome guest, dropping
in at any time when his business per-
mitted, thus seeming to find some faint,
shadowy compensation for his own bur-
ied joys, would naturally affect him.
But he quickly recovered himself, and
going to wdiere the horse now stood in
readiness leaped into the saddle. As he
did so I took occasion to say —
"Rachel has a sharp tongue, but her
heart is all right. Some time she will
see that she has done you injustice."
'T hope so, Mr. Severns," he an-
swered. . "But" — and he spoke with the
grave, slow emphasis of one recording
a vow — "if Masonry is what from this
(lay's w^ork I have reason to fear it is,
and I remain connected with it an hour
longer than I can help, I shall merit
the severest denunciations she has heaped
upon me."
And he rode swiftly away to join the
])ursuing party, which had halted at an
appointed place of meeting, and were
now discussing which of two different
roads the fugitive had j)robably taken.
A few outsiders had gathered about,
among them the sheriff', who seemed to
take an extraordinary interest in the
settling of this question considering his
previous inactivity.
"I tell you, Lovejoy, if you take the
direction of Quipaw Creek you'll miss
it," he said, excitedly. "Jervish has
gone more south."
"My men are on the right track," re-
turned Lovejoy, composedly, in whose
mind the last lingering doubt whether
he was really taking the route Jervish
had gone was now dispelled by the sher-
iff's evident anxietv to have him q:o tlie
opposite way.
"But I tell you," repeated the sheriff"
in still more excited tones, "a man told
me not more than an hour ago that he
had met him and Leach on the road."
This piece of information made some
of the party waver but had no effect on
their staunch leader, who issued his
command to set off at once in the direc-
tion of Quipaw Creek, at which the
sheriff called to his aid considerable pro-
fanity, not necessary to repeat, in con-
firmation of what he had said, provoking
from one of the number as they rode
away this satirical speech —
"Set the fox to guard the hen-coop,
will ye? When I do that T'll take advice
from a Mason. If you knew all this
about Jervish an hour ago whv wan't
you off* after him instead of loafing about
with the coroner's warrant lying idle in
your pocket?"
And the discomforted sheriff', who had
certainly striven heroically to fulfill his
Masonic obligations, retired amid more
hooting- and jeering than was quite
pleasant.
Swiftly, steadily, the pursuers pressed
on, and before long came in sight of a
common farm wagon apparently loaded
with meal-bags. The driver of the wagon
was quickly recognized by several" of
the party to whom he was well known,
as the man who had undertaken to aid
Jervish in his flight. But Leach sat
alone on the seat, driving. Where was
his companion?
1<"»S
C H I' 1 STI AN CYNOSURE.
August, lilll.
An order from Lovejoy to search the
wagon soon settled this question. The
vehicle was found to be so arranged by
sticks laid across — the seeming- meal-
bags, which were in reality stuffed with
hav. placed on these, and high enough
from the floor of the wagon to make a
hiding- place for the miserable Jervish,
who was now ignominiously dragg-ed
therefrom, and Colonel Montfort's
friend, the elegant man of society, spent
that night in the county jail to the great
satisfaction of all worthy citizens of
Granb}'. with wdiom, now that the chief
criminal was caught, the Antimasonic
excitement subsided as rapidly as it rose.
(To be continued.)
WHEATON COLLEGE.
Many of our readers will be glad to
know that the seventy-five thousand dol-
lars which was required to secure the
gift of twenty-five thousand dollars
from Mr. Carnegie has been raised.
The subscriptions were not quite all
paid, but business men desiring the com-
pletion of 'the payment advanced the
money on their own responsibility, so
that the gift of Mr. Carnegie is now
assured. The College is indebted to
these men and also to the Gary-VVheaton
bank for their kind services in connec-
tion with this fund. The money was
advanced by the above named bank on
the security mentioned.
One of the last year's graduates has
just been called to a principalship in
^Montana at a salary of twelve hundred
dollars per year.
A list of public ofiicers who are grad-
uates of Wheaton College was compiled
by some friend and is of interest as
showing that the training for leadership
which is a special work of the college as
distinguished from other schools, is not
a failure. Judge O. N. Carter, a grad-
uate of the class 1877, has recently been
chosen by his associates on the Supreme
bench of Illinois to be Chief Justice of
that court. Mr. Robert Woolston has
just been appointed superintendent of
the Illinois School for the Blind at Jack-
sonville, 111. He has been for years a
successful teacher in that institution. It
is remarkable that nearly forty per cent
of the leading civil offices in Du Page
Countv and Wheaton are filled bv
Wheaton College men. Besides these
the college is represented throughout
the land by a goodly number of the best
pastors, lawyers, editors- and teachers.
President Blanchard has preached
three Baccalaureate sermons this sea-
son. One was for the Bible Training
School O'f Fort Wayne, Indiana ; anoth-
er for the Nurses' Training School and
the School of Domestic Economy at the
Battle Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek,
Mich. ; the third sermon was before his
own College at Wheaton. He was also
invited to give graduating address-
es before high schools as follows : But-
ler, Indiana ; Princeton, Kentucky ; Eliz-
abeth, Illinois; Chicago Heights, Illi-
nois, and Barrington, Illinois. His
health is much better than it has been
for the past two years and he is expect-
ing to do more teaching in the college
next year than for a number of years
heretofore.
CHINESE TRANSLATION WORK.
Rev. Myron C. Wilcox, twenty-five
years a missionary in China, and former
editor of the Chinese Christian Advo-
cate, assisted by Mr. Wong Gang Hwo,
a Chinese Christian and scholar, is
translating and publishing non-sectarian
religious books for China's millions.
The books are printed at Shanghai,
China, in the Wen-li or classical lan-
guage which is read throughout the
Empire.
This work is supported by special
contributions. All amounts are wel-
comed and receipted for. A group photo
of Messrs. Wong and Hwong (in Chi-
nese costume) and of Rev. M. C. Wil-
cox, will be mailed to each person send-
ing one dollar or more, and to every
Sunday School, Christian Endeavor So-
ciety, Epworth League, or other young
people's soeiety, sending at least two
dollars for this work. It is earnestly
hoped that each reader will help and
also tell others about this indispensable
form of mission work. Address Rev.
M. C. Wilcox, Box 671, Mt. Vernon,
Iowa.
"When you can stand face to face
with waste, folly, extravagance, spirit-
ual insensibility, and endure it as Jesus
endured it — that is victory."
August, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
109
tMloriaL
LARGEST DAMAGES.
Two thousand dollars damages have
been awarded by the master to whom
the case against the quarry workers in-
ternational union of North America and
the derrick men's international union of
North America was referred. This is
the largest award ever made in the state
of Massachusetts for alleged interference
by unions with any man's work and pros-
perity. The unions having asked for rul-
ings of the law which were denied by
the master, it was thought that the case
might go to the full bench.
It appears that in May, 1909, the com-
])lainant, who is a granite cutter, was a
foreman of the Massachusetts Pink
Granite Company; and that in 1903 he
had taken a withdrawal card from the
quarrymen's union, being- told that hav-
ing become a foreman he could not be
a member. ,
Soon after work began in February.
1909, two men named Dacey and Ma-
honey applied for work, but having all
the men he could furnish with work Just
then, he postponed engaging them to
such time as he could give them the
same chance as any one to fill a vacancy.
Dacey repeatedly made application, and
complained that others seemed to enjoy
a preference. This charge the foreman
denied. The master says, 'Tt is this
impression received by Dacey, regardless
of whether it had any reasonable founda-
tion, which was really at the bottom of
the trouble which subsequently arose."
No evidence was brought which in any
wa}^ tended to show that the foreman of
the company had violated any agree-
ment with the union. Although Dacey
testified that others had paid an initia-
tion fee of one dollar and a half, he had
made a motion to compel this foreman to
be initiated and to pay a fee of fifty
dollars. When he explained that he had
a withdrawal card, Dacey denied the
value of the card, though it appears to
have borne his own official signature.
No one made any additional complaint
of the foreman. Yet the president of
the company was informed that a ten
(la}s' strike was on account of the pur-
pose of the men not to work under that
foreman. It is said that when the presi-
dent left it to them to decide by vote,
fourteen out of the thirt\- ballots were
for retaining him. Nevertheless, as there
were two more Dacey-Mahone}- votes,
the president carried out his agreement
with the union by discharging a good
foreman. Soon afterward tlie same com-
pany employed him four daAS, but not as
foreman. At other quarries where he ap-
plied he was refused work because he
could not give assurance that he had
made a settlement with the union. His
wages between the time of his discharge
and the shutting down of work at the
quarry in December, 1909, would have
been $588. His entire earnings since his
discharge at the instigation of Dacey
have been not over one hundred and
fifty dollars. He has been obliged to sell
the home he owned. The evidence
showed that but for the vote taken at
the quarry his entirely satisfactory serv-
ices would have been retained; that hi>
inability to secure other situations was
due to the union ; that the fifty-dollar
demand was unjust discrimination as to
the initiation fee ; and that until the vic-
tim of relentless injustice submitted to
the union he would never be permitted to
work as a journeyman, or to "secure em-
ployment as a foreman in the trade or
calling in which he is skilled, and the
only one for which his experience and
training fit him." The master's decision
is: "If the court rule that the com-
plainant is entitled to recover damages,
then I find and rule that he is entitled to
damages in the sum of $2,000, including
loss of wages as above stated."
THE PERSONAL EQUATION.
In an article devoted to the question
whether Collective Barefainino- is to fail,
the IJ'all Street Journal advocates the
principle, but shows how it may fail in
practice. Describing a case in England
which it regards as one involving a new-
test, it proceeds by saying :
"Of all the methods of reconciling dis-
putes on the wage question, the trade
agreement between representatives of
bt)th parties, known as 'collective bar-
gaining,' has undoubtedly served the nur-
pose best. 'This method of avoiding
strikes,' sa}s a recent reviewer of the la-
no
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
August 1911.
bor problem, 'has proved eft'ective in
many cases which involved reliable nn-
ions. such as railroad brotherhoods, the
boot and shoe workers, the miners' un-
ions and many others.' Compared with
settlement by outside arbitration boards,
whether official or otherwise, compul-
sory or voluntary, the collective bargain
is easily the best method yet developed.
"The success of collective bargaining-
depends, in the last resort, upon the re-
liability of the parties to the agreement.
In the case of the British dispute, em-
ployes in the Fern mills refused to abide
by the agreement signed by their official
representatives. For reasons of the com-
monest honesty, to say nothing of the
consequences involved, it is hardly con-
ceivable that any such action could be
justiiied. Has the ruinous British engi-
neers' strike of the '90s been entirely
forgotten ?
'AATthin the past year employers in a
Danbury hat manufacturers' agreement
were responsibly charged with breaking
their own pledges. The moral fiber of
the manufacturer must at least equal in
quality that of the other party to the
bargain."
CHICAGO'S CIVILIZED PROGRESS.
(From the Chicago Daily News.)
A scene in Chicago on a certain sum-
mer night in 181 2 is thus pictured by
Parrish in the pages of "Historic Illi-
nois'' :—
"That little stockade O'f logs, erected
on the southern bank of the Chicago
river, within sound of the booming
waves of the lake, the great, silent plains
stretching all around it, was an animated
scene that night of final preparation.
John Kinzie had brought his family
within its walls, while other settlers of
the neighborhood, some twelve in num-
ber, had likewise sought its protection,
so that sinewy backwoodsmen mingled
with the soldiers. . . . The reserve
ammunition, 25 rounds to each man, was
distributed and the weary workers final-
ly flung themselves down for whatever
sleep was possible. Above them, on the
narrow platforms, the sentries gazed
anxiously forth into the black night
shrouding the prairie, where many a
warrior skulked and gloated in fiendish
anticipation of the morrow."
As a companion picture, take a Chi-
cago scene which occurred 99 years
later at a new building now being erect-
ed at Sangamon street and the river. The
following is from the Dailv Nczi's of ves-
terday : —
"Professional labor sluggers, twelve in
number, . . . attacked barricades
erected by the terrified workmen in an
efifort to get inside where they could
use their clubs and blackjacks. Attempt
after attempt was made by the besiegers
to batter down the doors of the build-
ing or tear away the bars that had been
placed on the windows. . . . The at-
tack was declared tO' have been inspired
by the jurisdictional war that the ma-
chinists are waging against the elevator
constructors. All through the assault not
one of the workmen who scurried into
the building at the first cry of warning
dared appear in the open for fear of be-
ing shot down by gun men, and to pre-
vent any of the latter from gaining an
entrance through w^indows the men in-
side stood guard with heavy pieces of
board, which they used in beating the
heads of any of the sluggers that ap-
peared through the windows' bars."
The police finally arrived, but there
were no arrests.
In one way Chicago is not as well off
as it was back in 1812. Then its stock-
ade and blockhouse sufficed to shelter
all the people, at least temporarily. Now
there are too many Chicagoans to be gath-
ered together behind any existing block-
ade and there protected from the tri-
umphant gun men, who roam at will
about the city. If Mayor Harrison does
not require the police to put a stop to
these practices by the simple process of
arresting, disarming and locking up the
savages who now spread terror broad-
cast he should proceed to have erected
municipal stockades wherein the citizens
may gather and defend themselves.
Is the child of God overwhelmed by
the trials of the way, and ready to turn
his back in the day of battle, because of
the rage of the hellish powers? Let me
remind him that Samson first slew the
lion, and afterwards out of him got
honey and to spare. — Selected.
August, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
11
OBEY OR DO NOTHING.
The Lowell (Mass.) Conrier-Citi.zcn
gives the wo^d of reproof it finds to be
called for, after discussing in a more
general way a subject which has been
troublesome, as it plainly recognizes, in
many other places. In the second para-
graph it collars the refractory Frat it
finds near home. We are reminded of
the candidate for the position of teacher
in one of the schools kept long ago,
when the Committee examined the qual-
ifications of applicants. This young man
was asked about school discipline.
What would he do with a boy who act-
ed so and so? 'T should vibrate him."
In this case the editor gives other re-
sponsible parties as much of a jostling
as the boy who needs a shaking up, and
says :
''One needs not to be many years out
of the high school to realize that the
high school fraternity proposition is
about the silliest phase that our prema-
turely old youngsters have arrived at.
The revolt of teachers and school com-
mittees the 'country over bids fair to
wipe it out of existence, and naturally
'there's a reason.' The course of things
in our high schools through the past two
decades has been increasing in the direc-
tion of over-developing the social side
of school life and the consequent im-
pairment of the educational side. As
much time may be given to the school
hours as of yore — but the minds and at-
tentions of a great many pupils are un-
duly concentrated on something quite
apart from the w^ork in hand. It is re-
peatedly urged that our high school chil-
dren have come to consider the school
year as nothing so much as a succession
of good times in the guise of parties,
fraternity meetings and the like. And
in too manv cases it is an indictment
that seems dangerously near a true bill.
Otherwise the attempt to cut out this
fraternity nonsense wouldn't be uni-
versal.
"As for the high school fraternity,
while it is by no means entirely a mod-
ern conception, it is essentially modern
in its present magnitude. A score of
years ago there were one or two small
clubs in the Lowell high school — chiefly
devoted to debates, however. At pres-
ent there appear to be at least three fra-
ternities, modeled no doubt on the host
of Greek letter societies in the colleges.
And the mandate of the school superin-
tendent that these be abandoned seems
to meet with a reception which calls for
a word of reproof. It is reported that
one fraternity has refused to obey and
has elected new members, another has
acquiesced and the third is 'noncommit-
tal.' If the school authorities of Lowell
are worth their salt, however, they'll
all 'acquiesce,' or else the responsible
students well sever their connection Vvith
the school system of the city. The last
thing we can afiford to teach in our pub-
lic schools is insubordination — particu-
larly in an age where lawlessness and
usurped privilege are the chief com-
plaints. If parents won't insist at home
on obedience to authority as a necessary
part of the child's bringing up, the
school must. Without the ready respect
for authority and law that our institu-
tions demand, this countr}^ will speedily
fall into decay."
CREDITED, MISCREDITED, OR DIS-
CREDITED.
The Speaker of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives presided at
the annual rallv of new voters in Bos-
ton one Sunday afternoon in December,
when a Federal judge administered an
oath, or pledge, which runs: 'T do sol-
emnly bind myself that I w^ill give my
vote and sufi:'rage as I shall judge in
my own conscience ma}^ best conduce
to the public weal." Its designation in
a newspaper report as "the ancient
Freemason's oath," gives rise to ques-
tions.
Why is it not the modern as well as
the ancient oath? How came so patri-
otic and moral an obligation to be dis-
carded? When did it cease to l>e even
traditionally secret, so that it could be
given openly in a public hall, exposed to
the profane attention of cowan voters,
and circulated through the public press?
Even if no longer part o.f a secret ritual,
why is it not forever part of the secret
history of the internal existence of the
order? Wlien did it emerge from t!ie
cerements of secret archives? It seems
worth while to inquire whether, in case
that, in any time that could l)e called
ancient, such an oath or pledge, being
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
August, 1911.
actually taken, it was assumed only by
l-'reemasons and was exclusively their
own. ]f taken at any time, was it con-
lined to that order ? ' •
Whatever there may have been in
times called ancient, no identical or cor-
responding obligation is now taken in
the degrees handed down from that
period. Discrepancy moreover, seems
to inhere in an obligation on one hand
relating to the public weal, and those on
the other hand finding an ultimate ob-
ject solely in connection with a brother
of a certain degree within a certain or-
der. How, after all. did the obligation,
taken openly in Boston, happen to be
reported by a newspaper as the ancient
jNIasonic oath ?
AN UNFOUNDED ASSURANCE.
"Before proceeding any further in
these solemn ceremonies," says the Mas-
ter to the third degree candidate, "it
becomes my duty, as Worshipful Master
of this lodge, to inform you that it will
be necessar\- for you to take upon your-
self a solemn oath or obligation apper-
taining to this degree. It is one similar
in its requirements to that which you
have taken in the preceding degrees ; but
I assure you upon the honor of a man
and a ]\Iason, that in this obligation
there is nothing which can conflict with
any of those exalted duties you may owe
to God, your country, your neighbor,
your family, or yourself. In }'our ad-
vancement thus far, yC'U have repeatedly
assured us it was of your own free wih
and accord; if 3^ou are still of the same
mind, and satisfied with the assurance
I have given you, you will advance to the
altar."
A word used three times in an address
so brief, deserves notice, and such a
word is assure. "You have repeatedly
assured us," "I assure you," "the assur-
ance I have given yO'U," are the three
forms incorporating the word.
Lest some candidate believe, or some
adherent claim, that this assurance of-
fers liberty of judgment and conscience
where observance of the letter of the ob-
ligation would happen to conflict with a
duty, it appears advisable to examine the
true and precise meaning of the term.
It is in the same class with the words
tell, state, certify, inform, as well as with
declare, aver, asseverate. Its object
cannot be a fact or an action, but must
be a person, who in the present instance
is the candidate. In order to encourage
him to swear, the Master tells him that
the oath contains no obligation conflict-
ing with duty. Consistently with this
definition of assure, an authority on
synonyms says: "To assure is to state
with such authority and confidence as
the speaker feels ought to make the
hearer sure. Certify is more formal and
applies rather to written documents or
legal processes."'
Hence to co-nstrue this assurance made
by the Master into an agreement or a
permission, instead of an assertion,
would pervert English usage and assume
an impossible definition of a plain word.
Such a construction could not be toler-
ated by the lodge, in exculpation of con-
fessed failure to fulfill the oath literally.
Since to do away forever with this nat-
ural freedom is the very purpose of the
bond, Masonic obligation and moral du-
ty could themselves hardly come into
sharper conflict than would the oath and
any cancelling agreement or covenant, in
case one existed. Therefore, no^ ques-
tion answerable by reference to the pre-
vious assurance, can arise after the
oath is O'Uce taken. If the candidate is
so far satisfied by it as to venture to pro-
ceed, its only end is secured. The in-
tended result is complete. The effect
of the oath itself is another thing, and
this remains tmmodified and perpetual.
Proof that the assurance signifies no
allowance of exceptions not specified,
lies in the fact that permitted exceptions
are specifically named. Twelve distinct
obligations are comprised in the third de-
gree oath, but only two are without ex-
ception. If the assurance superseded ex-
ception, ten need not be named, yet the
actual number is more than ten. The
particular obligation we shall cite con-
tains the precise word "except." The
exception named is clearly defined and
limited, precluding further exception.
The truth is that the oath leaves noth-
ing to individual judgment, taste, incli-
nation, convenience, or even necessity,
unless allowed within the oath itself in
express and unmistakable terms. More-
over, no such exception is referred to the
assurance and thus given as one of its
applications. In actual fact and practice.
August, IDIK
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113
the assurance no wise afifects the obliga-
tion and in no way or degree limits its
observance or force.
That oath concerning which the state-
ment or assurance is offered, contains
among its sworn obligations one requir-
ing the keeping of personal secrets with
absolute inviolability. These include all
legitimate secrets which ought in any
case to be kept for Masons and others
indiscriminately. They moreover in-
clude criminal secrets which ought not
to be kept for any one. From these, two
crimes are excepted- — murder and trea-
son. . -
This obligation cannot be fitted to the
assurance. It covers crimes far other-
wise treated by decent men wdio are free
to act as they should ; it does not bind
Masons to conceal crime for other men ;
they, no more than others, will make a
rule for themselves extending this false
])rinciple beyond the border of the oath.
lUit within its limits it compels each one
to be virtually a consenting conspirator,
ready at call if wanted. It binds him
separately to each unknown Mason ; to
a Mohammedan whose hands are red
from Armenian massacre ; to a pagan
whose religion is immoral and vicious,
fostering cruelty and shame instead of
virtue ; to^ a deist whose ethics are par-
allel with his theology ; to any man of
an)' sort of religion or irreligion, of any
kind of moral or immoral principle ; to
a man of the worst and most dangerous
character. A refugee from any country
can claim all the power the obligation
confers. Members of Chinese tongs
whose feuds breed street massacres in
New York and Boston are Masons.
Moreover, nothing keeps the most un-
l)rincipled men in America out of the
]\Iasonic lodge.
AVhoever takes the obligation which
the Master of the lodge declares does
not conflict with duty, is as fully subject
to the deist who wishes a crime hidden,
as to a Christian who only reveals a se-
cret sorrow. He is no more bound to
the saintly than to the depraved. No mat-
ter what consequences may follow, his
warning lips are sealed. Is he still "sat-
isfied with the assurance"? Does he
never find in himself or observe in oth-
ers a conflict between the vow and sa-
cred duty? The value of an assurance
depends on its truth, but no worthless
assurance was ever more unwarranted.
PROMISES.
"Never make a rash promise. Never
do anything rashly. Let every promise
be duly considered before it is uttered.
See that it is right. Tlien ^tand 1)\' it.
Keep }our promises. It may be a cost-
ly business in some cases. It pays to
keep a costly ])romise. If one has en-
tered into a contract in which the ex-
pense is above his expectation, he will
gain by keeping it to the letter. Tie
that sw^eareth to his own hurt and
changeth not' is the man that shall re-
ceive the blessing from the Lord." —
Christian A dz'oca te.
The Masonic way is to advise mak-
ing rash promises, and to name one who
abandons his rashness and repudiates
his evil promise a perjured villain
Whether to be a rash villain or a per-
jured villain is the Masonic dilemma.
The sound advice: "See that it is right,
then stand by it," follows the no less
solid rule, "Let every promise be duly
considered before it is uttered." Lodge
promises cannot thus be considered.
Or even if it is claimed that they possi-
bly could, not many candidates are like-
ly under the circumstances to interrupt
proceedings to the extent required.
Even thouo'htful and conscientious men
are virtually railroaded through. A ]Ma-
sonic lodge is about the last place to
attempt carrying out the teaching of
Wayland's Moral Science where the
great college president says: "Except
in cases where we are, from long expe-
rience, fully acquainted with all the or-
dinary contingencies of an event, we
ought never to^ make a promise without
sufficient opportunity for reflection. It
is a good rule to enter uito no important
engagement on the same day in whicli
it is first presented to our notice."
Important indeed are the Masonic ob-
ligations claimed to be. Not only are
they taken on the same day, but they are
even taken on the same instant in which
they are first presented to notice. The
candidate can get the pledges only at the
instant when he gives them. .Vnv one
who knows how obligations are inqKXsed.
knows what we mean. The good rule
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August.
1011.
given ill the text-book of Moral Science
cannot be more glaringly violated.
Yet promises are the ]NIasonic stock in
trade. Keeping unfit promises, unfitly
taken, is ]\Iasonic virtue. To observe
immoral morals is the jNIasonic way to
evade being a perjured villain. Let him
who would seek a clear path to walk in
through life, avoid the dark conclave
where the way is hidden and virtue is
confronted by dilemma. Truth flings
out her banners on the outer walls ; its
challenge to error is open as the air ; it
asks thoughtful, protracted and ade-
quate consideration. Error hides in the
dark recess of the lodge; it springs its
snare suddenly ; then it clamors for the
aid of conscientious truthfulness, to bind
its captive with misused chains. The
lodge is the den of falsity. ''Avoid it,
pass not by it, turn thou and pass away."
RISKY ENDORSEMENT.
A\'e find the following among the
printed announcements of an CA^angeli-
cal church bulletin :
"Next Sunday morning, the annual
Memorial Service of the Sons of St.
George, in our church. Two hundred
and fifty delegates of this noble Broth-
erhood are expected, and also their la-
dies* auxiliaries."
We admit that there is possible rea-
son for thinking that not every word of
the bulletin was written by the pastor,
yet we will assume that the phraseology
of this notice was his own. We do not
think that he belongs to any secret so-
ciety, unless, possibly, to some college
fraternity. It is consistent with esteem
for him to question whether he knows
enough about this one to warrant call-
ing it a "noble Brotherhood." It may
be so in some feature ; yet, knowing the
mixed character of such societies, we
would be more conservative in the choice
of adjectives. "Noble order" is the
phrase applied with good intentions to
another society by a good woman in a
paper she edited a score of years ago.
\A'e are not without hope that soon
afterward she changed her mind. In
point of fact, the society to which she
misapplied that characterization, though
not lacking plausible aspects, is yet in
some features the opposite of noble.
Unless the pastor of the church the
Sons of St. George were to visit, knows
more about their society than we have
any reasoai to suppose, he was impru-
dent in giving them such endorsement.
The printed notice reads like one ex-
pressing a judgment based on secure
knowledge. Serious utterances of this
sort, made by a public teacher, and
made with pointed reference to a reli-
gious service in which he is to teach,
distinctly imply a basis of settled knowl-
edge. As a "folder" used in soliciting
new members, the bulletin would have
value ; but what if the leading" feature
of the plan is deceptive insurance? Or
what if the society is best known in the
city through its dances and card par-
ties? In any case, a Memorial service
for deceased members is announced. If
any survivor is more confirmed, by the
phrase he reads, in his notion that the
lodge is one of numerous gates to heav-
en, the church bulletin becomes a buck-
ler to protect his breast from any shaft
of light from the quiver of gospel truth
aimed by the minister of Jesus Christ.
We know that the pastor would deplore
such an efifect of an unadvised word.
NATIONAL FRATERNAL UNION.
"A secret beneficiary society organized
at Cincinnati by Freemasons, members of
the Knights of Pythias, and of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, in 1889,
to insure the lives of its members in
sums ranging from $500 to $5,000, or
furnish ten, fifteen, and twenty-five year
endowments. It offers regular life, in-
surance on the assessment basis, or on
the endowment plan, with sick and dis-
ability insurance, and its reserve fund as
loans for building. Both men and wom-
en are members. The six-pointed star
containing a monogram formed of N. F.
and U., encircled by a chain and the in-
itials of the motto, 'Advancement, Pro-
tection, and Fraternity,' constitute its
public emblems. The ritual is suggested
by the motto, and includes three degrees,
one for each word."
"No place on earth is worth the cost
of our place in heaven."
Secret oaths are forbidden to church
members by some Christian denomina-
tions, and ought to be by all. — Joseph
Cook,
August, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CVXOSLRE.
115
INDIANA ANTISECRECY CONVENTION.
SECRETARY'S REPORT.
The Xorthern Indiana Christian Asso-
ciation hekl its annual convention at
IJenlah Chapel, Elkhart, Jnly 5th and
6th, 191 1.
President j. E. Hartzler, in the chair.
Opened by singing, under the direc-
tion of G. H. Rutt.
Devotional exercises conducted by
Eld. D. Brenneman, of Goshen.
The address of welcome was delivered
b\- the local pastor, L P. Moore, which
in the absence of L. G. Bears, was re-
sponded to by W. B. Stoddard.
The speaker of the evening, Presideiit
Blanchard, of Wheaton College, was
then introduced by the chairman.
"The Lodge vs. the Home'' was the
subject of his discourse, and he showed
how that, from various standpoints, the
lodge was antagonistic to the best inter-
ests of the home : First, by obligating
its members to- keep secrets which they
dare not even confide to their wives ;
second, by demanding of its members
time which belongs tO' the home, and is
absolutely essential to its welfare ; third,
by demanding- of its members a large
amount of money which belongs to the
church of Christ and the home. The
discourse was listened to with close at-
tention and profit.
D. Brenneman, A. G. Johnson and
C. C. Kindy were appointed a commit-
tee on nominations, to report at the
morning session.
Closed with singing and benediction
by Prof. Blanchard.
Thursday Morning Session.
The] devotional exercises were con-
ducted by Rev. Carson j\Ioore, of the
Free Methodist Church, Elkhart.
The minutes of the last annual con-
vention were read and a])proved.
The old officers were re-elected as fol-
lows : Rev. J- E. Hartzler, Elkhart,
]^resident ; Rev. L. G. Bears. Albion, vice
president; T. H. Brenneman, Goshen,
secretary and treasurer.
The following resolutions were intro-
duced, discussed in open conference by
the brethren Hartzler. Aioore, Fried,
Johnson and Rutt, and unanimously
adopted.
RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, we believe the Xational
Christian Association has been raised
of ( iod to oppose a great and growing-
evil in our land ; and
Whereas, there was never greater
need for the work of this Association
than at the present time; therefore, be
it
Resolved. — L We, the members of
the Indiana branch of the National
Christian u^ssociation, in convention as-
sembled, do declare it our belief that
the v/hole Secret Lodge System tends to
evil and that continually.
H. We beHeve the Gospel of Our
r.ord Jesus Christ is opposed to the
Lodge System as light is opposed to
darkness.
in. We believe all professed Gospel
^Ministers who favor the lodges by com-
l^limentary preaching, or otherwise, are
betraying- their trust as Christians, and
aiding the enemy of souls.
IV. We believe it our duty to favor
only such churches as bear testimony
in opposition to organized secret soci-
eties.
y. W^e believe the folly of lodge
jM'actice, as it is manifest in name, initia-
tion and general conduct, should show
any serious-minded person its true
character.
YI. We believe secret societies to be
at war with good government and a
great enemy to justice.
\'II. We believe no lodge is required
in caring- for the needy ; that lodge teach-
ing and conduct is more likely to make
l>eople needy than to properly care for
them.
\TII. We believe it high time that
our State officials ferret out and destroy
lodg-es that intimidate men, that under
the name of college fraternity, labor
union. Black Hand, etc., are shown to
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Ano-nst. 191 L
be working- the destruction of freedom,
and the enthronement of tyranny.
IX. ^^'e beheve that such support as
^\•e may give our Xational Association is
(Uie. \\'e would aid in securing lectures
and subscriptions to the Christian
C^vxosuRE. distribute tracts and o-ive out
such information as we can.
X. \\> extend a vote of thanks to
pastors, papers and people who have
aided in holding our Convention, trust-
ino- that God mav bless them all.
Thursday Evening Session.
The devotional exercises were con-
ducted by Eld. C. C. Kindy, pastor of
the Brethren Church. Elkhart.
The first speaker of the evening was
Rev. A. G. Johnson, of Huntington, w^ho^
told of the many remarkable experi-
ences which he has had in fighting the
lodge, and declared his determination to
fight as long as he lives.
Rev. Johnson's stirring address was
followed by a lengthy but interesting
discourse by Rev. W. B. Stoddard, of
^^'ashington. D. C. He exhibited a
chart which showed the inner work-
ings of a Masonic lodge. In jiis com-
ments upon the chart he showed that it
is utterly inconsistent for any Christian
to take part in the ceremonies of a Ma-
sonic lodge, many of which have been
borrowed from the practices of the an-
cient and heathen sun-worshipers.
The privilege of asking questions was
responded to by a number of honest in-
quirers. The questions were answered
by W. B. Stoddard.
The chairman made a few closing re-
marks and the convention was closed
Av'^h a benediction by Rev. Stoddard,
the friends of the cause feeling strength-
ened and encouraged in their fight
against this enemy of God and His
church. T. H. Brenneman, Sec'y.
Goshen. Ind.
Remarks — Any one desiring- tO' aid in
this movement can become a member
of this association by paying an annual
fee of $i.oo. The convention was quite
a 'h'ain on our funds, and they need re-
j^lenishing preparatory to our next meet-
ing. Remit to above address.
T. H. B. ■
FROM PRESIDENT HARTZLER.
Elkhart, Ind., July 17, 191 1.
Dear Brother Phillips: ''■'
Your letter of July 12th has come to
me. In regard to our Indiana State
Convention Avill say that wt are very
well pleased with the results. The
leading- and most common remark since
the Convention seems to be : "A small
convention, but a greater stir among-
lodge men than we have ever known."
Our convention was not widely repre-
sented by delegates, but it certainly made
itself felt in our city ; and this to a
g-reat extent through the reports in twa
cit}^ papers. In some cases our Conven-
tion was misrepresented by the papers.
This was true of one paper especially,
which is run practically by secret order
men. On the whole, however, the peo-
ple who' are honestly concerned know
fairly w^ll what was done at the Con-
vention.
The lodge men of our town, as well as
of most places, had the mistaken idea
that the Lodge Question had been fin-
ally and conclusively settled, and in their
favor. Certain ministers of our city had
been preaching complimentary sermons
for the different lodges. These together
have learned that the Lodge Question
is not a settled matter, and that there
are some thirty or forty dillerent
branches of the Christian Church wdio
are opposed to Modern Secrecy and be-
lieve it to be working bad ratlier than
good. These churches do not oppose
"fraternalism." We believe in fraternal-
ism ; but we do^ not believe that the
so-called fraternalism of Secret Socie-
ties is genuine, but a coimterfeit. What
the churches who oppose Secrecy want
is genuine charity, g'enuine fraternalism,
and genuine salvation. These things
the lodges do not furnish, only in coun-
terfeit, and then tO' a select few only.
The speakers of the Convention
were very considerate and fair. Rev. Dr.
Blanchard's lecture, "Secret Societies
and Homes of Men," was certainly con-
vincing to any one who was honestly
seeking the truth. Rev. A. G. Johnson,
bv request, gave his experience with the
Lodge. He spoke imhesitatingly and
fearlessly. Rev. W. B. Stoddard dealt
largelv with Ercemasonry. His lecture
\\ as filled with undeniable exposures of
August, 1011.
C H K I S 'I' I A N C y K O S L; R Yi
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the Lodge, and was well received by
the Convention.
I am sure our Association is greatly
indebted to all who so freely and kindly
aided in the success of our work in
making the Convention what • it was.
We anxiously look forward to our next
year's work, with great expectations. I
think that I am voicing the sentiments
of many Elkhart friends when I say that
we hope sometime to see the National
Convention come to our city.
Yours for the uplift of men,
J. E. Hartzler,
President Nortlicrn Indiana Cdiristian
Association.
Calls Lodge Principles Wrong.
"The principles of the lodge are
wrong, and as such the\- make men
RAPS LODGE AS RUINOUS IN
EFFECT.
(From the Elkhart Truth, July 6, 1911.)
Secret societies were denounced as
ruinous in effect and thoroughly bad in
T^rinciple in a lecture delivered before
tlie Northern Indiana Christian Associa-
tion by C. A. Blanchard, president of
W'heaton college, last night at Beulah
chapel. The attack upon the secret or-
ders by President Blanchard was made
in the chief address at the opening ses-
sion of the Association, his subject be-
ing "Secret Societies and Homes of
Meji."
Calls Lodge Home Wrecker.
The lodge was denounced as being op-
posed to the home and wholly without a
redeeming virtue.
The fraternalism and benevolence
which are supposed to be the chief prin-
ciples of the modern organization was
not credited by President Blanchard with
being the valuable aid to the poor man
and his family that the fraternity lead-
ers claim.
''We do not oppose secret societies be-
cause there are bad men in them, but
because they make men bad," said Presi-
dent Blanchard in opening his address.
"The logic of the apology that there
are some good men in the lodge, and
therefore the lodge must be a good
thing, is no more sound than the plea
that because there are six good eggs
mixed wdth six bad ones, therefore the
omelet must be good," continued Mr.
P)lanchard. "One good egg does not
make one bad one POod ; but one bad one
will spoil niany good ones. It is the
same way with the lodge.
wrong^.
"The great question is: Is the lodge
a good thing for the homes in Elkhart?
There are two ways of destroying any
institution: I-'irst, by direct opposition;
and, second, by substitution ; and this lat-
ter is the way in which the lodge is de-
stroying the homes of Elkhart. There
are three things which make a home :
Eirst, confidence; second, time; and
third, money. Take away any one of
these and you have ruined the home.
"Modern secrecy does not only take
away one but all of these. Confidence
is ruined and destroyed between hus-
band and wife and children in the home
when either husband or wife bind
themselves to any secret order where
they are sworn or pledged to conceal
matters from each other which they are
at liberty to talk over with persons out-
side the home and in many cases with
men and women of a low degree of
character.
"No intelligent and honest man will
bind himself to any secret body pledging
himself to conceal things from his wife.
The confidence of the home is broken the
moment that he does this. The father
or mother who spend their time in the
lodge room away from their family are
robbing that family of time wdiich justlv
belongs to them, and the father and
mother have no right to expect anything
else than that their family of boys and
girls will turn out bad. The man who
spends his nights at the lodge is stealing
from his home that which belongs to the
home.
"The money spent in initiations,
'feeds,' and lodge dances, is money abso-
lutely wasted so far as the home is con-
cerned.
"The millions of homes in this world
need fathers and mothers wdio will give
their money, time and confidence to the
home. Parents can have the kind of
children they want: the resj^onsibilitx-
lies with them."
The sacred Scriptures teach us the
best \\a\- of li\-ing the noblest wa\' of
sufi'ering, and ilie most comfortable
\\a\- of (l\'im>-. — I'luTcl.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
August, 1911.
REMARKABLE ALLEGATIONS BY
FOES OF SECRET ORDERS.
(From the Elkhart Daily Review. July 7, 1911.)
Xor the least sensational — though
hai\Il}- the most reniarkahle — statement
made hy anti-secret society speakers at
the Thiu'sday evening' session of the
Xorthern Indiana Christian Association
was the declaration of Rev. A. G. John-
son of Huntington, that he at one time
was ejected from an Elkhart county
lodge after he had gained entrance
through strategv, and that J- S. Drake,
now circuit judge, and the late Dr. Bar-
bour oi Bristol, were participants.
The Thursday forenoon and evening
sessions, which were held at Beulah
Chapel were satisfactory to the
participants. All things considered,
the interest and attendance were more
than might have been expected. The
chapel was comfortably filled during the
evening session, among the audience be-
ing a few lodge members who were
present to hear the speakers' attacks on
secret organizations. The morning ses-
sion was given to the election of officers
and the discussion and adoption of reso-
lutions.
The first address of the evening was
given by Rev. A. G. Johnson of Hunt-
ington on the stibject, "My Experience
With the Lodge and Why I am Not a
^Member." Mr. Johnson gave a very
thrilling- review^ of his early experience
with the "lodge" and w^as very decided
in his opposition to all organized secrecy.
No One Challenges.
The leading lecture of the evening was
delivered by Rev. W. B. Stoddard, of
Washington, D. C, who is eastern
secretary of the National Christian As-
sociation and has been in the anti-secret
opposition for a quarter of a century.
Mr. Stoddard, as is his custom, gave at
the close an opportunity for any one to
ask questions or to defend the lodge if
thev so desired. Though there Avere
lodge men present, none availed them-
selves of the opportunity to start some-
thing.
Air. fohnson, who is about sixty-five
vears of age, declared he had been com-
bating the "evils" of the secret organi-
zations for the past thirty-seven years.
'T am fighting for principle. It is a
matter of right and justice with me," de-
clared the speaker. "There is no great-
er evil today in the land than that of
the secret lodge system." he asserted,
and he then told of his first experience
with the pro-slavery, political organiza-
tion, the 'Tvnights of the Golden Circle,"
wdien a mere youth.
Says Father Withheld Warning.
I\Ir. Johnson told of four alleged at-
tacks that had been made by secret or-
ganization sympathizers during his ca-
reer. At one time, he said, his skull was
crushed in when struck by a hatchet
thrown from a building he was passing,
and at another one shoulder w^as broken
wdien a brick and an ax were hurled
down upon him from the same building.
He made the extraordinary statement
that his father, who was a member of
the lodge that had planned the outrage,
had known that plans had been made bv
lodge members to attack his son, but
that his secret oaths of affiliation pre-
vented him from giving warning of the
contemplated attack.
Tells of His Ejectment.
The audience pricked up its ears wdien
JMr. Johnson stated he had attended a
lodge meeting" in this county several
years ag'o as a guest of Dr. Barbour,
then of Bristol. "Your present judge
of the circuit court was in charge of
the services that night," he said. Con-
tinuing, Mr. Johnson said that he
watched the proceedings until it came
time to drink the "wine" wdien he be-
came "ill" and told the officers that he
was sick. "I saw one of them give the
wink and they started for me and ejected
me," said Mr. Johnson, who asserted
that he had secured entrance to the meet-
ing through strategy.
He also told of addressing an anti-
secret meeting held in this county sev-
eral years ago, when members of lodges
from several small towns in this vicinity,
dressed partially in their regalia, took
front seats in the hall in an eft'ort, he
alleged, to intimidate the speaker. One
man in the audience, he said, threat-
ened to "tear up his hide so that it
wouldn't be capable of holding corn-
shucks" if he made the talk against sec-
ret organizations that he had intended
making. However, he said, he did make
the address and the attack on the lodges,
but w^as not molested.
Mr. Johnson told of alleged horrible
August, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
119
oaths that lodge members are compelled
to take upon entering some of the secret
organizations, but confined his talk
mainly to an attack on certain orders,
with which he claimed to be familiar.
"None in Line With God."
''I know of no secret organization
that is in line with God," he said, con-
tinuing. ''And a man or woman cannot
affiliate with a secret organization and
be a true Christian. If there is a lodge
in existence that indorses Christianity
and does not go back on the Bible in part
I will join it. Members meet you at
the door of the secret organizations and
tell you to leave your God and your
Christianity on the outside when you en-
ter," he said, and then he stated there
is nothing worse on earth than the oath-
bound secrecy of the lodge.
"I could not be a Christian man and
belong to a lodge. I could not go into
a lodge and stay clean," said Mr. John-
son, concluding his half-hour talk.
Seven Varieties of Goats.
Rev. Mr. Stoddard declared that evi-
dence secured from books setting forth
the lodge's teaching show them to be
out of harmony with and in reality op-
posed to the Christian religion. The
general "rejection" of Christ from lodge
worship brands it at once as opposed to
the gospel, he said. A large catalogue
advertising supplies furnished to one or-
der [the Modern Woodmen of America]
was presented, and it was shown from
this that the furnishing of a lodge, to-
gether with the regalia and parapherna-
lia required, would cost the members of
a single lodge hundreds of dollars. Sev-
en different kinds of so-called ''goats"
are oft'ered for sale, the more expensive
being quoted at $30 each. Devices for
"spanking," "branding" and fooling
candidates are many.
One of the spankers is made so that
a cartridge will explode as the instru-
ment strikes the person. The speaker
said several deaths had occurred as a
result of a misuse of this paddle. The
cartridge is expected to explode out-
ward, but in some instances the explo-
sion has been made inward to the injury
and death of the candidate.
"Nine million lodge members wasting*
billions of money on initiation tricks.
while there is suffering on ever}- hand, is
indeed a sad spectacle," said Mr. Stod-
dard, "but this folly and los^ i> little
compared with the destruction of body
and soul brought about by these lodges."
An exhibition of the alleged initia-
tion into another order [the Freemasons]
was given with a chart prepared for that
purpose. It was represented that the
"sin" and "folly" there practiced was
very great.
Why They Want Preachers.
"All these secret organizations are
anxious to secure preachers as mem-
bers so that they can more easily fool
the others," declared Mr. Stoddard. He
told of the initiatory ordeals inflicted
upon members, and asserted that every
member is obliged to forswear himself,
which is in direct violation of the Bible's
commands. He "explained" the initi-
ation features of some of the organiza-
tions, including the leading of the new
member over the "holy ground." half
naked, with a blind-fold over his eyes
and a big rope about his neck. He
also said the services of one organiza-
tion demand that the member quaff
wine from a human skull and gaze upon
the remains of a human skeleton to make
the service more impressive.
Des Moines, Iowa, May 15. 191 1,
My Dear Brother Phillips : ■
Have returned from my trip to Colo-
rado. Had a series of gospel meetings
at Denver and closed on Tuesday even-
ing. May 2d, with a lecture on "The
Lodge as One of the Greatest Enemies of
the Church of God." The meeting was
well attended and we hope the truth will
bear fruit. On my way home I spoke on
the Lodge question in the Swedish ]\Iis-
sion Church at Lincoln, Neb. May God
bless the efforts being put forth in warn-
ing people against the Secret Empire, the
empire of darkness.
Yours in Christ,
(Rev.) John Nelson.
"We need only obey. There is guid-
ance for each of us, and by lowly listen-
ing we shall hear the right word."
Come out from the Lodge. Better
one with God than a thousand without
Him. — D. L. Moody.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE
August, 1911.
Mtm of ®ur Woxk
OHIO CONVENTION ANNOUNCED.
The ( Miio State Antisecrecy Conven-
tion will g-atlier. I). \ ., in the Chnrch of
the ])rethren. Sonth Detroit Street,
Bellefontaine. ( )hio, Monday and Tnes-
da^•. Angust 14th and 15th. An inter-
esting program is being arranged.
President C. A. Blanchard, Rev. J. E.
Hartzler, and the State President, Rev.
A\'. S. Gottshall. are among the speak-
ers expected. All are invited. Those
expecting to attend shonld write me at
once to Bellefontaine, Ohio (General
Delivery). ■
W. B. Stoddard,
Eastern Secretarv, N. C. A.
MICHIGAN STATE CONVENTION.
The Convention of the Michigan
Christian Association, opposed to secret
societies, will be held this year in Kala-
mazoo, a beautifnl city in the southern
part of the state. The time set for the;
meetino- is Wednesdav and Thursday,
October 4th and 5th. There will be two
sessions on Wednesday, afternoon and
evening, and three sessions — morning,
afternoon, and evening — on Thursday.
iVIeetings wdll be held in at least two dif-
ferent churches. There will be ad-
dresses in both English and the Holland
language. Among the subjects we note,
"The Lodge r)ath," and "The Lodge
Essentially a Religious Institution."
Among the speakers expected are. Rev.
J. L Hiemenga, S. Eldersveld, Dr. W.
H. Clay, and Rev. J. A. Watson. It is
planned to have a vSeceders' Parliament,
a Round Table, and various devotional
e>:ercises. If letters are received, from
friends of the Association or from lodge
advocates, they will be read. All dele-
grates are requested to correspond with
Rev. J. W. Brink. 425 Turner street
Grand Rapids, ^Michigan, respecting
lodging.
INDIANA AND OHIO WORK.
Secretary Stoddard's Report.
Bellefontaine, C^hio, July 15, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure:
I have been able to carry out the pro-
gram for the month past. My work has
been in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio.
In Lan.caster and York counties, Penn-
sylvania, I found the expected support
in the work. Anti-Lodge addresses were
given in the Stumptown Mennonite
church and at the chapel of the Breth-
ren's old people's home near NefTsville.
The rain did not prevent a good attend-
ance at Stumptown, for these farmer
folk are b}- no means "dry weather
Christians." The old people's home must
be seen to be appreciated. Lender the
guidance of our good friend, Elder L
W. Taylor, it has been builded into a
model hard to excel. Indeed, it is be-
lieved there is none equal to it in point
of convenience, if not size, in the broth-
erhood. Many Christians gathered with
the inmates to listen to the addresses in
the chapel. Support was given our Work,
indicating an appreciation of my efifort.
At Menges Mills, Columbia, Lancas-
ter, Lititz, Ephrata. etc., there were good
friends to favor the Work, whose names
I can not here mention. May God bless
them all !
The intense heat with the dust and
smoke en route made the trip froni
Washington. D. C, to Elkhart, Ind.,
something of a trial, but there was a
welcome and a helpful Convention at the
end. Our good friend. Rev. J. E. Hartz-
ler, had prepared for this meeting. Both
he and his good wife did much for mv
comfort. Owing, no doubt, to the pre-
vailing heat the opening session of the
Convention was not so largely attended
as that of the second evening, when the
church was well filled. Dr. Blanchard
spoke with his usual clearness and pow-
er. He brought forth thoughts fresh
and convincing. His address could not
fail to do much good. The discussions
of the day session, suggested by resolu-
tions adopted, were animated. Many
important truths were thus made mani-
fest. Lmusual notice was given by local
papers. Doubtless the audiences
reached through this medium were much
Greater than those at the Convention.
Contril)utions helped to meet- the
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CHRISTIAN CVXOSL'RE.
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financial ne(^d. The friends in In-
diana who have not sent their contri-
butions to the State Treasurer, Mr. T.
H. Brenneman, 122 Crescent St., Gosh-
en, Ind., are requested to do so. Funds
are needed to further the state work.
Following;- the State Convention I
spent some days in Goshen, i^ivini^ ad-
dresses in Goshen College, churches of
the A'Tennonite Brethren in Christ and
the Brethren. There was quite an addi-
tion to the Cynosure subscription list,
and a live interest everywhere manifest.
The attendance at the Brethren, church
was especially large. Although it was
Monday evening and the heat consider-
able, the people came for miles and gave
an attentive hearing. The conventions
of former years have evidently given
this people an appetite for the truth we
bring. . While lodges are multiplied
there are many, thank (lod, who are
awakening to the need of intelligent op-
position. Elder Emanuel Hillery, a ven-
erable worker of the Brethren church,
gave very helpful testimony. In former
years he was associated with President
Jonathan Blanchard and President C. A.
Blanchard, and also my honored father,
in the Illinois work. There was an un-
usual endorsement and recommendation
of the Cynosure in the earnest prayer
which he offered for the success of N.
C. A. work. I regretted to refuse open
doors for work near Goshen.
Coming to Ohio, I found our leaders
awake and looking for the call to the
Mid-summer Convention. The situation
has been canvassed with the state offi-
cers. I hope to announce time and place
of this gathering in a few days. There
are many questions tO' be considered in
l)reparing state meetings. The conveni-
ence of pastors and ])eople, the avoidance
of time of s])ecial meetings, etc., all come
in the consideration.
It is my intention to give much of
August as well as this nionth to Ohio
work. A s])ecial 0])portunity to speak-
to the members of the Friends' church is
to be given at the Yearly JMeeting to be
held at Damascus, Ohio, August 23r(l.
State President Rev. W. S. Gottshall,
P)luffton ; State Secretary Rev. Thos.
W^eyer, Lima, and State Treasurer. Rev.
J. M. Faris. I)ellefontaine, are all giv-
ing help in preparation to push the Ohio
work. The day spent at Pandora, Ohio,
gave much encouragement. Your agent
was given half the hour to present the
.\. C. A. work at the prayer-meeting in
the Missionary clmrch there.
A severe hail-storm has done much
damage to growing crops in this section,
but not nearly so much damage as the
lodges have done to the spiritual lives of
the ])eo]:)le. Is it not strange that a-
lodge, which was never known to lead
a single soul to give uj) a sinful life,
should be said to be better than an organ-
ization alw'ays lifting toward the better
life? Yet lodge men are constantly say-
ing their organizations are better than
the church. May the Lord clear our
vision and help us to walk in the light.
I find an open door for work here to-
morrow in the Brethren church.
Yours in the Work,
W. B. Stoddard.
P. S.- — Ohio friends should send con-
tributions in aid of the Work to State
Treasurer Rev. J. AI. Faris. Bellefon-
taine, Ohio. If you desire lectures dur-:
ing August, write me at once, address-
ing 31 18 Fourteenth St., X. W.. Wash-
ington, D. C Those who are indebted
to me for subscriptions, please send to'
this address. W. B. S.
OUR CANADIAN LETTER.
Coblenz. Sask., July 2. loir.
Air. W. I. Phillips.
Chicago, 111.
Dear I'ro. Phillips:
From the July number of the Cuklst-
LVN Cynosure, which has just reached
me, I am pleased to note how the Anti-
secrecy cause is moving forward with-
in the bounds of your Republic. The laws
l)assed by some state legislatures will be
a dead letter, because they are in con-
flict with the federal Constitution which
guarantees freedom of speech and free-
dom of the press.
The proposed Canadian Association is
being favored by sc^mc and fc^ught b\-
others. In a recent letter to me. the
l)resident of a ])r(^minent Canadian uni-
\^ersity says: "I am nc^t a Freemason,
and T know nothing about the ritual,
and consequentl}' I am unable to speak
from first-hand knowledge, but a great
man}- of ni}- friends arc Masons, and
the\' are amoni'- the best men that I
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Auofust 1911.
know, and from what I have learned
from them and others, I judge that Dr.
Torrey's letter is most extravagant, and
I should think from my information,
quite unjust. I prefer to believe the
testimon\- of gentlemen whom I know.
Certainly. I cannot in any way co-oper-
ate in organizing a Canadian Association
for the purpose of scattering- such state-
ments as Dr. Torrey has made. As I
said. I am not in a position to deny
them, l^ecause I have no direct knowl-
edge, but I prefer to believe my friends
rather than to accept such utterances
as he gives: which, for all I know, may
be on very partial evidence.'' I have
referred this university president to the
National Christian Association for fur-
ther information, with the urgent re-
quest to investigate the subject thorough-
ly for himself.
Through their foolish opposition to
the light of day, some Freemasons in
the Province of Ontario have involved
themselves in an exceedingh^ absurd
muddle. However, if they acknowledge
their error and show a real desire to
conduct themselves decently in the fu-
ture, I am willing to forgive the past.
The Lodge must go down whence it
came. Let all who desire to be genuine
Evangelical Christians co-operate for
the entire overthrow of the powers of
darkness. , •
I trust that it will do you no harm
to read the enclosed copies of testimo-
nials. Yours truly,
Moses H. Cleimfns.
ENDORSING MR. CLEMENS.
Berlin, Out., June 21, 1909.
To JJlwDi If May Concern:
This is to certify that I am well ac-
quainted with Moses H. Clemens, of
Berlin. I consider him a man much
above the average ability and quite capa-
ble of fulfilling any position of trust
that he may undertake. He would make
the best of servants for a government,
as he would be a most useful man in
sending out to demonstrate their cause.
Hal)its the very best.
J NO. R. Edex.
Ex-Mayor of Berlin, Ont.
Kinistino, Sask, Nov. 14, 1910.
Have twice inspected ]\Ir. Clemen's
work. He is a good teacher. He has
knowledge, experience, ability, conscience
and power. These, together with his
great energy and industry, have made
him a success as a teacher. His character
I believe to be above reproach.
T. F. Hutchison,
Inspector of Schools.
FROM JOSEPH POTTER GRAYBELL.
Big Springs, Calhoun Co., A\'. \ a.
June 14, 191 1.
Dear Brother Phillips :
I came to Calhoun County about ten
days ago. I have delivered two lectures
on modern secret societies, one at
Charles Barker's house and one at a
road-fork schoolhouse.
I lecture free ; do not
take up any collec-
t i o n. My expenses
will be about seven
dollars per week if I
go to Calhoun, Gil-
mer, Roan e, Wirt,
Wood and Jackson
counties and deliver free lectures to the
people there, in court-houses, halls,
churches and schoolhouses. Now the
success of our great cause of antisecrecy
requires that these lectures should be
free to- all. If you will send me seven
dollars per week I will make reports to
the Association of my work, and de-
vote my whole time to this great work
of opposing the secret works of dark-
ness. I will use plenty of handbills ad-
vertising the lectures, free to all, at all
times, and under all circumstances. I
want to work here in this state for about
six months. Thousands of people will
learn the truth who are now in darkness
and in bondage to the lodges. The light
is breaking in upon their minds, their
chains are falling off, and they are em-
bracing the truth wherever I preach de-
liverance to the captives. Please put my
case before the National Christian As-
sociation. I can do a great work here
in West Virginia. Yours truly,
Joseph Potter Graybell.
OUR WORK IN THE SOUTH.
Alexandria, La., July 13, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure:
I am here in preparation for the extra
session of the Louisiana Baptist State
August, 1911.
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123
Convention. I have just attended the
Eighth District Baptist Sunday School
Convention at Rapides, La., Avhere I had
opportunity to speak and distribute
tracts. I find Rev. G. W. Davis of the
Union Church and Rev. M. P. Frankhn
of the Methodist Episcopal Church old-
time CvNOSURi-: readers and anti-secret-
ists, still true to their Lord and Master.
They both received me cordially and in-
vited me to^ preach for their people. Rev.
J. W. White is also loyal to Christ,
which means he is an anti-secretist, for
indeed no man can be true to Christ and
true to the Lodge.
I have visited the following places and
introduced the Cynosure and have spok-
en against oath-bound secrecy: Minden,
Reisor, Blanchard, Foster, Plain Deal-
ing, Stonewall, Grand Cane. Empire,
Boyce, Rapides. Barrett and this city, all
in the state of Louisiana. I found at
each point a faithful few wdio had not
bowed the knee to Baal, also a few who,
after joining the lodges, had become dis-
gusted with them, but who had not suf-
ficient courage to ''come out from among
them and be Separate."
The Sunday I i:)reached at Providence
Church, Stonew^all, La., the Seven Stars
of Consolidation had their annual ser-
mon in the afternoon, preached by Rev.
^lingo Graham of the Methodist Episco-
p^\ Church. The speaker boasted that
he had been a member of the lodge for
twenty-six years, and during that time
the lodge had done more than all other
organizations to bring the people togeth-
er and build them up and make them
better. He urged everybody to join the
lodge, which, he said, would make them
better Christians because the lodge is a
Christian society. He preached from
the text, "ho, I come (in the volume of
the book it is written of Me) to do Thy
will, O God." (Lleb. 10:7). And he
attempted to connect salvation through
Christ and the atonement of Calvary
with secret societies. He was followed
by a Rev. Brown, a Baptist preacher,
who found fault with everybody who
is not connected with the Lodge, and
urged everybody to join the Lodge for
the purpose of saving their money and
making themselves a better people. He
also attempted to justify the Lodge by
giving it Bible support. O God, how
long will these blind guides be per-
mitted to hoodwink and deceive the peo-
ple, leading them to worship Baal
through oath-bound secret societies?
These prophets of Baal, like Jeroboam of
old, are deceiving the ];)eople and leading
them into idolatry ancl l^jaalism. b\- hav-
ing them bow down at secret altars and
swear to conceal and never reveal their
secrets. J\fay God open the eyes of the
deceived ancl stop the mouths of those
false prophets who are leading the peo-
ple astray and corrupting the church
through their secret lodges.
A'ours for righteousness,
F. J. Davidson.
MRS. LIZZIE WOODS' LETTER.
Pine IWufi, Ark.. July 6. ioit.
Mv. Wm. I. Phillips,
Chicago. Bl.
Dear Brother in Christ:
I am just home from my trip to Brink-
ley. When I was there six years ago. I
sold a goodly number of rituals of the
Red Men, Woodmen, Knights of Pvthias,
Oddfellows, the Eastern Star and the
Masons. I also distributed about four
hundred tracts. This is the place where
so many people came to visit me, some
from places ten miles away. You will
remember that I wrote vou about one of
the doctors telling me that I would be
shot down on the streets of Brinklev. Mv
sister lives in Brinkley. and when she
heard what the doctor said to me she
cried and begged me to let those books
and tracts alone and "go and do mission-
ary work." I said to her. ''The tract.
'Why I Left the Rebekah Lodge," caused
you to leave two lodges : is not that mis-
sionary w^ork?" She said, "Yes. but
these lodge men don't see it like I did.
They think the lodges are right, and
they will kill }(ni."
While she was talking to me, in came
a big Master ]\Iason, and said, "Madam.
T want to see your ^^^lasonic rituals. I
hear you have some to sell." I said. "Yes,
sir, I have a few left," and handed him
the two volumes givini^" the thirt}-three
degrees of Scottish Rite Masonrx". He
looked at the books and took out his
memorandum book and began to write.
After a while 1 said to him. "How do
you like my thirty-three degrees?" He
said, "^'(tu have e\-en more than T know
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
August, 1911.
about it." That night a committee of
three waited upon me to learn where I
g'ot their secrets. I told them all about
the National Christian Association and
the exposures of the lodges. While they
were examining the books I was look-
ino- at them. Thev would nudo-e one
another and look so queer that I could
not keep from smiling at them, seeing
how angry they got over such tomfoolery
as ]^Iasonry. I did not stop at anything,
they said.
\\'ell, I kept right on with my house
to house visiting, and left a tract at every
house, and carried them to the stores, the
depot, the post-office and the churches.
One of the biggest colored Baptist
preachers got hold of a tract, and it
made him so angry he said, ''I am going
into everything the negrO' is in but hell."
When I heard what he had said, I felt
very sorry for him, and I said, "Well,
he will certainly go to hell if he follov/s
the negro into everything that the ma-
ioritv of them are in." This is what he
thought about it six years ago, but he has
changed his mind now, since the most
of his members are in the lodge and will
not go tO' church. He says now that if
he has to give up either the church or
the lodge, it is the lodge he will give up.
Thank God for letting him see what it
is to follow the negroes or any other
people into devilment.
My last trip to Brinkley was quite dif-
ferent from that of six years ago. This
time I had a long talk with a Master
]\Iason who used to be willing to die for
his lodge. He said to me, "I am more
and more disgusted with lodges. After
I read the rituals you brought to Brink-
ley, my eyes began to come open." I
, asked him if he was still the Worshipful
Master of his lodge. He said, "Yes, but
something within me tells me the thing
is w^'ong." When I asked him why he
did not quit the lodge, he replied, 'T have
got so much money in the thing." I said
to him, "What shall it profit a man
if he shall gain the whole world and
lose his own soul? or what shall a man
give in exchange for his soul?" (Mark
8:36. 37). "Yes," he said, "that is true."
I asked him what he saw that was wrong
in the Masonic lodge. He said, "Well,
I will tell you, since you know more
about it than T do. The whole thing is
false. There is no Bible in any of the
three lodges that I am a member of,
that is, the Knights of Pythias, the Odd-
fellows and the Masons. Yet the great-
est sermons I ever hear nowadays are
these annual sermons to the lodges. I
told my pastor not long ago, after he had
preached a great sermon on secret or-
ders, that he and all the rest of the inin-
isters who preached these sermons, did
it just to get the twenty-five dollars from
the lodge ; that they knew they could not
find a text in the Bible for such a ser-
mon." I asked him what his pastor said
to this. He said he hung his head and
did not answer. . ; ■ -
I said to this man, "What office do
vou hold in the church?" He said, "I
am a deacon." I said, "Well, you are a
deacon in the church. Worshipful Master
in the Masonic Lodge, Chancellor Com-
mander of the Knights of Pythias, and
Noble Grand in the Oddfellows. Now,
you have your choice of three grand
lodges above. Which one will the pas-
tor put you in when you die, since each
of the three has a grand lodge above?"
I said, "They have not got anything to
do with the church. Christ died for
the church. He shed His precious blood
for the church, and when He comes He
is coming for His church" (I Thess.
4:13-18). I said, "My brother. Jesus did
not have any secret" (John 18:20). He
said, "That is the thing that troubles me,
and I can't see how these preachers got
so tangled up with the thing. I believe
they know better." I said, "Well, if
they know better, why do they preach
these annual sermons?" He said, "That
is why I am disgusted with them. All
that preach them are lying, just for a
few dollars." I said, "Do you think all
the Judases are dead? And you chief
men in the lodge are hiring these
preachers to betray Christ." Finally I
told him that he understood the situation
and that it rested with him what he was
to do about it. The poet says :
"Will you despise My bleeding love
And choose your way to hell,
Or in the glorious realms above
With Me forever dwell?
"Say, will you hear my gracious voice
And have your sins forgiven,
Or will you make that wretched choice
And bar yourselves from heaven?"
Yours for Christ and against the
lodges, LizzTi-. Woods.
August, 11)11.
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CONTENTS
Anniversary of Morgan's jNIartyrdom. . . . 129
The Great English Strike 120
The Michigan State Convention 12!>
"Scarcely a Caricature" 13(1
Without the Lodge 130
Contributions —
Compromises. By Mr. J. M. Hitchcock. .132
Workers Together with God. By Rev.
Amos J. Bailey 1.32
Freemasonry versus Christianity. By
Rev. J. C. Leacock 135
Church Rules. By Pres. C. A. Blanchard. 139
Obituary —
Mrs. R. A. Cullor 140
The Power of the Secret Empire. By Miss
E. E. Flagg 141
News of Our Work —
Ohio State Convention 147
Stoddard in Ohio 147
Mrs. Lizzie Woods' Letter , 148
A Testimony in Kansas 140
Davidson in Louisiana 140
Work in West Virginia . . . . 151
Our Canadian Letter . 151
A Cry from West Australia 152
The Prize Oration 152
From Our Mail —
What Friends A. J. Millard, Thomas
Mulligan (England), Rev. E. Country-
man, Rev. S. O. lr\ine (Canada), Rev.
S. P. Long. Rev. H. A. Thompson are
saying to cheer and encourage .153
National Reform Convention 154
^Modern Brotherhood of America 154
Knights of Columbus 155
From Our Exchanges —
Divided Allegiance. Bv Mrs. II. R.
Smith 1.55
Position of United Brethren Church on
Secret Societies 150
Nest of Orioles 1,57
GENERAL OFFICERS.
President, Rev. E. B. Stewart; Vice-
President, Rev. J. W. Brink; Recording
Secretary, Mrs. N. E. Kellogg; Secre-
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
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M. Hitchcock (Independent), C. A.
Blanchard (Congregational), G. J. Haan
(Christian Reformed), Albert B. Rutt
(Mennonite), E. B. Stewart (United
Presbyterian), Joseph Amick (Church of
the Brethren), E. R. Worrell (Presby-
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T. C. Wendell (Free Methodist) and P.
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VOLUME XLIV.
CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER, 1911
NUMBER 5.
In this month occurs the eighty-fifth
anniversary of the murder of a martyr
to the freedom of writing-, printing and
speaking the truth. He had fought for
his country in the War of 1812, and had
served under General Jackson at New
Orleans. He left the service at the close
of hostilities as Captain William Morgan.
He was a man of fine soldierly bearing
and of gentlemanly and agreeable man-
ners. He was a prominent Mason
and lecturer of his lodge. He fin-
ally, however, became deeply im-
pressed with the dangerous char-
acter of Masonry, and said to Sam-
uel D. Green, a Mason and Mayor
of Batavia, N. Y., "If Masonry be per-
mitted to go on unchecked it will under-
mine the Christian religion and over-
throw the Government." Time is prov-
ing him a prophet. It is our purpose to
give the readers of the Cynosure the his-
tory of those times and a more correct
estimate of the character of that martyr-
patriot than is generally had, by publish-
ing the history of those times written by
Samuel D. Green, a personal friend of
Captain Morgan, a member of the same
lodge, and at the time of Morgan's mar-
tyrdom President (Mayor) of the town
council of Batavia.
What a Lodge can accomplish in a
country is witnessed here in Chicago,
where the Lodge murders average one
a month and no punishment is meted
out; is witnessed in Los Angeles, Cal.,
in the murder of twenty-one and the de-
struction of The Times building. A bet-
ter illustration, however, is that of the
Camorra of Italy, now under investiga-
tion by the government. The Personal
Reminiscences of the Morgan Abduc-
tion and Murder, by Mr. Samuel D.
Green, are, therefore, of great present
interest. The publication will immedi-
ately follow Miss Flagg's story — ^The
Power of the Secret Empire.
THE GREAT ENGLISH STRIKE.
Another step has been taken in Eng-
land towards a federation of labor that
shall make it impossible to work or cease
from service without the National Union
leaders give permission.
Like the teamsters' strike in Chicago
under Shea, the stated reasons for the
strike were not the real reasons. Wages
and hours are terms to conjure with, but
the object of the labor leaders of Eng-
land is no more single unions but one
great National federation.
The dockmen started the strike, and
were given everything that they asked
as to wages and overtime, after they had
been on strike less than a week ; but not
a single "docker" made a move to return
to work. The pretended reason for the
strike was not the real reason.
Some 200,000 workers finally joined
the movement, and were told by the
president of the strike committee that
''No man must return to work until the
whole job is finished," "There must be no
surrender," 'Tf vou stick together the
big victory will be won. For the first
time in the history of the port of Lon-
don you have a federation representing
almost all the classes of workers engaged.
We have organized 100.000 men since we
started this campaiii^'n. There must be
no more single unions, excent for the
purpose of domestic work. For the pur-
pose of policy and general conduct, we
must have tJie union and nothing else."
MICHIGAN STATE CONVENTION.
The place of the convention is Kala-
mazoo, a beautiful city in the southern
part of the state. The time is \\>dnes-
dav and Thursday, October 4 and 5.
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"SCARCELY A CARICATURE."
"I was now very definitely con-
A'inced,"' says the hero of a book, "that
•much of the confusion and futility of
contemporary thought was due to the
jgeneral need of nietaplwsical training
. . . The great mass of people — and
not simpl}' common people, but people
active and influential in intellectual
things — are still quite untrained in the
methods of thought and absolutely inno-
cent of an}- criticism of method ; it is
.scarcely a caricature to call their think-
ing a crazy patchwork, discontintious
and chaotic."
Passive acceptance of sectarian as-
sumptions and active support of secret
society pretensions, seem to corroborate
this opinion and to redeem its expression
Trom the blame of petulance. It is our
constant labor to help men think about
things that ought neither to be taken
for granted nor flippantly rejected.
Hardly more ought such things to be
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"by ''discontinuous and chaotic" thinking,
•or by any substitute for thinking. Join-
ers are not always thinkers. Few among
them can be supposed to devote much
thinking to what they join, however
thorotighly they may attend to other
things. Among the advocates of Mason-
Ty who appeal to the prestige of Wash-
ington, must be many, for instance, who
tiave never actually thought through
their own claim as Dr. Blanchard has
for them. Discontinuous is, indeed, a
word that seems scarcely to caricature
what many would like to have accredited
as independent think'ng.
V'V
THOUT THE 7_ODGE.
The New Era Association styles it-
self ''A fraternal beneficiary society,
specifixally authorized to give fraternal
insurance without the lodge." It claims
to furnish '"'to men and women, on
ecfual terms, fraternal insurance with-
out the lod.p'ie — guaranteed at mortal-
ity cost, without death assessment." I^
large type, it announces "Insurance at
Cost." New Era Rates are stated to
"be ''equal to the wholesale or mortality
cost in four of the leading old line
comjpanies ;" yet almost immediately it
is, after all. announced that "at the
.-amounting to tlie excess charge over
the actual wholesale cost." Here seems
to be "insurance at cost" with "excess
charge." The October Bulletin advised
its reacLers to "Look out for a twenty-
five per cent dividend in January," but
prudently added, "This is only an es-
timate."
Insurance with neither old line nor
lodge methods is not new; the story of
its multitudinous failures is old. This
new^ experiment has not floated away
with the innumerable derelicts, but
there are reasons why one solicited
might incline to wait for it to make
its own history match its own promise.
Confidence is not encouraged by the
attitude of the society organ toward
the National Fraternal Congress, which
seemed to come into existence for the
purpose of making fraternal in-
surance safer and less visionary.
Again, its tone in speaking of the
state insurance department provokes
doubt and caution. The insurance
commissioners are a guard posted to
watch on behalf of widows and or-
phans. Toward this beneficient provi-
sion for safety, it is likewise restive.
This spirit of hostility to safe re-
straint seems betrayed in alleging a rea-
son wdiy "it appears that, like assess-
ment insurance, the name or term
fraternal insurance is no longer an as-
set in the field to get business." It
knows well that it does not exaggerate
by saying "Assessment, or Mutual in-
surance companies have failed by the
hundreds," but when it assumes to
explain Avhy the word fraternal like
the word assessment has lost its charm,
it does not make similarity of effect
expose parity of cause. On the con-
trary, it attributes the change to "ade-
quate rate howlers, represented mostly
in the National Fraternal Congress,
backed by certain insurance com^mis-
sioners." "We think," opines the
Bulletin, "there is mighty little danger
of the next legislature interfering with
the fraternal insurance business in this
state. We think the insurance com-
missioners of this country have quite
enousrh to do to enforce the laws and
discharge the various duties of their
^f^^ces, without instructing the 'legis-
lative department of the gvive'-nment.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
131
We would like to see a little more sym-
pathetic relationship between the fra-
ternal societies and insurance depart-
ments before we turn the business of
taxing the members over to them."
The lack of sympathetic relation may
be a still more cogent reason for not
turning taxation or confidence over ta
fraternities — with or without the
lodge. Possibly the state insurance
commissioners kncjw something about
insurance.
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Old Fort Niagara.
Place of Morgan's Confinement at Fort Niagara,
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€0tttributton0.
COMPROMISES.
BY J. M. HITCHCOCK.
An association of men implies com-
promise.
The simplest, most common, and yet
most sacred human association, is that
of matrimon}', and this always suggests
mutual concessions. Preferences, tastes,
and choices must be subordinated to har-
mony.
The bride and bridegroom have tastes
differing. The one is a devotee of coffee,
while the other is attached to his Oolong.
They arbitrate their differences, and
agree to use these beverages interchange-
ably. The comparative wholesomeness
of these beverages becomes a question in
the household, and a further compromise
is necessitated. A substitute for both
tea and coft'ee is agreed upon, and then
again preferences manifest themselves as
to the preparation of this substitute. One
prefers a lavishment of trimmings, the
other to omit them ; and finally, through
a spirit of compromise, a happy solution
is reached. Each abandons the favorite
beverage for pure, sparkling water, and
the money thus saved more than sup-
ports a native missionary.
"All this could be done," says one, "be-
cause no moral principle was involved ;
but there are some things too sacred to
barter. Aly ripened judgment, my long
experience, and especially my conscien-
tious convictions, must in no wise be
compromised, though the stars fall."
Certainly ! But what about the other fel-
low's judgment, experience, and convic-
tions ?
I w^ould not minimize an intelligent,
honest conviction, but more and more I
am discovering, in myself and others,
that the constituent parts of what are
popularly known as ''conscientious con-
victions" are eighty-five per cent mule
stubbornness, ten per cent, egotism, and
the analysis fails to determine the exact
ingredients of the residue.
The Apostle said, 'T perceive that in
all things ye are too superstitious" — in
other words, "You have too much re-
ligion of the wrong sort."
The tardiness of the antisecrecy
progress is due in a large measure to our
being shackled through deference to
church canons, synods, conferences, as-
semblies and presbyteries. These clogs
hinder us from making a united assault
upon our enemy. The assault must be
made in our denominational way, because
"we hold the truth."
A few years since, with Brother W. B.
Stoddard, I attended a denominational
convention. When in their church prop-
er, in presence of pulpit, altar, and bap-
tismal font, these people seemed very
reverential and devout. To have dis-
cussed the iniquity of Secret Societies in
this sacred place would have been to de-
file their garments so as to call for sack-
cloth and ashes.
But I noticed that at the hour of re-
cess, Brother Stoddard met a large num-
ber of these brethren in their lecture-
room below, when and where he shelled
them with grape and canister on Secret
Societies. The clouds of tobacco smoke
were so thick and heavy that one could
not recognize his neighbor twenty feet
distant. Stoddard rebuked the evils of
secrecy, but was silent upon the evil of
smoking ; nor did he compromise with
wrong. He was at that time working in
the interest of antisecrecy, and not anti-
tobacco.
Whatever my opinion of W. B. Stod-
dard may have been before, the mer-
cury in his thermometer rose in my esti-
mation when I had witnessed this mas-
ter stroke of diplomacy, and that without
the forfeiture of principle.
Chicago.
WORKERS TOGETHER WITH GOD.
REV. AMOS J. BAILEY.
The laws and forces of nature are the
laws and forces of God. When the farm-
er is working together with nature to
produce a harvest of fruit or grain for
food, he is working together with God.
When a man is trying to invent a flying
machine he is trying to learn what na-
ture will do to help him in the making
of such a machine ; for apart from nature
no man can make a flying machine ;
which is equivalent to saying that apart
from God no man can make such a ma-
chine. In the realm of the natural, men
make discoveries ; that is, they learn
how to work together with nature to do
certain things. Men work together with
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
133
nature in the making of explosives, and
nature does not inquire what is to be
done with them when they are made.
One man uses them to blast rocks for a
highway, another to destroy buildings
or to kill men. And when in this con-
nection we say nature it is equivalent
to saying God. So then, along certain
lines at least, men work together with
God and God does not inquire as to their
motives or their purposes as a condition
of the working together with Him.
In the Material Realm There Can Be No
Permanent Success Against Nature's
Persistent Protest.
In the realm of nature, in the use of
material forces and substances, God
makes room for human responsibility.
He lets men use this world and all that
belongs to it without making conditions
as to the motives and purposes of men
in their use of the world. The sun
shines for the evil and the good, the rain
falls for the just and the unjust. But
in working together with God in the
realm of the natural, men must conform
to natural laws. If a man goes wrong
he fails, and the things that gO' wron.o-
come to an end, for the wrong cannot be
infinite or eternal. But if men go right,
if in all things their work harmonizes
with nature — that is, with God in the
realm of the natural — there is no limit
to the possibilities that are open to them.
Science knows no criterion of the im-
possible ; and nothing that is possible to
God in the realm of the natural is im-
possible to those who at every point win
the approval of nature. Conversely, noth-
ing can permanently succeed against
which nature persistently protests.
In the Realm of Morals No Man Can Suc-
ceed Against Whose Motives God
Protests.
In the realm of morals and religion
men discover how, or learn how, to work
together with God in the development
and use of character forces. In the
realm, of the natural, right and wrong
are not moral distinctions ; and in that
realm motives and purposes are not
questioned. But in the realm of morals
and religion right and wrong are moral
distinctions, and therefore motives and
purposes must be considered. Where
moral distinctions apply to the results,
the motives must be right or there can
be no permanent success. As in the
realm of the natural no man can suc-
ceed against the protests of nature, so
in the realm of morals and religion no
man can succeed against whose motives
God protests — that is, no man can suc-
ceed whose motives are wrong. But when
men's motives are right, when their mo-
tives and purposes are consistent with
the motives and purposes of (jod, then
the possibilities which open to them are
infinite and eternal, and to man, as to
God, all things are possible.
The Realm of Man's Responsibility,
The uncertainties of life, experience,
history, lie in the realm of human re-
sponsibility — there and only there.
Science cannot predict what men will do
in the realm where each may do as he
wills to do. It can predict what nature
will do when it has learned what nature
is doing, for nature is unchangeable.
And with equal certainty can it be pre-
dicted what God will do in the realm of
morals and religion, when it is known
what He is now doing, for Cxod is un-
changeable in character. There never
will come a time when men can gather
figs from thistles, or when they can
wring golden conduct from leaden in-
stincts— never a time when they can
reap a harvest of virtue from seeds of
vice.
The Realm of God's Responsibility.
God made the world and it is God who
is developing it. God made man and it
is God who is making human history.
In the developing of the world and in
the making of history, God does not in-
terfere with men in the realm of their re-
responsibility. But neither does He al-
low the ignorance, the indifference, the
depravity and wickedness of men to in-
terfere with Him in the realm of His
responsibility in the w^orking together.
The failures of men cannot defeat the
purposes of God. When Jesus said,
''Apart from me ye can do nothing,'' He
was not simply giving good advice ; He
was expressing a truth as unchangeable
as if He had said, "You cannot have
grapes without grape vines."
In the realm of what we call the nat-
ural we speak of the unchangeableness
of nature and the laws of nature. Neith-
er nature or the laws of nature are
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September, 1911.
changed b}' the wih of man. We say
that nature is indilterent to human char-
acter, and void of sympathy with human
experience. .\ hurricane destro3^s trees
and men ahke and seemingly without
purpose or regret. In the reahn of
morals and religion does God care ? Men
waste and destroy, and nature does not
prevent them. Men waste and destroy
men, and seemingly God does not pre-
vent them. Why does God perniit the
wicked to prevail ? A\'e ask the qtiestion
but we do not answer it. And yet the
answer is at hand ; it is this : God does
not interfere with men in the realm of
their own responsibility. But God does
not abandon or neglect those who ap-
peal to Him in the realm of His re-
sponsibility. God helps and saves those
who come to Him in the right way to be
helped and saved. There is always a
place in human experience for an exer-
cise of the will. We do things because
"we will to do them, because we wish, or
desire, or purpose to do them. There
is always room in every experience for
God to do things for us because He wills
to do them, because it is His good pleas-
ure to do them. This will, whether it is
the will of a man or the will of God,
belongs to personality. The law of the
will is liberty to do or not to do as one
wills, whether it be man or God. The
laws of the luiiverse are fixed laws, God
is pledged to their maintenance, so that
whoever appeals to them can depend on
them with unerrins: certaintv ; there are
no miracles that can accomplish thing's
contrary to these hxed laws and so rob
one who appeals to them of the results
which they are designed to produce.
And one of tliese fixed laws is the law
of personal relations, and the law of the
will which has to do with these personal
relations. We know the character of
God. and we know that God is love, and
that because of His nature. His attri-
butes. He cannot do a wrong thing ; He
cannot do anything that is contrary to
His wisdom. His love, and in general His
purpose to promote human happiness
in time and eternity. We know that in
the realm of God's liberty there is love,
and love onh^
The Realm of Personal Relations.
All the uncertainties of life, all the
problems of it, and therefore all of the
highest and best hopes of life, lie in this
realm of liberty, the realm of the will,
the realm of personal relations. All
outside of this realm, that is, "the nature
of things," is good because God made it
good. The universe is good. In the
realm of personal relations, because God
is good and God is love, there can come
from His side in the working" together no'
disappointments, though there do come
many glad stirprises. Outside of the
realm of personal relations it may be
true, as a poet has suggested, that na-
ture is indifferent, and as a scientist has
suggested: "Nattire creates without pur-
pose and destroys without regret.'' But
within this realm there is no indifference.
Not a sparrow falls to the ground with
broken wing but God cares ; not a hun-
gry lamb bleats for food but God hears
and God cares. And not a human soul
but is of more value in the sight of God
than birds and sheep. The winds and
the sea cannot hear the prayer of a
frightened child or a frightened sailor ;
but Ciod can hear, and God knows how
to make the wind blow and how to make
it cease to blow — the wind and the sea
obey His will. It is in the realm of per-
sonal relations with God that the mys-
teries of His care are explained. We
are workers together with the forces of
nature in the wonderful achievements of
science and the arts of civilization. But
what is of more hopeful significance to-
each one of us is that we are — we ought
and may be — workers together with God.
Christ came to save the world from sin.
His work is constructive. Those wha
work together with Him will overcome
the evil that is in the world with the
good that they bring into it. It is this
personal relation, this fellowship with
oiu' Heavenly Father, that makes it pos-
sible for men, each in the realm of his
own responsibility, to destroy the works
of evil ; this that gives to ignorant and
erring mortals the stire hope of a blessed
immortality with God in heaven.
Seattle, JJ'asIiiiiaton.
All things are created originally out of
the mud. Some of us have not got very
fa^ from the starting point.
September, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE
135
PREEMASONRY VERSUS CHRIS-
TIANITY.
From the Viewpoint of a Methodist Epis-
copal Minister.
BY REV. J. C. LEACOCK, SCRANTON, PA.
The subject presented in this paper is,
no doubt, unpopular with those who are
interested in both Masonry and Chris-
tianity. They would have all other per-
sons silent upon the subject to which
their lips are solemnly sealed. But the
writer believes, as a noted speaker in
the time of our Civil War wisely ob-
served when interrupted in an address
in behalf of the Union, that he "always
held it to be an unfailing truth that
where a man had a cause that would bear
examination he was perfectly willing to
"have it spoken about.''
And, if the title of this paper shall be
justified by its contents, the facts ought
to be made apparent, and ministers of
the gospel, especially Methodist minis-
ters, should positively refuse to aid or
encourage Freemasonry, as against the
cause to which they have professedly
given their lives.
But the average lodge man is ever
ready to deny that there is anything
wrong with his fraternity. Edmond Ro-
nayne. Past Master of Keystone Lodge,
No. 639, A. F. and A. M., Chicago, BL,
speaks emphatically on this point. He
says : ''It has oftentimes been a matter
of considerable surprise to me, even
when I was an active Mason and Wor-
shipful Master of my lodge here in Chi-
cago, how the oaths and death penalties
of Freemasonry could exercise such an
evil influence over the minds and moral
character of even the best, the most in-
telligent, the most reputable of its mem-
bers. Men who under all other circum-
stances will act honorably, honest and
strictly truthful, when brought face to
face with a defense of the Masonic sys-
tem— its modes of preparation and initia-
tion, its oaths and awful penalties of
death — will not hesitate for one moment
to prevaricate, to quibble, to deny the
truth, and even to lie outright, if neces-
sary, in behalf of Freemasonry, in order
to conceal its true character and bogus
secrets."
A common wav
agamst
the
lodge
of meeting criticisms
is to claim that all
knowledge concerning the matter is held
in secrecy and one who has violated his
pledge in making known these secrets is
a perjurer and is not to be believed. But
it may be answered that, instead of being
a perjurer, a man v^^ho finds his lodge in-
terfering with his duties as a Christian is
absolved from his oath and ought to
make known the fact for the benefit of
others.
The writer confesses he has never
united with a lodge. More than four
decades ago his pastor offered to present
his name to the Masonic fraternity, to
which said pastor belonged, but my re-
ply expressed unwillingness to associate
with men bearing characters which were
briefly indicated.
While it is true that the outsider must
depend for information c[uite largely up-
on those who have withdrawn, yet when
it is remembered that in this country,
soon after the Morgan tragedy, forty-
five thousand severed their connection
with Freemasonry, and through more re-
cent years withdrawals and exposures
have continued, it will be seen that the
sources of information are ample and
reliable.
The National Christian Association of
Chicago, BL, is able to furnish the com-
plete ritual of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of Masonry, by a Sov-
ereign Grand Commander, 33"^ ; Oaths
and Penalties of thirty-three degrees of
Freemasonry, by a Master Mason, with
many booklets, addresses and tracts on
the subject, and a monthly magazine, the
Christian Cynosure, which treats on
the evils of secret combinations and bears
strong testimony against them.
From the publications named, from
the press both secular and religious, from
personal observation, and from the ex-
perience of friends who have brought re-
ports from the inside work of the lodge,
the facts herewith presented have been
received. During the year 19 10, an af-
filiated Freemason, who claimed to have
taken the full course of INIasonry, told
the writer of an oath he would not have
taken had he previously known its na-
ture, and added that he trembled on hear-
ing a certain other man take it. vSuch
facts as these ftu'uish the basis for the
title of this essay — ''Freemasonry Versus
Christianitv."
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
September, 1911..
Illustrations From the Ritual.
Freemasonry in a number of particu-
lars we name is against Christianity. It
rejects Christ from its ritual — from its
prayers. Here is an illustration :
'*0 God, we pray thee, thou Grand Ar-
chitect of the Universe, to cast Thy all-
seeing- eye upon this Sanctuary, which
symbolizes the Conscience of man, and
help us to use the key of Intelligence
within the Balustrade of Reason, so that
we may know ourselves, link ourselves
unto Thee, and become fit for the im-
mortality Thou hast promised."
The name of Jesus Christ is rejected
from Xew Testament quotations as fol-
lows :
''Xow we command you, brethren, that
ye withdraw yourselves from every
brother that walketh disorderly, and not
after the tradition ye have received from
us." (2 Thess. 3 :6).
"Xow them that are such we command
and exhort that with quietness they work,
and eat their own bread." (2 Thess.
3:12).
From each of these quotations is omit-
ted the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Misrepresents New Testament Teaching.
Masonry misrepresents New Testa-
ment teaching. Note the following:
Question : "How comes Masonry fal-
len to ruins as we are so bound together
by our obligations?"
Answer : 'Tt was so decreed in olden
times, as we learn from St. John, who
Ave understand was the first Mason that
held a perfect chapter."
Q. "Where does St. John say this?"
A. "In his Revelation, where he tells
of P)abvlon and the celestial Jerusalem."
Masonry not only rejects Christ, but ap-
points certain of its members to occupy His
place, with loftier titles than were given to
the Son of God.
.V few years as^o the Wilkes-Barre
fPa.) Record published the following:
"City Clerk Frank Detrick received a
Christmas gift on Saturday from Rich-
ard M. Johnson. Most Excellent Grand
High Priest, Royal Arch Masons of
Pennsylvania, in the form of an appoint-
ment as D. D. Grand High Priest^ in
charge of the Eleventh District, to take
effect on St. John's Day, Dec. 27th. Mr.
Detrick is a retiring High Priest, having
served at the head of Shekinah Chapter,
and his selection as D. D. G. H. P. is a
reward for faithful attendance to duty
and interest manifested in the welfare of
the organization. Mr. Detrick is an en-
thusiastic ]\iason and none is more de-
serving of this honor than he."
Thus it will be seen that the office
which, according to the teaching of the
New Testament, no one has a right now
to hold, but Jesus Christ, was given to
Frank Detrick, who was called Grand
High Priest and the man that conferred
the office was called Most Excellent
Grand High Priest.
If any one attached real importance
to the office conferred, because of the
sanctity the words seemed to indicate,
he may have received a slight shock a
few days after the appointment was
made, on reading in the daily paper that
this same Mr. Detrick was manager of
a ball about to be held in the Armory.
But to show that the office of High
Priest is treated as a joke in the Ma-
sonic lodge, let me give the report of a
St. John's Day celebration by the frater-
nity in Tunkhannock, Pa. : "Bradley W.
Lewis, in presenting the High Priest's
jewel to John B. Jennings, was greeted
with a ground swell of laughter which
overflowed when a harp of the Hebrew
variety was added by John B.'s friends
who have long admired him as a prima
donna." The notice in the next sentence
of the report states that "Religion and
Masonry was the theme of a pleasing
address by Rev. J. H. Brown." If the
remarks of the Rev. Mr. Brown imme-
diately followed the presentation of the
High Priest's jewel, as the item indi-
cates, it would seem impossible for him
to make an address which would be
pleasing to his hearers and at the same
time meet his obligation as a minister of
Jesus Christ.
Masonry Claims To Save Men From Sin.
Masonry claims to do for men with-
out Christ, what the New Testament de-
clares can only be done through Christ,
that is, to save men from sin.
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved." (Acts 16:31.)
"Neither is there salvation in any other.'*^
(Acts 4:12.) "He that hath the Son hath
life ; and he that hath not the Son of
God hath not life." (i John 5:12.)
Turning now to Masonic authority,.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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you may read: ''We now (as Master
Masons) find man complete in morality
and intelligence, with the stay of re-
ligion added, to insure him protection of
Deity and to guard him against ever go-
ing astray. These three degrees thus
form a perfect and harmonious whole.
Nor can we conceive that anything can
be suggested more which the soul of man
requires." (Sickels' Masonic Monitor,
pages 97, 98.) "Acacian — a term derived
from akakia (innocence) and signifying a
IMason, who, by living in strict obedience
to the obligations and precepts of the
fraternity, is free from sin." In Mackey's
Masonic Ritualist you may find this state-
ment : "The common gavel is an instru-
ment made use of by operative Masons
to break ofi: the corners of rough stones,
the better to fit them for the builder's
use ; but we, as free and accepted Ma-
sons, are taught to make use of it for the
more noble and glorious purpose of di-
vesting our hearts and consciences of all
the vices and superfluities of life; there-
by fitting our minds as living stones for
that spiritual building, that 'house not
made with hands, eternal in the heav-
ens.' "
"On a Sabbath in July, 1899, Dr.
Washington Sullivan, president of the
Ethical Religious Society, addressed a
large audience in Steinway Hall on Ma-
sonry. He took two texts, one from
Emerson's essay on Worship, and the
other from Kant's Critique of the Prac-
tical Reason. The following are some of
his utterances, as published in the Ameri-
can Tyler, a leading periodical of the
Masonic craft :
"This purest essence of the ethic creed
has been the inspiration of Alasonic
teachings. To build up that which is to
the soul what health is to the body —
character — this has been the aim of Ma-
sonry throughout the ages ; to show men
that they may make of themselves living
stones whereby a pure, strong, self-re-
liant state may be raised ; to teach them
that the keys of the kingdom of heaven
are in the custody of no priest, corpora-
tion or church, but in each man's own
hands ; that no religion can make or un-
make him save his own native endeavors ;
that he must be born again, not of water
or absolution, but by the arduous efforts
and persistent determination of his own
will. "^^ '•' '^ P^or this and other solemn
truth Masonry has been a symbol and a
witness ; and as long as such are the prin-
ciples which it endeavors to inculcate, it
must flourish, like the mystic city whose
foundations were laid foursquare and
imperishable. Can there be a second
opinion about such an institution, which
makes morality the sovereign concern
of life? Of course, dogmatical churches
of all colors frown upon it. To act as
though conduct alone were a sufficient
passport to present for future blessing is
to remove the priest's candlestick out of
its place. When Jean Valjean is dying,
his fussy old landlady pushes her head
into his attic and asks, 'Shall I send for
a priest?' 'I have one,' was Valjean's
reply. Valjean was a Mason and an Eth-
icist. He was his own priest, savior, re-
deemer. Believe me in truth and indeed,
there is, there can be, no other. Each
one stands severely, inexorably alone,
where the supreme problem of individual
destiny is concerned. And therefore I
say, that nothing better could befall a
young man, at the threshold of his life,
so full of possibilities for good or ill, so
pregnant with consequences to himself
and others, than that he should fall early
under Masonic influences and imbibe the
masculine gospel of self-dependence and
of self-reliance."
The teaching of the quotation just
made will compare favorably with that
of other man-made religions, when put
to the test of orthodoxy. Notice a few
of the declarations made : "He was his
own priest, savior, redeemer," "He must
be born again * -^ * by the arduous ef-
forts and persistent determination of his
own will."
Such teaching appeals to man's natural
pride and pleases his depraved imagina-
tion. Still if these views were held and
proclaimed only by non-professing Chris-
tians, they would accomplish much less
harm than they produce under present
circumstances.
The Awful Sin of Ministers.
But the great harm done to the Church
of Christ through these teachings is by
professing Christians and especially by
ministers of the gospel who adopt the
Christless creed and manifest their ap-
proval and submission by being stripped,
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hoodwinked and led as captives to bow at
the altp.r where only a human high priest
is recognized.
This deistic rehgion is further en-
dorsed in taking obligations wdiich it
would seem that no self-respecting man,
could he foresee, would ever assume.
But faithfulness to the obligations taken
and the perpetuation of membership are
evidence of acceptance of the new re-
ligion and approval of the initiation cere-
monies with tlieir attendant oaths and
penalties. It is in eltect saying, on the
part of the Christian layman and min-
ister alike, "I have tested this method of
worship and give it my approval and
influence." Thus, Peter-like, the pro-
fessing Christian denies Christ wdiile
warming by ^lasonic fire.
The great question in the church to-
day is. How can we reach and save men?
They have been readied by the lodges,
which as reported contain 8,000,000 of
them. And these men Jiaz'e reason to be-
Jieve that the religion of the lodges,
•li'hichi is endorsed by Christian ministers
Z'.-ho are affiliated with tliem, is sufficient
for their solvation.
Here may be found the explanation as
to why it is almost impossible to secure
the conversion of a Freemason. And the
fact that the work is so hindered among
Freemasons may account for the out-
spoken opposition to Freemasonry by
leading eA'angelists as Finnev, Moody,
Pentecost, Dixon, Torrey, and others.
A stock argument in favor of Free-
masonry is that good men are members
of the Masonic lodge. The wisdom of
the children of this world is seen on the
part of the lodge in the practice of re-
ceiving and advancing ministers in the
fraternity without money cost to said
ministers.
But it is a question whether it is quite
the fair thing for a preacher of ris^ht-
eousness to give the weight of his office
and name to an organization which he
would not unite with if a fee were char-
ged him for initiation and advancement.
But w^hile great and good men, both
of the past and present, are named as
Freemasons, others quite as great and
^ood stronelv condemn the organization.
Note the following testimonies :
"I am prepared to complete the demonstra-
tion before God and man, that the Masonic
oaths, obligations, and penalties cannot by
any possibility be reconciled to the laws of
morality, of Christianity, or of the land." —
John Qjiiiicy Adams.
"I am opposed to all secret associations."—
.tolin Hancock. . . ■
"They [secret societies] are a great evil,
entirely out of place m a republic, and no
patriot should join or uphold them." — Wen-
dell Pluliips.
"Before I would place my hand between
the hands of other men in a secret lodge, or-
der, class, or council, and bending" on my
knee before them, enter into combination
witli them for any object, personal or po-
litical, good or bad, I would pray God that
that hand and that knee might be paralyzed,
and that I might become an ol)ject of pity
and even the mockery of my fellow men.'' —
Wm. H. Sezvard.
"All secret associations, the members of
which take upon themselves extraordinary ob-
ligations to one another, an^d are bound to-
j^ether by secret oaths, are naturally sources
of jealousy and , just alarm to others; are-
especialiy unfavorable to harmony and mutual
confidence among- men living together under
popular institutions, and are dangerous to-
the general cause of civil liberty and just
government. Under the influence of this con-
viction I heartily approve the law, lately en-
acted in the state of which I am a citizen,
for abolishing all such oaths and obligations."^
— Daniel Webster.
"My whole record is against tliem." —
Frances E. Willard.
"Of all I wish to say of secret societies,-
this is th.e sum : Secret oaths —
"1. Can be shown, hi.-torically. to have led
to crime.
"2. Are natural sources of jealousy and
just alarm to society at large.
"3. A-re especially unfavorable to harmony
and mutual confidence among men living to-
gether under popular institutions.
"4. Are dangerous to the general cause of
civil liberty and just government.
"5. Are condemned by the severe denun-
ciations of many of the wisest statesmen,,
preachers and reformers.
"6. Are opposed to Christian principles,
especially to those implied in these three
texts :
" 'In secret have I said nothing.'
" 'Be not unequally yoked together zifith un-
believers.'
"'Give no offence in anything, tJiat the
mi )i is try be not blamed.'
"7. Are forbidden in some portions of our
Republic by the civil law, and ought to be in
all portions. Many European governments-
hold Freemasonry under grave suspicions, as'
a mask for conspiracies against throne and
altar.
"8. Are forbidden to church members by
some Christian denominations and ought to be
by all." — Joseph Cook.
"I do not see how an intelligent, conse-
crated Christian can belong to a secret order.
It is an express disobedience to God's plairr
command (II Cor. 6:14). Furthermore, the
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awful mockery of the profane prayer in the
pretended resurrection scene in the initiation
ceremonies of the Master Mason's degree
must shock beyond measure any man of real
spirituality. Some of the oaths in higher de-
grees of Masonary must be horrible Ijeyond
expression to any man possessed of genuine
Christian sentiment." — R. A. Torrey.
"Give them the truth, anyway, and if they
would rather leave their churches than tlieir
lodges, the sooner they get out of the churches
the better. I would rather have ten mem-
bers who were separated from the world than
a thousand such members." — Dwight L.
Moody.
(To be continued.)
CHURCH RULES.
What Rule is Best for Securing Young
Men for the Christian Church.
BY C. A. BLANCHARD, D. D.
The question submitted to me is this :
"'Would it be better for churches which
are opposed to secret societies to refuse
admission to young men who are con-
nected with various beneficiary organiza-
tions, or to receive them to membership
in the church and seek to wean them
from the lodge afterwards?"
This question is suggested by the fact
that the young men of our generation are
so largely hostile or indifferent to the
church. In our cities, and in country
places as well, a large per cent of the
young men are connected with various
beneficiary organizations. Some of them
are opposed to the older orders such as
the Jesuits, Freemasons, Od'dfellows,
and the like. They have united with
these fraternal organizations for the
purpose of insurance. Many of them
attend the meetings seldom or not at
all.
Ministers are raising the question
whether or not the rules which forbid
memberikhip in the church to such per-
sons should not be relaxed, the thought
to the church and ultimately from the
lodge.
Not Condemned for Poor Business
Judgment.
The answer to this question depends
upon the character of these organizations.
That they are financially unsound seems
clear from the very principles upon which
thev are constructed. As temporary ex-
pedients, while the greater part of the
membership is young, they may do; but
when the membership grows older, death
assessments become so 'frequent or so
large as to cripple or destroy them. It
is stated that over 3,000 fraternal insur-
ance companies, each of them involving
the lodge principle, have perished within
the last forty years. Almost every week
some new name is added to this long
death roll ; but the church, which
should indeed care for the material inter-
ests of its members, is not chiefly con-
cerned with them. It should antagonize
these lodges because they are financially
injurious; but this alone would not fur-
nish a good reason for excluding their
members from church fellowship.
No man should be denied the privileges
of the church because his business judg-
ment is poor. The exclusion must be
justified, if at all, upon moral grounds —
on the ground that these lesser orders are
one in principle with the greater.
Membership in Pagan Religious Organiza-
tions Ought to Debar from Church
Fellowship.
Freemasonry, Oddfellowship and all
similar organizations are pagan religions.
The God whom they worship is the god
of this world. He is not God the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Their prayers
are not offered in the name of Jesus, their
creed is deistic, their ceremonies are de-
grading to manhood and even dangerous
to life and limb, their obligations are anti-
Christian. If the beneficiary orders are
of the same sort, of course the church
should require persons who are members
of them to cease from that membership
before they seek to identify themselves
with it.
Minor and Major Orders the Same in Na-
ture and Tendency.
I am satisfied that the lesser orders,
as they are called, are the same in nature
and tendency as those that are called
greater.
The Modern Woodmen of America,
when organized, attempted to omit every-
thing of a religious character. No pray-
ers were provided, no Scriptures were to
be read. The organization was declared
by its founder to be purely secular, and
to have no purpose except the relief of
suffering and need. Yet the \\'oodmen
have alreadv a burial service. They are
now asking ministers to preach sermons
to them once a year, and are going on
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September, 1911.
the Sabbath days to the graveyards for
memorial services there. The fact is, men
need some rehgion. They wish it, and
when thev are not wilHng- to be Christians
they make a religion for themselves. If
this be true, that the minor and major
orders are the same in nature and ten-
dency, then I am decidedly of the opinion
that churches should instruct young men
regarding them before, and not after, they
become members of the church.
If we allow that these beneficiary or-
ders are evil in essential respects, and if
we hold that young men should antago-
to be determined, first, as respects her
nize them, the duty of the Church is then
children, and, second, as regards those
The attempt to draw men into the
church, leaving them in ignorance of the
true character of the adversaries of the
church, has been a disastrous failure.
There is no reason to suppose that it will
be more successful in the future than it
has been in the past. If the church will
teach our young men what they ought to
know, and live before them as it should,
they will unite with the church, and will
not have to be coaxed to leave lodges.
What Rule for Other Young Men?
Respecting the work for young men
who are not reared in Christian homes,
the idea of the Church is still to educate.
At the present time we hear much said
about "attracting" people to the churches.
Various devices are used for this pur-
pose, and they have a greater or less
degree of success, but it is evident to
any one who has studied the question that
attracting people to the church for an oc-
casion and attracting them to an intelli-
gent and constant membership in it are
widely different things. The only churches
which have succeeded in doing the latter
are those which have preached the gos-
pel, and thus met the deeper needs of
the human heart. Hired singers, entertain-
ments, popular addresses and the like
may draw a large number of persons to
the church, but unfortunately they will
soon fall away and will do very little
good while they are present.
God's Standard Ought Not to Be Relaxed,
What is needed for the church is a com-
pany of men and women truly converted
and fully consecrated to the work of sav-
ing others from the death of sin. These
cannot be secured by any hocus pocus,
but only by the power of God. This
power is not granted to tricks and de-
vices, but to penitence, faith and prayer.
Churches and persons who really desire
God may be assured of His presence and
blessing, and when they have Him they
will secure all the favor with men that
will be good for them. What our churchei
should do is not to lower the standard
which the word of God sets up, but to
abide by it and bring the people up to it.
This is the path of duty and of victory.
iHluarti*
MRS. R. A. CULLOR.
Just as we were closing the forms of
this number, word was received that
"Dear Mother died this morning (Sat-
urday, August 19th). Did not suffer
at the last — just quietly stopped breath-
ing."
Mrs. Laura L. Cullor's memory will
be precious not only to her ten children,
but also to all who love a godly charac-
ter and a loyal servant of the Master.
Few have been called upon to bear as
heavy a cross as she and her husband
bore for fidelity to the antisecrecy cause,
when buildings were burned, stock pois-
oned, tongues of valuable cattle cut out,
sixteen head of fine steers stolen at one
time, besides hogs and sheep; and also
law-suits were trumped up, which cost
thousands of dollars to defend, and an
abuse of themselves and family that is
almost unparalleled in ^present times.
''Nearer and dearer are the blessed dead
Than we are wont to think.
When with farewells and tears we bow the
head
Beside the solemn brink.
^ffi 5JC i}^ -^ f^ 'T^ 5)*
"Oh, comforting, sweet thought — that
though we stand
On death-divided shores,
Love still can stretch to us its angel hand,
And lay its heart on ours!"
David said, "I shall not want." God
gives us not only what we need but what
we want. God saves us from all unholy
desires and we feel satisfied with holy
delights.
September, 1911.
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XXXVI.
Some Examples of Masonic Benevolence
and Morality.
Half a dozen summers previous to the
one in which occurred the scenes relat-
ed in the last chapter, there happened
one of those common and yet most sad
events, a serious accident to a laboring
man with a wife and children depend-
ent upon him for their daily bread. He
was a carpenter and fell from an imper-
fectly built staging, receiving severe in-
ternal injuries that resulted in his death
after a year of lingering illness.
"The lodge will see to you and the
children," whispered the dying man to
his weeping wife, whose always delicate
health had been shattered by incessant
watching at the bedside of her sick hus-
band, and, knowing that his death would
leave her without a penny, could not
see in the dark night of approaching wid-
owhood the glimmer of a single star of
'earthly hope. "I've always paid my
dues regular till that accident happen-
ed. The lodge owes it to me to see that
vou and the children are well provided
for."
"They have given us in all but twenty
dollars since you have been sick," an-
swered the wife, who was only a woman
and reasoned as women are apt to in
such matters. "That is but a fraction
of what you have paid them at one time
and another. And I am sure we have
needed the money."
"I know twenty dollars don't go a
great ways, but we've rubbed along.
And now I've got pretty nigh the end,
so there'll be all the more for you and
the children."
His wife was silent. She had her
misgivings, but not for worlds would
she breathe the shadow of a doubt into
the ear of that soul that was passing into
eternity, happy in the thought that he
belonged to a brotherhood which made
the widow and the orphan the objects
of its especial care.
That night he died. The lodge buried
him with Christless prayers and dirges,
and, to do it justice, spared none of the
honors to which a defunct "worthy
brother'' is Masonically entitled. The
widow's hopes revived. Surely they
who would do so much for the dead
would have a care for the living. But
the lodge, when applied to for assistance,
viewed the matter in a slightly different
light. For, to state the simple truth, a
number of grand suppers given by the
fraternity, sundry bills of cost for re-
galia, gloves, aprons, etc., to say nothing
of a great many extras for wine, beer
and cigars, had swallowed up so much
of the charity fund as to leave the lodge
in no condition to heed her appeal. But
it must not be supposed that any such
explanation of the case was given to the
indigent widow when she asked for fur-
ther aid. Oh, no. She was coolly told
that her husband had not paid his dues
for a year, and they had done all that
could reasonably be expected of them in
giving him Masonic burial.
She could not prove that the lodge had
taken her husband's money and paid
him back, not counting interest, scarce
a fifth part of what was his actual due.
The widow struggled along for a while ;
a few individual Masons contributed to
her relief from their own pockets, but
as benevolently inclined persons are to
be found everywhere and the lodge col-
lectively had nothing to do with these
contributions, it may be fair to infer
that they might possibly have done the
same thing whether Masons or not. It
was a hopeless struggle even with occa-
sional aid from private charity. Her
health completely broke down at last.
Her two children were bound out, while
she went to the almshouse as her only
refuge, dying there soon after of quick
consumption.
Death, in separating her from her chil-
dren, however, spared her, as death so
often does, the pang of a deeper anguish
— for she was Mary Lyman's mother.
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It doesn't matter where I gathered
these facts. They are true. This is not
-a statistical book or else I should be
tempted to give a few figures that would
demonstrate to the most skeptical that
the benevolence of the lodge is on a par
with its morality — a hollow sham, a
Avhited sepulchre.
]Mary Lyman's father was a Mason,
hut this fact did not save her from ruin
and death at the hands of a brother Ma-
son who had solemnly sworn to preserve
inviolate the chastity of all women with
near [Masonic kindred, though with this
very convenient little proviso attached,
''kiwK'lnci tlicjii to be such:''
AA'omen of America, do you hold your
pin'ity so lightly that you can afford to
countenance such a system as this ? Will
you. knowing these things, still continue
to smile on the lodge and accept its slimy
favors ? Sisters of the Church of Christ,
does it matter nothing to you that Ma-
sonry rejects His name from her ritual as
''too sectarian" and tramples His aton-
ing blood under foot by teaching anoth-
er way of salvation ? that by the testi-
mony of her own writers she traces back
"her origin to the ancient heathen myster-
ies with their abominable rites of dark-
ness, and aspires, as we learn from the
same unquestionable source, to become
finally "the universal religion of man-
"hood?" Can you prav for the speedy
coming of Christ's millennial reign and
be indifferent to the fact that another
kingdom is being set up in which He has
neither part nor lot ? Will you apologize
for such a system? defend it by your
silence or worse still ''care nothing about
it?" As it rejects Christ, so it has no
place for woman, and should the day
ever dawn when Masonry becomes the
tmiversal religion, God help her!
Rachel herself gathered the flowers
from her own garden to lay about the
dead girl's white, still form. She placed
a half -opened rosebud between the clos-
ed fingers, kissed, the cold forehead, and
with solemn words of prayer that seem-
ed in their tender, impassioned earnest-
ness like a personal appeal to that infin-
ite, unchanging Pity which is at the heart
of God in Christ, visibly manifested be-
fore his eyes — it was Elder Stedman
who perform.ed the last services — Mary
Li'man was laid awav in a corner of the
potter's field outside the cemetery to
slumber till the resurrection morning.
But before the grave had set its seal
of corruption on the statuesque beauty
of a single lineament her murderer was
released on a writ of habeas corpus and
admitted to bail !
Elder Stedman, when the funeral was
over, came back to our house ; but, un-
heeding the cup of tea that Rachel pour-
ed out for him, he paced up and down
the room in stern and solemn silence,
broken at last by these abrupt words —
'T have been like one of the foolish
prophets. I have healed the hurt of the
daughter of my people slightly. God
forgive me. Henceforth every faculty
of mind and body shall be devoted to an
unceasing warfare against this dragon
of Masonry that stands like his proto-
type in Revelation ready to engulf and
sv/allow the church with the devouring
flood he casts out of his mouth."
"Why, Mark;" said I, "you do your-
self injustice. When hardly a preacher
in these parts dares to mention Masonry
you have scourged it unsparingly from
the pulpit. What can you do more?"
"I tell you, Leander," said Mark,
pausing a moment in his agitated walk,
"I feel as if I had only tickled the mon-
ster by throwing wooden darts at him.
Henceforth it must be a hand to hand
combat. Onh^ the iron of truth can pen-
etrate between the scales of his armor,
for, like Apollyon, his scales are his
pride. I must lecture as well as preach
on this subject."
"But, Mark," I answered, a little
startled, "you will only rouse persecu-
tion. A good many people seem to think
Masonry is like the Giant Pope whom
Christian saw sitting in the mouth of his
cave — too old and decrepit to hurt. But I
know better. The lodge don't care much
for a few side thrusts, but attack it at
close quarters and you will find that it
can turn with as deadly vengeance as it
did in Morgan's day."
"Well," answered the Elder, quietly,
"I am old and gray-headed now, and a
few years of life less or more matters
little to me. There is a conflict coming
and woe unto me if I gird not on my ar-
mor to meet it. My old belief comes back
to me. This is going to be no ordinary
contest. It is the battle of Armageddon.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURIC.
14rr
the last great contiict before the final
end."
Mark spoke with the same kindling
eyes and solemn fervor with which he
had dilated on this very same subject
forty years before.
"I have had some such thoughts
myself," I answered, after a mo-
ment's silence. "Organized secrecy
seems to be Satan's last and most
cunning move. In the old pagan
and popery times he tried to con-
quer the church by sheer open force.
Now he is trying to undermine the cita-
del, and the worst of it is the church
won't be roused to see her danger. How-
ever, I suppose I can no more keep you
out of the battle than I could Job's war-
horse. Only have a care of yourself,
Mark, for Hannah's sake."
The Elder started as if I had touched
a tender chord, for he and Hannah were
a lonely couple now. Of their two sons,
one had died in the service of his coun-
try, the other was a toiling missionary
on the far-off soil of southern Africa.
But it was only for an instant, then the
pole star of his life shone out clear and
steady.
"I told Hannah the day she married
me that she must take me as the Coven-
anter John Brown took his wife, Isabel,
with the assurance that when she least
expected it the hand of violence might
part him from her. We have learned
to hold nothing back — not even each
other."
But while the Elder was thus absorb-
ed in thoughts of that great pre-millen-
nial contest which he believed was ap-
proaching. Colonel Montfort was like-
wise thinking — though on a different
subject and with a good cigar to aid the
process. Two difficult tasks lay before
him ; one was the triumphant delivery
of Maurice Jervish from the hands of
justice, the other was the sacrifice of An-
son Lovejoy to violated Masonic law.
The Colonel was not a man of gener-
ous impulses, and had there been no
other tie between him and Mary Ly-
man's murderer than mere friendship,
he would in all probability have washed
his hands of him. He desired to shield
Jervish, firstly and primarily, because
the honor and glory of Masonry de-
manded it. V\ hat was to become of the
fraternity if its members could claim no-
special privileges over honest men ? A
vital (|uestion to the Colonel, who knew
very well that there had been times in
his own political and military career
when he might have fared badly if the
shielding of each other's crimes had
formed no part oi lodge obligations.
However hopeless the situation might,
appear to un-Masonic eyes, in the light
of these encouraging items of his past
experience, the Colonel did not despair
of bringing oft' his friend with flying col-
^)rs. It was over another subject that
he spent the most anxious thought, andl
constuiied the greatest number of cigars.
He hated Anson Lovejoy as wicked-
ness will always hate rectitude. He was
furious that he had dared to pursue Jer-
vish and deliver him over to the grasp
of the law ; and as the controlling spirit
of the lodge he was well aware how very
easily the wrath of the fraternity against
him could be made to bring forth its.
legitimate fruit — murder. Nor is it too
much to say of the Colonel that he knew
he could at any moment put his finger
on the men who would not scruple to-
dispose of Anson Lovejoy after the most
approved Masonic fashion. The pos-
sibility, however, of another Antimasonic
excitement was a factor which contin-
ually came in and disturbed the Colonel's
reckoning, for he was a man accustom-
ed to weigh duly all the pros and cons
before committing- himself to a course
of action which might entail disagree-
able consequences. But his hatred of
Lovejoy burned with so intense a flame
that for once passion overpowered the
cool and calculating selfishness which
with him as with most men of that pe-
culiar caliber was the governing princi-
ple of his life.
The sound of his name spoken in low
and cautious tones by some one standing
outside broke in upon the Colonel's med-
itations. He rose and, opening the long
window, stepped out upon the piazza.
A man stood there in the moonlight, a
prominent member of Fidelity Lodge.
"Oh, it is you, Mugford. I suppose
all the arrangements are made then : but
don't let too many into the secret. Half
a dozen would be enough if the affair
was managed properly."
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September, 1911.
"I've talked with Golding and Peck
and the others. They will be all ready
to do their part when the time comes.
But \Miitby we can't depend on I am
afraid. He hangs back."
The Colonel muttered an oath.
"\\'ell, shut his mouth up some way.
If he is disposed to blab give him a hint
that ^^■e know how to manage traitors,
\\> can deal with one as well as anoth-
er." And after a little more conversa-
tion of like tenor the two conspirators
separated.
]\Iasonic min-ders would be mtich more
common than is happily the case if the
brethren everywhere lived up to their
obligations : but just as the majority of
slaveholders were far more humane than
the system which gave them irresponsi-
ble power, so ]Masons as a rule are better
than the institution which swears its de-
votees to bring every traitor to ^'strict
and condign punishment."
Among the hardened and desperate
men. the rowdies, gamblers and drunk-
ards who surrounded Colonel Montfort
and moved obsequiously to do his bid-
ding, there was one who shrank from
the crime of secret assassination. The
result was that Anson Lovejoy the
next day received from an unknown
source a much crumpled note with a
rude imitation of the square and com-
pass in the corner, which after correct-
ing some peculiarities of orthography
ran as follows :
"Don"t go to the lodge tonight. They
mean to ask you to resign, then drag you
from the chair if you refuse, and murder
you in the lodge room. In the scuffle it
will never be known who struck the blow.
If you value your life, stay away.
"A Friend and a Mason."
"How do I know but this is a mere
foolish trick to frighten me?" said Love-
joy. *Tt would look too cowardly to
stay away. I can't do it."
''Xo," I said, earnestly, ''this is no
trick but a friendly warning. You must
heed it."
Lovejoy stood irresolute. I knew he
felt as a brave man always does at the
thought of saving his life by what seems
like cowardly flight from a post of duty.
'T have thought of a plan," I said,
after a moment's silence. "Go to the
lodge to-night, as usual, and your life
shall be protected."
"How?"
*■ Station a guard around the lodge.
There are plenty of Antimasons in Gran-
by that would rather enjoy serving in
such a capacity. Take your seat in the
chair precisely as at any ordinary meet-
ing, and as soon as there is the least at-
tempt at violence, give the signal and
we will burst open the door and rush
in."
''That will do," he said, after a mo-
mentls deliberation. *'No' better plan
could be devised."
And with the understanding that I
should as quickly and quietly as possible
gather a force sufficient for his protec-
tion, Anson Lovejoy prepared to front
the men who had secretly banded to-
gether to take his life. For what? For
violating his Masonic obligations. In
other words, for daring to do his duty
as an honest God-fearing citizen of this
free Republic, consecrated to liberty by
the blood and tears of our forefathers,
yet fostering in its bosom a dark and ter-
rible despotism which, when its laws are
violated, knows neither mercy nor for-
giveness, allows of no appeal from its
sentence, and punishes without the form
of trial.
Although the tide of popular excite-
ment in Granby had subsided with the
arrest of Jervish, it left, as such excite-
ments usually do, a deposit behind it.
Firm and settled conviction had taken
in many minds the place of ignorance
and doubt. Pronounced Antimasons
were scarce before," now they were very
common. Consequently I found no diffi-
culty in gathering a force sufficiently
large to surround the lodge and prevent
the threatened attack on Anson Lovejoy.
We allowed the brethren time to as-
semble, and then marching silently from
our place of rendezvous we took our
stations around the building, scarcely
daring to breathe lest some sound should
escape our ears from the upper room
where the lodge was meeting.
Meanwhile Lovejoy had seated him-
self in the Master's chair and gone
through the preliminary exercises with
outward calmness. He no longer doubt-
ed the truth of the warning note. Even
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
145
before he caught sight of a knife con-
cealed under the coat of one of the mem-
bers he knew himself to be surrounded
by a hand of secret assassins, and felt
that on his courage and tact in co-operat-
ing with those outside his life depended.
Colonel Montfort, as before hinted,
was a man that preferred to do his dirty
work by means of tools. He meant to
keep his hand concealed throughout this
whole affair. It was therefore no part
of his scheme to open the attack on
Lovejoy in person, but to put forward
Simon Peck instead, as the mouth-piece
of the lodge. Peck was an ignorant and
illiterate man, and far from being a
good spokesman, but he knew that the
demand to resign would be felt by Love-
joy as an additional insult, coming from
such a quarter. Peck was the most sub-
servient of tools under his master's eye,
and in the present case some personal
feeling mingled with the infuriated hate
towards Lx)vejoy which he shared in
common with the other members of the
lodge, for so violating his Masonic ob-
ligations as to arrest a murderer.
Some writer has said that everybody
is well connected in certain directions.
So also is the opposite /act true, espec-
ially among the heterogeneous elements
that compose American society — for
^Maurice Jervish, the personal friend of
Colonel Montfort, was also some con-
nection of the Pecks. It was there he
had first seen Alary Lyman, and though
he moved in a so much higher social
sphere than they, was quite willing to
take all the advantage which his relation-
ship to the family gave him in accom-
plishing the ruin of his victim. Peck
had badgered his wife into denying be-
fore the coroner's jury all knowledge of
the closed carriage that had been seen
to stop at their door the night Mary was
missing ; he had likewise aided in secret-
ing Jervish — it was believed on his prem-
ises, which the sheriff, true to his Ma-
sonic obligations, refused to search — all
at the bidding of Colonel Montfort, who
found in Peck just that mixture of bigot-
ry and self-conceit which is so conven-
ient in the underlings of the lodge when
their superiors wish to manipulate them
for purposes of their own.
Lovejoy listened calmly to the end of
the halting, ungrammatical speech, which
was really nothing but a low tirade of
abuse. He was prepared for this part
of the programme. Peck sat down and
wiped his forehead, rather exhausted
with his effort at oratory, but supremely
satisfied therewith. There was an in-
stant's silence, during which Lovejoy's
eye looked with eagle keenness over the
throng of conspirators which surrounded
him like a pack of hungry wolves thirst-
ing for his blood ; and then he answered
slowly and firmly :
"If I have committed any offense
against Masonic law I am willing to meet
the charge, and if proved, submit like
any ordinary member to the sentence of
the lodge. I am denounced as a traitor.
To resign the chair under these circum-
stances would be equivalent to a plea of
guilty, and I therefore refuse most de-
cidedly to do any such thing."
This reply was also in agreement with
the programme. There was a murmur
of rage as Lovejoy finished speaking.
and a forward movement from the mem-
ber who carried the concealed dirk.
''You shall resign, 3^ou blasted traitor!"
he exclaimed, with an oath. "Take vour
choice, either be dragged from the chair
or give it up peaceably."
'T will neither be dragged from the
chair nor give it up," coolly answered
Lovejoy, who knew that the fatal mo-
ment was fast approaching when, ac-
cording to their pre-concerted arrange-
ment, the w^iole band of ruffians would
be on him. "You have met here to take
my life. I know it, and others know it.
too. A guard of the citizens of Granby,
at least a hundred strong, now surround
this lodge, prepared to rescue me from
}^our hands should you attempt violence.
I have only to give a certain signal and
they will rush in. The result may be
a worse Antimasonic excitement than the
one yon accuse me of heading. Now^
take your choice ; give up your plan to
assassinate me, or carry it through and
take the consequences."
The lion's mouth was fairly shut, for
the most infuriated Mason present did
not care to provoke the popular ven-
geance that would have surely followed
any attack on Lovejov. Colonel ]Mont-
fort, under his concealing mustache, fair-
ly ground his teeth with rage at this un-
looked-for miscarriage of his deep and
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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subtle plot. He liad rightly calculated
that with every member of the lodge
pledged to keep ^lasonic silence over the
altair, and ]\Iasonic sheriffs and juries
to obstruct the course of justice in every
possible way, there would not be the
ten thousandth part of a chance that the
actual perpetrators of the deed would
ever be discovered or punished. Nor
had it occurred to his mind that Love-
jov, even if he should hear of the plot
against him, would take any other meas-
ure of self-defense than simply to stay
away.
"I have one more remark to make on
this subject," continued Lovejoy, look-
ing round with unflinching gaze on the
baffled conspirators. "You denounce me
as being false to Masonry because in
the discharge of my duties as a citizen,
I arrested a criminal who' is also a Ma-
son. If to be true to my lodge obliga-
tions requires me to be false to God and
my country, then I have had enoush of
the system, and the world has had far
too much ; and the only thing that I or
any other honest man can do in such a
case is to quit it."
I will not transcribe the ^ volley of
cursing and profanity which followed
this speech of Lovejoy's. It was as if
hell had broken loose. Colonel Mont-
fort, who had by this time assured him-
self that eager ears were really strain-
ing in the darkness and silence below to
catch the least sound of tumult or up-
roar in the lodge, was alarmed.
*'The brethren forget that this is a
meeting for business," he said, with cool
effronterv. "We are onlv wasting time
by this useless talk. Our Worshipful
Master charges the brethren with a con-
spiracy to assassinate him. I on my part
charge him with un-Masonic conduct in
hiring a mob of cowans and eavesdrop-
pers to surround the lodge ; with using
inflammatory language designed to ex-
cite the public mind against the order,
besides many other violations of his ob-
ligations and dutie3 as a Mason. I there-
fore move that a complaint be present-
ed to the Grand Lodge of the State
against Anson Lovejoy, Worshipful
Master of Fidelity Lodge, No. 60., A.
F. & A. M., petitioning for his expul-
sion and removal from office."
Lovejoy listened with calm disdain.
To a man who had stood but the mo-
ment before face to face with death this
was but the firing of blank cartridges.
The after proceedings were unimport-
ant, and after an unusually brief and
quiet meeting the lodge disbanded, fairly
checkmated in its murderous purpose.
The hushed and silent crowd kept
vigilant watch till Lovejoy came out;
then greeted him with enthusiastic cheers
that could be heard half over Granby.
He was the hero of the hour, but I fan-
cied that like some other heroes he felt
that there w^as a certain thing lacking ta
his triumph.
''A Christian should not bear mxalice,
Mr. LoA^ejoy," I said, as I shook his
hand. "Give us a call tomorrow and al-
low Mrs. Severns to congratulate you."
Lovejoy hesitated. He had not cross-
ed our threshold since the day Rachel
had forbid his entrance ; and I could not
blame him if he entertained some rank-
ling remembrance of her harsh and bitter
words.
'Tf you think I shall be welcome —
not otherwise," he answered.
"Try it," I said, with a smile. Love-
joy hesitated no longer.
"Thank you, Mr. Severns, I will, if
it is only to prove that I 'bear no malice,"
as you call it, because your good wife
told me the truth. I was a companion
of murderers as tonight's events have
made me realize. But I am so no lon-
ger.
The next day, agreeably to his prom-
ise, he came over. Rachel met him with
extended hand and a hearty, "Forgive
me, I was unjust; but I have found out
my mistake."
"I have nothing to forgive, Mrs. Sev-
erns," was his equally sincere and hearty
answer. "The medicine was harsh, but-
I am no worse for it."
Verily,
"A curse from the depths of womanhood
Is very bitter and salt and good."
(To be continued.)
Those who adhere intelligently and
determinedly to Freemasonry have no
right in the Christian Church. — Charles
G. Finney.
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Mm$ of ®ur Woxk
The church of the Brethren in Belle-
fontaine was well filled on the first even-
ing of the Ohio State convention, and
the interest as well as the numbers in-
creased to the end. It is not usual to see
forty stalwart men, besides women, pres-
ent at a morning meeting as early as 9 130
o'clock. Not only the Ohio State Asso-
ciation, but the Church of Christ gen-
erally, owes a debt of gratitude to Rev.
J. E. Hartzler, of Elkhart, Ind., for his
consecrated, unselfish and helpful serv-
ices in the defense and enlargement of
the Kingdom of his Lord.
We are getting well toward the half-
century mark of the organization of the
N, C. A., and it seemed remarkable that
in this State convention there should
have been present three who were at
the birth of the movement. Bishop Dil-
lon, Captain Scott and President Blanch-
ard, we believe, were each at the Pitts-
burgh meeting at which the association
was formed.
The financial statement of the treas-
urer showed that the collections during
the State convention were $47.92, the
amount in the treasury $15.42, making
a total of $63.34. The expenses of the
convention were $57.95, which left a bal-
ance in the treasury of $5.39. The re-
port of the secretary of the convention
has not vet been received.
STODDARD IN OHIO.
Lima. Ohio, Aug. 16, 191 1.
Dear Cynosurk :
I am waiting a train to Dunkirk, Ohio,
where I go to meet Wesleyan Methodist
friends in their Conference.
W'e have just had a season of refresh-
ing in the Ohio work. Weather favored,
and the people attended the Ohio state
gathering at Bellefontaine in a way that
cheers. The church was comfortably
filled at the evening and afternoon ses-
sions. The morning session also showed
a live interest. Had all come at once the
church would not have been large
enough.
There was but one on the program
who failed to appear. We missed our
good brother, Hon. H. R. Smith, but
were assured that his absence was un-
avoidable, f never heard Reverend
Hartzler and President Blanchard speak
with greater force and freedom. Fruit
from their sowing appeared at once.
Many were stirred, some converted and
others were set to thinking.
We regretted the illness of the pastor
of the church, which kept him from this
meeting to which he looked with prayer
and expectation. He has the prayers of
many for his recovery. The coming of
our general secretary was appreciated.
The ladies gave us a happy surprise in
the good things to eat which they brought
in baskets fresh from the farm.
When I began work in Ohio, about
twenty-five years ago, among the active
workers I found Capt. J. M. Scott, of
Granville, T. C. Speer, of Northwood,
and the brothers, T. W. and J. L Stew-
art, of Belle Center. These friends have
all passed their three score, and two, at
least, their four score years, and it was
an unexpected pleasure to have them
again with us in Convention. They were
doubtless encouraged in seeing younger
men taking up the battle they have w^aged
in other years. We were indeed glad to
join with Doctor Dillon in thanking God
for the health that permitted him to again
address us.
Our good President Gottshall found
it difficult to leave the multipliea duties
of his large field, but he was with us with
his accustomed energy and blessing. Rev.
S. P. Long, of Mansfield, sent his con-
tribution and reported a church member-
ship of 1,700 now in his care. He re-
cently delivered the strongest anti-secre-
cy address of his life, before one thou-
sand people.
There were some splendid points in
the address of our ex-president, Rev. W.
J. Sanderson, of Cedarville. "The lodge
people tell us they have some good men.
Supposing," said Brother Sanderson, "I
should say I had a few good cattle, when
the buyer came around, what would be
the inference regarding the rest of the
herd?"
' Doctor Dillon's story of the hunters
and the soup brought out rather aptly
the same point that Brother Sanderson
made. One brought a squirrel and put it
into the soup. Another brought a quail
and put it in the soup ; another a pigeon.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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and put it in the soup, and another a
skunk, and put it in the soup. "The
last." said the Doctor, "skunked the whole
business." The application to the lodge
is easy.
Friends from West Liberty. Hunts-
ville, Xorthwood, Belle Center, etc.,
turned out in good numbers.
\Miile preparing for the Convention, I
o^ave addresses in three Mennonite
churches in and near West Liberty, m the
churches of the Brethren at Bellefon-
taine and Logan, and in the Friends'
church, Bellefontaine. The Cynosure
subscription list, though previously very
good at West Liberty and Bellefontaine,
was more than doubled. These people
believe in our work and are willing to
support it.
W. B. Stoddard.
A Postscript.
AW ^L Conference :
Dunkirk, O., Aug. i8, 191 1.
I found here, as expected, an earnest
Christian people interested in N. C. A.
work. They gave me a seat in the Con-
ference and an hour to present the Cause.
The spiritual atmosphere is good. Four-
teen subscriptions are added to the Cyno-
sure list.
I go soon to Smithville and Damascus,
Ohio. W. B. S.
MRS. LIZZIE WOODS' LETTER.
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 3, 191 1.
Mr. Wm. L Phillips,
Chicago, 111.
Dear Brother in Christ Jesus :
After leaving Brinkley I stopped at
Clarendon, Ark., where the Woman's
State Association convened June 27th.
I distributed tracts amone the ministers.
There were a goodly number of them
there. I remem.ber giving a tract to one
preacher, who said tO' me: ''Sister, the
lodges are wrong, but nothing can take
men out of them but the Holy Spirit."
I answered : "Yes, but the men need the
Word of God first,which is the sword of
the Spirit TEph. 6:17), then the Holy
Spirit has something to work on in them.
It is the Word of God that condemns a
man, and the Holv Spirit brings it to his
remembrance," (lohn 14:26). He said :
"Yes, that is true." I said, "Well, let's
give out the tracts, and they will start a
man to thinking, and he will look up the
Scripture text printed in the tract, and
as soon as he gets his eyes on God's
•Word the Holy Spirit will begin His
work in the heart, and the result is that
he will leave the lodge."
I heard one of the strong, leading min-
isters of the state say in his address that
no' preacher ever found a text in God's
Bible which was meant to be used as a
text for an "annual sermon" to a lodge.
When he said that, I looked on the lead-
ing preachers of the Baptist church and
thought, Alas ! alas ! What will become
of the people ? For I looked on two men
who, a few Sundays before, had preached
annual sermons, one for twenty-five dol-
lars and the other for twelve dollars.
I left this meeting and have been work-
ing in Pine Bluff since. I have been vis-
iting a big holiness meeting, where there
were more than five hundred people each
night. This gave me opportunity to
speak to Christians in all kinds of de-
nominations and secret societies. And
the Word of God went home to the hearts
of the people. Some were mad, but oth-
ers said, "Amen, the truth is coming
home." One Master Mason in the con-
gregation said, while I was telling the
secrets of the first three degrees of Ma-
sonry, "If that isn't Masonrv I never
was a Mason." Some of them went
home asking each other, "Where did that
woman get our secrets?" Some said I
had been in the orders : others said, "No
we do not initiate women in our orders,"
and still others said, "She has stolen our
books, and we ought to have her arrested
and make her give them up." Some of
the people thouo'ht I ought to be killed,
while others said, "Somebodv ought to
sDeak for lesus, for the Church is nearly
dead, and men and women, girls and
boys, with all their education and all
their money, are on their wav to hell.''
Oh, Brother Phillips, the people can see
that somethinp- is the matter with the
preachers. "For the oeople turneth not
unto Him that smiteth them, neither do
they seek the Lord of hosts" (Is.
9-M-T7).
A few ni8;-hts ago a saloon-keeper was
having a game of cards with another
man. The two got into a dispute over
the card fable, and the saloonist shot and
September, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
149
killed the fellow who was playing with
him. The sheriff had to slip the murder-
er oft" to Little Rock to keep him from
being lynched. The next day a man said
to me: ''Sister missionary, that saloonist
has killed six men. He killed two negroes
when he kept saloon at Sherrill, Ark.,
and two at Cornerstone, and one at Du-
mas, Ark., and this white man makes
six." I said, "Well, I reckon he will be
cleared of this crime like all the rest of
them." He replied, "No, he won't. The
man he killed this time was an Eagle and
an Elk and a Mason and an Odd Fellow,
and the murderer does not belong to any-
thing to help him out." I said, "Well,
the law will give him justice, maybe. I
hope so. But here is the question I want
to ask you : That poor man was shot
down in a saloon while playing cards.
Now, tell me, to which one of the Grand
Lodges above will the preacher send
him?" "Well," said he, 'T had never no-
ticed that before. I am a sinner and I
am a lodge man, and I have heard that
we would go to the Grand Lodge above ;
but I cannot risk myself on that promise ;
I want salvation through Jesus Christ,
and hope you and all other Christians
will pray for me. I don't want to be
lost. I have been told if I live up to my
obligations I will go to heaven when I
die, but I am afraid to trust that." I
said to him, "Yes, you are in the dark.
May God help you to see the light, is my
prayer."
Yours for the Master's service.
Lizzie Woods.
A TESTIMONY IN KANSAS.
Claytonville, III., Aug. ii, 191 1.
Dear Brothers Phillips :
I have just returned from Garnett,
Kans., where I was called to preach at a
funeral. You may be sure that I took
occasion to point out the only possible
way of salvation and to warn the people
against the various soul-traps of the age.
I did not fail to compare and contrast
the religion of the Lodge with that of
Christ and to show the people the falsity
and the humbuggery of the Lodge relig-
ion.
I preached to more than a thousand
people. I was on my old fields of labor
and made myself at home, and spoke as
one having God-given authority, and not
as the scribes. I preached three ser-
mons, including the funeral sermon. The
funeral sermon and the Sunday morning
sermon were preached in the Radical U.
B. church house, and the Sunday evening
sermon was preached to a good congre-
gation in the Liberal U. B. church. Alany
prominent lodge-men were present at
each meeting, and while some of them
manifested considerable uneasiness, they
kept cool, as they no doubt anticipated
something of what was coming to pass.
Others were there for the purpose of
getting more light on the issue of the day.
While I had no mercy on the lodg^
abomination, I tried to use good methods,
clear explanations and sound arguments,
backed by the Word of God, and to be
exceedingly careful lest I should w^ound
the cause in behalf of which I was plead-
mg.
The Liberal U. B. minister was not
afraid to say Amen to my discourses and
many of the people congratulated the
speaker on what they called the much-
needed sermons. It was rather a hair-
raising experience for some, but I feel
sure that it will prove a blessing to many,
both in and out of the kingdom of dark-
ness.
While I realize that there is much
room for improvement, I am much bet-
ter prepared for this work than I had
ever hoped to be ; and while it means
tribulation of the old-time kind, I have
great pleasure in this important part of
God's work. The minister who will pre-
pare himself for this great work and go
at it and keep at it in the proper, com-
mon-sense way will do a wonderful
amount of good, and God will surround
him with an army of the truest and best
people on earth and be with him to the
end of the world. I like this work of
turning people "from darkness to light,
and from the power of satan unto God."
As ever, your brother in the N. C. A.,
L. V. Harrell.
AGENT DAVIDSON IN LOUISIANA.
Mansfield, La., Aug. 10, igii:
Dear Cynosure:
I have traveled very extensively since
my last letter to you. I am meeting with
much encouragement.
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The Cynosure is making converts
Avherever it is "read. The harvest truly
is ripe, but the laborers are few. Prof.
Whaley liere is principal of the 12th Dis-
trict Baptist Academy. He is an earnest
and faithful disciple.
I find the Lodge strong here and con-
stantly multiplying. I was kindly enter-
tained by ]\Ir. Jenks Jackson, a cousin.
He was stung by the beast and received
his mark (initiated into the Lodge) a
few vears ago, but he has found it a very
costly experiment and will likely soon
give it up.
At Alexandria, La.
I received the usual welcome, and at-
tended an extra session of the Baptist
State Convention at Rose of Sharon
Church. The delegation was not large
on account of incessant rains the past
three weeks. I was heartily received by
the brethren and received many kind
courtesies and a small donation through
the efiforts of Dr. H. B. N. Brown. I
distributed tracts and received a few
Cynosure subscriptions and deUvered an
address. Dr. A. Hobbs of New Orleans,
preached a powerful antilodge sermon,
which was well received. This is a se-
cret society stronghold and yet the Ne-
groes must be complimented for having
three splendid brick church edifices and
half a dozen very creditable frame
church edifices, and their pastors are
very well supported. They also own
considerable real estate and are con-
ducting more than a dozen business
enterprises. They also operate and sup-
port three high schools aside from the
public schools. This is a progressive
little city of 10,000, very nearly one-half
of whom are Negroes. Relations be-
tween the two races are as friendly as
can be expected.
At Oakdale, La.
This is a saw-mill and logging district.
Wages are very good, but the laborers
do not seem to profit. The national la-
bor unions have walking delegates going
through this country holding night meet-
ings, hoodwinking the laborers and or-
ganizing secret labor unions, which in
the near future will prove a thorn in the
flesh. Already their exactions have been
so unreasonable that several of the larg-
est plants in Calcasieu and Vernon par-
ishes have shut down and more than 500
men are idle as a result. I had no ap-
pointment and remained only a short
while.
At Leesville, La.
This is the seat of Vernon parish, and
one of the most beautiful towns in South-
west Louisiana. It is both a farming
and saw mill section. Pine forests abound.
It is a very progressive town of about
2,000, and the Negroes are keeping pace
with their white cousins in education and
the accumulation of property. There are
four Negro churches and two lodge
halls. Secretism is pretty strong, but
the churches are not so very generally
neglected for the lodges as they are in
many places. Nevertheless their influ-
ence for evil is being felt. This town is
just three miles from the little log cabin
in which I was born October 31, 1862.
I hoped to visit that very spot after an
absence of forty-four years, but oppor-
tunity did not permit it. I secured a
large number of Cynosure subscriptions,
delivered one lecture and preached three
sermons and left many seriously consid-
ering their Lodge ties. I have a great
number of relatives here.
At Lake Charles, La.
This is a very pretty tableland city,
situated on a beautiful lake from which
it takes its name, and in a fine prairie
coimtry. This is the seat of Calcasieu
parish and has about 12,000 inhabitants.
There are about ten Negro churches here.
Educational facilities are very good and
the Negroes are preparing themselves
very well. I was comfortably entertained
by my cousin, Mrs. M. Jones. I preached
for Rev. E. W. Renty, and secured a
few subscriptions. The baleful effect of
Secret Societies here is felt very greatly.
At Abbeville, La.
Here I was greeted by Rev. J, W.
Wiggins and one of my old New Or-
leans parishioners, Mrs. D. E. Johnson,
who made it pleasant for me. I was also
cordially received by Rev. Taylor and
preached for his people. This is a great
Creole Catholic center. Yet the Secret
Lodge has a strong hold here upon the
Protestants. This is a quaint, old, non-
progressive town. Ignorance and Cath-
olic superstition abound. I secured few
subscriptions.
September, 1911.
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151
At New Iberia, La.
I was cordially greeted here by Prof.
Jonas Henderson, Principal of Howe In-
stitute, gift of the late Peter Howe of
Winona, 111. Prof. Henderson is as
strong against the Lodge as he was twen-
ty years ago. He assured me that his
school is alive and doing great work in
this sugar belt. This is a very progres-
sive town and the Negroes are keeping
well in the line of progress. Secret So-
cieties are very strong here, as in most
cities of its size, but Howe Institute is
well leavening the country around about
and its influence for good is felt and
acknowledged on all sides. I had no ap-
pointment here.
At Rayne, La.
I was met at the depot by a committee
of young ladies headed by Rev. Roy, and
escorted to the home of Deacon Kings-
ton, where a bounteous preparation of
dainties was served, after which Rev.
Roy escorted me about the city. This is
a beautiful. old Creole prairie city over-
flowing with hospitality. Secrecy is
strong as usual, but the people are anx-
ious for light on the subject. Rev. Roy
presented me at night to an intelligent
and orderly congregation, to whom I both
lectured and preached at length. There
is perfect harmony and friendship ap-
parent on all sides between the races
here. Rev. Roy has done and is doing a
great work for the religious, moral and
intellectual uplift of his race. He de-
serves great credit for his untiring ef-
forts. The Negroes own a good share
of the real estate here.
At Crowley, La.
I received a warm reception and hearty
welcome here. I spent Sabbath here and
lectured and preached at Israelite Bap-
tist Church. My visit here last Novem-
ber is remembered by the lodgeites. They
are very strong and yet they seem willing
to give respectful attention to an anti-
secret preacher. Mr. Ben Smith and
family, Prof. R. U. Clark and family and
Mr. E. Edwards and family provided
nicely for me and gave me many loving
considerations.
At Lafayette, La.
This is the oldest town in Southwest
Louisiana, and has about 7,000 people,
the greater part of whom are Roman
Catholics, being full of Romish ignor-
ance and superstition. This is the most
ignorant parish in all Louisiana. There
is but one school for Negroes in the en-
tire parish. In fact the poor and ignor-
ant Cajans in the interior of the parish
are sternly and openly opposed to Negro
education, and will not allow any Negro
schools outside of Lafayette. Rev. A,
Oiiver, D. D., a correspondent from
Morgan City, La., for the Cynosure in
1888, 1889, 1 890- 1, is pastor here, but
his fight against the papal bull of Rome
is as hard or harder, he thinks, than that
against the Secret Lodge System. I se-
cured a few Cynosure subscriptions and
preached one sermon at Dr. Oliver's
church.
At Alexandria Again.
I returned here to meet a^)pointments
at Union Baptist, Rose of Sharon Bap-
tist, St. Mark's Baptist, Shiloh Baptist,
Newman's Memorial M. E. and Beth-
lehem Baptist churches.
Pray for truth to triumph with my
deluded people.
Yours for righteousness,
F. J. Davidson.
WORK IN WEST VIRGINIA. '•
Dear Bro. Phillii-s:
On July 25th I delivered a free lecture
on secret societies in the court house at
Grantsville, Calhoun county, West Vir-
ginia. August /th I lectured in the court
house at Harrisville, Ritchie county.
West Virginia. The evening of August
19th I will lecture in the house of Elder
Cyrus Dotson. in Greenwood, Ritchie
county. Brother Dotson is an elder in
the Christian church. He was a trav-
eling evangelist for nine years and is
very much opposed to secret oaths. He
tried to get the Christian church for me
to lecture in, but could not. The power
of the secret works of darkness w^as too
strong for him. So he opened his house
for the lecture.
Yours truly,
Joseph Potter Graybell.
OUR CANADIAN LETTER.
39 Mansion St., Berlin. ()xtari().
Aug. 17, 191 T. '
Mr. W. I. Phillips,
Chicago, 111.
Dear Brother :
Mv last letter to vou was from Cob-
]o-2
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
September, 1911.
lenz, Sask. I am now at home in Berlin,
Ontario, where I am arranging for fur-
ther operations.
Book Department Established.
The Lutheran Book Room, Berlin,
Ont., will keep a number of your anti-
secrecy publications in stock, and I am
in hopes that an organization will be
effected at this point.
Ways of Working.
A recent letter from the president of
our provincial university has this : ''Your
letter with regard to Freemasonry has
been forwarded to me here. As I wrote
you before, though I am not a Free-
mason, I have a great many friends of
the highest character who are, and I can-
not as an outsider, with no other reliable
sources of information, help believing
that in belonging to the order they are
not doing anything inconsistent with
their religious or moral profession." I
have forwarded to him ''The Strange
Case of yh\ Goodman," and referred
him to the National Christian Associa-
tion for further information.
You may be assured, Bro. Phillips,
that the anti-secrecy forces of Canada
will cause their presence to be felt in the
country.
Yours for truth and righteousness.
Moses H. Clemens.
Editorial Note. — We suggest that each of
our Canadian readers Avrite Mr. Clemens an
encouraging note of sympathy and promised
co-operation. Follow his example and write
your public men and furnish them with lit-
erature.
A CRY FROM WEST AUSTRALIA.
Secretary of the National Christian As-
sociation,
Chicago, 111., U. S. A.
Dear Sir — Some time ago you were
good enough to forward me a number
of pamphlets on secret societies, issued
by your association. I distributed all of
the' matter received. Of all places this
state wants teaching on the subject of
secretism.
I should like to know the constitution
of your association, and whether a
branch could not be formed here in or-
der to combat in some measure the evils
of secretism in our churches. Would
you please help me in this matter, as the
difficulties of Christians opposing secret
societies are great. Every walk in life
seems to be influenced, and very often
men who stand out find it most difficult
to wnn success from their avocation.
I shall be glad to get your periodical,
and will forward subscription later. I
shall be glad of a prompt reply.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Yours sincerely,
J. S. Nelson.
Perth, West Australia.
The first prize in a recent annual ora-
torical contest at Houghton Seminary,
Houghton, New York, was captured by
Mr. James W. Elliott of Pittsford, Ver-
mont. He is said to be an enthusiastic
reformer and was valedictorian of the
senior preparatory class of this year. It
is especially interesting that the first prize
went to the only one who had an anti-
secrecy subject for his oration. We
promise our subscribers the reading of
Mr. Elliott's oration in the October num-
ber of our magazine. Prof. H. R. Smith,
Jr., of the Seminary says: "Make prac-
tical reformers of the high honor stu-
dents of our anti-secret schools and we
shall have taken a long step toward suc-
cess. It seems to me that the only hope
of our cause lies in a systematic cam-
paign of reform instruction for the
young of our land."
The recent Ohio State Convention was .
honored by the presence of Capt. J. M.
Scott, of Granville, Ohio, now in his
eighty-third year. He has not yet re-
tired from active service for his Lord.
Lately his town paper gave the Masonic
lodge some free adA^ertising, and as
usual declared that its members were
walking in the footsteps of the great
Washington. Captain Scott at once is-
sued a tract showing that Washington
was not a loyal Freemason and what his
actual relations of the lodge were, and
distributed the tract throughout the
town.
We ride through life on a raft made
of our blunders. We are saved through
our failures. If we always succeeded
we would get the big head and be ruin-
ed by our success.
September, 191].
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
153
Irom §nx JiatL
FROM AN OLD FRIEND.
Little Rock, Ark., July 14, 191 1.
Dear Bro. Phillips :
I herewith renew for another year for
the Cynosure. I think it doubtful if I
live to renew again. I am well along in
my eightieth year. I think Joel H. Aus-
tin, of Goshen, Indiana, has passed away.
I was a regular correspondent of his, but
I have not heard from him for two years.
Well, the old ones will soon be gone, then
where are the others to take their places ?
[Note. — Mr. Austin died over a year
ago. — Editor.]
I met a man a few days ago, the Rev.
G. W. Shepherd, whose letter to me was
published in the Cynosure a few years
ago. He gave up his Masonry imme-
diately after I had that controversy with
him. I am now working on another
Methodist preacher, also a Baptist and
a minister of the Christian church. Will
you please send them sample copies of
the Cynosure ? Some of these people
do not know^ that there is such a maga-
zine opposed to secret societies.
Truly yours,
. A. J. Millard.
A Later Letter.
August 10, 191 1.
Your letter came while I was away
from home, attending a revival meeting
in the southern part of the state. I told
two preachers who were there what they
lacked in their ministry ; it was not warn-
ing against the secret lodge ! I took the
third chapter of Ezekiel, commencing at
the 17th verse, and read several verses
to them, and then showed them that to
be a faithful witness and watchman one
could not neglect this important subject,
r then turned to the eighth chapter, say-
ing to them that in this chapter was an
almost complete description of a Masonic
lodge : seven abominations, each one
greater as it was reached. I showed
them that the rites of Masonry were bor-
rowed from the ancient sun-worship —
for instance, worshiping the sun in the
east — and told them if they did not want
the sensation of being lifted up and car-
ried bv the hair of their heads, thev had
better do their duty. My talk had its
effect, for at the night service one of the
preachers opened fire on all secret or-
ders— Masons, Woodmen, Odd Fellows,
Farmers' Unions, etc. He asked the
audience if they could keep anything
secret from God? "Don't you know that
God is here, and is looking at us right
square in the face, and knows all our
thoughts and deeds?"
The result was that this preacher did
the subject a better service than I could
have done, so I am glad that I was the
means of giving these men a start. They
will never neglect the lodge again.
A. J. AIillard.
1410 Gaines St.
A letter from our Brother Thomas
Mulligan, of Headley, England, prom-
ises another one of his interesting letters
lor the Cynosure in the not distant fu-
ture. He writes : 'Tt is wonderful how
fresh and interesting the old Cynosure
keeps. It seems to be renewing its
youth.
"The Lodge Systems here are work-
ing and growing, but it seems to me more
difficult to get at them here than in
America, where they make more noise
and show and are more in evidence."'
Brother Mulligan is one of the work-
ers who has been for years, and is still
doing a mighty work with but little
"noise and show."
Rev. E. Countryman, of Westervelt,
TIL, writes : "I have been 'Graciously
Delivered' and am anxious to help others
out of the darkness of lodgism, as the
Lord helped me."
Among the Methodist Episcopal min-
isters in sympathy with the N. C. A. is
one who advises us in a unique way of
his change of location. He says : "Kind-
ly change address of my copy of the
Cynosure. '■' '•- * The great ^Teth-
odist wheel, with its inner wheels (lack-
ing eyes sometimes) has performed its
annual revolution, and I have fallen on
mv feet here and am alreadv workiner
and witnessing for Him who is 'holy,
harmless, undefiled, and separate from
sinners.' "
154
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
Septemlier, 1011.
A National Reform Convention will
be held in Park Street Church, Boston,
Tuesday. October 24, under the auspices
of the National Reform Association.
Avhich seeks "National Regeneration
from the Reigning" Alediator, by the
Holy Ghost, through the proclamation of
the Sovereignty of God. the Kingship of
Christ, and the Supremacy of the Scrip-
tures, voiced by those Christian Citizens
whose loyalty to Christ in the Realm of
Political Life makes them His faithful
and true witnesses, and this National
change of heart evidenced by the Na-
tion's Profession of Faith in a Constitu-
tional Recognition of God as the Source
of all Authority, the Lord Jesus Christ
as the Ruler of Nations, th^ Bible as
the Fountain of all Law% and the true
Christian Religion as the Nation's Life."
There will be a morning session at 9
a. m., an afternoon session at 2 p. m..
and an evening session at 7 :30 p. m.
LETTERS TO OHIO CONVENTION.
My church membership has now
reached 1,700 and the work is multiply-
ing so that I cannot make any definite
promises as to going away. I believe
as strongly as ever that the spirit of
secret societies is anti-Christian in the
last analvsis. Do all 3^ou can to show
this.
(Rev.) S. P. Long.
Mansfield, Ohio.
A House Built Upon the Sand.
There is not a week goes by that I do
not think of the National Christian As-
sociation and God's faithful servants
who are pushing it forward. I consider
that organized secrecy is without doubt
the great sin of our world, and is doing
much harm. The advocates and build-
ers have been rejoicing greatly over their
success, until lately it has been discov-
ered that their great and glorious work
is on a very poor foundation (sand), and
it is believed a sense of uneasiness is
coming into the minds of the chief lodge
advocates, and a feeling that there is
danger ahead. We think so.
(Rev.) Joseph Hoffhines.
Canal IJ-inchester, Ohio.
From a Seceder.
My brother is a INIaster Mason. I
asked him w^hy he did not go on and
take more degrees, and he said it took
too much money. He said a high degree
Mason told him that if he had the first
three degrees he had all the essentials of
Masonry. I told him I could buy a book
for $1.25 that would give me all of that.
I think when he went in he did like the
rest of us — he was utterly unselfish —
but all the same, he went in to make
money. I hope you will have a good
meeting. I have no more sympathy with
Masonry than I have ever had.
(Rev.) FI. A. Thompson.
Dayton, Ohio.
ATTENTION!
Arc you interested in Gospel Tracts? Do
YOU know that tracts are one of the best medi-
ums in bringing the Gospel to the lost? If we
could realize the wonderful blessing that we
can impart to others by handing, or sending,
them a good tract, we would l)e astonished
indeed. Eternity alone can reveal all the
good done by tracts. We would like to hear
from you on the subject.
Our tracts are sent out free in Jesus' name.
God provides the money to print and dis-
tribute these tracts by free will offerings.
To Him be all glory now and forever. Amen.
Write us, pray for us, and "Be no_t weary
in well doing, for in due season we shall reap
if we faint not." — Galatians 6 :9.
Your brother, in behalf of the lost.
S. E. ROTH,
Address Peculiar Publishing Co., Wood-
burn, Oregon, R. F. D. Route No. 3.
MODERN BROTHERHOOD
OF AMERICA.
The Modern Brotherhood of America
is a mutual insurance lodge, in the same
class as the Modern Woodmen of Amer-
ica. Those interested in securing some
literature issued by this order, setting
forth its claims, may do so by sending
ten cents to the Alodern Brotherhood of
America, 25 North Dearborn street, Chi-
cago, Illinois.
It is well, known that there are him-
dreds of difi^erent secret insurance or-
ders. The National Christian Associa-
tion furnishes literature upon the Mod-
ern Woodmen of America, including an
exposure of its so-called ''secrets," as a
fair illustration of the principle and op-
eration of every one of the three or four
hundred lodges in this class.
September, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
loo
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.
The Knights of Columbus is a fra-
ternal and social insurance order. It was
organized in New Haven, Conn., March
29, 1882, and incorporated under the
laws of that state. "Its objects are to
promote social and intellectual inter-
course among its members and to ren-
der pecuniary aid to them and to their
beneficiaries. Men only of the Roman
Catholic faith, between eighteen and
forty-five years of age, are eligible to
jiiembership. Death benefits of from
$1,000 to $3,000 are a feature of the
organization." There is a social depart-
ment or side of the order, by which men
may become members who do not care
to be insured, or who are physically un-
able to pass the examination. "The em-
blem of the Knights of Columbus is an
eight-cornered cross, ornamented with
representations of a compass, dagger,
anchor and vessel, having reference to
the voyage of Columbus in 1492." It is
not, strictly speaking, a military order.
Like some' of the other orders, it takes
special pains to make a fine showing be-
fore public gatherings. But the wearing
of a sword is very far from being
"equipped with the very best of modern
weapons." We believe there are at the
present time, in this country, about 350,-
000 members of this Catholic order.
DIVIDED ALLEGIANCE.
:^rRS. If. R. SMITH, LEONARDSUl'RCi. ()HI0.
Liberty liell sweet cadence rang,
On Freedom's natal day.
Proclaiming liberty througbout tbe
Region of our fair America.
Alas ! does the star-spangled lianner
Still \va\-e o'er a land that is free,
Since hosts of her snbiects are in sworn
Allegiance to the god of secrecy?
Like Ilaman of old, the secret
Powers are occupied of late,
Framing decrees to get control of the
Mordecais outside of the gate;
And gallows are now reared,
In parts of our Union,
To force those whom they can not cabletow
Into silent submission.
As the Fugitive Slave law ignited
The fuse to a powerful magazine.
They may 'ind history repeating itself,
Although they feel calm and serene.
Are we going to bow to their edict —
Suppression of free speech —
And as followers of the lowly One,
Defer His holy truths to teach?
Divided allegiance provokes judgments
Of divine wrath.
The house of Israel felt it as an
Avalanche sweep o'er their path.
For the Lord, He is a jealous God,
Of sovereignty and power. . .
Think you He'll share His worship,
His majesty, with another?
He is jealous of His honor, and ;
Jealous of His name,
Jealous of His holy day — give heed
Not to profane.
He is jealous of His church, -
A defender of his creatures.
Bowing at shrines in secret chaml^ers, '
Are laymen and also preachers.
Look into the Scripture mirror, which
God holds up before us all.
And see them, as Ezekiel did, through
A crevice in the wall ;
In service of the temple they posed
As His own chosen ones,
But the "Revealer of secrets" showed Ezekiel
'J'he}- were only Baal's sons.
Ho ! all ye who answer to the
Mystic roll call.
See not you the handwriting
That glares on the wall?
"Weighed in the balance and found
Wanting," you see ;
"By rejecting my Son, ye
Rebel against Me."
No room in the lodge for the
Savior and His love ; '
They only recognize one supreme
Ruler above. i
Thus wid'ning the gate and ' ■
Broad'ning the way.
For all religions and sects • ^
To unite harmoniously.
Therefore a false worship is held
Up to their view.
Teaching by symbols a wa}' ':
To pursue ''
.To gain the fair haven
Of heavenly rest,
In the Grand Lodge above.
Among their own blest.
They are robl)ed of true manhood.
And frankness of youth ;
They are boimd to conceal, at the
Expense of the truth ; '.
Their actions and words become
A mere tool. ;
Restricted and goxerned by a '
Grand Master's rule.
They must go at his lidding.
Or come at his call ;
By oaths and death penalties
Sworn to obey all ; ;
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
September, 1911.
Under cover of darkness, they
]\Ieet ill their halls.
With banqueting and revelry.
Of dancing and brawls.
They're shorn of their freedom, their
Birthright from heaven.
Which God in His love to all
Men hath given.
That conscience unchained her
Dictation might move
All men to espouse and His
H0I3- Word prove.
Their lives as clear streams
Uniting in one,
Might become a great power,
To herald His Son,
Whom He gave to this world.
Because of His love.
That all might be saved, in
His glory above.
With the purity of the lily and
The fragrance of the rose,
The seeking shepherds found Him,
In His humble repose — -
"A diadem of beauty," ''The
Bright and morning star."
The wise men, too. behold Him,
Traveled from afar,
Bringing their offerings of gold.
Frankincense, and myrrh.
And prostrate before Him became
His worshipers.
No coming to the Father, save
Through His lowly Son ;
'Tis high treason to discard Him,
And worship but the One.
"Ye are bought with a price.
Be not servants of men" ;
"Call no man master, neither be
Called master by them."
"For other foundation can no
Man put in place,
"That that is laid, which is Jesus,"
Full of truth and grace.
Must the church be longer robbed
Of her shekinah glow
Through entanglement in the net
Spread by the secret order foe?
No compromise with darkness,
Or its cunning variations,
Are allowed in Christ's commands
Of our entire separation.
We see those friendly to the lodge
Close to the "border land of woe";
As near as uninitiated the craft
Will let them go.
They are longing for the leeks and
Garlics of titled sin.
And like the "silly little fly," .
Are being drawn within.
A^"-'' behold the Rev. Aarons in
T^'e pulpits of today,
De^'A'^*"ipg speeches and memorials
To this Christless pageantry.
Ye must be perversely blind.
Who fail thus to see
Prophecy fulfilled in the antichrist, —
Fraternal secrecy.
This "pestilence which walketh in
Darkness" Jehovah's church assails,
Leaving "blight and mildew" all
Along its trail.
Under the searchlight of truth
It cannot exist ;
For before His "quick and powerful"
Word all darkness fades as mist.
Take courage, all who "sigh and cry"
Against the secret powers.
Wielding the sword of light and truth
For "Him whose cause is ours,"
Assured from His own written Word,
With which we have to deal.
That on the "forehead" of His loyal ones
He places His "ink horn" seal.
— Tlie Wesleyan Methodist.
UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH.
Its Position on Secret Societies,
[editorial in christian conservator.]
In the first place, the Constitution of
the United Brethren Church is against
the admission of secret society members
into the church. The Constitution by
which we are governed is the Constitu-
tion of 1841, unchanged, which says:
"There shall be no connection with se-
cret combinations." This Constitution
cannot be changed except by the request
of two-thirds of the whole membership
of the church. It was for this principle
that the United Brethren Church con-
tended before 1889, then and now.
Definition.
How does the United Brethren Church
define a secret society? "A secret com-
bination is an organization whose mem-
bers are pledged to conceal their initia-
tory ceremony, their obligation, or their
inside workings." Any organization that
comes under the above definition of a
secret society would be considered by the
church as belonging to that class and
therefore its inembers could not be mem-
bers of the United Brethren Church.
The church holds that these combinations
are evil, and that Christians ought not
to be connected with them, and that if
any individual wants to be a member of
a secret society he cannot be a inember
of the church of the United Brethren in
Christ.
September, 1911,
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
157
Automatic Discipline.
We hold that a person cannot be a
member of a secret society and a member
of the United Brethren Church at the
same time. He may be a member of a
secret society and be counted as a mem-
ber of the church, but not actually a
member. The Discipline declares : "Any
member or preacher who shall connect
himself with a secret combination shall
be regarded as having withdrawn from
the church." This works automatically.
If any person who is a member of this
church joins a secret society he is there-
by regarded as having withdrawn from
the church and can only be retained and
considered as a member upon the condi-
tion that he sever his connection with
such combination. No individual can
become a member of the church who is
a member of a secret society unless he
severs his connection with the secret so-
ciety. He may answer the questions for
membership and be enrolled on the class
book but is barred from membership in
the church if he is a member of a secret
society.
Pastor's Duty.
Now, in case we find the names of
persons on our class records who be-
long to secret societies, what is to be
done? Perhaps the first thing to do is
for the pastor to visit such a person and
seek to have him conform to the rule of
the church and if he will sever his con-
nection with such combination he may
be borne with and retained as a member
of the church. But if he refuses to give
up the order there is only one thing left
for the pastor to do. "And in the annual
revision of the class book each preacher
in charge of a work shall see to it that
no names of members of secret combina-
tions are retained on the class book ;
neither shall they be reported to the an-
nual conference chart. For the faithful
discharge of this duty, the preacher shall
be amenable to the annual conference."
The pastor must take his name ofif the
record.
The pastor cannot decide otherwise.
The class cannot say that such a member
can be retained. The (juarterly confer-
ence has no jurisdiction in the matter.
The annual conference cannot change it.
Even the General Conference, the law
making body of the church, cannot say
that secret society members can become
members of the church. It requires the
consent of two-thirds of all the members
of the church and then the adopting ac-
tion of the General Conference to admit
them into the church. The time to take
such names from the class record is at
the annual revision of the class book.
Any preacher who receives members of
secret societies into the church or re-
ports them to the annual conference vio-
lates the plain letter of the Discipline and
is amenable to his annual conference.
Lodge Member Excludes Himself.
One more question we wish to answer
and then we are through. In case a per-
son is a member of a secret society and
his name is found on a class book in
any society in the United Brethren
church ; and at the annual revision of the
class book the pastor takes his name
from the class record, does the pastor
turn him out of church ? In answer to
this question we say that he does not.
If he is a member of a secret society he
is not a member of the church and the
only thing that the pastor does is to take
his name from the class record. — Au-
gust 2, 191 1.
NEST OF ORIOLES.
"The local nest of Orioles was insti-
tuted yesterday afternoon in Foresters'
Hall by L. L. LeClair and suite. Guests
were present from other nearby cities,
where nests recently have been institu-
ted. There are seventy-two charter
members of the new fraternal order and
meetings will be held the first and third
Fridays in Foresters' Hall."
The penalty of the Oriole oath must
be hanging.
"To die is gain." This doesn't mean
when you go into your grave at the end
of life but when you die to your self-life
you in like measure gain the divine life.
When you die to hate you gain love.
When you die to impatience you gain
patience. When you die to ])ride you
gain humility, etc.
I do not believe it possible for a man
to be an intelligent Christian and an
intelligent Mason at the same time. —
R. A. Torrcy.
]o8 CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE. September, 191L
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CONTENTS
Obituary- —
Ezra Asher Cook 161
Contributions — •
Watchman, What of the Night? Presi- .
dent Blanchard's Letter. : . .' . 164
The Conflict and the Victory. By James
W. Elliott 168
Reminiscences. By Ezra A. Cook 171
Freemasonry Versus Christianity. By
Rev. J. C. Leacock 174
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Fierce But Victorious Battles 179
Emperor William Not a Mason 179
The Power of the Secret Empire. By Miss
E. E. Flagg 180
New Reason to Subscribe 185
News of Our Work —
Michigan State Convention • 186
Ohio State Conference 186
An Exhortation to Pastors 189
Secretary Stoddard's Letter 190
Southern Agent's Report 191
Mrs. Woods and the Oddfellow 191
N. C. A. Cash Contributions -, 192
The Praver Circle 19-?
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•'Jesus answered him,-
—I spake openly t» -flie world; and in secret have I said nothing."
John I8:'Z0.
. VOLUME XLIV.
CHICAGO, OCTOBER, 1911.
NUMBER 6.
MR. EZRA ASHER COOK
This brother, who has been for many
years a temperance worker, an advocate
of Sabbath observance, an enemy of Am-
erican slavery, an enemy also of the ex-
clusion laws, which shut foreigners out
of our country, an enemy of the secret
lodge system, a friend of the Christian
Church and a patron of the Christian
school, passed quietly to his long- rest,
from his home in' Wheaton, Illinois, Fri-
day morning, September 15th, at about
4 o'clock. ,He had been seriously ill,
both in mind and body, for several
months and death came to him as a
blessed release.
The funeral exercises were held in
the Wheaton ' College Chapel on Sab-
bath, September 17th, at 2:30 p. m.
There were present, his brother, Mr.
David C. Cook, the publisher, the
wife of Mr. D. C. Cook, and
their two sons. The brother and sisters
of Mrs. Ezra A. Cook and numbers of
their children were also present. Mr.
J. B. Cook, Mr. Lyman Cook, Mr. Maur-
ice Cook and Mr. and Mrs. Aveling, sons
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra A.
Cook, were privileged to be present. A
number of the daughters, with their
husbands and children, were hindered
from the occasion by distance of abode.
There were present, besides relatives,
numbers of old friends from Chicago,
Mr. John Miller and daughter, Mr. J.
M. Hitchcock, who gave one of the me-
morial addresses, and others.
The clouds which had gathered in the
morning had broken away and as the
last word was said at the grave the sun
was shining; a blessed token, as we be-
lieve, of the joyful rest into which he
had entered.
In the absence of the pastor of the
College Church, Rev. J. G. Brooks, who
was seriously ill, President C. A. Blan-
chard was requested to conduct the ex-
ercises.
The singing was by a quartette com-
posed of Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Mills, ^Ir.
Mann and Mr. Cork. The second piece
sung consisted of four stanzas, three of
which were written by Mr. Cook over
forty years ago ; the fourth stanza he
added recently.
The exercises opened with the read-
ing of the following biographical state-
ment:
Seventy years ago, the fifth of next Xo-
vember, Ezra Asher Cook was born with-
in a parsonage in the quaint village of
Windsor, Connecticut. His father, Rev.
Ezra Sprague Cook, was a highl}^ educated
Methodist minister, commissioned by the
great Bishop Elijah Hedding to be an
Elder. His parents were themselves of
American parentage, dating back to the
early Puritan settlements. Among earlier
English ancestry was Hugh Latimer, the
martyr during the reign of Queen Anne.
The Sprague family of Rhode Island was
represented in the father's name. Rev. Ezra
Sprague Cook. The family name Cook was
transmitted from one Ellis Cook, who left
Southampton, England, about 1614. coming
to Lynn. Massachusetts, and subsequently.
with a company, founded the present town
of Southampton, Long Island, in 1640.
Some of Ellis Cook's descendants removed
from Long Island to New Jersey, and later
to New York state, and settled not far
from Albany. There a substantial farm
house, since dcstroj'ed, was known as the
family residence at Sap Bush Hill (now
Fulton), New York, for more tnnn a cen-
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tur}'. In 1776 the call of the Revolution
was answered b}' the hardy ancestors whose
descendant nearh' a century later went to
the battle front in 1861.
^Ir. Cook was the third child in a fam-
il\" of seven. His early boyhood days
were spent on the old family homestead
in upper New York state, and at East
\\"orcester, but at the age of tw^elve he
came with the others to the far w^estern
town of Chicago. His father's broken
health improved after taking up a farm
near Chicago, in wdiat is now the town
of Proviso. The children were carefully
taught by their father from infancy, and
later went to the primitive district
school. Ezra w^as ambitious to secure a
college education and was unusually dili-
gent in study, and acted at one time as
assistant in Physics in Illinois Institute,
now^ W'heaton College. He was one of
the charter mem.bers of the present Bel-
tionian Society.
At the age of nineteen he entered the
Union army and went to the front. He
was a member of the 39th Illinois regi-
ment, which fought in the Army of the
Potomac. He took part in many import-
ant battles — one of them being the Bat-
tle of Petersburg, when General McClel-
lan's army almost captured Richmond.
While in South Carolina he was detailed
to care for the colored refugees who
came to his regiment for protection. He
carried on a Sunday School for these
poor people and was beloved by them
all. His Bible was his constant com-
panion. He read it through seven times
during the war. His straightforward
abolition principles were not shared by
many of his companions, and on many
occasions he valiantly spoke for the
principle that all men are created free
and equal. He was severely wounded
in his right hand at the battle of Drury's
Bluff. Amputation was at first consid-
ered necessary, but without anesthetic
he endured a long siege of painful, slow
recovery. His strict temperance princi-
ples were the saving of his hand, in the
belief of his surgeon.
After the close of the war he served
an apprenticeship with J. W. Middleton,
stationer, and in 1867, together with his
father, he formed the firm of Ezra A.
Cook & Co., publishers and stationers,
at 88 LaSalle street, Chicago, opposite
the City Hall. His prosperous business
was completely destroyed by the Great
Fire of 1871, and he was left heavily
in debt. He paid all in full, although
his creditors themselves offered to settle
for a small per cent. One of them, later
a leading business man of Chicago, burst
into tears and said, "You are the first
man who has paid me his debt since
the fire." He continued business on
Clinton street and on Wabash avenue
until twenty years ago, when he moved
to 17-19 River street.
Mr. Cook was a charter member of
the National Christian Association and
commenced the publication of the Chris-
tian Cynosure as a weekly paper. His
attitude has always been fearless, and
the influence of his publications, since
continued in that reform, has been far-
reachins:.
Mr. Cook was early associated with
the Moody Church, and was one of the
founders of Bethany Church. He then
joined Dr. Goodwin's church — "The Old
First" — and remained for more than two
decades a cordial, efficient member, un-
til in 1908 he moved to Wheaton with
his family, to associate again with the
friends of his youth. His residence
since 1881 was on Washington Boule-
vard near May street, and though not
politically ambitious he was nominated
by Prohibitionists for alderman of his
ward in 1902. As a Prohibition party
nominee in a ward conceded to be as
bad as the more notorious First, he re-
ceived the heaviest Prohibition vote ever
cast in any ward of Chicago up to that
time.
The Chicago Sunday-Closing League
received Mr. Cook's firm support, and
by his own almost solitary efforts he
collected positive criminal evidence
against 570 saloon-keepers. Upon them
he hurled all the strength of a great
moral champion, only to be scorned by
timid magistrates, backed by juries of
street politicians. The superb faith of
his great heart was rewarded afterwards,
when the great Temperance procession
in 1908, marshalled by General Fred
Grant in Chicago, witnessed the rising
Temperance sentiment of the people.
His benevolence and liberality were
unmeasurable. His interest was aroused
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by the Chinese Sunday Schools of Chi-
cago, and for many years he took a
very active part, serving for years as
the Superintendent of the Chinese Sun-
day School of the First Congregational
Church, and later founding the Orient
Sabbath School. On many occasions he
assisted the Chinese in troubles in court
with marked success. In 1907 he trav-
eled to the Pacific Coast, with the un-
spoken purpose of arousing greater in-
terest in the Chinese race, and opposing
the injustice of the Exclusion Law.
Three years ago, as President of the
Veterans of the 39th Illinois regiment,
Mr. Cook, with the faculty of Wheaton
College, invited his old comrades to
Wheaton, and many of them said they
should never forget his kindness ana
solicitude for their spiritual welfare.
He appreciated to the full the privi-
leges of a college education, which he
had hoped himself to enjoy, till called
to help his country on the battle-field.
What he denied himself, for his coun-
try's sake, -he gave to his own children
and to ) other young people. A score will
forever remember his generosity in this
respect.
Having served for many years as a
trustee of Wheaton College, its interests
were constantly his own unselfish ambi-
tion.
But all his public service was but a
small matter in comparison to his loving
devotion to his wife and children during
forty-two years of happy married life.
A sudden illness, most painful at first
to mind, then most painful to his body
with much improvement of mind,
brought him to his family's care. No
word was more truly said than his own
in the presence of his family just be-
fore his death — ''My God ! How I have
loved you all."
After the reading of this paper and
the singing of the first hymn, Professor
Royal T. Morgan, an old schoolmate,
neighbor and friend, was introduced and
spoke of Mr. Cook's army career in
brief and well chosen words.
Professor H. A. Fisher, the senior
professor in term of service in Wheaton
College, then spoke of Mr. Cook's rela-
tions to that institution. He began by
saying that Mr. Cook stood in a fivefold
relation to the college : First, he was one
of its students ; second, he was one of
its trustees ; third, he was a benefactor ;
fourth, he was a patron ; fifth, he was a
friend.
P'^ollowing the remarks of Professor
Fisher came the hymn composed by Mr.
Cook, sung by the quartette of which
mention has already been made. The
words were as follows :
JESUS OUR ONLY REFUGE.
Jesus, Saviour, now I'm coming
Unto Thee for peace and rest;
All earth's joys are transient, fleeting;
All earth's hopes are poor, at best.
Unto Thee I come for refuge,
For in Thee all fulness dwells;
While I'm singing, while I'm praying.
Unto Thee affection wells.
Vile and sinful, wilt Thou take me?
Take and make me all Thine own"
Now my prayer to Thee ascending,
Shall it reach Thy heavenly throne?
Yes, I hear the gracious answer:
"I have died that thou may'st live,"
O, the wealth of joy and comfort,
That sw^eet sentence now doth give!
Saviour, now my elder Brother,
May I nothing do for Thee?
Life is short — a morning — evening —
It is now high noon with me.
In the market, idly standing,
Shadows gather round my brow.
Hark! I hear a sweet voice calling,
"Come and labor for Me now."
Can it be a mansion waiteth,
Far above the starry sky;
All transcendent in its beauty,
Made for saved ones such as n
Yes, 'tis true; the Lord hath said it.
Hear the glad, sublime refrain:
If we suffer here with Jesus,
Over there with Him we'll reign.
Mr. J. M. Hitchcock, for many }'ears
an elder of the Chicago Avenue Church
was introduced and spoke concerning
his acquaintance with Mr. Cook's
labors for the National Christian Asso-
ciation.
After sinoing- bv Mrs. Mills, who has
comforted so many hearts on funeral oc-
casions in our city, opportunity was
given for looking upon the face of our
departed brother, and the audience re-
tired to the cemetery where the services
were brieflv concluded.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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fotttributione.
WATCHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT?
It is one of the universal eharaeteris-
tics of men that thev desire to know how
the hattle is o-oino-. It is never easv to
do daily duty and leave events quietly in
the hands of God. Within certain limits
this feeling is right and proper as well
as natural. It is one of the questions
which continually recur in our confer-
ences on the lodge question, "Are we
making progress ? How are we getting
on?"
It is ecjually evident that no one but
God can answer this inquiry in any full
and perfect manner. In this world
whether we like it or not we are required
to walk by faith, not by sight. We are
all the time reminded of our human limi-
tations when we attempt to scan the hori-
zon and learn the situation for the pres-
ent and the probabilities for the future.
But while we cannot know the future
except so far as it is revealed there are
nevertheless signs of the times and wise
men can in humble reliance on the teach-
ing of the Holy Spirit judge of what is
to be by what is said and by the unveil-
ings of God's providence from day to
day.
We therefore return to our question,
"A\'atchman, what of the night?" The
answer of the prophet was : "The morn-
ing Cometh and also the night." That
is, there will be improvement and again
there will be darkness and storm. I do
not know of any better answer, which the
prophet of today can give, than that
which the great preacher of Judah gave
so man}- years ago, "The morning com-
eth and also the night." That is, there
will be alternations of light and darkness
and no final victory for the truth until
the King comes.
The Coming of the King is Near.
This is our great hope and upon it we
should dwell more than we do. Some-
thing like three hundred times in the
Word of God the Day of our Lord's
coniing is mentioned as a ground of
courage for his people, or of fear for his
enemies. How constantly then should we
return to it that we may be made strong
and faithful for our tasks, "The Lord is
at hand." If this is true what have His
friends to fear or His enemies to hope?
"Let us then lay aside every weight and
the sin that so easily besets and run with
patience the race that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus the author and the
finisher of oiir faith." Let the sick, the
tired, the tempted, the sorrowing, the
discouraged and the overborne say often
to themselves : "The Lord is at hand."
This will give strength for battle and
courage for victory.
Meanwhile let us always attend to the
signs of the times for God is continually
showing what He means to do by what
He does. I was recently in Elkhart, In-
diana, attending the annual conference of
the Christian Association of that state.
Taking up an evening paper I read a no-
tice of the organization of a new lodge
of some sort or another. The notice was
urging young men to come into this or-
der and was specially insisting oii the
fact that those who went in at once could
get lodge standing for five dollars, while
those who waited if they came in would
have to pay twenty-five dollars.
This is by no means an isolated in-
stance. The lodge promoters are con-
tinually doing this sort of thing. I re-
member to have met a young business
man in our city, who was being urged to
be one of a few who were to make up a
new lodge. He was told that he could
come in for a very small fee, that he
would not need to be initiated, etc., etc.
Now this sort of canvass shows to what
straits the lodge men are reduced. The
number of men who wish to live by the
lodsfe business is increased and the num-
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ber of men who are willing to support
them does not increase in the same ratio.
There is therefore a necessity for the cut
rates and bargain lots in lodgery. It is
lamentable that men are foolish enough
to contribute to the support of these
lodge promoters in any way, but it is a
cause of congratulation that it is neces-
sary to offer these inducements to get
men to enter these dark societies.
The Harlot's Ways are Changeable.
It is a well known fact that when a
man joins one lodge he is very apt to
unite with others. He is likely to become
what is called "a joiner." It is in this
way that so many orders are sustained.
The same man supports two or three or
ten. This makes it hard for the wife and
children and often impossible for the
church. It is very hard for the men who
contribute the dues and other fees, which
keep the orders moving, also to support
home and church.
It will be noted by all who study the
system that though men weary of the
silly ritualS; and go into other lodges to
get a change, they usually keep on pay-
ing dues to the orders which they do not
care to attend. In like manner libertines
change their mistresses, wearying of one
and paying blackmail or conscience
money to the other, whom they have
abandoned. A gentleman recently said
to me, 'Tt is strange to me to see how
men go from one secret order into an-
other. Here in our town it is first one
and then another all the time." Without
understanding the reason he had hit up-
on the fact stated above.
The same principle is at work in single
orders among the dift"erent degrees.
Men take one degree and are made sick
and disgusted. They are assured that if
they will only go on and take another de-
gree they will find something far better.
They frequently do this only to learn
that all is of one piece and that there is
nothine in the entire system Init a mass
of deceit, folly, shame and sin. Now
from one point of view this multiplica-
tion of degrees and orders is dishearten-
ing. Men say : Will the ]^rocession never
cease ? Are the home, the church and
the state never to have a fair chance at
the hearts of men ? Is the harlot reli-
gion always to skim the cream from the
time, the money, the thought and energy
of our young people ?
The feeling is cjuite natural Ijut a deep-
er view will afford consolation. A man
who changes his name, his clothes and
his beard every few days is not the man
you wish your son to imitate. The pride
which those who bear a name honored
for centuries have in it is reasonable. It
is so with the church of Jesus Christ.
Thoughtless people reproach her with her
unchangeability. But this her glory. It
goes to show that her character and
work are such as to make it unnecessary
for her to change. The position of an
honored wife is not like that of a pros-
titute. She is not compelled to be con-
tinually modifying herself in order to re-
tain her place in her husband's house
and heart. We ought therefore to be
encouraged by the very fact which is apt
to discourage us. The continual chang-
ing and shifting, which is going forward
in secret orders, is a prophecy of their
doom.
The Thoughts of Many Hearts Revealed.
The theory upon which detectives act
is that it is impossible for any man to
be a perpetual hypocrite. Some time or
other he must be his real self. First or
last he must act out his inniost being.
That this is true no thoughtful student
doubts. It is one of the laws b}- which
God rules the universe and is a great
comfort to those who struggle for right-
eousness. When evil men ov institutions
seek to gain admission into a communit}'
or a human heart thc\- al\va}'s adopt an
alias and a disguise. The men who are
or^anizino- secret orders sav that thc\- are
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October, 1911.
not secret orders and those which Hve bv
appeals to the baser instincts and pas-
sions of men for a time put aside these
inducements to sin and at times deny
that they ever use them. For example
when the Woodmen came into our city
they drew in a number of our good young-
men by enlarging upon the hope of sick
and death benefits and denying that the
order was /;/ fact a secret society.
For a time there was a large part of
the Woodmen lodge which insisted that
the tom-fool initiations should be omit-
ted, and that there should be none of the
dances wdiich from, the beginning until
now have corrupted and destroyed the
individuals and communities which have
tolerated them. Years have passed. I
have not inquired about the initiations,
but of late the notices of lodge dances
held by this order have steadily in-
creased. 'They sat down to eat and
drink and rose up to play," has been the
regular order in lodges from the time
that Aaron organized his "Lodge of the
Golden Calf at the foot of Sinai until
this present day.
Now this self-revealing necessity
which lies in the nature of all things is
an encouragement to all who strive for
the truth. It is an evidence that the
lodge cannot forever hide its real nature
but must in the end be known to be what
it actually is. When that time comes
only those who are of the same spirit will
have fellowship with it. It becomes
plain that this is already becoming true
here and now. It is only a few days
since I was talking with one of our busi-
ness men about the picnic which the
Woodmen had induced our community to
aid and assist. He said in the first place
that his place of business was to be open
on the lodge picnic day. Then he con-
tinued to say that he had not been in a
meeting of the lodge for over twenty
years. He said : "I am a business man
and I have my home. I enjoy them both
and it is no object to me to leave one
or the other for the intolerable silliness
of lodge performances. Those who like
such things are welcome to them ; for my
part I don't care for them." These were
not his exact words but they express ex-
actly his thought so well as I am able to
set it down.
In Hoc Signo Vinces.
I have frequently said in these letters
that the real difficulty with the lodge is
in its religious character. This is the
thing that settles the whole question for
all Christian men, who once get a sight
of the facts in the case. While attending
our recent meeting in Ohio, I waited one
morning for a friend in a shop on the
principal street of the city. There were
present several gentlemen and they were
speaking of our meeting of the night be-
fore. One of them complained that our
speaker had spoken freely of the evils
of the lodge, but had said nothing of the
good things in it.
I said to him, "What good things are
there of which he might have spoken?"
He replied that its Bible readings and
prayers should have been mentioned. I
said to him : "Those are to us the worst
things about your order." He seemed
much surprised and wished to know what
objection there could possibly be to them.
I said to him : "What per cent of your
men are Christians?" He said that he
did not know. I said to him : "Do you
think that half of your members are even
members of the church?" He thought
not. I said : "Are a fourth part of
them?" He was not sure but thought
not. "Well," said I, "any one of those
men who do not even profess to be saved
might be appointed to read those pray-
ers and other solemn words, might he
not?" He admitted that this was true.
"Well," said I, "is not this one fact
enough to justify all Christian people in
opposition to the secret orders?"
There were two things whicli interest-
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ed me in this group of men. First was
the fact that they had none of them seen
the deadly insult to God, which is in-
volved in putting such words into the
mouths of such men, and, second, that
as soon as this was pointed out to them
they at once seemed to understand and
admit it. This is a ground of hope. It
shows that now as in the olden time
God's people go into captivity for lack
of knowledge, and that when the infor-
mation is furnished they will respond.
It shows that there is urgent need for
our work and encourages us to press on.
High School Fraternities Again.
It is the duty of the prophet to deliver
the message which his age needs and to
continue to speak it until the need for
it has passed away. It would be amusing
if it were not tragic to hear of ministers
preaching one sermon a year on such a
subject as the lodge or the saloon. For
three hundred and fifty-two days in each
year these powerful engines of evil send
their shot and shell through our homes
and churches and we hope to silence their
batteries by firing at them once a year.
A child would know that the thing could
not be done. We therefore offer no
apolog}- for returning to this vital sub-
ject.
And first we remind you again that
there is no argument against secret so-
cieties in high schools which does not ap-
ply with equal force against secret or-
ders in college or anywhere else. We
have never read an argument against
lodges which was not true, and we have
never read one against one secret society
which did not apply to all others. The
essential vice in a secret society is that
it is secret. This opens the way for all
iother evils of every name and kind.
What sane man can doubt for a moment
the demoralizing transactions which go
forward in a fraternity house? It is not
that fraternity men are different from or
worse than other men. It is that thev
are like them and that men who do not
live in the open are sure to live in the
dark in more ways than one.
In the second place I call your atten-
tion once more to the fact that there is
practically no difference among teachers
as to the ill effects of the secret order
in the high school. There are a very few
teachers who are lodgemen, or politi-
cians, who seek to please both parties,
but to the praise of the high school men
of our country it is to be said that they
are practically a unit against the orders.
It is also to be said with gratitude that
the courts and legislatures are almost as
united in their action against these de-
pravers of our young people.
And finally we are to be glad that the
Boards of Education have been so de-
liberate in their action. At times this
slowness has been so marked as to cause
doubt, or suspicion, but in most cases it
has appeared to be the steady on-going
of intelligent determination. For all
these things let us give thanks and take
courage. This world belongs to God. It
does not even owe its allegiance to good
men far less is it the property of the
wicked. We cannot see the kingdom un-
til the King comes but even now we may
see that he is to be the universal ruler
and at such an hour as we do not expect
Him His hand will be on the latch, His
footstep at the door.
God bless, encourage and keep you all.
Faithfully yours,
Charles A. Blanchard.
Whv wilt thou defer thv good pur-
pose from day to day? Arise, and be-
gin in this very instant, and say, ''Now
is the time to be doing; now is the time
to be striving; now is the fit time to
amend myself." Unless thou dost ear-
nestly force thyself, thou shalt never
get the victory over sin. — Thomas a
Kern pis.
K.S
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
October, 1911.
THE CONFLICT AND THE VICTORY.*
BY JAMES W. ELLIOTT.
The heart of man loves the sono- of
victory. This is universally true. In all
ages men have sacrificed even their very
life's blood that, while they themselves
were dying-, they might hear their com-
rades singing- the p^ean of victory. But
always, before there can be any victory,
there must be a conflict and, the stronger
the combatants and the greater the issue
and the more terrific the struggle, the
greater will be the victory.
On the world's battle field today there
are two mighty institutions. Freemasonry
and Christianity. It has been stated on
the one hand that these two forces are
allies, fighting in co-operation against
wrong. It has been declared on the
other hand that they are in terrific con-
flict with each other over the greatest is-
sues of the ages. This second class is
prophesying which side will finally tri-
umph ; but, before any one can foretell
triumph, it must be proved that there
is a conflict. The whole question, there-
fore, at present is whether there is a con-
flict, not between the adherents of these
two institutions, but between the funda-
mental principles and requirements of
Freemasonry and of Christianity as
taught by the acknowledged Masonic and
Christian authorities.
It is very evident that Freemasonry
and Christianity are in conflict in this re-
spect : That one of the foundation stones
of the former is secrecy, but that one of
the fundamental principles of the latter
is openness. Masonic seceders, truthful,
godly men, whose word can be trusted,
say that all Masons are bound by terrible
oaths to keep secret the mysteries of their
order and that, in certain degrees, they
must conceal even the crimes of each
other. As further proof that secrecy is
a fundamental principle of Freemasonry,
the statement of an acknowledged Ma-
sonic authority, Mackey, in his writings
open to all, is offered. He says : ''Free-
masonry as a secret association has lived
for centuries — as an open society it would
not last for as many years."
Christianity, on the contrar}^, loves
light, and hates darkness. The greatest
*This oration took first prize in an annual
oratorical contest this year at Houghton Sem-
inary, Houghton, N. Y. — Editor.
Christian Authority declared : 'T have
spoken openly to the world — and in se-
cret have I said nothing." He taught
that whatever is good for men ought to
be told everywhere so that all may know
the truth and may be benefited thereby,
and that whatever is evil ought to be ex-
posed so that men may avoid it. It is
true that Christianity permits and even
commands a certain degree of privacy ;
but secrecy in the Masonic sense it most
severely antagonizes. "Woe unto them
that hide deep their counsel from Jeho-
vah, and whose works are in the dark
and that say. Who seeth us? and who
knoweth us?" are the words of God. In
fact, as regards secrecy and openness,
'Freemasonry and Christianity directly
oppose each other.
Again, Freemasonry is in conflict with
Christianity because it imposes unchris-
tian obligations upon its own adherents
and sustains an unchristian attitude to-
ward the outside world. Part of the
proof for this is necessarily based upon
the testimony of seceders. But, since
the most reliable and trustworthy men,
who have left the order, not through
spite, but from, principle, are all agreed
as to what are Masonic secrets, it is per-
fectly right to base proof upon their rev-
elations. Freemasonry requires its can-
didates to swear to submit themselves to
conditions the nature of which they have
no knowledge of until they have taken
the oath and which are determined by
finite minds. A candidate must swear to
conceal what is about to be told him
whether he afterwards believes it right
or wrong. A candidate for certain degrees
must swear also^ to conceal some or all
of the crimes of a brother of his degree.
Finally, a candidate must swear to obey
the Masonic order absolutely. No well
enlightened Christian will need further
proof that the spirit of these obligations
is directly opposed to the spirit of Chris-
tian requirements.
Furthermore, the Masonic attitude to-
ward persons outside the order is very
unchristian. Masonry requires honesty,
and righteous action in many ways,
among Masons ; but it requires no such
thing in a Mason's treatment of one out-
side the order. In fact, the very specifi-
cation of who shall receive right treat-
ment suggests that others need not be so
October, J Oil.
CHRISTIAN CYiN-OSURE.
109
treated. A Mason of certain degrees is
required also to sustain a right moral
relation to the women relatives of a
brother of his degree. But the mere
mention of this implies that other women
have no right to protection. Again, does
not Freemasonry possess a most unchris-
tian spirit when it prompts the cold-
blooded murder of even its enemies?
Does Masonry sustain a Christian atti-
tude toward any of the citizens of our
country when it tends to protect crime
and thus endangers the welfare of the
whole nation ? Certainly no sincere well-
informed person will affirm that it does.
Freemasonry must, therefore, be in con-
flict with Christianity, not only because
of secrecy, but also because of the un-
christian obligations imposed upon its
own adherents and the unchristian atti-
tude sustained toward the outside world.
But the most important point of con-
flict is that Freemasonry proposes to save
the souls of men by a way which is very
different from the only Christian way
of salvatiqn and which is radically op-
posed to the Christian way. That Free-
masonry is a religion, Masonic authori-
ties positively state. Mackev says em-
phatically : "Freemasonry is a religious
institution." Again he says, ''A Mason,
by living in strict obedience to the obli-
gations and precepts of the fraternity, is
free from sin." In fact, no one who has
a thorough knowledge of Masonic teach-
ings can truthfully deny that Freemason-
rv professes to be a religion which saves
the souls of men and fully prepares them
for heaven.
Wherein, then, do these two religions
teach different and opposing ways of sal-
vation ? The Christian doctrine is that
salvation can be secured in no way except
through faith in the expiatory sacrifice of
Jesus Christ and through strict obedience
to the Bible and that personal merit can
never in any degree atone for sin. But
the Masonic doctrine is directly contrary
to this. Masonry makes obedience to the
Bible unnecessary in securing salvation.
Mackey says that Masonry does not
teach the divine authenticity of the Holy
Scriptures, but leaves every man to his
own opinions upon that subject. He
says, furthermore, that the Koran should
be to the Mohammedan Mason what the
r)ible is to the Christian Mason. There-
fore, though Masonry teaches a way of
salvation, it brings the Bible down to the
level of certain other books and denies
that obedience to its precepts is neces-
sary.
Again, all regular, or universal Ma-
sonry, ignores and opposes Jesus Christ.
It is true that one degree, the Knights
Templar, constantly mentions Christ.
But that degree is not regular Masonry
in the same sense in which the term is
used here, because it is not one of the
required degrees and is not found among
the Jews, Mohammedans, or the heathen.
This fact, therefore, is no exception to
the statement that regular Masonry ig-
nores Christ by purposely omitting His
name from Bible quotations which are
used in the lodges and which originally
mention Him. Christianity, on the con-
trary, makes Jesus Christ the central fig-
ure of the whole Bible. Furthermore,
no prayer is strictly Masonic which con-
tains the name of Christ. A statement
of a Masonic editor is this : "All invo-
cations in a Masonic lodge must be ad-
dressed to God and to God alone." With
this man agree all acknowledged authori-
ties that the name of Christ must not be
used in a Masonic prayer. But the
Christian doctrine is that no one can even
obtain audience with God unless he
comes in the name of Jesus. Finally,
Freemasonry wdiolly ignores the neces-
sity of the atonement of Christ in se-
curing salvation. This is perfectly evi-
dent from the fact that the whole system
of universal Masonry is either entirely
silent about Christ or actually opposes
Hint, and affirms that some are saved
who not only have no faith in Him but
whO' shamefully despise and bitterly hate
Him. In this way Freemasonry ignores
and opposes Jesus Christ ; but Christian-
ity makes Him the only way of salvation
atu^' declares that without faith in His
atoning death there can he no remission
of sins.
In fact, the only Masonic requirement
for obtaining salvation is personal merit,
or, as Mackey says, acceptance of the
]Masonic creed and obedience to the or-
der. But what are these atoning works ^
And in what sort of worship must he
engage wdio would seek ]\[asonic salva-
tion?* It has been proved already that
man\- of the Masoiiic oblioations are di-
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October, 1911.
rectly antagonistic to Christianity. Fur-
thermore, the ceremonies and symbols
which jMasonry uses to teach the way of
salvation are almost wholly of unchris-
tian origin and spirit. A noted Masonic
writer says : "There is scarcely a cere-
mony practiced by the Masonic fraternity
which does not have its counterpart in
the ancient mysteries." These ancient
mysteries, the best Masonic authorities
assert, were the ceremonies which the
heathen countries of Egypt. Syria, Phoe-
nicia, Phrygia, and others used in wor-
shipping the sun. These authorities say
also that the favorite Masonic legend of
Hiram AbifT, whose so-called death and
resurrection are symbolized by certain
Masonic ceremonies, was borrowed di-
rectly from the story of the Egyptian
sun-god, Osiris, and that, therefore, the
practice of these ceremonies is, in form
at least. Sun-worship.
Some of the symbols used in Masonry,
it is true, are a workman's tools ; but
others represent the ancient Baal, or
Sun-worship. For example, Mackey
savs that "the point within a circle is an
allusion to the old sun-worship" and to
that part of it "known among the an-
cients as the worship of the Phallus."
This Phallus, he says, was an extremely
licentious god and was, as some suppose,
the Moabitish Baal-peor, whose licen-
tious worship brought down the wrath of
God upon 24,000 Israelites in the wilder-
ness of Sin. In the same way most of
the ceremonies and symbols are heathen-
ish, and, in fact, Morris, another ac-
knowledged Masonic authority, says that
Freemasonry is principally a "perpetua-
tion of Baal, or Sun-worship."
The amount of proof that has been
offered to establish these strong charges
against Freemasonry is certainly very
small. But, if time and space would per-
mit, a great abundance more of equally
good proof could be offered to show^ con-
clusively the terrific conflict between
these two religions. Yet, without further
arguing these points of conflict ; with-
out arguing the unchristian origin of the
Masonic order in 1717; without refuting
the fallacy of some that Masonry, be-
cause of its charitable nature and its
bonds of brotherhood, is in co-operation
with Christianity ; with the mere men-
tion of the fact that Masonry ignores the
Holy Spirit as well as Jesus Christ ; and
without mentioning any other points of
dift'erence, I maintain that these facts are
sufficient proof of the terrific conflict be-
tween Freemasonry and Christianity. To
summarize briefly, these facts which have
been proved, are that Freemasonry is
secret, but Christianity is open ; that
Freemasonry imposes unchristian obliga-
tions upon its own adherents and sustains
an unchristian attitude toward the rest
of the world ; that the Masonic way of
salvation is directly contrary to the only
Christian way, because the Masonic way
is without the Bible and without Christ,
merely through personal merit. There-
fore, since there is war between these
two forces, it logically follows that there
is not co-operation,, and, since it is the
very nature of Christianity to fight for-
ever against its foes and since its nature
cannot change, it follows that, unless
Freemasonry changes, there can never be
peace between Freemasonry and Chris-
tianity.
Such is the conflict — a struggle which,
from the nature of the case, must con-
stantly become more terrific until it shall
finally end in the complete overthrow of
the one and the supreme triumph of the
other. But which is to be the victor?
Which one will be hurled into the abyss
of eternal defeat and ignominy? Can
this religion be defeated which under
the name of Judaism, or Christianity or
under some other name has been in
countless battles like this, and, while its
strongest foes have been compelled to
bite the dust, it has stood for 6,000 years
absolutely invincible — can such a reli-
gion ever suffer defeat? Can that re-
ligion succeed which tramples under foot
the word of God and rejects our Savior
Jesus Christ ? Every well-informed per-
son must admit that wdiatever opposes
Christianity will finally fall. The Chris-
tian religion must conquer every foe,
even Freemasonry. But how ? Will it
be by mere fatalism? Has fate decreed
that this must be so and that no man's
will can oppose? In no sense will the
victory come by fatalism. God depends
almost wholly upon voluntary human in-
strumentality for the accomplishment of
His work on the earth.
The responsibility, therefore, of the
outcome of the present conflict rests up-
October, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
171
on us. Freemasonry will rise or fall ac-
cording to what we do. Christians, here
is our opportunity, here is our responsi-
bility. On every side of us is this ter-
rible enemy. It is plotting in secret
against our religion. It is trying to un-
dermine our faith. It has already shat-
tered the hopes and blighted the lives of
thousands of our people. It would even
descend to heaven and dethrone our
King. God summons us to immediate
effective action against Freemasonry.
What is our attitude toward this call ? Is
it an attitude of loyalty and of active co-
operation with God? Or is it one of
neglect and indifference ? Christians,
our attitude ought to be the first, not the
second. Then let us make it so. Let us
arise in the strength of Jehovah and in
His name and power let us go forth to
war against all the foes of our Christ
and conquer them so completely that men
everywhere will worship Him only and
crown Him Lord of all. This is our
duty. God rightfully demands our serv-
ice. For His sake and for the sake of
Jesus Christ, who died on Calvary for
us, shall we not devote our lives to the
overthrow of all that opposes Him and
to the building up of all that honors
Him?
Pitts ford, J^crmont.
Grave on thy heart each past red letter
day ;
Forget not all the sunshine of the way
By which the Lord has led thee ; an-
swered prayers,
And joys unasked, strange blessings,
lifted cares.
Grand promise echoes ! Thus thy life
shall be
One record of His love and faithfulness
to thee.
— Miss Haver gal.
The longer you read the Bible, the
more you will like it ; it will grow sweet-
er and sweeter ; and the more you get
into the spirit of it, the more you will
get into the spirit of Christ. — Romaine.
O God ! vouchsafe to me of your Infi-
nite all that is possible of light and of
love!— F/rfor Hugo.
REMINISCENCES.
BY EZRA A. COOK.
(Ccntinued from June number.)
Evidently God wanted me to be a busi-
ness man ; and He seemed to impress that
fact upon my father's mind, for, just
as I was closing my term of school he
wrote me suggesting that on my way
home I stop in Chicago and see if I
could not get a clerkship. This I had
already decided to do. I cornxUiitted my
ways unto the Lord, and claimed His
promise to direct my steps. I set aside
ten dollars as the limit that I would
spend for hotel accommodations in hunt-
ing for a place, and pledged to the Lord's
work any balance. As it was winter, or
rather, early spring, I knew that young
men from the country had eagerly sought
for clerkships — as for the tirne they
lacked work at home, even at the small-
est wages — and for permanent places if
they were good. I thought it important
to choose the business I would like best,
knowing the Lord could just as easily
giv^ me that as any other, and decided
on the book and stationery business.
I stopped at the old Adams House, had
a refreshing sleep, read God's Word, and
again asked His guidance. I had an ex-
cellent recommendation, signed by Presi-
dent Jonathan Blanchard ; and I started
out early, before the stores were open,
took a look at the town, and, when
they were opened, visited the book and
stationery stores. At one of these stores
an old gentleman greeted me very cordi-
ally, and I showed him mv recommenda- •
tion. "Well," said he, "with that recom-
mendation you have only to find a va-
cancy." Much encouraged, I went on,
and about ten o'clock entered a station-
ery store at 196 Lake street and stated
my errand. "Yes," said the bookkeeper,
''we do want another clerk, but the pro-
prietor is out." I waited, saw the pro-
prietor, secured the clerkship, and was
so happy and thankful that I did not
deduct the hotel bill, but gave the entire
ten dollars for Christian' work. Later,
when one young man after another ap-
plied there for a situation, and said thev
had spent several weeks in earnest
search for a clerkship of anv kind, the
leading of my Lord became very mani-
fest. After three years' service here I
started in business for mvself.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
October, lOlL
This firm carried a stock of stationery,
and took orders for printing, lithograph-
ing and bkuik books to order. It soon
became mv cUitx" to secure prices from
ditterent printing offices, Hthographing
estabHshments. and binderies, on all sorts
of work, but particularly on bank work,
as that was our principal country trade,
and most of it was secured by sending '
samples to bankers and quoting prices on
same. The filling of these orders for
stationery was also committed to my
charo-e, and I was termed "the man in
charge of the work department."
]\Iv employer was Captain General of
the Knights Templar, and in and out of
the city (for he made occasional coun-
try trips), he used his Masonic connec-
tion to the limit. His most profitable
business was work for lodges, especially
seals. When I read proof on a Scottish
Rite petition for degrees, one entitled
"Prince of Mercy," I was shocked at
such impiety, and all the more when I
learned that they were ordered by Dea-
con T. T. Gurney. of the Tabernacle
Congregational Church. I kept a copy
of this petition, and afterwards printed
is as a Cynosure tract. I did not fail to
protest against lodgery to my emj^^oyer.
It will readily be seen that my having
charge of the "work department" pecu-
liarly fitted me for taking orders, all the
more that I did not depend on signs and
grips for favors ; and it is true that,
when sent out "on the "road," my suc-
cess was - so unusual that I was di-
rected to stay at it several times as long
as had been planned.
But the facts I have stated regarding
Masonic patronage will readily show
why I wished to change employers. I
had no idea of going into business for
myself. My father, a retired Methodist
minister, had then come into the city,
and when I spoke of my purpose to seek
another place of employment, I was
amazed to hear his question, "Why don't
you start in business for yourself, Ezra?"
I think I must have shaken with emo-
tion as I asked, "Why, father, what do
you mean? You know that, on the $6.50
to $7 per week that I have received dur-
ing the past three years, I have not been
able to save anything, although I have
lodged in the store and boarded myself ;
for I am obliged to keep well dressed.
You have yourself loaned out my prev-
ious savings, and know that my entire
.earthly wealth is less than $2,000, I
consider it absolutely necessary to have
a printing office in order to fill orders
promptly ; and, though we could get the
lithographing, ruling and binding done
outside, we must buy the stones that we
have the engravings put on ; and, with
a stock O'f stationery to buy, and rent
to pay, it would take much even for a
humble start."
Father's answer to this statement
showed his confidence in me, in such a
light as to fairly overwhelm me. It
was in substance as follows: "My dear
son, you know that when I exchanged
the Wheaton farm (102 acres) for citv
property I received a cash balance — more
than half cash — which has been bearing
interest since then. In view of the in-
terests of the other children, I do not
think I should risk all of this ; but I
will furnish you funds liberally as you
have need. Of course, those who know
your energy, ability, and sterling Chris-
tian character, will be glad to extend
you some credit at the start ; and, if
they see that you are succeeding in
establishing a paying business, they will
be oiily too glad to extend the amount.
I think you may prayerfully try it for a
year, anyhow. I will not be your partner
in any legal sense for the first year, on
account of the danger of robbing the
other children ; but, if the Lord blesses
you with success, as I firmly believe He
will (for from your earliest childhood
you. have honored God, and always
proved yourself a loving, obedient, help-
ful son and brother to the children ) , in
that case, at the end of a year, I will
become your partner, with the distinct
understanding that you are to be the
business manager."
I will not attempt to describe, much
less analyze, my emotions at this time.
I knew that God was leading in it all ;
for I was His child and partner, though
to the world the sign might read Ezra
A. Cook & Co. That my mind should
now run over the past, even to child-
hood, to see the loving leading of my
Lord, is but natural. That God had led
my father as well as myself was plainf
I could see that father's confidence had
been growing for over twenty years.
October, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
173
If from what I have written, any read-
er should infer that father's affection
was that of worldly thrift, for what he
could get out of me, }ou would greatly
wrong him. I cannot doubt, from our
sweet confidences, that what called forth,
more than anything else, father's praise
to God on my behalf, was ray zeal for
Christ and His Kingdom, and the cour-
age with which I fought for the over-
throw of the secret empire, and the
abolition of slavery. He was intensely
interested in my work for the negroes
while in the army, and still more in my
fight against Freemasonry. This fight-
ing for the right on all occasions ("Chris-
tian stamina,'" father called it) gave
father even more confidence in my suc-
cess in business than my capacity for
work, because faithfulness to the com-
mands of God linked me to the power
of the Almighty. . • '
, Now that it was decided that I should
start in business for myself, I sought,
under the direction of my Lord, to find
a suitable place. I soon found the build-
ing at 88 LaSalle street, owned by Hon.
Thomas Hoyne, unoccupied. Mr. Hoyne
offered to make the rent $150 per month
till May ist — four months; and after
that $250 per month. The location on
the court-house square was ideal ; but
the amount of the rent scared me. I
reported the find to father, and he fa-
vored renting the building for sixteen
months. So I signed the lease, and
paid the rent for the month of January,
1868. The half a month in December,
Mr. Hoyne did not charge for.
As soon as the building was rented,
the purchase of stationery, and machin-
ery, type and material for the printing
office, was promptly attended to, and
samples of bank stationery were pre-
pared and mailed to prospective cus-
tomers. The samples showed excep-
tionally fine work, the printing being
from new and late styles of type, and
the lithographing also of the best qual-
ity. Moderate prices were quoted, and
in a circular especial emphasis was laid
on our ability to fill orders promptly, as
well as in the latest style. The response
was all that could have been expected.
T knew that many would be chary about
ordering from a house they had never
heard of, whose talk of promptness, etc..
might be mostly "hot air." I was, there-
fore, anxious to get out and see those
that I had previously met, as soon as
possible. Some very g^ood customers
were secured in the city, and father and
by brother David C., now known as the
Sunday-school man, did all that they
could to aid ; but all were new at the
business. I had, of course, to make
prices, not only on orders taken, l)ut on
the stock of stationery when it arrived
from New York ; and even m)' capacity
for long hours of labor was taxed to
the utmost. In a few months I was able
to make a hurried trip west. By this
time second orders were coming in from
bankers who had sent in trial orders at
the first ; so the prospect was bright. Ex-
penses, it is true, threatened to eat up
all of the profits, and more too ; but my
courage was sustained by the assurances
of my Lord and His evident guidance.
In July of this year (1868) we began
to publish the Christian Cynosure in
opposition to secret societies. When a
child, I promised the Lord that, to the
best of my ability, I would sustain and
defend the right, no matter how unpopu-
lar it might be, and I had renewed that
promise daily. I had found great joy
in 'suffering shame and loss for the name
of Christ, as I have related; but the pub-
lication of the Christian Cynosure, I
saw, before I undertook it, involved a
continuous fight with merciless foes
backed by Satanic cunning. Indeed, it
is no exaggeration to call these secret
orders the organized army of Satan, the
leaders being possessed of that peculiarly
loathsome character described as "unto
every good work reprobate." Following
the mailing of the first number of the
Cynosure, abusive letters (most of them
anonymous) filled our mail. Some of
them were sent and signed by business
firms, notifying me of the withdrawal of
patronage ; and some contained threats
of revenge, as if the writer of the let-
ter had been personally attacked. .\
number of these were i^ublished in the
Cynosure; and I put th* nrunes of mv
country customers on the Cvx(\siri-:
mailing list for six months, so that all
might know just where we stood. ]^[an\ .
if not most of these, soon ordered dis-
continuance. Strange as it may seem.
I still believe that this liold, antl by
some called foolhard\'. course was not
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October, 1911.
only that of duty^ well performed, but
was far safer than a timid course would
haye been.
Xot only did scurrilous anonymous
letters threaten personal violence, but
also the destruction of property. I have
ample reason to believe that, had I not
been very cautious when crossing alleys
after nightfall, I would have been as-
saulted, and probably killed, except for
the special protection of God. Had not
the threats to destroy my property been
made public, those threats, I do not
doubt, would have been carried out. I
had, as my first bookkeeper, a man from
Lockport, Illinois. The father of this
young man was visited by a score of
men that he had never seen before, and
warned to get his son out of my estab-
lishment if he cared for his safety. When
this young man went home on a visit,
he was warned to quit my employ.
When several numbers of the Cyno-
sure had been issued, great complaint
was received about not getting the paper.
In many cases subscribers knew, from
the postmaster or clerk, that he tore up
the paper. Philo Carpenter expressed
distress about the matter, and was at first
quite inclined to blame us, either for poor
wrapping or for faulty addressing. To
test the matter, he personally addressed
some well-wrapped papers, and put them
in with the rest of the mail, so that
they would go out in the regular mail.
Those that were thus sent were ad-
dressed to persons who had previously
failed to get the paper. He wrote • to
each of these at the same time, and asked
them to write whether they received that
week's paper. Each answered that the
paper had not been received ; so he exon-
erated us.
Last July (1911) was the forty-third
anniversary of the founding of the
Cynosure. By the blessing of God, it
has accomplished much for Christ and
His kingdom.
Our great thoughts, our great affec-
tions, the truths of our life, never leave
us. Surely they cannot separate from
our consciousness, shall follow it whither-
soever that shall go, and are of their
nature divine and immortal. — Thackeray.
FREEMASONRY VERSUS CHRIS-
TIANITY.
From the Viewpoint of a Methodist Epis-
copal Pastor.
BY REV. J. C. LEACOCK.
[Concluded from the September Cynosure.]
I have already referred to Rev. Charles
G. Finney as having been opposed to
Freemasonry, and because of his experi-
ence and observation inside the lodge, we
may listen with profit tO' his testimony,
which follows : 'T was completely con-
verted from Masonry to Christ.
''Those who adhere intelligently and
determinedly to Freemasonry have no
right in the Christian Church. How can
we fail to pronounce Freemasonry an
antichristian institution ? For example :
"i. We have seen that its morality is
unchristian.
"2. Its oathbound secrecy is unchris-
tian.
"3. The administration and taking of
its oaths are unchristian, and a violation
of a positive command of Christ. ' ,
"4. Masonic oaths pledge its mem-
bers to commit most unlawful and un-
christian deeds :
"a. To conceal each other's crimes.
"b. To deliver each other from dif-
ficulty whether right or wrong.
"c. To unduly favor Masonry in po-
litical actions and in business transac-
tious.
"d. Its members to retaliate, and per-
secute unto death the violators of Ma-
sonic obligations.
"e. Freemasonry knows no mercy,
but swears its candidates to avenge vio-
lations of Masonic obligations even un-
to death.
"f. Its oaths are profane, the taking
of the name of God in vain.
"g. The penalties of these are bar-
barous and even savage.
"h. Its teachings are false and pro-
fane.
"i. Its design is partial and selfish.
"j. Its ceremonies are a mixture of
puerility and profanity.
"k. Its religion is deistic.
''1. It is a false religion, and professes
to save men upon other conditions than
those revealed in the Gospel of Christ.
"m. It is an enormous falsehood.
"n. It is a swindle, and obtains money
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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from its membership under false pre-
tenses.
''o. It refuses all examination, and
veils itself under a mantle of oathbound
secrecy.
"p. It is a virtual conspiracy against
both Church and State."
If Charles G. Finney spoke truthfully
in the quotation we have made, it is our
bounden duty thoughtfully to consider
the bearing and influence of this great
enemy to the cause of Christ and to
earnestly and intelligently oppose its fur-
ther works of darkness as against the
Church of God.
But regard to the wishes of lodge men
to be left tmdisturbed in their relation-
ship and a desire not to suffer boycott
from these oathbound trusts have sealed
lips that ought to have spoken out in be-
half of the Master's cause while secret
orders have been active in efforts to se-
cure public recognition and approval on
the part of the Church.
What is the Methodist Episcopal
Church doing about it ?
Two churches within the bounds of
Scranton District of the Wyoming An-
nual Conference perpetually advertise
Freemasonry and Oddfellowship in win-
dows given by these orders and bearing
their special emblems ; and in one of
these churches these fraternities had each
a night of recognition in the week of
dedication services.
In response to a question as to the fit-
ness of such dedication services the
Christian Advocate, our leading church
paper, said editorially, on June 6, 1907,
as follows :
"Is it possible that any Methodist
church has done a thing of this kind ?
If so it violated "every principle of pro-
priety.
"These societies are secret. Nothing
of a secret character has a claim for a
permanent place and recognition in the
Church.
"Even though it could be demonstrated
that the society was founded on the prin-
ciples of Jesus Christ, if it was secret,
and its members were promiscuously tak-
en from the community, it would be a
violation of propriety. * '•' '^ No
church that would admit these things can
expect to be regarded reverently by the
thoughtful members of the community.
"It is better to have np ornamental
windows than to raise the money for
them in such ways.
"We say nothing against these socie-
ties, but the place for their memorial
v^indows is in their own rooms or in pub-
lic halls, not in edifices dedicated to the
worship of God — free to all, whether
they believe in secret societies or not —
and consecrated to a preparation not only
for the life that now is but for that which
is to come."
But some one may ask. Was not John
Wesley a Mason ?
He was so reported by the Philadelphia
Press and also by the Masonic Sun.
But the editor of the Christian Advo-
cate gives convincing proof to the con-
trary, and closes with this quotation from
Wesley's Works. Volume 4, page 398,
Friday, June t8, 1773:
"I w^ent to Ballymena and read a
strange tract that professes to discover
the inmost recesses of Freemasonry, said
to be translated from the French, orig^inal
lately published at Berlin.
"I incline to think it a genuine account.
"Only if it be true I wonder the author
is suffered to live. If it be, what an
amazing banter upon all mankind is Free-
masonry !
"And what a secret is it which so manv
concur to keep ! From what motive ?
Through fear or shame to own it."
(Cynosure, June, 1903.)
As to ministers giving time to secret
orders, we have the following from the
Christian Advocate:
"A church in one of the Eastern cities
is gradually decaying, while the minister
seems to be quite popular with the gen-
eral public.
"Ou inquiry, we find that he is a mem-
ber of the Order of M^asons, of the Or-
der of Oddfellows, of the Order of
Grangers, of the Order of United Work-
men, and of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, attends the meetings of all of
them, and is active among them. No
wonder his church decays. He has a
split-up mind, and probably it was not
big enough for the work of the Chris-
tian ministrv to begin with.
"Still, there is a colored minister of
our church in one of the Southern States
who belongs to seven secret societies.
"Of course, we do not mean in the
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
October, 1911.
above remarks to settle the great ques-
tion as to whether a minister should ever
belong" to any other organization than
the Christian Church, but do mean just
what we say — that such a man as the
above, or any man so ocupied with other
things as such a condition implies, is un-
fit for the responsibilities of the pasto-
rate."
As to the question whether a minister
can with propriety lecture for pay on
such subjects as 'A\ hy I am a Mason,"
or 'AMiy I am an Oddfellow," or "Why
I am a Knight of Pythias," the Christian
Ad-i'ocatc remarks as follows:
"These are rival associations, and they
are secret associations. Many believe
such secret associations whose members
are required to take oaths, unscriptural
and improper ; and rivalry among them
does not always minister to Christian
unity in religious societies, but often oc-
casions serious discord. If a minister
belong to any one of these societies, at
least if he takes an active and conspicu-
ous part, in case of church trials or dif-
ferences among- members, it would be
difficult for him to satis f 3^ all, of his im-
partiality. That members of such socie-
ties, on getting into difficulties, have been
known to communicate their side of the
case to ministers, under the pledge of
secrecy, and helpfulness expected of
them, cannot be denied by any familiar
with the facts ; and that ministers have
been dislodged from useful pastorates to
make place for members of another se-
cret society than those to which the said
ministers belonged, and in some instances
because they would not belong to any
such, are facts."
Another question to the Christian Ad-
vocate and its answer follow :
''Should the Masonic fraternity be in-
vited to appear in its official character
and lay the corner-stone of a Methodist
Episcopal Church?'"
Answer : ''The Alasonic fraternity is
one of several secret societies established
primarily for the aid, protection, and as-
sociation of its members. It professes to
have originated at a very ancient time,
among practical masons ; but after awhile
a distinction w^as established between
practical and speculative Masonry, and
everybody could be invited to join it who
was considered a desirable acquisition. It
has a liturgy of its own, which recog-
nizes the being of God, but which does
not recognize the deity of Jesus Christ.
"Neither it nor any other secret society
should be invited to lay the corner-stone
of a Christian church, for these reasons :
"It is secret. From the very nature
of the case the Christian Church can
have no intelligent judgment concerning
the organization. Individual members 01
the Church, by being members -of that
body, may judge; but a secret body of
which the Church as a whole cannot
judge, should not be officially recognized
in any of the services of the said body.
Besides, there are in the aggregate many
members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church who do not believe at all in secret
societies. The Church, as such, has not
pronounced an adverse judgment on the
propriety or otherwise of secret societies,
ijut the fact that it has not done so does
not justify the bringing forward of a
secret society as such to perform one of
its solemn ceremonies.
"There would be just as much pro-
priety in inviting the regular trades union
of masons to lay the stone, and perhaps
more, as spccidative Masonry can have
no bearing on the laying of a stone, and
every one would object to inviting; the
trades union of masons to lay the stone,
if for no other reason than that the
Church in its official capacity ought not
to decide between union and non-tuiion
workmen.
"Another reason is that a secret frater-
nity, parading with its music and re-
galia and acting under its own forms,
tends greatly to diminish reverent at-
tention to the solemn ceremonies of the
Church of Jesus Christ ; all connected
with it makes it, and not the Church of
Christ, the central figure of the occasion.
"Still another objection is that it tends
to destroy the sense of the supremacy of
the Christian Church to every institution
of human origin.
"Through the political influence of its
members, the Masonic fraternity has
often laid the corner-stone of a court-
house, school buildings, and other socie-
ties, but this is no reason why it should
be introduced for such purposes in con-
nection with the services of the Church.
It contributes to the idea, already too
common, that a secret societv, if it has
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
177
a liturgy, may be made a substitute for
church membership.
''That the corner-stones of churches
have been so laid, and that sometimes
high dignitaries of the Church have
marched in the procession, performing
their functions as Christian ministers and
at the same time wearing the regalia of
a secret society, is true ; but it was an
aberration of judgment on their part,
and has usually brought religion into
contempt, and left a deep and permanent
feeling in many minds. Indeed, in one
community it caused a withdrawal of
one hundred and fifty members from our
Church, most of whom were not on prin-
ciple opposed to secret societies, and sev-
eral of whom were members of the or-
der of Masons, but who considered the
Church ignored, and the introduction of
an outside organization of strictly human
origin and limitations an imposition."
As to using a Methodist Church for
Masonic entertainments, the Christian
Advocate says :
"Recently one of our Methodist
churches was used by a commandery of
Knights Templar for the installation of
the officers of the order.
"Afterward the same knights and their
ladies sat down to a sumptuous banquet
prepared by the ladies of the church.
Toasts such as are usual on such occa-
sions were responded to, bristling with
wit and here and there moistened with
humor.
"No doubt it w^as a pleasant occasion ;
no doubt it was u^hoUy improper in a
church ; no doubt it is an outrage upon
such members of the church as do not
believe in secret societies, to use the
building for such purposes ; no doubt it
is a piece of inconsistency to allow it to
one secret society and not to all ; no
doubt there are many things being done
to bring into contempt edifices dedicated
t(^ the worship of Almighty God.
"No doubt men of sense and women
of sense, on reflection — imless they arc
already so accustomed to the desecration
of God's house as to be practically color-
blinded on the subject — will agree with
these sentiments.
"No doubt many things can be found
as inconsistent, Init no doubt that no more
justifies things of this kind than the al-
ready cracked panes of glass in a build-
ing will justify the cracking of the rest.
"No doubt we do not mean any par-
ticular attack upon Masonry or any other
secret society by this criticism of the mis-
use of a church dedicated primarily and
solely to the worship of Almighty God ;
though no doubt some persons will think,
and the unscruDulous will sav that we
do."
Just one more question and answer
from the Christian Advocate:
O. "At a recent Masonic celebration
a Methodist minister made an address.
The exercises were closed by singing the
hymn, 'Blest be the Tie That Binds.' and
the whole tenor of the minister's address
was that the Masonic order was a kind
of church, and if a person belonged to
the order he did not need to belong to
any church. What is the effect of the
use of such a hymn and such remarks by
a minister at such a time?
A. "The effect is bad. There is not
the slightest similarity between Masonry
and a church.
"The Church is founded by Jesus
Christ; Masonry is a human institution.
The Church makes regeneration a test
of membership ; Masonry does not. The
evangelical Christian Church requires a
belief in Jesus Christ as God made mani-
fest in the flesh; Masonry does not.
"The evangelical Church has two sac-
raments founded by Jesus Christ — Bap-
tism and the Lord's Supper; Masonry
has not.
"The evangelical Church labors for the
conversioii of men, holds prayer meet-
higs and other meetings with that end
in view, invites all men, women, and chil-
dren, without distinction of race, and
whatever may be their physical or social
condition ; Masonry does not. The prin-
ciple that unites Masons is a love for
the order ; the principle that unites Chris-
tians is a love for Clu-ist. It is true that
Masons, in their liturgical forms, make
references to God and to the Bible : but
in order to admit I7nitarians and Univer-
salists and deists of various forms, its
prayers in general are not uttered in the
name of Christ. The hymn referred to,
"' 'Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love,'
describes an exi>crieiice not necessarv to
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be a good Alason/ and which only those
Masons have who are true Christians.
"^Masonry mav be an important and
useful society, we are not writing against
it, but it is no iiiore a substitute for a
church than a fire company or the Union
League Club.
"Of the right of ministers of the Gos-
pel to belong to it, we say nothing ; but
if thev do belong they should never so
speak or act as to lead any one to suppose
that in their opinion Masonry is any-
thing but 'one of many human societies
not worthy to be mentioned or thought
of in comparison with the Church of
Jesus Christ which he has purchased with
His own blood.' "
What may a minister gain by becom-
ing a Freemason ?
A member of the Wvoming Confer-
ence thought of joining the order, and
sought advice of a Mason in whom he
had confidence as a Christian, giving as
his reason for the step contemplated
that he might have more power over men
spiritually.
The man advised him, that if the rea-
son named were his object, he would bet-
ter not join, and the advice was followed.
Most likely the chief thought that
moves men to unite with the Masonic
fraternity is that it will secure a kind of
popularity and co-operation not to be at-
tained in any other way.
But the popularity thus gained is at
great cost and of questionable quality.
When a man joins Freemasons he gives
a first mortgage on his friendship, and
this special obligation places him out-
side the pale of impartiality that James
tells us is a characteristic of heavenly
wisdom. (James, 3:17.)
To the extent that he is found to give
prefernce to the members of his secret
fraternity he discounts his good will to
all others, and virtually serves notice on
them that they are relegated to an in-
ferior relationship in his regard.
This fact is recognized by those who
hold no preferred stock through secret
oaths, and it is small wonder if they
stand together for the protection of their
rights as against the powerful social
trust.
But it is a lamentable fact that Free-
masonry disturbs the fraternal relations
of Christ's ministers, and even interferes
in making assignments for work in the
Master's vineyard, as indicated in an
item above cjuoted from the Christian
Advocate. Trouble is made for the Dis-
trict Superintendent who wants to do the
fair thing for both preacher and charge.
On the one hand he is asked to send no
oathbound pastor to a certain charge,
and on the other hand the oathbound
man is sought, and retained beyond his
usefulness to the place by the action of
his lodge brethren.
And it should be remembered that
7vhat is gained by lodge inMiience rather
than by ability and fitness, is secured and
held dishonestly, as it belongs to one
more deserving and capable.
Another point named in one of the
quotations from the Christian Advocate
calls attention to the fact that members
of secret societies on trial receive spe-
cial help from ministers who are affiliated
with them.
We recently had a demonstration of
this influence in the Wyoming Confer-
ence. The committee on the case de-
clared the specifications and charge sus-
tained, but hesitated to affix the proper
penalty. There was delay and adjourn-
ment, and still further delay ; and finally
a lesser penalty than the findings de-
manded was anonunced.
After the committee finally adjourned
a member of the same informed the
chairman that Masonry had caused the
trouble, and gave the names of those
connected with the trial who were mem-
bers of the fraternity.
Asked if he were a Mason he answered
in the affirmative.
Freemasonry makes strange compan-
ions indeed, and the fact of being un-
equally yoked together seems to be en-
tirely ignored, as the following report
indicates :
"One of our Bishops visited the Meth-
odist Missions in India a few years since,
and was feted and feasted by the Masons
of Ceylon. In Calcutta no such honor
was accorded him, and he told the delin-
quent friends at dinner table of the mag-
nificent way he was received as a high
Mason among 'Ceylon's spicy breezes,'
not forgetting to mention that Calcutta
had not risen to its privileges so noblv.
''An elder brother who was once a Ma-
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
179
son took the Bishop to one side and in
great confidence said : 'Bishop, if I
were you I would not mention that Cey-
lon affair any more in India.' The Bish-
op inquired, 'Why?' 'Well,' answered
the brother, 'they are not a very respec-
table lot out here in India to associate
with.' "
It seems strange that a Bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church would cher-
ish a desire for any honor that Freema-
sonry might be able to confer.
Having furnished convincing evidence
that Freemasonry is against Christianity,
I desire to close with questions for the
consideration of my Masonic brethren :
Does Freemasonry add any excellence
whatever to the character of a genuine
Christian? And does it in any measure
or manner improve the qualifications of
a true minister of Jesus Christ?
820 Prescott Ave., Scranton, Pennsyl-
vania.
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FIERCE BUT VICTORIOUS BATTLES.
Myself and wife have just closed our
Summer Union Evangelistic Tent Cam-
paign in Saginaw, Michigan. It was a
fierce, but victorious battle. Most of the
city pastors were out of the city on
their vacations and many of the churches
were closed on Sunday nights, but the
places of vice and crime were open and
multitudes thronged the beer gardens,
the theaters and saloons. But with God
we held the fort, preaching day and
night to all who cared to hear. Our op-
position to the Lodge System caused no
small stir.
Great work was accomplished among
the children and young people, and in
the Mother's Meetings held by Mrs.
Shaw in various parts of the city. In
addition to the meetings held in the
churches and mission halls, we preached
in the big tent night and day for six
weeks. We saw much of the old-time
power and glory, and a goodly number
were converted, reclaimed and brought
nearer to God. Many of the people that
attended our meetings were converted
or reclaimed in the revivals we held in
Saginaw a quarter of a century ago. The
All-day Prayer Meetings were largely
attended and were times of great power.
These meetings were held every Friday,
and now that we have left they will be
held once a month.
The last Sunday before returning home
we drove into the country eight miles
and held half a dozen services in the
Wesleyan Methodist church, where we
saw a glorious victory. A few prayed
through and were saved from the power
of sin. It was at this place that God
gave us such a glorious harvest of souls
many years ago, when nearly one hun-
dred were saved or cleansed from all
sin, in less than twO' weeks. Pray for
the work of God in Saginaw and sur-
rounding country.
Yours in Christian love,
S. B. Shaw.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
EMPEROR WILLIAM NOT A MASON.
An Ohio Synod German periodical re-
ports that Jos. E. Moscombe, editor of
The American Freemason, states that
Emperor William of Germany is not a
Freemason, although his father and
grandfather were; indeed the Emperor
is credited with a feeling of, if not actual
hostility, yet of contempt for the lodge.
The latest proof of this attitude came to
light in the reproduction of Mozart's
"Zauberfloete," (charmed flute). This
opera contains many allusions to the
lodge and was written in honor of Ma-
sonry. The Emperor ordered all such
allusions to be expunged.
The same article states that King
George of England is not a Mason and
is supposed to be unfavorable to tlie
lodge. W. B. S.
Some formal prayers are like talking
through the telephone and no one at the
other end to answer. It's a one-sided af-
fair. God says, "Incline your ear, come
unto Me, hear and your soul shall live."
You repent of your sins and straighten
out your life and central will ring up
and connect vou with the Almiirhtv
A loving trust in the Author of the
Bible is the best preparation for a wise
and profitable study of the Bible itself.—
H. C. Trumbull .
ISO
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
October. 1911.
Cl)c ^otoer of tl)e Secret Cmptre
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XXXVII.
History Repeats Itself.
The community at large looked upon
the speedy conviction of Jervish as a
matter of course, and when the time ar-
rived for the court to sit on the case the
public mind had quieted down from its
state of excitement to one of compara-
tive apathy. Against such overwhelming
evidence what possible chance for any
verdict but guilty ?
Anson Lovejoy thought otherwise.
"The lodge is bound to clear Jervish,"
he said to me one day when the subject
of the approaching trial happened to be
mentioned. "And they will do it."
Even I, wdio knew so well what Ma-
sonic craft and guile is capable of in the
way of perverting justice, was surprised
at the positiveness wdth which he spoke.
"Impossible!" I said. "No plainer
case of guilt ever came before a jury."
"That may be," answered Lovejoy
with a little touch of satire, "but yoti will
find that when a fourth or even less of
the jurv wear Masonic spectacles to as-
sist their imderstandings the plainest
cases have a faculty of growing strange-
ly involved. Colonel Montfort and the
other members of the lodge have a per-
sonal stake in this affair quite outside of
any particular interest they may feel
in jervish. It is a kind of a test
question. They want to prove to the
world and to themselves that Masonry
is strong enough to spread its protect-
ing wing over the vilest criminal and
then defy the hand of the law to reach
him. My word for it, Sheriff Simonds
will fill out the jury with Masons and
Odd Fellows to a man ; with possibly one
who is neither Mason nor Odd Fellow,
but whose sympathies or connections are
all with the lodge, put in simply for a
blinder to the public — nothing more."
I started, for this was the same dodge
that had been played so often and so
successfully in the Morgan trials forty
years before. What should hinder its
working equally well in the present in-
stance?
The widespread notoriety of the case
attracted an unusually large number to
hear the trial, and each day of the pro-
ceedings a crowded court room attested
to the interest it had excited. The wit-
ness against Maurice Jervish was clear
and conclusive ; the testimony in his fa-
vor slight and open to serious doubt from
the character of the witnesses or the
suspicion that lodge influence had been
at work, especially with Mrs. Peck, who
swore positively to having no knowledge
where Mary Lyman went on the night
she left the house, or in whose company ;
but was believed by every candid person
to have perjured herself under terror in-
spired by her husband, who knew very
well how to use the peculiar arguments
of the lodge with most impressive effect
on his weak-minded partner.
Lovejoy's prophecy had proved true
to the letter in relation to Sheriff Si-
monds, who filled out the jury with four
Masons and one Odd Fellow% together
with a sixth who was neither a Alason
nor an Odd Fellow, but a warm personal
friend of the prisoner! And so the case
proceeded — a great deal of tedious quib-
bling and impudent brow-beating of wit-
nesses from the Masonic lawyer who
was counsel for the accused, and did his
best, though signally failing in the at-
tempt— for there are some things beyond
even the power of falsehood — to repre-
sent the whole affair as a malicious perse-
cution of his client. And then, the evi-
dence all being in, the departure of the
jury to render their decision — guilty or
not guilty.
I remember with what hushed expect-
ancy we waited for the verdict ; how in
the stillness of the court room the jury's
returning footsteps after their brief ab-
sence sounded painfully loud. And I re-
member, too, the half-stunned, half-sick
feeling that came over me, as if I saw
Justice stabbed to the heart and was
forced to stand by when the death-blow
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was struck as the foreman pronounced
their decision —
"Not Guilty!"
The lodge had triumphed. Mary Ly-
man's murderer was free.
Astounded, inchgnant, ahiiost question-
ing whether my ears had heard aright, I
hstened to the giving of the verdict,
which was fohowed by loud applause
from Colonel Montfort's adherents, who
closed around Jervish and bore him away
like a conquering hero. It was the same
scene with which the court rooms of
western New York grew so familiar in
1826 and the four years succeeding. It
was history repeated, a Masonic jury
setting aside the plainest evidence for
testimony that bore the stamp of perjury
on its very face ; law helpless under the
heel of the lodge, and the same exultant
rallying around the murderer.
Rachel was silent for a moment after
I told her the result of the trial ; then
she bowed her head on her clasped hands
with a sound that was half a groan, half
a sob.
"Mother!" I said, gently.
"I can't help it," she answered. ''Shall
secret iniquity triumph forever? I feel
as if I could call upon God as the prophet
did to rend the heaven and come down."
"But there is a day of reckoning com-
ing, you forget that, mother."
"No, I don't forget it, but it seems
such a great wav off. What my heart
cries out for is justice now. It will be
a ;'«itis faction to the universe no doubt
when this wretch gets his deserts at the
day of judgment, though it be a million
years he^ce, but thinking of that will
never reconcile me to his going free of
jnmishment here. His acquittal is a
standing menace to the peace and virtue
of every home. If the lodge can defy
law at one time and in one place it can
at other times and in other places — and
what is more, it will."
"Well," said Anson Lovejoy, who had
come in to talk over the result of the trial,
"Colonel Montfort and his party triumph
openly and shamelessly in the fact that
they have cleared Jervish. At this very
moment some of the jury are over at
the tavern having a grand drinking fud-
dle in honor of their victory. Colonel
Montfort, I understand, is preparing a
garbled report of the affair for a Chi-
cago daily, in which he will represent
Jervish as a cruelly attacked victim of a
malicious anti-Masonic persecution,
winding uj) with a glowing account of his
triumphant vindication before the jury.
1 am rather glad he is going to do so, for
it will give me a chance to reply. The
real facts of the case should be placed
before the people and signed by com-
petent witnesses, so that every honest
man and woman who reads it sliall be
convinced on which side tiie truth lies."
"That is a good idea if you can get
such an article inserted," I an.-;\vered,
with a vivid remembrance of tlie times
now grown so distant and shadov/y,
when from one end of the land to the
other scarce a paper dared to print an
account of Morgan's abduction ; when,
deaf alike to the appeals of outraged hu-
manity and violated law, editors almost
everywhere resolutelv closed their col-
lums to the whole subject, presenting that
saddest- of spectacles in a land of free-
dom— an enslaved press.
"Oh ! I think there will be no difficulty
about that," returned Lovejoy. "After
publishing one side of the affair they
couldn't for decency's sake refuse to pub-
lish the other."
"How is your trial before the grand
lodge coming out?" I inquired.
"I hardly know yet. I sent my defense
in writing, for I could not spare the
money to go in person, and besides I
have ceased to consider myself as being
under the jurisdiction of the lodge. They
appointed a committee of three to investi-
gate the charges against me and report
to the grand master. As this committee
was composed of an ex-governor and two
ministers, I naturally supposed that I
should receive gentlemanlv treatment
from their hands — at least courtesy and
common fairness. Rut this was not the
case. They refused to hear any testi-
mony but that of my accusers, and con-
ducted the investigation, which was the
merest farce from beginning to end, more
in the spirit of examining members of
the inquisition than anything else. I
presume they rej)orted adversely : I nei-
ther know nor care. Nor shall I wait
for the decision of the grand master ; I
have already sent in my renunciation and
my reasons for doing so which are sub-
stantially these — T find that every Mason
is under obligation to conceal a brother
ATason's crime ; that the greater the crime
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October, 1911.
the strong-er the obligation to conceal it ;
that the lodge has the power of life and
death over its members ; and that if any
member knows of his intended assassina-
tion he has no right to use any other
means of safety than his own physical
force or keeping out of the way.' "
Lovejov spoke with slow, solemn em-
phasis. He had learned at last the les-
son that Mark and I learned two score
years before from a page stained with
martyr's blood and blotted with the tears
of the widow. The iron had entered into
his soul.
Elder Stedman had already delivered
one or two anti-Masonic lectures with-
out encountering any very serious oppo-
sition. Another was advertised to be
given in the Quipaw Creek school house
on Thursday evening of this same week.
The party at the tavern had a chance
to see the notice, which was put up in a
conspicuous corner of the public room,
and make their own peculiar comments
thereon. But remembering that my read-
ers' ears are unaccustomed to vulgarity
and profaneness, I shall only transcribe
that part of their talk which is of im-
mediate interest in view of the events
that are to follow.
Colonel Montfort himself was pledged
to settle the score, and under the pleasant
stimulus of this recollection there was a
general drinking to the health of the gal-
lant colonel.
"Come, boys, now for a rouser," said
the leader, as he again filled up his glass.
"Here's to Maurice Jervish, the brave
and innocent."
The toast was responded to with
drunken enthusiasm and in nauseating
triumph every glass was drained.
Reader, when the lodge has reached
what it takes a good deal of pains to in-
form us through its orators on St. John's
day and other appropriate occasions, is
its ultimate aim and object ; when it rules
the whole of our beloved country from
New England to the Sierras ; when it
elects all our public officers from presi-
dent and governor downwards ; when it
pulls the wires at every political conven-
tion and caucus and controls every town
meeting ; in those palmy days a man may
do that which is right in his own eyes ;
he may seduce, murder, rob, cheat, com-
mit all the crimes in the decalogue, only
provided that he has first had the fore-
sig'ht to learn a few Masonic signs and
grips, and has likewise had the discrim-
ination to select his victims entirely from
the ranks of cowans and outsiders. A
possibility that by that time so many will
join the lodge from motives of self-pro-
tection as to seriously limit the field of
operations would seem at first a slight
obstacle in the way of this cheerful pros-
pect. But all the difficulty rises from a
superficial view of the subject. There
will always be the cowan in the land ;
men too poor or too shiftless to pay the
lodge dues ; men too independent to sur-
render their liberty to a secret despotism ;
humble followers of the Lord who refuse
to bow to antichrist ; besides cripples
and minors, to say nothing of the whole
female sex barred out by circumstance or
accident from the tender charities of the
lodge.
Now, as the above mentioned classes,
taken together, form, at a moderate es-
timate, considerably more than two-thirds
of the world's population it will be read-
ily seen that the time is not likely ever to
arrive when Masonry shall be restricted
in its operations by too narrow a field
outside.
But we will leave dipping into the fu-
ture and go back to the party gathered
at the tavern who had been drinking just
freely enough to be primed for rowdy-
ism.
"I say, let's go over to Quipaw tonight
and shut the mouth of that confounded
Methodist parson," proposed one. "The
old rascal needs a lesson. Why don't he
stick to his business and let other things
alone?"
"That's so," was the ready response
of another "He ought to be treated to a
coat of tar and feathers, ranting up and
down the country, making trouble in the
family and setting wives against their
husbands. Now my wife hates Masonry
like the devil, and ever since she heard
that confounded fellow lecture she's been
worse about it. Now I say that Masonry
ain't a part of a preacher's business. He
ought to stick to the Gospel. That's
what ministers are for."
It is astonishing, reader, the unanimity
of opinion that sometimes exists between
two very opposite classes of men. The
drunken rowdy who gave utterance to
the above edifying sentiments was of ex-
actly the same mind with the Rev. Dr.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
183
Easy, who was at that very moment ex-
pressing to one of the deacons of his
church his sorrow that Bro. Stedman
should leave his legitimate business of
saving souls to attack such a respectable
institution as Freemasonry, with which
so many worthy men were connected.
Meanwhile the Elder was lifting up
his heart in prayer for strength to stand
firm against the enemies of the truth ;
for a spirit of meekness and charity to-
wards all who should oppose ; for the
presence of Jesus Christ to go with him
in might and power, directing the battle
to a glorious victory over the hosts of
Baal for the honor of his precious name
and the hastening of his day of Millen-
nial triumph.
The Elder rose from his knees and
walked to the place appointed, calm as
the summer sunset. He would have
been calm if he had known that he was
to encounter a raging mob ready to tear
him in pieces. Into that eternal fortress
where the righteous run and are safe,
his soul had entered. Girded from Je-
hovah's celestial armory, with the sword
of truth in his hand that forty years of
constant warfare had only whetted to
a keen edge, why should he fear the face
of mortal man?
He began his lecture, which was on
the relation of the Christian religion to
Masonry, in a comparatiAX quiet. It
was a rather miscellaneous audience ; a
few earnest, intelligent men and women
met to learn what they could about a
system which pretends to hold in its
keeping ineffable secrets impossible to
be discovered by profane gaze, vet with
curious inconsistency binds all its mem-
bers under awful oaths never to reveal
the unrevealable ! A few drawn by cu-
riosity ; and a considerable number,
among whom was the party from the
tavern, whose only design in coming^ was
to disturb the meeting" and mob the
lecturer.
In the course of his argument he first
described in a few brief, fitting words,
the nature and essence of true religion,
on which followed naturally a counter
description of Masonry. Here the Elder
began to tread on dangerous ground. So
long as he kept to generalities they could
pfford to listen with tolerable equanimitv.
Thev could even bear to be told that the
lodge was an emanation from the smoke
of the bottomless pit ; a low, cunning
caricature of Christianity, a revival of the
worship of Baal and Tammuz, and every
other heathen deity mentioned in Scrip-
ture. But when in order to prove these
statements he began a rapid review of ■
the lodge ceremonies, the stripping, the
hoodwink, the cable-tow, and the muck
killing and raising to life again of the
widow's son, they felt that it was high
time to rally to the su])])ort of the ancient
and venerable handmaid thus ruthlessly
despoiled of all that borrowed attire in
which her heart deligiited
"You are perjured !" shouted a voice
in the audience.
"In what way?" mildh- inquired tlie
Elder.
The man was about to answer, "By
telling our secrets," but the liquor he
had drunk had not so far muddled his
brains that he did not bethink himself
in time, and as he had not taken the pre-
caution to "fill his mouth w^th argu-
ments" beforehand, having filled his
pockets instead with another kind of ar-
gument very much in vogue with the op-
ponents of unpopular reform, he con-
tented himself with simply reiterating,
"You are perjured," and sat down.
The Elder, however, was armed cap-
a-pie against all such attacks.
"I am perjured, then, because I tell
the truth about Masonry. If I was tell-
ing falsehoods it wouldn't be ])erjury.
Now," added the Elder, turning- to his
audience, "this man who has just inter-
rupted me is sworn 'ever to conceal and
never reveal' the secrets of the order;
but he has just revealed them by the
very act of applying to me such a term.
Which of us, then, is perjured? I speak
as to wise men. ludee ve."
But at this point the speaker's voice
was drowned in a storm of hissings,
hootings, stampings and yellings. while
showers of rotten eggs bespattered him
liberally from head to foot. The wild
elements were let loose. Raging waves
of the sea. foaming out their own shame,
is no rapt description of the scene that
followed.
The Elder, after a vain attempt to con-
tinue speaking, dismissed the audience
as well as he could, and the respectable
part dispersed. He himself remained
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
October, 1911.
behind to gather up his books. This
o-ave time "for a crowd of infuriated
Masons to close about the platform, and
Surround him like a cordon of wild
beasts, with cries of "Bring a rail, eg;g-
him, feather him, shoot him." But then-
most outrageous demonstrations of in-
sult and violence did not cause a ripple
in that heavenly calm which pervaded
the Elder's soul.
To long to suffer for the truth's sake
i^ in some souls almost a natural instinct.
It was so with Mark Stedman. He was
born with those qualities that make a
^^-lai-tvr— dauntless courage and intense
loyaltv to his convictions. And if we
add to this the fact of all those long
years of service for his Master, deaden-
ing everv ease-loving, self-interested
fib're in his nature ; but quickening in the
same ratio every heavenly impulse of
his soul, till the ordinary motives that
sway men had scarcely more influence
over him than if he had been a glorified
spirit, it will be readily seen that if their
object was to frighten the Elder, he
was about the worst possible subject they
could have selected for such an experi-
ment.
"Mv friends," he said, mildly, "y^^i see
that lam powerless ; you can do with me
what you choose. You can take my life,
God rules in Heaven, and the truth will
triumph all the same— perhaps quicker.
:Mv soul is in His keeping; you cannot
harm the truth, and you cannot harm
me."
The mob was silent for an instant,
overawed by the meek daring of this
servant of God ; then their rage broke out
anew in redoubled yells and fresh threats
of violence. Suddenly a man among the
crowd whose features were partly con-
cealed by a hat that he wore, either by
accident or design, pretty well over his
eyes, leaped on the platform, and with
one quick movement extinguished the
lights. The same friendly hand seized on
the Elder, who by the diversion thus
made, and with the aid of his unknown
helper, managed in the darkness and con-
fusion to make his escape.
It was Anson Lovejoy, who had seen
the notice and made up his mind to at-
tend the lecture, half surmising that there
mio-ht be trouble. Bv mingling with the
mob as if one of them, he had executed
his bold maneuver, and the Elder went
home unharmed in person and not a
whit discouraged in soul.
"The wrath of man shall praise him,
and tlie remainder he will restrain," said
Mark, in talking over the affair a few
days after. "Outrage and violence never
really hinder the progress of the truth.
I believe more Antimasons were made
by that lecture than by the two others
that passed off quietly."
"And it would make still more," said
Lovejoy, "if the press were not so com-
pletely dominated by Masonic influence
that the most daring attempt to suppress
free speech passes unnoticed. That Chi-
cago Journal has actually refused to pub-
lish the contradiction to Colonel Mont-
fort's article, though signed by candid,
intelligent men who were on the coro-
ner's jury and knew all the facts of the
case."
"Well," said I, "editors and ministers
are, of all men, most timid about touch-
ing anything that savors of reform. The
lodge has pretty much the same argument
for both. Editors don't want to displease
their Masonic patrons and lose thereby a
part of their bread and butter. Ministers
don't want to preach an unpopular re-
form and so run the risk of losing a
slice off their salaries. And considering
what a poor, weak concern human n'ature
is, even at its best, I can't say I much
wonder at it."
"Do you know that a professed minis-
ter of the Gospel was foremost in the
riotous demonstrations the other night?"
said Lovejoy. "I tell you while min-
isters and church members support Ma-
sonry the system will stand. And fur-
thermore, so long as ministers and church
members who are not Masons think it
is a good institution, so long as thev will
excuse and defend it, so^ long it will be
impossible to overthrow it."
"I have been thinking of bringing up
the subject before our next Quarterly
Conference," said the Elder. "If the
church is ever to cast this viper out of
her bosom it must be through agitation
from within. If reform does not begin
at the house of God, judgment surely
will."
(To be continued.)
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NEW REASON TO SUBSCRIBE.
Laws lately proposed in several legis-
latures appear likely to be followed in
various states by similar attempts to re-
strict freedom of speech and the press.
If there is a concerted movement, it will
be strongly supported by powerful forces.
An accumulating mass of legislation will
be reinforced by judicial precedent and
executive confirmation. If nothing re-
sists, all this will happen.
It would be rather easy, however, to
make the path hard. More ways than
one to obstruct the track are not difficult
to find. Yet there are ways to walk in,
and not merely places to talk in. It will
not answer to content ourselves with
declaiming against opposition to the spirit
of a federal or a state constitution. We
should act efficiently ; and we can.
With what weapon, then, shall they be
armed who fight against this darkness ?
With light. What gun is the false foe
trying to spike? Truth. Cannot our own
forces learn from the enemy? Will they
run the press faster which the forces of
silence and dark secrecy are trying to
stop ? At what do they who cower in
lodges tremble? They know that free
speech is effective speech. Having sworn
each other not to speak or write openly,
they turn to attempt binding civil law
over the lips of free Americans. They
recognize free speech and the free press
as dangerous to error. They are right.
Their consciousness of danger is a
true guide to our campaign. Eagerness
to fortify a vulnerable part of their fort-
ress marks out for us the point of ad-
vantageous attack. The serpent secrecy
is like the black snake which poising its
head in front of a gun looks straight at
the muzzle, taking perfect aim for itself
so that the most unskilled hunter blows
its head off.
Knowing, then, this crisis, and the
simple, direct means of meeting it. what,
now, will our readers proceed to do?
Will they only wait to see what we do?
Doubtless some of them find light in the
Cynosure — named for the Polar star.
How far does this candle throw its
beams? Where and how is its light ob-
scured ? Such questions are in point at
such a time. We write the articles ; we
print the magazine ; it is our readers who
have the circulation in their own hands.
Circulation is on the firing line. Sub-
scription is close to the point of execu-
tion.
Now, one dollar sends the magazine to
four addresses a quarter of a year; a
quarter of a dollar sends it to one ad-
dress for the same time. As soon, then,
as a muffler bill is proposed in any state,
its appearance should be the signal for
multiplying such subscriptions by mem-
bers of churches and other patriots. A
shower of unasked and unexpected copies
would thus be scattered over the com-
monwealth. Members of that legislature
which must consider the anti-free-press
bill would soon learn that their constitu-
ents had suddenly become well informed.
The lodge, too, will discover that as soon
as its first shot is fired, the fortress of
truth replies with an exploding shower of
missiles enlightening all the field. It will
learn that the quickest way to light the
lamp of exposure is to kindle the torch
of legislative destruction of constitutional
liberty. It will pause and ponder before
intruding into the next state with mediae-
val legislation. It w^ill learn that inevit-
able punishment is prompt and severe.
It must soon be well aware that the in-
famy to be blanketed is suddenly much
the more uncovered in full sight of the
electoral constituency.
We have thus indicated one of several
things that can be done. Is it one that
ought to be done? If so, who ought to
do it? If it is the friends of light, they
should hasten to be organized, or at
least to have a common understanding of
what they will do. At signal, they ought
to be ready to march and overwhelm the
forces lurking in lodge ravines. There
may be danger that darkness will deepen ;
there should 1)e no danger that light will
not broaden.
ISG
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
October, 1911.
|letti0 of ®ur Port.
MICHIGAN STATE CONVENTION.
The annual Antisecret Conference of
the ^Michigan Christian Association, op-
posed to secret societies, will be held
this year in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Wed-
nesday and Thursday, October 4th and
5th. All sessions except that of Thurs-
day evenino- will be in the Third Chris-
tian Reformed Church, corner of Wal-
nut and Park streets ; the Thursday eve-
ning meeting will be in the First Chris-
tian Reformed Church, corner of Wal-
nut and John streets. Following is a
condensed program of the Conference :
Wednesday, 2 :oo p. m. Opening ex-
ercises by Pres. A. B. Bowman ; confer-
ence ; written reports of officers ; appoint-
ment of committees ; paper by Rev. J.
W. Brink, "A Distorted Text;" devo-
tional exercises.
W^EDNESDAY, 7 45 p. m. Rev. A. R.
Merrill, chairman. Devotional exer-
cises— special prayer for the National
and State Associations ; singing by choir
of the Third Christian Reformed Church,
address of welcome by Rev. S. Elders-
veld, response by Pres. A. B. Bowman,
address by Dr. W. H. Clay, "The Lead-
ership of the Lodgery" ; opportunity to
put questions to Dr. Clay, singing by
the congregation, a collection being taken
meanw hile ; address by Rev. J. J. Hie-
menga, ''The Lodge System Essentially
a Religion" ; opportunity to put ques-
tions to Rev. Hiemenga, singing by choir
of the Third church, devotional exercises
conducted by the chairman.
Thursday, 9 :3o a. m. Rev. J. W.
Brink, chairman. Devotional exercises
at request of the chairman, reading of
minutes, echoes from the Annual Con-
vention of the National Christian Asso-
ciation, reading of letters and testimon-
ials, Seceders' Parliament — short ad-
dresses— led by Rev. J. E. Harwood ; de-
votional exercises conducted by the
chairman.
Thursday, 2 :oo p. m. Rev. J. E.
Harwood, chairman. Devotional exer-
cises at request of the chairman ; read-
ing of minutes, reports of committees,
election of officers, singing by congrega-
tion and collection, address bv Rev. A.
R. Merrill, "High School and College
Fraternities" ; opportunity to put ques-
tions to Rev. Merrill, Round Table and
discussion of methods of work, led by
Dr. Charles A. Blanchard.
Thursday^ 7 45 p. m. Rev. S. Elders-
veld, chairman. Devotional exercises at
request of the chairman, music by
chorus, address by Dr. Charles A.
Blanchard, "Christian Ministers and
Secret Societies" ; opportunity to put
questions to Dr. Blanchard ; singing
by congregation and collection, ad-
dress, in Holland language, by Rev.
S. Eldersveld, "Den Invloed der
Loge op het Amerikaansch Kerklijk
Leven" ; opportunity to put questions to
Rev. Eldersveld, music by choir, closing
remarks by the President and devo-
tional exercises.
OHIO STATE CONFERENCE.
Belief ontaine, Ohio, Aug. 14 and 15, 1911.
In the absence of the President, W. S.
Gottshall, of BlufTton, O., Wm. L Phil-
lips, of Chicago, was appointed Chair-
man of first session.
Devotional exercises were conducted
by J. J. Warye, of West Liberty, O.,
reading 2 Cor., 6, as a scripture lesson,
and offering earnest prayer to our Fa-
ther.
Elder B. F. Snyder gave the "Wel-
come Address" in behalf of the church
entertaining the Conference, and W. B.
Stoddard the "Response." Both speak-
ers were very earnest in their support of
the work.
The address, "Should the Church Tol-
erate the Lodge?" by J. E. Hartzler, of
Elkhart, Ind., was the principal feature
of the evening's program.
Those who have, on former occasions,
heard him speak on this subject, know
something of the treat enjoyed.
First the Principles, Oaths and Obliga-
tions of Secret Orders were exposed, as
well as the penalties attached to the vio-
lation of any of these oaths as prescribed
by the various lodges.
The Lodge was pictured as being dis-
honest, deceitful and untrustworthy,
these points being then carefully proven.
Arguments of Lodge men were then an-
swered, showing the falsity of arguments
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
187
so often presented by those favoring the
Secret Order System.
Committees were then appointed on
Resolutions, on State Work and on
Finance.
Offering- was then taken, and audience
dismissed by prayer by C. A. Blanchard.
Tuesday Morning Session.
Conference called to order bv Pres. W.
S. Gottshall, of Bluffton, Ohio.
Devotional conducted by Rev. H. R.
Smith, Leonardsburg, O., Scripture
reading, i John, 4. Prayer by several
active workers.
Letters of greeting were read from the
following interested workers :
S. P. Long, H. R. Smith, S. P. Over-
holtz, O. L. Smith, Oscar Allebaugh, J.
E. Hartzler, Anna E. Stoddard, H. A.
Day, Thos. Weyer, J. M. Scott, H. A.
Thompson, W. J- Sanderson, Jos. Hoff-
hines, and L J. Rosenberger.
Committee on State Work made their
report, which was accepted by the meet-
ing-
Attention was called to the fact that
the work being done bore no comparison
to the need.
''My people are gone into captivity for
want of knowledge" was never more true
than it is to-day ; however, increased
number of subscriptions to the ''Chris-
tian Cynosure" was reported, and many
signs of an awakening noted.
Report of Einance Committee was
then submitted, and approved by the
meeting.
Committee on Nominations submitted
their report, and the following officers
were declared elected for the ensuing
year:
President, W. S. Gottshall, Bluffton,
Ohio ; Vice-President, P. E. Brunk, Eli-
da, Ohio ; Secretary, Mary L. Cook,
Bellefontaine, Ohio; Treasurer, J. M.
Faris, Bellefontaine, Ohio.
A very able address was then given
by W. J. Sanderson, of Cedarville, Ohio.
Theme : "Lodge Goodness."
The much boasted charity, brother-
hood, professed light and illumination,
morality and religion of the Lodge was
mentioned, but "things are not aluravs
what they seem."
Secrecy in this world stands for dark-
ness. Everything that is slv, mean and
d(5shonest always seeks the covert of
darkness.
''Lodge Goodness" is not what it seems
to be. The whitewash used on the se-
pulchres in the time of Christ is not all
consumed yet.
Come out from among them, and be ye
separate, saith the Lord of Hosts, and I
will be with you, and I will be your God,
and ye shall be my people.
Forenoon session was closed by pra\er
offered by H. A. Studebaker.
Afternoon Session.
Devotional conducted Ijy P. E. I-irunk,
of Elida, Ohio, reading Eph. 5:1-21, and
leading in prayer for power and guid-
ance.
Minutes of forenoon session \\'ere read
and accepted.
Address, "The Effects of the Lodge on
Christian Life," by Wm. Dillon. Spring-
field, Ohio.
"The Lodge is sometimes called the
handmaid of Christianity ; but T am
jealous of handmaids. Sarah became
tired of waiting God's time to send the
promised son, hence gave her handmaid
to Abraham, but it caused trouble."
Lodge proposes salvation of man with-
out any of the means the Bible pre-
scribes.
Christ's name is stricken from Lodge
prayers, as well as from the Scriptures.
Sad condition to rule Christ out.
"If empty of religion, one can fill up
on Lodges ; but, if full of religion, no
room for Lodge."
Capt. Scott, of Granville, O., an aged
worker of the Association, gave an im-
promptu, setting forth some personal ex-
periences. "Masonry claims to free front
sin ; if this be true, Christ died in vain."
"We want true men, noble men who love
truth, and who will give their lives if
need be for the right.''
Address, "A Chart Talk — The Inside
Out," by W: B. Stoddard, Washington,
D. C.
A Catalogue of Supplies for the ^lod-
ern Woodmen Lodge was exposed to the
public, setting forth the foolishness of
the order.
"The Lodge wants men that will ad-
vertise, and is especially solicitous for
the minister and other good people.
"Preacher taken in free for advertise-
ment."
ISS
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
October. 1911.
"]\[r. ^lackey, a thirty-third degree
IMason, who died in A\'ashington, D. C,
printed a book as a help to feUow-Ma-
sons."
This 1)Ook was in the hands of Air.
Stoddard, who gave extracts from it.
Christless Lodge prayers were men-
tioned, also the fact that, while the Bi-
ble was used in lodge-rooms in Christian
lands, yet not so in IMohammedan coun-
tries.
The chart used as an aid in giving this
address riveted some points in the minds
of the hearers as could have been done
in no other way.
The follo\\'ing report of Committee on
Resolutions was read and adopted, item
by item :
Whereas, the Salvation of the Nation as
well as the individual depends upon a right
relationship to God ; and.
Whereas there are within our country
an increasing number of lodges that are
fundamentally opposed to Christ, through
whom ^^•e are brought into a saving rela-
tionship -wilh God the Father, therefore
be it
Rcsoh'ed, I, Ir^ opposing that which an-
tagonizes the Christian faith, we iind the
Secret Lodge directly in our path;
Res. IT As "no nation can continue to
exist ])art sla\'e and part free." we believe
our free institutions will be destroyed un-
less the slavery found in the Secret Lodge
he checked and destroyed;
Res. 111. As the Church is the "light of
the world." her membership should be free
from all organizations leading into dark-
ness and sin;
Res. IV. We believe that Lodge initia-
tions arc needless for good purposes, and
are usually found to be foolish and wicked;
Res. V. No Secret Lodge is recjuired to
promote any benevolent object;
Res. VI. The proper maintenance of the
home demands the abolition of the Secret
Lodge ;
Res. VII. We are in favor of the Na-
tional investigations into so-called trusts
and combinations that naturally seek con-
cealment because of their nature;
R.es. VI IT The Labor Unions as com-
monly conducted are allying themselves
with the Secret Lodge System in spirit and
conduct; therefore they should not be up-
held by those leading the Christian life;
Res. IX. We call upon all Christians to
unite in giAdng forth light and truth as op-
posed to the Lodge darkness and sin; and
recommend the National Christian Associa-
tion as an agency fitted frjr such united
effort;
Res. X. That we counsel all churches in
the State of Ohio, which are opposed to
Secret Orders, to take an annual collection
for the Ohio State Christian Association,
and also for the National Christian Asso-
ciation, and to send delegates to the an-
nual meetings of both these associations;
Res. XI. Thanks are due and are here-
by given to the friends of the Church so
kindly entertaming our meetirig; the pas-
tors and papers who have given kindly no-
tice, and all who have in any way contrib-
uted to the success of this gathering.
C. A. BLANCHARD,
J. J. WARYE,
JAMES STEWART,
Committee on Resolutions.
Rev. Sanderson dismissed this session
with a very fitting word of prayer.
Evening Session.
Devotional conducted by S. E. Algyer,
of West Liberty, O. Scripture, Psalm
2/, w^as read, followed by a fervent
prayer.
Minutes of the afternoon session were
read and accepted.
Address, "The Effect of the Lodge on
Our National Life," by Chas. A. Blan-
chard, President of Wheaton College,
Wheaton, 111.
"What a Secret Society does to a de-
cent Nation on one side of the Atlantic,
it will do to a decent Nation on the
other side ; hence, wdien I picture effects
in America, I give effect on any other
decent Nation.''
"Secret societies tend to rot out the
manhood and womanhood of a Nation."
"Most beautiful organization in the
w^orld is a home wdiere a pure, nqble
man loves a pure, noble wife, with pure,
happy children playing about them.
Lodge is destroying this picture."
"Divorce record worse in the United
States than in any other Nation of any
age, unless it be that of the Roman Em-
pire in the Dark Ages, when woman
counted her age not by birthdays, but by
the number of her marriages."
"Judge in Iowa said, 'Nine-tenths of
all evidence in the courts was open per-
jury. In every court are found men with
secret relations with other men.'
"This country, our homes, are worth a
big fight to preserve them."
Session dismissed by prayer offered
by J. M. Paris of Belief ontaine.
Thus closed a meeting that has put
men and women to thinking. May great
results be attained.
Mary L. Cook,
Secretary pro tern.
October, 1!lll.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
180
AN EXHORTATION TO PASTORS?
When we know that millions of Chris-
tians and scores of churches are opposed
to Masonr}', when we know that man}-
pastors and laymen have been constrained
after becoming converted to leave the
lodge, when we know that Masons do
boast of their order having shielded crim-
inals, does it not appear that he who de-
fends this order comes under the Mas-
ter's "Woe," when He says, "Woe to
that man by whom the offense cometh ?"
If that Chicago pastor who criticised Dr.
R. A. Torrey lacks the knowledge or
courage to oppose lodge associations,
which are objectionable alike to millions
of his fellow Christians, and necessary
to none, then, for the sake of His ac-
count in the judgment day, he should not
encourage any weak brother to join the
Lodge, which he most certainly does by
such a letter as that of his which was
Dublished in the March number of the
Cynosure.
From what standpoint of theology,
morals or logic does he make it wrong
for a person to break a sinful oath or
refuse to keep a sinful promise? Ought
Herod to have kept his oath and killed
John the Baptist, or ought he to have
admitted that he did wrong in swearing
to something of which he did not know ?
Ought not Herod to have refused to add
to his sin of the oath in keeping it ? I
«im willing to be judged by this right
standard myself. When unconverted I
joined a lodge, I took its oath to keep
secret its ways and work. I became a
Christian, and my eyes were opened to
the following wrongs :
I. On being asked in whom one be-
lieves as a candidate, he is supposed to
answer, ''A Supreme Being." But Jesus
says that he who does not have the Son,
does not have the Father. 2. The way to
the "Grand Lodge above," as the lodges
nickname heaven, is by a youth spent in
learning good, by a manhood spent in
doing good, and by an old age spent in
looking back upon a well-ordered life.
Jesus says : ''No man cometh unto the
Father, but by me." 3. In almost all the
prayers of lodges the name of Jesus is
studiously avoided. Jesus says : "What-
soever ye shall ask the Father /'// viy
name, he will give it you." 4. Though
the rules forbid the lodges to have
dances, my order would have dances just
the same, but arranged for them out-
side of the regular lodge meetings. Be-
ing a member, I felt myself to be parti-
ceps criiuiiiis; and the Apostle says: "Be
not conformed to this world."
When I saw this, ought I to remain in
the lodge? If I left for such reasons,
should I be silent? Silence, of course,
pays better in earthly coin than to warn
others, and so take up the cross. I
am glad that I took up that cross, for
j^ersecution from lodgemen is the only
way that I have had the honor of suffer-
ing for my Master. All other crosses of
the ministry have been insignificant in
comparison. But, then, the fruits arc
coming. A leading business man of one
of my former charges was a Mason, and
openly admitted that as a Mason he
could not accept Christ as the only and
necessary mediator between God and
man ; for Masonry, he said, taught the
way to the Grand Lodge above through
followino; the teachin8:s and morals of
the lodge. Just about a month ago he
wrote me a letter, that under great spir-
itual strain he had been led to accept
Christ as his Savior, and to see that be-
lief in Masonry's God — the Grand Archi-
tect— was not enough for salvation.
Now, my beloved Brother Pastor (I
call you so, hoping that you accept Jesus
Christ as your only Savior from sin and
self), I w^ant to ask some important
cjuestions : Have }'ou noticed that many
Masons are wearing, besides the sign of
the cross, the sign of the crescent — the
sign under which the religion of Christ
was driven from northern Africa? — have
you noticed it ? Does it seem insignifi-
cant to 3'ou ? Have you noticed that ^la-
sonry has almost killed the Protestant
missions on the island of INIadagascar?
Have you heard the boast of French ]\Ia-
sons, that they have driven religion out
of France? Have you read in the official
report of the Peace Congress at Boston,
what I heard there with my own ears,
the declaration of a prominent ^lason,
that Christians ought not to take undue
credit for the peace movement, as Ma-
sons, atheists, and other unbelievers had
done their share ^ Do vou see anv si^i'-
nilicance in this classification of ^Masonry
by a Mason who ranks high in his order?
Have ^"(m noticed that the ( )d(l T-'ellow
Ipo
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
October, 1911.
Sovereign Grand Lodqe of the World de-
cided not to reverse the order of its
Grand Sire, that "it is unlawful to men-
tion the name of Christ in an Odd Fellow
Lodge" ? Do you see any significance
in that fact? Ought not one to hesitate
as a Christian to defend lodges, which
wear the symbols of Mohammedanism
and avoid the use of the name of Christ,
yea, even forbid it? And do you not
see the difference between unavoidable
and avoidable association with unbeliev-
ers? Since you compare associations in
the business world with the freely chosen
lodge association, do you not really see
any difference?
just ask God for light, and it will be
given. Yours in the love of Christ,
(Rev.) B. E. Bergesen.
•Seattle, Washington.
SECRETARY STODDARD'S LETTER.
New York City, Sept. i6, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure:
I am seeking to do what I may. One
in the midst of five million does not
count for much, yet each one has his or
her influence. There is a constant gain
of N. C. A. supporters in this section,
for which we may be thankful. During
the month past I have secured over
one hundred and fifty subscriptions to
the Cynosure. Meetings have been
well attended.
If evidence were lacking to prove it
unnecessary 'to belong to a lodge in
order to find friends when traveling,
my experience at Smithville, Ohio, would
be proof enough. I reached that town
on a dark night, unacquainted with any
person there. On inquiry I was told the
hotel was a mile distant, but there was a
minister of the Mennonite church living
near. It is scarcely necessary to add
that I found a welcome and good care.
The next morning Preacher Hostetter
harnessed the horse and took me to the
undertaker's ( !). The undertaker got
out his auto and conveyed me to the
elder, Benjamin Gerig. After an exam-
ination as to my qualifications, record
and desires, the elder decided to allow
me to speak to his people. There were
probably five hundred persons present at
our splendid meeting in the large, finely
arranged country meetinghouse. Most
of the preaching hour was given to a
presentation of anti-lodge truth.
In the afternoon I was taken to the
home of an old acquaintance of fifteen
or more years ago, and given an oppor-
tunity to present the truth to the people
he serves in the Orrville (Ohio) church
in the evening. The attendance here
was good, many coming in from the
country.
On Monday evening I was happily
surprised to find the large church of the
Brethren near Weilersville filled with
an expectant congregation. Some thirty-
five (as many as I had time to solicit)
subscribed for the Cynosure. There are
many open doors and much need for our
work in that section. I was told the
leading lodge of Smithville had been
quarrelling over the introduction of a
pool table. Those who did not want it
were of course out-voted. When will
the ''good people" learn that the devil
runs the lodges and cease trying to keep
them from their evil ways.
I found my next opportunity at Da-
mascus, Ohio. I discovered here a live,
working, spiritual people. The Yearly
Meeting of the Friends' Church for
Ohio and adjacent states was in session.
Our good brother Lee, of Mount Gilead,
Ohio, had made arrangements for a
hearing which was considerate and kind.
This meeting represents six thousand
or more in its membership. Much of
my address was copied in the Minutes,
to be transmitted to the entire church.
Led by Brother Lee, not a few testified
tO' their deliverance from lodges, and to
the truth of what had been said.
Since coming east I have worked in
Waynesboro, Chambersburg, Cleona,
Philadelphia, and other places in Penn-
sylvania. Last Sabbath I gave the eve-
ning message in the King's Park
(N. Y.) Methodist-Episcopal church. I
go this evening to Weehawken, N. J.,
where I am (D. V.) to serve the West
New York United Presbyterian church
tomorrow. Monday I plan to go to
address a large conference of our Swed-
ish Congregational friends. Meetings
for this vicinity are planned to follow.
There is much I would write were
there time. Let us praise God for mer-
cies past, and go on to greater victories.
W. B. Stoddard.
October, ]!»]!.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
im
SOUTHERN AGENT'S REPORT.
Alexandria, La.,
Sept. 6, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure :
Since my last letter, I have been ver}^
biLsy. I have lectured and preached at
the following places : Mansfield, Han-
na, Dixie, Shreveport, Bunkie, Ever-
green and in this city. I spoke uncom-
promisingly against the Lodge at each
place, and secured a few Cynosure
readers.
I visited the Twelfth District Baptist
xA^ssociation at Hanna, where I met a
hearty welcome and had an opportunity
both to preach and lecture. The breth-
ren treated me very kindly, and paid
close attention to all I said, and made a
small donation. I also visited the North
Calvary Baptist Association, where Drs.
Harden, Moore, Cook, and, in fact, all
of the brethren received me with open
arms, and gave opportunity to preach
and lecture ; and they made a very good
donation.
I also pai.d a visit to the Thirteenth
District Baptist Association, which met
in Shreveport. This Association is a hot-
bed of Secrecy from their Moderator on
down. Nevertheless God has a few
faithful in it that have never bowed
their knees to Baal. Chief among them
are Rev. M. G. Green, for whom I
preached ; Dr. J. H. Henderson, a grad-
uate of the Richmond Theological Insti-
tute of Richmond, Va., and Rev. W. T.
Taylor and Dr. H. R. Flynn. I was very
cordially received by the brethren, but
the day and hour I visited them they
were so overtaxed with work that I did
not seek an opportunity to speak, but
contented myself with privately canvass-
ing and securing subscriptions.
I next visited the Eighth District Bap-
tist /\ssociation at Evergreen, La., where
I was cordially welcomed by the entire
delegation, many of whom were my old
friends and associates more than twenty
years ago. I was given absolute libertv
and freedom of speech, and both
preached and lectured to them. Dr. H.
B. N. Brown. Dr. I. Thomas and Rev.
G. W. Davis each preached great and
soul-stirring sermons, and each con-
demned the entire Lodge system. Dr.
W. M. Taylor, president of the Baptist
Convention, sounded a keynote against
the Lodge in his address. I spoke to
from fifteen hundred to twenty-five hun-
dred people at each of these associations,
and a good impression was made. Many
promised to prayerfully consider their
Lodge oaths, while others said they were
fully convinced of their sin and folly.
I have just been extended a unanimous
call to become pastor of Shiloh Church
of this city. I have accepted, and am to
give part of my time to the church. I
have moved to this city, and am in hopes
of purchasing a little home for my fam-
ily and of settling down again perma-
nently.
I will be glad to fill engagements
with those who may desire my services.
Pray for success in the work. I am
Yours for Heaven,
F. J. Davidson.
806 Casson St., Alexandria. La.
MRS. WOODS AND THE ODDFEL-
LOW.
Trenton, Tenn., Sept. 5, 191 1.
Dear Brother Phillips :
I met a man last week who had on a
three-link chain. I said : "You belong
to the chain gang?" "Yes, I am an Odd-
fellow." I said : "My brother, you are
an idolater." "Why do you think so?"
I answered : "Because God made you in
his own image, and did not charge any-
thing, but since you have grown up to
manhood you have given up the God of
Heaven and are serving the creature
more than the Creator." (Romans i 125.)
He replied : "All our work is basted on
the Bible." I said: "Sir, your basting
threads will break when you shall appear
before God to give an account for your
stewardship. And Jesus says (Rev.
22:12) : 'Behold, I come quickly.' Broth-
er, do you know that everv secret thing
will be brought into judgment?" (Eccles.
12:14.) He said: "My Sister, we
don't mean to do any harm in our order
(colored Oddfellows). We mean to do
good." I answered : "Well, you disobey
God. You make men swear, and put
them under the penalty of death. If one
tells vour secrets, did vou not swear to
kill him?" He said :' "Yes." I said:
"That is murder." "No," said he. "it
would not be murder according to our
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
October, 1911.
law." "Have you a law difterent from
the civil laws of this country?" He said:
*'^^'e have a good law, and when a man
takes the oath, and then don't keep it, we
have a right tc> put him out of the way."
I said: "\\'here did you get that right?
God said in the sixth commandment,
'Thou shalt not kill' (Ex. 20:13), and
the laws of this country don't allow you
to kill a man for that sort of tomfoolery.
Now where is your right ? Is that right
basted on the Bible?" He said: "Well,
no, but we have a law ; w^e don't compel
men to take the oath, but if he does, he
must keep it." I asked: "Are you a
Christian ?" He said : "Yes, I am a
Methodist.'' "Well, suppose some of
your church members did tell the secret,
who would kill him?" He said: "We
would kill him as a body. What we do,
we have a law for, and by our law he
ought to die.'' I said: "Yes, it is easy
for men inclined to evil to justify them-
selves, when at the same time they know
they are lying, and hope to deceive oth-
ers who do not know the facts in the
case, but it will not be so when they come
to the judgment. Christ said to the
Pharisees, 'Ye are they which justify
yourselves before men, but God knoweth
your hearts ; for that which is highly es-
teemed among men is an abomination in
the sight of God.' "
Sin is not a mistake ; it is disobedi-
ence to the light we have, let it be little
or much. No man can face the judg-
ment who has not a conscience void oi
offense toward God and man. All sin is
sin against God. It is turning a deaf
ear to His Word. It is important to
keep in mind that every man has to do
with God personally, and that all sin is
disobedience to God in thought, word or
deed.
He said : "Well, madam, I have never
looked at it in that light before ; but par-
don me, who made you so wise ? and how
did you get hold of our secrets ?" I told
him how I first got hold of the tracts
and books through the National Christian
Association. He said : "Well, I will
look through the thing. I have always
thought that we were doing more for
fallen humanity than the Church !" I
said : "Yes, that is like idolatry. That is
Vv'hat the people thought about their gold-
en calf w^orship in Judah and Israel." I
said to him : "You are mixed up with
all kinds of bad men. You have men
here you call 'bootleggers,' and they all
belong to your lodges." He said: "Yes,
but we who are Christians don't mix with
them, only in a business way." I said:
"What did God say about mixing with
sinners: Ps. 1:1, and II Cor. 6:14?"
He replied. "Well, you have out-talked
me for this time. Give me time to think."
Yours for God and the Church,
Lizzie Woods.
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XXXVIII.
Under the Juniper Tree.
There is a certain exaltation of spirit
which overcomes the weakness of the
flesh when we engage in a stern wrestle
with any kind of moral evil. Hence it
is that reformers in every age have gone
through life with the step of laureled
victors moving- to the sound of trium-
phal psalms. Yet God has so constituted
the human soul that it cannot always keep
stretched to this heroic tension. The Eli-
jahs who climbed the nearest heaven on
those heights of sublime daring for
truth's sake generally find their juniper
tree somewhere in the way.
Mark Stedman had encountered
threats, obloquy, persecution, with unfal-
tering heart. He expected nothing else.
He was renewing the battle at double
odds, for while the murderous spirit of
Masonry remained unchanged, as evi-
denced by the attempted attack on Love-
joy, there was not now, as in the Morgan
day, an awakening of public sentiment
to back up its opposers. To rouse that
slumbering public sentiment, to lift up
his voice like a trumpet and show the
house of Judah their sin he conceived to
be one of his peculiar duties as a sentinel
of Zioii ; and he made no account of pos-
sible difficulties in convincing- of her
guilt a lukewarm church that had fore-
saken her first love.
''Really, brother Stedman," said the
first of his brother ministers in the con-
ference to whom Mark addressed him-
self, 'T ofave VO'U credit for beinsf a man
of more sense than to run a tilt against
Masonry at your age. You might as
well try to throw Gibraltar into the sea."
"Amen," returned the Elder, while his
dark eye kindled and his thin face
flushed. ''Every false worship has been
called impregnable. But the God I serve
is a God of the hills as well as a God of
the valleys ; and moreover I have Christ's
promise, Tf ye have faith as a grain of
mustard seed, ye shall sa}^ unto this
mountain. Be thou removed and be thou
cast intO' the sea, and it shall be done.' "
"These are not the days of miracles,'^
returned the other, rather curtlv. "And
to tell the truth, I don't think it is Chris-
tian charity tO' indulge in such wholesale
denunciations of Masonry when four-
fifths of the ministers in our conference
belong- to the lodge."
"Counting yourself, I see," dryly an-
swered Mark, who- had just caught sight
of a Masonic pin gleaming under the coat
of his charitably-disposed clerical
brother.
The latter looked a trifle embarrassed,
not to say ashamed, at the discovery.
"You see I don't wear it out in open
sight. If T was all wrapped up in the
institution like Elder Chadband, I should.
T joined the lodge a few years ago be-
cause I thought it might increase mv in-
fluence as a pastor. You know St. Paul
became all things to all men that lie might
save a few."
Mark rose to his feet, stern and sol-
emn
I have one question to ask : \\'as it
to save men or to o-ain m<^re hearers, and.
as a consequence, more jxipularity and
more money, that vou joined an order
whose badf'c vnu are ashamed to wear
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November, 1911.
openly? You need not answer it to me.
Answer it to God and your own soul."
And having launched this keen arrow
of truth ]\Iark went his way with an
inward prayer for this self-deceived
shepherd of the flock, who after all was
not so blameworthy as his elders in the
ministry who had lured him by their
example into such a path of hypocrisy
and time serving.
Elder Chadband was an altogether dif-
ferent subject to deal with. Far from
being ashamed of Masonry he gloried in
the many degrees he had taken, and
sounded the praises of the handmaid at
every funeral and corner-stone laying at
which the fraternity figured, far and
near.
He saw with alarm the serious trouble
that Mark's fanatical views were likely
to make in the conference, and he felt
warranted in using almost any measure
that might rid that body of his undesir-
able presence. But he believed in trying
a little diplomacy first, and to this end
he sought an interview with Mark, who,
on his part, had rather avoided any dis-
cussions with the Elder, considering him
as being too much in the situation of the
scriptural Ephraim to warrant the hope
that any good might arise therefrom. He
v.'as therefore proportionately surprised
when the Elder thus urbanely began the
conversation :
''While I am sorry that you feel it your
dtity to oppose such an excellent thing
as Freemasonry, my dear brother Sted-
man, a system that in its leading points
is drawn from revelation and teaches in
such an admirable manner so many im-
portant moral truths, I must say that
your sincerity and earnestness, however
misdirected, is above praise. And I wish
that there was more of that spirit in the
church. We need a fresh baptism of the
old-time zeal. There is too little of it —
altogether too little of it now-a-days."
And the Elder sighed as if deeply im-
pressed with the melancholy truth just
uttered.
Alark opened his eyes. What did it
mean? Was Saul also among the
prophets ?
"Now, I believe in the largest Chris-
tian liberty," continued the Elder, not
waiting for an answer, ''and no doubt one
important use of having so many differ-
ent sects is to make that liberty possible.
I have been seriously thinking, my dear
brother Stedman, that in some other
church holding similar views on the sub-
ject of Masonry, 3^ou could preach those
views without offense, and thus labor
with more freedom and a greater pros-
pect of usefulness. Of course we should
be sorry to lose one of our most valuable
preachers ; but our loss would be the gain
of some other denomination, such as the
United Brethren, for instance. We will
give you letters of recommendation to
that or any church you may prefer."
Mark's eye flashed. He had been un-
suspicious, hitherto ; now he saw through
the whole thing. Elder Chadband had
been playing to perfection the part of a'
boa constrictor, which slimes its victim
over before swallowing it, and I am
afraid that Mark's reply to his proposal
had less than the usual savor of Gospel
meekness.
"Is this Christian liberty — to be able
to declare the whole counsel of God, not
freely in any part of the church univer-
sal, but only in a few sectarian by-ways
and corners ? No, Elder Chadband, while
I have Christian fellowship with all who
walk in the truth, by whatever name they
are called, the church of the Wesleys is
the church of my adoption. It was there
my first vows were paid, and until she
casts me out of her communion I will
join no other."
This outburst rather startled Elder
Chadband. He had hoped for a different
result, not calculating that there was still
some unquenched fire under Mark's meek
countenance and threadbare coat.
"Really, brother Stedman" — and there
was a decided dropping of the Elder's
urbane tone — "I am grieved that you
should take a mere kindly hint in such a
spirit. We are commanded to separate
ourselves from such as cause schism and
offense, and to tell you the truth, many
in our conference consider you liable to
that charge. So in the truest spirit of
brotherly love I have pointed out to you
a course that will prevent all necessity
for such a painful and disagreeable step.''
"It seems, then, that you are willing
to recommend me to some unsuspecting
church as 'a brother beloved for his
work's sake,' while all the while I am ly-
ing under a grievous charge of 'causing
schism and offense.' You would have
me act a lie by representing that I seek
November, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
195
another church from personal preference,
when I do it to avoid the 'painful and
disagreeable' notoriety of being forcibly
ejected by the one I go from. Is this
Christian charity or lodge dissimulation ?
If truth, faithfully preached, causes
schism in any church, the worse for that
church. Elder Chadband, in the day of
Christ's appearing, how will you answer
before Him for your connection with a
system that points out to man another
way of salvation than through his aton-
ing cross ? How will you dare to stand
at his judgment bar with the blood of
souls clinging to your skirts that the
lodge has deluded and destroyed? Woe
unto you Masonic pastors, for ye shut up
the kingdom of heaven against men. Ye
neither go in yourselves, and them that
are entering in ye hinder."
And having thus delivered his right-
eously indignant soul, Mark left Elder
Chadband in a more disturbed state of
mind than Masonic philosophy would
seem to warrant, and more than ever
confirmed • in his opinion that brother
Stedman was a dangerous man to remain
in the ranks of the Methodist ministry.
Now Elder Cushing's church in
Brownsville, was Baptist, and thO'Ugh, as
Mark truly said, the church of the Wes-
leys was the church of his adoption, he
always felt in the hidden depths of his
soul a 3^earning impulse of affection to-
w^ards that particular chamber in Zion
where he had been cradled. So when a
certain Baptist minister came in his way
a little while after, who "had never joined
the lodge, and considered all secret so-
cieties at variance with the spirit of the
Gospel," Mark began with considerable
hopefulness to urge upon him his duty
as a Christian minister to express those
views in the pulpit.
*'I have very few Masons in my
church ; I could count them all on my
fingers' ends," said the Baptist pastor,
looking a trifle disturbed at this very di-
rect application of his principles. ''It
would hardly be worth the while for me
to leave the saving doctrines of the Gos-
pel to preach on a side issue."
"You acknowledge that Masonry is an
evil thing," returned the severely logical
Elder. "Then if you have one Mason in
your congregation his soul is in danger,
and you can no more neglect to warn him
without incurring guilt than if there were
fifty or a hundred."
The Baptist minister was silent for a
moment and then answered coldlv :
"You were once yourself in the Ma-
sonic order, I understand."
"It is true that I have worn the mark
of the beast," quietly answered the El-
der, "and for a short time I rendered
him faithful service. But Christ's own
blood washed away that mark long ago."
"Well, everybody has his own ideas of
duty. Elder Stedman. Now for my part
I couldn't take the solemn obligations
that are required of all who become Free-
masons and then feel right to break them
afterwards. The just man, we are told,
sweareth to his own hurt and changes
not. So we must agree to differ on the
other Cjuestion. I think hobbies should
be kept out of the pulpit — reform hob-
bies as much as any."
This was the taunt that sent Mark
under his juniper tree— that is to say, in-
to his plain, bare little study, w^here he
paced back and forth for a while, his
whole soul in one of those wild tumults
to which only the still, small voice can
speak peace. But the earthquake and
the whirlwind must go before. Where
he had a right to expect understanding
and sympathy, he had received a stone —
nay, worse ; a stinging scorpion. His
heart writhed under the injustice and
cried out in the bitterness of its agony.
Why must he ever lead a forlorn hope?
Why must he be the one to always stand
in the breach? How could he hope to
batter down this grim fortress of secret
iniquity single-handed ? Had he not been
very jealous for the Lord God of Hosts
when every pastor around him was either
openly committed to the worship of Baal
or preserving a cowardly and shameful
silence? Surely he had battled long
enough. Death seemed better than life ;
an ignominious retreat better than to con-
tinue a hopeless struggle with the church
and the world against him.
But God never leaves his servants un-
der the juniper tree without sending an
angel to strengthen them. And even
now his ano^el was on the wav to streng-
then the poor, discouraged Elder who, to
spiritual weakness, was beginning- to add
bodily faintness ; though when there
came a tap at his study door, which he
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November, 1911.
look for a call to dinner, he only an-
swered :
"I think I won't come down to-day,
Hannah."
Hannah was used to her husband's fre-
quent seasons of fasting-, and it did not
strike her as anything- unusual. So she
only replied : "There is a stranger wait-
ing" below who wants to see you. He
didn't give me his name."
''Tell him I will be there in a moment."
As soon as Hannah closed the door
Mark threw himself on his knees and
tried to pray ; but the moment passed in
a wordless trance of pain ; and, rising,
he went wearilv down stairs to street his
luiknown visitor.
That the rough-looking stranger in
blue jean trousers, tucked into very mud-
dy boots, who shook his hand with such
awkward warmth, was just as divinely
appointed to bring him help and comfort
as any angelic messenger that ever ap-
peared to patriarch or prophet in the Old
Testament times, was an idea that never
dawned in even the most indistinct fash-
ion on the Elder's mind.
"I'm glad ye didn't get no hurt the
other night, parson," was the first greet-
ing of the unknown.
''Thank you, my friend," replied the
Elder. "The Lord is truly a shield and
buckler to them that fear him,"
"Well, I went fifteen miles to hear that
lecture, and I tell 3^ou, parson, I was just
thundering mad at the way you showed
us up : so I was as ready as anvone
on 'em to bear my part when the rumpus
begun. But you had a kind of look as
you stood there with the rotten eggs fly-
ing about that made me think of my old
^lethodist mother when dad used to curse
and swear at her about her religion and
threaten all kinds of things if she didn't
leave off her singing and praying. And
arter all I don't know but I was more
glad than sorry at your getting off so
slick when that chap blew out the lights
and left us groping in the dark, like the
Syrian army that was sent to take the
prophet Elisha. You see I stumbled
right on that ar passage when I was
hunting up the eighth chapter of Ezekiel.
I was bound to find out if there was
really anything in the Bible about Ma-
sonry ; and for all it was two o'clock
when I got home, I raked up the fire and
went at it. And I tell you, parson, that
ar chapter in Ezekiel is a stunner. It
just knocked me flat to think I'd been
worshipping the sun like any heathen.
And now I've come out from the lodge
for good and all. I don't want no more
of it. The Lord has come into my heart
and taken all the Masonry clean out of
me. I hate it worse'n pizen, I do: and
now, parson, I want a lecture in our parts
as soon as you can come and give one..
My name is Timothy Bundy, and I live
at Bundy's Flats, just over the river.
Maybe you know the place?"
The Elder had heard of Bundy's Flats.
He knew it was a hard locality, but at
that moment though a legion of devils
had beset his way he would have gone all
the same. Surely God had spread a table
for him in the desert and riven the rock
at his need, and his fainting, discouraged
soul mounted up as on eagle's wings in
exulting triumph over all the powers of
earth and hell.
It is in the fiery furnace that a form
appears like the Son of Man. Scorn,
contempt, persecution, still beset the El-
der's path, and he saw no reason to hope
for anything else till he reached the end
of his mortal journey. But a spirit of
divine joy in doing and suffering for the
grand eternal cause of Truth just as long
as that cause needed him, now possessed
his soul. Was it not an earnest of vic-
tory that he had been allowed to convert
even one soul from the worship of Baal ■
to serve the only living and true God ?
"Praise the Lord, Mr. Bundy, for
bringing you out of darkness into his
marvelous light," he said, as he grasped
the stranger's rough hand. "I will gladly
give a lecture in your place at any time
you may set."
And having consented to an arrange-
ment for Friday night of the following
week and seen his visitor off, the Elder
rose up from under his juniper tree and
did the most sensible thing he could do,
which, we are told, was the course fol-
lowed by Elijah in somewhat similar cir-
cumstances— he did eat and drink.
(To be concluded.)
"To be rich in everything that is worth
while, not only in the mental and spirit-
ual worlds, but also in the physical
worlds, is the ideal we all have in view.
And it is the power of real goodness that
can make this ideal come true."
November, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
19'
€0ntnbutton0.
BALAAM THE SON OF BOSOR WHO LOVED THE WAGES OF
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
Fathers and Brethren:
We are in the great faUing away and
it is time for all Christian people to walk
humbly with God. The worship of Baal
Peor — the worship of the forces of na-
ture— was associated with the most loath-
some and disgusting immoralities as all
heathen religions always have been. Sab-
bath breaking, drunkenness, licentious-
ness, cheating, stealing, lying, and mur-
der are the commonplaces of our time.
Along with these horrors which threaten
the very foundations of society is the
multiplication of secret idolatries, which
in every age and land have been asso-
ciated with these vices and crimes.
Balaam the Son of Bosor.
Balaam was apparently a worshipper
of the true God. He seems to have been
empowered to foresee future events.
There is every reason to believe that he
preferred doing right to doing wrong.
There was in his character one fatal de-
fect. He loved the wages of unright-
eousness. He did not love unrighteous-
ness. No man does. God constructed
the soul of man as he did the universe
on the lines of truth, and no man goes
into evil without pulling against himself
as well as against the will of God, but
men love the wages, for they naturally
love things, and when the wages of un-
righteousness seem more desirable than
the wages of holy living, they are some-
times drawn aside from the path of right
and led into sin and crime.
It was so with Balaam. Balak was
terrified at the advent of Israel. He
wished to bolster his courage with the
word of the prophet of the true God. He
had hosts of his own prophets in his own
kingdom, but he sent messengers on a
long journey to seek the presence of this
man who had been reported to know
God and to be able to speak for Him.
He made large promises and offered
glittering rewards. Balaam wanted them.
He saw that he could secure many things
that he desired in a short time if he
could gratify the heathen king. He was
able to do it and no doubt secured his
reward though this is not expressly
stated in the record.
We are told that Balaam died by the
sword of Israel among the heathen whom
he had served. He prayed that he
might die the death of a rigtheous man
and that his last end might be like his,
but he died as a fool does and was buried
with the enemies of God.
Masonic Corner Stones.
Years ago before Masonry was known
tO' be the loathsome terrible thing that it
is, lodge men frequently secured oppor-
tunities to advertise themselves at the ex-
pense of the government, or the church.
Whenever a large building was to be
erected by the United States government,
by state governments, by a school board,
or by a church, lodge men in the mem-
bership obtained the right to appear in
public at the expense of the people erect-
ing and paying for the building. They
frequently got permission to put their
mark on the corner stone of the building
to stand as a perpetual advertisement to
the idolatrous worship of those who laid
the corner stone.
After the discussion of the lodge ques-
tion had been before the people until the
character of the order was fairly well
known, there was a cessation of tliis
abuse of the rights of the public and the
people.
In Clarinda, Iowa, and in other cities
lodge men who had appropriated corner
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
November, 1911.
stones for their own benefit were pre-
vented from carrying out the plans they
had made. Time has passed and lodges
are lifting their heads and seeking to get
back to the place they occupied before
their character was known. Of course,
this abuse will continue until a protest
is voiced by the people which demands
attention.
^^'e are led to this line of remark by
the report in the papers of the laying of
the corner stone of the Berean Presby-
terian Church of a neighboring city. The
affair seems to have been under the di-
rection of the ''Men's Religious Forward
Movement. " Fifteen Masonic Lodges in
the county united in the service. 'Tt was
a gala affair. Flags were raised. Bal-
conies in the vicinity were decorated with
flowers and filled with the spectators.
Thirty-second Avenue, between National
Avenue and Hilda Place, was lined with
a succession of small tents in which
w^ares were offered for sale by pretty
young girls. The proceeds are to be de-
voted to the raising of the fund of seven
thousand dollars, which it is hoped will
be fairly going before the dedication ser-
vice for the church."
Balaam Loved the Wages of Unrighteous-
ness.
This heathen church laid the founda-
tion stone for this professedly Christian
church in the midst of this Fourth of
July celebration. The lodges of the coun-
ty received advertisement which was no
doubt Vv'orth any actual cash they ex-
pended. They will entrap and snare
hundreds of men whom they could never
have deceived had it not been for Balaam
and his love for the zvages of unright-
eousness. The church people wanted some
money. The Men's Religious Forward
Movement, which is usually made up of
men who profess to be Christians and of
those who make no profession, arranged
this affair for the purpose of getting
money for the church. As in olden times
pretty girls were drafted into the service
and they filled tents along the street of-
fering wares of one kind and another to
the passers-by. According to the report
the eft'ort succeeded as well as did that
of Balaam when he secured the wages
from Balak. They got quite a bit of
money and they hope they will get some
more.
Dead and Dyinig Churches.
But after the bands have ceased play-
ing, after the Masons have had their
drinks and laid aside their regalia, after
the preachers have counted the money
and estimated the receipts of the pagan
festival, what then? Then comes along
a tug for the life of the church and its
work in the community. Every man who
has anything to do with churches can tell
us that it is far easier to build a church
than it is to support it. Who is to fur-
nish the money to pay the preacher, get
the coal and lights, and keep the place
clean and attractive? Church members
of course, are expected to do it. If they
do not, it will not be done; and what
about those fifteen lodges, marching with
their banners and with their aprons and
with their music to lay the corner stone?
What will they do for the congregation ?
They will be sitting in their lodge rooms
or on their porches, smoking, reading
the Sunday newspapers, playing cards or
worse, while the men who loved the
wages of unrighteousness and were sorry
that they could not get them without un-
righteousness will be standing in the pul-
pit and preaching to the pews. There
will be handfuls of women and children
scattered among the seats here and there.
The whole thing is a picture of the fail-
ure which results when men undertake
to yoke together the faith of Jesus Christ
and the policy of Balaam.
Booker T. Washington and the Mosaic
Templars.
Mr. Washington was educated in a
school planted by the American Mission-
ary Association. This institution was
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
199
olanted and has been maintained by
Christian people who in general have
been opposed to secret societies. Mr.
Washington has been supported in his
labors at Tuskegee by Christian men and
women throughout the world. Many hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars have been
given to his cause by men and women of
all shades of belief because they believed
he was laboring for the benefit of his
people, and they wished to help him in
the work. It is said that Mr. Washing-
ton sent a special messenger to the great
lodge of the Negro ''Mosaic Templers"
inviting them to meet next year at Tuske-
gee. If he did this, as reported in the
press, why did he do it ? The work which
he is carrying forward is an educational
work. Secret societies have never been
educational except for the pagan reli-
gious faiths which they profess to^ teach.
No secret society has ever conducted a
school or done such woi^k as Mr. Wash-
ington is doing. Why then does he wish
them to go to Tuskegee ? By an open ap-
peal to the men of this country, he was
educated and has been sustained until
now he has more than half a hundred
buildings, fifteen hundred students, and
hundreds of thousands of dollars of en-
dowment, but he wants some more. We
fear he thinks he can secure it by inviting
the Negro ''Mosaic Templars" to Tuske-
gee. If this be the real motive it is an-
other case of loving the wages of un-
righteousness.'Why cannot men be wise?
Why cannot they continue on reasonable
lines where they begin? Why should not
Mr. Washington, who has received mil-
lions of money as a free gift from peo-
ple who love God, believe and trust God
and pray for the needs that are yet to
come?
Balaam must have had experience of
God. This is evidenced by the fact that
he persistently refused to do anything
except what he was permitted to do. Why
could he not have continued to trust God
to do for him in the future what he had
done for him in the past? Why could he
not trust God to do for him after he had
obtained a large reputation what he did
for him ijohilc he zvas obtaining this repu-
tation ? It seems pitiful that men who be-
gin with God should need buy any such
poor human reliances as this. We trust
that Mr. Washington, for whom and for
whose work we have had the greatest re-
spect will not lend himself to these dread-
ful lodges which are destroying the souls
of men.
The Wages of Unrighteousness.
It is horribly interesting to know what
sort of a lodge this Mosaic Templars is.
We received recently from a reliable cor-
respondent the testimony which a school-
girl gave after her initiation into this
lodge. She says : "I belonged to two
lodges, the Eastern Star and the Mosaic
Templars of America. When they car-
ried me into the anteroom to be made a
Mosaic Templar, one man stood at the
door and hit me in the hand with a strap.
They had a wagon sheet ; and they had a
chair that they called the goat. They told
me to get on my knees and pray : 'Our
Father which art in Heaven,' etc., and
when I got on my knees and had prayed
they threw me up and down on the wag-
on sheet. When they began to toss me
up and down, I felt ashamed. Just think
of about twelve men there tossing me up
and down, but I held by skirts to keep
them from flying over my head. At times
I was a foot or more from the wagon
sheet with my skirts flying in the air, so
I caught them from going over my head.
The women members laughed when the
men tossed me up. They took me to a
bush with some candles in it and behind
it was a man with a false face on, whom
they said was God. I was told that it
was the 'Burning Bush' and that the
ground I stood on was ' holy ground.' Oh
I am so disgusted when I think about
such sinful, dirty organizations — not fit
for a dog to join and yet I was initiated
into them."
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
November, 1911.
We know enough about ^Nlr. Washing-
ton to beheve that he is in entire ignor-
ance of the character of this organiza-
tion which he had requested to visit
Tuskegee. but ]\Ir. ^^'ashington is old
enough to know that any secret society
is naturall}' evil, and that Christian men
ought not to have fellowship with or-
ganizations of this kind, and he ought
to perfectly understand that such out-
rageous abuses as are indicated above
which are practiced with mock prayers,
recited to insure the damnation of the
souls of those who are thus corrupted
and defiled, are naturally the outgrowth
of secret societies. Good things love the
light and evil things love the darkness.
Sureh' ^Ir. Washington does not need
anybody to tell him this. We believe
that when he has reflected upon his posi-
tion not even the wages of unrighteous-
ness will persuade him to continue in
such fellowship.
The Wages Are Not Paid.
We find in a newspaper clipping an
interesting statement respecting the
Knights of Pythias. Some eight men in
Decatur, who carried the Knights of
Pythias endowment insurance for twenty-
five or thirty years, have just withdrawn
from the order's insurance. They began
more than thirty years ago, some of
them, and paid one dollar and ten cents
a month on each one thousand dollars
of insurance carried, or at the rate of a
little more than thirteen dollars a year.
For the last twenty-five years they have
paid at the rate of one dollar and eighty-
five cents per month on each one thous-
and dollars carried, or at the rate of a
little more than $22 per year. At the be-
ginning of the present year they were
notified that they must now pay a much
higher rate if they wished to continue
their insurance. They felt that they could
not meet this new requirement and
dropped out. This means that they will
lose every dollar that they have put in,
unless the suit which has recently been
started against the Knights of Pythias
company should be decided in favor of
the members. If it does, probably the
order will have to suspend. If it does
not the members will lose their money.
This is not a new thing under the sun.
Those who join with Baal or with Ba-
laam for the sake of the wages of un-
righteousness are practically certain to be
cheated in the end. They will die as
Balaam did, among the enemies of God^
and will lose the wages for which they
have sold their souls.
I conclude this letter with an earnest
appeal to the ministers and members of
churches who have been led to tolerate
the presence of Baal Peor in their festi-
vals which ought to be holy to Jehovah :
"There is death in the pot." Christ de-
clines to draw in the same yoke with
Satan. He declines to be put on an equal-
ity with him, and men who undertake
to do so will find themselves failing irr
the end. God and Satan, Christ and Be-
lial, light and darkness, cannot work to-
gether even for the sake of the wages
of unrighteousness.
Yours fraternally,
Charles A. Blanchard.
Let us all resolve, first, to attain the
grace of silence; second, to deem all
fault-finding that does no good a sin.
and to resolve, when we are happy our-
selves, not to poison the atmosphere for
our neighbors b}^ calling on them to re-
mark every painful and disagreeable
feature of their daily life; third, to prac-
tice the grace and virtue of praise. —
Harriet B. Stozve.
They say I am growing old, because
ni}^ hair is silvered, and there are crows'"
feet on my forehead, and my step is not
so firm and elastic as before. But they
are mistaken. That is not me. The
knees are weak, but the knees are not me.
The brow is wrinkled, but the brow is
not me. This is the house I live in. But
I am young — younger than I ever was
before. — Guthrie.
November, 1911.
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201
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS— SECRET SO-
CIETIES CANNOT INJURE THE
CHURCH— THE N. C. A. CAN-
NOT DESTROY MASONRY
—THE LORD OUTSIDE
THE CHURCH.
[an unpublished letter and the
last received from the late edmond
RONAYNE.]
Editor Cynosure:
Will you kindly permit me to say a
few words to the many readers of your
excellent magazine, and first of all I
want to give expression to the very great
delight I felt on reading the excellent
letter of President Blanchard about the
cross displayed on the clothes of the
notoriously ungodly men composing the
Knights Templars society.
Every Knight Templar must first of
all be a Mason, and from the system of
Masonry the name of the Lord Jesus
must be rigidly excluded, and not only
so. but in the Chapter degrees that prec-
ious "name, which is above every name,"
is wickedly and knowingly cut out from
every Scripture read at opening the
lodge.
\Mio then, may I ask, has exerted the
influence which places the cross on the
banner, and on the clothes of the Knights
Templars ? Who but the personal en-
emv of the Lord Jesus Christ — the
Devil.
And right here I desire to correct a
few mistakes into which even w^ell in-
formed anti-IMasons have fallen. They
generally suppose that the Alasonic sys-
tem is directly opposed to the Church
and they mourn over the fact as thev
suppose that Masonry and its brood of
other lodge systems are ''depleting the
Church" — "antagonizing the Church"
and that the whole conflict is between
the Lodge and the Church. Now% all
this is entirely wrong and is due to the
fact that the majority of people misap-
prehend altogether the truth of the
church.
The Church is the mystical body of
Christ, called out from among the Gen-
tiles during this age and of which the
risen and glorified Christ Jesus is the
Head. Every member of the true church
is called out — "blessed with all spiritual
blessings in the heavenlies," and ''chosen
in Christ before the foundation of the
world," Eph. i :3-4. This and nothing
else is "the church which is His bodv,"
and it is also "the fullness of Him that
filleth all in all,'| Eph. i 122-23, ^^^^ again
in Col. I :i8, "and He — the glorified Lord
Jesus is the head of the body the church."
Every member of this body was fore-
known of God eternities before we were
born, and not alone that, but every mem-
ber was "predestinated — not to be saved
merely but — to be conformed to the im-
age of His Son." "And whom He did
predestinate, them He also called and
wdiom He called them He also justified
and whom He justified them He also
glorified," Rom. 2:29-30. These chosen
and called out ones and these only com-
prise the church of God, and so we can
exclaim with the Apostle Paul "What
shall wx then say to these things? H
God be for us who can be against us?"
Rom. 8:29-31. Can Masonry? Can
lodgism of any kind? Can Satan? Xo,
Blessed be the God of all grace, the
church's place is in the heavenlies in
Christ, Eph. 2, and nothing w^hatevei" can
hurt her there.
But the nominal church aroimd us can
be hurt, the denominations can be hurt
and, doubtless, the different kinds of
lodges as well as Masonry are drawing
away members from the various so-called
churches and no wonder. The system of
Alasonry though, like its founder, is the
personal enemy and antagonist of the
Lord Jesus Christ. When Gabriel, an-
nouncing to the A^irgin that she was
chosen of God to be the mother of the
Redeemer, said to her, "Thou shalt call
Llis name Jesus, for He shall sare His
people from their sins/' That was the
mission of the Son of God to this earth,
it was for that He gave up "the glory
which He had with the Father before
the world was." Jno. 17 :5. as He declares
Himself, "The Son of Man is come to
seek and to sazr tJiat ichicJi icas lost:"
Luke ig:io, and on Pentecost He sent
down the Holy Spirit to proclaim this
glorious truth to the lost ones, but the
Church must first be called out from the
world, judo^ed, disciplined and perfected,
that witli her glorified Head in the com-
inq- age, she might be used of God to
bring blessing to all the families of the
earth in conjunction with Israel, the
earthly seed of Abraham. This was the
I'Jad tidin^^s that God preached before-
liand to Abraham ( R. A'.) (^al. 3:8.
lUit listen again. The .Xj^ostle sending-
or.o
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
November, 191 L
a letter to the Christians at Corinth ad-
dressed it — "To the Church of God,
which is at Corinth, to them that are
sanctified in Chrisd Jesus, called saints."
that is saints by being called, etc. Now,
were a letter to come to Chicago, New
York, St. Louis, Boulder, or any other
city in the world addressed "to the
Church of God, which is in Chicago,
Boulder, etc., will you kindly tell me to
whom would the postmaster deliver it?
Every sect in town would claim it, but
to which of all the pastors would the
postmaster hand it? To none of them,
of course, then please locate the Church
of God today. It cannot be done. How,
then, can the Masonic system or any
other system, or even ten thousand leg-
ions of demons, hurt the Church of God?
But again the Holy Spirit writes through
Paul, "to the Church of the Thessa-
lonians in God, the Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ," and again in Jude, "to
them that are sanctified by God the
Father, preserved in Jesus Christ and
called." Do you know any such people
as these, or any such church as Paul
writes to in 2, Thess. 1:1?
No, Alasonry is not depleting the
Church of God, but that Satanic system
and its numerous brood of alleged secret
lodges are the direct antagonists of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Masonry claims that
a ^lason "living in strict obedience to
the obligations and precepts of that sys-
tem is free from sin/' That is what
Jesus came for — to free or save His peo-
ple from their sins, Matt, i :2i. A man
is made a Master Mason, and what does
Masonry claim for him? "We now find
m.an complete in morality and intelligence
with the stay of religion added to assure
him of the protection of the Deity and
guard him against ever going astray.
These three degrees thus form a perfect
and harmonious whole, nor can it be con-
ceived that anything can be suggested
more which the soul of man requires."
Let us stand by and listen when a
preacher, a bishop, perhaps a D. D., or
some other such high dignitary, is about
to be made a Mason. He is' ushered into
an ante-room, stripped of all his clothing
except his under shirt ; they hand him
some old lodge draws which he puts on ;
his left foot, knee and breast are made
bare, a hoodwink is put over his eyes,
a rope is placed around his neck and a
half heeled slipper on his right foot.
Look at him and say from his appear-
ance would vou consider him "a man in
Christ?"
Surely not. Well, he is the pastor of
one of the most popular churches, and
he's about to be initiated and to swear
life-long allegiance to the Masonic sys-
tem, but listen: "There he stands with-
out our portals on the threshold of his
new Masonic life in darkness, helpless-
ness and ignorance. Having been wan-
dering amid the errors and covered over
Avith the pollutions of the outer and pro-
fane world he comes enquiringly to our
doors seeking the new birth, and asking
for a withdrawal of the veil which con-
ceals divine truth (E>eemasonry) from,
his uninitiated sight" (Manual of the
Lodge).
So, then, Masonry is divine truth, im-
parts the new birth, cleanses from sin
and nothing can be suggested more which
the soul of man requires. This is the
Devil's teaching through Masonry, and
you can easily see that instead of being-
in any way opposed to the nominal
church, it is in whole and in part in direct
opposition to the person and work of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Another great mistake is to think that
the testimony of the National Christian
Association against the lodge system in
general will sooner or later destroy Ma-
sonry. The opposite of this is the truth.
Did the wonderful testimonv of Eli i ah
on Mount Carmel destroy the worship of
Baal in Israel? (2 Kings 18.) No,
surely, and toda}^ you have absolutely
the very same idolatry, only under a
difi^erent name, in the Masonic system.
Masonry and its numerous brood of se-
cret lodges shall be destroyed at the sec-
ond coming of the Lord, but not before.
Read the parable of the tares in Matt.
13 (Revised Version), and the Lord's
own explanation of it, Ver. 36-43. "The
tares are the children of the evil one,"
bound into bundles in the end of the age,
and then answer to yourself the question,
What is a bundle of men ? The numer-
ous so-called secret societies and trades
unions, and all other human organiza-
tions bound together by oaths, affirma-
tions, pledges, or what not, are, without
any doubt, the bundles of Matt. 13. These
bundles were to be bound together at
the end of this gospel age, and hence
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
203
we have the sure testimony that the rap-
ture of the church, the true church, is
near.
What is the chief characteristic of *'the
last days," as given by the Holy Spirit?
"They shall have a form of Godliness,
tut denying the power thereof" (2 Tim.
3), and is not that the true condition
today the world over? When a man
comes to your door and knocks, where
is he? He is outside the door, surely,
and that is the position which the Lord
occupies today as regards the nominal
church. Writing to the church of the
Laodicians, He says "Behold I stand at
the door and knock," Rev. 3 :20. Then
He is outside the door, and declares that
He is "about to spew her out of His
mouth." Read the entire message to
the nominal church in Rev. 3:14 to the
€nd. The condition of Israel was never
any worse than is the state of nominal
Christianity today, and nothing but the
personal coming of the Lord Jesus to
set up His kingdom shall make things
right, and for this every child of God
ought earnestly to pray.
E. RONAYNE.
Boulder, Colo.
AN APPRECIATION.
ADDRESS OF J. M. HITCHCOCK, AT THE FU-
NERAL OF MR. EZRA A. COOK, WHEAT-
ON, ILL., SUNDAY, SEPT. I7TH^
I9II.
Death is the common heritage, as well
as the common enemy of men. There
is no zone, no latitude, no longitude, no
altitude exempt from its ravages. There
is no nook or corner so sanitary, or so
secluded to which one may retire and
feel secure from the grasp of the de-
stroyer.
We are met in this sanctuary, where
our departed brother was accustomed to
worship, not to unduly magnify the vir-
tues of a man "Whose breath is in his
nostrils" (His breath goeth forth, he re-
turneth to his earth), but to refresh our
memories, and to find, if we may, some
lessons in the life of the departed that
may be stimulating and helpful to us
Avho tarry for a day.
The volume of another life is com-
pleted. Nothing may be added or sub-
tracted from its record.
We learn from, the good book that "it
is better to go to the house of mourning
than to the house of feasting." We trust
that our brief meditations may be most
helpful. Were I personally to confer
with my inclinations, I would be seated
in these pews with these mourning
friends, rather than with these speakers
upon this platform. I w^as greatly shocked
and pained to hear of the death of
Brother Cook. I had known of his ill-
ness, but was illy prepared to hear of
his death. I knew the deceased only to
love and respect him. I had personally
know^n him for perhaps thirty-five years,
and in all this time had learned nothing
but good of him. My first acquaintance
with him was as an official member of
the Moody church board. During this
time both he and Mrs. Cook were faith-
ful and efficient teachers in my Sunday
school. I was again associated with him
as a director in Wheaton College. I
think he continued to be a director until
the day of his departure, while my term
of service for the college was limited.
Again, for well nigh a quarter of a cen-
tury, I was associated with him in the
conduct of the National Christian Asso-
ciation. It was here that his sterling
qualities shone forth. He was a good
counselor and punctilious in his engage-
ments. In all the varied relationships,
I found Brother Cook to be a man of
intelligent Christian convictions, without
a contentious spirit. Of course, he would
never compromise a well-settled prin-
ciple. But for the sake of harmony
was ever ready to make reasonable con-
cessions. Others have spoken of his pa-
triotism and his dauntless courage, which
led him to the battle field in defense of
his country. Many a man has been wil-
ling to endure the fatigue and hardships
of war, to face the cannon's mouth and
even die for country, who has not dared
to live for an unpopular truth.
Determine, if you can, the righteous
side of any public issue, and there you
would always find Ezra A. Cook as firm-
ly fixed as the impregnable Gibraltar.
Retire to your houses and write in
your journals "an unselfish man," and
you will have a true description of this
man's character. The Apostle's exhor-
tation was "esteem others better than
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
November. 1911.
Yourselves." He was one who obeyed
this injunction. This man came into the
world not to be ministered unto, but to
minister unti^ others. His crowning great-
ness was his readiness to be servant of
all. "Except a kernel of wheat fall into
the ground and die it abideth alone. But
if it die it bringeth forth much fruit."
In a larger and truer sense, this brother
has just commenced to live. He has
simply moved out of a tenement that had
become uninhabitable, and gone to take
possession of his Heavenly inheritance.
His good works will follow and bear
fruit in increasing measure. In a little
time we shall look upon this pallid face,
as we say for the last time and then
with measured step we shall follow the
funeral cortege to the cemetery, where
we shall deposit an emptied shell in the
orave, where it will remain until the
morning of the resurrection.
As this bereaved widow with her de-
voted children and friends stands about
his grave this question will be again re-
peated 'Tf a man die shall he live again?"
Infidelity will answer the question nega-
tiveh". while triumphant faith listening
to the Apostles' masterly reasoning found
in the 15th chapter of first Corinthians
will hear the Master' sweet voice com-
ing forth from that grave, saying: "I
am the resurrection and the life, he that
believeth on me though he were dead yet
shall he live." "And when he shall say
Ezra A. Cook comes forth" that remorse-
less grave will lose its power to further
imprison its dead.
THE GRAND ARMY.
r>V RF.\\ li. B. HEM METER.
The Grand Army of today is an or-
ganization of veterans of our civil war
and organized separately and indepencl-
entlv of the regular Armv of the Repub-
lic. '
Our Lutheran Church, truly patriotic,
cheerfully and conscientiously, supports
the Army of the Republic as well as the
veterans who, having served in the
ranks of the army, have obtained an hon-
orable release.
Our Lutheran Church does not oppose
militarv honors, not objectionable in
themselves, neither during the lifetime,
nor at or after the death of a soldier.
Our Lutheran Church, however, does
oppose every mixture of Chtirch and
State as being contrary to the principles
of Christ as laid down in the words :
"Render unto Caesar (that is to the
vState) the things that are Caesar's; and
unto God the things that are God's."
^latthew 22:21.
Otir Lutheran Church moreover holds
that it must confess Christ before men,
according to its own convictions found-
ed in the Scriptures, and that it must
avoid those who differ with her in these
convictions, according to the word of the
Apostle, Romans 16:17, 18: ''Mark them
which catise divisions and offenses con-
trary to the doctrine, which ye have
learned ; and avoid them. For they that
are such, serve not our Lord Jesus Christ,
but their own belly ; and by good words
and fair speeches deceive the hearts of
the simple,"'
In the exercise of religious convictions,
our church accords to everyone perfect
freedom, believing that this is the will
of God. Otir Church, however, also ex-
pects to receive that toleration which it
accords to others and which is pro-
claimed by the Constitution of the United
States in its first Amendment, as well as
by the Constitution of the State of Mis-
souri.
The Army of the United States is un-
der the government of the first amend-
ment, to-wit : "Congress shall make no
laws respecting an establishment of re-
ligion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof." Religious features or regula-
tions that hinder or offend any church in
its spiritual relations to its members are
hereby barred from the regular army.
The Grand Army, as veterans of the
Army of the Republic, should not exempt
itself from the wise provision of the
Constitution of our land respecting re-
ligion and religious practices, and certain-
ly should not claim any recognition as
the Grand Army, when it goes beyond
this acknowledged principle of the com-
j>lete separation of Church and State, by
its introduction and its use of religious
services in its ritual and meetings. The
veterans of the Grand Army have them-
selves to blame, if for Biblical reasons
their religious services are barred from
chtirches, and from church services, by
such as claim for themselves a free and
undisturbed exercise of their own relig-
ion.
The veterans and all others act con-
November, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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trary to the spirit of the Constitution of
the United States, as well as to that of
the State of Missouri, when they frown
on, bluster at and scold those who dare
to enjoy the liberty which the funda-
mental laws of the land grants them.
This liberty we prize more highly than
earthly friendships and for which some
of our forebears shed their blood.
As to Certain Criticisms.
No, I did not order a United States
flag off a coffin. We honor Old Glory
wherever we see it, and are not oft"end-
ed if, as a part of military honors, the
flag decorates the coffin of a veteran.
That flag was taken off by one who
claimed an order from the owners of the
flag, in spite of a request to leave it on.
This act, of course, was unfriendly to us
and on its face reflected against us
whether so intended or not. We felt this
at once and if we had had a flag at hand,
we would have replaced the one removed
by another. We claim the flag as our flag
as much as it is anybody's, and we are
willing to shout for her even though we
should never hold public position or have
a whiff of a pension. If the parties con-
cerned will, as good citizens, cut out
everything that belongs to the religious
realm and leave their members, who are
church members solely to their respec-
tive pastors in religious affairs, then
there will be no trouble. There is no
trouble about the flag. What we want
is to keep the flag and all that the flag
stands for, among which, and by far
not the least, is religious liberty.
No, we do not keep soldiers out of our
church because of their uniforms. If
anyone at any time did not go into our
church, that was of his own choice. All
that we expect of anybody that comes
to our church is that they submit to
the rules of worship laid down by our
congregation, which owns and maintains
the property as its house of prayer. Sure-
ly no one ought to object to that.
I do not officiate with any chaplain at
a funeral or on any other occasion. I
am not looking for glory in this world as
a minister, nor am I conducting my min-
istry as a business. I attend a funeral
as a minister, when it is my duty to the
deceased and the family of the deceased ;
and when I am the minister. I don't want
to be interfered with. Anv one can dis-
pense with my services at any time and
I will make them no trouble; but you
can't order me or any of our ministers
around. It is a matter of principle with
us.
Is it not strange that in our day, when
every mechanic reserves for himself the
right to determine where, when, and
zvith zvhom he will work, that this same
reservation in a minister should meet
with astonishment and opposition? It
seems indeed as though, in matters of
religion, very many people consult only
their own minds and thoughts, their own
likes and dislikes. If this be the case, let
them then at least accord the same priv-
ilege to the minister. If you want a chap-
lain of a lodge then let the chaplain be
your minister, let him visit you in your
sickness, let him give you his communion,
let him pray with you and conduct you
out of this world into the next ; then it
will also be appropriate for him to bury
you. It is all in your hands. Choose for
yourself. But don't blame the minister.
Yes, I have been repeatedly asked to
conduct funerals, when a complication
has arisen as to a chaplain taking part.
I have always tried in all love to make it
clear, that I would not for principle's
sake countenance any interference in my
calling as a minister. I have not always
been met with kindness, but hitherto,
whenever a chaplain had been noti-
fied that his services were not desired,
he has respected the wishes of those who
had the privilege of determining.
It was a sad breach when lately the
wish and order of both the deceased and
the widow were ignored by one who
showed more temper than sympathy.
The position of the writer in this mat-
ter is not one of his own invention, but
one that is elementary in the church body
of which he is a member and which is
known all over our free country and
even in all religiously informed circles of
the civilized world. We all honor our
veterans and wish them well, but in the
matters of our faith and the free exer-
cise thereof, they must not presume to
interfere. If the veterans insist on re-
ligious exercises, other than those of our
church, at the graves of their departed,
they thereby themselves render it im-
possible for us to participate at such
burials. For this they must take all
the blame, for thev certainh- have no
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
November, 1911.
Standing as a church. Moreover, as an
organization claiming a certain national
or state character, they are plainly at
fault with the very constitution under
which they fought and which we all
claim as our countr3^'s glory.
God bless the veterans ; but let them
leave religion entirely to the churches.
St. Louis, Mo.
FREEMASONRY.*
BY LADY BLOUNT.
It may seem strange for a lady to
speak on Freemasonry, because as ladies
are excluded from lodges, it may be
thought by many that they cannot know
anything about the subject. But why
should ladies be excluded?
I think it is possible to know something
of an institution without being a mem-
ber of that institution. And further I
think it is possible to know something
about a secret society, or institution,
without being a member of that secret
society, or secret institution. But I need
not now indicate through what avenues
this information may leak out, as I pre-
fer to speak from the standpoint of an
outsider, but a Christian outsider. As a
Christian I ask why is the society of
Freemasons a secret society, and a secret
society whose secrets are protected by
fearful oaths? Looking at it from the
standpoint of an outsider, I should say
that if the aims and operations of the so-
ciety are good, what need is there for the
members of the society to take solemn
oaths of secrecy? It could not harm the
society if they were known to be doing
good, and only seeking the good of their
fellow men. A good man, while he
ought not ostentatiously to display his
beneficence, does not need to swear be-
fore his fellow helpers that he will never
even mention the good he has been doing.
The best man that ever lived when
falsely accused by His enemies said, 'Tn
secret have I said nothing." His work
and teaching v/ere open to the public and
to hostile criticism.
What need then is there for a disciple
of the Lord Jesus Christ to go directly
against his Master's example.
Surely the lodges in this respect do not
follow the example nor the precept of the
*A lecture delivered by Lady E. A. M.
Blount, 3 Beechey Road, Bournemouth,
England. Price 2 pence.
Christian's Lord. This leads one to ask:
Is the lodge a Christian institution? H
it is, why do they ignore our Lord's sol-
emn injunction when he said, ''Swear
not at all, neither by heaven, for it is
God's throne, nor by the earth, for it is
His footstool ; neither by the head, for
thou canst not make one hair white, or
black. But let your communication be
yea, yea, and nay, nay, for whatsoever is
more than this cometh of evil." — Matt.
Yet members of the lodges not only
swear by their heads, as one may say,
but by their very lives.
In the light of our Lord's words there-
fore, it must be evil for members to
swear by their lives, or at the peril of
their lives, that they will never reveal but
always conceal the secrets of the society.
I am credibly informed that no mem-
ber in the lodge is ever allowed to men-
tion, even in prayer, the name of the
Lord Jesus. How is this, if the lodge
religion is in harmony with the Christian
religion ? And it is an important fact that
there is a Lodge religion, for they have
altars, priests, prayers, invocations, and
hymns of praise. But since in these pray-
ers and praises they are not allowed to
confess our Lord Jesus, it is self-evident
that the Lodge religion cannot be the
Christian religion, and if the lodge relig-
ion cannot be, and is not the Christian
religion, what religion is it?
Our Lord said, "He that is not with
me, is against me, and that if we deny
him before men, he wdll deny us before
his Father."
The religion, therefore, of Freemason-
ry must be opposed to that of our Lord,
it is therefore "anti-Christian." Anti-
Christian in its office and ceremonies, and
also anti-Christian in its ultimate aims
and resolutions. On Christian grounds,
therefore, I oppose it. And I feel it to
be my duty to warn young men especial-
1}^ to keep out of the lodges, if they de-
sire to follow the Lord Jesus, and walk
in his steps. We cannot serve God and
mammon, we cannot worship the Lord
Jesus and the heathen god Baal. We
may choose, and finally we must choose,
whom we will serve, as Elijah of old
said on a memorable occasion. "If Je-
hovah be God, follow Him, but if Baal,
then follow him." "No man can serve
two masters," and if Christ is shut out
of the lodge rituals, as he is, then it must
November, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
207
be some other master, and some other sa-
vior that the lodge members are taught
to look to.
In saying these things, I need not as-
sure you that I am not influenced by any
personal ill feeling whatever against in-
dividual members of the lodge. In fact
there are many Freemasons whom I es-
teem as dear friends ; but it is against
the institution as a secret society, with
secret aims and purposes that 'l raise
my warning voice.
Many of the members especially in
lower degrees do not know the nature of
the secrets they have sworn not to reveal.
Neither do they know the names even of
the higher secret officials of the society.
They may know the names of those who
manage the local lodge to which they are
attached, but they do not know the names
nor the persons of those who rule the so-
ciety in its world wide ramifications. Yet
they have sworn to obey these superiors.
For the most part I am pleased to think
that in this country at least the society is
ruled by men of integrity, who are loyal
to the national aspirations, but it might
be otherwise, as Freemasonry aspires to
be international and world-wide.
But what about others in foreign coun-
tries ? And I may remark that the society
is not national in its operations, and, that
it has not been, nor will it always be
ruled by an Englishman. Why then
should our young men be thoughtlessly,
or craftily, induced to swear allegiance
to a foreign authority or power? To all
such, I say, be warned in time, and ''come
out from among them, and touch not the
unclean thing, and I will be a Father un-
to you, and ye shall be My people, saith
Jehovah."
No man is ever laid on a shelf by Fate.
He climbs up there of his own will and
lies down beneath the dust, because he
lacks the heart to rise and face the busi-
ness of \[iQ,~Henry Seton Merriman.
Smce the days that are past are gone
forever, and those that are to come mav
not come to thee, it behooveth thee, 6
man, to employ the present time, without
regretting the loss which is past, or too
much depending on that which is to come
— DodsJey.
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE.
The Loyal Order of Moose was found-
ed in i888, and claims to be one of the
great social and beneficial fraternities of
the country, which is "always ready to
join hands in uplifting, elevating, and
advancing the cause of humanity." All
men of "sound mind and body, in good
standing in the community, engaged in
lawful business, and who are male citi-
zens able to speak and write the English
language, are eligible." "The supreme
headquarters are at Anderson, Indiana."
"The Loyal Order of Moose does not
tolerate interference with one's religious
or political views." It has an altar, a
chaplain, and a burial service. It claims,
we believe, 300,000 members.
Mr. W. C. Anderson, one of the or-
ganizers, told the writer that they had
recently secured 3,600 members in Kan-
sas City, Missouri; that they own their
own club house in that city, and that the
bar netted them $400 a week above ex-
penses. He said that they had a half
million dollars, in round numbers, in the
treasury of the Supreme lodge.
The initiation fee at the time of or-
ganizing a lodge is $5.00, and later it
costs $25.00 to join. The dues are $9.00
a year.
The Loyal Order of Moose is estab-
lishing a college for young Moose, which
shall be an industrial and normal school,
with business course, as well as a four
3^ears' college course.
A circular handed me, advertising the
order, claims Governor Deneen and a
number of other Illinois state and county
politicians as members. — \N . I. P.
A pastor says, "My church has na
greater enemy than secret societies. They
have dried up our church services, and
they take the most of the money, so that
we have to set our girls to selling ice
cream^^ to keep our church schemes
afloat." I said, "Do you ever warn your
people from the pulpit against the
lodge?" "Oh, no! That would tear mv
congregation all to pieces, for a large
number of them are in the lodge." Con-
trast such a policy with that of Jeremiah
who knew that to tell the whole truth
meant to go into a deep, dark, mirv dun-
geon, and yet he would not cut out an
iota of his testimony.— Rev. M. A. Gault
m I he Christian Nation.
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November, 1911.
tJttorial*
GREAT MASONIC DISTILLER DEAD.
Many readers who were interested in
foreign missions a score of years ago,
are liable to remember the immense reg-
ular, and continuous shipment of Med-
ford rum to Africa. The fiery tide was
like an oppositely flowing Gulf stream.
Aledford rum, famous throughout the
world, was made 170 years by members
of the Lawrence family. Samuel C.
Lawrence, who would have been 80 years
old in Xovember but died in September,
entered the business at the age of 25, and
continued it until a few years ago.
Early in life he also became a Mason,
and during his long career he has been a
conspicuous figure of the order, and one
of its chief officers. Three times he was
grand master in his own state. I^e
reached the farthest limit of the Scotch
rite, becoming its Sovereign grand com-
mander in 1909, but resigning the next
vear. This was just a year before he
died, and was very likely due to the fail-
ure of his health which took place some
time before his death. As grand com-
mander of the grand commandery of
^Massachusetts and Rhode Island, he led,
on horseback, the triennial Templar con-
clave in Boston about the time of the
African rum horror.
VOICES INSIDE THE DOOR.
In the course of an editorial article
written for her own paper, Mrs. Anna
E. Stoddard, having occasion to speak of
attempts to secure ministers as members
of lodges, said : "Many have gone into
them on the false idea that they can reach
men there with the gospel that they could
not in any other way ; but by so doing
they weaken their influence over the very
men they seek to save. A bright young
business man of whom we asked what
the wordly men in the orders thought of
the ministers and deacons who belonged
replied in a straightforward manner :
'We think they are hypocrites ; they come
down to our level instead of asking us
to come up to theirs.' "
A little later, Mrs. Stoddard says : ''A
conscientious young man with whom we
were talking was indignant when asked
if when he joined the church he was
allowed to know what was the creed of
that church. He said : 'I would not join
a church that would not let me see the
creed and know" what they stood for.'
Asked if he was allowed to know what
he was to go through when he joined the
Odd Fellows, he replied : 'No one is told
those things ; they cannot know.' It set
him thinking; in six months he was a
free man."
Suppose she had been hopeless, un-
faithful and silent ; suppose she had let
this opportunity for seed sowing pass;
he might have been in bondage still.
ECONOMY OF PROOF.
In a capital case the jury must return
a verdict of "Not Guilty," if the prose-
cution has failed tO' prove guilt "beyond a
reasonable doubt." A misgiving is liable
to be unreasonable, but a doubt arrived
at through reasoning, and one for which
a good reason can be assigned, would be
a rational and reasonable doubt. One
such insuperable obstacle to settled be-
lief., when fully established by the de-
fense, is enough. Other evidence can be
touched lightly or neglected ; the single
anchor holds.
The same principle can be applied out-
side the court room ; it should do' good
service in pointing out effective refuta-
tion of iVIasonic claims and allegations.
It favors obvious unity ; it enforces sim-
plicity ; it avoids perplexity due to con-
fusion, w^hile it offers to the mind ready
and secure grasp. Thought is neither
embarrassed by a profusion of new ideas,
nor drawn aside from the main issue.
One arrow goes straight to the target ; a
single, simple point, once established,
makes all clear.
An early step, then, in refuting a Ma-
sonic claim, is to weed out, from its
statement of the precise point in issue,
every word that can be spared. Or the
same end can be reached by doing the
same service for a counter statement. For
instance, the claim that "George Wash-
ington was grand master of America,"
can be met with the more restrictive re-
November, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
209
ply: "Washington was not a lodge mas-
ter." If the narrower contention suc-
ceeds, the broader claim is impossible.
Resisting, now, the temptation to mass
proofs, we shall do what we have under-
taken by using very few facts, and these
few indisputable. One is his own state-
ment, written for Virginia Grand Lodge
in 1777, which covers the first twenty-
five years of his life after initiation. In
this he refers to his having never been
master of any lodge.
This restricts the question to the re-
maining twenty-two years of his life. A
second written statement dated in 1798,
covers twenty-one. In this he calls the
idea that he is a lodge master an error,
adding: "The fact is, I preside over
none ; nor have I been in one more than
twice in the last thirty years."
By these two statements, he fully cov-
ered the case for his whole life, except
the few months following the second one.
Excluding other facts, from which a dif-
ferent single selection could be made if
preferred, 'we can now cite the report
of his death in 1799, n^^de to Virginia
grand lodge, solely by Fredericksburg
lodge, of which no one claims he was
master.
It costs self-control to limit an argu-
ment in this way ; its perception by the
reader costs less effort, however, in con-
sequence of that control. The first step
to 1777. and then the second to 1798, are
made easy by Washington himself. Hav-
ing taken them, the reader holds a posi-
tion from which he c-m see clearly back
through the whole lifetime. The mere
fragment forming a brief ending in 1798
and 1799 is easily brought within the
Avhole. All is simple, and all is clear;
sim])licity and clearness work powerful-
ly for solid conviction.
This is not the only line of proof that
could be pursued in the same exclusive
and restrictive way, in order to attain the
same result. This one is a pattern of
procedure, which could still be followed
in using another exclusive and restricted
group of facts proving the same thing.
We are not merely showing that Wash-
ington denied what began to be said of
him while he was yet living ; we are try-
ing to establish the principle that convic-
tion may sometimes be accomplished bet-
ter bv selecting a few proofs than by
massing many.
FLY IN THE OINTMENT.
The words of Dr. Nathaniel Colver,
pastor and educator, ought to be reread
and newly pondered in Tremont Temple,
Boston, the church intimately associated
with his honored name. In that build-
ing where Tremont Temple congregation
worships, is published a leading organ of
the denomination ; and in that paper
needless items of news with now and then
other matter, give aid and comfort to
the system of which Dr. Culver was
once a bondman, but from which he
afterward escaped. ''Thank God, I am
out!" he wrote another who had borne
the same bonds.
To blue pencil items conveying the in-
formation that "Rev. A. B. of Back-
woodsville has lately preached a sermon
to the A. B. C. or the X. Y. Z. fake
insurance lodge," would improve the
desk work of the news editor. Such blots
on a good paper are liable to be offensive
to many if not injurious to all. It seems
to be within the length of the editorial
cable tow, to trim even copied matter
sufficiently to preclude repeating this
kind of classifications : "Has a church
fulfilled its mission when it has attended
the services, paid the pastor's salar}^, and
met the apportionment ? Is it enough
if we succeed in maintaining year after
year the corporate existence of our par-
ticular congregation ? Shall we leave it
to the Salvation Army, the Y'^oung ]\Ien's
Christian Association, the Free Mason's
Lodge, the Labor Union, the Settlement
House, to perform those social tasks
which the church b\' her very constitu-
tion is called upon to perform ?"
Wliy not include the Beer Garden,
as at least one more place that might
claim to be social? To a casual and not
intelligentl}' discriminating reader, the
impression would be conveyed that a task
closely similar to what the church should
have performed has been taken up bv
the lodge, in a wa\- approximately to
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November, 1911.
supply the neglected service. The lodge
furnishes dances ; it provides cards ; but
this is a doubtful way of doing the neg-
lected work of a church. It is not fair
to class the lodge with the church, or
with agencies co-operating with the
church, if others mentioned honor Christ
when the lodges ban his name; or if the
Y. M. C. A. offsets Masonic balls with
evening schools promoting intelligence
and power to promote industrial or so-
cial interests of an elevating type ; or if
social settlements lift up those whom
the dance has dragged down or those
whom cards have ruined. And it is
doubtful religious journalism that per-
mits its influence to go, even in a sec-
ondary or subtle way, to the side of
hostility to the head of the church whose
work the lodge could not do if it tried,
and the opposite of whose works it act-
ually does. To make men merely social,
no matter how, is not the task of the
church. To make men disciples and fol-
lowers of Christ is not the purpose of a
lodge that prohibits mentioning His name
even in prayer during its session. Ob-
scuring so important a distinction, does
not make the impression of the best re-
ligious journalism. Quotation marks
seem a limited refuge, and the blue pen-
cil seems entitled to freer range.
A DEPLORABLE INFLUENCE.
Booker Washington says and does so
many good things that we the more sadly
deplore his joining the ranks of secretists
and throwing the weight of his splendid
influence into the harmful side of the
scale. He is president of the National
Negro Business League, which must of
course be an open association. From
twenty-five states,, more than a thousand
delegates met in New York a year ago
to attend the eleventh annual session. In
the course of the president's address, he
was reported by the New York Times
to have said that ''the negroes, too, had
the right of organizing as many secret
societies as they liked in this country."
President Washington said, with a smile,
"a privilege they enjoy more than any
race of people under the sun." He said
he met an old negro woman not long ago
in Georgia who had been a widow a
week less one day.
"My ol' man done me mo' good in de
las' six days," she said, "dan in all de
twenty-fo' years we lived together."
She had got $600 from a sick benefit
organization.
There is a certain humor in the anec-
dote, though rather grewsome, but the
question of the influence of secret orders
on negro character is grave enough. The
secret orders among white people are
associated with drinking and dancing,
with card playing and the fouler sort of
immorality. It seems far from improb-
able that they are schools of vice to the
negro. Dr. Washington is probably in
the position where the late Dr. Swartz
remained for some time after being free-
ly received into a high grade Odd Fellow
lodge in New York city, where the ordi-
nary initiation fee was $500. He had
been a member a good while before he
found that, out of sight yet in connection
with the lodge, were rooms for drinking
and prostitution. President Swartz said
he literally bowed with his face in the
dust and promised his God to come out
from the order. He died president of the
National Christian Association. Some
startling day President Washington's
eyes may be opened.
TREASON PRESCRIBED.
A contemporary preacher who was
once an advanced Mason makes in writ-
ing the severe charge that "It is treason
against one's country whenever, as often,
the oath prescribes that a fellow member
shall be protected contrary to law." The
same writer adds that "Those Masonic
oaths which require the Mason to take
the part of a brother Mason in court —
whether right or wrong — are treason-
able."
The "third point of fellowship," which
requires keeping criminal secrets, disfig-
ures the third degree. The obligation to
extricate one involved in any difficulty,
and to do this "whether he be right or
wrong," is assumed in distinct terms in
the seventh degree. It is no new idea
that Masonry exerts a pernicious influ-
ence in court. A pledge to warn a Ma-
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
211
son of danger, keeps company with the
oath to protect criminal secrets which
■comes four degrees earlier. It may, in-
deed, be only at a time when circum-
stances arise demanding its fulfillment
that actual treason is clearly recognized
by some who know the oath. Yet is it
not an act of treason to take a pledge to
be upon occasion an active traitor ? The
evil begins in taking such an oath ; and,
begmning there, it there also suddenly
goes far.
"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE FALSELY SO
CALLED."
BY WM. LEON BROWN.
"I have no doubt the book will do
great good."~Safmtel Dickie, President
of Albion College, Mich.
"I like it well. I wish every hesitating
soul in our country might read it."
Chas. A. Blanchard, Pres. IVheaton Col-
lege, III
"He goes straight to the core of things
in a clear and logical way. My convic-
tion is that his exposures of the fallacies
of the Christian Science teaching cannot
be successfully answered or refuted. This
book is worthy a place in the library of
every Christian home." — Rev IV T
Sfackhoiise, D. D., (Gen. Sec'y Lay-
men's Missionary Movement — Northern
Baptist Convention).
Price, 75 cents, postpaid. Address the
author, Wm. Leon Brown, Lawrence
Ind. '
HOW ONE DENOMINATION LOOKS
AT LABOR UNIONS.
At a recent conference of the Christian
Reformed Church, held at Grand Rapids,
Mich., labor unions were subjected to a
fair and square examination. From the
evidence submitted, the conference con-
cluded that unfair and illegal measures
are often resorted to, in order to enforce
the demands of the unions, hence it was
advised that the members of their church
refrain from uniting with organizations
so manifestly unfair. The conference
based^ its action largely on the follow-
in?: ''(i) The oath required by most of
the unions is unscriptural ; (2) the ob-
ject of the unions is not inspired bv
broad humanitarianism, but rather by
extreme selfishness; (3) in no way are
the religious and moral faculties of man
developed by unionism."
THE GRANGE.
[from an editorial in the wesleyan
methodist.]
Naturally we are interested in the
moral and spiritual condition of the com-
munity and church in which our ances-
tors lived for several generations, and a
recent opportunity made it possible for
us to make some inquiries regarding the
community and church mentioned.
Our first information was to the efifect
that there had been organized in the
community, with a meeting place a few
rods away from the church building, a
secret society known as the Grange, and
a large proportion of the members of
the church had joined this society.
The second item of information was in
efifect that the members of the Grange,
including all of the members of the
church who have joined this society, were
giving themselves up almost without any
restraint to dancing.
The third item of the information was
that a former pastor had preached faith-
fully against the dancing amusement,
and the members of the church have
withheld support and opposed him until
his return was made impossible without
the exercise of arbitrary Episcopal au-
thority, and that a second pastor had
dealt with the situation with equal fidel-
ity, and was being persecuted beyond be-
lief on that account.
We have personally known for at
least forty years that the church men-
tioned has been fearfully cursed, by the
fun loving spirit of its members and by
the frequent organization of various se-
cret societies, made up in part of the
members of this church. The Grange
was the first secret society to carry the
members of the church by wholesale into
public dancing, but it is only a step farth-
er along m the way the church has been
going for many years.
_ Subjecting the situation to every pos-
sible analysis which we can make of it it
brings the inevitable conclusion that se-
cret societies and sinful pleasure seeking
were twin evils in that case; and if in
that case, we know of no reason why they
should not be in every other case.^ The
facts are that observation everywhere
confirms this view.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
November, 1911..
Iecc5ei'0* Ie0tim0me0»
1 know that your exposures of Secret
Societies are correct. I read the Orange,
"Ro^■al Arch/' from Ronayne's book,
audit is right, for I took the degrees my-
self. God saved me from those cursed
things eight vears ago. I was master
of L. O. L.. Diamond of the West, No.
891. I was also a three hnk Odd Fel-
low and can praise God in reality for
deliverance. — J. M. Anderson.
Elgin, Manitoba.
A PASTOR'S TESTIMONY.
As I have been requested to give some
reasons why I have seceded from the
I. O. O. F., K. of P., etc., I will give the
reader something to think about that
perhaps you had never thought of. Space
will not permit me to go into detail on
this subject, for it is so abominable that
one scarce knows where to stop. The
lodge is not the worst thing the world
has, not so bad as the saloon, yet some
of the lodges are dealing out the damn-
able stuff that makes men crazy and go
home late at night and rouse the wife
and children out of bed, and in some in-
stances drive them out of doors.
I think the lodge is the best thing the
world has to offer, for when you stop to
think, what has this old world got to of-
fer you, Brother, Sister, anyway? A^ou
say the lodge promotes faith in God, hope
in immortality, and charity to all man-
kind, and in these three we have your
motto, brother Oddfellow, "Faith, Hope
and Charity," and I want to say right
here that you mJss the spirit of the les-
«i-»n a, thousand miles when you are teach-
ing this 13 chap, of ist Cor. in your
lodge. I know what is taught in that
order for I have gone the route via Jer-
icho and have fallen among thieves and
all the rest of the nonsense and boy's
play that goes on in the lodge room.
When you go to teach charity you con-
strue it to mean dollars and cents given
to the sick and needy. God never taught
that lesson in this chapter, for charity
means love. In its greatest form, "God's
Love.'' Hov^ many of you comprehend
what God's love is? May the Lord help
people to get their eyes open.
Suppose it were true that the lodges
were promoting faith in God, hope in
immorality and charity to all mankind,
what right then has a man that calls him-
self a Christian to hide that Vv^ork from
his wife and children ? My dear brother,
get down your Bible and read Matt. 10:
26-27. "Fear them not, therefore: for ■
there is nothing covered that shall not be
revealed, and hid that shall not be
known. What I tell you in darkness,
that speak ye in light : and what ye hear
in the ear, that preach ye upon the house-
tops." And when you come home late ,
at night and your wife ( who is a part
of yourself) asks you where you have
been, you say "I have been initiated."
"W^as there anything wicked?" "No."
"Was there anything ridicidous ?'' "No."
"Well, tell me about it." "I am not per-
mitted to tell you." Is this the valuation
you have put on your affections for your
wife? You say, "Nothing ridiculous."
What about the obligation you took,
brother I. O. O. F., when 3^ou had the
hoodwink lifted from your eyes and be-
held the ghastly human bones in front of
you? Why then do you go about de-
. ceiving your brother ? Why is it you
speak evil of a seceder? Why is it you
won't attend church because he does?
What do you think of a man that will
read out of God's Word and offer a
prayer ( ?) and then take God's holy
name in vain ; and going out of the lodge
room, will stop in the ante-room to play
cards, or in a saloon to get a drink of
liquor on his way home ? Do you mean
to tell me that this is not ridiculous ? It
is worse than ridiculous : it is mockery,
and God has said he will not be mocked,
for "whatsoever a man soweth that shall
he also reap."
"Let yoin- light so shine before men
that they ma}^ see your good works, '^
Jesus said. Then why do you go into the
third story of a building and pull down
the blinds to let your light shine, that
others may see your good works? Now
there is only one way for you to keep
your secrets and that is to get a building
that is higher than any other, and even
then God knows even the secrets of bur
hearts, for the eye of the Lord is in
everv place beholding the evil and the
good.
Then there is another reason why I
seceded from the Lodge. God's Word
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tells me, "Be ye not unequally yoked to-
gether with unbelievers : for what fel-
low^ship hath righteousness with un-
righteousness?" How can you be a
lodge man in the face of this
vScripture ? How many believers or real
Christians have you in your Lodge ? You
say not very many. Well, why then
will you violate (iod's command and
yoke yourself up with such an outht ?
When God's Book gave us the story
of the man that fell among thieves He
never intended it to be a secret. Then
why be so ridiculous as to have a man
become the laughing stock of forty or
fifty men by binding him with a chain
and shooting arrows at him? — child's
play ! What would you think of a man
astride a broom handle running up and
down the street ? yet you would do it in
the Lodge room if they should ask you;
or you wdll permit yourself to be led by
the arm blindfolded and allow some one
or dozen men to punch you or cause you
to stumble and fall, or you will submit
to almost anything of which a worldly
mind is capable. You will say : Of course
I would not do it, or I would lick the
fellow that would do such things to me,
yet those are some of the capers that go
on in the Lodge room ; and you pay a
nice round fee at the door in advance
to be made a fool of. You say all the
brainy men of our city belong. Well,
this is a great exhibition of brain matter!
It is more like child's play. Paul says,
"When T was a child, I spake as a child,
I thought as a child, but when I became
a man I put away childish things."
Another reason is the cost of this non-
sense. Fifteen dollars to get in and in
some orders it costs four to five times
that amount. Then the regular dues —
they amount to several times as much
as you are willing to give to help save
souls. Think of these amounts, Sister,
and suppose your husband should lay
these amounts at your feet, would you
not be happy? From the W. B. Statis-
tics of 1883. an order of 555,000 mem-
bers received $5,000,000. Two million
dollars of that amount was given to the
poor and the sick, etc., and it took all
the $3,000,000 to meet their expenses, so
that it cost that fraternity $3 to give
away $2. If our church did that way
there would be a laugh all over the
countrv.
These facts and a great many more I
could mention convinced me that if I
expect Ciod's love to abide in me I must
cut loose from the things of this world.
Yours for His service,
Rev. C. a. Morrison.
THE CHAPLAIN PRAYS— TO WHOM?
Mangum, Okla., March 10, 191 1.
Air. William I. Phillips,
Chicago, Illinois.
Dear Editor of the Cynosure:
First T thank you for what the journal
is to me, and while I read and study
it all, 1 have thought there was one very
objectionable feature in lodgism, which
may have been somewhat overlooked.
With your permission, I will bring this
to your attention. I refer to the name
in which prayers are offered. Unless the
secret w^ork has been much changed since
I was one of them, they close all ritual-
istic prayers, "For Thine own great
name's sake."
Now, to be candid, such praying is no
praying at all, and can never bring any
results. It is worse than vain, for it in-
sults the only accessible approach to the-
throne of Almighty God. Some might
ask, "What's the dift"erence?" It is all.
Jesus said, "I am the zvay * "^^ * no-
man comefh to the Father but by me.''
''By Whom also zve have access by faith
into this grace/' ''There is one mediator
betzveen God and man even Christ
Jesus:' "There is no other name given
under heaven." ''If ye shall ask anything-
in My name, I zvill do it."
I insist that no man, be he ever sa-
holy, can make any approaches toward
a throne of grace except through high-
priestly intercession, and when we leave
the High Priest, Jesus Christ, out oE
our worship we destroy our only way
to the throne. The Father's throne is a'.
throne of justice and judgment and when
we approach Him, we can expect Him
to hold out a scepter to us only as we
acknowledge the Son. It is useless —
worse ; it is vain. Yea, it is blasphemously
sinful. It can never stand.
Should some poor child of God cast
an eye over these lines, I beg of you^
examine into this awful sin as I did
many years ago and separate yourself
from it before God separates you from
your inheritance. "He that honoreth not
the Son, honoreth not the Father."
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
November, 1911,
All the wordy babble uttered to an
idol, saint or even direct to the Father,
will but increase the worshiper's damna-
tion. God said, "When I see the blood I
will pass over you/' The blood means
the Christ. Oh, how very little real pray-
ing is done! We pray for results. This
is the proof. Alas, how much heartless,
prayerless, senseless, Christless praying
there is, that is vapid nothingness — pray-
ing to be praying.
We cannot approach God's favor in
any other name but that appointed unto
man, Jesus Christ. If Satan can get
the worshiper's eyes off the Mediator,
they may pray all their lives, and to no
purpose.
I thank you for this little place in your
columns. — ^L. F. Gassier.
TESTIMONY OF AN M. E. PASTOR.
My desire grows upon me to testify
against secretism, and in the name of all
that is moral, right and Christian, to ear-
nestly plead with young men to avoid
these by-ways of evil.
More and more I see the whole scheme
and fundamental character of lodgism to
be diametrically opposite to that of Chris-
tianity.
It gives me the greatest sorrow to see
Christian ministers entangled in this yoke
of bondage. I believe in the divine call
of a minister to service for Christ, and
that only those who are so called should
dare to undertake this sacred duty; and
I am as sure that the Spirit of God called
me out of the lodges as I am that He
called me into the ministry.
The following are the reasons I had
for entering the lodge :
I. Curiosity excited by lodge symbol-
ism. 2. The desire for popularity among
lodge men and the expectation of in-
fluencing them to church attendance, and
ultimately to the acceptance of Christ.
3. The invitation of close personal
friends. 4. The financial benefit in case
of sickness or other misfortune.
I think this last one was the one which
the spirit of darkness used against me
successfully, causing me to break over
conscientious scruples and go headlong
into secrecy. At this time I was in hard
circumstances financially, resulting from
a series of misfortunes, including sick-
ness and death in my family, and the
breaking of my own health.
In my early Christian life I had be-
longed to the Independent Order of Good
Templars, but had ceased to attend after
a very few meetings, because I was dis-
gusted with the monkey-signs, winkings,
wigglings, grips and grimaces, called
lodee "work" ; but most of all because
I discovered that the meetings led to so-
cial impurity.
I had been told over and over again
by lodge men that such lodges were not'
to be compared to the real thing, conse-
quently, when I finally decided to know
more about secrecy, I went from one to
another vainly hoping to find one which
had no foolishness or other objectionable
features. I can testify that I never left
a lodge room after a meeting without
feeling less a man than before I entered.
I found the five lodges to which I be-
longed alike in this power to unmake
character.
For ten years I kept up my dues in
one of them, though I never darkened
the lodge-room door but a few times
after taking my last degree. Finally,
however, I came to see that by keeping
myself in "good standing'' in the lodge
I was sanctioning that which I knew to
be an evil, and doing violence to my con-
science ; it seemed to me then that I
must come out of the lodge or give up
my hope in Christ.
At this crisis I was not long in decid-
ing. I came out to stay out and to do
what I could to keep others out of this
''snare the fowler."
In conclusion I will briefly state my
reasons for leaving the lodges :
I. Secrecy is anti-Christian, Christ is
"the light of the world," and his follow-
ers are "cities set on a hill that cannot
be hid." 2. Lodge "work" is foolishness.
3. The association of evil men which
cannot be avoided. 4. The waste of time
that should be used for some good pur-
pose. 5. The late hours of lodge meet-
ings, which militate against health —
physical and moral. 6. The misspent
money for dues, etc. 7. Last, but not
least, the social impurities that develop
under lodge auspices. — Rev. Ernest Lee
Thompson, Stockton, III.
November, 1911.
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215
Seni0 of ®ur Pori
MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONVENTION.
The annual convention of the Michi-
gan Christian Association opposed to
secret societies was held on October 4th
and 5th, in the Third Christian Reformed
church, Kalamazoo. It was certainly one
of the best of recent years. All the
speakers on the program except one were
present to do their part. And, while the
attendance at the day meetings was small,
the people seemed full of faith and cour-
age. Several of the workers came nearly
two hundred miles to be in the conven-
tion and were glad they came. Dr. Clay
was not present. President Blanchard
seemed to be at his best and aroused en-
thusiasm in all.
Michigan realizes the need of a good
man constantly in the field tO' lecture,
talk and scatter literature. Plans were
made to systematically canvass the anti-
secret churches in the interests of this
work. We confidently expect, before an-
other Annual Meeting, to have distrib-
uted thousands of tracts and taken hun-
dreds of subscriptions to the Christian
Cynosure.
The officials of the association remain
as last year, except the vice presidency.
They are as follows : President, Rev. A.
B. Bowman, Wheeler ; vice president,
Rev. J. J. Hiemenga, Grand Rapids ; sec-
retary. Rev. A. R. Merrill, Williamston;
treasurer. Rev. J. E. Harwood, Hart.
All the people in Michigan interested
in anti-secret work are cordially invited
to correspond with any of the officers of
the association.
The following resolutions were adopt-
ed:
Resolutions.
Whereas, Man was created after the
image of God that he should know, love
and serve him and thus be happy;
Christ's redeemed are delivered from sin,
restored to spiritual life and made
temples of the Holy Spirit that God may
be glorified in them ; God, our Heavenly
Father, gave us His Word as the in-
fallible expression of His will in order
that we might obey it.
And whereas. The Lodge is a religious
system of which every secret society is
an organic part, and this religion is not
that of Jesus Christ but that of Satan.
The fight against this secret empire is a
part of the good fight of faith unto the
grasping of everlasting life; therefore
be it
Resolved : i. That the lodge is a system
which is truly repugnant to the Word
of God, the religion of Jesus Christ and
to true patriotism.
2. That no member of the Church of
Jesus Christ should be a member of the
lodge in any one of its many ramifica-
tions, by reason of its principles and
practices.
3. That every Christian is in duty
bound to oppose the Lodge as aggres-
sively as Providence may provide oppor-
tunity and to do all possible to open
the eyes of those caught in this snare
of Satan.
4. That the Church of Christ ought
not to allow its members to be members
and supporters of the Lodge system, but
it is called of God to lovingly and firmly
labor with such members as may be in
the Lodge and if necessary discipline
them in the name of the Lord.
5. That the Michigan State Christian
Association feels constrained to acknowl-
edge its indebtedness to the good people
of Kalamazoo for their loving hospitality
during this convention.
A. R. Merrill,
Secretary, M. C. A.
THE MICHIGAN CONVENTION.
BY REV. J. W. BRINK, IN THE BANNER.
The Michigan State Christian Associa-
tion, against secret societies met, as was
announced, on October 4 and 5. Five
sessions were held, three of which were
largely executive and spent in listening
to suggestive talks and in laying out work
to be carried out during the interim be-
tween this convention and the next. Only
one of the speakers disappointed us.
This assembly listened to some in-
structive and inspiring addresses. All
were characterized by the spirit of con-
viction and resolution. Not one was of-
fensively personal. The Association does
not fight persons, but principles and or-
ganizations based on these.
Rev. J. J. Hiemenga's paper was a
powerful arraignment of the lodge as a
religious institution, which, according to
its own authorities, must be adjudged on
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
November, 1911.
this principle. He furthermore proved
conckisively from their own writings
that this rehgion is not that of Christ.
The only course open therefore was to
x:lass it among the religions of Satan.
As Dr. Clay did not appear, the wTiter
took his place and gave a talk on his sub-
ject. "The Leadership of Lodgery." The
gist of this talk was that the leadership
of the lodge is inevitably dow^nw^ard and
away from all that is good and profitable.
Dr. Charles A. Blanchard, whom many
of TJic Baiuicr readers know in person,
made the journey from Wheaton, 111., to
Kalamazoo, to take part in the conven-
tion. He delivered an address on Chris-
tian jMinisters and Secret Societies. We
were not privileged to hear this address
— much to our regret. Neither was it
our privilege to listen as Rev. S. Elders-
vekl handled the subject, ''De Invloed
der Lodge op het Amerikaansch Kerke-
lijk Leven." We know, though, that
both addresses were to- the point and
unsparing in exposing the evil of the se-
cret society.
Again and again it is apparent at our
-conventions that outsiders know much
■more about the principles and practices
of the lodge than its very members do.
Many a man, and woman, too, for that
matter, joins the lodge without at all un-
derstanding what he is doing. There is
many a member who is astonished when
"he attends these anti-secret meetings to
hear of things done in the lodge meet-
ings and to see set before him the prin-
ciples back of it all. Ofttimes assertions
made by speakers are denied by mem-
bers in the audience. Generally men get
■angry and leave the meeting because they
'Cannot successfully gainsay what is said
about organized secrecy in general or
about some particular lodge.
This convention had as one of its out-
standing features the amount of plan-
ning done with an eye to systematizing
matters and increasing the efficiency of
the association in this state. After much
deliberation a plan was adopted which
lias as its aim the obtaining of a bona
fide membership throughout the whole
state and a goodly list of Cynosure
readers. Every pastor present bound
Limself to endeavor to find some person
in his congregation willing to solicit mem-
-ers for the association at tlie cost of 50
cents, or Si with tlie Cynosure as
premium. This excellent monthly mag-
azine on organized secrecy costs $1 an-
nually. It is well worth reading. It
reall}^ keeps one posted. Furthermore, it
was thought possible that every pastor
of the various anti-secrecy churches
would be willing, if requested, to find
some one in his church to solicit for
members as above. Each pastor present,
took on himself to request the pastors of
his denomination to do so. Others are
to receive a letter to this effect from our
secretary.
A continued effort is to be made to
obtain and maintain in the field a lec-
turer. Such a man is to give all of his
time to the work of lecturing against se-
cret organizations and to solicit readers
for the Cynosure. It may be difficult to
find the right man and no less difficult
to support him. But the association is
going to try.
One thing was saddening, namely, the
apparent apathy of our people, their in-
difference to the work attempted by the
association. One gets the impression
that our people are satisfied to leave
matters take their course now that we as
a Church have declared ourselves op-
posed to- this evil, the lodge. They care
nothing, so it seems, as to what this en-
emy of the Church is doing. They are
not solicitous b}^ reason of the havoc he
is working in other churches. They are
not apprehensive that notwithstanding
our decided position as a Church, Satan
may be enticing our yoimg men and
women into his net, there to destroy them,
There is a mighty lot of selfishness in
the situation. And the time will surely
come wdien we will regret it, for our
young people are being drawn into the
net. And the easier we hold ourselves
in this affair the more will Satan profit
thereby.
It was a pleasure to meet with the
brethren, who are fighting with us the I
fight of faith and to subscribe w^ith them|
to the resolutions adopted.
EASTERN SECRETARY'S ACTIVITIES.!
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 17, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure :
On the ocean voyage all through thel
nio'ht the "lookout" calls the hour andl
announces ''All's well'' or "Dangerl
ahead," as the case may be. We mustl
constantl)' record the passing of lovedl
November, 1911.
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217
ones, and can always add when they are
Christian, ''All's well." I was recently
startled on learning of the passing- of our
good friend, Elder Wm. A. Anthony, of
the Church of the Brethren, living at
Shady Grove, Pa. To him was given a
great work, to which he responded in
loving service. Many churches were un-
der his care. A very large company
mourn their loss in his sudden taking
away. He was very helpful to the writer,
giving much needed aid in preparation
for our last Pennsylvania state conven-
tion.
Yesterday's mail brought word that
our aged friend and helper, Mr. T. C.
Speer, an elder of the Northwood Ohio
Covenanter Church, had passed to the
better life. His daughter writes that one
of the last meetings he attended was the
Ohio State Anti-Secrecy convention at
Bellefontaine. He loved to do service
for the Master. Surely he was faithful
unto death. We shall miss him.
In the coming of our good friend and
co-worker, Rev. J. W. Burton, to the
King Street United Brethren church,
Chambersburg, Pa., our friends are
greatly encouraged, and the church much
strengthened. Brother Burton is one of
the aggressive anti-lodge workers.
During the month past it was my priv-
ilege to serve churches two Sabbaths in
New Jersey, the West New York United
Presbyterian, near Weehawken, and the
Christian Reformed of Englewood. Both
gave cordial support and encouragement.
Paterson, N. J., g'ave Jts usual help.
There were additions to the Cynosure
subscription list. Our good friend Weida
of the German Lutheran church reported
the circulation of much anti-secrecy lit-
erature, and great success in keeping
out those not yet caught and getting oth-
ers out from the lodge. Two new do-
mines have come to Christian Reformed
churches, and all seemed encouraged.
There Avere several calls for lectures. I
found Brother Lagville of Corona. L. L.
lettino- his light shine as usual. His new
son-in-law is much interested in our
work. There were reports of some be-
ing saved and leaving the lodges, which
was cheering indeed.
T was permitted to attend for a little
while the conference of our Swedish
Congregational friends, meeting in Pas-
tor Ohlson's church, Cambridge, ]\Tass.
They were a line appearing body of men.
The joy of their service was very mani-
fest. Several subscribed for the Cyno-
sure. As a body, they are opposed to
the lodge. Mrs. Anna E. Stoddard, in
charge of the New England anti-secrecy
work, reported a good summer at North-
field, Mass. Thousands of tracts and
Home Lights giving the testimony of
Rev. E. Y. Woolley and others had been
distributed with good effect. There had
been a good sale of anti-secrecy publica-
tions and prospects for the fall and win-
ter were encouraging.
The spending of some days at Nokes-
ville, Va., discovered new fields ripe for
the harvest. President L N. H. Beahm
has been the prime mover in the estab-
lishment of a much needed Christian
school at this place. On account of the
poor health of himself and wife he moves
to the farm for a time, leaving the school
to those who are well fitted to carry for-
ward the work. The student body now
numbers sixty, with a faculty of five. I
spoke twice in the College, also in a
church of the Brethren in the country
near at hand.
In material things this country has
been blessed and favored much. Farms
that found little sale at $15 and $20 per
acre a few years ago have readily brought
from $75 to $100 per acre in the recent
past. Lots of one acre on the edge of
the new tov/n were selling for $400 and
$500. The people seemed happy in serv-
ing the Lord and building up the coun-
try. There are no saloons, and little
lodgery as yet. Led by Elder Early, a
dozen of the leading citizens subscribed
for the Cynosure. ]\Iore lectures are
called for. The church of the Brethren
now have three schools for higher edu-
cation in Virginia. They are making
splendid progress. It seemed wise that
I come to this section to work for a time.
Many friends have been visited in Fay-
ette and Westmoreland counties.
At Scottdale I found the "Aloose,"
''Elks" and others of tlieir kind working
the ruin of those they could reach. "Fire
bugs" had set fire and burned down some
of the stores and attempted the destruc-
tion of several homes, and the Devil
seemed exceedingly active on the one
hand, while on the other I found the
Mennonite publishing house enlarging^ its
force, sending out its millions of light
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November, 1911.
giving pages of printed matter, and bear-
ing its faithful testimony in exposing the
works of darkness. Friends here paid
for several Cynosures to be sent to
those they hoped to help.
Last Sababth was spent at Braddock,
Pa. There was an open door for our
message in the Free Methodist church.
The attendance was good. God helped
in the delivery of the message. Some
half dozen cheerfully subscribed for the
Cynosure. Several spoke of help re-
ceived.
For the rest of this month I am re-
sponding to the need here. God willing,
I go to Wisconsin the first of November
to carry out the work being planned by
our General Secretary. If any there
w^ish my help (who have not already re-
ported), kindly write to the Cynosure
office at once.
W. B. Stoddard.
SOUTHERN SEED SOWING.
Alexandria, La., Oct. ii, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure:
I was accosted by a Sunday school su-
perintendent and high church dignitary a
few days ago who said. ''That paper of
yours, that Christian Cynosure, is one
of the biggest lying publications in the
country. Why, it don't do a thing but lie
about secret orders." I asked him to
point to one untrue statement in its col-
umns. He replied, ''Why, the whole
publication is a pack of lies." I said,
"Sir, I write an article for that publica-
tion every month, and I defy you to point
to one sentence in my articles that is not
true." He said, "Well, I am not talking
about your articles, but there are others
that are not true." I demanded of him
to point out one untrue sentence, but he
would not. So he said, "Well, I am in
the lodge for what my family will get
when I die. My family will get $1,200
from my lodges." I asked him what it
cost to keep up his lodges (seven in all)
monthly, and he said, after a little figur-
ing, "About an average of $10.50 per
month." I said, "Do you know that is
$126 a year?" He paused a moment and
answered, "Well, I never counted it up
before." I asked him what it cost to
join his seven lodges. He said, "To join
the whole seven is about, let's see, well,
about $40." I asked, "Do you have to
furnish a supper at each initiation?" He
said, "Yes." I asked, "How much do
you pay for each additional degree?"
He said, "25 to 75 cents." I asked, "How
often do you have to pay for pass
words ?" He said, "Every three months."
I asked, "Flow much each quarter?" He
said, "I pay 20 to 25 cents to each lodge
for the pass word." I asked, "How much
do' you pay for uniforms and regalias?"
He said, "Well, all together, just about
$75 or v$8o." I asked, "Do you have to
pay fines ?" He said, "Yes, if I miss a
meeting it is 25 or 50 cents. HI miss
a sermon or a funeral it is $1. Or if I
fail to sit up with the sick it is $1." L
asked him, "How often do you attend
prayer meetings or other church services
during the week?" He said, "Sometimes
once a month, or once in two months,
but I always try to go to church once on
Sunday and give 10 or 15 cents, and I
never miss the first Sunday in the month ;
then I pay 25 cents for pastor fees ; and
I always give 5 cents in Sunday school."
Reader, just think of it ! Here is a
licentiate local preacher, a deacon and a
Sunday school superintendent, who pays
according to his own highest estimate
about $13.40 to his church and Sunday
school per year to support his pastor, to
meet current expenses and to support
home and foreign missions, while he pays
$126 lodge dues and probably $100 or
more for initiation, suppers, degrees, re-
galias and fines. "Oh, consistency, thou
art a jewel." How can blind guides lead
the blind? Flow can such an idolatrous
Baal worshiper feel the presence of
God's Holy Spirit or exercise influence
over sinners? I told him that at his age
he could get an insurance in a solvent
company for $2,500, which would not
cost him more than $48 per year, and no
meetings to attend, no' fines to pay, no
regalias or pass words to buy and no
suppers to furnish, no wine to drink out
of a human skull and no secrets to keep —
which I thought by far more beneficial
to his family. Fie said he had never
heard it explained that way before. I
explained the blasphemy and inconsist-
ency of their blood-curdling and Christ-
less oaths and asked if he as a Christian
could afi^ord to longer support such an
institution. I secured his subscription to''
the Cynosure and a promise to more
prayerfully look into the lodge system.
November, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
219
Pray for the glorious triumph of truth
among these poor dehided people.
Yours sincerely,
F. J. Davidson.
MISS LIZZIE WOODS' LETTER.
Trenton, Tenn., Oct. 3, 191 1.
Dear Sir and Brother in Christ Jesus :
I have been at Dyersburg, Tenn., for
the last ten days. I have been doing mis-
sion work as usual among the women. I
get a chance to speak to the men also,
and in making the house to house visits
I have a chance to leave a tract at each
house. Some of the colored preachers
who belong to secret orders said, ''We
are not concerned about breaking up
lodges. White folks started them, and
it will take them tO' break them up."
They also said, "This woman ought to
die ; she has no business to divulge our
secrets. We are doing more for the
poor than the Church is." While I was
there I was asked to speak in the court
house square. There were more than
200 white people there. The Holy Ghost
came upon me mightily and I reproved
and rebuked and exhorted with all long
suffering and doctrine. (2 Timothy 4:2.)
I condemned all sin and when I was
through talking some one said, "Who
believes her report ?" and there was clap-
ping of hands all over the "square" and
the people answered, "All she says is
God's word." They shook my hand and
said, "Go on ! We are your friends, and
no one shall hurt you here."
On my way here, yesterday, while
waiting for my train at Newburn, Tenn.,
I had a chance to distribute tracts. Near-
ly every colored preacher you see wears
a lodge pin.
Well, thank God, I am still alive, and
am determined to declare the truth to
my brethren, like Ezekiel (Chapter 3),
"whether they will hear, or whether they
will forbear." We must warn them and
let them know what their Heavenly Fath-
er says. God bless the N. C. A.
Yours for Christ and against lodges
and everything else that is wrong,
Lizzie Woods.
Wheeling, Mo., Oct. 7, 1911.
Mr. Wm. I. Phillips, Chicago, 111.
Dear Sir and Brother : I am in a good
meeting here, and I have the lodge people
on the run. They are sewed up, and
don't know what to do or say. I thank
the Lord that some of the people are
getting their eyes open. The light is
shining, and all Hell can't put it out. One
of the Modern Woodmen of America
said, when he heard me on the lodge
question : "That was worth $75 to me."
So he is hearing me gladly. But others
are mad ; I am glad and the work is go-
ing on. One big fellow, a short time
ago, went over to town to have me ar-
rested, but he could not. When he came
back I said, "I want you to understand
that you can't have me arrested for
preaching the truth and condemning the
lodge, and before you can stop me you
will have to have a law made, but that
will be unconstitutional, and the people
of this great country will not stand for
it." He didn't do any more, and I
showed up the lodge in great shape.
I am glad to say that at one place
where I held three meetings, one lodge
went down. There were four, and the
other three are nearly dead. Thank the
Lord .' I called together a church there
in the name of Christ (Col. 3:17) with
126 members. So the good work is go-
ing on in the name of the Lord, in this
part of old Missouri.
You don't know how bad the secret
orders are treating me ! But I am push-
ing on to victory, in the name of Christ.
I am glad to see so many are getting
their eyes open to the truth of God and
seeing the many evils in the orders and
coming out of them.
Remember me, brethren, as in the
Ozarks of Missouri, with all the Devil's
forces against me. Pray for me.
Yours for the Truth,
J. L. Davis.
Mr. Richard Carroll, general manager
of "The South Carolina Industrial and
Home Placing Institution for the Train-
ing of Destitute Children," located at Co-
lumbia, vS. C, writes under date of Sep-
tember 30, 191 1 :
"I have always believed in the prin-
ciple taught by the Christian Cyno-
sure. The colored people of the south
should get hold of your magazine. They
are deserting churches and turning more
and more to lodges. iNIany of them are
holding lodge meetings on the Sabbath.
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November, 1911.
I would be glad if you could send me
some literature for distribution among
-them."
A father sends $3 that each of his
sons, whose homes are in different states,
may have the reading of the Christian
Cynosure. Isn't that a good plan ? The
only better one that I can think of would
be to make each a life member of the
association, thereby securing the Cyno-
sure to each for life.
AA'artburg, Natal, South Africa,
August 26, 19 II.
Dear Brother :
Alany thanks for the twenty-five copies
of Dr. Torrev's letter. If I could write
to you in my own language, German, I
am sure I would be able to touch your
"hearts, but in a foreign tongue I fear
only to touch your eyes. I cannot tell
3^ou how glad I am to find that I can re-
•ceive assistance from you against the
greatest enemies of the Christian Church.
Brethren, if there is a little room in your
Tiearts for an old worker for Christ,
please assist him with your prayers. I
liave a small German congregation, and
a German school, a native school and also
a native congregation gathered through
the grace of God during my twenty-eight
years' work here. I have only God and
my children for help.
Fraternally yours,
(Rev.) Gustav Adolph Stielsen.
A FAITHFUL PASTOR.
Among the shepherds who are seeking
faithfully to guard the flock from the
lodge w^olves is Pastor H. P. Dannecker,
of Ft. Wayne, Ind. Noting the tempta-
tion of the lodge for some of the young-
people, he prepared a pamphlet giving at
length a discussion of Four Points
Against Secret Societies. The points
made are as follows:
1. It is wrong to swear or promise not
to reveal a secret before we know what
that secret is.
2. It is wrong in any religious worship
to leave out the name of Jesus inten-
tionally.
3. It is wrong to believe or teach that
any man can be saved without faith in
Jesus Christ.
4. It is WTong for a Christian to sup-
port a society which does these things.
In this pamphlet quotations are made
from writings and sayings of the Knights
of Pythias, Woodmen, Red Men, Elks,
etc., showing their Christless character.
Of the Elks he asks, ''How do they
sing the doxology?"
"Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him all creatures here below;
Praise Him above for all that's good;
Praise God for our true brotherhood."
The prayer of the K. of P. is quoted
as follows :
"Vouchsafe Thy blessing, our heavenly-
Father, on the events of this evening. Be
Thou with us. Shield us from all harm, and
finally permit us to be with Thee on the last
great day, a united brotherhood, to share the
blessings of life eternal. Hear and answer
us, we beseech Thee. Amen."
The Woodman sings :
"So let him sleep that dreamless sleep,
Our sorrows clustering round his head;
Be comforted, ye loved who weep !
He lives with God ; He is not dead."
The Red Men have as their motto :
"Freedom, Friendship, Charity :
These must govern in our order,
From the center to the border,
Then we all shall happy be."
It will be observed this is all as hollow
and empty of Christ as the tomb of
Joseph after the resurrection.
There are many kinds of love, as many
kinds of light,
And every kind of love makes a glory
in the night.
There is love that stirs the heart, and
love that gives it rest ;
But the love that leads life upward is the
noblest and the best.
— Henry van Dyke.
I am glad a task to me is given.
To labor at day by day ;
For it brings me health and strength and
hope,
And I cheerfully learn to say :
"Head, 3^ou may think ; heart, you may
feel ;
But, hand, you shall work alway.''
— Susan Coolidge.
As the dawn precedes the sun, so„
should acquaintance precede love. — Dii
Base.
November, 1911.
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221
THE REWARD OF FAITHFULNESS.
Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 21, 191 1.
Dear Brother Phillips :
Yours of the i8th is just at hand. You
sent me Dr. Torrey's reasons for not
joining- the Masons : they are very good,
but not as radical as they ought to be.
A few days ago I called on a Baptist
minister who a few years ago visited an
Oriental country in the far East. He
related to his congregation that he re-
ceived much attention and courtesy from
the heathen Masons of that country, and
•congratulated himself for such kind treat-
ment.
I called on him, and introduced myself
by handing him my card. I told him I
desired a short talk with him. "I un-
derstand that you are pastor of the Sec-
ond Baptist Church and a Mason." I
then informed him that I was a Baptist
preacher, and I wanted to reason with
him on this subject. That I did not be-
lieve a Christian should belong to any-
thing that would not bear reasoning
about. ''Come, now, and let us reason
together," says God, ''though your sins
be as scarlet, the}^ shall be as white as
snow." I told him I was not a Mason,
but that I professed to know all about it.
I said to him : "The Mason's God is
a god without Jesus Christ and the Holy
Ghost." I then asked him : "What kind
of a god is such a god ?" He declined to
answer my question. I said to him :
'"Since you will not answer, I will. Such
a god is the god of this world, a devil's
god, and hence you are a w^orshiper of
the devil."
I said to him that Masonry was a re-
ligion, and sends its victims to heaven
without any mention of Christ's name.
This he denied. I said to him: "You
know that only a few weeks ago they
took the body of John Kelly to the Albert
Pike Consistory, across the street from
the Baptist church, and held a Masonic
burial service over his remains, and, al-
though there were Presbyterian preach-
ers present, they were not allowed to say
■one word. And nothing but Masonic
services were used. Now, sir, if our
Bible is the truth, and the Gospel of Jesus
Christ is the power of God unto salva-
tion, you will have to confess that the
soul of John Kelly has gone to hell. And
you pretended Christians are guilty of
the awful crime of sending that man
to an awful devil's hell. You imagine
you are a Christian, but you are de-
ceived. It is an utter impossibility for
a man to be a Christian and a Mason.
Hear what Paul says :
" 'But I say, that the things which the
gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to dev-
ils, and not to God. And I would not
that ye should have fellowship with dev-
ils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the
Lord, and the cup of devils : ye cannot
be partakers of the Lord's table, and of
the table of devils.' "
I had a Knight Templar's exposition
with me, and turned to the page where
they were enforcing the fifth libation.
I told him, that, if that did not picture
things right out, then there is nothing
that does. I told him I wrote to the
former pastor of his church and tried
to keep these devils out of his church
on an Easter Sunday, but he would not.
I told him that a Mohammedan was
as good a Mason as he was, and they
have the Koran on their altar. "Now,
sir, I have told you the truth ; you can
believe it or reject it. It takes only the
carnal mind to be a Mason, which is en-
mity against God. Therefore, unless you
repent and give up this damnable sin, you
will go where all good Masons go : to a
devil's hell." He said my talk did not
convince him. "Well," said I, "3'ou have
a heart as hard as a stone; there is no
use talking to you. But I want you to
understand that I have brought hundreds
out of a Masonic lodp-e. You can stav
in and suffer the consequences."
A. T. Millard.
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CONTENTS
The Power of the Secret Empii-e. By
Miss E. E. Flagg 225
Contributions —
Personal Experiences. By Rev. Gil-
bert E. Marting. .....232
A Bible Contradiction. By President
C. A. Blanchard ..234
Editorial —
Mongolian Masons .236
Group Morals 236
Masonic Officer in Murder Trial 237
An Astounding Pronouncement 238
An Italian Order 239
Many Defects f ... .239
History in Words 239
Madame Blavatsky a Masonic Orna-
ment " 240
Is It a Risky Reliance? _ 240
Not Idea but Ism 241
English Ritualism and Masonry 242
Good Enough to Bad Men 243
The Momentousness of Arbitration
Treaties • 244
News of Our Work —
Wisconsin State Convention 245
Resolutions , , 246j
Letters to the Convention 246
The Eastern Secretary in Wisconsin. 248
Agent Davidson's Report 249
Mrs. Lizzie Wood's Letter 250
Work in West Virginia 251
From Our Mail —
An Old-Time Revival .251
An Open Letter. Elder G. T. Dissett.252
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ARE SECBET SOCIETIES A BLESSING?
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VOLUME XLIV.
CHICAGO, DECEMBER, 1911.
NUMBER. 8.
Cl)e ^otoer of tl)e Secret Cmpire
1B2 Wi^fi ®* ®» iFlaSS
XXXIX.
A Foretaste.
Mr. Timothy Bundy was a specimen
of a particular class of men once com-
mon in Ohio and the bordering States.
He had been a hmiter and trapper in his
youth, was of Herculean frame and cor-
responding strength, and there was a
legend current in the lodge that he had
proved a very troublesome member to
initiate, for instead of allowing himself
to be knocked down quietly and buried
in due form under a pile of rubbish at
the east gate of Solomon's Temple, he
had taken the farce for a literal attack
and pitched his assailants right and left
to the imminent danger of breaking
their bones.
Elder Stedman fulfilled his appoint-
ment and lectured at Bundy's Flats, to
a small but more quiet and well-behaved
audience than he had any reason to ex-
pect after his late experience at Quipaw,
which was in comparison quite a center
of civilization and refinement. But truth
often has the freest course in seemingly
most unpromising places, and nowhere
were the Elder's labors more signally
blessed of the Lord than at Bundy's
Flats. The two dollars given him at the
close of the lecture was certainly meagre
pay, but the Elder was satisfied. Not
so Mr. Bundy, who took him aside at
parting with a rather mysterious air.
''Now, parson, I want to tell you your
life ain't never safe. One month ago if
I had been picked out by the lodge to
cut your throat, / should have done it."
This revelation did not startle the El-
der. He knew too well what a terrible
power the oaths of the lodge have over
an ignorant and blinded conscience.
'Thank the Lord, Mr. Bundy, that he
has given you a better mind," he calmly
answered, "and pray that his grace may
work the same blessed change in others."
"I know we orter pray and not to
faint, but grace don't do its work all in
a minit, you'll find. Now, parson, this
ere is a fust-rate revolver, brand new,
and Fm going to make you a present of
it. You ain't obleged to let it be known
you kerry one, bein' a minister, and you
ain't obleged to use it — I mean on any
ornary occasion ; but it's a good plan to
have some sich thing about ye jest for
a scarecrow, to scare off folks as might
want to meddle with ye to your hurt
sometimes."
The Elder remembered Peter, and his
answer to this warm-hearted but ignorant
disciple had a decided savor of mild
rebuke.
"The Lord has wonderfully preserved
my life hitherto from all the snares evil
men have set for it, and would you have
me begin to distrust him now by relying
on anything else than his own mighty
arm for protection? 'Cursed be the man
that trusteth in man and maketh flesh
his arm and departeth from the Lord.' "
Mr. Bundy stood irresolute. Almost
without physical fear himself, all the
more did he realize the danoers which
beset the Elder. His sudden conversion
had generated a spiritual force and
fervor that had as yet developed in the
active rather than the passive line of
direction, for like most men of his pe-
culiar physique the animal in him having
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December, 1911.
the start to begin with, was not immedi-
ately subdued by days or even weei^s of
this new, controlhng spiritual force
which had arrested him like Saul of old,
"breathing out threatenings and slaugh-
ter," and bent him by the power of its
mighty mysterious will to confess and
forsake his false worship. Still he felt a
strange reverence come over him for the
meek and fearless Elder. Far back in
his rough boyhood he remembered a
timid, shrinking woman wdio, nerved
with the same divine courage, had pa-
tiently borne threatening and abuse for
Christ's sake ; and though for long years
her spirit had walked, palrn-crowned,
the heights of Paradise, Timothy Bundy
wiped his eyes on his coat sleeve as the
vision passed before him.
"I don't know but you're in the right
on it, parson," he said, finally, laying
back the revolver on the shelf. "Any-
how, take this," and he pressed some bills
into the Elder's hand. "It was what
I've been saving up to pay my lodge
dues with, and if you don't need it for
yourself jest take it to help on the work
in some place wdiere they are poorer than
they be at Bundy's Flats."
The Elder took the offering with a
heart of grateful joy. To him there was
a peculiar preciousness in this first fruit
of his labor. Gladly should it all be laid
on Christ's altar ; oh, how gladly !
"God bless you, broither Bundy," he
said, "and fear not what man's rage can
do. He hath preserved me in six trou-
bles ; yea, in seven there shall no evil
touch me."
The Elder rode home in a state of
calm, exultant happiness. There are
times when to the soul of every sufferer
for God's truth he gives a glimpse, as it
were, of the final victory. And to El-
der Stedman came anoither such experi-
ence of joy and triumph as he remem-
bered having once before when the shot
of the secret assassin rang through the
still, green woods, and but for the hand
of protecting providence would have
terminated his career on its very thresh-
old. The years that stretched behind lay
bathed in the sunlight of divine good-
ness : he remembered not one hard place
in his pilgrimage, no Slough of Des-
pond, no Hill of Difficulty, no Valley of
the Shadow of Death. And over the
days that lay before glowed that same
mellow^ Indian summer light. Many or
few, wdiat mattered it ? Sooner or later
he must fall in this strife and another
take his place, as full of youthful
strength and ardor as was he when he
hrst stepped into the ranks. But he
was willing, nay joyful, to die on the
field with no huzzas of victory ringing in
his death-dulled ears, for only a little
while and the end would surely come
for which the whole creation groaneth
and travaileth in pain- — the end of every
wrong, the triumph of eternal right in
the world-w^ide reign of the Lamb. Wel-
come persecution, welcome revilings,
welcome the martyr's crown if so be it
actually glittered for him over those tur-
bid waters that rolled so dark and chill
this side of the heavenly Canaan ! Living
or dying he was more than conqueror.
The Elder roused himself froiri his
reverie and spoke a cheery word to the
patient steed on which his old love of
animals now found its chief outlet and
center. The intellig'ent beast responded
thereto by breaking into a brisk trot,
probably accelerated by certain equine
considerations of the snug stable and
feed of oats waiting for him at his jour-
ney's end.
But the Elder's lecture had not failed
to rouse the baser elements at Bundy's
Flats as well as at Quipaw^ Creek. A few
nights afterward Mr. Bundy was roused
by a rap at his door, A little barefooted
child stood without, weeping bitterly, and
in response to that worthy man's as-
tonished inquiries, sobbed out :
"You won't let them do anything to
that good Elder, will you, Mr. Bundy?
He come to our house and talked and
prayed with ma, and she says he seemed
just like one of the angels of God, only
when "she said so before pa it made him
swear."
"They shan't do anything to him if
I know it. Come in, Bub, and tell me
what you mean," said Mr. Bundy, who
recognized in the child the little son of a
consumptive woman who lived about a
mile away, and whose husband was both
a Mason and a hard drinker.
I heard pa and some other men talk-
the Elder," said the child in
a frightened whisper. "I was in bed
and they were talking and drinking down
below. And they said such awful things
of what they would do if they should
mg about
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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catch him in the dark. And they are
going to burn his house down, Mr.
Bundy. I heard them say so. I kept
sftill till I thought they v/ere gone and
then I jumped out of bed and run over
to you ; I thought you could stop their
doing it."
''Now look here, Bub," said Mr. Bun-
dy, after staring for an instant at the
wee mite who, with a courage beyond his
years, had braved all the terrors of the
darkness to avert the danger that threat-
ened the Elder. "Here's a prime tur-
key I shot today. I've been reckoning to
send it over to your ma. Come over to-
morrow and you can have it. But now
run home, sonny, and get into bed as
quick as you can, and don't forget to
say your prayers. I reckon the good
Lord above will take care of the Elder."
The child departed somewhat comfort-
ed. Mr. Bundy hastily dressed himself,
drew on his boots, saddled his horse and
was soon galloping through the nig'ht
with one hope in his heart — that the
warning had not come too' late and he
should get the start of the incendiaries.
He never stopped to question, as one
ignorant of the nature of secret organiza-
tions would be very likely to, the credi-
bility of the child's warning; whether
it were not possible that one of such ten-
der years might have mistaken the real
tenor of the talk he had overheard. A
man who, according to his own confes-
sion to the Elder, had been so thorough-
ly enslaved in conscience by his Masonic
obligations that he would have taken
human life at the command of his su-
periors and thought we was only doing
his duty, was not very likely to doubt the
existence of men in the lodge who would
have no scruple about committing arson
at a similar bidding.
"But the men who do such things are
the scum of the community as a rule,"
objects one of those would-be defend-
ers of the lodge, whose name is legion,
and whose sole knowledge of the Ma-
sonic system is based on whatever fact
or fiction any Mason in the plenitude
of his wisdom may kindlv vouchsafe to
impart.
Were the men who murdered Morqan
the scum of western New York^ Were
the Ku-Klux Khns with their midnight
reign of desolation and terror the scum
of the South? And, granted this asser-
tion to be a fact, why does not the lodge
skim off a little of the aforesaid "scum"
by denouncing the acts and expelling the
offenders? But, instead, it elevated I\Ior-
gan's murderers to higher honors and
fraternized with the secret orders of the
South, their hands still crimson with
the blood of hapless negroes and unof-
fending Union men.
What is the language of facts like
these ?
It is true that in the present case a
drinking, profane fellow^ who had as
little regard for Lindley Murray as he
had for the Ten Commandments, had
been talked and' fuddled by his fellows
of the lodge into thinking not only that
the safety of the craft had been im-
periled by the Elder's late lecture, but
also that it was an imperative Masonic
duty to teach him a lesson on minding his
own business — a subject on which it will
be remembered that the lodge had re-
markably clear ideas — and that he. the
individual above mentioned, could do the
job more scientifically than anybody else.
But did this catspaw for lodge iniquity
who, though worthless and degraded,
was no fool, undertake such a business
without knowing that he w^as backed up
by the oaths of the whole fraternity,
ministers, judges and officers of the law
not excepted, to keep his crime forever
a secret? Then where should the re-
sponsibility be laid? I leave it to the
honest, candid reader who has followed
me in my story thus far, to say.
It was a nigjht partly clear, partly
cloudy, with a few stars peeping out, and
a brisk wind blowing. The elder lived
about a mile the other side of the river
from Bundy's Flats.
Mr. Bundy urged his horse through
the stream, and, iust as he emero-ed on
the opposite shore a tongue of flame shot
up, reddening the night heavens. It was
in the direction the Elder lived, and with
a smothered exclamation he put spurs
to his steed and dashed forward towards
the scene of the conflagration.
The barn had caught first. The Elder,
awakened by the glare Hashing across
his eyes, and not conscious as yet that
the same insidious foe was bciiinnini:' to
wreathe in serpentine rin<^s tlie frame-
work of the house itself, roused his
sleeping wife and rushed out intent on
rescuing, if possible, the faithful horse
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that had borne him so many long miles
in his Master's service. But it was too
late. The hre had made too great a
headway, and the Elder himself, in his
vain attempt to rescue the poor animal,
ventured too far, for as he turned to
retreat, driven back by the smoke and
flames, he was struck by a timber from
the burning building and felled to the
ground.
Rough but kindly hands instantly
dragged him to a place of safety and
dashed cold water over his face and
hands. Mr. Bundy's prompt appearance
on the scene had saved the Elder's life,
but none of his worldly possessions be-
yond a few valuables hastily snatched
from the burning house, which in ten
minutes was one sheet of hissing, crack-
ling flame, and in ten more a smoulder-
ing ruin.
The Elder's injuries proved serious.
For days and weeks it seemed to him-
self and to others as if his work on earth
was done. But he rallied slowly. His
manner of living, temperate as an an-
chorite's, was in his favor, and when
spring again returned he was lecturing
and preaching with all his old-time zeal
and not a whit profited by his woful ex-
perience.
Nobody doubted that Masonic ven-
geance had fired his buildings. At the
same time Mark received that meed of
sympathy so freely given to persecuted
reformers in the anti-slavery times : "It
is too bad, such a good man as Elder
Stedman is — but why can't he let Ma-
sonrv alone?"
XL.
The Victory Over the Beast.
A very old, and, in his day, unpopular
reformer has thus summed up his per-
sonal experience: "Persecuted but not
forsaken, cast down but not destroyed,
chastened but not killed ;" thus epitom-
izing for all future ages the experience
of those elect souls who stand out from
among their fellowmen with a prophet's
commission of rebuke and warning, and
with too often a prophet's fate of being
misunderstood and rejected by the gen-
eration to whom they are sent. To Mark
Stedman the Apostle's paradox seemed
no strange thing. Ever since that hour
of bitter discouragement and unlooked
for lifting up he had never lost the
consciousness of a victorious divine
power working in him and through him,
turning sorrow into joy and defeat into
triumph, and making his pathway al-
ways radiant with the light that streams
from the Paradise of God. But there
was one more cup of trial for him to
drink. He had seen it looming dimly in
the distance ever since his talk with El-
der Chadband — the same cup which has
been pressed to the lips of many a de-
voted servant of God. The church he
loved, in whose service he had grown
gray, was about to cast him out, and
for no other reason than because he
loved her too well and served her too
faithfully to tolerate the secret iniquity
she cherished in her bosom.
"The fact is," said Mark, when Rach-
el and I, having heard some hint of this
new trouble, rode over to see him, "it
has long been a preconcerted thing be-
tween Elder Chadband and some other
members of the conference to expel me
from the Methodist church if they pos-
sibly can. And now they think the time
is ripe. The charges are frivolous and
unfounded, but they will cast me out
whether the evidence sustains them or
not. I have no reason to expect any-
thing else."
"Oh, Mark!" exclaimed Rachel, in-
dignantly, "when you have been such
a faithful shepherd of souls, a preacher
after Wesley's own heart, instant in sea-
son and out of season ; never thinking of
gain or ease like others — now to turn
round and kick you out of the ministry.
It is shameful, abominable !"
"I think I shall have to talk to you
as I do to good Brother Bundy," an-
swered Mark, smiling on his excited sis-
ter. "Ever since his wonderful conver-
sion from Masonry to Christ he has
stood out against the threats and perse-
cution of the lodge as bold as a lion. I
shall never forget how he came to help
me once in the sorest soul strait I ever
knew, like one sent of God ; or how
nobly he has stood by me ever since. But
I must confess there are times when I
find the old Adam in him very trouble-
some, and the late action of the confer-
ence has stirred him up to such a degree
that I could hardly talk him into any-
thing like calmness. He is a genuine
son of thunder. H he had his way he
would call down fire from heaven on all
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the lodges in the land and burn them
up .like the cities of the plain. But he
iis a great, grand, large-hearted disciple
nevertheless/' - '
"It is hard," said the Elder's wife,
who had been silent hitherto ; ''very hard
that Mark should be turned out of the
ministry in his old age for the crime
of being too faithful to souls. And I
must say that at first I felt a good deal
like Sister Rachel. I couldn't be recon-
ciled. But now I feel differently. They
who would live godly in this life must
suffer persecution. It is not the church
which is doing all this ito Mark ; it is that
terrible spirit of anti-Christ which has
taken possession of the church. God
give us strength to 'withstand in the evil
day, and having done all to stand.' "
So spoke the Elder's wife, who had not
forgotten her girlhood's terrible experi-
ence with ithis same spirit of the lodge.
It had persecuted her father to his death
in like manner as it was now persecut-
ing her husband. But this plain-faced,
quiet-looking woman had as truly the
martyr's seed within her as any of the
those worthy women of old times who
receive such glowing mention in the
Epistle to the Hebrews.
There was a moment's silence and then
the conversation turned to family mat-
ters, for only the week before the last
of our home-birds had flown in a midst
of white muslin and orange blossoms.
xAnson Love joy, though a staid, elderly
man, had not found his superior years
any bar to winning Grace. And thus
Rachel and I were again left — I was
about to- say as in the first year of our
married life, alone with each other —
but there was one very important differ-
ence in the fact that no lodge oath now
came between us to part asunder those
whom God had joined together.
But as Mark and I stood by the open
door talking over the matter of the ap-
proaching church trial, I suddenly no-
ticed how aged the Elder had grown.
Yet never had he seemed more like the
Mark of old times — with the intense
ideality and enthusiasm that had once
led him such a fool's chase through the
swamps and fogbanks of error when he
mistook a deluding ignis fa tints for the
guiding star of truth — the brave loyalty,
the burning devotion that had character-
ized his first surrender of every world-
ly ambition at the call of Christ, not
one whit abated, he was the same Mark
Stedman who sat on the back stoop, in
the glow of that far away spring sunset,
when we talked together about joining
the lodge.
"It has been a hard warfare, Leander,"
he said, "but I would not wish to enter
Heaven with one honorable scar the
less."
^'Weh, Mark," said I, "I must say I
don't feel easy at the risk you are con-
stantly running. There is an Old Coun-
try proverb that 'the pitcher that goes
often to the well gets broken at last,'
and in spite of the assertion lodge men
sometimes make that 'they have stopped
killing since Morgan's day,' I know the
last martyr has not yet been sacrificed
to the implacable spirit of the lodge."
"Well, Leander, I have always said
that if the cause of truth requires the
sacrifice of my life, I am willing to be
offered. But it seems to me that I al-
ready see — whether in prophetic hope or
positive reality I can hardly tell — the
first feeble beginnings of a great reform
which is destined to sweep the church
and nation. Intelligent freemen cannot
long resist conclusions forced upon them
as they have so lately been forced upon
the people of Granby. And when once
this question is carried to the ballot box,
the lodge will see the handwriting on
the wall."
I was about to answer, but Mark sud-
denly turned pallid, and sinking into the
nearest chair covered his face for a mo-
ment with his hands.
"You are ill," I said in alarm. But
Mark only made a deprecatory gesture.
"Don't call any one. Hannah knows
nothing of these ill turns and I don't
care to have her know, for I think they
are some after result of the accident that
happened to me last spring, and I am
hoping will pass entirely oft' when I gain
my full health and strength. Thank
God that it only affected my body and
not my mind. I can deliver as sturd}-
blows for the truth as I ever did."
I w^as not quite satishe^^l, but my mind
was too fully possessed by other fears
to attach much importance to a passing
indisposition which he himself treated
so lightly, knowing as I did that he had
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December, 1911.
gone to work long before his health was
entirely recovered. I saw him beset by
mobs or waylaid in his solitary journey-
ings ; but I did not see that his brave,
noble heart was breaking in a martyrdom
slower but not less snre than if the knife
or the bullet of the secret assassin had
been peniiitted to wreak their deadly
vengeance.
As ]\Iark needed me for a witness I at-
tended the meeting of the conference,
but I will not trouble the reader with
any wearisome details of the proceed-
ings. Suffice it to say that the specifica-
tions read by Elder Chadband really
amounted to but two: "Speaking to the
injury of his brother ministers and
neglecting his proper work on the cir-
cuit to lecture against Masonry."
To these charges Mark pleaded not
guilty, and a cross-examination of wit-
nesses elicited nothing farther than the
fact that on several occasions, when his
spirit had been especially stirred within
him by the lodge idolatry of some of
the leading members of the conference,
he had denounced them freely as "hire-
ling shepherds" who fed not the flock,
and consequently had not the smallest
business to be in the ministry at all. , As
to neglecting his proper work to lecture
on Masonry, it was clearly proved that
he had held on an average as many
preaching services as any other member
of the conference; and it was also clear-
ly proved that the leading prosecutor,
Elder Chadbrand himself, had been
known more than once to neglect his
regular ministerial work to participate
in the ceremonies of some Masonic gath-
ering. But what avails innocence against
inquisitorial power ? They could tolerate
no longer the rebuke of Mark's presence
among them, and were bound to cast
him out, or, to use Elder Chadbrand's
expression, ''put him where he could do
the least harm."
Mark had no counsel and made his
own defense before the conference.
"Brethren," he said, 'T stand among
you accused of serious offenses, which
the witness against me has utterly failed
to prove. You, in your secret hearts,
know that the real ground of the accu-
sation is my uncompromising hostility to
Freemasonry. That hostility will never
abate. It will only grow stronger with
every breath I draw. I boldly declare
that the Rules of Discipline faithfully
carried out wotild expel every Masonic
pastor in this conference. There are no
less than sixty-nine different oaths in the
first seven degrees of Masonry. And
this, in the face of that part of the Dis-
cipline which forbids 'all vain and rash
swearing,' and any taking of oaths 'save
when the magistrate may require in a
cause of faith and charity, so it be done
according to the prophet's teaching in
justice, judgment and truth.' Is there
justice, judgment or truth in these ob-
ligations with their fiendish penalties,
their terrible trifling with Jehovah's
name ?
"I charge Masonic pastors everywhere
with the sin of Balaam. They cause
God's people to err, they deny the Lord
that bought them, and will surely, unless
the Spirit of the Lord leads them to re-
pentance, bring upon themselves swift
destruction. 'Woe be unto the pastors
that destroy and scatter the sheep of
my pasture, saith the Lord.' Shall I, by
keeping silent, incur their doom? Nay,
ten thousand times better be shut out
not only from the Methodist church, but
from every church in the land.
"I have offended in no point the rules
of the Discipline. I have ever striven to
go in and out among you with a con-
science void of offense and in a spirit of
meekness and charity towards all men.
The Lord judge between us and lay not
to your charge the sin of casting me
out for no other reason than because I
refuse to bow the knee to Baal."
Mark sat down. Once more he had
flung his gage of defiance at the Beast.
The after proceedings did not seem
to interest him. He sat with a strange
look on his face, a high celestial expres-
sion, as of one who had fought his last
battle and conquered his last foe, and
was waiting in serene silence the mo-
ment of palms and shouts of victory, and
lifting of triumphal gates.
The committee retired and in a little
while made their report, which was to
the effect that they had found all the
charges against Elder Stedman sustained
and therefore adjudged him suspended
from the ministry of the church and all
church privileges.
The Elder started up as if to rise and
speak, but sank back in his chair with
a groan. The medical man who was
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
231
hastily summoned could do nothing more
than pronounce his verdict — a case of
heart trouble induced by the accident
which befell him on the night of the
fire and suddenly developed to a fatal
result by the excitement attending the
trial.
Mark Stedman had borne his last tes-
timony against the lodge. Shut out from
the church militant .he had entered the
ranks of the church triumphant.
''And I saw as it zvere a sea of glass
mingled with fire, and them that had
gotten the victory over the beast, and
over his image, and over his mark and
over the number of his name, stand upon
the sea of glass having the harps of
Godr
My story is ended. It is the experi-
ence of one man and niust necessarily fail
in giving a complete picture of that ter-
rible secret system which binds men's
souls in a network of oaths and obliga-
tions to do — they know not what. But
such as it is let the facts here given —
for they are facts which can be indisputa-
bly proved — speak for themselves.
Freemen of America, I appeal to you.
Will you bow your necks to wear the
yoke of the Secret Empire? or will you
waken to the danger before it is too
late ? It has no respect for human rights.
It is monarchical, despotic, inquisitorial.
It breathed its first breath under the
shadow of throned corruption and priest-
ly rule. It is as alien to the principles
of a free republic as light is to darkness.
And on you depends the question, Which
shall rule this fair land, the few or the
many ; the spirit of caste or the spirit
of equality? The weal or woe of fu-
ture generations hinges on your answer.
Churches of America, God has a con-
troversy with his American Zion. In
your midst is a horrible thing — a gigantic
religious system which ignores his Son
and proposes to do' the Holy Spirit's
work of regeneration for men — a system
as dark, cruel and unclean in its prin-
ciples and teachings as the ancient Mo-
loch, tolerated and worshipped ! Chris-
tian ministers officiating at its altars,
its dress and sounding" its
wearmg
sounding
Is it strange that the wavs of
in the still, small voice of warning and
entreaty. How soon he may speak in
the whirlwinds of judgment who can
tell? Before it be too late heed His
voice who walketli in the midst of the
seven golden candlesticks. "Repent, or
else I will come quickly and will fight
against thee with the sword of my
mouth."
Members of the Masonic order, honest
men, kind-hearted, lovers of truth and
justice — for I know there are many such
among you — who secretly loathe the iron
yoke of your slavery, to you I make ap-
peal. Assert your God-given manhood.
Deny the power of the lodge to bind
for a moment what He has forever
loosed. Your country needs you, but she
wants freemen, not slaves. God needs
you in the great warfare of these latter
days against anti-Christ, but He wants
men with the martyr spirit who have
overcome the Beast through the blood
of the Lamb and gained the victory over
his mark.
On which side will you take your
stand? Will you be the slaves of the
lodge, holden with cords of secret
iniquity, or Christ's freemen? The is-
sue lies before you. If the Lord be God
follow him, but if Baal, then follow him.
THE END.
praises
Zion mourn? that the bright gold is
dimmed and tarnished? The Lord, our
God, is a jealous God. He will not give
his glory to another. Lie speaks now
The Methodist Church proposes to or-
ganize the ''Knights of Methodism," to
be composed of all boys between the ages
of nine and twenty years. There are to
be three dift'erent degrees according to
age. The ritual of each order is grouped
around some striking incident in the book
of Daniel. The first degree is to be the
Order of the Loyal Princes. This degree
is based on the fact of Daniel and his
companions refusing to eat the king's
meat. The second degree, called the Or-
der of Victors has reference to the re-
fusal of the three Hebrew children to
bow down to the idol on the .plains of
Dura. The third degree, the Order of the
Lion Hearted, refers to Daniel in the
Lion's den. They propose four lines of
work : first, social ; second, literary ;
third, recreative, and fourth, religious.
"Ciod will not fail to i^unish sin in the
life of individuals and of nations. Na-
tional ruin and national wickedness are
closely linked together. 'Tlie way of
the transgressor is hard.'
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
December, 1911.
€0tttributi0n0.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES.
BY REV. GILBERT E. MARTING, PASTOR OF
A METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
i\Iy sole purpose in writing is the glory
of God and the highest good of my fel-
lownien. It is not that I have any griev-
ance with any member of any lodge
whatsoever. It is because I believe the
entire lodge system wrong and a great
enemy to the cause of God. In fact,
after fourteen years of careful study
of the system, both in my alma mater and
in the pastorates I have held, I have ar-
rived at this conclusion : The greatest
foe of tJie Church of Christ in America
is the secret fraternity system.
The saloon does it work openly in
the light of the sun. It will hardly dare
lay claim to being a benefactor of the
race and a helper of the church ! Not
so with the lodge; it is a subtle foe; it
does its work secretly behind closed doors
under the cover of darkness. It charges
a certain amount for its privileges and
then boastfully compares its "charities"
with those of the church. It empties
the house of prayer and then talks of
its own devotion and tells us if men will
live up to its rules they will get to heav-
en. It is all the more deadly because
of its subtility.
A Few Biographic ReferenceSo
At the time of my conversion I had
no convictions as to the harmfulness of
lodges. After my conversion and call
to the ministry, I entered one of our
largest Alethodist universities. Here I
came in close touch with the secret lodge
system. Some of my dearest personal
friends were members of Greek letter
fraternities. While in college I was ap-
proached but once about uniting with a
secret society. But had I a thousand
propositions to unite with fraternities I
would have rejected them all. During
my entire college career I carefully stud-
ied the system from the standpoint of an
observer. I said but little openly against
secrecy, but advised some of my personal
friends against joining them. In almost
every case where these friends went
against my advice, I have reason to be-
lieve they did so to the injury of their
.souls.
If any man raises the objection that no
one can judge of the character of secrecy
if he has not been a member of a lodge
himself, I reply that such an objection
is sheer nonsense. "By their fr^iits ye
shall know them." I do not need to take
strychnine to know that it is a deadly
poison. It has killed thousands. I do
not need to drink whisky to know that
it will make men drunken. I have seen
hundreds of men reel under its baleful
influence. Observation is almost as good
a teacher as experience, and is less ex-
pensive. I have seen young men come
to college full of the Holy Ghost and
fire. They came to give their lives to
Christ as his ministers. I have seen se-
crecy rope them in. I have seen the fire
of Divine love burn lower and lower in
their lives and in some cases burn out
entirely. One of these dear boys, who
was thus ensnared, had been an earnest
seeker after perfect love on entering col-
lege. I have heard him say in our col-
lege devotional meetings that he believed
that there was a deeper work of grace
for him — ^that he was seeking" a clean
heart. The last time I ever saw him was
at a table where I boarded. To my sor-
row he sat and argued infidelity before
a house filled with young people. I have
seen other young men who came to col-
lege to study for the ministry backslide
from God after uniting with secret so-
cieties, and go out of college to practice
law or in some other secular pursuits.
These fields of labor are honorable for
some men, but they are not the place for
the man whom God has separated unto
the gospel of Christ. Why did these boys
go back on their call? Did fraternities
have a hand in their downfall? Let
these men answer now at the bar of their
own conscience and hereafter at the bar
of God.
Restored to the Favor of God.
A very dear friend of mine united with
a Greek letter fraternity, although I
counseled him not to do so. He did not
become as worldly as many of the boys
who do as he did. He is now a powerful
gospel preacher and a great soul-winner.
But this honest man said to my brother,
'T guess I was
Roland, in later life.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
233
backslidden while in college." He had
done like any other honest man will
have to do to have power with God.
After he left college he had cnt loose
from such worldly conformity and had
been restored to the favor of God. Now
he has old-fashioned revivals of religion.
One evening I called on one of my
friends in a prominent fraternity. I was
shown into the parlor. There sat the
majority of the boys, smoking, playing
cards and telling jokes. When my friend
appeared, I said to him before them all :
*'M , is this the way you boys spend
your evenings?" He looked ashamed as
well as somewhat annoyed at my plain-
ness and replied: "Oh, the boys are just
having a social game." I would not in-
timate for a moment that my friend,
M , ever engaged in cards, but it
has always seemed to me that for a
Christian minister he was very ''unequal-
ly yoked together with unbelievers.'*
Political Power,
Another thing that I observed was the
political power of these fraternities. Once
when on a committee to help select offi-
cers for the Y. M. C. A. of our college,
I had occasion to observe the way secrecy
maniplates affairs. The Y. M. C. A. is
not as Christian as the church was be-
fore the Holy Ghost was given. The
apostles on choosing a sucessor of Judas
appointed two and prayed and said,
"Thou, Lord, which knoweth the hearts
of all men, show whether of these two
thou hast chosen," leaving the matter in
the hands of God to make choice by
guiding them in their voting. These fra-
ternity men decided on the basis of an
equal representation, one from each fra-
ternity and one from non-fraternity men.
At the international Y. M. C. A. gather-
ing at Lake Geneva, Wis., being a dele-
gate from my Alma Mater, I had occa-
sion to observe the same selfish wire-
pulling spirit. As this spirit obtains no-
where in so conspicuous a manner as in
fraternities, is not secrecy a dangerous
foe to the Church of Christ, if secrecy
were its only bad element ? I know where-
of I speak when I say that a great many
of our leaders in the Church are secret
order men. I think without exception
every district superintendent that I have
ever labored under has been a Mason —
by their own testimonv to me. How did
they get their high office? By pure merit?
Possibly !
If it be objected that college fraterni-
ties are very different from the older and
larger orders outside of colleges, I reply
that they are modeled after the g'reater
orders and that the same spirit dominates
both. They are a recruiting ground for
the greater foe of Christ — the lodges.
They both bear the mark of the beast
"in their right hand or in their fore-
heads."
I am convinced that all secret orders
are of the devil. This is not a rash or
hasty conclusion on my part. It is my
candid opinion, formed after years of
prayerful thought. Wendell Phillips, the
great orator, Christian philanthropist,
and reformer, said, ''Secret societies are
not needed for any good purpose, and
may be used for any had purpose what-
soever. In my opinion, such societies
should be prohibited by laiv."
In my pastorate of about ten years
God has given me many souls. Some of
these happy converts have cut loose from
the world and gone on to perfection —
even the fullness of Christ's love. Oth-
ers have failed fully to consecrate them-
selves to God and have gone back into
sin. In many cases. I have been able to
trace their failure directly to the baleful
effects of the lodge.
Strange Sights Are Seen.
Again. I have beheld a strange sight
under the sun. I have beheld men who
were so tired themselves, and their horses
likewise so tired, that they could not
drive a mile or two to a prayer-meeting.
But these same people could drive their
tired horses, one, three, five, yea. nine
miles to a lodge meeting! Dr. Dorner
of Berlin once said : "The Church in
America must stand as one man a2:ainst
Freemasonry or it will be destroyed."
Surely, this word is seeing its fulfillment
in this generation. Lodges flourish every-
where. The churches languish. The
prayer-meeting is dead in most places,
dying in others. Two or three men and
a half dozen women constitute the crowd.
The lodoe halls are full of men. Where
ithe lodge is entrenched a real, Holv
Ghost revival is almost impossible. When
will the Church awake to its peril ?
Again, another strange sight, I have
beheld under the sun. I have seen men
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December, 1911.
who solemnly vowed before God and
man that they would give themselves
wholly to the ministry of the word of
God, turn into abusers and revilers of
God's true children and become expon-
ents and champions of the lodge even in
the pulpit where they are supposed to
hold forth the word of life and to ex-
pose all manner of sin and worldly con-
formity. Let me quote on this point
President C. A. Blanchard of Wheaton
College: "Alost of all these revilings of
the Church in the interest of lodgism are
frequently in the mouths of professed
Christians. Men who are supported by
the Church often spend their time in
drumming for the lodg*es, which, so far
as they succeed destroy the very insti-
tutions which give these traitors bread.
It is not strange that the churches lan-
guish when such wolves in sheep's cloth-
ing tend the flock."
To My Ministerial Brethren.
]My brethren in the ministry, beware
lest you be among them of whom it is
written, "And the beast was taken, and
with him the false prophet that wrought
miracles before him, with which he de-
ceived them that had received the mark
of the beast, and them that worshipped
his image. These both were cast alive
into a lake of fire burning with brim-
stone."
You may be able to work miracles, cast
out devils, and do many wonderful
works, but that will not save you from
eternal burnings. Nothing but entire
consecration to God, separation from the
world, and the purification of the heart
by the blood of Jesus will render you ac-
ceptable to God.
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service. And be not
conformed to this world: but be ye trans-
formed by the renewing of your mind, that ye
mav prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect, will of God." Rom. 12:1, 2.
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with
unbelievers, for what fellowship hath right-
eousness with unrighteousness? And what
communion hath light with darkness? And
what concord hath Christ with Belial? or
what part hath he that believeth with an in-
fidel? and what agreement hath the temple of
God with idols? for ye are the temple of the
living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in
them, and walk in then ; and I will be their
God. and they shall be my people.
"Wherefore come out from among them,
and he \e set>arate, saith the Lord, and touch
not the unclean thing ; and I will receive you,
and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall
be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Al-
mighty." 2 Cor. 6:14-18.
''If we ivalk in the light j as He is in the
light, we have fellowship one with another,
and tJte blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleans-
eth us from all sin." 1 John 1 :7.
Consecration, separation, fellowship
with Christ, cleansing- from all sin ! This
is not the salvation taught by the Christ-
less lodges. Jesus Christ is purposely set
aside in most of the orders. If God may
be pleased to use these words from my
pen, which have sprung from an honest
heart, to bless and turn some of my old
colleg"e chums away from, this form of
modern idolatry, I shall be happy.
And if the Great Head of the Church
will smile upon this little effort and use
it to warn some of His children to avoid
the lodge and others to come out of it,
I shall be doubly repaid.
A BIBLE CONTRADICTION.
BY PRESIDENT C. A. BLANCHARD.
In Cjalatians, sixth chapter, second and
fifth verses, we have mention made of
burdens : "Bear ye one another's burdens
and so fulfill the law of Christ" * * ^-
"For every man must bear his own burd-
den." A careless reader going' through
with this chapter and finding these two
verses so near together would almost
certainly say to himself, "How can both
these verses be Divine? One says that
men should bear each other's burdens,
the other says that men should bear their
own burdens." Here is an evident con-
tradiction in teaching.
It is about four hundred years since
this translation was made. It is found in
what is called the version of King James.
This version is the most magnificent
monument of English literature. It made
the English language for the English
people. All other English books are
tested by it as to purity of diction and
rhetorical force and fire. I make this
remark because I am about to criticise
the translation above indicated.
The thoughtful reader of Galatians
Sixth will turn to his Greek testament,
if he reads Greek; if not, will turn to
some good concordance like Strong'^s or
Young's, to find out what the Greek
words, translated burdens in these two
verses, mean. As soon as he does this
he ^\''ii\ learn that the word in the sec-
ond verse is "Bara" and the word in the
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
235
fifth verse is "Portion." I cannot re-
produce the Greek letters here, so I give
the pronunciation in the Roman. 13 ut
a man does not have to be a Greek
scholar to see that the two words are
widely different. Bara means heavy,
tiresome. It indicates an infirmity or de-
fect, a trouble or pain. Fortion, on the
other hand, means a task, an assignment,
a duty. The moment one sees these two
words properly translated the whole
passage becomes luminous. "Bear ye one
another's infirmities," for every man
must do his own work. Sympathize with
one another's sorrows, griefs, for every
man has his own task to perform. I am
carrying a heavy load of work, but I
have neuritis in my right arm ; it has
troubled me for a month. Much of the
time I could not sleep. It is a "Bara."
Meanwhile, I am to teach, to preach, to
write letters. This is my "Fortion," my
assignment. My friends have fulfilled
this scripture. They have sympathized
with my pain and have done so the more
because I have tasks to perform. If I
had no duties I would not need so much
compassion for my sufTering. If I did
not have to bear my "Fortion" other peo-
ple would not need to bear my "Bara."
How^ beautiful and how true to life the
word of God is.
I stop a moment to remind you of an-
other beautiful fact connected with this
paragraph from Galatians sixth. Fortion
is a diminutive. Strictly translated it
means little task, small duty, light as-
signment. "Bear ye one another's bur-
dens, griefs, infirmities for every man has
his own little work to do. At first thought
many will say, "But my task is not light,
my task is large," yet when we think how
God considers our tasks and how we
ourselves consider them, when measured
against the great need of the world and
the great power of our Heavenly Father,
we can say that the diminutive is quite
right. Our tasks are small, though they
are large to us ; and they are made larger
because of our infirmities, our difficul-
ties, our griefs, our "Baras." When you
think of your task as a little one, the very
thought makes it lighter, for you thus
are led away to the thought of the larger
things, and especially to the thought of
the great strength which is at your com-
mand for the performance of your duty.
Let us from this brief lesson learn
two things, h'irst, tlm tlie Bible is the
Word of God, and that our difficulties
with it arise not from our learning, but
from our ignorance. And let us in the
second place try to do these things which
are mentioned. Let us seek faithfully to
perform our own tasks and at the same
time to help our brothers w^ith their in-
firmities. Thus we shall fulfill the law
of Christ.
tbitorial*
Those wishing to get a view of funda-
mental causes effecting character will
read the editorial "Group Morals."
The effect upon our national life is
abundantly illustrated in the Union labor
war upon free laborers.
Dr. James McCosh, one-time Presi-
dent of Princeton University, brings out
the same idea of the effect of group
morals in his book, "Psychology ; the
Motive Powers," page 214: "I have no-
ticed that those who have been trained
in secret societies * * * have their
sense of right and wrong so perverted
that in the interests of the body with
which they have identified themselves
they will commit the most atrocious
crimes, not only without compunction,
but with an approving heart and with
the plaudits of their associates."
A murder trial in Louisiana in October
created state wide interest. The prisoner
was a woman. The following, from the
press, is another evidence illustrating the
editorial in this number on the trial of
Dr. Cleminson in this city :
"That Masonry and politics will play
prominent parts in the trial was apparent
again when the prosecution, in a more
veiled manner than yesterday, referred
to Sheriff Swords's affiliation with the
Eastern Star, the secret order which is
aiding the accused woman in her fight
for life and freedom. Everv venireman
is questioned as to his views with regard
to the Masonic order, and it is patently
the object of the state to exclude, if pos-
sible, every man who belongs to or is in
sympathy with this order.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
December, 1911.
North Yakima, Wash., Nov. 2. —
^^'oodme^ of the World of this city have
pledged a fund for the payment of attor-
neys for the defense of Fred Eveland,
formerly of this city, and a member of
the lodge, who is charged with the kill-
ing of David Mannasau.
The associated press dispatches of No-
vember loth gave this item of interest in
connection with the second trial of Dr.
B. Clark Hyde for murder: one of the
jurymen chosen "is a member of the
same lodge as Dr. Hyde, the accused
man, and the state made a desperate fight
to disqualify him." The state did right.
It is folly to allow a man on the jury
who has sworn in the lodge to help the
prisoner and "extricate him from the"
difficulty "if in my power, whether he be
right or w^rong."
It was said at the time of the trial of
employes of the American Sugar Re-
fining Company in 1909, that the most
dramatic moment of the trial was when
Deputy Surveyor Richard Parr, the man
behind the original fraud exposures, was
asked to drop the matter because "we
are all Masons." He testified :
"A-fter I came out on the dock Spitzer
met me, took me by the arm and said:
This thing must be fixed up.' I said
there was no fixing up to be done. Spitz-
er said that we were all Masons and this
would make trouble for every one
around. I said that I could not help that ;
they had made the trouble themselves.
"He said I should report the scale out
of order and I could name my price. He
said he had already fixed others the same
way and would sooner cut his arm ofif
than give anyone away. I told him Ma-
sonry had nothing to do with this."
that the meeting will be held annually.
It would be interesting to know which
governed the selection of the "Book of
the Law," laid on the altar when the Chi-
nese Masons were sworn : the race of the
initiates, or the country in which the
lodge was found. By the former rule
the Books of Confucius w^ould seem en-
titled to the place ; by the latter, the Bi-
ble, as in other lodges located in Amer-
ica. These Chinese are in either case
regular Masons, entitled to the protec-
tion of secrets like any other Freema-
sons. Another interesting question
would be w^hether the immunity of Elsie
Sigel's murderer is promoting the influx
of Chinamen into the Blue Lodge.
After reading the editorial, "An As-
tounding Pronouncement," ask yourself
why men paid to be leaders of the Church
of Jesus Christ and who accept its money
will then betray it into the hands of the
enemy.
MONGOLIAN MASONS.
Several candidates are reported to have
received de.erees in a blue lodge meeting
in Springfield, Mass., where an important
United States Armory is located. A lo-
cal new^spaper says that "it is understood
Any of our friends west of the Rocky
Mountains wishing the services of an
evangelist for a longer or shorter time
during the winter and one who is in
hearty sympathy with the N. C. A. will
do well to address S. B. Shaw, Cheyenne
Wells, Colorado, where he is now hold-
ing meetings.
GROUP MORALS.
A railroad man who is also a promi-
nent editor, while delivering an address
before a men's club in an interior city,
called attention to the morality of men
considered collectively :
"The code of morals which governs men
when acting together in groups, or when
dealing with others associated in groups, dif-
fers widely from the code of morals by
which they are governed in dealing with in-
dividuals as individuals. The moral princi-
ples on which all act are apt to be, not those
of the most conscientious but of the least
scrupulous. When the group which we
know as a corporation and the group which
we know as the public deal with each other,
it is something extraordinary if either clear-
ly recognizes the fact that the other has
rights which it is under any moral obligation
to respect."
This principle of human nature, or the
tendency to follow the bell-wether and
the flock over a wall, cannot be forgot-
ten by one who watches the ways and
notions of joiners. The obligation to
keep and protect criminal secrets for
criminals who may not yet have arrived
as foreign immigrants fleeing from jus-
tice, would be refused by many among
those who take it "acting together in
groups." A school girl would not dis-
figure the face of a schoolmate with
lunar caustic, save as acting, after the
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
237
manner of girls, gregariously. College
fraternities commit outrages of which
the members could not be guilty save as
Frats, or as some sort of hazing group.
A man doing the same things alone would
be merely a miscreant. The men who
actually do them in groups would not
do such things alone. Referring to the
same extract from the business man's
adress to the men's club, the Homiletic
Review says in part :
"Accordingly we get a code of group mor-
als, operative under our modern competitive
system, which depresses the conscience of
even the best-intentioned man to the ethical
plane of the least scrupulous. The system
is deadly, once it has caught its victims. Any
one can observe the evil effects of this group
morality. Most people still proceed on the
principle that a corporation is soulless, hav-
ing, like cats and dogs, no moral and legal
standing, and can therefore be defrauded
with impunity and with a good conscience.
The average man will scorn to pick a pocket;
but when it is a question of paying taxes, or
buying a railroad ticket for a child of ques-
tionable age, or using a corporation's stamp
and stationery, the conscience abdicates and
a new code steps in."
In this phrase, Group Morality, we
probably have the key to a few things
locked up in mystery. Facts that cast
shadows on personality seem slightly less
personal. Personal morals retiring give
place to group morals. "Everybody" is
the name of an idol before which bow
many devotees. To keep step with the
throng is easy, and when plausible repre-
sentations are reinforced by gilded claims
is easier. Safety lies, however, in sail-
ing wide of worldly currents ; prudence
notes betimes the evil drift. The way to
insure not being swept along by the
group pressing into the broad road is to
seek the narrow one. Conventional
morality is often found to be immorality,
and group morals are sometimes not
moral.
MASONIC OFFICER IN MURDER
TRIAL.
Evidence that there is a foundation for
the charge, frequently made against the
Masonic lodge, and often denied by the
more respectable of its adherents, that
it is a policy of the order to shield crim-
inals who are its members, is furnished
by the decision of the Supreme Court of
Illinois in the notorious Cleminson case,
reported June, 191 1, in Volume 250 of
Illinois Supreme Court Reports, page
135. Dr. Cleminson is a Mason.
In reviewing the testim.ony of Police
Sergeant O'Brien, a witness, the court
says (page 143) : "Witness then asked
defendant if he felt like talking to him
about the matter. Defendant inquired if
the witness was a Mason, and on being
informed that he was not, said he was
sorry ; that if he were a Mason he might
confide in him." This conversation took
place on the morning following the mur-
der, and after Dr. Cleminson's story that
his wife had been chloroformed by bur-
glars had been proved false, and after
Dr. Cleminson had admitted to the wit-
ness that it was false.
A little later in the day another wit-
ness. Officer George McGowan, asked
Cleminson why he didn't tell Captain
Kane how the matter happened ; that it
would be better for him. Defendant re-
plied that he didn't know the Captain
well enough, but that if the witness
would get Clinton Woolridge (another
officer) he would talk to him. The de-
fendant belonged to the same Masonic
lodge to which Woolridge belonged
(page 145). On page 161 the Court says
that Woolridge's "testimony showed him
to be friendly to defendant and appar-
ently desirous of doing him as little harm
as possible, and he pretended to be un-
able to remember anything more than
the merest outlines of the conversation
he had with the defendant," and on page
162 the Court says, "If the prosecution
had put him (Woolridge) on the stand,
his apparent friendliness to defendant
and frequent lapses of memory were such
that the Court would have been justi-
fied in permitting, and undoubtedly
would have permitted, the prosecution to
ask him leading questions." The judg-
ment against Cleminson was affirmed by
the Supreme Court of Illinois.
Reading of the extracts from the de-
cision of the Supreme Court which we
have quoted, is convincing evidence that:
(i) Dr. Cleminson, now a convicted
wife murderer, believed that, as a IMa-
son, he could safely tell the truth about
his wife's death to a stranp'er, if he were
a brother Mason, but not otherwise. This
belief was certninly bnsed on wh^t Clem-
inson. as a Mason, knew about the ob-
ligations of his order.
(2) That a police officer who was
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Cleniinsoii's brother Alason was unwill-
ing' to. antl strove to avoid, telling the
whole truth on the witness stand, to the
detriment of his brother Mason, the nat-
ural inferences being first that this wit-
ness considered himself bound by his
]\Iasonic obligations to withold evidences
which the law required him to give, and
second that in a conflict betw^een his ob-
ligations as a jNIason on the one hand
and as a sworn witness and officer of the
law on the other hand, Woolridge pre-
ferred to perform his Masonic duty, and
violate his oath as a witness and his duty
as an officer of the law\
ASTOUNDING PRONOUNCEMENT.
An amazing statement was made by
ihe toastmaster in a banquet of a Ma-
sonic lodge located in a w^ell-known East-
ern city, and it w^as the more unaccount-
able as made by a minister, yet the less
surprising because he was a minister
who was insensible to the gross unfitness
of his position as a Masonic toastmaster.
Still less was it to be wondered at, after
all, under such circumstances, since in
responding to his introduction as toast-
master he has averred that "next to be-
ing a Minister he rejoiced in the fact that
he was a Mason."
In the course of his remarks he com-
pared Masonry and Christianity to the
disparagement of the latter and the lati-
dation of the former, declaring that
"Masonry, like the Christian church,
took as its primary principles the estab-
lishment of the Fatherhood of God and
the brotherhood of man. Freemasonry,"
he continued, "has preached this, doctrine
for the past i,ooo years; the Christian
church has awakened to its significance
only in the last half century." "There's
richness for you !" That's history as "she
is spoke."
If we have recovered our breath, let
us ponder a little on this surprising news
— fairly enough news as the assurance
handed out to a group of Freemasons by
a Doctor of Divinity, in flattery of their
unchristian organization. It is a double
statement, and both halves of it are fic-
tions. Everyone knows that speculative
Masonry is not a quarter of a thousand
years old. There is no proof that early
stone workers of any sort in England,
or out of it, gave themselves to teaching
morals and doctrine, unless, indeed, one
could find some previous wild and crazy
claim to pile this one upon. The thou-
sand-year size of this big dose over-
strains the swallowing capacity of the ut-
most crediflity.
Again, in what single year within a
thousand, or a hundred, or ten, has Ma-
sonry taught the brotherhood of initiated
Brothers and profane outside Cowans?
But this is not altogether serious ; one
might smile at such gufif if it were not
seriously offered as related by contrast-
ing shadow, or eclipse, to the work,
teaching and life of the Christian church,
and especially if the speaker were not
pastor of a church. However high the
relief into which he wished to throw
his flamboyant decoration of an order,
it ill became him to darken the back-
ground by careless aspersion cast on the
church he represented.
Having heard his general statement,
we are prepared to listen while he am-
plifies it into something more explicit
and definite in detail. In which year of
the last 50 did some church first take
notice of such an idea as the Fatherhood
of God? How far had we entered with-
in the half century period when some
venturesome preacher dared to elucidate
Paul's argumentum ad hominem drawn
from Greek poetry when he stood on
Mars Hill? What church was so fortu-
nate as to hear him, and so, though com-
posed of the unenlightened, to stand in
a kind of Cowan's court of the gentiles
fast by the oracle of Masonry? Or,
again, how long ago did Florence Night-
ingale carry with her to the Crimea the
sympathy of the churches of the world?
Did Wilberforce or Howard arise within
the last fifty years? And when did
chuiches begin to take frequent collec-
tions for the poor? Are all hospitals
and homes so new as to have had their
cornerstones laid since the Civil war?
When did Dr. Howe teach Laura Bridg-
man to see things unseen, or when did
Dr. Gallaudet first teach the deaf to
hear with their eyes, or the dumb to
speak with their hands. And when did
churches begin to co-operate with benev-
olent institutions, or have benevolent so-
cieties of their own.
This banquet was jubilant because its
"thousand-year-old teacher of universal
brotherhood" was about to open in one
place in its commonwealth, a Masonic
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home with doors closed against all who
had not been in its own lodge. Did the
toastmaster think that this was a greater
thing than to throw wide the portals
of hospitals, asylums and homes, asking
no questions, giving no clannish chal-
lenge, and testing by no words or signs ?
Yet this had already been done by Chris-
tian churches, and by Christian govern-
ment and Christian civilization.
The speaker is not a native of this
country and may be less to blame for
imagining that all things he finds are
new — except Masonry. We have reason
to think that he himself is also new, very
new, to Masonry. Sometime he may
know more about its real history, and
about the history and early practices of
churches this side the Canada line.
AN ITALIAN ORDER.
Early in September the Italians of an
American city formally organized a lo-
cal branch of the Italian Catholic order
of Our Lady Maria. The program
seemed to consist in good part of the
features of a festival held on a park. It
was proposed to make a demonstration
unequaled by anything previously exhib-
ited by Italians in that city. A regi-
mental band, with the band from a neigh-
boring city, was to furnish music, and
fireworks were to be exhibited each of
the two evenings of the festival. On the
first evening the regimental band would
give a concert on the principal public
square ; on the second there would be a
parade. The whole festival would con-
clude with fireworks.
the book which we have seen, Professor
Hart appears to concede to the lodge
usefulness ; yet it "has so many defects
that the best that careful observers can
say of it is that it is — on the whole — a
good thing." The qualifying clause, ''on
the whole," emphasizes the phrase,
"many defects." It leaves the lodge
"Damned with faint praise."
Some of their own race have watched
negro joiners longer. The results of
their study at first hand are not all un-
known to readers of the valuable south-
ern correspondence of this magazine.
North or south, white or black, lodge
guides are blind leaders of the blind.
Cardinal principles are themselves among
the "many defects" of a Vv^hite. black or
yellow lodge ; and "Who can bring a
clean thing out of an unclean?"
MANY DEFECTS.
A book published in 1910 by D. Apple-
ton & Co. and entitled "The Southern
South" treats with careful fullness con-
ditions which result from joint occu-
pancy by two races. The author of this
scholarly work is Professor Albert Bush-
nell Hart of Harvard University, who
traveled widely and studied carefully on
the ground where the negro is at home.
He measured the progress of the freed-
man, and estimated his prospects. With
similar care he noted the attitude and
ideas of the white man. He did not fail
to perceive difficulties.
The lodge is too active and prominent
an agent of good or evil for the negro
to escape attention. From the review of
HISTORY IN WORDS.
McCall's Magazine has published an
interesting article written by Professor
Oscar E. Olla, relating to "The history
that is in words," and showing how their
significance is drawn from the past.
"Some one has said/' remarks the pro-
fessor, "that words are like empty sacks,
and the experience of men fills them up.
... In one respect, hov/ever, the word
is unlike a sack ; you may empty a sack
and put in new material ; but the word,
either by form or derivation, suggests
its old meaning, however much its appli-
cation may be changed. You can never
quite empty it." Among many illustra-
tions cited are the days of the week, all
named for pagan divinities ; as Sunday —
Sun's day; Monday — Moon's day;
Wednesday — Woden's day ; Saturday —
Saturn's day. This recalls Constantine's
edict ordering the observance of "The
venerable day of the Sun." It also
brings to mind the ancient and modern
connection between Sun worship and the
secret cult.
" 'Digits,' used for figures in arithme-
tic, shows that the ancients counted on
their fingers. 'Calculate' tells us that the
Romans performed arithmetical oper-
ations by means of pebbles, calculi. And
now we apply the name to the most ab-
stract department of mathematics, 'cal-
culus.' " Omitting more extended as
well as exceedingly interesting illustra-
tions, we add to these only that which
treats the origin of the name of this
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magazine, or rather the last word in the
name.
"Vv'e often read in society reports how
a noted personage entered the room and
immediately became 'the cynosure of all
eyes.' A cynosure is for us what at-
tracts the attention of all, what every
one looks at. But cynosure is the Greek
name for the north star. It was so
named because it was the chief star
forming the tail in the constellation of
'the dog' — cynos in Greek. From earli-
est times, up to the discovery of the
magnetic needle, men traveling by night
on land or on sea took their directions
from the north star. Every one turned
his eyes toward the 'cynosure.' This his-
tory we have embodied in our present
use of the word."
MADAME BLAVATSKY A MASONIC
ORNAMENT.
'Tn Germany, in 1776, women were
admitted into the order called the Asso-
ciation of Mopses, which was simply
Freemasonry under another name with
slightly different regulations in order to
avoid the Pope's ban. About 1742 De
Chambonnet started an order (which
was partly Masonic in character) called
La Felicite, to which women were ad-
mitted. These were, however, different
from the Lodges of Adoption to which
women were "and are admitted and
which were started by the Grand Orient
of France. These were, and are, not
regular Masonic lodges, and are not rec-
ognized by any Masonic authority in the
w^orld. In 1877 the highest Masonic
distinction was conferred upon Mme.
H. P. Blavatsky, her diploma bearing
the signatures of John Yarker, 33d de-
gree, Sovereign Grand Master ; M. Cas-
par!, 33d degree. Grand Chancellor; and
A. D. Lowenstark, 3'3d degree. Grand
Secretary." — Theosophic Messenger,
June, I pop.
The initiation of a woman who had
already discovered Masonic secrets has
occurred, if we may believe evidence
that need not be doubted. Yet, as stated
in the foregoing extract, women are
only in lodges of so-called Adoptive
Masonry, which is not Masonry in the
true sense. Women belonging to such
lodges can no more visit Masonic lodges
than male cowans. Masons, on the oth-
er hand, can come into theirs. That
there is no avoiding this rule is obvious
because every Mason qualified to vote
on the admission of members is already
bound by the following sworn obliga-
tion, or at least one taken in equivalent
terms. In the Illinois Grand Lodge
jurisdiction it has been: "Furthermore,
that I will not assist in, or be present at,
the initiating, passing, or raising, of a
woman, an old man in dotage, a young
man under age, an atheist, a madman or
a fool, I knowing them to be such." We
have never seen any form that omitted
mentioning a woman.
IS IT A RISKY RELIANCE?
A circular issued by an association
having intimated that fraternal is safer
than old line insurance, the state in-
surance commissioner of Utah wrote
the president of the society advising
withdrawal of the misleading docu-
ment. Startling information is given
by this letter. It applies to the claim
of safety the test of legal standing. No
institution can be entrusted with mon-
ey or property which does not meet
that requirement of legal competency.
Real security finally lies in the pos-
sibility of appeal to the court. Every
reliable obligation can be legally en-
forced ; all genuine debts can be legally
collected ; every kind of business
shares this protection, and no contract
incapable of enforcement will be
signed.
Regular insurance is no exception to
the general rule; not one policy can
be written which could not be carried
into court. If this is not true of some
other kind, the same neglect should be
accorded to it as would be given to any
other business whatever. This lack
would seem to add another fallacious
feature to attempted or pretended
cheap insurance, the long record of
which is one of disappointment and
failure. Those who blindly trust such
supposed insurance, are authoritatively
shown to be imp,eriled rather than in-
sured, when the state commissioner
tells the president of that association
which puts forth the claim that frater-
nal is safer than old line insurance: 'T
have been aware all the time of the
nature of this association and have con-
sulted a number of times with the at-
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torney general of the state regardi/ng
such organizations. We have con-
cluded that they are not under our
law at all ; and that any citizen of
Utah who chooses such an association
to carry his insurance is entirely out-
side the law and not entitled to its
protection. In the event of loss he is
entirely at the mercy of the manager
and membicrs of the association and
may not secure any aasistance what-
ever from the courts of our state in
recovering indemnity. In short, he is
practically carrying his own insurance,
at thie same time that he is paying
money to the association in the
thought that they are insuring him.
■ "I do not say that these people
would refuse to pay in case of loss, but
I simply say that they could refuse if
they chose, and you would have ab-
solutely no recourse. It is a very un-
satisfactory form of protection, and its
weakness is so pronounced that the
small saving of money effected is Hot
compensated for. I am not giving this
simply as my personal opinion, but it
is the consensus of opinion of all the
insurance commissioners and all insur-
ance experts and officials in the United
States."
NOT IDEA BUT ISM.
Nearly a thousand persons composed
the mixed audience which listened to
Dr. Orrin P. Giflford when he delivered
the Ford Hall address in Boston, Sunday
evening, December 25. On this Christmas
evening Dr. Gifford spoke of the Social
Idea. 'From a printed abstract of the ad-
dress of this distinguished Baptist preach-
er, our readers are served with a portion.
We think they will find it "strong meat"
suited to those of full age.
"Definition is to a speaker, what di-
agnosis is to a doctor. What do you
mean by the 'Social Idea?' It is very
hard to define 'Idea.' The Comprehen-
sive Standard Dictionary says, 'Any
product of mental apprehension or ac-
tivitv, a conception, notion, a purpose
or plan, a mental image.' The word
'Social' is defined as 'pertaining to so-
ciety, disposed to hold friendly inter-
course, companionable, constituted to
live in* society.' It is very hard so to
join these two definitions as to define
the Social Idea. Let us say: Men liv-
ing as companions, quite aside from
differences of race, religion, education,
business, politics. The brotherhood of
man.
"It is much easier to define an Ism
than an Idea. An idea is the ocean,
an ism is a bay — a little of the idea
shored in, making safe anchorage for
thoughts. You can measure and sound
a bay, and feel quite safe and snug in
it; but a sea is so large, and the boat
is so small ! The Christian religion
is more than all the isms that hollow
like bays on the continent of humanity.
Socialism is a theory of civil polity
that aims at the public collective own-
ership of land and capital, and the
public collective management of all
industries. A socialist is one who ad-
vocates socialism. You see how easy
it is to define an ism, and an ist, but
how hard to define an idea. You can
define bits of earth, but not the wind ;
the sunshine, the perfume of flowers,
and ideas, are above, not below; — isms
are below.
"You cannot put God into a sacra-
ment, phrase, building; nor an idea in-
'.0 a sentence. Free Masonry is not an
idea, it is an ism; it shuts out more
men than it encloses. Trades union
is not an idea, but an ism; it excludes
more than it includes. A political
party i? an ism : a church is not an
idea, but an ism ; it excludes. The
social idea includes humanity. If you
had the American Republic organized
into a Socialistic form of government ;
public ownership and control of all
earth and machinery within the
bounds ; and had a tariff wall a foot
high ; and shut a man out because black,
or brown, or red, or yellow, you would
not have the social idea, but an ism.
Socialism is economic and political ;
the Social Idea is human and friendlv.
One is a method, the other a spirit.
* * * *More law without more love,
would do little good save to shift the
freight. AA^hat we need is not so much
more machinery, as more manhood.
Israel and Judah fouc>-ht each other
bitterly, even under the land laws of
Moses.
"Christ used the cross he found, to
offer himself for the world's redemp-
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tioii; and he sa3'S, 'II any man will
be my disciple let him deny himself,
take up his cross, and follow me.' 'The
times — it seems — are out of joint be-
yond question because we are busy
with isms, and are ists defending isms.
Oiice we get the horizon Christ had
on the cross-crowned Golgotha, giving
instead of seeking to get, the times will
be in joint again. Rub the quicksilver off
your mirrors, and make w^indows; seek
not self, but the other man."
Many foreigners wtve in the crowd-
ed hall when the address was deliv-
ered, and apparently there were many
in the audience who were strong-
ly inclined to socialism in some of its
extreme phases." It appears to have
been wdse and opportune to point the
Ford Hall audience, including these
foreigners, from the ism to the idea.
Back of an ism is liable to be discover-
able the idea by which it is produced
and impelled. Fronting the same ism
is liable to be another idea antagoniz-
ing it. If Freemasonry is an ism,
what is the idea that formed it? What
is the idea which perpetuates its ques-
tionable existence? If an ism is an
exponent of an idea, or is its product ;
if every ism is likely to be antagoniz-
ed by an idea, good or bad : betw^een
what' antithetic ideas is Freemasonry
to be found? Another question is,
whether its main or root idea is iden-
tical or harmonious with those of cer-
tain details of the ism. Or, finally,
has the lodge mirrors, hanging on in-
ward walls, or windows opening out-
wardly toward that world, beloved of
God but excluded by man, for which
lesus, fired with the social idea, could
not forbear to die?
ENGLISH RITUALISM AND
MASONRY,
"If the blind guide the blind both
shall fall into a pit," said the Master;
and His word comes to mind when we
see the Living Church, an organ of the
Church of England, trying to guide En-
glish Freemasons. We do not claim
the Teacher's wisdom to apply or re-
frain from applying His teaching to a
specific case like this, neither are we
sure that a reader who knows ritualism
only in its external aspect and formal
character, will be qualified to perceive
all that the article wdiich we copy vir-
tually contains. Ritualism is more than
formalism as a display or manifesta-
tion ; it reaches down to the foundations
of life by its roots of sacramental grace
and efficacy. It is linked with sacerdo-
talism, including power to grant abso-
lution, and to make Christian by means
of ceremony. The ritual is not, there-
fore, a mere vehicle framed to give
freedom to the expression of faith and
love, rendering to a devout soul the same
aid, for instance, as a hymn. While it
is partly this it is in part more.
"As the Church of England was his-
torically the 'Ritualistic' church of
Christendom," says the Living Church,
"so the curbing of its ritualism, first
by popes and then by Puritans, was al-
ways due to foreign influence. It only
became finally triumphant and ingrained
into the English system when English-
men acquiesced in a government of for-
eigners, for foreigners and by foreign-
ers. And then arose Freemasonry, with
all its wealth of ritualism and its warmth
of brotherhood. Is it not clear that it
was because men yearned for that which
had been effectually stamped out of their
religion, that the Masonic orders spread
so rapidly among them? In theory the
Masonic ritual embraces bodily worship
of the Incarnate Son of God, as did the
worship of the earlier church." (We
pause in quoting here to remark that this
amazing assertion sharply contradicts
authoritative Masonic statement, as well
as the regular practice of the Blue Lodge
which is the essential foundation of all
Masonic degrees, and includes every
member of any degree). "Its symbols
have the same foundation as the symbols
of Catholic ceremonial, and Freemason-
ry is the standing disproof of the com-
mon contention that Anglo-Saxons are
not a ritualistic race.
"So inbred is the love of dignified cere-
monial in our racial characteristics, that
when ritualism was driven out of the
church, Englishmen allowed themselves
to be driven out with it, and Englishmen
and ritualism were together established
in the Mrsoriic orders. How can it be
po-Fi'^le for Fnglish or American
churchmen. A^ewing the history of the
evolution of their own race, to acquiesce
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
243
to-day, when both of them are free from
the rule of foreigners, in manner of wor-
ship that is foreign to all their racial
traits? To-day the Masons have the rit-
ual— and the men. And the church has
the reality for which the ritual stands —
and in the great majority of our churches
the Eucharist is celebrated before empty
pews. Does it not seem incredible that
educated churchmen not only acquiesce
in the condition, but glory in it? And
is it not the height of absurd inconsis-
tence that Masons themselves are often
among the most intolerant anti-ritualists
in a parish? The lodge reverences the
Bible ; but the church is the author and
interpreter of the Bible.
"And herein is the distinction between
a life of morality based only on teaching,
and a life of spirituality based on the
sacrafnents, clearly shown." (Italics
ours. Note the connection of this with
our own introductory paragraph.)
"Freemasonry has produced good men,
but no saints. Among those w^ho are Ma-
sons, but not churchmen, we shall find
no Sir Galahad, no Sir Perceval, no
Launcelot Andrewes, no Thomas Kent,
no John Keble, no Pusey, no Gladstone,
no Wilberforce, no Edward King. Un-
til Knights Templar can obtain for their
order the Holy Grail, they cannot fulfil
their own ambitions and ideals ; and that
they can only have when their conclaves
center abo^ut a corporate communion,
when they restore to the church the rit-
ual which they took from it, and when
they place the reality of the body and
blood of Christ upon the altar before
which they bend the knee. We call
upon churchmen who are also Masons,
to demand that all the wealth of ceremo-
nial which they find dignified and help-
ful in the lodge, be restored also to their
churches. We would have them be not
worse Masons, but better churchmen.
We would have them, as Knights, find
the Holy Grail."
GOOD ENOUGH TO BAD MEN.
If we ask to what class of Masons the
lodge oflFers what they approve as a
''good enough religion." a former de-
fender of the order, who is now pastor
of a church in one of our largest cities,
gives a plain answer to the question.
Masonry seems good enough to a bad
man ; it may sometimes appear so to a
thoughtless or ill instructed one. It sure-
ly favors the apathy and conceit of men
who would escape the lash of conscience
or evade the burden of duty. Hence this
former knight can ask: "Is it strange
that worldly — yes, sinful — men say, 'Ma-
sonry is a good enough religion for me'
— as the mayor of the city once said to
me? Later, his life of gross sin and im-
morality had forfeited the respect of his
fellow citizens, lost him his office, em-
bittered his home ; and I realized why
he said it. Yes, it is a good enough re-
ligion for a man who wants to continue
in sin : a religion without repentance ;
without faith ; without a Saviour ; with-
out hope, and without heaven."
Here is a true test. Some things are
good enough for some men. For what
kind of men is Masonry a good enough
kind of religion? Their approval must
be tried by their ability to judge, and by
the standards to be attained. Some
tribes think a hovel a good enough home.
An ultimate test of anything lies in
its purpose or use. A rowboat is good
enough for crossing a river ; the best
steamer is none too good for crossing
the ocean. A knife good enough to prune
a tree is not good enough for a surgical
operation. What is the purpose of re-
ligion? What use or end does godliness
serve? These are test questions.
Masonry seems to bear neither kind
of test: the test of person, or that of
purpose. The best men have better
standards ; the better class of its adher-
ents find some better standard outside.
They are not confined wnthin its narrow-
ness. They do not bend willingly to its
moral distortions. They do not respond
with hearty amen to its spiritual perver-
sions. It is not good enough for its ow^n
best men.
Neither does it prove good enough to
carry out best purposes or serve best
uses. What soul could it save? Is not
its failure fatal at the vital point of life
eternal? Ethically deficient, also, it
stammers over an incomplete morality;
worse than deficient, it binds its adher-
ents to things that are immoral. Defi-
ciency is not the only fault unfitting it to
serve the ends of morality and religion.
An amplified claim would therefore read :
"Masonry is a good enough religion for
me, because I am content with what is in-
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December, 1911.
ferior and satisfied with what is incom-
plete and perverted. Since I do not seek
what is true, nor care for what is morally
perfect, nor aspire to assured promise
and confident hope, Masonry is a good
1 i • • ,- » »
enough religion for me."
MOMENTOUSNESS OF ARBITRA-
TION TREATIES.
Perhaps the movement toward Inter-
national Peace and World Unity has
never reached a more critical moment in
its history. One might even say that
Christianity itself faces a strategic mo-
ment, for the failure to pass these treat-
ies, which have been offered by the
United States to Great Britain and
France, means setback of years to the
movement which, through the leader-
ship of all good men, has reached such
encouraging proportions. On the other
hand, their final adoption marks the be-
ginning of the end.
We do not mean that they will at once
make wars to cease, but we do mean
that they mark one of the first great
steps toward that happy consummation.
In the first place, if these treaties are
signed, it puts the United States and
Great Britain and the United States and
France out of the war zone forever, for
these treaties are so framed as to cover
practically all disputes that might ever
arise between the two nations. Indeed,
they are the first arbitration treaties ab-
solutely unlimited to be negotiated be-
tween two of the great nations of the
world.
In the second place, these treaties are
momentous because other nations will
immediately follow after these three ;
that is, vv^hen the United States has
signed these treaties with the two na-
tions above named, some great nation of
Europe or Asia will immediately offer to
become signatory to the same treaties.
Indeed, there are already rumors that
Japan and Sweden are ready to immedi-
ately sign similar treaties with our na-
tion if these two are signed. Others will
follow and thus the great and good work
will go on, and it is highly prboable that
before the end of a decade the United
States will have signed a dozen of these
treaties with the leading nations of the
world, so that our country itself will
stand practically on a peace footing with
all the nations with whom there is any
danger or possibility of war.
But better still, these treaties mean the
beginning of the end, because these other
nations which will sign treaties with the
United States will begin to consider the
signing of similar treaties between each
other. Thus if the United States and
Great Britain sign this treaty and the
United States and France sign it, im-.
mediately Great Britain and France will
begin to consider the drawing of the
third line of the triangle, so that we shall
thus have a compact of nations into
which others will seek admittance in due
time. Think what it means for the peace
of the world if Great Britain and France
should sign a treaty agreeing to abolish
war between themselves forever ! Read
the historical plays of Shakespeare and
see how they deal with hardly anything
else than continual warfare between
England and France; the two nations
spent practically all their time and re-
source preparing to fall upon each other.
The favorite past-time of England was
the devastation of France, and France
cast equally covetous eyes upon Great
Britain even though she did not invade
her shores so often. But now we should
have two of the leading nations of the
Western Continent bound together in an
eternal pledge of friendship, and not
only would it be a great blessing to these
two nations themselves, but it would
bring benefit to the whole continent of
Europe and would set an example that
others would follow. And so, as this
might happen between Great Britain and
France, so it would happen with those
other nations who would become signa-
tory to the treaties with the United
States.
Arain, it marks the besrinnin^ of the
end because it would be the first real
practical step toward disarmament. The
nations of the world are groaning under
a burden of armament that is not only
embarrassing them financially, but is
draining their very life blood. Any na-
tion w^hich desires with all her heart to
come out from under this great load
cannot at present see the way. It is use-
less to talk of one nation disarming while
the other nations go on piling up ships
and ammunition of war with increasing
pace. Nations can never disarm ; nations
can never cease war and preparations for
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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war until something in which they have
confidence has been offered in the place
of these things. But now the moment
the United States signs this treaty with
Great Britain she need not consider
Great Britain in her naval appropria-
tions, neither need Great Britain consider
the United States in making up her bud-
get. The same applies to the United
States and France. With each new na-
tion added — as other nations are sure
to be — ^to this compact of good will with
the United States, the problem of dis-
armament grows smaller and smaller, be-
cause the consideration of each one may
be left out of the budget and so disarm-
ament will proceed in the natural way
until the United States shall have no
need of a navy except one large enough
to act as a police force and perhaps be
a part of that international police which
would be required after the gradual dis-
armament of the world.
These treaties are momentous also in
this regard : They become the biggest
act of Peace Propaganda that has been
seen since the first Hague Conference.
Yes, perhaps they will attract more at-
tention than even the Hague Conferences
themselves. Already in the preliminary
discussions of these treaties, the papers
of the United States and Great Britain,
and even of Germany and France, have
been full of the discussion of peace. If
the treaties are passed then they will
stand before all the world as an object
lesson of the possibility of taking this
great step up out of the old order of
strife and war into the new order of
peace and law. All nations in all the
world will be writing and speaking of
these treaties. All men will have before
them daily the talk of arbitration instead
of the talk of war, and our thought hab-
its are largely determined by universal-
ity of a principle. People are accus-
tomed to think in the language of that
which is continually before them in the
press and literature of the world. So
these treaties become the most mo-
mentous step in the beginning of the
twentieth century toward that federation
of the world of which the poets have so
long sung and that unity of mankind
which all good people seek, and that
reign of brotherhood and good will which
is the end and aim of Christianity itself.
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Mtm of ®ur iUori
WISCONSIN STATE CONVENTION.
In three weeks of* effort, Secretary
Stoddard has delivered some dozen ad-
dresses in Wisconsin, visited many indi-
viduals, taken forty subscriptions for the
Cynosure, and carried through a con-
ference of four sessions, held in the
Christian Refomed church, Kenosha,
that promises to be the begining of a for-
ward movement in Wisconsin that will
have far reaching results for good. Dur-
ing these three weeks programs and let-
ters have been sent quite generally to
the ministers throughout the state as
well as to Cynosure subscribers. Many
neglected the opportunity of sending a
word of encouragement, but there were
others unable to attend who did write
and in so doing added strength to the
Convention. Extracts from some of
these letters will appear in this number.
The state organization was revived and
the following officers elected : President,
Rev. E. J. Tanis, Kenosha ; Vice-Presi-
dent, Rev. J. W. Kendall, Milwaukee;
Secretary-Treasurer, Rev. D. Zwier,
Oostburg. There was a good audience
the first night, which listened with close
attention to Rev. G. J. Haan of Chicago,
one of the members of the Board of Di-
rectors of the National Christian Associ-
ation. A crowded house greeted the
speakers on the second evening — Rev.
Wm. Dallman of Milwaukee, and Rev.
M. Doermann of Blue Island, Illinois.
These speakers have had a rich experi-
ence in their pastorates in connection
with secret society problems.
The day sessions were not largely at-
tended, but were important meetings
from the fact that there were from twen-
ty to thirty ministers present deeply in-
terested in the questions before the con-
ference. Among those taking part were
Rev. Buenger who stated the position of
the Lutheran Church in regard to unit-
ing in prayer with the members of other
churches. The Cause has no more earn-
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December. IDll.
est friends and workers than the Luth-
eran pastors. Their strong words of
commendation of the National Christian
Association and the Cynosure were
good to hear. The writer regrets that
he cannot recall the names of the vari-
ous pastors who took part.
Rev. J. G. Brooks of the Congrega-
tional Cliurch, AMieaton, Illinois, gave a
helpful and interesting- address on
"Christian IMinisters and Secret Soci-
eties." He laid special stress on the duty
of publicly testifying against the lodge
and by his illustrations showed that the
influence of faithful testimony canot be
over-estimated.
]\Iuch interest was shown in the dis-
cussion of the resolutions which are
printed herewith.
Resolutions.
Whereas, God in infinite wisdom has
provided for man certain institutions to
aid in his proper development, and
Whereas, The destroyer has inaugur-
ated certain other institutions through
Avhich he leads to himself multitudes in
luirighteousness, therefore be it
Resolved, First : It is the belief of our
association that the whole Secret Lodge
Svstem is the expression of an effort on
the part of Satan to dethrone Christ to-
gether wnth the institutions of divine
origin, and enthrone himself in the hearts
of men.
Resolved, Second : In view of the fact
that many millions of the people of our
beloved land have been enslaved by this
iniquitous system, every lover of right-
eousness should not only be awakened to
a knowledge of the situation, but aroused
to an active opposition.
Resolved, Third : As Christians "over-
coming evil with good," we can over-
come the Lodge folly and sin by leading
those ensnared to Christ, and by a proper
giving of light, keeping the uninitiated
from being deceived.
Resolved, Fourth : We discover the
cunning of the Arch Deceiver in the in-
stitution and formation of the various
lodge organizations, appealing to the self-
ishness, the love of display, the appetite,
the passion, etc., of those being led
astray.
Resolved, Fifth: We believe the sad
lack of piety seen in many of the church-
es is largely to Jbe attributed to the con-
nection of their members with soul de-
stroying lodges. Nor can we hope for a
better condition until there be a separa-
tion from such allegiances.
Resolved, Sixth : No family can exist
as God intended, while either party is
sworn to conceal from the other ; and we
believe that the lod^e is one of the causes
for the alarming number of divorces and
for the improper religious training many
children are receiving.
Resolved, Seventh : The secret and
unjust requirements of lodges make them
especially dangerous in a government
like ours.
Resolved, Eighth : In the more recent-
ly organized lodges taking the names of
birds and animals, do we especially see
great and growing evil, as they are built
up at the expense of the character and
lives of their members.
Resolved, Ninth : In the National
Christian Association we have an able
and efficient working force that should
have the co-operation and support of all
Christians.
Resolved, Tenth : A vote of thanks is
due and is hereby given to the pastor
and people who have entertained us, and
to the papers who have given notices of
the Convention.
LETTERS TO THE CONVENTION.
Beaver Dam, W^is., Nov. 19, '11.
The Free Methodist Church of Beaver
Dam, Wisconsin, to the Christian Con-
vention at Kenosha, sends greeting.
Dear Brethren and Sisters :
We rejoice in your zeal and labor of
love for righteousness, which prompts
you to engage in striving to stay the tide
of false worship that is sweeping over
our land. May God bless your "labors
and add to your numbers, is our sincere
desire and prayer.
By Pastor E. N. Hawley.
Three dollars for the expense of the
Convention accompanied the above letter.
New Lisbon, Wis., Nov. 10, 191 1.
_ I wish that I could attend the Conven-
tion, but I cannot at this time as I am
not earning any money now. I am eighty-
two years old. I am praying for all the
lecturers of the Association. All the
members of the Association should re-
member its work in oraver at least once
ci'cry day. Elder Wm. Plant.
December, 1911.
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Bancroft, Wis., Nov. i8, 191 1.
I cannot see my way clear to make
any statement apart from this that I am
not connected in any way with any of the
orders and never expect to be, knowing
what I do about them. Mr. Torrey and
others have put into expression just what
I think and beheve on this subject. You
have my prayers and if I can help in any
way I will l3e glad to do so. Trusting
that you may be very successful in ex-
posing the whole thing- and in putting it
down, I remain, Yours in Him,
Rev. Jas. W. Gillespie.
Baldwin, Wis., Nov. 17, 191 1.
I am thankful for the invitation, but
seeing I am over three hundred miles
from Kenosha, I cannot attend. I cer-
tainly am in sympathy with the object of
the Conference. I have no special prob-
lems or specific cases just now to refer
to or any particular questions to ask. I
enclose one dollar to help the good work
along.
Wishing you and all your co-laborers
Godspeed, I remain.
Respectfully yours.
Elder Van Vorloor.
Berlin, Wis., Nov. 18, 191 1.
The Association asks me what they
may expect of me in their fight against
the lodges. I shall be with them body
and soul fighting the ungodly principles
of the secret societies.
Wishing you God's blessing, I am,
Yours very truly, J. W. Krueger,
Pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church.
A Congregational pastor writes :
"I have your letter of the 14th and
note what you say about a convention in
your city next week. I think it is too
bad that yon have not had this advertised
long ago. I am much interested in the
undertaking and would like to know
where I may be able to secure some read-
ing matter on the subject. I am after
information.
"I wish I could be at the convention
but that is impossible at this late hour,
besides being expensive from this part
of the state."
Kennen, Wis., Nov. 17, 191 1.
I am glad to hear of the conference
your association is going to hold. May
it accomplish gratifying results in the
work it has so fearlessly undertaken !
Personally 1 think it high time to voice
against the lodges and their anti-biblical
system. I am convinced by the Word
of God (2 Cor. 6: 14-18; Isaiah 48: 16;
St. John 18, 20, etc.) that no Christian,
be he a minister or a layman, or who-
soever he may be, can belong to any
secret society. The Word of God is
against them and, therefore, our church
(Synodical-Conference) does not tolerate
them among our midst. We do not ac-
cept any lodge members into our congre-
gations, nor do we let them partake of
the Lord's Supper. We fight against
them with the only sword, the Word of
God, and our work has been crowned
with an abundance of success from above.
God has stood by our side, and by His
future aid, we will be able to fight vic-
toriously the Lodge, the enemy of God
and the church of our dear Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ.
If your association will continue to
carry on the fight against the Lodges
with God's Word, it will surely not be
without great success.
Respectfully yours, •
O. L. Messerschmidt.
One pastor writes : "I regret to say
that in my opinion the insurance lodges
have gained such a foothold in many of
our churches that very little can be done
to oppose them. Personally I should en-
joy very much meeting Mr. Stoddard,
but local conditions here are such that a
meeting would cause much antagonism,
I fear, which I do not feel able to face
now. The question of the lodge and the
church has not been debated here, and
therefore we have some members in our
church, but not manv, as far as I know.
Appleton, Wis., Nov. 16. 191 1.
I regret that I can not be present at
the Convention the 20th and 21st inst.
While T am never rabid in mv opposition
to secret orders, I do believe that they
tend strongly to wean people from the
religious life and that the trend is al-
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December, 1911.
ways toward a worldly life. This is
especially true of the social life of the
secret orders.
I pray God to bless you in all your de-
liberations and decisions. You do, I be-
lieve, have the secret sympathy of many
people who hesitate to declare themselves
as opposed to the lodge. As I view the
many movements that have some good
attached, and see how church members
are so prone to put their religious duties
in a minor place, I am led to cry out
■'How long. O Lord, how long?" It
seems to me that the one hope for the
many ills of society is fJic return of our
Lord. I am not speaking, rather writing
because of failure in my work, nor
because people do not attend upon my
preaching, for I have a successful and
growing work. I fail, however, to see
that our churches are in any large way
exhibitino- to the world the mien of a
conquering force. There seems to be a
decided scattering of our forces and a
hesitation in the face of difficult prob-
lems, and a decided decline in evange-
listic zeal. Now the cause is not entirely
chargeable to secretism, but I do think
that ihat is one of the main sources of
the prevailing worldliness that is so
crippling the church. May zvisdom and
knozvledge and ::eal be granted us to deal
with this problem as we ought. And
may you be greatly blessed in your con-
ferences on this important topic.
Very sincerely yours,
Everson R. McKinney.
' THE EASTERN SECRETARY IN
WISCONSIN.
Parsonage. Christian Reformed Church,
Kenosha, Wis., Nov. 17, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure :
This finds me at work in the Badger
state up where the gentle (?) breezes
blow off Lake Michigan. In many re-
spects this is a delightful country where
have lived many of the good old reform-
ers of other years. Once Wisconsin
stood in the front of the reform states
but alas of late the reform fires have
burned low. The fathers have gone and
the children have not all been faithful.
As had been the hope, God has blessed
the effort we are now putting forth.
Doors are wide open and there is oppor-
tunity everywhere. Since coming to this
state I have spoken to twelve audiences,
rano:ing in attendance from ten to three
hundred. I judge the Cynosure sub-
scription list for this section has been
doubled, for nearly every day I find
those glad to join in the N. C. A. ef-
fort. Offerings amounting to $31.97 have
been received in connection with our,
meetings. Many have spoken of help re-
ceived and not a few expressed their in-
tention of attending our State Conven-
tion in which m}'- efforts have been cen-
tering. My addresses have been given in
the two Free Methodist churches of Mil-
waukee, in the Christian Reformed
church of Oostburg, the Mt. Olive Luth-
eran church of Milwaukee, the Pente-
costal Mission, the Schools of the St.
John's and First German Lutheran
churches, Racine. The St. John's is of
the Missouri Synod. The First is of the
Wisconsin Synod.
There has been nothing unusual at my
lectures. Good attention has been given.
Some liked what w^as said, a few did not.
A man in Racine who said he w^as a dea-
con in the Baptist church, declared he
was a Mason and proud of it. He
claimed also to belong to a half dozen
or more other lodges which he named.
When I asked if he thought it the proper
thing for a Christian to swear that he
would have his throat cut, and his tongue
torn out if he told the truth about the
initiation, when he took the first degree
in Masonry he gave an evasive answer
asking if I ever knew of such a penalty
being enforced. I tried to impress on
his mind that whether the penaltv was
enforced or not, it was both a sillv and
wicked thing.
Pastor Tollefsen told of his initiation
into a lodge calling itself the Royal some-
thing. He has not been to the lodge
since his initiation. He found that they
did not do as they promised ; thev had
cheated members out of money — and in
short were not so royal as was claimed.
He hopes to be at the convention and I
trust will have opportunity to give his
experience with the so-called Royal or-
der.
During part of my stay in Racine I
was the guest of my former schoolmate
at Wheaton College, Mr. L. E. Park.
Brother Park is an Elder in the Presbv-
December, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
249
terian church, Superintendent of their
Sunday school and a citizen highly re-
spected. While my expenses of travel
have been considerable, my hotel bills
have been unusually light, as I found
everywhere earnest Christian friends
who have ministered to my needs. It
would be pleasant to mention all, but
space will not permit. May the Lord
bless each.
After my last report I visited Alenno-
nite friends in Altoona, Martinsburg,
Roaring Springs and Belleville, Pennsyl-
vania. I spoke in the Mennonite Mis-
sion, Altoona, at a Bible meeting in the
Pleasant Grove church, and three times in
the Mennonite church near Belleville. I
was unusually successful in securing
Cynosure subscriptions at Belleville.
These people know a good thing when
they see it, and are generously disposed
toward the N. C. A. department of the
Lord's work.
There was a fine crop of apples
through central Pennsylvania. Farmers
were picking and selling their winter ap-
ples as low as 30 cents a bushel or 90
cents per barrel. In Washington, D. C.,
the grocers and marketmen were asking
15 cents per quarter peck for the same
kind of apples, at the same time. Evi-
dently there is something wrong with
the commercial, as well as religious mat-
ters in this country.
My meetings are arranged ahead into
next week ; tonight in the German Luth-
eran hall here in Kenosha. Next
\^'ednesday evening, Elder Daniel Bry-
ant invites me to address a Mass ]\Ieet-
ing in Zion City, Illinois. Since Dr.
Dowie's death the people there have been
much divided, but are generally opposed
to the lodge.
The first man I met on my arrival at
Zion City gave me a paper with his pic-
ture on the front page and above the
picture was the statement in large let-
ters that he was the only loyal elder left
of the Dowie kind. I was told there were
others making similar claims. Voliva has
a majority at present.
The outlook for our State Convention
meeting here in Kenosha Monday and
Tuesday, November 20 and 21, is very
encouraging. If half the ministers at-
tend who have announced their intention
to be present, the numerical success is
assured.
We are happy in having on our pro-
gram along with other able men Rev.
William Dallman of Milwaukee, Rev. G.
H. Haan of Chicago, and Rev. M. Doer-
man of Blue Island, 111. It goes without
saying that these men will bring im-
portant facts that will be presented in.
the fear of God with lasting results.
Friends, let us work while it is day
''and so much the more as we see the day
approaching." May God save our nation
and honor his cause.
W. B. Stoddard.
AGENT DAVIDSON'S REPORT.
3^Iinden, La., November 11, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure:
Since my last letter, I have visited,
preached, lectured and distributed tracts
at the following places, viz. : Lena,
Zimmerman, Boyce, Quadrate, McNutt,
Lamott and Weils, all in the state of
Louisiana. I am here attending the
Louisiana Baptist State Convention. I
was royally received by the brethren, and
accorded ^very privilege. I preached
one of the annual sermons. I find that
the seed sown there last June has brought
forth fruit to the glory and honor of
God. This is a stronghold of secretism,
but God has a faithful few here who
have not worshipped at the shrine of
secrecy.
There is a very large delegation of
prominent ministers and laymen from all
over the state. Several great sermons
have been preached. I find a great many
here who are willing to acknowledge
privately that the lodge is an evil and
heathen institution, but they have not
moral courage and faith enough to open-
ly denounce the secret lodge system.
Others are defiant and ever ready to
praise the lodge and attempt to quote
Scriptures to prove their allegations in
defense of their order. It is very unfor-
tunate that the poor deluded negroes in
their ignorant superstitious state should
be so deceived and wrapped up head and
ears in these Christless and heartless in-
stitutions of secrecy. Already there are
agents of the devil (the secret lodges)
at work in Alexandria to stir up strife
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December, 1911.
against nie in Sliiloh Church, but I shall
cry out and spare not.
Yours for a pure church,
(Rev.) F. J. Davidson.
MRS. LIZZIE WOODS' LETTER.
Brownsville, Tenn., Oct. 23, 191 1
^.Ir. Wm. I. Phillips,
Chicago, Illinois.
Dear Brother in Christ :
All last week I taught Bible lessons in
Jackson, Tenn., and on Sunday night
lectured to a crowded house. The Spirit
of God came upon me mightily and I was
able to speak strongly against the Secret
Empire. We told the secret sins of sev-
eral societies and especially the secrets
of the IMasonic lodge. I told them of the
awful sins of the Masonic Order until
they were utterly dumbfounded. I said,
''Brother and sister in the Lord, I knew
the time when the old Baptist and
Methodist Church had power with the
living God, when men in their meetings
would cry out, 'What must I do to be
saved?' but since the Church has become
mixed up with this heathen worship it is
weak." The poor preachers do not know
w^hy their churches are dead. The ad-
versaries of Judah and Benjamin (Ezra
4:1-5) were mixed up with idolatry, yet
they wanted to help build the Lord's
house, but Israel refused to let them. I
said, "See how the poor preacher of to-
day mixes up with the lodges. The devil
helps the lodge to lay the cornerstones
for our churches and then walks in and
takes the members, after binding the
preacher with his cable tow."
The people took their medicine so nice-
ly that I hardly knew what to make of
it. At the close a Baptist minister
walked up to me and said, "You are
right. I joined the lodge and stayed in
it one year, and found that it had killed
me spiritually. That is why I quit." I
said, "Thank God for your decided stand
against the devil."
The next day I learned that ten years
ago the Masons met a man who knew so
much about their secrets that they grew
suspicious, and upon questioning him
closely they found that a brother-in-law,
a Mason, had given him his information.
A few weeks later the Masons gave a
big dinner at their hall, and the next
morning the poor brother-in-law was
found dead at the foot of the stairs.
Some of the people said that the Masons
killed him for telling their secrets, but
the Masonic doctor said that he had a
spell. They carried his body tip into the
hall, and would not let his own wife
see him until he was ready for burial. A
number of women in Jackson told me
about the affair, and I w^ondered down
deep in my soul if it were true. I said,
'Tf that is the truth, how can the poor ■
preachers of today, who are Masons,
preach a saving Gospel and remain in
the lodges?" May the Lord help these
ministers to see this great sin.
Yesterday a man came to me and said,
"Was Solomon a Mason?" I said, "How
readest the Scripture?" He said, "Well,
I don't know, I never read the Scripture. '
I told him that Solomon was the king of
Israel and if he was a free and accepted
Mason I never heard of it or found it in
the Bible. He said, "That is the part of
the Bible that we are based on." I said,
"Yes, Solomon had a thousand wives.
Maybe that is the part that you are based
on." He said, "No, we are sworn to take
care of the women. We treat our broth-
er's wives and daughters right and take
care of the widows. Don't you think that
is religion?" I said, "God's standard of
religion is pure and undefiled (James
1 :27), and we are to keep ourselves un-
spotted from the world. When he said
that he was trying to do what was right
in the sight of God, I asked him if he
thought it was right to swear to have
your throat cut from ear to ear. He
wanted to know how I learned their
secrets, and I showed him a copy of the
Cynosure and asked him if he ever saw
Jubela, Jubelo and Jubelum. He laughed
and said that the man that told oug-ht to
be killed. I said, "Now, you are a Bap-
tist preacher and still you say that these
men ought to die." "Well," he said,
there is something wrong and I want to
do what is right." "Well," I said, "in
order to do that, you will have to leave
the lodge." He said, "You know more
about Masonry than I do myself, and
just to help you out I am going to take
that magazine." So he handed me fifty
cents, and a lady who was sitting near
said that she, too, wanted to know some-
thing about Masonry, so she gave me
twenty-five cents for the Cynosure.
God bless you. Yours for Christ,
Lizzie Woods.
December, 1911.
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251
WORK IN WEST VIRGINIA.
Viola, Marshall Co., W. Va.,
October 30, 191 [.
Dear Brother Phillips :
Thinking* that you and the friends
would like to hear what I have been do-
ing in this great cause, I will say that
I have been steadily at work lifting up
my voice in testimony and distributing
tracts in the endeavor to give the facts
which are so greatly needed in this state.
And as long as my dear Heavenly Father
gives me health and strength, I will con-
tinue the fight with tongue and pen
against the hidden powers of darkness.
I have been mobbed twice recently. Right
in the middle of my lecture in Tuttle
schoolhouse in Calhoun County they
threw stones and eggs through the win-
dows. They scared the women and the
children worse than they did me. I will
give them credit for this, that every Qgg
thrown through the windows was sound.
There was not a rotten egg in all that
they pelted me with.
I secured a hall in Green County,
Pennsylvania, and distributed about one
hundred handbills, advertising my lec-
ture. About one hundred men came to
it. They reminded me of the night
riders of Kentucky — a howling, yelling,
half-drunken crowd. Not one woman
came, so I had a crowd of drunken
toughs to contend with. Notwithstanding
the kind of audience, I commenced to de-
liver my lecture, "Modern Secret Soci-
eties," and at the same time the toughs
commenced howling- and barking like
dogs, hooting and yelling like wild In-
dians, making such a noise and uproar
that the decent part of the audience could
not hear me with any degree of satisfac-
tion. Then they tried to put a rope
around my neck. I went into a corner
of the hall and asked them if they want-
ed to kill me, and told them that if they
did to go on with the killing, but that they
would have to suffer the full penalty of
the law. There were men there who
wanted to hear my lecture, but could not
because of the disturbance, so as soon as
the mob started for their homes, I told
the respectable part of the audience to
come the second night to the hall and
I w^ould lecture on the same subject. They
said that they would. So, on the second
evening I spoke to a nice, orderly, re-
spectable audience of men, women and
children. They listened with respect
and kept the very best of order, and by
the blessing of the Almighty I think that
the seed sown by me in West Virginia
and Pennsylvania will spring up bearing
fruit, some thirty, some sixty and some
one hundred-fold.
Pardon a little personal sketch or ex-
perience. I left Virginia for a short visit
to my wife and son and daughters, and
also to my fifteen grandchildren. The
occasion was the Graybell reunion of the
descendants of Joseph and Barbrea Gray-
bell, who emigrated in 1806, from near
Johnsville, Frederick County, Maryland,
to Washington County, Pennsylvania, to
what was then known as "The Ten Mile
Wilderness." It was estimated that
there were about three hundred descend-
ants of these pioneers present. We had
a cornet band of seventeen musicians, and
with a great blare of trumpets, three
hundred of us Pennsylvania Dutch Gray-
bells sat down to dinner together at a
long table. There was a formal program
of speeches and songs. A good sermon
was preached to us by Garmon Shronts,
himself a descendant of the pioneer
Graybells mentioned above. I saw a
good opportunity to deliver my lecture on
"Modern Secret Societies," but I was not
invited to speak.
I ask the prayers of all anti-secret peo-
ple for me and my great work in this
section of the country. Yours trulv,
Joseph Potter Graybell.
from ®ur SlatL
AN OLD-TIME REVIVAL.
Myself and wife have just returned
from the eastern part of the state where
we held an old-time revival at the Dice
Wesleyan Methodist Church. The whole
community was greatly stirred and con-
viction was so deep that some of the
seekers could not rest night and day
until they surrendered themselves to
(lod. Many were converted, revived and
brought nearer to God. The whole
church was greatly roused and the mem-
bershi]) was more than doubled as a re-
sult of the revival. People say it was
the greatest revival since we were there
over a ciuarter of a century ago. when
252
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
December, 1911.
nearly one hundred people were con-
verted or sanctified. IMany of the con-
verts in this meeting were grow^n chil-
dren of the parents that were converted
A STeat manv of the
in our
meetuigs.
people converted in this former revival
have passed away. Plans are being made
for a Union Camp Meeting to be held
next summer in charge of myself and
wife.
We start tomorrow for Cheyenne
Wells. Colo., where we will engage in
evanoelistic meetings with the pastor of
the M. E. Church, A. G. Voight. We
expect to remain in the West during the
winter. W^e have a few open dates, and
would be glad to receive calls west of the
Rocky Mountains. If the Lord opens
CYNOSURE— Gal i6 KERR
the way would be glad to spend the win-
ter or part of the spring on the Coast.
Pray for us. Pastors wishing to write
us should address us at our home ad-
dress, 1080 S. Division street, Grand
Rapids, Mich., and the letters will be for-
warded to us.
Yours in Christian love,
S. B. Shaw.
AN OPEN LETTER.
To Elder W. A. Humphreys, Presiding
Elder of the West Plains District,
St. Louis Conference of the M. E.
Church, South :
Dear Brother :
As I have never had the pleasure of
meeting you personally, permit me to say
that this letter is not written by an enemy
of Methodism. On the contrary Metho-
dist parents dedicated me to God by the
holy rite of infant baptism, in Halters
Bay, a suburb of Kingston, Canada, more
than sixty-five years ago. I was con-
verted to God, in Jackson Street M. E.
Church. St. Paul, Minn., under the labors
of Elder Daniel Cobb, in February, 1866,
and in the year following entered into
the experience of ''perfect love."
For more than forty years I have been
a Methodist minister, and am a regular-
ly ordained elder. As such I have
preached, solemnized marriages and as-
sisted in the administration of the Lord's
Supper, even in the bounds of your dis-
trict, with ministers of your conference.
About twelve or fourteen years ago I
asked for and was granted my Letter of
Standing as an Elder in the Kansas Con-
ference of Wesleyan Methodist Church,
and moved here, near New Salem M. E.
Church, South, in Shannon County, Mis-
souri.
As a certain class of interested persons
seem to make the impression on the
minds of many people that I am well
paid for antagonizing secretism, or
lodgery, permit me to say that they great-
ly err, if they do not wilfully misrepre-
sent the matter. The fact is, that I go
out *'by faith," anywhere, as the Lord
opens doors, homes and hearts to receive
the truth, and never ask any man, or con-
gregation, for a penny, or a contribution
for myself.
I received a salary when laboring as
pastor and believe ''That they which
preach the gospel should live of the gos-
pel." But I adopted this course because
I believe the ungodly, who frequently
slander God's servants, cannot say that
I seek money rather than souls.
Of course, I accept what is given, or
is sent to me as from the Lord, and judge
that the contributors have been moved by
the Holy Spirit to make it. To all such
I am grateful, and assure them that they
shall ''be recompensed at the resurrec-
tion of the just." Luke 14:14.
This letter is written on the above
basis, under peculiarly trying circum-
stances, but which are exceeded by con-
sideration of the crying needs of the
Church and the importance of its salient
features to the salvation of souls.
I made the acquaintance of a number
of the ministers of your conference ;
your doctrines are scriptural, and, I be-
lieve, identical with mine. Furthermore,
you are hereby congratulated on having
as fine exegetical preachers, lovable, de-
voted men — many of them, Em sorry to
say. Masons — in your district, as I have
met anywhere. When we consider that
by means of the ministry and the Church,
God the Holy Spirit has unsealed the
Scriptures to the benighted millions of
earth, it is a safe proposition to declare
that the mission of the Christian prophet
is the one paramount to all other call-
ings. I believe most profoundly in a
Divine call to preach the Gospel. What
finite mind can estimate the value of one
soul, or determine the punitive resources
of perdition on the basis of eternal dura-
tion? Therefore, I praise God for what
December, 1911.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
253
is being done along salvation lines today
and am exceedingly optimistic as to the
future. Why? The Scriptures tell us
that,
''When the enemy shall come in like a
Hood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up
a standard agaiiist him!' Isaiah 59:19.
When ''the Spirit of the Lord shall lift
up a standard" at any time, or place, who
is he that will dare to put it down, if he
is not the arch-fiend, or one of his
servants ?
Moral qiuestions are not settled by
human majorities ; otherwise Elijah
would have been defeated on Carmel, the
three Hebrew children destroyed by fire,
Daniel eaten by lions, and John, the be-
loved disciple, cooked in the caldron of
oil.
If this were not an open letter, much
of its didactic character could be dis-
pensed with, but it is otherwise to make
some things clear which are obscure to
the ordinary observer.
You need not be told that there never
have been such multiplied methods, such
vast and complicated machinery, set in
motion by human hands, for the reform-
ation of society; in short, there never
have been such strenuous eiforts put
forth by the Holy Catholic — not Roman
Catholic — Church for the saving of
souls, as there have been during the past
twenty years, and we are compelled to
acknowledge that, to this day, they have
fallen far short of what our fathers ac-
complished with less money, less machin-
ery, and — shall I say ? — less effort.
What Is Wrong with the Church?
"Methodists Losing Ground. — The
decrease in membership of the Church
was the principal discussion at Toronto
the last week of the Ecumenical Metho-
dist Conference, which contained dele-
gates from all quarters of the world.
All the reports showed that a decrease
had taken place the world over during
the last decade.
"The W^estern section comprising the
Methodist churches in the United States,
Canada and Japan, reported a loss in net
membership in the past ten years.
''The Eastern section, covering the
churches in Great Britain, Ireland,
France, South Africa, Australia, and the
mission field, showed an absolute loss in
membership. "—i^a^i^ya.? City Star, JW^d.,
Oct. TT, TOIL
If this be the record, which the peo-
ple who, "are at it and are always at it,"
make against themselves, the record
made by other evangelical churches can-
not improve upon it.
"The old ship Zion" has struck the
doldrums and, like a vessel in a current
near the equator, is carried backward by
a wind from some quarter faster than
she is wafted onward by the winds of
Heaven.
''Say not thou, what is the cause that
the former days were better than these,
for thou doest not inquire wisely con-
cerning this." — Ecclesiastics 7:10.
The fact is, that the Holy Spirit is
grieved with us, and what was true once
in Hebrew history is true today in the
Church.
''There is an accursed thing in the
midst of thee, O Israel! Thou canst not
stand before thine enemies, until ye take
azvay the accursed thing from among
you.'' — Joshua 8:10.
Secretism has honeycombed our en-
tire social fabric. God either loves
secretism — Freemasonry and kindred
secret societies — or He hates it. If He
loves it, it will bear examination; if He
hates it, it demands investigation. For
it is today, in my judgment, the Babylon-
ish garment and the wedge of gold hid-
den in the tabernacles of Zion, which is
retarding the Church in her sublime mis-
sion on earth.
Consider the time wasted by ministers
and church members, mixed up in
lodgery, "unequally yoked together with
unbeliez'ers/' — with Jews, deists and
spiritualists — in false worship. Consider
the talents buried in lodge saturnalia, for
degrees, feasts, dances, conclaves and
street parades, coupled with personal
adornment in "gold, pearls and costly
array !"
Ministers of your conference and also
church members have asked me ''Why do
you not join our conference?" On stat-
ing my views as g-iven above, and that I
am a seceder from Freemasonry — or
secretism — for Jesus' sake, and preach
against it, I have asked, "How would it
do for me to join your conference?" and
they have quickly and decisively an-
swered, "Oh, it would never do at all !"
(Elder) G. T. Dissett.
Congo, Mo.
(To be continried.")
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CONTENTS
Murder as a Fine Art. By President ■
C. A. Blanchard :..,... i 257
Lawyer Morals ,...,.;.;,; 261
Elks' Tribute to Honored Dead .261
Typographical Union Obligation 262
Robert M. La Follette.... 262
The Broken Seal. By Samuel D.
Green ...263
The Farmer Joiner............. 269
Editorial —
Tasks for a Year 270
Knights of the Royal Arch 271
No Secrets Today. . , 272
Sarcophagus and Mission Schools 272
A Proposed Precedent 273
Incompatible and Inimical 273
Ancient Antimasonry 274
Inaugural Imprecation . .275
! Fraternities of Assassins .........275
■ Obituary —
Mrs. Emma R. Whitham .277
News of Our Work •, . . .V! . . .277
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VOLUME XLIV.
CHICAGO, JANUARY, 1912.
NUMBER 9.
MURDER AS A FINE ART.
CHARLES A. BLANCHARD, D. D.
In the city of Los Angeles there re-
cently plead guilty to the crime of dyna-
miting, two men who have for years
been associated with the labor unions of
the United States. The number of per-
sons killed in the one case which was
admitted was twenty-one.
The laws of California affix the death
penalty to the crime of murder. A man
who kills one person may be sentenced
to death.
The confession made by these men
was not in any real sense a voluntary
one. Proof had been added to proof
until every reasonable person who had
read the facts knew them to be guilty.
Their leading attorney admits that the
evidence for the guilt of his clients was
overwhelming. Nothing but bribery in
the jury box or wholesale subornation of
perjury on the witness stand could pos-
sibly have prevented a verdict of guilty.
Under these circumstances these men
who had committed the two crimes con-
fessed, and as the evidence goes to show,
many others plead guilty.
The Death Clocks.
It is a horribly fascinating story.
These men, and others who co-operated
with them, bought large quantities of
the most powerful explosives. They
rented buildings in out-of-the-way places
in which to store them. When they
wished to destroy property or lives or
both they would go to these depots, take
out the amount of explosives which they
wished, ride longer or shorter distances
in passenger coaches or Pullman cars,
place the dynamite where it could do its
work and arrange a clock so that at
some hour designed the mine would be
fired and the property destroyed. In
some instances the circumstances were
such that there might be no loss of life.
It was possible, however, in any case,
that innocent passersby might be blown
into fragments in an instant of time.
The particular instance to which Mr.
J. B. McNamara plead guilty was the de-
struction of the office of a newspaper
in Los Angeles. He says, in his so-called
confession, that he did not wish to kill
anybody, that he was very sorry men
were killed, that if the giving up of his
own life would bring back their lives he
would gladly lay it down. The judge in
sentencing him told him that he did not
believe what he said and Mr. Burns, the
detective who gathered the evidence of
the crime, says that before he fired the
explosive he filled the building with gas
so that there would be a double certainty
of destroying it. The representative of
this tniion knew that at the time chosen
for the explosion the building would be
full of working men. As it happened
twenty-one were killed.
A Grewsome Story.
The pictures of these two men who
have plead guilty to the crime of dyna-
miting- and murder generally represent
them as smiling. The newspaper de-
scriptions speak of their cheerful ap-
pearance and of the jocular conversa-
tions which they have with one another
and others. It seems incredible that men
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January, 1912.
guilty of such offenses should be so
happy and apparently feel so funny
about it. One would suppose that they
had been, engaged in some practical joke
which had furnished a good deal of
amusement, and had done no harm to
anyone. It seems hard to believe that
twenty-one men were buried from this
one building which they destroyed and
no one knows how many others from the
other crimes of like sort which they
committed. We do know, however, that
there were over forty persons killed in
the mining- regions of the West, apparent-
ly by a similar society, and that the same
attorney, who is said to have received
$50,000 for conducting the defense of
these last murderers, was the attorney
who defended the men indicted for one
of the mining murders above referred to.
It is also an interesting coincidence
that, as in this last case, the tangle be-
gan to unravel with the confession of a
confederate, so in the former case Harry
Orchard gave a full account of the
facts, w^hich a jury, under the skillful
manipulation of lawyers who are paid
large sums of money to defend murder-
ers, decided were not facts at all. I
have seen a letter from Harry Orchard,
written after the miscarriage of justice
in Idaho. In this letter he says : ''Every
word of my confession was true and will
so appear in the judgment of the Great
Day."
A Hundred Explosions.
This method of using clocks and dy-
namite to destroy property and lives was
carefully and diligently pursued until
years had passed and more than one
hundred different instances of this de-
struction had taken place.
For some reason, possibly because the
editor in Los Angeles was making a de-
cided stand against the unions, they
seem to have had a special hatred for
that city and one of them is reported to
have declared in substance, that if they
could not unionize Los Angeles they
would level it with the ground.
The use of the clocks enabled the mur-
derers to take trains and be far removed
from the scene of the explosion at the
time when it occurred. Of course dis-
guises were used and false names were
employed and the whole arrangement
showed the utmost deliberation and care-
ful planning. If ever crimes could be
said to have been committed with de-
liberate purpose and intent, these crimes
were of that character.
Evil Cannot Be Hidden. .
Nearly two thousand years ago our
Lord in warning men against evil doing
said to them: "There is nothing hidden
that shall not be known and come
abroad." It proved so in this case as it
has in so many others ; as one has said.
The entire universe is confederated
against evil doers.
Bombs were placed near houses and
either failed to explode because the ma-
chinery was in some way defective or
were picked up before the hour for
which the explosion had been timed. The
depots for dynamite were discovered.
The persons who rented the houses
were ascertained. The aliases of the
persons who did the deadly work were
learned. The confession of a confed-
erate laid the whole matter open, and the
persons guilty of crime were arrested.
It should be remembered, in this con-
nection, that this sort of work was not
only criminal but was also expensive.
When McNamara set out for Los
Angeles to destroy the Times Building
and kill the twenty-one men who died,
he carried the explosive in a satchel,
handed it to a Pullman porter to be
cared for and paid the latter a dollar for
his trouble.
The little home where the mother of
these two men lived looks like the
humble home of a working woman. One
would never suppose that she or her
January, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
259
sons would be able to furnish the means
for carrying on such a wholesale de-
struction of property and life. No sane
man believes that they did so. Thus
large sums of money were furnished, be-
yond doubt by the workingmen's so-
cieties with which they were connected.
The destructions and murders were com-
mitted in the interests of that society.
Personally the McNamaras had no more
need for destroying this property and
these lives than have the persons who
are reading these words at this time.
If the country could be sufficiently
terrorized, if a sufficient amount of prop-
erty could be destroyed, if a sufficient
number of men could be killed to make
employers consent to unionism, and
make laboring men afraid not to be
unionized, the expense of this murderous
campaign could be met from the fees
and dues of those who should become
connected with the orders. Can any rea-
sonable person assign any other motive
than this one for the expensive work
which was being done?
A Storm of Lies and Slanders.
No sooner had the tireless, costly and
dangerous work of the detectives been
performed than a roar, such as secret
societies always send out when their
members are detected in criminal acts,
was heard. It was so when Mr. Morgan
was killed, it was so when Cronin was
murdered, it was so when Heywood
was on trial. ''Capital was seeking to
destroy labor." ''The dynamite had been
purchased by the detectives and was
found where they put it." "The men
who committed the murders were high-
minded, well-bred gentlemen. The'r ar-
rest and arraignment was an outrage."
"Capitalists would find that the rights of
the laboring men could not be infringed
in this manner," etc., etc., etc., ad
nauseam. From Mr. Gompers down the
whole machinery of the unions was set
in motion to discredit the government
and to deliver the murderers.
Mr. Gompers says he did not know
the facts in the case, but Mr. Burns says
that he did. As between the two men
the public will probably believe Mr.
Burns. Certainly the public will not be-
lieve that the McNamaras furnished the
money for their program of destruction
and death and carried it out for their
own purposes, at their own expense, and
no one denies that when they had been
arrested and when it was necessary to
have hundreds of thousands of dollars
to hire lawyers whose trade it is to
make murderers safe, instantly the
money was forthcoming.
That thousands of laboring men con-
nected with the unions knew nothing
whatever of what was being done is un-
questionably true. That is true in all
secret societies. The leaders in these so-
cieties do not wish the common members
to know what is being done. Multi-
tudes of them are honest men and
would not remain connected with the or-
ders if they knew what their real work
was, but in this case the leaders knew,
and must have known. How else could
the money have been raised and how
else could the men have been sent so
safely and for so long a time about their
work? How else could the roar of
slander and accusation have burst forth
in so many quarters at the same instant,
if the leaders had not been informed?
A Strange Phenomenon.
Well, the explosions are over for a
time ; the murdered men have been
buried ; the widows and orphans are be-
ing cared for by friends, or by the pub-
lic, or are struggling along by them-
selves. The evidence has been accumu-
lated until the high priced lawyers know
that it is conclusive and that their clients
cannot be acquitted if fairly tried. A
compromise or bargain is made up. Do
these murderers confess to anything
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January, 1912.
which is not proved? Not at all. Do
they name their confederates in the
crime? Not at all. Do they exhibit
any sorrow, shame or regret for what
they have done? Not in the least. They
laugh and joke and smile, but the
widows and the children of the men
whom they have killed do not smile. On
such a flimsy, insignificant basis as this
is raised a cry for clemency. These
murderers "believe they had a right to
commit the murders." ''They consider
themselves soldiers in the ranks of labor
warring against the unreasonable exac-
tions and the vast power of capital." ''If
they should be hanged it would embitter
the unions." "If they should be sen-
tenced to prison for a while and then
should be turned loose, as such men
usually are, that would produce a very
fine impression on the unions." "They
would be greatly afifected by this exhibi-
tion of magnanimity," etc., etc., etc.,
and in the end these men, covered with
the blood of their fellows,, are sent away
for a little while to the State prison. For
how long a time no one can even guess.
What the rule in such cases is we all
know.
It is strange that in this whole news-
paper discussion there is nowhere any
apparent recognition of the fact that
these crimes are the natural result of se-
cret association, and that when lodge
men have been detected in crimes it is
the custom of the lodges to deliver them
from the punishment which is due. In
this manner the War of the Rebellion
closed with no man punished for his
treason. The United States certified to
the world that if treason could be made
sufficiently strong, if it could cost the ex-
penditure of a sufficient amount of money
and the loss of a sufficient number of
lives, it shall be passed out of the list of
crimes, if it did not pass into the list of
commendable acts. Is it strange that
with such examples before our eyes,
common murder is becoming a matter of
every-day occurrence and courts are
coming to deal with that as they do
with these lodge murders of which we
have been speaking?
It is reported in the daily press that
in Chicago nearly six hundred persons
have been killed since a man was hanged
for the crime of murder, and this man
was a poor negro without a dollar in
money or a friend in the world.
A little group of cold-blooded assas-
sins, who killed an honest laboring man
under circumstances of most horrible
atrocity, now lie under sentence of death
in Chicago. If they have not money to
hire good lawyers, and if the courts do
not interfere, as they have been accus-
tomed to do, it may be supposed that
these men will suffer the penalty of their
crimes.
It Is the Lodge's Work.
This widespread, almost universal
contempt for law and for the rights of
man, is to be laid directly at the door of
the secret societies of our country. I said
to a hardware merchant in Peoria, years
ago, who asked me what the trouble with
Masonry was, that it was training men
to be murderers. He said that the state-
ment was ridiculous, but directly, being
questioned, he said that any man who
violated his Masonic oath ought to be
killed. It is but a step from this attitude
to the position of the labor unions.
"Men who break their oaths ought to be
killed," and still further, "men who ob-
ject to what the lodges are doing and
whO' do not become properly submissive
ought to be killed, too."
I do not know whether our country
will ever awaken to the horrible work
of these lodges or not. If it does not
it will not be because there is a lack of
evidence. We have a right to hope that
our people will at last be aroused.
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Wendell Phillips said to be years ago,
at his home on Exxes St., Boston, that
secret societies in his judgment should
be prohibited by law. Of course they
should be prohibited by law. What
need have honest men for a se-
cret society? Every one can see
why murderers like those in Cali-
fornia need a secret society. They
need it in order to do their work, and
they need it in order to protect them-
selves when their work is discovered ;
but honest men need nothing but the
institutions which God has established.
If an honest man has a family, a church
and a nation which he can call his own,
he has all that he needs. There is
plenty of work for secret societies to do,
but it is such work as is revealed in the
terrible reports which we have been con-
sidering. .
LAWYER MORALS.
Clarence Darrow has set a goodly
part of the thinking world musing over
the strange ways of a man's mind. He
is not alone in his class, not alone by
thousands and thousands ; nevertheless
his statements, made after the confes-
sions of the McNamara brothers, call at-
tention to a most curious and most vi-
cious tendency of human intelligence.
This lawyer is reported as having said
that his motive in urging the two crimi-
nal brothers to plead guilty was only to
save their lives. He considered that his
highest duty. And that, for one thing,
is very strange.
It is passing strange that a man who
has ideals of any height at all should
consider it his business in life to accept
guilty clients who are in danger of
death, and then, forgetting all the claims
of the social and the civic world upon
him, should deliberately set himself to
the task of saving these men's villain-
ous lives, no matter what else might be
at stake.
Again : the only reason that this law-
yer gives for finally urging these men
to alter their perjured plea of "Not
guilty" is that he saw it was useless to
try to oppose the case which the state,
through its lawyers, had builded up.
Here again is some very vicious reason-
ing. The inference is that the lawyer
knew these men's diabolical guilt all
along, but continued, until forced to an
opposite view, to believe that he might
find some weakness in the state's case.
What kind of a citizen is a lawyer
who, even when he knows that a man
has committed a grievous crime against
the state, will defend the man as long
as he is confident that the state cannot
make a clear case against him? Does
such procedure not hold within itself
the elements of treason?
It is time that we should have more
high-minded lawyers, men who have
heard what God said when He inspired
Solomon to write, "He that justifieth
the wicked and he that condemneth the
just, even they both are abomination to
the Lord." It is not to be wondered at
that in honest people's minds the entire
realm of the lawyer is looked upon as
a sphere of questionable repute. It
should occasion no surprise to see a
knowing smile curl upon people's lips
when the fact that a man is a lawyer is
mentioned.
Would it be impossible for honest
lawyers to exist? Would it be impos-
sible to draw the fame of the bar (and
with it the fame of the bench) higher
than it now stands ? Clarence Darrow
has spoken. His words are not calcu-
lated to steady the hands of blind-
folded justice as she holds the scales
aloft. We dare only trust that they may
serve to set in motion certain currents
of public thinking and public expression
which may after a while bring about bet-
ter conditions. — Lutheran Standard.
ELKS' TRIBUTE TO HONORED DEAD
Representative Moris Sheppard gave
the address, in which he said: "Those
in whose memory these exercises are
held, are not dead, but have entered
into a higher life, which the grave can-
not destroy. Their immortalities will
blend in joyous immortality with their
God." — The Washington Times, Dec. 6,
1909.
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January, 1912.
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION OBLIGA-
TION.
I (give name), hereby solemnly and
sincerely swear (or affirm) that I will
not reveal any business or proceeding of
any meeting of this union, or any other
subordinate union to which I may here-
after be attached, unless by order of the
union, except to those whom I know to
be members in good standing thereof ;
that I will, without equivocation or eva-
sion and to the best of my ability abide
by the constitution, by-laws and the
adopted scale of prices ; that 1 will at
all times abide by the decisions of the
majority, and use all honorable means
within my power to procure employment
for printers of any union working under
the jurisdiction of the International
Typographical Union in preference to
others ; that my fidelity to the union and
my duties to the members thereof shall
in no case he interfered zvith or trenched
upon by any allegiance that I may now
or hereafter ozve to any other organisa-
tion, social, political, or religions, secret
or otherwise ; that I will belong to no so-
ciety or combination composed wholly
or partly of printers, with intent or pur-
pose to interfere with the trade regula-
tions or influence or control the legisla-
tion of this union; that I will not
wrong a brother or sister member or see
him or her wronged, if in my power to
prevent. To all of which I pledge my
most sacred honor. — From the Consti-
tution and By-Lazvs of the Typograph-
ical Union.
ROBERT M. LAFOLLETTE.
BY REV. H. A. DAY.
The following quotation from the au-
tobiography of Robert M. La Follette,
now being published in the American
Magazine, expresses so clearly the con-
ditions political, social and religious, un-
der which we are now living, that I de-
sire the notice of readers of the
Cynosure directed to them. The hidden
significance of some statements will ap-
pear to practical anti-secret men as they
will not to those who have given the sub-
ject little or no thought.
Mr. La Follette's statement in the be-
ginning of his autobiography may act as
guide to some characteristics in this
comparatively new man in public affairs,
from the exercise of which, better things
may be hoped for in this country should
he ever attain the supremacy which we
have reason to expect he will. May it
be that his present outspoken fearless-
ness may not wane before the pressure
of corrupt influence should he ever reach
the presidential chair in these United
States !
Following are the quotations. First,
Mr. La Follette speaks of his University
experience.
''At that time college life was domi-
nated by two secret fraternities ; they
controlled the student meetings, and di-
rected the elections. Most of the stu-
dents, of whom I was one, were out-
siders, or 'Scrubs,' having little or noth-
ing to say about the conduct of college
affairs."
The second quotation to which I refer
is as follows : "During my service as
district attorney I began to see some fur-
ther aspects of boss rule and misrepre-
sentative government, although I had
little idea, then, what it all meant. It
was a common practice for men caught
in the criminal net, or the friends of
those men, not to go forward honestly
and try their cases in the public tri-
bunal, but repair to the boss, and thus
bring underhanded and secret influence
to bear in blocking the wheels of jus-
tice. * * >:< I began to feel this
pressure in all sorts of cases. They did
not attempt to reach me directly, know-
ing that I had defied the boss in my elec-
tion, but it came about in the curious
ways in which witnesses faded out of the
reach of the sheriff's office, in the dis-
agreement of juries, and the like."
By the above tokens we discover two
things. First, as enlightened anti-se-
cretists we can see from whence origi-
nated the "curious ways in which wit-
nesses faded out of reach of the sheriff's
office," although Mr. La Follette does
not seem to know. Second, we think we
see quite clearly that this remarkable
man, at least, is not in sympathy with
secret society methods, and possibly may
not be affiliated with any. However,
there is little hope that, until our King
shall come, this monstrosity, organized
secretism, a product of modern civiliza-
tion, will ever have its illegitimate power
and authority broken in either the po-
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litical, commercial, social, or religious
world. Till then, let us hope and pray.
THE BROKEN SEAL.
BY SAMUEL D. GREEN.
From the personal reminiscences by
Samuel D. Green of the abduction and mur-
der of Captain WilHam Morgan were
taken some of the facts so vividly brought
out in Miss Flagg's "Power of the Secret
Empire," which ended in the December
number of the Cynosure. The story has
created so wide an interest that we pro-
pose to give our readers in the next few
months some of these facts as recorded
by Mr. Green, an eye-witness. — Editor.
How I Became a Mason.
I was born in the town of Leicester,
Massachusetts, on the 7th day. of Feb-
ruary, 1788. My great grandfather,
Thomas Greene, was the first Baptist
minister in that town, and through his
agency the first Baptist meeting-house
was built there. In my childhood, the
country was just emerging from the
fatigue and burdens of the long war of
the Revolution. It was the day of small
things. Society was in a rude and sim-
ple condition, as compared with the
present.
At the age of seventeen I was em-
ployed to teach a district school in the
neighboring town of Oakham. I was
examined by the parish minister, Rev.
Daniel Tomlinson. This Mr. Tomlinson
was a quaint and original man. In the
time of a long and obstinate quarrel,
when the members in church meeting as-
sembled were accusing each other vari-
ously, the minister finally rose and said :
''Brethren, this must be stopped. If the
Lord will have a church in Oakham, he
must have it out of such materials as we
have here." He is the same man also to
whom a church member once went com-
plaining, and wanting a letter of dismis-
sion to the church in a neighboring town.
Said the church member, "There are so
many Achans in the camp here, that I
want to get away to another church."
"O," said the minister, 'T guess I
wouldn't go. We can take care of the
Achans here as well as they can any-
where."
In the intervals of my teaching I was
attending school at Leicester Academy,
and in 1807, at the age of nineteen, I en-
tered the Sophomore class in Brown
University. Here I remained for more
than two years, when I was employed as
assistant teacher in the principal school
of Providence, and took my dismission
from college at the close of the first term
of my senior year. And here, on the
29th of March, 1810, I was married to
Miss Susan Gibbs.
In 1 812 began the war with Great
Britain. The country was in a very de-
pressed and uneasy condition. New
England, especially, suffered during all
that season.
In the year 1816 I prepared to re-
move, with my family, to western
New York, to cast in my fortunes with
the new and chaotic society then form-
ing in that portion of the country. The
only place of much importance in west-
ern New York had been Buffalo. That
was burned in the war of 1812, and was
now slowly rising again. The region far
around was in a wild or half-broken
state. Accordingly, in 1816 I took my
wife and two little children, and start-
ed for the west. It was a long and toil-
some journey, of about five hundred
miles, over a rough country. At that
time it was a laborious enterprise, re-
quiring weeks for its execution.
Our first residence was at Pembroke,
about twenty-eight miles east of Buft'alo,
where, for a time, I kept a public house,
and engaged in various occupations,
such as are natural in a new, rough, and
sparsely settled country. My house,
called the Brick Tavern, at Pembroke,
was a convenient and natural stopping
place for teams ; and not infrequently it
would happen that from fifty to a hun-
dred horses must be provided for at my
barns for the night, and the teamsters
taken care of in the house. The life
these men lived was a rough, hard, and
adventurous one, and brought out the
strong and sharp qualities of character,
rather than the refined and graceful.
This was before the days of the tem-
perance reformation, and no small part
of the business of the tavern-keeper was
to provide suitable liquors for travelers,
and for the dwellers around.
In 1822 we removed from Pembroke
to Batavia, eleven miles farther east, and
near the center of Genesee County. This
was the county seat. Soon after going
there I opened the County House, as it
was called, opposite the Court House. In
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about a year I admitted into the house a
private female school. The Presbyte-
rian minister of the place was Rev. Cal-
vin Colton, since well known by his
writings. His wife, a woman of very
superior education and character, had
charge of the school that was kept in
my house. J\Iy wife and I connected
ourselves with Rev. Mr. Colton's church,
and our children were baptized by him.
Batavia at that time had, perhaps, two
thousand inhabitants, and was a place of
great importance, as the land office was
there.
In Batavia was a Freemason's lodge,
known as Lodge No. 433. Some of the
principal citizens of Batavia were con-
nected with it. The oldest deacon of
our church was a strong and enthusiastic
Alason, and was wont to say that he
should as soon think of speaking against
the God of heaven as against the insti-
tution of Masonry. Dr. Dibble, the phy-
sician in my family, was one of our
church session. He was also an earnest
Mason.
My house was known now as the
Park Tavern, or County Hotel. The
building stood opposite the new park.
About this time an effort was made,
in Batavia, to increase the interest in
Masonry, and to gather nev/ members
into the lodge. Significant hints and in-
vitations were given me from time to
time, and I was at length prevailed upon
to allow myself to be a candidate for ad-
mission into the order. Mr. Ebenezer
Mix, then surrogate of G^esee County,
resident at Batavia, proposed me as a
member, and I was admitted to Lodge
No. 433 in the month of December, 1825,
taking the first, or entered apprentice's
degree, and in a week more I took the
second and third degrees the same night.
Everything is so contrived in Ma-
sonry, that there shall be no going back
when one is fairly launched upon the
stream. There are many degrees in Ma-
sonry ; but the mischief is concentrated
in the Entered Apprentice's oath. At the
very outset, and before this oath is taken,
the candidate is so drawn in and entan-
gled with promises of one kind and an-
other, that he sees no possibility of turn-
ing back. He is put throus^h a course of
preliminary nonsense, offensive to his
moral sense, and degrading to his man-
hood ; but he sees no chance of breaking
away without raising about him a scene
which he has not at the time the courage
to encounter.
Before the oath is taken, the candidate
is divested of all his apparel — shirt ex-
cepted— and furnished with a pair of
drawers, kept in the lodge for the use of
candidates ; the candidate is then blind-
folded, his left foot bare, his right in a
slipper, his left breast and arm naked,
and a rope called a cable-tow round his
neck and left arm, in which condition
he is conducted to the door, where he
gives, or his conductor gives for him,
three distinct knocks, which are an-
swered by three knocks from within, and
a voice calls out three times, ''Who
comes there?" The poor fool on the out-
side is then made to say, or his conduc-
tor says for him, in answer to this mo-
mentous question, "A poor blind candi-
date, who has long been desirous of re-
reciving and having a part of the rights
and benefits of this worshipful lodge,
dedicated to God, and held forth to the
holy order of St. John, as all true fol-
lowers and brothers have done, who
have gone this way before him." After
a deal more of idle ceremony, includ-
ing prayers and forms semi-religious,
the candidate is at last brought in a
kneeling posture with his left hand un-
der the Bible, square and compass, and
his right hand upon them, and in this
attitude, blindfolded and half naked, and
with the assurance that what he is do-
ing shall not affect his politics or re-
ligion, he takes the Entered Appren-
tice's oath.
In December, 1825, I took this oath,
going through all the attendant non-
sense. Until the oath was imposed upon
me, I had no adequate conception of its
nature. Many a man, on going through
these first ceremonies, has been utterly
shocked and horrified at what he has
done, and at the frightful obligations he
has taken upon himself. His first dis-
position is to draw back, and have no
more to do with an institution which
uses such awful sanctions to cover and
conceal what is of no real consequence
to mankind. His whole moral nature is
shocked at such profane and enor-
mous trifling. Many who take this
oath, as soon as may be, withdraw
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from all active participation in the af-
fairs of the lodge, finding that they have
been deceived, and have embarked upon
a course which their moral sense cannot
approve. But it is difficult to do this at
once, and abruptly. Many men, how-
ever, who have no keen moral sense,
who are, in fact, only boys of a larger
growth, seem to find great delight in the
foolery of this institution. The big
words and sentences, which have to be
mouthed over so often, exactly suit their
taste. The endless forms and cere-
monies, to be gone through with night
after night, continue, to their undiscern-
ing eyes, to wear the semblance of a ma-
jestic greatness. As children find a cer-
tain delight in playing with edged tools,
so they handle these awful sanctions,
these oaths and penalties, with a strange
fascination. There is about the whole
institution a certain barbaric glitter and
pomp exactly fitted to please swelling
and half-developed men ; and these will
stay fast by the lodge, and make it the
great glory of their lives to manage its
affairs, and mouth over its illustrious
names and titles.
Of the thousands and tens of thou-
sands, who, by one influence and an-
other, are enticed within its folds, not
many are at once launched upon such
a wild scene of excitement and terror as
it was my lot to encounter. Little did
I dream, when I took upon myself the
entered apprentice's oath, what was so
speedily to follow ; that then and there,
in Lodge 433, was to take place that
which would fill the whole land with in-
tense excitement, moral and political,
and would bring the institution itself of
Masonry almost to the verge of destruc-
tion. By the act of that night in De-
cember, 1825, I had brought myself into
the midst of a conflict of thoughts and
feelings hard to be described, and where,
at times, it was exceedingly difficult to
know what to do, or whither to turn.
Captain William Morgan and Colonel David
C. Miller.
At the time I joined the Masons Cap-
tain William Morgan was my neighbor,
and I was in free and daily intercourse
with him. He was a man of fine personal
appearance, about fifty years of age, of
remarkable conversational powers, so that
he was everywhere known as a good
talker. He was a native of Culpeper
County, Va., and was, by trade, a brick-
layer ; but for several years before coming
to Batavia, he had been otherwise em-
ployed. He was a soldier in the war of
18 1 2, and brought his title of Captain
from the army during that war. He
had served under General Jackson, at
New Orleans, and was a man of fine
soldierly bearing. He was gentleman-
ly and agreeable in his manners. In
later years the Masons charged him
with being a drunkard, but, in my judg-
ment, without reason. He was doubt-
less a convivial man, and at times would
drink freely, according to the fashions
of the day. I myself have seen him
when he had been drinking more than
was good for him ; but he was not what,
in the general acceptation of the word
at that time, or at any time, would be
called a drunkard. It was the period of
hard and general drinking, and certain-
ly it ill becomes Freemasons to charge
men on this score, for no body of men
among us have done more, from genera-
tion to generation, to promote drinking
habits than they.
After the close of the war, Mr. Mor-
gan remained in Virginia until 182 1,
when he went to Canada, and was en-
gaged in the brewing business, near
York, in Upper Canada. Here he was
successful, and was in a prosperous con-
dition ; when suddenly his establishment
was destroyed by fire, and he was re-
duced from a state of ease and comfort
to complete poverty, and was forced to
return to hi& old trade of bricklaying.
For this purpose he came to Western
New York, settling first at Rochester,
and then at Batavia, where he was liv-
ing as before mentioned. During a part
of the time at Batavia^ while he was su-
perintending the building of a brick
house, he, with his men, boarded with
me.
His wife was much younger than him-
self. They were married in 18 19, when
she was not more than sixteen years
old. She was the daughter of a ^leth-
odist minister in Virginia — Rev. Joseph
Pendleton. In the deposition which she
was called to make in September, 1826,
she describes herself as " Lucinda ]\Ior-
gan, aged twenty-three, the wife of Wil-
liam Morgan, of Batavia." She had at
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the time of this deposition two children,
one two years old and one about two
months old.
Captain ^Morgan was a prominent
member of Lodge 433, in Batavia, and
was what is called a Lecturer. He was
much at my house at the time I joined
the ^lasons, and it was but natural that
I should be in frequent communication
with him touching matters pertaining to
the institution. In fact, he lectured me,
as it is called; i. e., he w^nt over with
me. at the dead of night, the long far-
rago of nonsense necessary to be gone
through with in order to advance in
^lasonic knowledge. I was committing
these forms of words to memory to be
used at the lodge in taking the second
and third degrees, and he was acting as
my guide and teacher. My wife, over-
hearing the talk between us, and having
her curiosity excited by the strange ac-
cents, rose in her night clothes, and
stood in the dark to listen. After all was
over, and I retired to bed, she said to
me, ''Husband, husband, how can you
be so great a fool as tO' repeat such stuff
as that?"
During the winter following my initia-
tion, I was a regular attendant upon the
lodge ; but in the spring I began to tire
of such performances, and to feel some-
what disgusted with the whole business.
In fact, in the month of May, 1826, I
withdrew quietly, and did not find it
convenient to attend the meetings. And
so I should have continued to do, except
for the remarkable events which soon
followed. In the latter part of July,
after I had absented myself froiri the
lodge some two months, I received a
special notice and invitation to attend,
and w^as told that business of a very im-
portant character was to come before the
body. I went to the meeting. Mr.
Ebenezer Alix, surrogate of the county,
who had proposed my name for member-
ship in the lodge, read a letter in which
it was charged that Captain Morgan
was writing out the secrets of Masonry,
and that Colonel David C. Miller, ed-
itor and published of the Batavia Advo-
cate, was about to publish the book
which Morgan was preparing, and that
David E. Evans, a rich man, had been
applied to for money. The matter was
regarded as one of the most momentous
interest. I never saw men so excited in
my life. They seemed to be laboring un-
der the strongest passions and emotions.
Committees were appointed to do this
and that, and everything went forward
with a kind of frenzy. I could not but
be amazed at the fierce passions dis-
played ; but for the present I saw that
safety for myself, no less than the power
to be of service to my neighbors, depend-
ed upon my disguising my feelings, and
seeming to act cordially with the rest.
I thus entered upon a policy which some,
I know, will consider doubtful, and
which, at times, was exceedingly diffi-
cult to be carried out. But I believed
then, and believe now, that I was neces-
sarily driven to this by the circumstances
in which I was placed. Whether justly
or unjustly, however, that was the
course I adopted.
As I have already said, I had silently
withdrawn from the lodge in the month
of May, having become fully satisfied of
its iniquities by my own knowledge, and
should probably never have visited the
place again, had I not been regularly
summoned in this way. But when told
that business of the utmost importance
was to be transacted, I could not well
absent myself without exciting suspicion.
At this meeting, and after the special
business had been brought forward, I
saw enough to induce me to believe that
it was my duty further to attend the
lodge, to learn the wicked plans con-
cocted there against my neighbors and
friends, and, if possible, hinder their
execution.
At this meeting there was a great
amount of violent talk in a roundabout
and half-enigmatical way. Morgan was
declared to be a wicked and perjured
wretch, who ought to receive upon him-
self the penalties of the oaths which he
had taken and broken ; and it was said
that *'all honest Masons would see that
they were executed." Although no one
in particular said he would do it himself,
yet one rich man did say that he would
find whips and cords as long as others
would use them. But the most curious
talk that went on there was of a broken
kind, one man uttering part of a sen-
tence, and another taking it up and car-
rying it on, and then another, as though,
by dividing up the sentence in this way,.
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no one was specially responsible for it.
An Episcopal minister, member of the
lodge, for example, would take up his
parable and begin as follows : ''Should
one of your neighbors kill another, and
be proved guilty of murder in the first
degree," (then another person takes up
the sentence) ''And should he be sen-
tenced by the judge" (another) "To be
hung by the neck till he is dead, dead,
dead," (another) "Do you think the
country would lay it to heart?" (an-
other) "No ; would not men rather re-
joice that the country was rid of the
murderer?" Then the minister would
begin again. "Morgan has violated the
laws of the most moral, benevolent, and
I had almost said Christian institution,"
(another) "And should he be taken
away," (another) "and executed, would
Masons lay it to heart ?"( another) "No;
would they not rather rejoice that there
could be found no track or trace of so
vile a wretch as he?" Then some other
train of thought would be started, as fol-
lows. The lodge was directly opposite
the office of Mr. Miller's paper, the Ba-
tavia Advocate, and some one, looking out
of the window would begin. "The Advo-
cate'': (another) "Can the secrets of
Masonry be published there?" (another)
"That which has defied the world, and
been kept from time immemorial?" (an-
other) "It would not be surprising if you
should see the flames of it ascend to
heaven."
These are given simply as specimens
of the kind of talk which went on at that
meeting. Then, again, the utterances of
the meeting would take another turn. At
that time DeWitt Clinton was governor
of the State of New York, and was a
Freemason of the highest order, stand-
ing at the head of the institution in the
United States. From this circumstance,
the Masons counted upon doing what
they pleased with impunity. And so, at
this lodge meeting, they would say,
"Who is your governor? Who are your
military officers ? Who are your sheriffs ?
Who are your judges and your jurors,
and your county clerks? Who are your
constables and justices of the peace?
What can a mouse (meaning the govern-
ment of the people) do with a lion?"
They made great account of their means
of communicating information swiftly
and secretly. They talked much of the
vast advantage they had over people who
were not intrusted with their secrets.
Then, again, the Master of the lodge
lectured the Masons of the lower orders,
especially the Entered Apprentices.
"Think," said he, "of your pozver. What
cannot yon do when guarded by our se-
crets ?" This shows the mode in which
Masons of the higher orders operate
upon those of the lower degrees, by re-
ferring to their oaths. Much was done
at this meeting with the direct intent of
waking a spirit of murder and destruc-
tion in the hearts of all present. The
aim was unmistakable. The lodge, after
a wild and exciting session, adjourned to
meet again on the 15th of August.
Soon after this meeting on the 25th of
July, Morgan was taken in custody by
the sheriff of Genesee County, on the
suit of one Nathan Follett, a Mason.
He obtained bail, and so was allowed
liberty within the jail limits. At this
time he was boarding at a Mr. vStew-
art's, in the center of the village of Ba-
tavia ; but for the purpose of security,
and to avoid interruption, he spent his
time mainly in an upper room of a Mr.
Davids, on the other side of Tonawanda
Creek, and out of the noise of the vil-
lage.
As one of the ways of acting on the
public mind, and getting things in readi-
ness for that which was to come, the
following advertisement appeared on
the 9th of August, in a paper printed in
Canandaigua :
"NOTICE AND CAUTION.
"If a man, calling himself William
Morgan, should intrude himself on the
community, they should be on their
guard, particularly the Masonic Frater-
nity. Morgan was in this village in ]\Iay
last, and his conduct, while here and
elsewhere, calls forth this notice. Any
information in relation to Morgan can
be obtained by calling at the Masonic
Hall, in this village. Brethren and coin-
panions are particularly requested to ob-
serve, mark, and govern themselves ac-
cordingly.
"Morgan is considered a swindler and
a dangerous man.
"There are people in this village who
would be happy to see this Captain Mor-
gan.
'JtiJ
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
January, 1912.
"Canandaigua, August, 9, 1826."
From the meeting of the lodge in July,
violence was so manifestly intended
against the persons and property of
Morgan and ]\Iiller, my friends and
neighbors, that I resolved to remain in
the lodge, and attend the meetings for
the sole benefit of those who were in
danger. The language of the above no-
tice, read by a Mason, could mean noth-
ing else than violence. The call upon
"brethren and companions" to "observe,
mark, and govern themselves according-
ly," was a distinct summons to acts of
violence, and to spread the intelligence
far and wide, which I, with my inside
knowledge, could not fail to compre-
hend. At length I formed the deter-
mination, when the right time came, to
make known the doings of the lodge to
some one without, in whom I could con-
fide, and who would take measures to
thwart the wicked designs of the Ma-
sons. I was some time in coming to this
conclusion. I attended two or three ad-
journed meetings of the lodge in the
month of August. The committees
which had been appointed at the earlier
meetings would make their reports, not
in a clear and detailed way, but in a
blind and confusing style. But so thor-
oughly was I convinced that the action
of the body meant murder and destruc-
tion, that, after one of these meetings, I
went home to my chamber, and, kneel-
ing down, asked God what I should do.
I had been brought into a place of great
difficulty. I certainly would do nothing
to promote the wicked plans concocted
at the lodge. On the other hand, if I
should absent myself from these meet-
ings, and take my stand openly in oppo-
sition to these proceedings, I should not
only expose myself to great personal
danger, but should lose the power of
helping those who were already in im-
minent peril.
A significant event transpired in Ba-
tavia on the loth of August, 1826. Gov-
ernor De Witt Clinton came to the vil-
lage, and called upon the grand com-
mander of the encampment — a political
enemy — and, after a short stay, left
abruptly. Morgan was now on his bail,
living in the village after the manner
before described. It began to be cur-
rently reported among the people that
he was secretly writing out, and that
Miller was about to publish, the upper
degrees of Masonry to the Royal Arch.
Some of the Master Masons were quite
pleased at this, for they thought they
should get the upper degrees cheap. But
the Royal Arch Masons were greatly of-
fended, and said that Morgan and Miller
would never live to accomplish their pur-
pose.
As time went on, Morgan himself did
not longer seek to conceal his purposes.
He had been deeply impressed with the
danger likely to befall the country
through this institution. Twice, at least,
he said, in substance, in my presence,
that Masonry had been kept a secret
quite long enough ; that it had become an
alarming evil, and it was due to the
world that it should be exposed; that if
permitted to exist, and go on its way
unchecked, it would undermine the
Christian religion, and overthrow the
government. Morgan was, in theory, at
least, a Christian man. He was deeply
impressed with the idea that only
through general intelligence, and through
Christian influence, could our free gov-
ernment be maintained. Many times I
have heard him say, in substance, "Take
down your pulpits, destroy your Bible
and your Sabbath, let men feel no sense
of accountability, and your republican
government is at an end."
He used to say, that, as a Mason, he
was well aware his life was in peril, but
if he knew that the Masons would take
his life, he should go forward, and, if
possible, expose their pernicious secrets.
"My life," he would say, "is the property
of my country, and my countrymen have
a claim upon my utmost faculties and
powers for the preservation of all that is
dear to intelligent freemen. The bane
of our civil institutions is to be found in
Masonry, already powerful, and daily
becoming more so. If my life must be
forfeited, I owe to my country an ex-
posure of its dangers. Not that there
are not good men in the order, but there
are many evil ones."
He had been especially impressed with
the action of a Masonic council that had
recently been convened in Charleston,
S. C, in which the purpose of establish-
ing a kind of oligarchy — an imperium
in iniperio, had been openly broached
January, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
269
among them. He deeply felt that he had
a solemn duty to discharge. He was no
vain trifler, who had resolved to do what
he was doing because of some fancied
wrong or personal slight. It was be-
cause the land, in his opinion, was in
danger from the workings of a corrupt
and secret institution.
As a man born at the South, and hav-
ing held a military office in the then
late war, he thought he knew what was
passing in the Southern mind, and he
fully believed that a plot was concocting
for the overthrow of our liberties, and
that this scheme was secretly fomented
under the covering wing of Masonry. It
was not very long after this, it will be
remembered, when South Carolina un-
dertook to nullify the acts of the gen-
eral government, and if we had had a
James Buchanan or an Andrew John-
son in the presidential chair, at that
time, instead of an Andrew Jackson,
no one can tell what might have hap-
pened.
At any rate, Morgan was so impressed
with the dangers threatening the country
through this institution (whether his
impressions were right or wrong), that
he resolved, at all hazards, to let in the
free light of heaven upon the Masonic
lodges. He had formed his plans, and
had associated with himself Colonel Mil-
ler as his publisher ; and when his pur-
pose was discovered, he did not deny it
or attempt to conceal himself, but boldly
remained at his post, resolved to take the
consequences.
The Masons on the other hand were
resolved that the revelation should not
be made — that the book should not be
published, if it was in their power, even
by the most extreme measures, to pre-
vent it. Soon after the notice, as above
given, was published in the Canandaigua
paper, it was caught up and published in
all the Masonic papers east and west. A
thrill of excitement had run through the
whole Masonic fraternity. They talked
about a traitor in the camp, and this lan-
guage, to a Masonic understanding,
meant one who had revealed the secrets.
They called upon all Masons everywhere
to ''observe, mark, and govern them-
selves accordingly," which was no other
than a summons to violent and extreme
measures.
Mr. David C. Miller (or Colonel Mil-
ler, as he was familiarly called) was
living at Batavia at the time I became
a resident there, and was pursuing his
business as proprietor and publisher of
the Republican Advocate. He had taken
one degree in Masonry, in the city
of Albany, some twenty years before.
The circumstances under which he took
that degree were these : He lived at
Saratoga, and was known to be publish-
ing a new edition of "Jachin and Boaz,"
an old book, first published in 1762, and
designed to reveal the secrets of Mason-
ry. The Masons thought if he could be
got into their order it would stop his
work on that book. He was according-
ly beset with solicitations to become a
Mason, to which at length he yielded. He
went to Albany and took the first degree.
As soon as he had taken it, he saw that
it was the very same that he was already
publishing. He was disgusted, rather
than pleased, with the whole business.
Captain Morgan, therefore, when he
wished to publish abroad the secrets of
Masonry, found in Colonel Miller a man
ready to co-operate with him.
(To be continued.)
THE FARMER JOINER.
Some men would rather be the Su-
preme High Gastricutis of the Ancient
Order of Woodchoppers than be elected
to Congress or act as marshal at the
county fair. The chances are that when
a farmer finds his chief delight in swing-
ing a 48-cent gavel and studying an ex-
purgated edition of the Masonic ritual his
cornfield will be so choked with squirrel
grass that the neighbors can't tell it from
head lettuce. We have known men who
could quote Robert's Rules of Order un-
til their bellows creaked, but they couldn't
make a 160-acre farm pay 4 per cent net
without forcing a trial balance that was
as crooked as a grape vine. As a deadly
scourge the lodge fever makes the Asi-
atic cholera look as harmless as a frost
bitten ladybug. It is more fatal to the
ambitions of some men than to have their
notes called in at the bank with a noise
like a peg-legged man falling on a tin
roof. — H. L. Rann.
— Indianapolis Star.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
January, 1912.
€J)itorial,
TASKS FOR A YEAR.
At the beginning of a year's work we
pause to confer with our readers and
helpers about certain things that ought
to be done in the course of issuing
twelve numbers of the magazine. What
good ends can the Cynosure serve this
year?
For one thing, it ought to catch the
attention and bind the interest of new
readers. Many of these do not now so
much as know its name.
To secure them it must contain mat-
ter prepared in such a way as to win and
not repel sincere souls. It is not enough,
even though indispensable, that its
words be true; they must be ''fitly
spoken/' conforming to the Biblical rule
"Be courteous." Thus will prejudice
against our cause be not intensified but
disarmed, while instead of exciting foes
we shall win allies.
It is not enough, however, to produce
a useful magazine, or even one adapted
to win readers. It must reach new read-
ers. Success at the point of production
could be canceled at the point of cir-
culation.
Editors and writers are at the begin-
ning of the line, all others at the end.
The man nearest the new reader is the
old reader. The editors begin the year
intending to write, and some readers
may be intending to secure wider atten-
tion to what is written. What we pro-
duce they can distribute. This would
promote the ends for which they are
glad to have us labor ; it would increase
that knowledge which they long^ to see
increased.
The magazine ought, also, to help the
helpers. It should be to them a maga-
zine in the sense of depositary of sup-
plies or ammunition. Public speakers
helping the cause, should find their re-
sources amplified by fresh items of in-
terest sent in from the field, or by new
arguments or new forms of presentation
provided by fresh employment of old
ones in the columns of the magazine.
Every public speaker needs fresh re-
sources and added help, and our helpers
who speak should be spoken to month
by month through printed words that
give their voice a new or stronger tone.
What has been said of speakers, holds
its force when applied to writers. Every
writer for the Press succeeds in pro-
portion to his ability to adapt his work
to his paper or magazine. While, there-
fore, it remains true that its writers are
helping the Cynosure, the magazine
ought meanwhile to help them by pro-
viding a share of the supply for such
needs as writers share with speakers.
Method and matter ought to be sug-
gested by its pages, to every contributor
who has the heart to aid with his pen.
It is obvious, then, that the year is
opening wide the door to this class of
helpers, whose peculiar privilege it is
thus to help one another.
As what is said of public speakers ap-
plies to writers, so also, much of what
can be said of both, is true of any who
render their help partly or wholly
through conversation. Some combine
the three forms of service ; others no
doubt make selection, or employ them
in diverse proportion. In private as in
public speech, the first help needed is
something to say. But, in conversation,
resources and abilities are liable to be
taxed suddenly and peculiarly. A writer
is alone with his subject; a speaker goes
along his chosen line in the presence of
spectators who' are silent ; but conversa-
tion implies response. Questions sudden-
ly asked must be promptly answered.
Objections must be met, contradictions
refuted. Helpers who need emergency
help, should not look in vain to the
magazine.
These are some of the tasks at hand
in doing which we wish to join with
readers of the Cynosure. New readers
are to be sought by old readers, and
won by what they read ; helpers, public
and private, are to be helped. The
magazine must be a magazine of ammu-
nition for another year's campaign.
The name of the Honorable J. A.
Conant of Willimantic, Connecticut, was
a familiar one in days past to many
readers of the Cynosure, and they will
be interested to know that he is still
alive and serving his day and generation
as of old.
January, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
271
Many readers have asked whether the
'Tower of the Secret Empire" which
has been running during the past year
was substantially true as to facts, and in
replying to our readers we wish to say
that while Miss E. E. Flagg's story is
fiction, yet it has a basis of facts
throughout, as those know who are
familiar with the ''Broken Seal," a his-
tory written by Samuel D. Green, who
was master of the lodge of which Cap-
tain Wm. Morgan was a member, and
also at one time president of the town
council of Batavia. Further facts made
use of by Miss Flagg are found in the
story of Mary Lyman's wrongs as re-
lated by Judge Whitney in his "De-
fense" before the Grand Lodge of Illi-
nois. We believe that it will be of spe-
cial interest to those who have read Miss
Flagg's story, to read at least a portion
of the history of that time, as written
by Mr. Samuel D. Green, and hence we
shall begin its publication in this num-
ber, and continue it as long as it seems
profitable to do so.
President Blanchard's letter, review-
ing the McNamara matter which closed
last month in Los Angeles, will be read
with interest. It was good to read Ex-
President Roosevelt's statement in the
Outlook that, "That murders committed
by men like the McNamaras, although
nominally in the interest of organized la-
bor, difi:er not one whit in moral culpa-
bility from those committed by the
'Black Hand' or by any band of mere
cut-throats, and are fraught with in-
finitely heavier menace to society." The
outcome is cause for national rejoicing.
The witnesses and the documentary evi-
dence secured came from over twenty-
five different states. It is stated by
President Blanchard that one of the
chief objects of a campaign like that of
the McNamaras is to compel all laboring
men to be unionized. McNamara him-
self maintained that he had no intention
of taking life, but that his object was
only to scare the "Scabs."
It is incredible that the work of the
dynamiters could have been carried on
in so many different places, and for so
long a time, without the heads of the
labor unions being cognizant of their
work, nor without the leaders having
furnished the men with the large sums
of money necessary. The end is not yet.
Those are to be tried who attempted to
bribe the jury in the McNamara case.
Will the labor unions furnish money
for their defense as for the Mc-
Namaras ? Attention is called to the re-
view of the course of the leading attor-
ney, which appears in this number un-
der the title, "Lawyer Morals," and
is an editorial from the Lutheran Stand-
ard.
KNIGHTS OF THE ROYAL ARCH.
The official organ of this secret liquor
lodge is the "Washington Royal Arch
Journal." We quote the following:
"The Royal xArch is not a political or-
ganization."
"While it is true the liquor business
is more or less subject to whims and dic-
tates, yet it will be my policy to keep
the organization out of politics except
where forced to protect itself against
those who would legislate it out of busi-
ness."
If there is any subject in politics to-
day it is the saloon question. No one
realizes this more acutely than the liquor
business, and none are more active in
politics than the liquor interests, and yet
this secret saloon lodge, Knights of the
Royal Arch, copying other secret so-
cieties, declares, "The Royal Arch is
not a political organization."
Like other members of the Secret Em-
pire it is pious. We quote again from
the official organ :
"Whereas, The Valiant Grand Com-
mander of the Universe in His infinite
wisdom, has seen fit to remove from our
midst, and to the Supreme Lodge on
high, the following named members of
our subordinate lodges * ''^ *"
Public opinion on the saloon question
has created such a standard that Ma-
sonry and Odd fellowship and some other
lodges have, in recent years, passed reso-
lutions of various kinds, barring bar-
tenders from holding membership. Not-
withstanding this, it does not seem to
reduce very greatly the number of sa-
loon men who are members of these
various lodges. However, the movement
has been strong enough to lead to the
organization of quite a number of strict-
ly pro-saloon lodges. We publish in
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
January, 1912.
this number a few testimonies from W.
C. T. U. leaders, and of course, with a
little effort, could secure a large num-
ber. \Miy is it. however, that this great
organization refuses to take any posi-
tion antagonistic to secret societies of
any kind ? Has its leadership to a large
extent fallen into the hands of ambitious
lodge women ?
and not copyrighted exclusively by the
claimants under the new law. Such a
return of Catalinian conspirators recalls
Cicero's exclamation, "Ubinam gentium
sumus? in qua urbe vivimus? quam re-
publican! habemus ?"
NO SECRETS TODAY.
A recent magazine article on The
Trend of the Times contains one para-
graph relating to the open, universal,
and speedy circulation of current in-
formation, the closing sentence of which
will interest our own readers.
"Anything of importance that now
transpires is telegraphed all over Chris-
tendom. We send a message around the
world in eight minutes ; and we travel
that distance in one-half the time in
which Jules Verne's hero made his rec-
ord-breaking tour. We can call up the
Czar of Russia at supper-time and get
his reply before breakfast. We tele-
phone across the continent. There are
no secrets today, and this is a thing that
all secret societies admit for the first
time in all history."
. This admission seems to render more
absurd that mediaeval legislation lately at-
tempted, and perhaps enacted, which
treats ]\Iasonic or Jesuit secrets as in
such sense the property of the order as
to entitle a society officer to replevin
proceedings. A man's premises may be
diligently searched for a book which
must be confiscated if it literally copies
from a Jesuit, Masonic, or other similar
ritual. Since it is admitted that the
matter thus taken away from its pur-
chaser is not secret in other states, or
even here, how can what the supposed
owner has paid for be in any sense the
property of the order? Under what con-
struction of property rights can it be
subject to replevin? Under what color
can a demand be made that any citizen
open his doors to searchers for prop-
erty which he and no one else has pur-
chased, if the items of mummery it con-
tains are admittedly not so secret as to
be, for that reason, the peculiar and in-
alienable property of an organization
that makes use of them? Aggravation
of the absurdity is obvious when the
very books sought for are copyrighted,
SARCOPHAGUS AND MISSION
SCHOOL.
William T. Ellis, "widely known as
a newspaper man," contributed an article
to the S. S. Times for Dec. 3, on "New
Yeast in Old Turkey." He finds a type
of what has preceded the young Turk
movement, noting that "an exhumed
marble sarcophagus is a favorite drink-
ing trough in the Turkish Empire. I
have seen," says he, "dozens of such ;
for it is easier in the Levant to scratch
the surface of the earth and uncover
antiquities for present use than it is to
quarry new stone. The sarcophagus
water trough is a type of Turkey ; it has
been living from its dead past, and no
new springs have been permitted to burst
forth.
"And what a past ! The great high-
ways of ancient history ran through
what is now Turkey; and over them
marched the hosts of the Caesars, the
Persians, the Babylonians, the Assyr-
ians, the Phoenicians, the Israelites, the
Arabs, the Turks and the Crusaders. A
journey over the highway across Asia
Minor and through the Cilician Gates is
like taking the world's history in tabloid
form.
"Most of the glorious capitals and
centers of empire in antiquity were
here — Troy, Byzantium, Sardis, Alex-
andria, Tarsus, Antioch, Tyre, Sidon,
Jerusalem, Palmyra, Nineveh and Baby-
lon. In ruins, Turkey is the richest na-
tion in the world. It holds what remains
of the oldest civilizations.
"The holy places of the earth are also
mostly within the borders of the Sultan's
domain," Writing in an interesting way
about these, he at length says : "The
Garden of Eden is usually located in
Mesopotamia, which like the equally un-
known reaches of Arabia, is under the
red flag with the white star and cres-
cent. What a huge, old, and inert mass
is this to be leavened by the yeast of to-
day ! Nevertheless, the leaven is at
work."
January, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
273
Later in the article this newspaper
man says : "After careful observation I
have come to the conclusion that the best
assets Great Britain and the United
States have in Turkey are the American
Mission Schools. These have done more
to enhance the prestige of the English-
speaking nations, and to offset the deter-
mined efforts of certain European pow-
ers, than all the arts of diplomacy."
We have followed the writer thus far
in order to arrive at a few words in-
cluded in the paragraph that ends the
article. ''Back of all, stands the new
government, still an experiment, pledged
to modern ways, but forced to strike
hands with the reactionaries. The Young
Turks are not good Moslems, though up-
holders of Islam's rights. They have a
marked Jewish strain, and are prac-
tically all of them Masons; indeed, the
Young Turk movement is essentially
Masonic."
In borrowing Masonry directly or in-
directly from England, they have doubt-
less conformed to the rule to place on
the lodge altar, with the Square and
Compass of the Mason, the "Book of
the Law" belonging to whatever country
includes the lodge in its domain. In
Turkey this is the Koran, which Ma-
sonic authority recognizes as the book
which should there displace the Bible.
The presence of Freemasonry in addi-
tion to Mohammedanism, seems, if pos-
sible, to intensify the need and impor-
tance of those American mission schools,
needed as a bulwark against both sys-
tems of error.
There is no valor in secrecy ! Valor
shows its hand ! and scorii« the secrecy
of the assassin. They are the "whis-
perers" that St. Paul classes with the
haters of God and murderers. They
are (the manipulators of the game) a
relic of the barbarous "Ku Kluxers"
who attempt to put the yoke upon the
necks of better men than themselves.--
The Patriarch.
A PROPOSED PRECEDENT.
That government game law expert
who is responsible for a plan which, if
we have understood rightly, would make
the order of Elks the official custodian
of elks distributed in the public parks
and zoological gardens of the country,
may be a good zoologist, yet not good at
everything. To make a secret order an
ex officio element of the executive de-
partment of a democratic government,
would be a preposterous scheme.
People naming themselves after
beasts, are not therefore entitled to be
herded with beasts by the government
and fed from the same treasury trough.
Why should a single kind of animal be
taken out of the skilled care of keepers
of zoological gardens, and committed to
a lot of joiners in white aprons? Are
the beavers to be fenced off in the same
way?
If the precedent is followed far
enough, there will be cages for owls and
eagles under special lodge auspices, and
how many beasts, birds, or reptiles, will
in the end be left without patron lodge
saints, no one can tell. What, after
that, would be left for Oddfellows, vari-
ous kinds of Knights, and humble com-
mon people to do, except to let all ani-
mals alone, leaving them to the devices
of official custodians, authorized by the
open government, conducted by the peo-
ple, yet appointed solely as a secret and
solitary clan, does not appear,
INCOMPATIBLE AND INIMICAL.
A general order issued from the Post-
office Department at Washington, and
received here in Chicago the first day of
December, required all secret societies
composed exclusively of employes of the
Department immediately to disband.
Most of these men in Chicago belonged
to the National Federation of Post-office
Clerks, and this, in turn, belonged to
the American Federation of Labor. The
Department regards membership in this
kmd of secret organization as incom-
patible with an employe's oath of serv-
ice, and so "Inimical to the interests of
the government."
Yet it seems hardly probable that any
obligation is assumed by the member
which is so open to such condemnation
as certain obligations of Free IMasonry.
Obviously reasonable as far as it goes.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
January, 1912.
the Department rule is less reasonable
in its limitations. It strains at a gnat
and swallows a camel. The post-office
clerk cannot belong to a union, but can
be a ^lason, bound to keep criminal se-
crets for other employes, or a Royal
Arch ]\Iason. bound in addition to help
them out of trouble resulting from
crime.
The political power of Masonry in
the state of Ohio was evidenced in the
life of one of her citizens, said at one
time to have been the highest Mason
in the State. He w^as buried with the
highest honors in Masonry. This man
secured a high position in the public
schools, but was finalh^ compelled to re-
tire because of complaints as to his lead-
ing young men into evil ways. Having
means and a high social standing, it was
declared that he held secret functions
in his own private room, where he had
gathered certain select young men and
at which time gaming and drinking were
indulged in. He wished to marry a
wealthy w^oman, but when it was found
that her w^ealth would be alienated in the
case of her marriage, he married another
wealthy w^oman. It is said, however,
that he often visited the former woman
at the hotel in the city where she lived.
One night he attacked his wife after she
had retired, and tried to beat her to
death with a bag of sand. Her screams
brought a servant and she was rescued.
If he had succeeded, he would have
gained the large wealth of his wife, and
could have married the woman of his
choice.
There w^as no defense possible, and he
was found guilty of attempted murder,
and sent to a sanitarium for temporary
insanity. In that institution, he was at
once appointed bookkeeper at a good
salary. After his discharge he became
County Treasurer and to him, under
protests, the citizens had to pay their
taxes. Such is declared by his neighbors
to be the character of the man, and yet
at his death he received the highest
honors of Masonry, and the press ex-
erted itself to do him honor.
ANCIENT ANTI-MASONRY.
'Tf I have beheld the sun when it shined,
Or the moon walking in brightness.
And my heart hath been secretly enticed.
And my mouth hath kissed my hand ;
This also were an iniquity to be punished
by the judges;
For I should have denied the God that is
above." Job. ji: 26, 28.
The expression here indicating one of
the forms of Pagan worship, in its origi-
nal Hebrew order, reads : 'Tf my hand
hath kissed my mouth." A similar if not
identical act of devotion is indicated in I
Kings, 19:18, "Yet w^ill I leave me seven
thousand in Israel: all tlie knees which
have not bowed under Baal, and every
mouth which hath not kissed him."
Something like the same reprobated act
of pagan worship probably reappears in
Hosea 13 :2 : ''And now they sin more
and more, and have made them molten
images of their silver, even idols accord-
ing to their own understanding — all of
them the work of the craftsmen ; they
say of them : 'Let the men that sacrifice
kiss the calves.' "
It is, indeed, the act of a heathen, or
a partaker with heathen, to kiss the hand
devoutly to an idol, or to an imaginary
divinity, or a principal in nature, or a
visible work of the Creator, set above the
world and shining in the heavens ; and it
is an equivalent act to kneel or in any
way express veneration, adoration and
religious devotion of the same purport
and kind. Disguised by wdiatever ver-
bal evasion, renamed by whatever term,
excused by whatever subterfuge chosen
to veil the reality, it is actual worship.
It might seem otherwise if worship
were accredited only to the voice, but
an act of worship need not include
prayer, or praise, or any use of words.
Attitude rather than speech can be the
primary and essential idea. The same
cult that would have "denied the God
that is above" is exposed in Ezekiel 8:16,
by the prophet to whom w^as shown great
and "greater abominations." Egypt knew
it in early times ; it scorched the groves
of Athens and the hills of Rome; it
wound its serpentine way amid the vales
and rivers of the Levant. Even yet it
lingers beside the Indus and the Ganges,
thous^h missionaries carry thither a light
above the brightness of the sun.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
275
Its forms are never absent anywhere
from the Masonic lodge, and speculative
Masonry looks back to its ancient shrines
as the antecedents of its own. "Our an-
cient brethren worshiped on the highest
hills," says Masonic authority, referring
to the idolatrous "high places ;" and a
Freemason has declared : "I know of no
sufficient reason for supposing that Sol-
omon was ever anything but a sun wor-
shiper." Pierson, too, asserts in the
"Traditions of Freemasonry," that "the
identity of the Masonic institution with
the ancient mysteries is obvious from
the striking coincidences found to exist
between them," and avers that "The
legend and traditions of Hiram Abiff
form the consummation of the connect-
ing links between Freemansry and the
ancient Mysteries." The "Freemasons'
Guidge," by Sickles, teaches, moreover,
that "Osiris and the Tyrian Architect,
i. e., Hiram Abiff, are one and the same
—not a mortal individual, but an immor-
tal -principle," Avhile the "Lexicon of
Freemasonry" also explains that "Osiris
was the sun." It is in connection with
a dramatic use of the Pagan Sun Myth,
which is acted out in the completing in-
itiation of the third degree, that the
Third Pbint orf Fellow^ship binds the
candidate to shelter criminal secrets con-
fessed to him by members of that de-
gree. False worship never fails to be
linked with false morals.
INAUGURAL IMPRECATION.
"A more rhetorical note," observes the
Springfield Republican^ "than is common-
ly expected from a college president re-
sounded in the inaugural address of the
new president of the University of Ver-
mont, Dr. Guy Potter Benton. Yet while
part of his discourse, as for example the
fervid eulogy of the college yell, is rath-
er overdone, the address contains much
sound advice. * '•' ^'' On such a festive
occasion even a remote allusion to pain-
ful subjects like aortists or logarithmic
functions might have cast a gloom over
the assembly, yet there is quite as much
need for a pronunciamento in regard to
the value of hard w^ork as for such im-
passioned rhetoric on the spirit which
animates young manhood and woman-
hood. 'There is no music so sweet to me,'
declares this university president, as the
yell of the college student.' Ter, quater-
cpte beams! He is likely, after so broad
a hint, to get enough to satisfy even his
robust ear.
" 'Every time a boy yells for his college
or his university, he is drawing its colors
about him a little more securely, and thus
he is laying the foundation for that larger
patriotism w^hich, in later years, will ac-
centuate his love of country. Let that
fossil who declaims against football be rel-
egated to the museum of the antiquities.
Let dumbness strike him who would use his
voice against the songs and shouts of joy-
ous college men when they triumph in ora-
tory or debate. Restrained be the arm of
the tyrant who would reach out a hand to
throttle class spirit. Blinded be the eyes
of him who will see nothing but evil in de-
votion to fraternity.' "
It appears that the inaugural orator
has heard something about college fra-
ternities from men not yet as blind as he
wishes them. He may have glanced with
averted eye at statistics of comparative
scholarship which showed a balance
sheet lacking in rhetorical flourish but
cogent in its inferences and indications.
His imprecation will blind none save the
already purblind whom it dazzles, and
men who have observed facts will con-
tinue to see them as before.
FRATERNITIES OF ASSASSINS.
An article copied in May, 191 1, from
Tit-Bits by a daily newspaper, gave an
alarming account of European secret or-
ders, declaring that "The whole conti-
nent of Europe is honeycombed with
such societies, who set all laws at defi-
ance and are a constant terror to law-
abiding people."
The continental police knew as the
desperate leader of the "Zmowa Robot-
nicza" gang, Morountzefif, wdio escaped
when twelve members were captured and
hung, but was finally shot accidentally
by a fellow criminal during an attempted
burglary at Moundsditch. These vil-
lains devoted themselves to violence and
robbery, and in their outrages seven per-
sons were killed. The Mafia, too, is a
terrible fraternity, which has been the
terror of Sicily for several generations.
Like Freemasonry, it can boast a mem-
bership invading all classes. With out-
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laws, thieves and sharpers, it includes
mayors, judges and members of Parlia-
ment. They assist smugglers and make
a specialty of blackmail. This secret or-
der has been characterized as *'an un-
approachable and multiform union of
persons of all classes, who aid each other,
in spite of the law and morality, to mur-
der, to intimidate and sequestrate land-
ed properties, to raise a ring in the corn
market, to forge wills, to influence the
results of trials, and to push their best
men into government offices."
The ]\Iafia is an impressive example
of powerful secret organization, and its
resistless operation is shown by cases
that deserve to be pondered by any who
think lightly of the influence and operat-
ing force of secret orders. ''One day a
large case arrived at the Palermo cus-
toms labeled 'Biscuits.' The customs offi-
cials opened it, and discovered half a
million francs in forged bank-notes. Not
one of them, however, dared to speak.
The case was reclosed and sent on to
its destination, a well-known and 'hon-
orable' merchant, w^ithout a word. In
another case the young son of a certain
prince w^as kidnaped and a sum of
£100,000 w^as demanded for his return.
The prince immediately sent the money,
without breathing a syllable to a single
soul about the incident, which only be-
came known to the police some time later
from a discovery of the letters of nego-
tiation."
The Camorra reaches much farther
than the Mafia, infesting Turkey and be-
ing influential in almost the whole of the*
Levant. This fraternity of assassins
arose in the former kingdom of Naples,
where it terrorized the country. It
stopped at no crime for which it was
hired, and it carried on for itself such
business as smuggling and plundering.
Like Masons these hypocrites are sancti-
monious, swearing a fearful oath of se-
crecy on an iron cross. After long pro-
bation the candidate receives two knives
of peculiar form. By these the brothers
recognize each other.
Recently the Camorra has been ac-
credited with three-quarters of all fires
in Constantinople. The method is to
clear a selected house or shop of all val-
uable contents, saturate its walls and
floors with petroleum, and set fire to it.
Any agent refusing to pay the insurance
money pays with his own life, being
assassinated without delay. The Ca-
morra is at the service of those who can
pay for assassins. A jealous wife can
get rid of a rival, and business can be
settled if threats fail. A stab in the
dark is unseen, even by the one whom
the Camorra bleeds for the bloody serv-
ice. Like Masonry, the Camorra as well
as the Mafia can boast the membership
of all classes and conditions of men.
While v/crkingmen are represented, so
also are men of fashion ; humble citizens
are brothers w^ith those of rank.
The Czar, Alexander I, belongs to the
Hetaira, and through his whole reign
Napoleon III was subject to the grand
master of the Carbonari which he had
joined when young. It is evident that
the exculpation to which Freemasonry
is wont to resort is also available to
other organizations of the secret kind,
for they can claim high patronage. It
shares v/ith them likewise in suspending
the death penalty over initiates who do
not bend low to ?ts will.
CENSURE FROM A SUBORDINATE
LODGE.
A newspaper in an adjacent state re-
ported August 25 that the recent dis-
courtesy to President Taft shown by cer-
tain high officials of the Connecticut state
grange is denounced by the grange at
Washington, Ct., as "gross and unwar-
ranted ;" and, furthermore, the members,
"in sorrow and not in anger, express our
keen regret that the representatives of
our order have by their conduct brought
the blush of shame to every loyal and
patriotic member of the grange."
January, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
277
ibttuarti*
EMMA R. WHITHAM.
SEPTEMBER 4, 1852 NOVEMBER 7, I9II.
The second member of the corporate
body of the National Christian Associa-
tion to join the heavenly ranks within
the past few weeks was Mrs. Emma
Rhodes Whitham.
Though of a quiet, retiring disposi-
tion, she was a woman of more than
ordinary force of character. She was
a warm friend of our Association and
blessed with her presence a number of
our Annual Meetings. It seems to the
writer that Mr. H. L. Terry's verse
breathes the spirit of Mrs. Whitham's
hfe:
I love my home, my cheery hearth, —
I love the true and .^ood on earth.
And all that warms, and all that cheers.
And all that drives away our fears;
And Him who blesses my dear home,
And guides my footsteps where'er I roam.
Our friend was born in Geneva,
Wisconsin, and died at her home at
Pontiac, Illinois, from a severe cold
which rapidly developed into pleuro-
pneumonia. Besides her many friends
and her aged mother, she leaves her hus-
band and four children to mourn her de-
parture.
She was converted early in life and
joined the Baptist Church, in which she
taught a large Sunday School class.
She always took an active part in
whatever was for the best interests of
the community. Besides her interest in
the anti-secrecy reform, she was active
in the temperance cause, being at the
time of her death Corresponding Secre-
tary and Superintendent of evangelistic
work for the W. C. T. U. in her county.
BANS MASONIC FUNERAL.
New York, October 26. — Following
the decision of the Missouri synod of
the Lutheran church that "Freemasonry
conflicts with the Christian Church," the
Rev. J. P. Riedel prohibited a Masonic
funeral in his church.
3letti0 of §nx Wotk
We are pleased to be able to introduce
to our readers a new worker. Elder S.
D. Murphree, pastor in the Christian
church of Cherokee City, Arkansas. He
is a seceder from Masonry and Odd Fel-
lowship and has been letting his light
shine with good effect in his State. Our
brother. Evangelist L. J. Davis, of Lun-
dy, Missouri, sent him a copy of the
Cynosure, concerning which favor
Brother Murphree writes to us, ''A copy
of the Christian Cynosure has fallen
into my hands, and I cannot express,
in words, my gladness ! I am bitterly op-
posed to all secret orders, and am glad
to know of other people who are also
opposed to them."
Russell L. Jones, Pastor-Evangelist,
Oxford, Nova Scotia, writes, 'T am
starting a free tract depot for the prov-
inces, and am planning to send out all
tracts free to the Lord's people who will
agree to circulate same. I recognize the
evil of secret societies and our church
will not receive into its membership any
who are bound to secret orders."
Who among our Canadian subscrib-
ers will send us money so that we may
supply the above mentioned depot with
the tracts which the brother says he will
send out, two in each one of his pack-
ages? Let us sow the seed. Some is
sure to fall on good ground.
SECRETARY STODDARD'S REPORT.
Norristown, Pa., Dec. i6th, 1911.
Dear Cynosure:
Stopping for lunch at a restaurant on
North Twentieth, near Lehigh, Philadel-
phia, the other day, I found the pro-
prietor talking to a gentleman about his
lodge. He had supplied a "feed" for
them at cost, but did not wish to do so
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
January, 1912.
again, because of the work, etc. I in-
quired what lodge he was connected
with ; he repHed "The Red Men."
I then asked several questions which
brought forth repHes of interest: *'You
doubtless have a good many members
in vour lodge?" ''Yes, we are growing
verV fast. We had a hell of a time at
our last meeting. Prizes are given to
those getting the most members. I have
only been a member three months, but
I have brought in live new members.
There were so many to be initiated at the
last meeting that the degree team want-
ed to send some away, and I was mad,
for I had invited them to come."
"It must be pretty hard on the degree
team to initiate so many at once." "Oh,
they could do it all right, they could
change and get others to help."
•'What are these prizes that are being
given
oM <<
^ 'Oh, some get buttons, some
rings or watch fobs, according as they
get members."
"Out in Columbus, Ohio, when they
were initiating a Tale face' they made
such a noise that the people living near
called on the police to get them to be
more quiet." "I suppose you have pretty
noisy times?" "We have cut out a lot of
that d nonsense, some would not
stand for it, and it got very monotonous
after you had seen it two or three times.
Of course, there is plenty of that in the
haymakers degree."
What a pity that Christians should be
so indifterent to whether their neighbors
are having '"a hell of a time" or a heaven
of a time. If a restaurant keeper can
work hard to get members in this soul-
degrading thing for a button, how much
more should we work that othe*:s may
know the "joys of salvation!"
My work during the month has pro-
gressed as usual. "The goods were de-
livered" in our Wisconsin convention, as
the business men say. There was surely
reason to thank God for what was ac-
complished in the Badger State.
The meeting at Zion City, Illinois, was
well sustained, all things considered.
The night was dark and rainy. Elder
Bryant was very kind and considerate.
There were several Cynosure friends
present, whom I had not seen for years,
all seemed glad to hear and help.
Zion City has not progressed of late.
There have been many factions, and
much to discourage. One of the city of-
ficials compared the paying of the peo-
ple's money to pouring water into a rat
hole. They saw it disappear, but that
was all. The city is well located, and
new industries are anticipated, and bet-
ter times expected. The people are gen-
erally moral and industrious. Lodges
are among the things excluded. Your
representative was assured there would
be a large hearing when another lecture
should be given.
On Sababth, Dec. 3d, I met with the
people of the Friends church, Washing-
ton, D. C, for worship. Benjamin True-
blood, of the America Peace Association,
was speaking and working for the pro-
posed treaties that are now before the
nation. There is surely reason for re-
joicing in the successes being attained in
this direction of universal peace. We
must all labor and pray for the exalta-
tion of the "Prince of Peace."
Philadelphia has given her usual sup-
port to the N. C. A. cause. Our work
is strengthened in this great center with
the passing of the years. I found op-
portunity to present the truth to the peo-
ple of the "Whole Gospel Mission
church," and in the first Reformed Pres-
byterian church, the latter meeting be-
ing largely attended and a contribution
taken for the work. The session of this
church invites here another of our State
conventions. Rev. Dr. Stevenson is to
be congratulated on the success of his
church in the new location.
I have gathered a good-sized list of
Cynosure subscriptions in this section.
There is lack of time for lectures want-
ed. The evening paper announces my
presence in this city and invites the peo-
ple to a "rare opportunity" to hear my
proposed addresses.
On Tuesday evening (D. V.) I am to
speak in Faith Tabernacle, Philadelphia.
Their class in training for gospel work
is larger than ever, I am told. They
have given me a splendid hearing in oth-
er years.
It would seem as if our cause should
make splendid advance this winter. With
the McNamaras in jail, the detectives
and government officials working to dis-
cover those who stood back of them, we
should not fail to use the opportunity to
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show that secret societies may be used
for the zvorst of purposes and that all
good citizens should seek to put them
out of existence.
W. B. Stoddard.
AGENT DAVIDSON'S ITINERANCY.
Melville, La., Dec. 8th, 191 1.
Dear Cynosure:
.Since my last letter I have been busy
about the Master's work. I left the
Baptist State Convention, at Minden,
La., and went to Shreveport, spending a
day and night there giving out some
tracts. From there I went to Mansfield,
spent the Sabbath, took a few subscrip-
tions and distributed tracts. On the
twelfth, I preached for Rev. Richards
at the Corinthian Baptist church. The
District Baptist Academy is accomplish-
ing much good under the able direction
of Prof. J. H. Whaley and his wife.
After leaving Mansfield, I went to my
home in Alexandria, where I preached
for Rev. Smith, pastor of the Colored
M. E. church. This man of God does
not cease to tell his people of the awful
evils of secretism, and God has gracious-
ly stood by him.
There are a great many unbecoming
practices among the colored people in
their churches. Of course, they are dis-
guised by some religious name. This is
especially noticeable at what they call
their ''Church Rallies." At these gath-
erings a number of preachers assemble,
some representing churches, and others
representing lodges. Each speaker ha-
rangues the audience for fifteen or twen-
ty minutes, and then some one leads off in
a song and such a "rapping of jubba"
and "dancing of Jim Crow" you never
heard. Then half a dozen men and
women get right out into the ailse and
dance a regular quadrille or Irish jig.
Such a course of procedure is absurd,
ridiculous, and an outrage on the name
of Christianity. Some of these ignorant
and superstitious preachers declare that
unless they permit such nonsense in their
churches, their people will not give any
money. I attended such a meeting a few
weeks ago, and said at the time that I
hoped that the time would soon come
when the negro preachers would prepare
themselves to preach the simple gospel,
and lift themselves and their people
above such ignorance and nonsense.
When I had finished speaking, the pas-
tor, a young man, rose and administered
a scathing rebuke to me, and declared as
to himself : 'T come here and found dis,
an de peepul gwinter keep it up." Until
the negro ministers prepare themselves
to preach and lead their people properly,
the masses cannot be lifted to higher
ground.
At Elba, where I next visited, I met
Mrs. A. B. King, as busy as a bee teach-
ing a rural school. The discipline main-
tained by her in her school is commend-
able indeed. The Mount Pleasant Bap-
tist church, seventeen years ago when I
preached for them, was one of the finest
congregations in the State. They kept
every branch of their church work alive,
but in those days there were no secret
societies on the Atchafalaya River. Their
present pastor, who is a Royal Arch Ma-
son, could not be content until he had
a lodge of "Tabernacles" organized in
the church and had coaxed a large num-
ber of his members to join. As a result,
the church is spiritually, financially and
intellectually dead. They hold few ser-
vices in the church, unless their lodge
pastor is on hand. The sexton did not
open the church for me to preach, but I
gave out a few tracts, secured a few
readers for the Cynosure, and had sev-
eral private home conferences which I
feel sure will bear fruit.
Here at Melville, I paid a visit to the
public school under Professor J. H. Gaf-
fey. I found fifty pupils all busy and
receiving the very best attention. I dis-
tributed tracts, secured a number of
Cynosure subscriptions, and preached
for Rev. L. J. Campell. The lodge is
not as strong here as it is in most places
of this size. A lodge organized by the
Knights of Pythias died for lack of
support. The Odd Fellows have organ-
ized a club here preparatory to organ-
izing a lodge, but I hope to check any
such action by means of the tracts and
Cynosures left here.
I was kindly received at Bunkie by the
family of Rev. J. W. White, and paid a
visit to the Baptist Academy there,
where I learned of the good work being
done by Professor Willis. I added a few
Cynosure readers to my list and depart-
ed. Yours for a pure Gospel Church,
F. J. Davidson.
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SOWING THE SEED.
Cedaredge, Colo., Nov. 25th, 191 1.
Dear Brother Phillips :
]\Iy health has been so poor this fall
that I have not been able to attend pub-
lic services.
I enjoy reading the Cynosure from
month to month. I believe what is
needed in our day is for those of us who
know the evils of the secret system to
stand by our convictions and give the
trumpet "no uncertain sound.'' This
can be done by placing in the hands of
those in the lodges reading matter on the
question.
It was reading matter showing the
system to be unchristian that decided me
to drop my lodge nearly thirty years ago.
and I have never regretted the step I
took. I am satisfied there are many poor
souls all over the country who are hold-
ing onto the lodge, that would come out
if they could be convinced that they were
unchristian.
I received a letter a few days ago
from a friend telling me of loaning my
book ''My Lodge Experience," and how,
after carefully reading it, he left the
lodge.
May the Dear Lord bless you in put-
ting out reading matter on this question,
and may it convince many honest hearts
that there is something so much better
that they will have no time or money to
spend in that kind of way.
While I am still unable to do any pub-
lic work, still I am doing all I can
through correspondence and putting out
reading. I received a letter from an en-
tire stranger a short time ago saying he
had read an article from me that Chris-
tians should keep out of secret societies,
and that he and several others were
members of the church and of the
Knights of Pythias too. He said, "We
worship God above all. If a man is not
a good Christian he cannot do his duty
as a knight. So let me know soon what
you have against an order. Send me a
sample of your paper." The poor man
is holding onto the lodge simply from
the lack of knowledge. I sent him read-
ing matter showing that as defenders of
the gospel, and as leaders of the people,
every Christian should "Be not unequal-
ly yoked together with unbelievers ;
wherefore come out from among them
and be ye separate, saith the Lord."
George O. States.
EXPERIENCES AS PASTOR AND
EVANGELIST.
rev. g. a. pegram.
In response to Brother Phillips' kind
invitation to write a letter for the
Cynosure, I will briefly recite a few of
my experiences and observations since I
last met with the Cynosure family.
The secret society system has not died :
neither have I. It has not ceased to op-
pose the true religion of Christ, in all of
its purity, power and richness ; neither
have I ceased to warn people of the mon-
umental errors of this modern idolatry.
One cannot turn around in modern so-
ciety, business, church, school or politics
without being confronted with this poly-
cephalous idol. Its names, forms and
kinds are legion.
When I quit reform work proper, I
re-entered the pastorate. I served two
different churches. I followed a Ma-
son at one place, and an Odd Fellow at
the other. When I left each of these
churches according to our itinerant sys-
tem, a Mason was appointed to follow
me at each place. The district superin-
tendent has never failed to find a lodge
minister to follow me, except in one in-
stance.
In the two cases specified, both the
district superintendents were Masons,
and both belonged to other orders. When
I went to each one of these churches,
the district superintendents tried to run
me into the hands of their Masonic
brethren. I know the tricks of lodge
superintendents in advance, and refused
to be corralled in the interest of any
lodge, or worked by any lodge whatso-
ever. It is needless to say that every
lodge man and superintendent implicated
became offended when they found that
I would not squeak when they squawked,
and sneeze when they sneezed. There
was one Odd Fellow who was an excep-
tion. He was true to the last. But the
superintendent became offended at him
because he was fair and true.
One district superintendent insisted on
me joining the Odd Fellows. I refused.
He asked why? I told him because I
did not consider it was the place for a
Christian, and especially a Christian min-
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
281
ister. He straightway told some of the
Odd Fellows who attended my church
that I said no Odd Fellow could be a
Christian. Several Odd Fellows ceased
to attend church, for which the superin-
tendent blamed me. One who has had
nO' experience can scarcely realize the
consummate meanness of even Christian
ministers actuated by the real lodge
spirit.
But there happened to be a few Odd
Fellows and Masons connected with that
church who had a little principle. These
stood loyally by me through thick and
thin ; while a few dropped out. My bit-
terest enemies were a Mason and an
Odd Fellow and their families, both of
whom were beer guzzlers, even while of-
ficers in the church. Suffice it tO' say that
these abused the lodge men who were
friends to me.
At one of the conferences I attended,
serious charges were preferred against
one district superintendent. These were
signed by nineteen official members of
a church on his district. Several of
them were at conference to testify
against him. Many of those who could
not go, wrote letters to be used against
him. But presto ! The bishop was a
Mason, and the district superintendent
was a Mason, and the bishop positively
would not let the matter come up at all.
All the district superintendents were
Masons, and the committee on confer-
ence relations were Masons, and so the
whole thing was smothered.
But wait till the judgment day and
Almighty God will bring all their mean-
ness to light, and reward them for their
wickedness.
While at this same Conference I heard
of a case similar to this : A district su-
perintendent in another conference had
serious charges lodged against him from
different appointments on his district.
Twenty or more men w^ent from differ-
ent parts of the district to testify against
him. But here was another Masonic
bishop back of another Masonic super-
intendent. When these witnesses could
not get a regular legal hearing, they
went to the bishop's place of entertain-
ment, and called him out. He came out,
and said : 'T hold here in my hands
charges against this district superintend-
ent from eight different churches on his
district, charging him with lying, dis-
honesty, maladministration, and un-
christian conduct and spirit. I only con-
sider them so many recommendations for
him. Good day, gentlemen." Say isn't
it fine to be a Mason ? You can scarcely
bring one to justice even in a conference
of Methodist ministers. No wonder they
are dead spiritually.
I know this bishop and this superin-
tendent. I have talked with that bishop
on Masonry. He said he would not ad-
vise any one to join. Faith \vithout
works is dead. But works may be very
much alive without any faith ! See ! The
only time I ever heard this district su-
perintendent he was addressing a lodge,
and the manner of his address showed
very plainly that his principal object was
to get a lodge pull.
At one of these churches I saw a
woman brought to trial for lying and
dishonesty, etc. She belonged to the
Eastern Star, and her husband to the
Masons. A Masonic minister was ap-
pointed to preside and conduct the trial.
He had a private talk with the defend-
ant. He would never divulge what
passed. His Masonic oaths forbade it.
But was it not strange that in a city of
1,200 or 1,500 Methodists he could not
lind any suitable persons to appoint on
the committee except some Masons and
personal friends of this woman. Her
witnesses contradicted themselves and
one another. But that does not matter,
when it is in behalf of a ]\Iason, or
against an anti-Mason. The trial was a
mere farce. The Masonic-ridden com-
mittee said, *'Not guilty." But the church
and community at large rendered a far
different verdict. The church itself
voted her out of every office unanimous-
ly. This was a far more just verdict
than was that of the packed jury.
Let us see now how these same people
treat an anti-Mason. In the same city,
one of the ablest and oldest ministers
had quietly renounced IMasonry. and had
nobly lent his support to this and other
reforms. None of this Masonic gang
liked him very much. The Masonic
bishop and Masonic superintendent an-
noyed and harassed him till he resigned
through loss of health and strength. He
moved to his farm. He was a trurtee of
a denominational school not far from his
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
January, 1912,
home. The board of trustees promptly
elected him tinancial agent. At confer-
ence this same tyrannical bishop who re-
fused to entertain serious charges against
a ^Masonic brother, now refuses to ap-
point a seceder to a position to which he
was duly elected. On the other hand he
proceeds to appoint him to a position at
the other end of the conference, as as-
sistant pastor to a man who was far his
inferior. But he was a Mason, don't
you see ?
Here in this state was another case.
A young minister became convicted on
the propriety of his belonging to a lodge.
It was during revival meeting. He de-
termined to settle it. So he prayed all
night over it. It resulted in his with-
drawal. The next night there were
seventy people came to the altar because
of his message. But what of that? At
the next conference his charge, almost
unanimously, invites him to return. But
his Masonic bishop and Masonic district
superintendent said "Go," and that settled
it. It nearly broke up the charge he
left. I am acquainted w^ith the facts, for
I have held two meetings on it. But
^\Iasonic bishops and superintendents do
not care w^hen it is to carry out a Ma-
sonic scheme.
I see the evidences of the secret hand
everywhere in my evangelistic work.
Nearly all the opposition I ever meet
comes from the saloon and lodge.
I never feel that I have done my whole
duty as a Christian minister till I have
declared the counsel of God against
needless mixing with the world. While
it nearly always offends some, I never
fail to find sincere sympathizers and
staunch supporters. And in several
places men have renounced their lodges.
After I closed my revival services at
Gatewood, ten or twelve different fam-
ilies asked me to give some Bible lec-
tures on the lodge. I gave three, the
second and third being asked for at the
close of the preceding lectures. In fact,
I was requested to give two or three
more. The house was crowded. Good
order prevailed. Even most of the lodge
men agreed with most that I said. Five
or six became offended. Two or three
hotheads did nearly all of the spluttering.
To hear them talk, one would think near-
ly all the world was on their side. They
said I had won everybody by my ser-
mons, and lost them all by my lectures.
But the next time I passed through that
community I received seventeen or eight-
een invitations to be entertained. About
half a dozen renounced their lodges.
Several more quietly dropped them.
Even lodge men said the lodges in that
community would never recover from
the effect of those lectures. The anti-
secret men say the same.
In some places I cannot start a re-
vival till I preach some against the lodge.
And the places I have preached the most
against the lodge, I have had the most
success. ■
At the next place I held a revival,
there was a great outpouring of the
Spirit. Twenty-eight or thirty sought
the Lord, twenty-five were converted, all
but two or three of whom would lead
in prayer and testify, which is something
remarkable. But two or three lodge
men began to misrepresent the work.
They said my last meeting was a great
meeting, but that I spoiled it all at the
last by lecturing against the lodge.
Everything reported was found to be ab-
solutely false when investigated.
One of the tricks and lies of lodge
men is to report at each new place I go,
something derogatory to my last meet-
ing. The purpose is always to injure if
possible the meeting which is just being
held. It is needless to say that nearly
every report is found to be absolutely
false, and often without my assistance or
knowledge.
Other evangelists who have been op-
posed to lodges have told me that they
had the same difficulty. One evangelist
said that the lodge always reported his
opposition to the lodge in any town
where he was tO' preach before he ar-
rived.— Parral, W. Va., Dec. i6, 191 1.
Our good worker in Missouri, Evan-
gelist J. L. Davis, has sent us subscrip-
tions during the past month, as well as
ordered books. We are greatly heart-
ened by the knowledge of his work, and
many like him in various parts of our
land and in other countries.
January, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
283
from ®ttr JiatL
A NOTABLE EXPERIENCE.
"Himself Hath Done It."
Once it was the blessing,
Now it is the Lord.
Once it was the feeling,
Now it is His Word.
Once His gifts I wanted,
Now Himself alone.
Once I sought for healing.
Now the Healer own.
Once 'twas a painful trying,
Now 'tis perfect trust.
Once a half salvation.
Now the uttermost.
Once 'twas ceaseless holding,
Now He holds me fast.
Once 'twas constant drifting.
Now my anchor's cast.
Once 'twas busy planning.
Now 'tis trustful prayer.
Once 'twas anxious caring.
Now He has the care.
Once 'twas what I wanted,
Now what Jesus says.
Once 'twas constant asking,
Now 'tis ceaseless praise.
Once it was my working.
His it hence shall be.
Once I tried to use Him,
Now He uses me.
Once the power I wanted.
Now the Mighty One,
Once I asked for glory,
Now His will alone.
Once I hoped in Jesus,
Now I know He's mine.
Once my lamps were dying.
Now they brightly shine.
Once for death I waited,
Now His coming hail.
And my hopes are anchored,
Safe within the veil.
— /. B. G.
SOME W. C. T. U. TESTIMONIES.
• Naperville, 111., Dec. 6, 1911.
Editor Cynosure:
I have been asked to write my opinion
of secret lodges. I have been told that
as I have never been a member of one,
I should not judge them ; but if '*by their
fruits ye shall know them," then there
are many ways by which we may form
opinions of these organizations. I be-
lieve them wrong in principle and in-
jurious to character.
There are better methods for doing
philanthropic work which do not require
unconditional and absolute secrecy. That
the lodge injures the church can readily
be seen by any thoughtful observer.
Men who are active in secret orders, as
a rule, are not aggressive in Christian
work. If these secret orders could be
abolished, we would soon see a better
condition prevailing in public and pri-
vate life, and in our governmental af-
fairs. Our churches would grow in num-
bers and in spiritual power, and our
temperance reform would take a long
stride forward.
Very sincerely yours,
Louisa M. Steck, President W. C. T. U.
for DuPage County.
Verona, 111., Dec. 12, 191 1.
I deeply deplore the weakening effect
the lodges are having on our W. C. T.
U. ranks. It is making the work doubly
hard for us in Grundy County, and I
think the same conditions exist in other
counties, too. I would love to do any-
thing to better the situation either with
tongue or pen, or in any other way pos-
sible, but am too crowded for time just
now, to write an article.
I am yours in the work for God and
Home and every land.
(Mrs.) Cora Aker, President,
W. C. T. U., Grundy County, Illinois.
California, Dec. 8, 191 1.
Several of my intimate friends belong
to the P. E. O. society, and a few are
D. A. R's. These people are all mem-
bers of churches, and seem to have the
same interest in the church that the ordi-
nary church member has. Perhaps they
are not fair representatives of members
of secret societies, as it seems to me that
the P. E. O's and the D. A. R's are
more like clubs than they are like secret
societies.
I remember a little incident that hap-
pened several years ago. I had to spend
a few days at a hotel in a little town in
Eastern Oregon. The landlady had a
daughter in another State who was soon
to return home. She wrote her mother
that she was intending to join the church,
but would wait till she came home so
that the mother and she could join at
the same time. To this the mother agreed,
but in telling me about it she said she
belonged to the ''Rebekahs," and it hard-
ly seemed necessary to join the church
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
January, 1912.
as the lodge meetings were
and made her feel just as
been to church.
I can recall the names of
people who are members of
orders. Two at least joined,
the insurance, and two are
who examine candidates, so
of these four, it seems to be
only.
so solemn,
if she had
about four
the regular
I think, for
physicians
in the case
for revenue
W.
Aurora, III, Nov. 6, 191 1.
From years of observation, I can say
that I believe that secret societies are
most detrimental to the church and the
Temperance Cause. A good working
church member or temperance worker
who is a good lodge member is hard to
find. One Sabbath this summer as I
came from church, a young man said to
me, "Where have you been?" I said, "To
church. Wh}' were you not there?" Pull-
ing his watch from his pocket and show-
ing me his Alasonic emblem, he said,
'This is my church." I said to him,
"Young man, that is not a church. That
is a man-made institution. It can never
take the place of God's church, and you
are making a grave mistake if you are
depending on the Masonic lodge to get
you to heaven."
I have helped to organize a W. C. T.
U. twice in one place in my county. It
was killed both times by "Royal Neigh-
bors," "Mystic Workers," "Rebekahs,"
etc. Although the women seemed to feel
the need of the work, there was no day
left in the week for the W. C. T. U.
The lodge was first. Other good workers
in our county have become so interested
in lodges that their temperance zeal has
waned and the consequence is that our
county has fallen behind in its member-
ship. This is my testimony.
Margaret E. Cromer.
EASTERN STAR ORDER.
"This Is My Experience in Secret So-
cieties."
"In 1893 I went to Elgin, Illinois, and
I had a hungry longing for Christian
companionship in a strange place. Hear-
ing of the Eastern Star Order a little bit,
and ro^necting with the name the star of
Bethlehem, or the light of Jesus, I sup-
pose^! it would bring me in closer com-
munion with His people ; so I was ini-
tiated into the Order about September
of 1893.
"After going through the initiation,
that comprised a certain obligation that
bound us to protect one another's char-
acter and in love to do all we could to
promote truth and love to one another,
there is an intermission, and they all
gather round you, and shake hands with
you, and welcome you into the Order.
"One very nice, refined-looking old
lady, with gray hair (old enough to have
been my mother) came and sat down by
me, and after the usual preliminaries of
asking questions, she began to tell me
about the Worthy Matron, whom she
said kept company with people of ill-
repute, and she herself was said to have
questionable company at the house when
her husband was away (who was a rail-
road man).
"I had promised God that if anybody
came to me with gossip of this sort that
I would try and bring the two together,
and stop the nonsense. This I did, mak-
ing a very fine row, and one thing led to
another until they had a trial in the
Chapter room, which resulted in the
breaking up of the Order, inasmuch as
out of 120 members ninety or more start-
ed a new Chapter under the name of
Bethel Chapter. The loving 'Brothers'
sometimes came up to the ladies, while
standing talking and slipped their arms
around your waist, and several tried the
same on me and when my anger arose,
they would laughingly say : 'We are
brothers and sisters ; don't get angry.
Miss Drake.' But I did get angry, as
I always remember a motto given me
when a young girl : 'First the waist, then
the lips, then the girl's gone.'
"In over a year's time I came back
to the city from Elgin Chapter No. 212.
Before placing my demit in the city I
visited Queen Esther Chapter, one of the
largest chapters ; Butler Chapter, Golden
Rod Chapter and other chapters. The
Golden Rod Chapter seemed to have the
purest Christian atmosphere. So I
placed my demit with them, and after be-
ing in there some time, I found that
they were no better than any of the oth-
ers, and that the jealous feelings existed
against those that held the highest of-
fices, the same as Elgin Chapter No. 212,
because they wished to gain the oflices
January, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
285
for themselves. The unlawful and un-
holy relations between some of the men
and women, who had the reputation of,
and the appearance of being the best
educated and the most refined in the
Chapter, was the cause of the charter be-
ing taken from them by the Grand Chap-
ter.
"I asked for my demit from Golden
Rod Chapter before going to New York
in 1895, and the secretary promised
faithfully to send it to me, but I failed to
receive it, if she sent it, and therefore
cannot give my demit. To be sure, the
beautiful banquets, etc., are in certain
ways very pleasant, as well as expensive,
but altogether they are better let alone.
''This is a mere outline of the experi-
ence which cost me quite a good deal of
money, time and unhappiness ; and if
these few words will prevent others
from making the same mistake, and
glorify our Lord and Master Jesus
Christ, I shall be very thankful.
''Your sister in Christ,
"Miss Ella N. Drake."
ANOTHER COMMENDATION.
My Dear Cynosure People :
"The Power of the Secret Empire"
should by all means be published in book
form, and if it is done, I pledge myself
to take at least one dozen copies, pro-
vided a moderate price be put on it. Do
all you can to get out this book. It will
prove an untold blessing.
I shall not stop at one dozen copies if
it lies in my ability to dispose of more.
Yours very truly,
(Rev.) F. W. Abieht.
317 Jay street, Detroit, Mich., Dec. 12,
1911.
AN OPEN LETTER.
(Continued from December Number.)
To Elder W. A. Humphreys, Presiding
Elder of the West Plains District, St.
Louis Conference of the M. E.
Church South :
I was present and heard your sermon
iiud address over the remains of the late
C J. Waggoner, a deceased Royal Arch
Mason, at the cemetery near Corinth
schoolhousc, in Shannon County, Mis-
souri, August 8th, 191 1.
In your closing address you declared
that "Freemasonry will not save a man's
soul, it is not a religious organization."
To my certain knowledge there were
both ladies and gentlemen present —
members of your church — who know all
the so-called "secret work of Freema-
sonry," and also that Masonry authori-
tatively teaches the very reverse of both
of your above propositions.
Consider what follows which is from
the highest authorities in Masonry, as
we inquire :
Is Freemasonry a religions institution
or organization" f Mark her reply.
"As Masons we are taught never to
commence any great or important under-
taking without first invoking the bless-
ing and protection of Deity, and this is
because Masonry is a religious institu-
tion, and we thereby show our depend-
ence on and our trust in God''
Mackay's Masonic Ritualist, page 44.
What kind of a religion is Masonry?
"The truth is, that Masonry is un-
doubtedly a religious institution — its re-
ligion being of that universal kind in
which all men agree." Mackay's Mason-
ic Jurisprudence, page 95 :
"The religion, then, of Masonry is pure
theism, on which its different members
engraft their own peculiar opinions ; but
they are not permitted to introduce them
into the lodge, or to connect their truth
or falsehood with the truth of Masonry."
Mack ay's Lexicon, Article Religion.
"The Jews, the Chinese, the Turks,
each reject the New Testament or the
Old, or both, and yet we see no good rea-
son why they should not be made Ma-
sons. In fact Blue Lodge Masonry has
nothing whatever to do with the Bible.
It is not founded on the Bible; if it was
it would not be Masonry ; it would be
something else." Chase's Digest of Ma-
sonic Lazif, page 207.
Jesus says : ''That all men shoidd hon-
or the Son, ez'en as they honor the Fa-
ther/' (John V, 23.)
Does the follozving omission of allu-
sion, to the Sainor of mankind ''honor
the Son," and exalt Freemasonry in your
estimation f
"The Blazing Star is said, by Webb,
to be 'commemorative of the star which
appeared to guide the wise men of the
East to the place of our Savior's na-
tivity.' This which is one of the ancient
interpretations of the symbol, being con-
sidered as too sectarian in its character.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
January, 1912.
and unsuitable to the universal religion
of Masonry, has been omitted since the
meeting of Grand Lecturers at Baltimore
in 1842." Mackay's Ritualist, page 56.
Does not Freeinasonry regard every
ca}ididate seeking initiation as an unre-
generate sinner, zvhether he he a min-
ister of the Gospel, a saloonkeeper, a
deist, or a Jezv?
^^lasonry replies as follows :
** There he stands without our portals
on the threshold of this new Masonic
life, in darkness, helplessness, and igno-
rance. Having been wandering- amid the
errors and covered over with the pollu-
tions of the outer and profane world, he
comes inquiringly to our doors, seeking
the new birth, and asking the withdrawal
of the veil which conceals divine truth
from his uninitiated sight." Mackay's
Masonic Ritualist, pages 22, 23.
Again we are told that :
''The shock of entrance is, then, the
symbol of the disruption of the candi-
date from the ties of the world and his
introduction into the life of Masonry.
It is the symbol of the agonies of the
first death, and the throes of the new
birth,". Ibid., page 24.
Rather mixed for a symbol, but Ma-
sonry utters her voice.
What does Masonry profess to have
done for the salvation of its candidate
zvhen he has passed through the three
Bine Lodge degrees and becomes a
Master Mason f
Again she definitely replies as fol-
io w^s :
''We now find a man complete in mo-
rality and intelligence, with the stay of
Religion added, to insure him of the pro-
tection of the Deity and guard him
against ever going astray. These three
degrees thus form a perfect and har-
monious whole ; nor can we conceive
that anything can be suggested more
which the soul of man requires." Sick-
els, Monitor, page 97.
// one man, or an ''association'' of
men deliberately corrupt the Scriptures,
in order to strike out the name of ''Our
Lord Jesus Christ," are they not all li-
able to eternal damnation, as declared in
Revelation, XXII, 18, 29.?
Masonry deliberately interpolates the
Holy Scriptures and substitutes words
of her own conception instead of the
name of "Our Lord Jesus Christ," as
may be seen in two places and in two
verses of the 3d chapter of II Thessa-
lonians from the 6th to the i6tli verses.
Compare these with what she publishes
to be the very same inspired language, as
you may see in Mackays Masonic Rit-
ualist, pages 348, 349. Also in Webb's
Freemanson's Monitor, page 120.
If the Holy Spirit requires one soul to
renounce, "The hidden things of dishon-
esty," does He not require all to do so?
"Submit yourselves therefore to God;
resist the devil, and he zvill flee from
you." {James IV, 'j).
We can multiply cjuotations, such as
are given above from the highest Ma-
sonic authorities that prove conclusively
that, Freemasonry is a religion without
Jesus the Christ, that it ignores the
work of the Holy Spirit, and adopts an-
other process of regeneration, and that
it interpolates the Scriptures to strike
out the name of Jesus.
That Satan can and does use talented
ministers like yourself, in his business,
is evident all over Christendom, and this
is "the enemy" that has "come in like a
Hood," and his secret society people di-
vide the church — create divisions in it.
The church is spiritually — if not literal-
ly— disrupted, its unity destroyed, Jesus
is dishonored and the Holy Spirit is
grieved, while Satan triumphs over
every efifort to reach such sinners with
the gospel message.
(Elder) G. T. DIssette.
Congo, Mo.
(To be continued.)
Dr. Martin Luther: — "A reformer who
altered the entire course of history." —
Dean Farrar.
"Luther's Catechism is the gem of the
Reformation."— Prof. McGiffert of Un-
ion Theological Seminary, N. Y. city.
"To rescue Europe, one of those great
instruments that Providence reserves to
awake or restore the hopes of nations,
was summoned — Martin Luther." —
Blackwood's Mag., 25 : 26, 200, A. D.
1829. •
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CONTENTS
Counterfeit [Money and Other Counter-
feits. By Elliot Whipple, Ph. D....289
A Golden Jubilee 291
To Defend Dishonest Officers. By
Charles A. Blanchard, D. D 292
The Broken Seal or Freemasonry De-
veloped. By Samuel D. Greene 294
Editorial —
The Birthday of the Father of His
Country ......300
Harmonious Opinions ..... ... . ,,. 301
Asking" in His Name ..... .301
Hunting Owls 302
Law or Anarchy — Which?. 302
Obstinate Connivance Applauded. ... .303
Weighty Resolutions 303
New Mexican Penitentes. , .' 305
Concord with Belial 306
The Oldest Oddfellow Lodge-^ 306
"His Way Into Various Societies". .. .306
"After Us the Deluge" 307
News of Our Work —
Pennsylvania Convention 307
Field and Pastoral Work. 308
Evangelist Pegram's Experiences. . . .309
From Our Mail —
Wheaton College 311
Spirit Led -..-•. 312
Spirit Filled Watchmen Needed. .... .312
A Friendly Word 313
Comments on Elder Dissette's Letter. 313
An Open Letter. By Elder G. T.
Dissette 314
Letter to the Editor of "The Menace". 317
GENERAL OFFICERS.
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VOLUME XLIV.
CHICAGO, FEBRUARY, 1912.
NUMBER 1")
COUNTERFEIT MONEY AND OTHER
COUNTERFEITS.
BY ELLIOT WLIIPPLE, PH. D.
Webster defines a counterfeit as that
which is made in imitation of something
without lawful authority, and with a
view to defraud by passing the false for
the true.
Some of the oldest of you can remem-
ber the time when counterfeit money was
so common that ticket sellers and bank
tellers had to have at their elbows a book
of directions for detecting counterfeits,
and private individuals were often
chagrined to find that they had become
possessed of a counterfeit coin or bill,
and must stand the loss of its value.
It often happened that the person who
passed the counterfeit did not know it to
be a counterfeit, yet, nevertheless, the
transaction was null and void.
Now the United States Court has for
many years exercised such care in de-
tecting and punishing counterfeiters
that we accept without scrutiny all kinds
of money and are very infrequently im-
posed upon.
Those of you who have not expe-
rienced the inconvenience and occasional
losses that occurred fifty years ago, can
hardly appreciate the advantages of pres-
ent conditions.
Adulterated goods are similar in char-
acter to counterfeit money, and the
"Pure Food Law" is desig-ned to accom-
plish a similar result for consumers of
goods. Certainly it will be a great relief
when every package is correctly labeled
both as to the quality and quantity of its
contents.
It would be good for the country if a
law could be enacted and enforced to se-
cure us against counterfeit patriots who
are so overflowing with love for the
country and so devoted to the interests
of the dear people that they are willing
to sacrifice even their private affairs in
order to offer themselves as candidates
for public offices, but who, when elected,
hasten to join those who ''stand pat" in
the service of the great monopolistic cor-
porations that are accumulating enor-
mous fortunes by robbing us on all the
great highways of the land, and increas-
ing the price of many of the necessities
of life.
In the sphere of politics, however, no
law can be framed to meet the case. Pri-
mary election laws, the initiative and ref-
erendum, and the recall may do some-
thing to alleviate the condition, but we
must be saved, if saved at all, by honest,
intelligent, wide-awake, and patriotic
voters who will be their own detectives
and learn to discriminate between true
and counterfeit patriotism.
Religion is the most important matter
with which we have to do, because our
relation to God determines our welfare
for the whole of this life as well as for
the life to come, and in this sphere, too,
there are numerous counterfeits''', against
For we wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness
of this world, against spiritual wickedness
in high places — Eph. 6:12.
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which no law of the State, no decree or
doctrine of the Church, can guard us.
If the soul of a free moral being ever
comes into right relation to his Maker, it
must be by his own free choice. The
application oi an external force of any
kind destroys the freedom of the
decision.
In these days there is much said about
the good there is in all religions, and we
even hear this nonsense voiced from the
pulpit and read it in so called religious
publications.
in making counterfeit money, great
pains is taken to have it as like real
money as possible, but however many of
the qualities of the true article it may
possess, or however closely it may imi-
tate its appearance, if it lacks proper au-
thorization, it is utterly worthless as
money.
Counterfeit religions could never find
acceptance if they did not imitate true re-
ligion, and this explains the gradual
change we see taking place in the publi-
cations and public utterances of current
religious counterfeits, whereby they
may appear to bring their doctrines to
resemble those of Christianity so close-
ly that one may sometimes listen to a
complete service without hearing any-
thing to reveal the fact that he is not in
a Christian church.
Here the question may be raised, why
counterfeits so closely resembling Chris-
tianity are not just about as good. Real
money pays debts, but when counterfeit
money is passed the obligation remains in
full force. True Christianity provides
for us an all-wise, all-powerful Friend
and Helper who takes a personal inter-
est in our wellfare, "even as a father
pitieth his children,'' and so satisfies the
unlimited aspiration of our souls. It
provides an atonement for the guilt of
past sins by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
It offers the grace of Christ sufficient to
overcome any temptation and save us
from the power of sin in future. It pro-
vides the Holy Spirit as a daily com-
panion to lead us into all' truth. It sus-
tains us in times of inexplicable afflic-
tion with the assurance that "All things
work together for good to them that love
God." It removes the fear of death by
the clear and explicit promise of ever-
lasting life. These are the glorious
things that Christianity undertakes to do
and does do for us, when truly and sin-
cerely accepted.
A careful study of heathen religions
and of the various counterfeits now
springing up in this country will show
how far short they come of doing, or of
even attempting to do, any of these
things.
Instead of an intelligent, loving, per-
sonal God and Father, they offer some
kind of an indefinite combination of law
and force, some inscrutable first cause,
some pantheistic conception of a God
who is identical with the universe— an
error as old as the earliest recorded hu-
man speculation.
Compare these two conceptions, and
"Choose ye this day whom ye will serve."
It is a special characteristic of modern
counterfeits, with the exception of Mor-
monism, that they omit any provision for
an atonement for the guilt of sin, indeed
the sacrifice of Christ is the one thing to
which they most strenuously object.
One system attempts to get rid of the
guilt of sin and overcome its power by
the simple process of thinking that it is
non-existent. Imagine a murderer, con-
fronted with the body of his victim, at-
tempting to obliterate the whole trans-
action by being willing to think that he
did not commit the crime! And yet the
author of this nonsense, in another place
speaks of the atonement of Christ, as if
accepting it in the Christian sense — a
good example of an attempt to make the
counterfeit resemble the true.
Usually sin is ignored, or else treated
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as an imperfection to be removed by
education, improved social conditions, in-
doctrinating with good moral precepts,
or other merely human agencies.
One system proposes to knock off the
rough edges of character and so fit more
perfectly for entrance to heaven. Sin is a
great and awful reality and whoever
comes face to face zvitji a consciousness
of his guilt and attempts to overcome the
pozver of sin in his soul, discovers the
utter futility of all counterfeit religions
to meet his needs.
Since the discrediting of the ancient
oracles, the most conspicuous example of
an attempt to supplement the lack of hu-
man wisdom by counterfeiting the guid-
ance and enlightenment offered by the
Holy Spirit, is found in the pretended
communications from the spirit world.
''By their fruits ye shall know them," and
the futile nature of these communica-
tions are sufficient evidence of their ut-
ter worthlessness.
When we are brought into circum-
stances of deep affliction whose cause and
purpose are alike unknown to us, none
of the counterfeits provide any adequate
relief. When we are called upon to lay
away in the grave the still and cold
forms of our dear ones, or when we are
brought to a realization of the inevitable
certainity that we too must depart from
this life, how utterly inadequate are the
provisions made by counterfeit religions !
Some promise a reincarnation in some
other's human body, better or worse con-
ditioned than at present, according to
how we have improved oiir present op-
portunities. Often it is some kind of
vague merging with the infinite that is
offered. Sometimes it is nothing
more than a burial ceremony or the drop-
ping into the grave of a sprig of "aca-
cia," which may indicate that the depart-
ed may have a future life.
None of these speculations, intima-
tions, or promises are supported by any
sanctions or evidences of being author-
ized by God, that are deserving of a mo-
ment's consideration.
Christianity not only promises an un-
ending personal life of joyful sen'ice in
the presence of God, but it sanctions this
promise by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ, which is as well attested as any
fact in history can be.
Many false religions contain excellent
moral precepts, for example the saying
of Buddah, "Do not do unto another
what you wouldn't like to have him do to
you," but a comparison of this with
Christ's golden rule, "Do unto others
what you would that they should do to
you," reveals the essential inferiority of
the former. x'\t the most, it only pro-
hibits injuring others, while the latter re-
quires active effort to help others.
The supreme test of the value of a
religion is found in the results it pro-
duces. The counterfeits now spreading
in this country have not been in existence
long enough to show what manner of
fruitage they will bear, but in the old
world we find several great religious sys-
tems that have thoroughly possessed
whole nations for many centuries, and
there we may find out exactly what they
do for mankind.
Compare the condition of the masses
of the people in Turkey, India, and China
with that of the common people of coun-
tries in which protestant Christianity pre-
vails. In the former we find ignorance,
extreme poverty, disease, unspeakable
moral degradation, and despair; in the
latter, intelligence, comfort, improving
sanitary conditions, plagues stamped out,
disease minimized, a high and rising
standard of morality, and hope for bet-
ter things in the future.
Pasadena. California.
(To be continued.)
A GOLDEN JUBILEE.
We all join in invoking God's gentlest
blessings upon Mr. L. F. Watkins and
his wife Mary E. Watkins of Philomath.
Oregon, who^ celebrate this month a half
century of the bond of strong holy love
as huband and wife, into which they en-
tered fifty years ago this month. Their
home has long given an honored place
to the Cynosure and its teachings, and
four sons and a daughter, also true chil-
dren in the principles of their father and
mother, gladden the parents" hearts at
this anniversarv.
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TO DEFEND DISHONEST OFFICERS.
From an editorial in a Chicago paper
suggested by the present trial of police
officers in Chicago, I take the following
paragraph :
It is inevitable also that the police de-
partment must permanently rid itself of a
secret political organization that exists
mainh- to defend dishonest police officers
from the consequences of their dishonesty.
I have many times asked secret so-
ciety men what need an honest man has
for belonging to a secret society. I
have never yet had any satisfactory an-
swer to the question. Everyone knows
that men who conspire against the laws
may profitably employ a secret society.
It will help them in many ways and if
judges, jurors, witnesses and sheriffs
can be secured as members in the same
organization to which the dishonest men
belong it goes far to assure them of pro-
tection in time of trouble. Over and
again we find men living for years in
violation of the law and yet sustained in
positions of trust by men who should
know of their dishonesty, whether they
do or not.
Cases of this kind are so frequent that
they will, no doubt, come to the memory
of all who read these words. The last
case before the public is the one which
suggested the editorial from which I
quoted. It has been proved that the po-
lice system of Chicago was in league and
collusion with all the centers of vice and
crime. Persons engaged in the horrible
business of marketing white women to
the slums of Chicago were able to se-
cure police officers to escort their victims
from one infamous resort to another.
Saloon keepers were able to violate laws
in any way they chose, with no inter-
ference from the police authorities.
Gambling house keepers and dealers in
unlawful drugs were able to carry on
their business year in and year out.
Every one could see that police offi-
cers were living in fine houses, riding in
autos and doing other things which hon-
est men could not do, but until the recent
exposure no one could fasten crime up-
on them. Now they have been adjudged
guilty, have been dismissed from their
positions and the offices which some of
them held are being abolished.
Even a secular paper, which has no
objection to secret societies in general,
sees that secret societies among these po-
licemen are dangerous to the public and
declares for the abolition of such socie-
ties. The United States authorities have
recently been moving in the same direc-
tion respecting secret societies among
officers in the postal department. In fact,
everywhere it seems that the common
sense of mankind is leading to the con-
clusion which has been advocated by the
National Christian Association for many
years, namely, that ^'secret societies are
needless for good purposes, are capable
of all bad purposes, and therefore should
be abolished by law." This quota-
tion was framed by the great Wen-
dell Phillips, but it has been the
continual testimony of the National
Christian Association from the begin-
ning in 1867 until the present year. It
is true that our testimony has not been
heeded as it should have been. It is also
true that such infamies as have been re-
vealed in the police department in Chi-
cago have been going forward in greater
or less measure in every city or town of
our country. There have been six hun-
dred murders in Chicago since a man
was hanged for murder. It is also true
that the testimony of the Christian
church in general has been neglected or
rejected. People have gone on their own
wild, reckless way, but the truth re-
mains, the word of God abides and in the
end everything which sets itself against
the kingdom of God will be overturned
and destroyed.
Balaam, the Son of Beor.
It is a pitiful thing that our churches
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feel compelled, in these days, to cater to
Godless and wicked organizations in or-
der to build up their churches. I do not
mean to say that all do, some do not. I
mean to say that many do, and when they
get a crowd by these appeals to Balak
they feel glad, and when they get large
collections from the Moabites, they think
they have accomplished a great work,
but there is a curse on the crowds and on
the money which comes by Balak's as-
sistance.
A friend has sent me the following ex-
tracts which I submit in full for the en-
lightenment and the warning of all who
are tempted to these godless methods
of serving God's cause. Here are boot-
blacking shops, lodges of all sorts and
kinds, and finally a lot of Elks, an or-
ganization formed by actors and at its
beginning one of the most wretched of
all the secret societies, turning in and
working together for a Sunday School
contest, and when one of the Sunday
Schools had beaten the other the news
was published through the whole coun-
try. One of the towns gave a dinner to
the men from the other town.
I will not say that no good was ac-
complished by such a performance, but
I do not think any sane man believes
that the good resulting ought for a sin-
gle instant be compared with the wide-
spread demoralization which will result.
How Satan must laugh and rejoice when
the bride of Jesus Christ grovels in the
dust before these organizations ; but here
are the extracts :
"One Hundred Men Wanted.
"Free shines will be given to one hundred
men if they will meet at the Big Four bar-
ber shop on the northeast corner of the
square, Sunday morning, and march in a
body to the Presbyterian Sunday School to
help defeat Bushnell.
"Come early and avoid the rush, so that
Spike can finish his work in time to go
with them."
"Presbyterian.
" 'The Great and Good Things in Lodges'
is the subject of the address by Rev. W. T.
Rodgers for the men's class next Sunday
at the First Presbyterian church. The class
extends a hearty invitation to all the mem-
bers of all the lodges of Macomb to be the
guests of the class next Sunday. You are
requested to meet at your lodge rooms or
on the public square next Sunday morning
at 9:30 sharp, and march to the church in
a body. Not only lodgemen but all the men
of Macomb and vicinity are invited to come
and bring their friends with them.
"Let every man in Macomb stand by his
town and help Macomb win against Bush-
nell."
"Elks' Sunday School Special.
"There are few things that your average
orthodox Elk (of the two-legged species)
will not tackle; and few things that he
tackles that he does not bring to success.
So when the lodge of that order in this city
took hold of assisting the Men's Bible Class
of Macomb in its contest, they didn't just
sort of do things and then sit down. In-
stead, after enrolling all of themselves and
all of their friends to go, they naturally
went to Manager Mapes, of the Macomb
and Eastern Illinois Railway, and hired a
special train from Industry, which was load-
ed to standing room with 'men only' who,
arriving in Macomb as a delegation, marched
over 200 strong, to the Presbyterian church,
arriving as opportunely as was the coming
of Blucher's army at Waterloo. And the
pestiferous Elks paid the bill with a hearty
smile and a willing hand; asking 'no help
and no odds of nobody.' Only thanking
those who accepted their cordial invitation
by as cordially coming."
The duty of Christian churclies and
men is obvious. We are not required, as
Lincoln said, to succeed, but we are re-
quired to be honest. We are not required
to extirpate evil, we are required to bear
testimony against it. God will tend to
completing the work in his own time and
way; it falls to us to keep our own tes-
timony clear and our own hands clean.
Balaam, son of Beor, died by the
sword among the enemies of Israel and
all the enemies of God will perish in due
time. Jesus must reign, this is the Bible
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word, "must," until every enemy is un-
der his foot, so let us be patient and lov-
ing and persevering and God will give
victory at the appointed day.
With best wishes and good hope and
I am,
Fraternally yours,
Charles A. Blanc hard.
courage.
The Tongs in the Chinatown of New
York and Pacific Coast cities keep under
pay their own military bodyguards, ad-
minister their own courts and execute
their own death sentences without any
reference to the laws of the United
States.
^
«^
From the personal reminiscences by Samuel D. Greene of the abduction and mur-
der of Captain William Morgan were taken some of the facts so vividly brought out in
Miss Flagg's "Power of the Secret Empire," which ended in the December number of
the CYNOSURE. The story has created so wide an interest that we propose to give our
readers in the next few months some of these facts as recorded by Mr. Greene, an eye-
witness.— Editor.
CHAPTER IV.
The Storm Gathering.
So matters stood in the village of Ba-
tavia, in the middle of August, 1826.
Captain Morgan was boarding with his
young wife and two little children at a
Air. Stewart's, in the center of the vil-
lage, but kept himself during the day,
for the most part, at a Mr. Davids' on
the opposite side of Tonawanda Creek,
about a mile out of the noise and stir of
the village. It had now become gener-
ally understood that he was writing out
the secrets of Masonry, and it was evi-
dent that a storm of wrath was gather-
ing- to burst upon his devoted head.
Colonel Miller was still pursuing his
work of publishing the Batavia Advo-
cate ; but he understood that his per-
son and property were in danger, and
he was living in apprehension of what
might befall himself and his family.
About this time I attended an ad-
journed meeting of the Master Masons'
lodge. Some of the committees asked
leave to report. The Episcopal minister,
before referred to, objected to any de-
tailed report. He said this was not the
place to report. They must open these
matters in the Chapter; but he would
assure the lodge that the committees
had done their duty — that the book
should be suppressed, and their plans
carried out, even though Morgan and
Miller should be lost to society. It was
sought to be impressed upon all Masons
that they should take a decided stand in
this crisis, that it was an awful crime
not to do so, and that the judgment of
Heaven would surely overtake all who
did not use their utmost efforts to pre-
vent the publication of the book. A let-
ter was introduced into the lodge, pur-
porting to be a copy of a letter which
Governor De Witt Clinton had written,
saying, in substance, "You must sup-
press the secrets of Masonry at the ex-
pense of blood and treasure; be careful
to observe secrecy, but if you are de-
tected you shall be protected. If you are
convicted you shall be pardoned, for I
have the pardoning power."
This Episcopal minister, named above,
was a great man in the lodge — a kind of
oracle, from his rank and station, among
the Masons. He was a man, however,
extremely fond (to use the technical
language of the Masons) of "passing
from labor to refreshment." He was
addicted to the glass and was often as-
sisted home from the lodge, being un-
able to make his way by himself.
It was evidently the intention of the
Masons of the higher degrees not to
have matters too much talked of in the
lodge, for they felt there might be spies
in the camp. They did not then know
what was passing in my own mind,
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though it was observed that I was not
so loud in my demonstrations as were
most of the members of the lodge. There
were suspicions and anxieties lest some
should not prove true to their Masonic
oaths, and so, as Masons met together
in the street, it was a common form of
question among them, "Do you think
Freemasonr}^ can be published in Bata-
via?" If the answer was, ''No! Batavia
would rock to her center first," or some
other answer in a similar spirit, all was
regarded as right. I never could make
quite the right answer to suit them; but
a certain Mr. Wood took it upon himself
to vouch for me that I was true.
About the middle of August there
came to Batavia, from Canada, a man
by the name of Daniel Johns. He pro-
fessed to have heard what Morgan and
Miller were about, and to be deeply in-
terested in the enterprise. He wished
to associate himself in business with Mr.
Miller, and offered to advance all the
needed money for the purpose. He so
won upon their confidence by his flatter-
ing manner, that he was taken into part-
nership. This man, as it afterwards ap-
peared, was a Mason of one of the high-
er orders — a Knight of Templar — and
he took this method to discover the se-
crets of Morgan and Miller, and inter-
rupt their designs.
It was on the 19th day of August,
1826, on a Saturday, that three men,
residents of Batavia, and Masons, in
company with Daniel H. Dana, a con-
stable from the neighboring town of
Pembroke, appeared suddenly at the
house of Mr. Davids, where Morgan
had his room. There were two families
occupying the house, the one already
named, and the other of the name of
Towsley. When the four men came to
the house, they first inquired for Mr.
Davids and for Mr. Towsley ; and
learning they w^ere not at home, they,
without further inquiry or remark,
rushed up stairs into the room where Mr.
Morgan was writing. Here the constable
presented a warrant for his arrest. It
was upon some claim that a Mr. Thomas
McCully held, or professed to hold,
against Morgan, that this warrant was
served. It was well understood, how-
ever, that the case was one got up for
the occasion, tO' give vent to the Masonic
rage against Morgan. The sheriff" was
suspected of being a party in the trans-
action. He was seen in company of the
men, as they were going to Mr. Davids'
house, though he staid back, and did not
actually enter the house with them.
Mr. Morgan was in his chamber, writ-
ing, with various papers about him. He
was seized with the papers, and without
delay was hurried off to the county jail.
The story of his arrest spread quickly
over the village, and some of his friends
started at once to find the ofiicers of the
law, and secure his release on bail. But
it was evident that the officers of the law
were out of the way by intention. The
sheriff, who was visible just before the
arrest, and who was not known to have
any business calling him from the place,
was sought for in vain. Men hastened
hither and thither — to his house, and to
all his usual places of resort ; but he was
nowhere to be found. The jailer also
strangely disappeared immediately after
Mr. Morgan was lodged in jail. The mo-
tive for all this was apparent. It was Sat-
urday. If the officers could keep them-
selves out of sight until twelve o'clock
Saturday night, Mr. Morgan would have
to lie in jail, at least, till Monday morn-
ing. In this they succeeded. The friends
and neighbors of Morgan were eager to
give bail for him, but nobody could be
found to transact the business. On the
same day, at evening, the men who had
arrested him went to the house of Mr.
Stewart, in the village where Mr. Mor-
gan boarded with his family, and where
Mrs. Morgan then was. They professed
to be in search of property on which to
levy for debt. They asked questions at
random of Mrs. Morgan ; but their chief
business evidently was to ransack among
Mr. Morgan's household effects, in hopes
of finding papers. They searched trunks,
boxes, drawers, etc., examined the con-
tents of letters, and took off* with them a
small trunk of papers, saying, if these
papers were useful to Mr. Morgan, they
would return them. The reason of this,
as it afterwards clearly appeared, was,
that thev had not found at Mr. Davids'
house the papers they hoped to find ; and
it was surmised that these might be
found at Mr. Stewart's, where he board-
ed. They did find a part, but not all that
they were after.
Mr. IMorgan remained in jail until
Monday morning, lAugust 21, when he
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was released on bail. During the Sab-
bath, many persons visited him. There
was much sympathy felt for him by those
who were not Masons, and by some wdio
were. I myself went to the jail, and
talked with him through the grate, tell-
ing him that he w'as in danger. I had
become well aware, from what transpired
in word and act at the lodge meetings,
that both ]\Ioro;an and Miller were in
peril, and through the grated window I
communicated this idea to Morgan on
that 20th of August. He did not believe
that he was really in any serious per-
sonal danger. He knew, of course, from
what was then passing, that there was a
disposition on the part of the Masons to
vex and annoy him. But he did not think
matters would go beyond this. He ex-
pressed the behef that the laws of their
country would, in the final resort, have
more influence over members of the lodge
than their Masonic oaths. I told him
that I had formerly thought so too, but
that it W'as now my belief that violence
was intended, and that he should be
strictly on his guard in reference to the
movements going on about him.
How Consciences are Warped.
As I have already said, I had been
long in coming to this opinion. At first
I could not think that my neighbors,
some of whom were high officers in the
church and state, would, in obedience to
their Masonic oaths, be guilty of actual
violence towards a fellow-man. I thought
they meant, if possible, to frighten Mor-
gan, and make him desist from what he
was doing. But that they could be so
blinded and infatuated as to harbor mur-
der in their hearts, out of their devotion
to ^Masonry, I could not for a long time
believe. But as I had attended the vari-
ous meetings of the lodge, and seen the
signs and nods, and heard the significant
words uttered, and, more than all, as I
had, little by little, become aware of the
awful hate which was cherished against
Morgan and Miller, I saw how easy and
natural it was that violence should spring
out of it. I saw that the consciences of
men were warped, and in the conflict be-
tween Masonic duty and public law, the
former actually had the supremacy in
their thoughts. Moreover, under cover
of the darkness of a secret institution,
they somehow deemed it safe and right
to do what they never would have
thought of doing in the open day.
It was here, and under these circum-
stances, that I had the best opportunity of
studying Masonry in its internal tenden-
cies and laws. I had connected myself
with the institution only a few months
before, under a misrepresentation. I had
been told that it should not militate
against my politics or my religion ; but I
found it at war with both. I soon dis-
covered that I was in a strange bondage
to a power that I could not respect, and
that imposed upon me services that I
could not honestly render. I soon began
tO' go to the lodge unwillingly, and to re-
turn from it with a kind of moral dis-
gust. At the best, it was pompous non-
sense and false pretension. ,At the worst
it was deeply corrupting and immoral. It
used the names and forms of religion
only to dishonor and belittle them. It
employed the Bible and prayer, and semi-
religious ordinances ; it made use of the
name of God in a way to make the most
holy things and the most sacred words
only as the playthings of an idle hour. It
put forth its claims to a vast antiquity,
vmd brought into its records venerable
personages of the remote past, without
the slightest regard to truth. It paraded
itself before the ignorant and unlearned
as if the chief care of God over this
world had been to foster and keep alive
this institution from generation to gen-
eration, as though it were something far
more ancient than the Christian church,
and not second in importance.
As soon as I was fairly within the en-
closures of the lodge, I discovered, con-
trary to all my expectations, that I was
in a place where half-educated, swelling,
and unscrupulous men had an ample field
for the exercise of their powers. Such
men stood in the fore-front in the goings
on of the Masonic order. Men who de-
light to be dressed up in a little brief au-
thority, on however small a scale ; men
who bustle about in aprons, and feathers,
and all sorts of glittering gewgaws ; men
who have no scruples in letting fiction
pass for truth, and pretence for reality —
these are the men who find Masonry
something altogether to their mind. They
hurry hither and thither to do its bid-
ding ; they bustle about, on St. John the
Baptist's and other days, under the sin-
gular delusion that they are important
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persons — that caps, and sashes, and
bands can make men great. A masonic
lodge is a mutual admiration society of
the most intense order. It lives, moves,
and has its being in a system of the
most enormous self-complacency. Tried
by the touchstone of sober truth and real-
ity, it withers in a moment. Its benevo-
lence, on which it so prides itself, can
never pass as genuine. It is benevolence
for a consideration.
When men band themselves together
to gain and keep for themselves such
earthly advantages as they could not oth-
erwise enjoy, it is often the most con-
centrated form of selfishness. It is a
kind of secret conspiracy against the rest
of mankind in behalf of their own set. It
is no new thing for men of the worst
character to be bound together as mutual
helpers ; and within a certain range they
must exhibit what is called kindness, and
show all the tokens of good fellowship,
else the confederacy formed for selfish
and wicked ends will fall to pieces.
Eyes Opened, Hands Bound.
In the winter of 1825-6 I had become
fully satisfied that Masonry was no insti-
tution for me. I had, as before stated,
gradually ceased to attend the lodge
meetings, just as thousands and tens of
thousands of others have done, through
a certain inward weariness and disgust.
But I did not wish to signalize my non-
attendance by making talk about the mat-
ter, or by any outward demonstrations. I
wanted everything to pass in silence and
quietness. And if nothing of an unusual
character had arisen, I should probably
have taken practical leave of Masonry in
the spring of 1826, never more to mingle
in its councils. But as soon as the high
excitement about Morgan and Miller
arose, I could not absent myself without
exciting suspicion, and after a little I did
not wish to withdraw, but preferred to
remain and study the atrocious plans
which were forming. It was a delicate
part, no doubt, that I was playing, and
was attended with no little difficulty and
hazard ; but I seemed to be called, by a
kind of providence, to stand in that lot,
and incur the incidental risks. I was
studying Masonry now under new and
peculiar conditions. I was learning what
it was, and what it would do, when vio-
lent passions are kindled and a vindic-
tive hate aroused.
For a long time I kept my own coun-
sel. I had abundant food for reflec-
tion, but I had not divulged to any per-
son or persons outside what was going
on in the lodge. I had occasionally ven-
tured, in the lodge, and in my conversa-
tions with Masons, to try and give things
a milder turn. But after a few attempts
of this kind, which only turned attention
towards me to no purpose, I preferred to
hold my peace, to think my own thoughts
and make my own plans.
As has been already stated, Morgan
was released on bail, after his confine-
ment in jail over the Sababth, and mat-
ters went on much as before. In the
search which was made for papers on the
day of Morgan's first arrest, August 19,
some were found, and among the manu-
scripts taken was the Royal Arch De-
gree, which Morgan was writing out.
This is the seventh Masonic degree in
order. This was brought up into the
lodge room, and those Masons who had
taken this degree were permitted to ex-
amine the manuscript. I had only taken
three degrees, and did not share in this
privilege. This degree was afterwards
sent by Charles C. Church to Canandai-
gua, and from thence it was forwarded
to New York city by express, to the
Grand Chapter, which was then in ses-
sion.
So matters went on until the morning
of Friday, September 8, 1826, which was
an eventful day in my history ; and many
things in my subsequent life date from
that day. A messenger of the lodge
came to notify me that about three hun-
dred Masons were in and about the vil-
lage of Batavia, gathered from all direc-
tions, met for the express purpose of
burning and destroying Mr. Miller's
printing office, and by open violence pre-
venting the publication of Mr. Morgan's
book. The cant phrase was again em-
ployed, that this book must be suppressed
if Morgan and Miller were lost to society.
I had learned to know what that lan-
guage meant. The notice was given us
in the field, as I have stated, and we were
expected to govern ourselves according-
ly. For my own part, I saw that the time
for action had come. The recollection
of all that had transpired at the lodge for
weeks before now came back upon me.
and I realized that what I had feared was
really about to take place. Peaceful and
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February, 1912.
persuasive measures were no longer to
be used ; but violence, even unto death, if
need be, was intended by the present
movement. Up to that time I had man-
aged to keep my feelings, in a great
measure, secret from the other members
of the lodge; and though they had, at
times, thought me wanting in Masonic
zeal and energy, they had not apparently
suspected me of faithlessness to my Ma-
sonic oaths, or dreamed that I would, in
the last resort, seek to protect Morgan
and ]\Iiller from Masonic rage.
That morning I w^as in trouble. I saw
that it needed only some slight act, on
ni}- part, to reveal my secret, and put
me in the same category with Morgan
and Miller. Madness was abroad upon
the wind. The wild elements were let
loose. An infuriated crowd swarmed
about Batavia, and the storm might burst
at any moment. To add to my care and
responsibility, I was at the time one of
the trustees, or guardians of the village.
This was one of the methods of civil gov-
ernment and protection adopted by the
young villages of Western New York. A
board of trustees was chosen to guard
the village against dangers of whatever
kind, external or internal, and also to
promote its general welfare. I held the
office of trustee at this time, and my as-
sociates had chosen me superintendent of
the village. Holding this office, and
knowing also what had been secretly con-
trived against the place in Masonic
lodges, I was brought into peculiar
straits. I called upon the sheriff, whose
duty it was to aid in preserving the peace.
He was a Mason in regular standing, and
full of Masonic zeal. I cautiously said a
few words, indicating in some measure
my feelings in this crisis, when he warned
me into secrecy, and reminded me of the
binding character of my Masonic oaths.
This man was a member with me of the
Presbyterian church. I called on another
Mason, who was an elder in our church,
and tried to open my heart to him ; but
before I had fairly committed myself
he warned me to take care, and reminded
me also of my oaths. I turned from men
to God, and made my appeal unto him.
He knew all that was passing in my
thoughts. I remembered his promise,
'Tor in the time of trouble he shall hide
me in his pavilion, in the secret of his
tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set
me upon a rock." I gathered comfort
from this assurance. I committed my
way unto God, and resolved within my-
self that Mr. Miller should know of the
dangers threatening him, so that he
might be upon his guard, and that I
would assist him to escape out of the
hand of the enemy.
There was in the village of Batavia a
man whom I knew well, and highly es-
teemed— Mr. George W. Harris. He
was by trade a silversmith, and had a
shop in the central part of the village. In
him I thought I could confide. Accord-
ingly I went to my desk, and on a piece
of paper wrote out briefly the informa-
tion I had that morning received. I made
the request that Harris shuld transcribe
my note, burn the original, and com-
municate at once to Mr. ]\Iiller the mes-
sage I had communicated to him. I
stated also upon the paper, that as a
trustee of the village, I was under obli-
gation to see that the persons and prop-
erty of the inhabitants were protected. I
wished to have a guard set; but for the
present I wished my own name kept a
profound secret from Mr. Miller and
from every one else.
Compressing this paper into a shape-
less wad, so small that it might be
crowded into a thimble, I called at Mr.
Harris' door, and said to him, "I have
important intelligence to communicate to
you, and in doing so I shall throw my-
self upon your mercy. If my intelli-
gence is not improper will you do what
I request you?" He hesitated a moment,
and I repeated the question. He an-
swered in the affirmative. I threw the
roll upon his counter, and left him sud-
denly. I left him thus without any fur-
ther observations, in order to show him
that I had put implicit confidence in him.
He opened the note and read it, and pro-
ceded at once to carry out its suggestions.
He acted in good faith with me, not re-
vealing in any way the source from
which he obtained his information. The
guard was set and measures for safety
and protection adopted. It was soon
noised abroad what was going forward.
The village was astir with excitement.
Men gathered in the streets to talk over
these exciting topics. Masons were
about, here and there, trying to quiet the
alarm, but more busy in seeking to dis-
cover how the information got out. No
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299
one could tell; only Mr. Miller had re-
ceived the information through the post
office. The guards were set, and no vio-
lence was attempted that day or night.
The next day Mr. Harris called on me
secretly to inquire what this quiet meant,
and whether the Masons had dispersed. I
told him they had not, but had been re-
enforced, and he must strengthen the
guard. He did so, and this day and night
all was still. This brings us along to
Sunday, September lo. By this time it
began to be thought that a false alarm
had been given, and that there was really
no danger of an attack. The guards
were no longer set. Mr. Miller also
changed his mind. On Saturday he had
armed himself thoroughly for defense,
having placed a swivel so as to com-
mand the entrance of his printing office,
and he had armed men with him in the
office; but he began to think he had
been needlessly alarmed. He resolved,
therefore, to pass Sunday night in his
office without any guard. When I knew
that this was the determination, and that
he was to pass the night at his office, I
sent word to him through Mr. Harris,
cautioning him not to attempt to leave
the office during the night, however
much he might be alarmed. I knew that
nothing would be more in harmony with
the wishes and plans of the Masons than
to catch him in the open street by night.
What we have called Mr. Miller's
printing office, was, in reality, two of-
fices, or rooms, one on each side of a
narrow passage-way, called Printer's Al-
ley. In one of these was printed the Re-
publican Advocate and in the other the
work on Mr. Morgan's book was going
forward. These rooms were in the most
thickly-settled portion of the village.
They were in the second story of the
buildings, and stairways led up to them
from the outside. Underneath one of
these rooms a large family was living,
consisting of a man and wife and eight
children. I was sorry that more credit
was not given to my information, so that
the guard should be kept set, as on the
two previous nights. But as these had
passed in such comparative quiet, it be-
gan to be thought, even by Mr. Harris,
that I might be misinformed, or that
fear had unduly magnified the affair to
my apprehension. And so the night of
Sunday, the loth of September, was
passed without any extraordinary pre-
cautions.
Life and Property Attacked.
That night the attempt was made to
set both of the buildings, in which these
offices were on fire. Combustible mate-
rials were placed underneath the outside
stairways, turpentine was freely used
about the wood-work, and the buildings
were fired at the dead of night, notwith-
standing that the family of ten persons
were asleep in one of them. This fire
was instantly discovered and extin-
guished in a way that the incendiaries
had not counted upon. Late at night
there had come into the village several
teamsters, with their teams, to load with
flour early in the morning, and start for
the canal. The hotels being all closed,
they had lain down to sleep in their wag-
ons. These wagons were standing on
the other side of the street, directly op-
posite Mr. Miller's offiices. No sooner
were the fires set than these teamsters
discovered them, sounded the alarm,
aroused the neighbors, and had the
flames extinguished before they had
gained any considerable headway. So
close were they upon the work of the in-
cendiaries, that they saw the villains run-
ning away. They gave chase, and com-
pelled the runaways to drop their torches
and the dark lantern they had used ; but
they did not succeed in capturing them.
The events of this night satisfied ^Ir.
Harris that my information, secretly
conveyed to him, was correct, and that
the quiet of the two previous nights was
due solely to the precautions taken. The
Masons, who were banded together for
violence, understood well that if they at-
tacked Mr. Miller's office on Friday or
Saturday night, they would be likely,
some of them, to come to grief. But as
soon as it went abroad that there was no
danger, and care was relaxed, instantly
the conspirators returned to their work.
It was on Saturday, September 9, that
Daniel Johns, before spoken of, who had
come from Canada as a spy, and by his
arts had worked his way into Mr. ]\Iil-
ler's confidence, and been taken in as a
partner in his business — it was on Sat-
urday that he suddenly took himself oft*,
carrying with him one of the manuscripts
of Morgan — Mark Master's Degree.
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February, 1912..
which was in jMr. ^liller's hands to be
printed.
So matters stood on the night of Sun-
day, September lo, 1826, in the village of
Batavia. The fires which had been set
had been providentially extinguished ;
but worse tilings were immediately to
follow.
(To be continued.)
CMtorial
THE BIRTHDAY
Of the Father of His Country.
The birthday of Washington occur-
ring near the beginning of the year and
the date of his death still nearer its end-
ing, peculiar fitness belongs to any rec-
ognition of either date in these columns
because here his memory is in one par-
ticular peculiarly defended. For until
now, from even before his death, a secret
order which he valued lightly and neg-
lected through many mature years, has
tried to borrow prestige for what he
called its "child's play," together with
what he sagely detected as its adaptation
to the "worst of purposes,'' from his
trusted name.
At his funeral this neglected society
was prompt and "determined" to crowd
itself into prominence; and from that
time it has made the most for itself of
his early initiation, adding, moreover,
vaporing fictions to the nucleus of reality.
It is more than a decade since the Ma-
sonic sesqui-centennial observance of the
date of his death evoked the National
Christian Association's defence of bio-
graphic truth from the aggressions of
error. Many of our readers must re-
member the long preliminary campaign
which forced the secret society to use
the short period of demonstrative ex-
ploitation after a longer one of dissemi-
nation of biographic knowledge. What
Freemasonry would have ventured to at-
tempt if its fictions had not been dis-
credited beforehand, may never be
known.
Time has passed, and a fresh attempt
to utilize the name and fame of Wash-
ington has now been projected. Yet, as
before, the perverters of history have in-
cited rekindling the torch of truth. As
before, the N. C. A. has forestalled error.
This seems to have been done in part
with no special reference to the Alexan-
dria Lodge demonstration to which we
here allude. Nevertheless it was an im-
portant service in this line of work, as
well as a notable event in the history of
the association, when the standard essay
written by President Charles A. Blanch-
ard of Wheaton College appeared in this
magazine, and was reprinted as a pam-
phlet. The chronological method used
in this essay was an element strikingly
conclusive.
Again, in January, 191 1, the magazine
provided an abstract or outline of proofs
in condensed form and birds-eye view,
under the title "Classified Washington
Dates." Reprinted as a small tract it is
of convenient size for a vest pocket mem-
orandum. In November, an article of
more general application, entitled "Econ-
omy of Proof," illustrated the method of
discussion it advocated for general use
by borrowing a very few dates with the
brief memoranda attached to them, in
order to show how these, taken alone,
secured a complete conclusion. Of
course, it added in this way to its service
in the specific matter furnishing the il-
lustration, being a concise disproof of
the assertion that Washington was Mas-
ter of a lodge.
So it may fairly be claimed that while
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
301
the lodge has been busy the association
has not been idle. Now it remains for
us to continue our work as occasion may
require, and for our readers tO' avail
themselves of its results while they ex-
tend our work through their own. Alex-
andria Lodge demonstrations, or any
other, should catch none of us napping.
We should, for instance, be already well
informed that Washington was neither a
Master, a member, nor even an attend-
ant of Alexandria Lodge, which bor-
rowed his name after he died. That the
same lodge borrowed the same name for
one earlier year so as to make a nominal
member a nominal master, need not be
denied by any one who can add that, dur-
ing the time, the nominal master was not
in a single instance a less nominal at-
tendant than any Cowan in Alexandria.
This, with other truths, ought to be al-
ready well understood by our readers be-
fore they are confronted anew by reiter-
ated fictitious claims.
that of Morgan, and his pen amplified
the written words of Sumner.
HARMONIOUS OPINIONS.
There is a striking resemblance be-
tween what Captain William Morgan
said to Mayor Samuel D. Greene, of Ba-
tavia. New York, and what Senator
Charles Sumner wrote to the same man.
Captain Morgan was lecturer of the Ma-
sonic lodge of which Mayor Greene was
also a member, but Senator Sumner was
not a Mason. The Masonic lecturer said
privately to the other member of his
lodge: 'Tf Masonry be permitted to go
on unchecked, it will undermine the
Christian religion and overthrow the
government." The orator of the Sen-
ate and champion of American freedom
wrote : "I find two powers here in Wash-
ington in harmony, and both are antag-
onistical to our free institutions and tend
to centralization and anarchy — Freema-
sonry and slavery ; and they must both be
destroyed if our country is to be the home
of the free, as our ancestors designed it."
A surprising degree of justification for
such opinions quickly followed the ut-
terance of Captain Morgan's estimate,
and took forms which will be described
by an eye witness and participant, in the
int(?'/esting account we are about to re-
print in this magazine from "The Brok-
en Seal, of which Ex-Mayor Greene was
the competent author. His voice echoed
ASKING IN HIS NAME.
As we associate the Sermon on the
mount with the opening of the public
ministry of Jesus, so we hear the Paschal
discourse almost as the dying words of a
teacher and friend. The former is in-
structively monitory, the latter comfort-
ingly instructive. Near the end he re-
curs to what he mentioned in the portion
which we find near the middle of the
fourteenth chapter of John, where he
gives the assurance : "W^hatsoever ye
shall ask in my name, that will I do" ;
repeating it, "If ye shall ask anything in
my name, that will I do." (Am. Rev.)
The other portion referred to, is near the
end of the sixteenth chapter : "\'erily,
verily, I say unto you : If ye shall ask
anything of the Father, He will give it
you in my name. Hitherto have ye asked
nothing in my name ; ask and ye shall re-
ceive, that your joy may be made full.
* * * In that day ye shall ask in my
name."
This is what Jesus says ; what the
lodge says is, "Ye shall not ask in His
name." This is the rule a certain chap-
lain was censured for disregarding. At
his initiation he had demurred, hesita-
ting to repeat after the Master such
words as belong to those which a ^lason
confessed had sometimjes made his blood
run cold. At that time he was led for-
ward by the assurance that, while in
early ages the language justly objected
to doubtless had significance, it was a
necessary but meaningless form of
words now. "We have all taken it, and
no account is made of it around here."
Thus assured, he proceeded.
Having become chaplain of the lodge,
he offered a prayer in which he used the
name of his Lord as he would anywhere.
He was then made acquainted with the
irregularity of such unmasonic prayer.
In another meeting the chaplain again
prayed as a Christian ; after the prayer
closed he was sharply reprimanded. A
third time he mentioned the interdicted
name, when the gavel came down. Rap!
Into the prayer broke the lodge master
vehemently denouncing the chaplain for
mentioning his own Master. This time,
the rebuke was severe and stern. At
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February, 1912.
length the chaplain asked : "What do you
propose to do?"' "Do you remember the
penalty of your oath?" "I do; but you
told me that it meant nothing." "William
2^1organ found that it meant something —
and he is not the only man."
however ; we would not place great risks
in the care of Owls.
HUNTING OWLS.
Sunday. Dec. lo. two Owl organizers
were arrested in a Massachusetts city
where they were about to build an owl
nest. They were charged with violating
the state insurance law by soliciting with
reference to an organization lacking the
approval of the state insurance commis-
sioner. The deputy supreme president
owl for ^Massachusetts and Nova Scotia
testified in the trial, giving at some
length an account of the constitution and
methods of the order. From his evidence
and that of other witnesses, it appeared
that each member of the order pays a
tax of 40 cents a year which goes to the
supreme lodge or "nest" at South Bend,
Ind. This pays the running expenses of
the supreme lodge, including salaries of
supreme president, supreme secretary
and supreme treasurer. The residue is
kept as a fund for paying benefits to wid-
ows and orphans of members. The su-
preme lodge does not interfere with the
benefits paid locally by subordinate
lodges. Local nests are allowed to im-
pose any kind of fees on members and
they are at liberty to pay sickness and
death benefits as they will. There ap-
pears to be no regular and uniform rule.
The prosecuting attorney made the
contention of the commonwealth include
denial that the society is a fraternity. He
held it to be an insurance company and
as such not exempt from the statute re-
quiring the permit of the commissioner.
Because it had no representative govern-
ment, and because the dues paid to the
supreme lodge are the private gain of the
supreme officers, he found the organiza-
tion not of the fraternal type. Both these
representations were denied or disputed
by the Chicago lawyer who is chief coun-
sel for the order of Owls.
Whether the court decided to classify
Owls with Eagles, Beavers, Elks, and
other specimens collected in the fraternal
insurance menagerie, we have not
learned. Of one thing we are pretty sure,
LAW OR ANARCHY— WHICH?
An article contributed by Fremont L.
Pugsley, Esq., to the Watchman and
Morning Star, under this caption, de-
serves wide circulation on account of its
clarifying discussion of matters funda-
mental in government, with its clear rec-
ognition of their relation to recent con-
ditions and events. From this article we
cull a few selections.
"Statements made in the public print
by many editors and other writers, and
reported from the addresses and ser-
mons of numerous prominent persons
since the confessions of the McNamara
brothers, reveal such gross and alarming
ignorance, or wilful perversion of the
fundamental principles of law and gov-
ernment in this country, that nO' honest
citizen who understands those principles
should allow the authors of such state-
ments to go un rebuked. "^ * * It is time
that honest men, and especially men of
the legal profession, bring forward and
boldly declare the truth according to law.
"In the ultimate legal analysis of the
body politic "^ ^ * two separate and
distinct entities only are recognizable,
namely, the citizen and the state. -^ =5^ *
The second is necessary because of the
nature of the first. The state is the will
of the majority of its citizens "^ ''' *
guidance, restraint, and control are nec-
essary to prevent the individual citizen
from trespassing upon the rights of other
citizens. * '•'' ^ The state * * * is the
very best instrument that has ever been
or can ever be, devised by man to estab-
lish his rights and defend and control
him in his proper exercise of them. In
such a state, the citizen has no right to
invent and use other means for such
purpose, because, as a matter of fact, no
other rational means for such purpose
ever did, or ever can, exist. * * "^ With-
in the scope of our constitutions and
laws, there is absolutely no room for the
theories, principles, and practices of la-
bor unionism — such as today exist. To
our constitutions and laws as now exist-
ing, or however altered or amended, so
long as they represent the will of the peo-
ple, the aforesaid theories, principles, and
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303
practices are wholly and radically alien
and repugnant "^ * * to be obedient to
them, one must be in rebellion against
the state. * * ''' 'No man can serve two
masters.' * ''^ * The gigantic conspir-
acy to which the McNamaras have re-
cently confessed, is now the crowning
evidence. * * * The true method for so-
lution of these problems provided by our
constitutions — though not yet by our
laws — is, as I have many times pointed
out in the last thirty years, addition to
our present judicial system of a suf-
ficient number of industrial courts * * *
the laborer would have no need for a
labor union or of any combination what-
ever at his back to aid him in maintain-
ing his proper standing as a social unit,
or to adjust with equity his wages and
his relations to his employers."
The writer also' demands that these
courts be inexpensive, simple in proced-
ure, and free from encumbering ''legal
rubbish." He obviously wants courts
such as a day laborer could seek with
confidence that without delay he would
either obtain his real right or plainly see
his own duty.
OBSTINATE CONNIVANCE AP-
PLAUDED.
A well known paper which produces
matter worth copying and copies matter
worth producing, culls this from the
Philadelphia Public Ledger. The moral
principle noted, can be appHed beyond
the limits of its discussion:
"Popular" Preachers.
Thackeray had a character in "The New-
comes," a clergyman named Honeyman, who
always preaches the kind of sermon people
want to hear. A Public Ledger correspond-
ent wants to know whether Philadelphia is the
place of first resort for the mountebanks of
the ministerial calling, judging by the desper-
ate efforts of one of them to call attention to
himself by his flamboyant preachments upon
the follies of 1911. And now another Phila-
delphia pastor offers Coatesville the gratuitous
counsel to "keep mum," to render no assist-
ance to the authorities in their effort to locate
the guilt of Zack Walker's lynching and ap-
prehend the chief malefactors.
"I'm against the man who tells on others
to save his own neck," says this spiritual guide
and philosopher to his flock. It is "a play to
the galleries." He makes a hero of the man
who withholds information which, as a citizen,
it is his duty to communicate. He applauds
the obstinate refusal of "thousands of people"
tc tell what they know, in the endeavor to re-
move the stigma upon the fair fame of their
city. He professes to find something noble in
their conspiracy of silence.
This clergyman is a Honeyman, who is try-
ing to say the most popular thing. As a min-
ister of God's law it is his duty to side with
the forces making for law and order, even
though that is the unpopular course. In his
views, as he expresses them, he follows the
line of least resistance, instead of taking cour-
ageous exception to those who strive to justify
the easier way of glossing over the mob
violence of Sunday, August 13.
After the exposure of such absurdity
follows the question, by what means
were the ideas of a moral teacher con-
fused and made immoral ? Upon what de-
bilitating diet has the speaker fed? In
what cross current has this moral pilot
been drifting out of the charted latitude
or longitude? How, indeed, has it come
to pass that the editor has withstood the
preacher to the face because he was to be
blamed? The pulpit orator ''professes to
find something noble in this conspiracy
of silence" ; it may be because he has al-
ready bowed in abject approval of the
same collusion enjoined and practiced by
what he fancies a noble order.
Evidently he is a man of distorted
ideas, of perverted notions such as are
neither new nor hard to find. Again and
again, he may have heard this obligation
repeated : "I will keep the secrets of a
worthy Master Mason as inviolable as
my own, when committed to and re-
ceived by me as such, murder and trea-
son excepted ; and these, only, at my own
option." From the third he may have
advanced to the seventh desfree wdiere
his ear has become accustomed to the
same obligation, made, if possible, more
despicable yet by complete removal of
conscientious option, and of the excep-
tion that proves the criminal rule. Dazed
by accessories of the abnegation of con-
science, any one might be expected to
rank such characters as the protestors of
criminals outside the degrees, among the
noblest of mankind.
WEIGHTY RESOLUTIONS.
A large and important denominational
convention, representing churches in the
whole northern portion of the United
States, "spoke with no uncertain sound
concerning the separation of Church and
State, and the necessity of resisting every
attempt to obtain public moneys for sec-
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tarian purposes." Questions of sectari-
anism in politics are of first importance,
and the subject involved ought to be
studied in the light of history. Too little
is known by American citizens of Euro-
pean conditions, together with our own
in early times. One of the original con-
stitutional thirteen states refused to make
reli2:ious libertv constitutional at the time
of its constitutional convention m 1820.
The point was finally carried by the
friends of freedom in 1833. The next
year the law went into effect. Even yet,
the same state cannot improve the phrase-
ology of its constitution in order to fore-
stall evasion of its terms. Only recently,
the speaker of the House, who has
wished to be governor of the state, ap-
pointed such a committee as would kill
the proposed revision and not allow it to
come before the House.
This helps to show how important an
act it is, when a great and immensely
representative convention adopts ''the
following significant resolutions, which
should be kept handy for reference."
''Whereas, the peaceful assimilation of
alien races and of diverse religious sects,
has been and is being accomplished in
the Republic of the United States in a
most remarkable and gratifying manner ;
and
Whereas, the experiment of religious
liberty and the organic separation of
Church and State, with free public
schools and compulsory education
therein, are recognized as essential to the
perpetuation of our republic ;
Resolved, i. That the appropriation
of public funds to religious institutions
(however commendable) for use in ad-
ministration of sectarian ministries, tends
to create useless and undesirable division
among peaceful, law-abiding citizens,
and is un-American in spirit, and should
be rendered unconstitutional in every
state in the Union.
2. That the division and diversion of
public school funds to any institution
of learning not owned and controlled by
the state, is also un-American, and should
be rendered unconstitutional in each
state of the Union.
3. That the free public schools of the
United States, supported by taxation of
all the people representing conceivable
shade of religious conviction, should not,
in the present state of society, undertake
the religious training of the youth."
If the fundamental principles involved
in such resolutions are vital as well as
true ; if the conditions named "are essen-
tial to the perpetuation of our Republic" ;
what then can be said in behalf of special
legislation in the interest of any "good
enough religion" representing any cult,
and in the interest of superstitious Ma-
sonic suppression of free speech? Laws
that forbid exposure of evil secrets, cher-
ished by men who think they are free,
as individuals, to shelter crime in the
shadow of the lodge, are laws that pro-
tect the injurious designs of Jesuits,
Knights of Columbus, and all other or-
ders hostile to free institutions, freedom
of public education, and freedom of
conscience. The mantle of Masonic law
covers sectarian graft, and shields de-
signs against American public schools.
Masonry is a great ally of its kindred
superstition, Romanism.
NEVER HEARD IT.
In a certain lodge, the District Deputy
was instructing the officers and mem-
bers how to do various things, and
among them was how; to introduce a
visiting member, especially how the
committee would get into the lodge room
after examining the visitor. One of the
committee men said he had never heard
that explained before. The district
deputy asked him how the committee
got into the lodge room after examining
a brother. He answered that they did
not get in ; they staid out in the ante-
room, and smoked the remainder of the
session ! — ^Secret society paper.
Why is not some such plan worth con-
sidering? It might be commended also
to candidates,. They need not even
smoke, but, anyway, a good many might
prefer smoking to swearing.
The new possession of Alaska is of
such size that its northern point would
touch the Canadian border, its South-
ern point the Gulf of Mexico, its eastern
point the Atlantic Ocean, and its West-
ern point would cross the Mississippi.
February, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
30:
NEW MEXICAN PENITENTES.
"It was a Friday night during Lent,
and a cold night, unwarmed by the yel-
low moonlight," and, as Ida Louise Ken-
ney relates in the September Overland,
"When the wild shriek of the fife struck
the travelers' ears, they turned quickly
from the canyon road and took a path
that lost itself among the pines on the
mountain side. From behind such a
comfortable screen, they watched the
little procession file by on the road be-
neath them. At the head of the line was
the fifer, full of pride in his position as
leader. Following, came four brothers.
Over each head was drawn a large black
cap, such as is worn by those who go to
the gallows. They were naked to the
waist, and their legs were covered only
with white cotton drawers. Feet were
bare, leaving blood on the rocks. The
right hand of each flagellant carried a
cruel whip of stiff, bristling fiber, which
at each step he threw backward over one
shoulder and along the back, then in the
same way over the other. Their backs
were soon streaming with blood, yet the
whip was laid as firmly on the raw flesh
as over the unbroken skin, and never a
murmur was heard.
"Holy Friday morning the procession
started early along its line of march from
the town to the Campo Santo, or burying
ground, and return. As always, the pro-
cession was headed by the fifer, after
whom came, this morning, more than a
dozen flagellants, followed by two score
women who were constantly wailing dis-
cordant chants and hymns. The whips,
already soaked with blood and dried
many times, cruelly tore the backs of the
Penitentes starting this morning. By
this time most of the backs were in dread-
ful condition, raw and swollen, inflamed
and red. One brother, known to be old
by his wrinkled skin, his wavering step,
and his bent form, had slightly inflamed
places on his back, which were beginning
to purple and fester. He had not the
vigorous blood of youth to heal the lacer-
ations that had commenced a month be-
fore. But w'hen he stumbled, there
were those who encouraged him with a
harsh thrust of cactus thorns that pierced
his sensitive side."
While ten plied the bloody lashes, two
bore burdens on their naked backs, this
morning, the one, a bundle of cactus
bound so tightly to his back with a stout
rope that the thorns, sharp as needles,
yet stiff as wire, pierced his flesh in un-
counted places, while blood flowed to the
ground ; the other, a huge, heavy cross,
the end of which dragged along the
ground about twenty feet from its top.
Many trips to Santo Campo and back
were made on Holy Friday, on one of
which the procession entered an old
adobe building, where they sang and
marched up, down, and across one large
room, some of them carrying images of
the Virgin.
This was in the afternoon, and at the
door the cross was left, while the man
who had carried it lay prostrate before
the altar during the half hour in which
others were carrying images. Then the
procession re-formed, and, marching
forth, came to the spot where three of
the brothers began to dig a hole in the
ground. When it was several feet deep,
the foot of the cross was dragged to it.
Promptly, he who had carried the cross
stretched himself upon it with arms ex-
tended.
Heavy rope was quickly bound about
his wrists and ankles, and drawn so
tightly that in a few moments the hands
and feet were purple and rapidly swell-
ing. This, however, was not sufficient
agony; for, when all other preparations
were complete, a short, heavy blade was
handed El Capitan, and, bending over
the purpling form, he gashed the right
side, letting the blood pour out in a
stream. A long, deep cut it was, not a
mere breaking of the skin. Then sev-
eral of the brothers grasped the cross
with its burden, slipped the end into the
hole prepared for it, and let the weight
drop. The hole in the earth about the
cross was quickly filled. "As the last
shovelful w*as tramped down, the Peni-
tente who had worn a bundle of cactus
threw himself at the foot of the cross.
the load still roped tightly across his
shoulders, the thorns piercing deeper
than ever as his weight drove them into
his body."
Every Penitente is a Roman Catholic :
but some declare that the order has been
kept in existence so long by politicians,
who wish to reach, through the influ-
ence of the order, certain political ends.
Many of the brothers are outlaws, horse
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thieves, murderers and depraved men.
Their agonies are endured during Lent,
their flagrant crimes perpetrated during
the rest of the year.
Initiated members alone can see the
book of rules, yet some of their laws are
known outside. For instance, when a
brother injures another member of the
order in property, a heavy punishment is
decreed by the Hermano Mayor, whose
authority is absolute. One fraternal
chastisement is scourging with a whip
made of many wires bent at the ends
so as to tear the flesh ; another punish-
ment is burial to the neck all night.
Secrets of the order must be kept, under
no less a penalty than being buried
alive.
CONCORD WITH BELIAL.
Considerable time has elapsed since
some one made the following proposi-
tion, declaring that ''the time for moral-
izing is past. Action is now in order, and
I suggest that if none of the stronger
religious bodies will initiate the move-
ment, our General Board of Missions
take measures to secure a conference of
representative men from each of said
bodies to devise the best methods of
bringing the influence of the church of
God to bear for the destruction of the
saloon, for the protection of our public
school system, and for the co-operation
of Christians in every good word and
work. Such a movement would draw
to it the Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation, the Young People's Christian
Endeavor, the "W. C. T. U., the Masonic
and other fraternities, and would wel-
come the twentieth century of the Chris-
tian era wdth a suitable preliminary to
'the new heavens and the new earth
wherein dwelleth righteousness.' "
■ We adopt the comment of The Inde-
pendent, that "The proposition that the
Masonic and other fraternities which
have not a definite religious purpose,
should be brought under the wing of such
a church union is something which is
startling and not essential to the plan,"
—excepting, however, the relative clause,
"which have not a definite religious pur-
pose." Make it "Christian purpose" and
we will withdraw the exception. If bare-
ly irreligious, a fraternity of worldly ad-
herents would of course have to argue
on behalf of any claim to be classed with
religious organizations of any kind, or
with churches. If anti-ehristian in doc-
trine and morals, it could make no reas-
onable claim to recognition as included
in Christian fellowship. That Free-
masonry is fully open to this objection,
many intelligent students of its princi-
ples and practices fully believe. It
would hardly tell the whole truth which
they distinctly see and understand, to say
that this proposed feature is not essential
to the plan; it is not consistent with the
plan.
The oldest Oddfellow lodge in west-
ern Massachusetts was instituted in
1848, and is therefore sixty-four years
old. When it celebrated the 89th anni-
versary of the order of Oddfellows in
this country, its exercises began with
an address in a Universalist Church,
and continued in the hall, with a mis-
cellaneous entertainment and dancing.
"And the people sat down to eat and to
drink, and rose up to play." Ex. 32 :6.
"HIS WAY INTO VARIOUS SOCIE-
TIES."
A contributor to the September Homi-
letic Reviezv uses an illustration drawn
from his own observation. We notice
that the pastor of whom he speaks was
led into various societies as well as into
clubs, and thinks it fair to guess that
some of these were secret societies.
"I recall the case of a clergyman who
was called to the pastorate of a large
church about five years ago. It was
large in the sense that the building was
spacious and of finest granite, the ap-
pointments were perfect, the salary was
high, and the people were of the socially
exclusive kind. The 'largeness' of a
church is too often estimated by these
measurements. He had a happy en-
trance into his new parish. His officials
opened the way into various societies,
and paid his fees and dues into the best
clubs. Mingled with their many and
dazzling kindnesses, were hints as to
the kind of preaching they liked, the
things they would rather not have him
denounce, and the methods he should
not use. The opiate, being sugar-
coated, was easily administered. But
he went too far in pleasing them. He
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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speedily divested himself of all his indi-
viduality. He no longer denounced evil.
He ceased to fight against enthroned
wrong. His preaching became tasteless,
his manner artificial. All you could say
of his sermons was that they were pol-
ished. His laymen soon tired of their
made-over pastor ; but, forgetting their
part in the disastrous process, they as-
cribed the reason for the change to a
few gray hairs on his temples. Just be-
fore they discovered their state of mind
toward him, he had the offer of a pro-
fessorship. They raised his salary, and
persuaded him to stay. In less than a
year they ruthlessly cast him out."
The laymen cited the gray hairs ; the
author, the hints of the laymen ; but we
can hardly leave out of consideration
the influence of associations and affilia-
tions in the clubs and various societies.
*'Be ye therefore followers of God, as
dear children." "And have no fellow-
ship with the unfruitful works of dark-
ness.
"AFTER US THE DELUGE."
It has been to us a matter of surmise
or wonder, what would result when civil
war veterans disappeared from the
Grand Army Lodge. Naturally, the
sons of veterans were thought of as
liable to virtually perpetuate the order,
or at least inherit the lodge rooms. The
Relief Corps set the example of gather-
ing in women willing to join, without
much reference to military relatives.
The old soldiers, however, naturally
kept their lodges for themselves. After
the Spanish war, there appeared a new
possible direction in which to look for
lodge recruits.
We have seen another order — prob-
ably the United Workmen — represented
by its uniform or regalia in a country
graveyard on Memorial Day, and, at a
recent national convention of Foresters
of lAmerica. a law was passed that, when
possible. Foresters' graves should be
decorated on the same day as soldiers'
graves. Three courts of this order —
one composed of Italians — arranged
with the Grand Army for a joint ob-
servance, which it is said, would have
added about 500 in phalanx to the mili-
tary and civil attendants ; but, after all
plans were made, one court of Foresters
withdrew. Is it possible that a time is
approaching when those who have rights
and mournful interests in quiet ceme-
teries where their dead are sleeping, will
be compelled to protest against annual
invasions by various holiday hordes bent
on parade and ostentatious decoration?
A New England newspaper says, in
an editorial paragraph :
Although the New York police have been
proclaiming a " wave of innocence," the
pawn brokers say that conditions indicate to
them that there are more burglaries than ever
in the metropolis. Furthermore it is said the
detectives are slow to give out lists of stolen
goods for fear they will get to the newspapers
and create an impression that the city is not
so innocent as it is made to appear. Are the
pawn brokers mistaken, or are the police pur-
suing the foolish policy of putting secrecy
above efficiency?
If secrecy can be put above morality,
why not above efficiency?
Utm of ®ut Pori
PENNSYLVANIA CONVENTION.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 16, 191 2.
Dear Cynosure :
The time approaches for the holding
of the Pennsylvania State Convention.
My thought had been to locate it in the
Oil City district. It now looks as if that
would not be the wisest, as weather and
other conditions are likely to prevent the
preliminary work needed. We have many
friends in the Pittsburgh district, and
should be able to get a rousing convention
with the efifort that wq expect will be
made. I have not consulted with the state
officers, but it looks now as if Tarentum,
in Allegheny County, would be the place,
and March nineteenth and tzvoitieth the
time for this gathering. Tarentum is an
old battle ground in the anti-secret work.
Over thirty years ago, Rev. J\Ir. Tim-
mous of the United Presbyterian Church
of that city conquered grandly in a dis-
cussion with a representative Mason and
put the lodge in disrepute ; but alas for
humanity, there are but few who remem-
ber that conflict and victory ! All man-
ner of Birds and Beasts may now be
found, if we are to judge by Lodge
names.
Friends, shall we rally for Tarentum?
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
February. 1912.
The call with further information may
be expected next month. Pray for this
meeting, and plan to attend as far as
possible.
]^I}- work for the past month has
moved steadily forward. It w^as said
that my meetings in the Brethren Church,
Xorristown, Pa., were more largely at-
tended than were the usual services.
Brother Xedrow has been a good help to
this people, and they much appreciate his
self-sacrificing labors. He is fearless in
his declaration of the truth in opposition
to the Lodge error.
My meeting in Faith Tabernacle, Phil-
adelphia, was by far the largest ever held
by me, though the meetings in years past
have been well attended. All who receive
instruction there know^ how Brother An-
kins stands on the Lodge question. They
always welcome and support the writer's
efforts. Attendance at the Friends'
meeting, Fourth and Arch streets, Phila-
delphia, gave opportunity for the renewal
of old friendships and the making of
new. "Friends" quite naturally have an
aversion to "things that are dark and
tricks that are vain."
Because of urgent invitation, I sought
to give the Gospel message in the Breth-
ren church, Washington, D. C, the Sab-
bath I was home. The Lord helped, and
those who liked the truth seemed glad. I
came on New Year's night to McKees-
port and spoke before leaving in the Free
Methodist church, and later in the Men-
nonite church near Masontown, and
then in the Free Methodist church at
Apollo. I attended a ministers' meeting
of the Joint Synod of Ohio Lutheran
pastors, and later heard an address given
by our good friend and co-laborer, Rev.
J. S. McGaw, to the students of the R. P.
Seminarv ; and then attended the West
End revival service conducted by our
good friend Stamp. About seventy have
given me their subscriptions to the
Cynosure during the month of January,
and still there are more to follow.
Friends, this is a splendid time to push
the canvass. Tell your neighbors that
the things of darkness are being brought
to light, and they will want to know
about it. We are not yet through with
the McNamaras, though they are now
where the Lodge cannot hire them to
continue their devilish work.
I almost forgot to write of mv attend-
ance at a meeting in the Eighth Street
R. P. church to hear about the Men and
Religion Forward Movement. It would
seem this is a movement to set the other
men's movement to move. They try to
get men under religious influences. Eight
days are to be given to this very soon, we
were told. The wish is that all Chris-
tians move together. Of course, there
are many who^ will get on the "Band
Wagon" who will not move without the
"Band Wagon." Well, let us move
forward. W. B. Stoddard.
FIELD AND PASTORAL WORK.
Alexandria, La., Jan. 3, 1912.
Dear Cynosure:
I rejoice to be able to say that I am still
among the living and that my purpose is
to do more efficient and effectual work
during the coming year and thus, if pos-
sible, hasten the coming of our Lord
Jesus.
On account of the continued rain and
cold during the last forty days, quite un-
precedented for this balmy section, I
have been unable to accomplish as much
during December as I had hoped to,
but, thank God, I have been the instru-
ment in His hands of doing some very
effective work against the Secret Em-
pire. I was the principal speaker at the
celebration of the forty-ninth anniver-
sary of the signing of the Emancipation
Proclamation by President Lincoln
which was held at the Union Baptist
Church in this city. I showed the evil
influences of secret societies upon both
the Church and State, the direful effect
that they are having upon the young of
both races, but especially upon the negro
whose educational advantages are few.
I received many demonstrations of ap-
proval during the address and an ova-
tion at its conclusion. I also presented
statistics, recently obtained, showing the
great advance that the negro is making
in America and then showed how much
more rapid would be the advance were
it not for the saloon and secret societies.
I submitted my report as pastor of the
vShiloh Baptist Church just as the new
year dawned on Monday morning. In it
I dealt at considerable length with the
evil of oath bound secret societies. I
urged the establishment of a Poor
February, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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Saint's Treasury for looking after the
widows, orphans, sick and poor, there-
by obeying the Scriptures and removing
the greatest and most reasonable ex-
cuse for Christians joining the lodges.
The report was unanimously and en-
thusiastically received and five hundred
copies were ordered printed. Thus far
I have been loyally supported by the ma-
jority of the church in my efforts to lift
higher the moral intellectual and indus-
trial standard. Of course I have some
opposers, but they are greatly in the
minority and have little influence in the
city. The Christian Cynosure is
wielding great influence and doing much
good here.
I am planning a great soul saving revi-
val to begin, God willing, March 3d. Dr.
James Gordon McPherson of Los Ange-
les, California, is expected to conduct
the meetings during which the antagon-
ism of oath bound secret societies to gos-
pel truth and principles will be made
plain, and transgressors will be pointed
to the ''Lamb of God, which taketh away
the sin of the world."
Rev. G. W. Davis, pastor of the Union
Baptist Church of this city, an uncom-
promising opponent of the Lodge, a
reader of the Cynosure, and a lover of
God and His righteousness is a great
helper to me, both in my church and N.
C. A. work. His church membership
is five hundred, and only a very small
percentage of them are secretists. The
Shiloh Churchy of which I am pastor, is
encumbered with a debt of fifteen hun-
dred dollars, and it will take at least
thirty-five hundred dollars to properly
finish the great brick edifice. The fact
that this debt hangs over us has been
the cause of much anxiety on the part
of some of the truest members. They
fear the opposition of the lodge men if
anything is said against secretism, but I
gave them to understand my position to-
ward the Lodge from the very begin-
ning, and now even my bitterest oppon-
ents are loud and outspoken in their
declarations that more has been accom-
plished under my four months of minis-
try than under the former two pastors
during the last four years. I advise
them to "Resist the devil, and he will
flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and
he will draw nigh to you." My aim is to
complete the church, God willing, pay
off its debt, erect a parsonage and res-
cue home, and get my missionary sisters
busy in meeting all trains and in dis-
tributing wholesome literature, and in
endeavoring to save the large number of
young girls and women who are flock-
ing to this growing city, and who are
being led off into lives of shame. 1 also
want, as soon as possible, to establish a
free reading room at the church where
good books and especially N. C. A. and
W. C. T. U. books and tracts can be
found at all times. This seems an ardu-
ous and burdensome undertaking, but
we are servants of a great God, there-
fore we must attempt great things for
Him, and expect great results from
Him. I ask the prayers of all God's
people that I may he able to accomplish
these things and lift my poor deluded
race out of this mesh and mire into
which the heartless sin cursed saloon
and the oath bound lodges have led
them.
I shall be glad to meet engagements
to preach or lecture on the lodge, or sa-
loon question at any time and place
where my expenses and a small allow-
ance are assured.
Let us rejoice in Him again ever-
more, for His mercy endureth forever.
Yours for a pure Gospel Church.
F. T. Davidson.
EVANGELIST PEGRAM'S EXPERI-
ENCES.
(Continued from January Number.)
I had a sad experience recently. I was
called to visit a man who had been ill for
a long time. He was unsaved. I tried
to get him to surrender to God, and to
pray. He could not be persuaded to
pray or to make any promises to become
a Christian. He said it was of no use
for himself or any one else to pray for
him, for there was no hope for him. He
said he had cursed God, Jesus Christ, his
children, and his own soul.
I saw a Masonic chart on the wall, and
wondered if he had trusted in the ^la-
sonic lodge for salvation till he had
sinned away the day of his grace. I
heard his Masonic brethren praising him,
saying ''what a good man he was." But
can any man be good who will curse
God, Jesus Christ, his children and his
own soul ?
Recently a man gave me considerable
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February, 1912.
insight into the working of labor unions.
He said that several years ago he
was connected with one in a mining
district. He said that no man could be
a Christian and belong- to a union run
like that one was. For instance, they
did not like one of the mine superin-
tendents. They voted to get rid of him
in some way. After this decision, bal-
lots were prepared. AH of them were
blank, except one, which had written up-
on it the word "Assassination." The one
who received this ballot was to do the
deed. If he did not, he was to suffer
the penalty himself. While the ballots
were being distributed my informant
opened a window, got out and dropped
to the ground (the meeting was in a
school house). The man who got the
ballot and was to do the deed, did not
do it. It was reported that he left the
country. He was never heard of again.
What became of him? This union was
"all founded on the Bible!" Why, of
course it was.
This same imion paid a man $3.00 per
dav to go to a certain mine, which em-
ployed non-union men. He was to let
accidents happen ; let mules get crippled ;
let cars run off of the tracks, and was
quietly to persuade all the men he could
to leave there. The mine operators paid
him $5.00 per day while the Union paid
him $3.00 more. This part of their pro-
gram was all carried out. Some others
beside the McNamaras ought to make a
confession. No wonder it is hard to
reach union men with the gospel !
A man skipped a board bill. The laws
m West Virginia are very strict against
swindling hotels and boarding houses.
He was "arrested. His case was up for
trial. It just happened (?) to leak out
that he was a Mason. Straitway there
was a hitch in the proceedings. Judge,
lawyers, jurors — in fact, nearly every-
body connected with the trial balked.
Immediately it was learned that he was a
poor, honest, needy man (jumping a
board bill is not dishonest, you know)
who had been having a very hard time
and deserved pity and help. Nearly all
of these men who had evidence that he
bad jumped his board bill made him up
money enough to pay his bill and
stopped the proceedings. This was not
thwarting justice, it was simply benevo-
lence ! One of the men v/ho was on the
jury told me all about it. No one doubted
his guilt and no one denied it.
I told a crowd of lodge men about the
Masons using a variety of schemes to
get Chas. W. Morse out of the Federal
prison, and about their appealing to
President Taft on the strength of his
Masonic oath to pardon him. A young
Mason present said "That was all right.
It was their duty to help one another out
of trouble." I told him they could not
then be good citizens, because they were
particeps criminis, and accessories after
the crime. And they could not be good
Christian, because they were "partakers
of other men's sins" and were calling
"evil good and good evil." I Tim. 5 :22 ;
Isa. 5 :2o.
In one of my meetings a young man
confessed that when he was seeking the
baptism of the Holy Ghost, he felt that
he must renounce his lodge, and that he
could never get it unless he did. He
professed to get the baptism of the Spirit
in my meeting. But some time later,
between a lodge bound district superin-
tendent, and lodge members of the church
he was led to renounce his renunciatio;i,
and is now defending the lodge. It is
needless to say that he lost his bright ex-
perience, too.
G. A. Pegram.
Parrall, W. Va.
Among the volunteer workers that
seem to have the right idea of what is
due from them to their neighbors and
friends, are Mr. B. Erickson, — • ,
Texas, and Mr. H. Von Ohsen of
, South Carolina. In one of the
notes from the latter, he speaks of a
church having been dedicated by lodge
ofificers, and of his having gone to the
pastor and, protesting, showed why it
should not have been permitted. The
pastor promised that he would not rest
until he had his church rededicated.
Forest fires during the first ten years
of the twentieth century caused, in the
United States, the loss of the lives of
100,000 people, and a property loss of
$60,000,000.
The Weather Bureau's forecasts are
worth $15,000,000 annually to agricul-
turists and the shipping interests.
February, 1912.
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bm #ur M(Al
Hart, Mich., Jan. 12, 1912.
Dear Brother Philhps :
The January number of the Cynosure
is especially good, and I wish that it
could be placed in every home. I am
praying that God will give the anti-secret
workers a very successful year. I realize
more and more that we must have knowl-
edge to carry on the work.
Mrs. Bessie Newell.
Sacaton, Arizona, Jan. 8, 1912.
Dear Brother :
I prize the Christian Cynosure far
above any other religious journal I now
have. Having lived among the Pima
Indians for over forty-one years, and
having seen the way in which the Indians
are treated by the Secret Empire, I can
only wonder that the people who call
themselves Christians can claim to be
members of secret societies.
Rev. Chas. H. Cook,
Missionary of the Presbyterian Church.
WHEATON COLLEGE.
An Open Letter.
To Readers of the Cynosure:
I am communicating from time to time
as I have opportunity with pastors east
rind west, north and south. As leaders
of thought and examples to the young
they occupy places of peculiar privilege
and responsibility.
Our nation is fairly crazed respecting
education. Thousands of schools, hun-
dreds of thousands of teachers and many
millions of money are lavished each year
on the training of the young. While
there are exceptions, glorious excep-
tions, I fear that as a rule this education
is secular rather than religious. Knowl-
edge of earthly things and desire for
sport seem to be the dominant interests
of most of the schools. That there are
many thousands of earnest Christian
teachers who really desire better things
for their pupils, I am glad to believe,
young man or woman should leave a
good home for an education and then
be spoiled in faith or corrupted in char-
acter. That this frequently occurs, all
people know. That it ought never to oc-
cur, is unquestionably true.
I send this letter to the Cynosure, re-
questing its readers' kind co-operation
in the work which we have undertaken.
While we do not neglect the physical and
intellectual culture of our young people,
our great thought and care is that they
may come to be the sort of people that
the world needs. As Christian men and
women I feel sure that you will help v<i
as you can. Though it is probably un-
necessary, I suggest the following meth-
ods by which you may be fellow work-
ers with us. First in directing the
thought of young people who wish to
enter either college, academy, commer-
cial or music courses toward Wlieaton
College. I can promise you our best ef-
forts for those who come from your con-
gregation and community for any one of
these courses. Second, by leading giv-
ing men and women of your community
to- think of the college as a good place
for investment. Pluman lives end, but
corporations live on. There are now
Were it not so, our educational situation
would be far less hopeful than it is.
Christian faith and character are the
foundation of all excellence and lofty at-
tainments. This is just as true in what
are called the secular pursuits as it is in
the professions. A man cannot be a good
merchant, blacksmith, or mill owner if
he is not a worthy Christian man. The
experience of all Christian people as-
sures them that the time for men to
come to Christ is when they are young.
To this end, the Christian home, the
Christian church and the Christian
school ought to co-operate. Wlien we
have had all the help along this line
which we can get, we will have had none
too much. It seems a tragedy that a
educational institutions at work which
have been in service for nearly or quite
a thousand years. No human mind can
estimate the force for good of such an
investment as that. Generation after
generation passes, but the work still con-
tinues. If we knew that our Lord was
to return tomorrow, we should not build
schools, but He has told us that no man
knoweth the day or the hour of His com-
ing, and for good or ill the young people
of our time must be fitted for their life
tasks. It is always pleasant to remem-
ber that when our Lord does come, all
these agencies of good which good peo-
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
February, 1912.
pie have erected will be doing an en-
larged and beautiful service through the
thousand years.
Our office is glad to welcome pastors
and teachers, and our Cynosure friends,
at any time. Wc are also pleased to send
to them any printed matter which we
have that would be of interest to them or
their people. We are hoping to co-op-
erate in every possible way w^ith all good
folk for the accomplishment of the lofty
ends which we have so imperfectly dealt
with in this letter. May I hear from
you? If you wish any of our college
people to visit your region, that also will
be a pleasure ; and while it will forward
the object which we have specially in
view, it would, I think, be helpful to
your people in many other ways. At
least this is the testimony of those with
whom we have been permitted to labor.
With best regards and wishes, I am,
Very truly yours,
Charles A. Blanchard.
Wheat 011^ Illinois.
SPIRIT LED.
We are permitted to make an extract from a
letter recenth^ received in the city from one
who says of himself that he is working under
the auspices of the American Mission as the
pastor of a Protestant church in Ourfa, Tur-
key in Asia, near the old Haran. We were
able to send him President Finney's work,
"Character, Claims and Practical Workings of
Freemasonry," and other literature. We trust
that our readers will remember this brother in
prayer that he may be a special blessing to all
m that cou^tr3^ — Editor.
Dear Brother in Christ:
Since the giving of the Constitution,
atheistic, rationalistic and socialistic
teachings have been flooding into our
country, even into the churches, from
Europe and America. I feel storry for
our young, as I see many of them going
astray because of their not having
knowledge that is according to the
Truth of the Word of God. Then you
can see how I hold myself responsible to
know the Truth and to teach it tO' them.
Praise God ! He blesses me and uses
me for His name. Yet I see the need
of much more knowledge.
May I ask you to answer some ques-
tions for me, brother?
What is Freemasonry? Can a Chris-
tian be a member of a secret society and
be loyal to the Gospel? I do not know
anything about masonry, but there are
some missionaries and native pastors
here who have been Masons, and they
say that it is Christiaiiity. Is this so?
I feel that I myself do not need to be
anything else but a child of the Heavenly
Father, but I wish to know the truth
about the matter in order to teach and
guide the young men who are being led
into masonry by those here who speak
well of it.
Yours in the coming Lord,
A. Z. Yeghoyan.
SPIRIT FILLED WATCHMEN
NEEDED.
Racine, Wis., January 3, 1912.
Dear Brother in Christ:
As to the Cynosure, if I should say
that I am in hearty sympathy with it,
that would be, perhaps, no special
recommendation for it, but your maga-
zine is doing something more than op-
pose selfish ''special interests." It
throws light upon these ''special inter-
ests." I begin to see their homes. But
how are we to solve the question be-
tween the capitalist and laboring class?
The capitalists can buy their "rights" in
any place, yea, even at the pulpits and
altars of a host of churches, not to speak
of their ability to turn any wheel of their
ow:n political machine, which seems to
have its belts on every imaginable busi-
ness wheel in the world ; and that in the
sole spirit of selfish interest.
I think the reason that the laboring
people have not yet arisen in a body
against these fellows, is the power that
the gospel of Jesus Christ has over the
majority of the laboring classes.
I am not against the condition that
some men are rich while others are poor,
but against a condition of poverty caused
by the injustice of the rich. Instead of
the rich helping to make it possible for
the poor to properly feed, clothe, and
shelter themselves, they hang all these
things so high that they are out of reach.
I never believed that the labor unions of
the present type can bring about a satis-
factory solution of the problem ; nor will
the present "Socialism." I believe the
only solution is for the "Watchers on
the Walls of Zion," under the direction
of the gospel and in the power of the
Spirit to sound their trumpets.
Oh, that we would look to God for
our temporal provisions, instead of to
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the capitalists, and to the Holy Ghost
for church members instead of the secret
societies ! Christianity would then soon
leaven society.
I do not intend to make you believe
that I am, or ever thought that I was,
an authority in our Norwegian Lutheran
Church of America, but I do think that I
voice the sentiment of the Norwegian
Lutheran Church about these special in-
terests and their only solution. Nearly
every congregation has a clause in their
constitution for the exclusion of mem-
bers of secret societies. This does not
mean that we have no secret society
members, but in most cases they are in
minority, and in all cases they are so,
as far as spiritual and financial inter-
est are concerned.
Fraternally yours,
Nels Carlson,
A FRIENDLY WORD.
Elgin, Manitoba, Jan. lo, 1912.
Dear Editor :
Just a few lines to let you know how
we appreciate the Cynosure. May the
Lord bless you in your efforts in expos-
ing the works of darkness. I have
Ronayne's works showing the secrets of
the Orange Association, and am sur-
prised that Orangemen who profess to
be Christians will deny what he says re-
garding this order. Having been a
member of that lodge for a number of
years previous to my conversion, and be-
ing lecturer at that time, I can say that
what I have read of his works regarding
the Orange order is correct. Our
churches are dead spiritually, and I be-
lieve it is largely due to our ministers
being in connection with these Godless
secret societies.
Wishing you success, I am
Yours truly,
C. W. Maguire.
COMMENTS ON ELDER DISSETTE'S
LETTER.
Omaha, Nebr., Jan. 13, 191 1.
Editor of Christian Cynosure :
I have read Elder G. T. Dissette's su-
perb ''Open Letter" irt the January is-
sue with the greatest interest. As a
Lutheran pastor, and consequently,
aside froni being a Christian, a mortal
foe of the heathenism of Masonry, I re-
joice to hear such testimonies.
The method of comparison between
utterances of great Masonic authorities
and the Word of God, is a superior one,
and brings home conviction more speed-
ily than mere polemics.
In fact, I think that one great weak-
ness in the anti-secrecy work has been
the lack, too often, of this calm, unbrib-
able and thorough comparison of classic
Masonic utterances and Scripture. At
least we Lutheran Christians are very
sensitive on that point. It is in vain to
convince us by mere inflaming polem-
ics. They eft'ect nothing with us. But
give us Martin Luther's giant method of
pitting the darkness of this world's wis-
dom against the light of the Word of
God, and our consciences are taken cap-
tive.
The same thing applies to published
anti-secret manuals. We care nothing
for mere polemics. We wish powerful
and skilled comparisons between central
Masonic utterances in liturgies and
classic authorities, and the Holy Scrip-
tures.
If it be permitted I would also add
one more word: It is frequently said,
against us uninitiated "Gentiles," that
it may be true that Christ is left out of
the Blue Lodge, but afar up in the high-
est orders he is proclaimed. This ar-
gument is ceaselessly used. It were
well, if light would be thrown on this
point in articles published. Let the com-
parison between the highest degrees and
Scriptures be made, in a calm, sensible,
but conscience-compelling manner. We
would need to have such material to aid
us in guiding those who on that point
seek or need information. Let our anti-
masonic specialists rivet attention on
this.
God bless all efforts that tend toward
the breaking down of the kingdom of
Satan, who is notably powerful through
his seductive blending of stolen frag-
ments of God's Word and ridiculously
pilfered bits of heathen religion, those
religions whose moral and spiritual re-
sults Paul has described so vividly in
the first chapter of Romans.
Yours very sincerely,
Adolf Hult,
Pastor Immanuel Lutheran Church.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
February, 1912.
AN OPEN LETTER.
(Continued from Januar}^ Number,)
To Elder W. A. Humphreys, Presiding
Elder of the West Plains District, St.
Louis Conference of the M. E.
Church South :
I was present and heard your sermon
and address over the remains of the late
C. J. Waggoner, a deceased Royal Arch
Mason. In your address you declared
that "Freemasonry is not a religious or-
ganization."
In the January number of the Cyno-
sure I showed that you were mistaken ;
that Freemasonry claims to be a religion ;
and now^ I wish to show What the Ma-
sonic religion is.
All ]\Iasonic historians and all Ma-
sonic rites and ceremonies with one voice
declare it to be the lineal descendant of
Sabeism, or Sun-worship — the Baal wor-
ship of antiquity.
We cannot enlarge upon this phase of
the subject, but refer our readers to the
published works of the Order, in which
it finds ample confirmation ; yet we judge
that this letter would be incomplete if we
leave this statement entirely without sup-
port, therefore we let Freemasonry state
the origin of her religion in her own
words, as follows:
"In the rite of circumambulation we
find another ceremony borrowed from
the Ancient Freemasonry that was prac-
ticed in the mysteries. In ancient Greece,
when the priests were engaged in the
rite of sacrifice, they and the people al-
ways walked three times round the altar
while singing a sacred hymn. In mak-
ing this procession great care was taken
to move in imitation of the course of the
sun. Among the Hindoos the same rite
of circumambulation has always been
practiced. ^- ^ * Xhe priest having
first adored the sun while directing his
face to the East then walks toward the
West by way of the South saying at the
same time 'I follow the course of the
Sun.' The same ceremony was in use in
Druidical rites."
— Pierson's Traditions, Pages 32-23-
"The lodge represents the World ; the
three principal ofBcers represent the sun
in his three principal positions ; at rising,
at meridian and at setting. The circum-
ambulation, therefore, alludes to the ap-
parent course of the solar orb through
these points around the world."
— Mackay's Masonic Ritualist, Page
27-
"The identity of the Masonic institu-
tion with the Ancient Mysteries is obvi-
ous from the striking coincidences found
to exist between them. The latter was
a secret religious worship, and the de-
pository of religion, science and art.
— Pierson's Traditions, Page 13.
"We readily recognize in Hiram Abiff
one of the Grand Masters of Freema-
sons— the Osiris of the Egyptians, the
Mithras of the Persians, the Bacchus of
the Greeks, the Dionysius of the Frater-
nity of Artificers, and the Atys of the
Phrygians, whose passion death and
resurrection were celebrated by these
people respectively. For many ages and
everywhere Masons have celebrated the
death of Hiram Abiff."
— Ibd., Page 240.
"At Tyre the mysteries of Bacchus had
been introduced by the Dionysian artifi-
cers, and into their fraternity Hiram in
all probability had, as I have already
suggested, been admitted.
"Freemasonry, whose tenets had al-
ways existed in purity among the imme-
diate descendants of the patriarchs, added
now to its doctrines the guard of se-
crecy which, as Dr. Oliver himself re-
marks, was necessary to preserve them
from perversion or pollution. This then,
it seems to me, is the true connection
between the mysteries and speculative
Freemasonry."
— Mackay's Lexicon Article Myste-
ries.
Do not the quotations here given show
conclusively that Freemasonry is of
heathen origin and unchanged in char-
acter? They are endorsed and published
to the world under the stamp and seal of
Masonry and have never been questioned,
or doubted by any one. Most of the craft
content themselves with the esotery, or
what is claimed to be the secret teach-
ings of Masonry, and do not concern
themselves about the published works of
the Order; therefore much of the above
may be new reading matter to many min-
isters of the Gospel, who have been
"hoodwinked" into the lodge.
But a man — a minister — is responsible.
>A.')al
February, 1912.
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315
not only for what he knows, but for
what he may know ; yet I have met those
who seemed to consider ignorance of the
evil, to which we here direct your atten-
tion, to be a virtue to be cultivated,
rather than to study secretism and de-
termine its effect on every phase of hu-
man society. For knowledge of the evil,
places responsibility upon them.
Here we inquire, are the oaths admin-
istered in lodges lawful ; can you find
them in the civil code of our country;
could a clerk of the court swear a wit-
ness according to their form and is it
ever done ; can God be a party to a Ma-
sonic oath with its penalties ; are they ad-
ministered by legally appointed officers,
such as notaries, justices and judges?
Can a man who does violence to an
oath, taken in any lodge, be arrested,
tried and convicted, before any tribunal
of justice in our land?
To all these questions there can be
only the truthful reply, Of course not!
They are extra-judicial oaths — wicked
oaths. God can be, and is a party to a
lawful oath, lawfully administered, but
lodge oaths, with their bloody penalties,
He abhorrs.
. We admit that this old "Handmaid of
religion" — Masonry — has bitten, can bite,
and has not lost her teeth ; although she
nearly lost her head at the hands of the
outraged citizens of this republic, when
she kidnapped and murdered William
Morgan in 1826. Masonry is bloody and
blood-guilty.
"O my soul, come not thou into their
secret; unto their assembly mine honor
be not thou united: for in their anger
they stem a man, and in their self-will
thev digged dozvn a zvall." Genesis
XLIX, 6.
The very stairs up which I walked, to
enter the "Preparation Room," Masonic
Lodge No. 530, at Maquon, Illinois, were
stained with human blood, though I was
not aware of it, until I was Masonically
informed of it, after reaching the degree
of Master Mason, in the year 1872.
According to the statements, Mason-
ically given to me, two Masons, one of
whom, if not both, had taken all of the
degrees known in America, quarreled
and charged at each other across the
room in ''open lodge," with drawn knives.
Others interposed only to be slashed at
by the sanguinary wretches, who
clenched, stabbing each other, until, from
loss of blood and sheer weakness, they
fell in a pool of blood on the floor. Then
they were parted and carried dripping
with blood, down the lodge stairs to their
homes, a lodge surgeon was called, also
lodge nurses and watchers ; while Ameri-
can citizens were entertained by a tale —
the lodge tale — of a night struggle with
thugs and murderers. They recovered
and used to "meet on the level and part
on the square," up to the time that I re-
moved from that place. Masonic salva-
tion did little for them, but to put murder
in their hearts and knives in their hands.
What if plain un-Masonic citizens had
engaged in such a bloody com1>at, on the
street in open daylight, would they not
be required to give an account of it in
court? Were those Masons ever tried,
or even arrested? Never, that I am
aware of.
What if one of those men thus wound-
ed, had breathed his last, do you suppose
his Masonic murderer would have been
called to account at the bar of justice?
The craft succeeded in washine out all
'^5
blood-stains from the lodge floor but
found it impossible to eradicate them
from the stairs and that itself is sugges-
tive— every step in Masonry is blood-
stained.
If "Masonry has nothing whatever to
do with the Bible," why does it use it
in its religious teachings, swearing- its
candidates into its "Mysteries," and carry
it at the head of its funeral processions ?
Is it not to cast dust in the eyes of the
uninitiated masses and lure conscientious
young men into the Order ?
Are secretists friendly to public inves-
tigation of their principles, do they not
endeavor to stifle free speech and close
public buildings — school houses, halls and
churches — against the prophets of re-
form, when they are announced to
preach, or speak in them?
Is it not a fact well known here, that
one Sabbath a few years before you came
on this district, an old prophet of reform
— a Methodist minister — began to preach
on "The Anti-christian Character of Se-
cretism," according to previous appoint-
ment, in New Salem Church, now in
your district, when a Royal Arch Mason
— who well knew of the interpolations of
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CFIRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
February, 1912.
Scripture by Freemasonry above noticed,
and who feared the consequences of such
a sermon — at the head of a mob of Ma-
sons, women and "Iczcd fcUozvs of the
baser sort/' created a disturbance, as he
arose, interrupted the preacher and an-
nounced that he was authorized by the
trustees of the church to forbid that min-
ister to hold that service and ordered him
down out of that pulpit and turned him
and his congregation out on the public
highway? Were not both people and
preacher actually turned out, on the pub-
lic road in the rain, according to the pro-
gram thus declared ?
Did that Royal Arch Mason have the
authority which he claimed and exer-
cised?
Justice to that board of trustees de-
mands that I should say that they had
nothing to do with that wdiole episode ;
some of them, if not all of them, had
been approached by that Royal Arch Ma-
son, and solicited to delegate their au-
thority to him, for the purpose of closing
the church against that minister and con-
gregation, but they positively refused to
do so. One of them when thus ap-
proached said substantially :
"Let that preacher alone, if what he
alleges against the lodge be false, he will
break his own neck, if it is true, you are
fighting against God, therefore I say, let
that preacher alone."
Those disturbers of public worship
have gone unwhipped of justice ever
since.
The service which you held at Corinth
cemetery furnishes another case in point,
illustrative of the determination oi Free-
masons to stifle free speech.
I could not understand why so many
men, whom I knew to be Masons, were
in that assembly without any insignia, or
sign of their relation to the Order, or to
the craft engaged in those rites at the
grave of the deceased. I did not know
that they were a committee appointed by
the lodge at Birch Tree to lay violent
hands on me. I did not know that it was
currently reported, that I was there with
the design and intention of making a
speech and that such a report was in cir-
culation before the funeral cortege start-
ed to the cemetery. But I was told that
the Birch Tree Lodge did not fail to
"Bring forth vestments for all the wor-
shipers of Baal;' in a wagon from that
town, in order that those resident in the
country might appear at that funeral
"properly clothed," in apron and white
gloves.
One of them, Rev. Marion Pierce,
came and greeted me with unusual
warmth, extending his hand and calling
me "Brother." After the assemblage
was dismissed and I was well on my way
toward home this Mason was seen rush-
ing excitedly in and out of the crowd,
looking for me. He hastily approached
a Methodist, whom he asked where he
could find me and stated that it was com-
monly reported that I intended to ad-
dress the people when the funeral cere-
monies ended, and that he, with several
other Masons, were a committee appoint-
ed by the Birch Tree Lodge to lay vio-
lent hands on me if I attempted to speak
on, or near the grounds of that cemetery,
and he was there to execute those orders !
Since then a lodge member has as-
sured me that if I had attempted to
speak on that occasion "It would not
have been healthy for you ; you would
have been stopped, even if blood had
been shed."
Here let me say that such a thing as
attempting to speak at a Masonic funeral
never entered my mind, much less of
attempting tO' speak at that of the identi-
cal Royal Arch Mason who, at the head
of the mob above noticed, created that
disturbance in the church on the Chris-
tian Sabbath and drove the minister and
congregation out in the rain without any
authority whatever !
Why did not Rev. Marion Pierce say
to me when he met me on the ground
near the cemetery, that he was the repre-
sentative of the lodge, and acting with
other Masons, under orders from their
Worshipful Master, to forcibly compel
me to be silent on that occasion? Did
he act more wisely by letting the oppor-
tunity pass and, as the people were dis-
persing, go round in great trepidation of
mind inquiring for me? Why was his
"committee" and himself without aprons
and gloves? Was it because they in-
tended violence and hoped to escape
identification among the many who were
present? The gloves and aprons would
positively identify them as Freemasons
and place the responsibility for any
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trouble where it originated — on the
lodge.
I went to that funeral as a plain Amer-
ican citizen, to pay the last tribute of
respect tO' a kind neighbor, if he was a
Royal Arch Mason — for my religion has
taught me to recognize the good that is
in every human soul, when I find it —
and the deceased was a kind neighbor.
(Elder) G. T. Dissette.
Congo, Mo.
(To be continued.)
LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF "THE
MENACE."
Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 6, 1912.
Rev. Theo. C. Walker, "
Editor ''The Menace/' Aurora, Mo.
Dear Sir :
The issue of your paper of Dec. 9,
191 1, containing as its first article, two
and one-half columns entitled ''A Word
to Secret Orders," has been called to
my notice. From the assertions made
one would think the writer considered
himself authority relative to the subject
in hand. But many statements appear
strange, and others are unwarranted by
the facts.
The assertion is made that "Freema-
sons were hung, shot and burned at the
stake in Italy, Spain, and Brazil for no
other crime than the 'heresy' of being
Freemasons." In what history and by
whom is this recorded? Again I quote,
''The truth of the matter is that Free-
masonry, as we call it now, has gone
under many different names in the past
and is thousands of years older than the
Church. Christianity, as it originated
two thousand years ago, was a secret so-
ciety itself and it built upon the same
foundation, and was buried as such." I
will give one thousand dollars for the
proof that this statement is true.
Again I quote : ''There are many oth-
er (than Freemasonry) organizations of
special character, professing and prac-
ticing some one or more of the orig-
inal tenets for which Christianity, and
before that, other organizations stood."
The writer is acquainted with many se-
cret societies, but knows of none that
are practicing any tenets of Christainity,
original or otherwise. Kindly point out
a few.
Permit me to quote once more, "Ma-
sons will scarcely forget the Morgan
farce engineered by the Jesuits. This
attack did not hurt Masonry, but
it came very near disrupting the Union
and destroying the work done by our
Masonic ancestors in building up this
nation and her laws. The Morgan epi-
sode made bitter enemies of protestants.
Christian was set against Jew, and
Catholic against Protestant. Bibles
were burned, state legislatures were
turned into courts of inc|uisition. A
great political party was formed upon
the issue of anti-Masonry with a dead
body as the slogan." Doesn't this strike
you as rather peculiar reasoning? Here
was a "farce" that came near disrupting
the Union, and playing the mischief
with things generally. But this did not
hurt Masonry. Of course not, it was
only an "episode."
I may not quote more of this article of
which I give but a few specimens. If
your paper is not to be a "menace" to all
who read it, you will need to be more
careful as to the facts. If you will
agree to publish the facts regarding the
Morgan abduction and murder, the
writer will be pleased to furnish them
to you.
Such statements as are made in this
"Word to Secret Orders" are not, of
course, likely to deceive the well in-
formed, who are presumed to be readers
of your paper. Lest there should be
some of the other kind the writer takes
the liberty to address you, Mr. Editor,
trusting you may call attention to these
errors and substitute the facts.
As a wise Editor you should know
that misrepresentation should not be
used when trying to secure patronage of
orders in whose behalf they are made.
Give your readers facts or nothing is
the advice for which the writer charges
nothing. ^
Rev. W. B. Stoddard.
The Hague Tribunal is estimated to
have saved $51,500,000 for the nations
of the world by arbitration in the last
five years.
The white slave traffic last year was
heavier than the negro slave traffic at
any time during the slave trading to the
United States.
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Pennsylvania Convention . . '. 321
Freemasonry and Civil Liberty, b}' Pres. \
C. A. Blanchard '. . . .321
An Old Soldier's Plea, by Rev. A. Thom-
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A Testimony, by Alexander Campbell 326
Counterfeit Money and Other Counterfeits,
by Elliot Whipple, Ph. D... :...:.. 326
A Testimony, by Rev. Chas. G. Finney... 329
A Frisky Goat 329
Scottish Made Masons — The initiation of
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The Broken Seal, by Samuel D. Greene. . . .330
Obituary— John Milton Hitchcock 333
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A Crushing Defeat 343
No Other Reason 343
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The Pennsylvania Convention 344
Everything Beautiful In Its Season 346
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Labors in Kansas, Nebraska and Towa,
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A Confession by a Seceder from Ma-
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Knights Templars' Ball < 351
Riot in the Woods Among Modern Wood-
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VOLUME XLIV.
CHICAGO, MARCH, 1912.
NUMBER 11.
Pennsylvania Convention,
March 18th and 19th, 1912.
In the
First Free Methodist Church,
Cor. Second and Corbet Sts.,
Tarentum, Pa.
FREEMASONRY AND CIVIL
LIBERTY.
There are many cases where duty is
clear, and where no honest man needs
to be in doubt. There are other cases
where one needs to hesitate before he
makes up his mind. One of these latter
instances is brought very forcibly to our
attention in a letter from a Presbyterian
minister in Brazil. The statements of
fact in his letter are in brief these :
1st. The Presbyterian church in Bra-
zil has had a very sharp and prolonged
discussion on the subject of Masonry.
The result of this agitation has been the
division of the church, one party allow-
ing its ministers and members to unite
with the lodges, the others declining to
do this and insisting on absolute separa-
tion from the order.
2nd. The letter declares that the Ma-
sons in South America have never been
accused of such crimes as they commit-
ted in our country ; that they "broke the
back" of the Roman hierarchy in Brazil
by legally punishing certain archbishops
for violatincr certain laws, and have ren-
dered great service in the war with the
Jesuits.
3rd. The writer is familiar with the
attitude of the American churches, which
exclude Freemasons from membership.
He knows of the religious prosperit}- of
some of these organizations. He ques-
tions whether the prosperity of these
anti-lodge churches has arisen from the
fact that the}^ were opposed to lodges,
or from their fidelity to their duties as
teachers and preachers of the Gospel.
4th. In Brazil, he declares that the
Catholic orders are making a great effort
to destroy the republic. The Masons,
he says, are republicans, and stand for
liberty of the press and religion. Is it
best for the Presbyterian church to sep-
arate itself from the Masonic fraternity,
or occupy a sympathetic attitude toward
it ? Should the church prohibit Freema-
sons from its membership ? or should the
church, ministers and members, enter the
lodges ?
5th. He says that many ministers have
become Masons, but most of them have
withdrawn from the lodges, while not
one of them denounces the order. The
question which arises in the minds of
himself and his brethren is, 'AVhat ought
to be done?" The Masonic theory is
understood, and in part at least con-
demned ; but this brother desires to
know what the relation of churches in
Protestant countries has been to secret
societies, as a means of deterniinino'
their duty in this country, where the dis-
cussion is new, and arises from tlie cir-
cumstances above stated.
Fixed Principles.
Rules for action frequcntU change,
but principles of action do not change.
A Christian must alwa\s be Christian :
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but. in his exercise of Christian faith
and duty, he will sometimes do one thing,
and sometimes another. The real ques-
tion which is in the mind of this brother
who writes from South America is
whether or not the attitude of a Chris-
tian n.iinister toward Freemasonry is one
of the variables; whether it might be
right and proper for a Christian at one
time to oppose Freemasonr}'. while at
another time, because of different condi-
tions, it might be proper for him to sym-
pathize with and support it ; and this
question, again, is to be determined by
the facts in the case. He desires to
know what the relation of churches and
lodges is in Protestant countries, that
he may form a reliable opinion as to the
dut"\' of the Presbyterian church in the
new country where he is laboring.
When I was in New York attending
a meeting of the Evangelical Alliance, I
asked Dr. Christlieb, of Bonn, what the
relation of Freemasonry to the churches
of Germany was, and he said : "Freema-
sonry and the churches? They have no
relation. The Masons are all atheists."
It did not seem to have occurred to Dr.
Christlieb, that, possibly, if the Freema-
sons had not been Freemasons, they
might have been Christians ; but this
seems an obvious inference. In that
same AUiance I had the privilege of a
brief conversation with one of the strong
men in the French Protestant church. If
I remember correctly, he was from Paris.
Mentioning to him the fact that the
question was up, he replied : "The
church in America must stand as one
man against Freemasonry, or it will be
destroyed." Speaking with other lead-
ing men on the subject, I found them
reluctant to take any position. They
seemed afraid to declare themselves, lest
there might be unfavorable reactions at
home. I do not remember a single one
of the strong men in that meeting of
the Alliance who justified Freemasonry,
or who believed it to be consistent with
vigorous and healthful life in the church.
Not Many Books.
Our friend from the South would like
a book history of this subject. We fear
that he will not obtain it. It is one of
the characteristics of secret societies
that they are secret, and, being so, of
course they conceal from the public so
far as possible all the facts which might
be injurious to their reputation and pros-
perity; and, where meetings are held at
night in secret halls by men, some of
whom are and some of whom are not
known to be connected with them, it
would be unnatural to suppose that a
clear revelation of the actual facts con-
cerning such orders on the charges would
be easily ascertained.
The question "What the effect of
lodges on churches is," may be deter-
mined in two ways : first, by an exam-
ination of the principles involved ; and,
second, by a study of the results so far
as can be ascertained. If we know that
Freemasonry is anti-Christian in its fun-
damental characteristics, we know per-
fectly well what it will do to churches,
and we know what the churches should
do to it.
A man who knows what strychnine
is, and what the human body is, does not
need to discuss the effect of strychnine
in killing- quantities on a human frame.
It will kill ; and, if he wants to remain
alive, he had better let it alone. All the
time he may spend in reasoning as to its
probable effects is time thrown away.
Just so, if Freemasonry is hostile to
Christian faith and duty, it will injure,
if it does not ruin, Christians and
chtirches who have fellowship with it.
So much for the reason of the case. It
is clear, and it is decisive.
The question as to the hostile effects
of lodges on churches is not so easily
determined, because the testimony will
conflict. Churches which admit lodge
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
823
members to membership have become
great in numbers and in wealth. Church-
es which exclude lodge members from
membership are generally smaller. To a
person who looks at nothing l3ut money
and numbers, this would be enough for
deciding the question.
Not Counted, But Weighed.
A minister was once asked whether
he had a large church or a small one.
He replied, "That depends on whether
my members are counted or weighed."
The pebble that David fixed in the sling
with which to destroy Goliath was one
stone, and Mont Blanc is also one ; but
the two are very different from one
another, though each is one. Lodge men
tell us that the churches where lodge
men are freely received are as spiritual
and effective for Christ as churches
where they are excluded. This is a
question of fact, and can only be de-
termined by an examination of in-
stances ; a universal agreement respect-
ing it is not to be expected. There is,
however, one fact which is obvious even
to people who can only count, and that
is, that the male membership of church-
es which receive lodge men is propor-
tionally very much smaller than in
churches which exclude them. This is
an exact reversal of what would natur-
ally be thought would be the case. One
would judge, a priori, that the churches
which receive men who are members of
lodges would get more men in propor-
tion to women than churches which ex-
clude lodges ; but we find, in fact, that
the organizations which will not receive
members of secret societies into mem-
bership have, in general, about the same
number of men and women, boys and
girls, while the organizations which
freely admit lodge men to membership
enroll from three to five women and girls
for each man and boy. Of course, our
friend in South America will see, that,
if this state of fact should continue, the
receiving of lodge members may work
a great weakening, if not a ruin, of the
churches.
The Facts in the Case.
Everybody who has studied Freema-
sonry thoroughly has learned several
things about it. First, he notes that it is
a secret society, and therefore different
from, and so far as its constitution is
concerned opposed to, the church and
Jesus Christ. He also has learned that
this secret organization is bound to-
gether by oaths which are not adminis-
tered by any competent civil or religious
authority. The master of the lodge is
not an officer of the state or the church ;
he is a member of a voluntary organiza-
tion, and has no more right to administer
an oath than a boy in the streets. He
has also learned that these oaths are
enforced by death penalties.
Our friend from South America inti-
mates that the South American Freema-
sons have not got to killing men who re-
tire from the order. That might be be-
cause no men have renounced it ; and,
then again, he may be mistaken, and
there may have been many men slain by
the lodge in its secret halls. What is
the secret societ}^ for if it does not en-
able men to operate in secret ? Still
further, this organization, which is se-
cret, oathbound, and held together by
murderous penalties, professes to be a
religion. It begins and closes its exer-
cises wath prayer. It says that people
who live according to its teachings go to
heaven when they die, and this impres-
sion has become so thorough and wide-
spread that the members of the organiza-
tion generally believe that this is true,
and that, if they remain faithful to their
lodges, they are assured of eternal life.
Once more, he will learn that this
proposed salvation is to be obtained
without any reference to the sacrifice
and intercession of Jesus Clirist. The
lodi?'es teach that men are sa\'ed bv
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March. 1912.
what the\- do. and not by what Jesus
Christ has done. Every Christian min-
ister teaches that men are saved by what
Christ has done, and not by what they
do. If the church is right, the lodge is
wrong, and this wrong is not a trifling,
unimportant one, but is an error of abso-
kitely vital character. If salvation comes
through Jesus Christ alone, any system
which teaches anvthins: else than this is
false and ruinous to the souls of men.
In South America or in North America,
in Europe or Asia or islands of the sea,
this will be true.
What Shall It Profit a Man?
Allowing that the facts above stated
are not overdrawn, what shall we say to
our brethren in South America who find
the Freemasons struggling for a repub-
lic ^\■]^ich includes civil and religious lib-
erty i^ The answer is obvious : They are
to be glad of whatever good may come
through this or any other agency ; but
the}- have no right, for temporal and gov-
ernmental advantages, to consent, even
for so long as one instant, to fellow^ship
with an organization which is anti-Chris-
tian in character. Satan, who is the an-
tagonist of Jesus Christ, knows perfectly
well, that, if men do not have the Savior,
it matters little what else they have. A
republic wdiich is outside of Christian
faith is no better in its ultimate than
despotism, h^or a while, it may seem ad-
vantageous to have liberty of speech and
assembly ; but what will this do for a
people w^ho are Christless and Godless in
character? It profits a nation as little
as it does a man to gain the whole
world and lose its own soul, and Jesus
Clirist, who is the rightful ruler of men,
is also the rightful ruler of nations.
This leads me to say that there is no
reason to suppose that Freemasonry or
any similar organization will ultimately
and really oppose despotism. Such or-
ganizations may oppose one kind of des-
potism, but they always furnish another
for the one which they antagonize.
Take, for example, the organization of
Freemasonry. The master is supreme in
his lodge. All the common Mason has
to do is to submit. The authority of the
grand lodge over the local lodge is equal-
ly absolute. The grand lodge can take
away the charter of a local lodge, and
refuse the men who belong to it the priv-
ilege of meeting as Masons if it chooses.
Take the organizations called labor
unions, which are constructed on the
same secret society principles. They do
not even allow men to w^ork except on
conditions wdiich they name. They do
not allow a man to teach his son his
trade without their permission, and, if
men decHne to fraternize with them and
submit to their authority, they kill them.
Secretly, of course ; and, when they have
murdered them, they will defame their
characters, and claim that the agitation
which arises because of the murder is a
persecution of labor on the part of capi-
tal. It was so when Morgan was mur-
dered, when Dr. Cronin w^as murdered,
wdien those twenty-one men were killed
by McNamara in Los Angeles. A great
roar ran through the whole secret soci-
ety— they holding that the person who
was killed deserved to be killed, though
the secret society wdiich murdered him
had nothing whatever to do with it. It
is a small thing for organizations w^hich
will murder to tell lies. In North Amer-
ica we have learned this lesson pretty
thoroughly. They will learn it in South
America if secret societies continue to
operate there.
The Conclusion of the Whole Matter.
I would say to the brethren in this
faraway land, with whom we sympathize
so deeply, that there is no road but the
straight road which will take a man
through the world. Lodgism is op-
posed to Christianity. Popular govern-
ment is the fruit of Christianity. Lodg-
ism may antagonize despotism for a time
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
325
and for selfish reasons of its own, but
no non-Christian country has ever yet
become soHdly and really free. We have
no reason to suppose that we shall ever
see such a sight. Satan changes his
method of attack, but he never changes
his character. If he did, he would not
be Satan. Our brethren in South Amer-
ica will find, that, if they have no fellow-
ship with the unfruitful works of dark-
ness, if they do not try to unite believ-
ers and infidels, if they do not consent
to Christ-rejecting organizations for any
reason whatsoever, God will maintain
their right and their cause. They may
gain temporal advantages by following
a different course of action ; but they
will not have the Divine approval, and
they will not have ultimate success. One
with God is a majority, and no man is
really a free man whom the truth does
not make free.
Fraternally yours,
Charles A. Blanchard.
AN OLD SOLDIER'S PLEA.
BY REV. A. THOMSON.
I am an old soldier with the most
kindly and tender feelings towards my
old comrades. In all their welfare I am
deeply interested, and feel keenly ag-
grieved that I am so completely shut
out from their fellowship.
I do not believe that my old comrades
are engaged in their lodges in any con-
spiracy against anything they hold good.
I do not believe they have any secrets
that threaten the well being of the com-
munity or the nation, except so far as
the Grand Army, like all other secret
societies, rests upon certain wrong prin-
ciples that are so clearly and fundament-
ally wrong that I have never been able
to join it.
Twice when invited to become a mem-
ber, I have made this proposition, "Let
me read your obligation, I do not believe
there is anvthino- essentiallv wrong: in it,
and, if I find it all right. T will gladly
unite with vou."
I am shut outside of the lodge, which
I deeply regret. It is a real hardship
and disappointment that I am thus sep-
arated from my old comrades. But
there is no help for it. I cannot cliange,
and they will not.
Fundamentals with Regard to the Lodge.
Now, why cannot I change? \\h\' do
I assume that I am right, and the>
wrong? Wh}' do I set up my judgment
as against that of so many good men ."
Am I conceited and obstinate? I hon-
estlv think that at least in this case 1
am not. When I say that it is wrong
for a man to promise to keep secrets
the natiu-e of which he does not know,
and to keep an obligation he has not
heard, I am simply stating a truth that
must be believed. The mind has no
power of objection. I do not need elab-
orate argument to prove that the whole
is equal to the sum of its parts ; but is
it less self-evident to a rational mind,
that men should not promise to keep
secrets they do not know, or to be loyal
to an obligation that they have never
heard? Yet this false principle lies at
the root of every secret society. It is
self-evident that there must be some
way found of meeting the fundamental
objection.
The cure for the objection in this case
is as bad as the disease. The lodge guar-
antees that nothing in the obligation
shall clash with a man's duties as a citi-
zen or a Christian. That is, the lodge
assumes to act as conscience for the
man ; but it must be eternally wrong for
any man or organization to assume to be
conscience for me in a matter where I am
personally responsible. A very dear
friend said to me, "Air. Thomson, if I
personally assured you that there was
nothing in the obligation you could not
take, would you not be willing to take
it?" Now, I have known that man since
we were boys together, and have always
known him to be honorable and truthful.
What was my reply to his question?
''No, my friend, I cannot take the obli-
gation. I cannot let even my l^est friend
be a judge for me of what is to bind
my conscience and my acts."
Here, then, are two fundamental ob-
jections to all secret societies: ist. They
require a promise to kee]> secrets which
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the man does not know. 2nd. They as-
sume to be conscience for a man in mat-
ters for which he is personally respon-
sible.
I have often stated these objections,
and never yet have found a single in-
stance where a man has even tried to
turn the edge of their truth, except by
such a statement as, "The Lodge has
never done any harm to me;" but a
strong building was never constructed
upon a rotten basis. The poison in a
system may be slow in its operation ;
but. if the poison is there, it will make
its power manifest in the end.
One of the most deadly effects of the
minor secret orders is that they form a
wall of defense to orders whose influ-
ence in society is most dangerous. If a
man is a member of the Grand Army,
his testimony against the whole secret
system is broken down. He naturally im-
bibes the clan spirit, and generally joins
the great army that would throttle free
speech on the cjuestion of the Secret Em-
pire. So serious has this become in our
good land to-day, that there are large
sections where the man who opposes the
lodge system, who in kindest words
seeks to give the reason for his position,
thereby becomes in a great measure sub-
ject to a boycott of the most formidable
kind, aft'ecting all departments of his
business and social life, — not altogether
a conspiracy of silence, but a conspiracy
to secure silence. The preacher dare
not preach, the press dare not publish,
the lecturer dare not speak ; for a voice
that seldom threatens in vain will warn,
and a hand that comes out of the dark-
ness will smite and think it is doing God
service.
Alexander Campbell : "I know no
Temperance, Odd Fellow or Freemason
fraternity that does not recognize a
brotherhood with the world. 'They are
of the world, they speak of the world
and the world heareth them.' Christians,
though in the world, are not of it. Any
union, then, for moral purposes with the
world that brings us to commune re-
ligiously with it, by the laws and usages
of the institution itself, is opposed to
the law and kingdom of Jesus Christ."
COUNTERFEIT MONEY AND OTHER
COUNTERFEITS.
BY ELLIOT WHIPPLE, PH. D.
The supreme test of the value of a
religion is found in the results it pro-
duces. The counterfeits now spreading
in this country have not been in existence
long enough to show what manner of
fruitage they will bear, but in the old
world w'e find several great religious sys-
tems that have thoroughly possessed
whole nations for many centuries, and
there we may find out exactly what they
do for mankind.
Compare the condition of the masses
of the people in Turkey, India and China
with that of the common people of coun-
tries in which protestant Christianity pre-
vails. In the former we find ignorance,
extreme poverty, disease, unspeakable
moral degradation, and despair ; in the
latter, intelligence, comfort, improving
sanitary conditions, plagues stamped out,
disease minimized, a high and rising
standard of morality, and hope for bet-
ter things in the future. — From February
number, page 2<^i.
Verily, false religions are not about as
good as the true, nor anywhere near as
good, while, on the other hand, they do
much positive harm in two ways :
1. By false and immoral doctrines,
such as the Mohammedan promise that a
soldier killed while fighting for the faith,
no matter what his character, shall go
at once to a paradise of sensual pleas-
ures, or such as the Mormon pretended
revelation favoring polygamy.
2. By gaining possession of the hearts
and minds of the people so that it is
very difficult to get them to consider the
claims of the true religion.
And the more of truth a false religion
contains, the more nearly its doctrines
approximate to those of Christianity, the
more difficult it becomes for the truth to
reach its adherents.
Illustrations of this principle are seen
in the results of missionary efforts among
different peoples.
The inhabitants of the South Sea
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327
Islands are changed, whole communities
of them, in a single generation, from
idle, naked cannibals, living in the low-
est possible stage of moral degradation,
and having no religion except the sim-
plest and most unreasonable forms of
fetichism and superstition that can be
imagined, to industrious, respectable
Christian people, sustaining schools and
churches, and living in comparative com.-
fort.
A far greater expenditure of money
and missionary labor during a longer pe-
riod of time among the people of India
has failed to produce anything like pro-
portionate results, notwithstanding their
far higher intellectual ability, and the
high character of many of the precepts
of their national religion.
Mohammedanism is more nearly like
Christianity in its doctrines than any
other false religion, in that it teaches
that there is but one God, who is believed
to be an intelligent personal being, and
many of its precepts as to temperance,
justice, and mercy are of a high charac-
ter ; but, SO' far, missionary labors have
produced almost no results on adherents
of the Mohammedan faith. It is true
that much has been accomplished in
countries under Mohammedan rule, but
the converts have nearly all been from
among non-Mohammedan people, such as
Armenians, Nestorians, Greeks and Bul-
garians.
That false religions contain many
good precepts cannot be denied ; that
they have done much good, and some-
times have elevated the standard of mor-
als of a whole people for a considerable
period of time, may also be admitted ; but
it is probably true that each and every
one of them has on the whole done much
more harm than g'ood, and it would have
been far better if no one of them had
ever found acceptance anywhere on the
earth.
The saloon, with its social cheer and
free lunch counter, does some little good ;
but its general effects are so harmful
that it is being rapidly banished from all
intelligent communities. The political
boss does many kind and generous acts
in behalf of the people of his ward, but
political bossism is so damaging an ele-
ment in our political system that we
would gladly be rid of it.
Perhaps we may better understand the
puzzling mixture of good and evil in
false religions if we investigate their ul-
timate source and origin.
When a murder has been committed,
detectives investigate carefully to find
out, if possible, who had a motive for
having the victim killed, and in this way
usually get a clew that leads directly to
the criminal.
Who has a motive for having man led
into evil ways by false doctrines, or for
filling his mind with some mixture of
truth and error which may so effectually
blind and prejudice him as to prevent his
accepting truth ?
It is quite common now to ridicule
the idea of the existence of a personal
devil, but the Bible clearly reveals his
existence and active interference with
the affairs of men.
That he is an actual, intelligent, per-
sonal being is shown by such passages
as the following: Just before Peter's
denial of Christ, the latter tried to put
him on his guard, and said : "Simon,
Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to
have you, that he may sift you as wheat"
(Luke, 22:31). ''Your adversary the
devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about,
seeking whom he may devour" (i Pet.,
5:8). And numerous others might be
quoted, which clearly reveal him as a
being, capable of sinning, and having
desires, purposes and the other qualities
of personality.
His interference in the affairs of men
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is revealed in the following passages :
"In whom the god of this world hath
blinded the minds of them which believe
not. lest the light of the glorious gospel
of Christ, who is the image of God,
should shine unto them" (2 Cor.. 4:4) ;
"Lest Satan should get an advantage of
us : for we are not ignorant of his de-
vices" (2 Cor.. 2:11) : "For Satan him-
self is transformed into an angel of
light" [2 Cor.. 11:14) ; "And that they
mav recover themselves out of the snare
of the devil, who are taken captive by
him at his will" (2 Tim., 2:26) ; "Resist
the devil, and he wdll flee from you"
(James, 4:7) ; "Put on the whole armor
of God. that ye may be able to stand
against the wdles of the devil" (Eph.,
6:11) : and many other passages which
reiterate the same idea.
Evidently the Bible does not represent
the devil as a mythical personage, nor
as a creation of human imagination, but
as an actual, personal being, who pos-
sesses great subtlety, has power to work
lying wonders, is seeking to separate
men from God and bring them under his
owai control, and pursues them with the
ferocity of a wild beast ; and one of
W'hose favorite methods is to blind the
minds of men to the light of the "glorious
gospel of Christ."
Is it not evident that the devil has a
motive for deceiving men by getting
them to accept counterfeit religions,
w^hose blinding influence may prevent
their receiving the gospel of Christ,
wiiich is the only agency that can save
them from his dark designs ? Further-
more, is it not evident that he has super-
human intelligence and power with
vvhich to accomplish his purposes?
We have already noted that counter-
feit money is made to resemble true
money as closely as possible, so that it
may be accepted, and we know that the
most dangerous counterfeits are those
that most closelv imitate the true.
Crude forms of idolatry may serve to
mislead ignorant and degraded peoples ;
but as men become more intelligent the
counterfeits with which the devil de-
ceives them are made to include many of
the truths of Christianity ; in fact, the
one thing which they all omit is the one
thing to which the devil is most des-
perately opposed, the one vital and essen-
tial thing in the gospel of Christ, namely^
salvation from sin through faith in the
atonement accomplished by the death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The absurdities of polytheistic and
idolatrous religions served the devil's
purpose for many ages, and serve yet
with more than half of the world's in-
habitants.
When a portion of mankind could no
longer be deceived in this manner, the
monotheism of Mohammedanism was
introduced ; and by virtue of its greater
reasonableness and closer resemblance to
the truth, it has so far almost absolutely
prevented Christianity from reaching its
adherents.
But idolatry, polytheism and Moham-
medanism are too palpably unreasonable
to find acceptance among people reared
in communities blessed with the advan-
tages of Christian civilization ; so here
the devil comes upon the scene in his
most popular and successful role as an
angel of light, adopts most of the doc-
trines and precepts of Christianity, uses
its familiar phrases, sometimes calls his
bands of adherents by a Christian name,
and their places of assembly churches,,
and In some cases even has the effront-
ery to ask that his organizations shall
be recognized as Christian denomina-
tions.
He is quite willing that men should
accept and practice much that Is true,
provided they can be kept from accept-
ing atonement for sin through the sacri-
fice of Jesus Christ. For as Peter, being
filled with the Holy Ghost, said, "Neither
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is there salvation in any other : for there
is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must l3e saved."
The agency of the devil in introducing
and maintaining false religions, though
not apparent, is none the less real.
It is a part of his subtle plan to work
through human agencies, leading men to
suppose that his suggestions originated
in their own minds, or even that they are
inspired by God himself.
How the devil works, we do not fully
understand ; but the reality of his agency
was expressed by St. Paul when he said :
"Put on the whole armor of God, that
ye mav be able to stand against the wiles
of the devil. For we wrestle not ag^ainst
flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places," and "that
they may recover themselves out of the
snare of the devil, who are taken captive
by him at his will."
The same thought is implied by St.
John when he says : "He that commit-
teth sin is of the devil ; for the devil
sinneth from the beginning. For this
purpose the Son of God was manifested,
that he might destroy the works of the
devil."
Pasadena, Cal.
(To be continued.)
Charles G. Finney: "God demands
and the world has a right to expect, that
the church will take due action and bear
a truthful testimony in respect to this
institution. She cannot now innocently
hold her peace. The light has come.
Fidelity to God and to the souls of men
require that the church, which is the
light of the world, should speak out, and
should take such action as will plainly
reveal her views of the compatibility or
incompatibility of Freemasonry with the
Christian religion."
A Frisky Goat.
A prominent daily paper remarks that
Brother Jack Johnson, of the Masonic
lodge of lujrfar and Kincardine, Scotland,
a recent initiate, is the cause of a little stir
within the, order. Some *f the brothers
hardly welcome the accession, and it is hint-
ed that there were scandalous carryings on
in connection with the goat riding.
We hardly understand how "some of
the brothers" failed to blackball Brother
Johnson if he was unwelcome enough
to cause a stir ; possibly, however, he
became obnoxious afterward instead of
beforehand. Otherwise it is a mystery
how it happened, that night, to be clear
in the east, clear in the south, and clear
in the west. As to the scandalous
actions at the time of the goat riding :
Were the Three Ruffians unusually
rough ? Or was some discordant varia-
tion introduced into the tune borrowed
as Pleyel's Hymn? Or were the pre-
tended attempts to raise the dead, so
conducted as to raise a living rumpus,
or raise the dander of the live candidate?
Scottish Made Masons.
The scandal over the initiation of the
colored pugilist. Jack Johnson, in a
lodge in Scotland, has resulted in action
being taken by the Grand Lodge.
Amending the regulation regarding ap-
plications for initiation, it will be neces-
sary in future for candidates to have
specified residence near the lodge to
which application is made, and two
brethren must vouch for the character
and qualifications of candidates. — Free
Mason, Toronto, Canada.
Of the joys that winter brings us.
We would like to write a lay,
But we hate the frost that stings us,
And we wish that this were May.
— 5. E. Kiser.
"God does not want our hearts to be
full of love and our heads full of fool-
ishness. The love with which we are
to be filled is to abound more and more
in knowledge."
An American sky-scraper is of pre-
cisely the same construction, as a bridge
set on end. •
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From the personal reminiscences by Samuel D. Greene of the abduction and mur-
der of Captain WilHam Morgan were taken some of the facts so vividly brought out in
Miss Flagg's "Power of the Secret Empire," which ended in the December number of
the CYNOSURE. The story has created so wide an interest that we propose to give our
readers in the next few months some of these facts as recorded by Mr. Greene, an eye-
witness.— Editor.
CHAPTER V.
Abduction of Morgan.
The events of Sunday night, Septem-
ber lo, had demonstrated that Batavia
was full of the elements of mischief ;
that the conspirators had not dispersed,
but were on hand, watching their oppor-
tunities.
In the early morning of Monday, Sep-
tember II, while everybody was busy
talking over the exciting events of the
night before, the rumor ran abroad that
Captain Morgan had been seized and
taken off.
He went out of his boarding-house, a
little before sunrise, into the street, and
not returning to breakfast as usual, in-
quiry was made for him, when it ap-
peared that he had been taken about 7
o'clock, had been roughly forced into a
stage, and carried off in the direction of
Canandaigua.
A man by the name of Nicholas G.
Chesebro, of Canandaigua, who was
Master of the Masonic lodge in that
place, had obtained from the justice of
the peace there a warrant for the arrest
of Mr. Morgan on a charge of theft.
It was alleged that Mr. Morgan, while
boarding at Canandaigua some time pre-
vious, had stolen a shirt and cravat from
one Kingsley, an innkeeper. This Kings-
ley afterwards made deposition that he
had of himself no thought or intention
of publicly making any such charge,
but was moved to do it on some slight
grounds of suspicion by Chesebro and
his associates. They wished to find some
possible ground for his arrest, and this
case was worked up out of some old
surmJses to meet the exigency.
Canandaigua was the shire town of
Ontario County, and was distant from
Batavia about fifty miles to the east.
Ever since the ''Notice and Caution,"
published in a Canandaigua paper of
August 9 (referred to in Chapter III.),
it had grown to be a kind of cant phrase
among the Masons, that Morgan ''might
be seen traveling east" ; and it was inti-
mated that Brant, the Indian Chief of
the Mohawk tribe in Canada, would at-
tend to his case, and put him out of the
way. Many people, doubtless, regarded
this as the mere talk of an idle hour;
but others saw serious intentions lurking
under the cover of this style of language.
In those days of staging, and in a coun-
try, as yet, comparatively new, the jour-
ney to Canandaigua was an affair of
considerable labor and time.
As soon as I heard that Morgan had
been taken in this way, my worst fears
were aroused for his safety. Captain
Davids, the man at whose house Morgan
had been writing, came over verv soon
to see me. He wished to borrow my
saddle. I tried to persuade him to take
my horses and saddles, and start out
twenty men on Morgan's track, and
never lose sight of him. Unless this was
done, it was my opinion that we should
never see him again.
But here the Masonic agency and in-
fluence came into full play to silence
suspicion and lull the people to sleep. It
was at once the talk over all the village
that Mr. Morgan had been taken to
Canandaigua on a charge of theft. The
impression was sought to be made that
this was something to be regretted, in-
deed, but could not be helped. This
requisition had come, and he was obliged
by law to yield to it, and all others must
yield. No intimation was given that
this was a trumped-up case ; but the gen-
eral idea conveyed was, that it was a
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matter which had come about in the reg-
ular and ordinary course of law.
Great stress was laid upon the high
respectability of the men who were prom-
inent in the transaction, and who had
gone off with Mr. Morgan. The pre-
tense was, that they were his friends,
and that they had come out to see that
he had fair play. Would such men,
persons of such high standing in church
and state, stoop to do a wrong or mean
act? O, certainly not. The idea was
preposterous. This was the kind of talk
that went on all that day in the streets of
Batavia, and in consequence of it the
first excitement and alarm were allayed,
and no pursuit of the abductors was
made.
Morgan's Abductors Men of Standing and
Character.
And here is a circumstance worth
noting. Morgan's abductors were re-
spectable men, in the common accepta-
tion of that term. Jndas-like, they did
pretend to be his friends. They lent him
their company under the garb of pro-
tection.
It is a significant fact, as showing the
corrupting nature of Masonry, and its
power to work mischief in the dark, that
these men, who were the leaders in this
plot against Morgan and Miller, were
men of standing- and character. They
were at the time holding the most im-
portant offices in church and state. They
were judges and justices, sheriffs and
constables, military officers of high
standing, ex-members of the legislature,
ministers of the gospel and deacons,
members of churches, etc., etc. It was
perfectly apparent to me, who knew the
inside working of things, that what was
then going on in Batavia was no mad
freak of low and drunken fellows. Ev-
erything had been considered and deter-
mined upon by the very highest authori-
ties in the Masonic councils. The orders
were issued from the chief places of the
fraternity, and men of all classes con-
nected with the lodges, with here and
there an exception, lent themselves to
do the bidding of these upper circles.
It was one of the cant excuses of the
Masonic order afterwards, that there
acts of violence against Morgan and
Miller were the work of a few worth-
less men, who acted contrary to the true
principles of the institution. But can
any man be credulous enough to believe
that a few worthless men, acting not
only against the general laws of society,
but also against the rules and wishes of
the Masons themselves, could manage to
baffle the whole State of New^ York,
cheat justice, and escape the punishment
due to such atrocious crimes ? No ; a
few worthless men have no such wide-
spread influence as this.
The course of events, for a long time
after the abduction, showed plainly that
there was a secret power at work against
justice, vast and widespread in its range,
with which it was almost useless to con-
tend. It was evident that the Masonic
fraternity, taken as a whole, justified
these acts of violence, and were deter-
mined, at all hazards, to save from pun-
ishment the men who had committed
them. Whichever way you might turn,
and whatever course you might pursue,
to bring the guilty authors of these
wrongs to justice, you were met by a
power in the dark, — a powder seemingly
omniscient and omnipresent, — tireless,
and never sleeping. Judges upon the
bench were corrupted ; jurymen failed to
see the truth ; witnesses upon the stand
would swear falsely; and how^ever just
might be one's cause, he was soon ready
to cry out, ''Vain is the help of man.''
Whatever crimes were committed
against Morgan and Miller in Batavia in
the year 1826, are not to be regarded so
much as the crimes of individual men
as of the wdiole Masonic order, as then
and now existing-.
Tracing the Abductors.
But let us go back and trace minutely
the course of events after Mr. Morgan's
arrest, on the morning of September 11.
Immediatel}' after his seizure, he was
taken to a tavern kept in the eastern part
of the village of Batavia by a Mr. Dan-
olds, where the party made a short
pause. Wdiile there. Air. Miller came to
the house to insist that Mr. Morgan
should not be taken away from Batavia.
as he w^as there on the jail limits, as has
been before stated, and he (Mr. ?^[iller')
was one who had given bail that he
should remain within the limits. P>ut
Miller was violently thrust aside In
Danolds. the tavern-keeper, while Mor-
gan was taken into the stage, and tlic
party pushed off" towards the e'^st.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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The company who took Mr. Morgan
awav was composed of about thirty per-
sons. When they started from Mr. Dan-
olds' tavern, a part of them, with Mr.
]^Iorgan, were in a stage which had been
chartered for the purpose. Mr, Chese-
bro, who had brought the warrant from
Canandaigua, was on the seat with the
driver. The rest of the company started
to go on foot out as far as the ponds,
as thev were called, a mile or more from
the village, where some carriages were
in waiting for them. The stage had not
gone more than eighty rods from Mr.
Danolds' tavern, when the driver, becom-
ing sensible that he was mixed up with
a great amount of violence of some kind,
and not knowing very w^ell what it all
meant, became alarmed, and refused to
go on with his team. Chesebro, fearful
of all delay, on the other hand, was urg-
inor the driver to make haste and get out
of the county. The driver was at length
prevailed upon to go on as far as Gan-
son's tavern, which was six miles from
Batavia.
This tavern of Ganson was a grand
rallying-point for the conspirators, who
had slathered in from all directions. It
was in the town of Stafford. On Friday
before, September 8, Ganson received
orders from one Nathan Follett, an
active Mason of the Batavia lodge, to
have supper prepared for between forty
and fifty men, who, it was said, would
be at his house that night. They did
sup there, and at a late hour started for
Batavia, on their wild errand of burn-
ing and destroying Miller's offices, but
were deterred from their purpose by the
setting of guards, as has been already
explained. So on Sunday night, when
this party came on from Canandaigua
for the arrest of Morgan, their grand
rallying-point, before going to Batavia,
was this Ganson's tavern, at Stafford.
And here, in the forenoon of Monday,
they gathered back again, with their
prisoner in their keeping.
On reaching the tavern, Ganson, who
knew the stage-driver, had a talk with
him, and gave him such assurances of
safety that he was induced to go on. So
the party went forward. On reaching
Le Roy, several miles farther on, one of
the border towns, but within the limits
of Genesee County, Hayward, the con-
stable who had served the warrant, of-
fered to take Morgan before the justice
of the peace who had indorsed the war-
rant, and allow him to give bail if he
chose. The warrant, as we have already
stated, was made out at Canandaigua by
a justice of the peace of Ontario Coun-
ty ; but as the party had come on to Ba-
tavia, they had stopped at Le Roy, and
had had the warrant indorsed by a justice
of the peace for Genesee County,
One of the noticeable things about all
these proceedings of the Masons at this
time, was their care to keep within the
semblances and forms of law, while they
were breaking through all law, and that,
too, on the largest scale. But they must
have their warrant properly made and
vouched, though founded on a mere pre-
tense, before they could go forward and
arrest Morgan. And now here, on the
borders of Genesee County, they pro-
posed to admit him to bail, which they
refused to do at Batavia, because they
knew that there he had friends who
would instantly come forward and give
bail for him, while here he was a
stranger, and the offer of bail was only
a solemn mockery and farce. As Mor-
gan knew that his effort to procure bail
here would almost certainly prove un-
availing, he declined to make the at-
tempt, stating that he preferred, on the
whole, tO' go on to Canandaigua, and that
when there, he was confident that he
could convince Mr. Kingsley that no
theft on his part was intended, and that
if the missing articles had been taken by
him, it was purely by accident.
Mr. Morgan himself had not yet had
his eyes open to know the full meaning
of what was passing. He still innocent-
ly supposed that this charge from Can-
andaigua was made in something like
good faith, and that, if he could con-
vince the prosecutor that he was not
guilty of the charge, he would go free.
But those who had him in keeping had
no thought of letting him slip out of
their hands in any such easy way as this.
They had him on a criminal charge, and
if this failed Avhen the crisis came, as it
doubtless would, and as they were very
willing it should, they had other plans
in store for continuing their grasp upon
him.
The party, after a hard and weari-
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some day's journey, reached Canandai-
gue at nightfall. Here Morgan was at
once taken before the magistrate, to see
if there was evidence enough against
him to bind him over for trial. There
was not, nor did the men who had
brought him all the way from Batavia
suppose there was. They would have
been very sorry to have had him com-
mitted on a criminal charge, because his
person would, in that case, have been
taken out of their hands. The magistrate
ordered his discharge. But as soon as
he was set free, Chesebro produced a
claim against him of two dollars, due to
one Aaron Ackley, who kept a hotel in
Canandaigua, and stated that the said
Ackley had empowered him to collect
this money. When this new claim was
brought in so suddenly, Mr. Morgan ap-
parently had a glimpse of what all this
business meant. He chose to admit the
claim, and pulling off his coat, desired
the constable to levy on that as security
for the debt. Hayward, the constable,
however, refused to do this, and at about
ten o'clock that night, after all the
strange events of the day, Morgan was
committed tO' jail in Canandaigua.
( To be continued. )
JOHN MILTON HITCHCOCK.
Few have exerted a stronger per-
sonal influence upon the work of the
National Christian Association for the
past quarter of a century than Mr. J.
M. Hitchcock who went to his corona-
tion so suddenly on Sabbath morning,
February nth, in his seventy-ninth year.
His name has been familiar to Cyno-
sure readers for many years not only
as an officer of the Association, but as
a writer. Through our city press he
aided and sustained the School Board
in the suppression of the High School
fraternities. One of his last acts, just
a few days before his departure, was a
letter written to a Bible teacher of na-
tional fame, urging him to send out his
students instructed as to the relation of
the church to the lodge so as to enable
them to meet the most subtle and pow-
erful influence with which they would
have to contend when they had left his
Bible Institute.
Finishing his studies in Oberlin Col-
lege to which he had gone from his boy-
hood home in Michigan, he taught
school in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky,
Iowa and Missouri, and had in two
states an opportunity to study the sla-
very system close at hand. Coming to
Chicago, in 1868, he was met on the
street by a man who requested him to
distribute some dodgers for a religious
meeting, which he did, and thus first
met D. L. Moody, with whom he was
in close fellowship to the time of Mr.
Moody's home going.
Were a star (luenched on high,
For ages would its light,
Still traveling downward from tlie sky,
Shine on our mortal sight.
So when a good man dies,
For years beyond our ken,
The light he leaves behind him lies
Upon the paths of men.
[The funeral services at the Aloody
Church on February 14th were under the
supervision of the acting pastor. Rev. E. Y.
Woolley, whose beautiful tribute to the
character of Elder Hitchcock will be read
with much interest. — Editor.]
Mr. E. Y. Woolley: In 1868 ^Ir.
Hitchcock met Rev. Charles M. Morton
and for forty- four years their friend-
ship has been unbroken. He expressed
the wish, not long ago, to his dear friend,
Mr. Phillips, that Mr. Morton and
President Blanchard, if it were possi-
ble, might say something at his funeral.
In the providence of God, they are both
here to-day, and I am going to ask Rev.
Charles M. Morton, who has labored
for the Lord in this church in past
years, to speak to us.
Rev. Charles M. Morton : In order
to make clear wdiat I have to say this
afternoon, I will give a few words of
my own history. After the war closed
I found myself on the streets of Chi-
cago, in company with thousands of sol-
diers returned from the war, looking for
something to do, and among the last
places I called to find something to do
was at the Young Men's Christian As-
sociation. When I spoke to Mr. Gibbs.
at the desk, he said : 'AVe haven't very
much, Mr. Morton, for anybody to do,
and I do not know as you can be of ser-
vice just now. We do not need any-
body but a man to take care of the
rooms." I said, "How nnich will you
give?" He said. ''Six dollars a week";
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and I said, "I will take it." and I took
it, and worked away, and in the course
of a few years was Superintendent of
the Association.
hi those years the Association did
not have much help, and I had to do
three or four kinds of work, and I
wilted under it. The Rev. E. A. Davis
had just come to Chicago, and I said:
"Don't you think, if I should go aw^ay a
few days, that you and George Thomp-
son could take care of the Association?"
He thought they could, and I went away
up the ^Mississippi River, and stayed a
few days, and came back, and found
that ^Ir. Thompson and IMr. Davis had
not agreed, and INIr. Thompson had quit.
Mr. Davis said, 'T did not know what
to do. so I employed another man, a
stranger ; and, if it is all right, he can
keep on. and if not. you can let him go."
I said. "What is his name?" He said,
"His name is J. M. Hitchcock." He
came in pretty soon, and I will admit
that he did not impress me very favor-
ably, though I didn't say anything. I
made up my mind I would keep him a
few days. It went on a few weeks, not
many weeks after he came in with tears
in his eyes one day and said : "Mr. Mor-
ton," (I do not remember whether it
was his mother or sister, but some very
near relative down in Ohio, where he
came from, had died), "I ought to go
to the funeral, and I have not got the
means to go." I said: "Hitchcock, I
will fix that." I went to the stiperintend-
ent of the road and got passes for him,
and he attended the funeral.
When he returned we had a talk. He
said: ''Mr. Morton, I knew you did not
like me. You never said so. but I know
you did not." Then he went on to tell
me about his life before he came to the
Association. He had made traveling his
immediate employment before, in con-
nection with a doctor. I do not remem-
ber what kind of a doctor it was, but I
guess it was one of the great doctors. T
do not know how long he was with that
doctor, a year or two perhaps : and then,
in some way or another, he and the doc-
tor disagreed, and Hitchcock brought up
in Chicago. He hired a room, and lived
there by himself ; and then he came to
the Association. His life story touched
my heart, and I began to like him. I
could realize that he had had a hard
time, just as I had had before I came
to the Association.
Time went on, and I took on addi-
tional duties. We had an employment
J. M. HITCHCOCK, 1875.
office of the Association, w^e had a read-
ing room, and there was the general
business and correspondence of the As-
sociation. They finally made up their
mind that I ought not to manage the em-
ployment office any more, and they ad-
vertised for a man to take care of it. I
remember they tried one or two. and
they didn't suit at all. Mr. Chapman,
Chairman of the Employment Commit-
tee, was a little cranky, and he came to
me. and said, "Morton, what are we go-
ing to do for an employment agent ; I
cannot find one." I said take Hitch-
cock. He said, "What, take him?" I
said, "Yes, take him ; he will make a
good one." Chapman didn't believe it ;
but they gave Hitchcock a trial, and for
twenty years or more he was the em-
ployment agent of the Association and
satisfactory everywhere. They tell of
him with gratitude to-day, and what a
great work he did. Hundreds and thou-
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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sands of men and women think of him
to-day with gratitude for what he did
for them.
Well, I being superintendent of the
Association, and Mr. Moody being
President of the Association, naturally
Hitchcock would go over where we
worked at the Illinois Street Mission.
He had been a professing Christian ; but
he told me, with the tears running down
his cheeks, that his heart had got cold.
And so, when he came to the Illinois
Street Mission, which is now the Chi-
cago Avenue Church, it took him a lit-
tle while to get started. But, little by
little, he got started ; and he went on,
and went on, until he came to be the
best superintendent that your Sunday
School ever had. And to-day this gath-
ering shows the love and respect that
that community had for him, and has
for his wife and children. And I am
so glad to give my testimony to his
faithfulness as a friend and brother.
Mr. Woolley : Friends, there is one
on this platform who occupies a unique
place, in this respect : That he represents
both the church, the Moody Institute
and the Sunday School. As Chairman
of the Church Committee, as appointed
representative from the Institute to be
here this afternoon as a token of their
sympathy and respect, and as Elder
Hitchcock's successor in the Sunday
School as superintendent, Mr. Gaylord
will speak. Mr. Hitchcock loved Mr.
Gaylord, he loved the Moody Institute,
and it is very fitting that our brother
should speak of his predecessor at this
time.
Mr. a. F. Gaylord : Sunday evening
I was coming down on the train from
my home, and turning in the seat to a
lady, not now a member of this church,
but a member of another church, I said :
"Have you heard of the home going of
Mr. Hitchcock?" She said: "You know
he was my Superintendent, and I am so
sorry" ; and those words linger in my
ear, because they come over and over
again. Over and over again have I
heard the words, ''my Superintendent" ;
and that means that he was just a little
closer to the scholars and teachers than
an ordinary superintendent ; he was "my
Superintendent."
My first recollections of Mr. Hitch-
cock were twenty years ago, when, in
the gallery, visiting the Sunday School,
I saw him stand at the side of the desk,
as I am standing now, with a little baton
in his hands, raised for order, and then
gently tapping it, and saying. "My chil-
dren, let's come to order." I wish that I
might pause on those emphatic words.
Later on, as his successor, shall I
ever forget how he came to me. then an
untried and unknown superintendent or
worker with children? and shall I ever
forget that gentle touch which he gave
when he said: "Gaylord, I have done
my very best for twenty-one years in
the school, and now you can use me
just as much as you are a mind to, or
you need not use me at all. I shall not
l3e hurt, believe me ; and, at any time
that I can be of any help come to me?"
And then, that characteristic way in
which he has said to me so many times
personally since, "Gaylord, in the Sun-
day School work, and in all of our work,
it is necessary to keep in the middle of
the road." I cannot tell you how those
words have come with force upon me
again and again, and helped to mold me
in my Christian life and in my service
for the Lord Jesus Christ. Oftentimes,
when one man would propose an ex-
treme measure, I have heard, again and
again, the words, "Gaylord, keep in the
middle of the road" : and it has helped
me in my Sunday School work, it has
helped me in my Institute work, it has
helped me in my church work, and it
has helped me as a Christian man more
times than I am able to tell this after-
noon. Those who have put in their life
for twenty-one years as a Sunday
School superintendent, know what it
would cost to bear that testimony of
Mr. Hitchcock's, "Use me as much or
as little as you like" ; and yet they were
sincere words, and time proved to an
absolute certainty, as his years length-
ened out afterwards, that he was sin-
cere.
But T must not dwell upon the Sun-
day School side. T do want to speak
just a word, and I would I might more
ably express it, from the Executive
Committee of the Moody Qiurch — dea-
cons, elders, trustees and officers here
represented on the platform, I would
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that I might be able more definitely and
abl}" to express them in sentiment and
word ; and in all the years that I have
been on the Executive Committee, when-
ever in health, there has been one place
always occupied, and that was by Mr.
Hitchcock. regularly and promptly
ever}' week.
There was also one other feature : I
have asked, in the last few days, of dif-
ferent, men, "Did you ever see Mr.
Hitchcock cross?" "Did you ever see
him ansfrv?" In all the vears in mv dif-
ferent experiences in the committee
work. I have never yet seen Mr. Hitch-
cock irritated. I have never seen him
irritated in any place. There was al-
ways that hopeful aspect of his charac-
ter; there was always a joyful note in
his word of appreciation of what some
one else was doing, and just a word of
encouragement to some one else in the
committee work and in the church work :
and how often have I seen him come
and say : "Well, this is a work that
ought to be done; I think D. L. [refer-
ring to Mr. Moody] would have done
it this way. Come on, let's do it."
In the committee meeting and in the
committee room, there is a place that
will not be filled, it cannot be filled. As
the years have passed on, only those who
have known Mr. Hitchcock can appre-
ciate his ripened experience, from
which came such ripening counsel again
and again. I have remarked to my wife
how ^Ir. Hitchcock, especially in the
last two years of his life, was enabled
to diagnose, and forecast into the future,
certain coming conditions pertaining to
the dear old church, and to do it in a
way which was to me, at least, most re-
markable.
Speaking on behalf of the Institute,
shall I ever forget the early days when
]\Ir. ]\Ioody used to speak about Mr.
Hitchcock, and then, later on, at the
time of Mr. Moody's home going, how
Mr. Hitchcock would say, "Gaylord,"
and then he would speak to me about
the work, and would say how much the
Lord Jesus Christ could do. I would
that I might be able properly to express
it— how the Institute recognized the
merit in the man who has gone on be-
fore us to-day. ■ • • -
' I came in close touch with Mr. Hitch-
cock on many, many occasions ; and,
after discussing problems in the per-
sonal life again and again, he would
say, "Now I think we had better pray
about it." Shall I forget those seasons
of prayer, or him who is gone on be-
fore us ?
I would not be true, I believe, to his
wishes, if I did not say for him: Do
not exalt, do not magnify, what I have
done, for it is by the grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ that I am what I am. And
it was by the grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ that Mr. Hitchcock has been en-
abled to bear this testimony through
the years of service for the Lord Jesus
Jesus Christ ; it is all of grace.
Mr. Woolley : The impression is very
strong on me that this hour is just as
our beloved friend would have had it,
these years of service for the Lord
hearts. One of the men he loved and
admired, and loved to talk about, is per-
mitted to be here, and speak, and will
now speak to us, his friend. President
Blanchard, of Wheaton College.
Pres. Charles A. Blanchard : One
feels, on such an occasion, strangely
torn apart in his mind. There are so
many things that we wish we might
say, and there are so few moments in
which to say them ; and yet, I am sure
that I must turn to the Word a moment,
and I will read for you just a verse or
two from the nth of Acts: "Then tid-
ings of these things came unto the ears
of the church which was in Jerusalem ;
and they sent forth Barnabas, that he
should go as far as Antioch.
"Who, when he came, and had seen
the grace of God, was glad, and exhort-
ed them all, that with purpose of heart
they wotild cleave unto the Lord.
"For he was a good man, and full of
the Holy Ghost and of faith, and much
people was added unto the Lord."
I imagine, that, if all the people here
in the room who knew Brother Hitch-
cock, those on the platform who knew
him longest and best, and those in the
hotise who have loved him these many
years, should get together and try to
make a photograph of this dear saint
who is in the paradise of God, they
could not do any better than that.
Whenever he found that God's work
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was going on he was glad, and it was
his custom to exhort people that with
purpose of heart they should cleave unto
the Lord ; so, because he was a good
man himself, and was full of the Holy
Ghost and of faith, I imagine that the
same testimony which the Holy Spirit
gives concerning Barnabas might be
truthfully spoken concerning him.
Last Saturday morning I said to Mrs.
Blanchard, "I am afraid, if I do not get
in to see Brother Hitchcock pretty soon,
I will not have a chance to talk with
him, and I want to get in and have a
little visit." So, as soon as I had cleared
up the office work, I took the train and
went out to his house ; and, when 1
looked upon him, 1 was greatly sur-
prised, because he seemed so well, his
voice was so clear and resonant, and we
had for quite a while a most delightful
interchange of thought and feeling. He
told me about the dear old mother, and
how she raised a large family of boys,
and, I think, some girls ; how she worked
for them and prayed for them ; and I
suppose that men that come out of
homes where there are mothers of that
kind are apt to be good men, full of
faith and full of the Holy Spirit.
Then, in his life, he had two great
teachers. When he was a boy he came
early under the teaching and instruc-
tion of Charles G. Finney, of Oberlin
College, one of the greatest of our re-
ligious teachers, one of the greatest of
cur evangelists, a man under whose
preaching the people used to drop on
their knees and burst into tears and cry
aloud for mercy, until the place of
preaching became a very Bochim.
After he came into his life in this city,
as you have heard and know, he was the
lifelong disciple of the great man whose
name this church bears ; and there are
i.one of us who have lived near Mr.
Hitchcock but have heard him say, over
and over again, that to these two men
he owed the character of the spiritual
life that he possessed. So I think we
might say it was not strange that he
was a man full of faith and full of the
Holy Ghost, when we consider the home
from w^hich he came, and the religious
teachers that he had the privilege of
^■itting before.
There are two or three things which
resulted from this combination of cir-
cumstances, of which I beg you to think
for a single moment ; and hrst he be-
came an active not a passive Christian.
There are in the world the active quali-
ties and the passive qualities. There
are the people who do good, and the
people who do not do harm. Of course,
persons who do great good must be also
possessors in a measure of the passive
virtues ; but the possession of the pas-
sive does not, unfortunately, always car-
ry with it the possession of the active.
Now, Brother Morton knew^ Brother
Hitchcock before I did. I knew him in-
timately for thirty years. I knew him
less intimately for about ten years be>
fore ; but ever since I knew him w^ell, he
was what might be called an active
Christian man. That is to say, that, do-
ing no harm, he was all the time actively
engaged in doing good.
I remember that employment agency
in the Association rooms, and how it
was moved into a dark place, with the
entrance from the alley, and how pa-
tiently and cheerfully that dear man
used tO' stand or sit there from early
morning until late at night, seeking to
save poor fellows, tossed up on the
stream of life, amid the snares of a
great city, not one of them lacking a
friend as long as J. M. Hitchcock knew
about his condition. Then, it was nat-
ural that he should believe, not that
people needed to be improved, but that
people needed to be born again ; and, be-
lieving that they did need to be born
again, it was perfectly natural that an
active Christian like Mr. Hitchcock
should seek to secure this result ; and I
think the officers of this church w'ill tes-
tify, if called upon, that he was not
only a faithful man in the meeting of
the official board, but, w^henever he had
health, he was a wonderfully faithful
man in the meetings which were de-
signed to bring people into subjection
to Jesus Christ as maintained in this
church.
The experience I had with Mr. Hitch-
cock led me to the opinion that that was
always his characteristic. But he was
not only an active as well as a passive
Christian, he was also what might be
called an aggressive Christian. He lived
in our country at a time when three
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great movements Vere agitating the
public mind, questions upon which the
American Church, unfortunately and to
our shame, we must say it, divided. One
question was this: "If a black man and
a white man were standing side by side,
which one is it that owns the black
man?" The church of Jesus Christ did
divide on that question, and slavehold-
ers asked to be recognized, and were
recognized as preachers, elders of the
church and members in good standing.
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, men
held that the black man did not belong
to himself, that he did not own himself,
that he had no right to his wife and
children. In other words, they stood
with Chief Justice Taney when he de-
clared. "A black man has no rights
which a white man is bound to respect."
In these days that horrible doctrine
seems so horrible that we can hardly be-
lieve a Christian man ever held it, yet
then it was the accepted doctrine in the
political world, the social world and even
in your own religious world for more
than a hundred years. In those dark
days this man stood cheerfully and al-
ways with the little handful of people
who in that time declared, that Ameri-
can slavery was a crime against human-
ity, and a sin against Almighty God ; and
that, if the Nation did not rise up and
put away that sin, it would be washed
out in blood. Of course, men like Mr.
Hitchcock did not expect those who had
justified human slavery to repent, and
acknowledge their fault. Most of them
did not. They are gone to their account,
and now he has gone to his account ;
but I am sure, this afternoon, as he
looks into the patient, thorn-crowned
face of Jesus Christ, and remembers
how He came to seek and to save the
lost, he is thankful that in that day he
was true to the humblest, the most de-
spised and wretched of His children.
There was another tremendous strug-
gle at that time, which is still on ; the
war against the sale and use of intoxi-
cating liquor. It went side by side with
the war against slavery but it is still
on. As Mr. Hitchcock, all his life long,
was opposed to oppression, so he was
opposed all his life long to the traffic
in strong drink. It seemed to him, as
it seems to me this afternoon, an incredi-
ble thing that a civilized nation should
tolerate for an hour a thing like the
wdiisky business as you have it in Chi-
cago. He could not see how it could
be. He saw the poor wrecks drift into
the evangelistic meetings in the Young
Men's Christian Association, and in this
church, and into every church. He
knew the character of these despairing
men, who doubted whether there was
power enough in the throne of God to
deliver them from their appetites ; he
saw their wives, hungry and ill clad,
starving and freezing in a winter like
this ; he saw their little children, with
their poor food and ragged clothes,
marching up and down the streets of
Chicago ; and it seemed tO' him an incred-
ible thing that the Church of Jesus Christ
should be silent and passive in the face
of a thing like that. And, while I do
not suppose he himself ever had any
temptations in regard to the use of
strong drink, he was willing tO' put him-
self, with all that he had, into the strug-
gle for the church and for righteous-
ness and humanity against the saloons,
against every phase of every sin against
mankind.
In these days it was customary to use
the word "crank" and "fanatic" and
"bigot," and he was told, just as men
are now : "If you have an interest in
beating your brains out against a stone
wall you have the privilege, but sensible
people don't do things of that kind" ;
but he held that Christian men have no
right to save themselves from such re-
proaches when the bodies and souls of
their fellow men are in danger.
During the thirty years Mr. Hitch-
cock was deeply interested in the nK)ve-
ment against secret societies as special
enemies to the homes of men and the
churches of Jesus Christ. Through his
association with Charles G. Finney and
D. L. Moody, and men of that type, he
came to believe thoroughly that men
who did not know Jesus Christ were
lost. He knew practically, you might
say, all of the great evangelists and sing-
ers for forty years in this country. He
knew them in personal association — his
life with these men had borne into his
heart, that the man that does not get to
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Jesus Christ is lost ; and because he
did not wish men to be lost, he wanted
them to get to Jesus Christ.
He found slavery on the one hand de-
nying people the right to worship God ;
and the liquor business was degrading
men, so that unless they could triumph
over it they could not worship God :
and then he found the great secret so-
ciety system, telling men that really it
was not necessary for them to worship
Jesus Christ at all. It was necessary
for them to be worthy men ; if they
should unite in fraternal societies it
would be all right ; it was all right for
them to have certain prayers and certain
religious exercises, but it was of no use
to worship Jesus Christ ; if they be-
longed to the universal religion in which
all men agree it would save them. Mr.
Hitchcock believed that salvation and
sanctihcation of the Spirit and life
eternal come solely and only through
Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World.
He planted himself against the whole
secret society system of our times. Over
and over again he has said to me: "Mr.
Blanchard, the trouble with the people
is, they fool them with these little socie-
ties ; they lead them on with a little bit
of insurance ; they promise them a little
something or other for their wives and
children if a man should die, and in that
way they cheat men of their own souls,
and cheat the church of Jesus Christ out
of the men of our day." I do not pro-
fess to report his words, I report his
thoughts as well as I can, and he said
them to me over and over again.
Now, it is a great thing, in a day like
this, when it is so natural for people to
ask. "What shall I eat? and what shall
I drink ? and wherewithal shall I be
clothed ? and where shall I get a house ?
and where can I secure proper furni-
ture?"— it is a great thing, in a day like
this, to find a man who cares for men,
and who loved and cared for the poor
and despised man. I was proud, last
Saturday, to sit in that little cottage
home where this great child of God has
lived these forty years. T thank God,
there was a man willing, for the sake of
his testimony to Jesus Christ and the
church, to live the simple life which he
lived : and I praise God that followers
of Jesus Christ in actual fact are living
in this world of sorrow, that still there
are men full of faith and the Holy
Ghost, and that because there are such
men, there are still people "added to the
Lord."
I cannot tell you of our conversation,
how sweet it was, how glad I am as I
think back upon it to-day. He said : "I
do not know, brother; I thought J was
through, but I think perhaps 1 am going
to help the boys down on the corner
yet" ; and, when I was looking up into
his blessed saint's face and heard his
strengthening voice, I said: "Brother
Hitchcock, I came to pay you a last visit.
I never expected to see you again until
the resurrection morning; but it looks
now as if it might be so, and I am glad ;
but, whether it is or not, you and I do
not have to care. How thankful we
ought to be for the religion of Jesus
Christ, which is an actual fact !"
Shall I say one word more? If so, let
it be this : I never go to funerals with-
out saying to myself : "It is a great pity
that funeral gatherings do so little good
as they do." People come, and think
kind thoughts, and speak kind words,
and listen to beautiful music, and go
away, and straightway forget what man-
ner of people they are. What good is
it for me to stand and praise my broth-
er who is gone, if I must shame his
Captain when the test of my religion
comes? Of what use is it for you men
and women to sit here and remember to-
day these many years when he has gone
up and down the aisles of this church,
fairly trembling with eagerness to see
the people come in and see souls brought
under the power of the Holy Spirit — of
what use if we live exactly tl\e same
way as before, we came here?^
I say the most ripened saint in this
room ought to take strength and cour-
age and energy out of an occasion like
this : ought to feel the pulse of the Holy
One throbbing in him and ruling him,
as that man filled with the Holy Ghost
did ; we ought to be rid of the sin that
so easily besets us, and we should run
with patience the race set before us look-
ing always unto Jesus the author and
finisher of our faith. I heard a man
once say: "How seldom we run. how
oftentimes we fail to walk ; how some-
times wc fail even to stand." But we
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should ridi in the way of God's com-
mandments : and I know I speak for him
when I say to you, that, if there should
be a soul here this afternoon who has
neglected Christian duty: a man before
me who has allowed the family altar to
be broken down ; a man who calls him-
self a Christian and yet whose children
have never heard him pray; or if there
should be a man drifted in by what you
might call mistake, not knowing what
was going on ; who came in because peo-
ple were coming in, wdio has never
known of Jesus Christ — every such one
ought now to resolve on higher and bet-
ter things. Jesus is here and he has
power to save and to keep to the utter-
most ever}' soul that now will trust him.
I know I speak for him when I say,
that, if there should be one man here
who will say: "That man's life is not
the kind of life I have been living: it is
the kind of life I ought to live ; and by
the grace of God, it is the kind of life
I will live," our brave brother would
rejoice with the many angels who are
glad when one sinner repents.
Does one here say, "Is it possible for
a man to be filled with the Holy Ghost
and w^ith faith? Is it true that there was
a man who was filled with the Holy
Ghost and with faith ? Is it true that
here lies the tent of one who was that
type of man. full of the Holy Ghost and
of faith? Is it possible for me to^ be
filled with the Holy Spirit and with
faith?" If such a man as that puts out a
trembling hand and touches the seam-
less robe of Jesus Christ, let him know
that there will be gladness in the pres-
ence of the angels of God, and no heart
will throb with more honest joy then
that of this dear brother of mine, who
will not look you in the face, nor speak-
to you again until the resurrection morn-
ing.
rooms will seem without him ! Ever
since these walls were erected he has
been an almost daily visitor at this
church. Almost everything here is as-
sociated with him. Even the very pic-
Mr. Woolley : I know that the ade-
quate words have been said ; but before
this service closes I must take a mo-
ment to speak a word of personal appre-
ciation for my friend. Your presence
here shows your sympathy and respect
and love.
Our friend has gone, a friend of
everybody, the man we all loved. How
we shall miss him ! How lonesome the
J. M. HITCHCOCK, I9II.
tures on the walls were placed here be-
cause he wanted them there. The piano
he got : this old pulpit, the only relic we
have of the Illinois Street church, which
was burned in the great fire — his influ-
ence helped to place here after the fire.
And so it is throughout the entire
church, he was a part of everything.
We shall miss his pleasant greeting,
his good cheer, his Christian optimism,
his Avords of testimony. This entire
people will miss and mourn him from
the youngest to the oldest. We shall
muss him at the dedication and baptism
of the children. Like Simeon, he loved
to take the little babes in his arms and
to hold them up before the Lord and
bless them. We shall miss him at the
special gatherings of the Sunday School,
at well-nigh every service and in well-
nigh every organization in the church.
Our eldest elder, and the longest in ac-
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tive service of the church of any of our
members. Over forty years have passed
since he commenced to work with Mr.
Moody. Pie was the historian of the
church. What a large share he has had
in the making of its history !
You know what I have liked to call
him — the Abraham Lincoln of the
Moody Church — tall in figure, a])t in rep-
artee, sensible and practical in all
things, kind, tender hearted, thoughtful
of others, a peacemaker, yet one who
always stood for the right, even though
in an unpopular cause, seeking ever for
the emancipation of the down-trodden
from the slavery and ruin of sin. Truly
he was our "father Abraham."
He was an ideal Christian citizen, in-
terested in everything and everybody, "a
man who lived in the house at the side
of the road, a friend of man." Hun-
dreds, yes thousands, throughout this
city who are not here to-day revere his
memory. I have been with him in the
marts of trade, and seen men hail him
with afifection and respect ; they had
been under his molding influence^ — his
Sunday School boys of over a score of
years ago. It was so all over this city.
He was frank, yet not unkind ; he was
straight, yet not straight laced ; he was
square, yet not angular ; he was talented
yet humble ; a reformer who put regen-
eration before reform ; a patriot who put
Christ before country ; a radical who
was reasonable ; intense in his ideals but
not lopsided ; unswerving in his loyalty
to his convictions, but gentle as a child.
What a rare combination ! His character
and his reputation were twins. They
were so much alike that you could not
tell them apart. An exceptional man ;
a man among men, the loving friend of
all. He loved his country, he loved his
city, he loved his community, he loved
his church, he loved his Christ ; yea
verily, how he loved his Christ ! How
eagerly, to the very last, he listened to
the wonderful gospel of the grace of
God. I can see him now walking down
to the front with the Scriptures under
his arm, only a fortnight ago, to listen
with the unflagging interest of a new
convert to the preacher's word. Nothing
that concerned Jesus was too large or
too small for his devoted interest. Has
there ever been a man in the Moodv
Church who, without salary or financial
return, has given so many hours to the
work of the Lord as he ? Time, thought
and heart's devotion he lavished at the
Savior's feet. He believed in the salva-
tion of the drunkard and the harlot, but
also in the salvation of the respectable
sinner and of the little child. He be-
lieved God loves us, that Jesus saves
us, that His precious blood cleanses,
and the living Lord is willing and able
to keep. He believed in this Book
from beginning to end. He was look-
ing for the return of his Lord. This
tabernacle, so lifelike, so peaceful, is
empty. He is not here — "Absent from
the body," "present with the Lord."
What a life! the three-score years and
ten nearly rounding out into four-score
years! It is not finished, it is just begun.
The past is but "a watch in the night,"
compared to the glorious future in the
heavenlies into which he has entered. To
depart and be with Christ is far better.
To this bereaved widow, our beloved
sister, his daughters and these dear rela-
tives and friends, I say, though, he will
not return to you, you may go where he
is. Lie has left you the true riches of
an honored name, an unblemished life, a
husband's unwavering devotion, a fath-
er's big-hearted love and the tender rec-
ollections of a friend's friendship worth
having.
The precious memories of a life sweet
and fragrant as sandalwood will linger,
but look forward and not back, look up
and not down.
"Shall we meet beyond the river, '" '
Where the surges cease to roll?
Where in all the bright forever ^"
Sorrow ne'er shall press the soul? ' '
Yes, we'll meet in yonder city, ' ,
Where the towers of crystal shine,
Where the walls are all of jasper,
Built by workmanship divine.
We shall meet there many a loved one,
That was torn from our embrace.
We shall listen to their voices,
And behold them face to face.
We shall meet with Christ our Savior
When He comes to claim His own
We shall know His blessed favor,
And sit down upon His throne.'"
''A good deed is never lost. He who
sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he
who plants kindness gathers love."
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
March, 1912.
tutorial.
CREDITED TO A SERMON.
Some one who preached in Michigan
City. Ind.. Sunday, Jan. 21, may have
gone to hed that night tired and dis-
couraged. Perhaps he was blamed by
some parishioner who complained that
he went out of his way to attack mat-
ters that did not belong to him. A dig-
nitied member of his church possibly
went so far as to say, "You do not
preach the gospel." Yet there may, nev-
ertheless, have been joy in heaven over
one sinner who repented. For that night
a man gave himself up to the police in
order to face a charge of embezzlement
in Boston, where he was a member of
the legislature in 1904 and 1906. In
1910 he was treasurer of a Boston lodge
of Owls, and the charge is that he em-
bezzled $2,200 of lodge funds.
Possibly the preacher was pastor of a
little country church outside the city,
who saw a stranger in his audience with-
out seeing a sign of guilt or of interest-
ed attention. Other preachers who
reached hearts that day may never know
the good they also have done. Yet read-
ing this news may have freshened their
courage and renewed their hope.
Is it unfair to call attention to the
lack of credit to the principles and in-
fluence of the lodge? Thfese did not save
an officer versed in them from his crime.
Attending Owl meetings resulted in less
advantage to defrauded Owls than at-
tending church. Nothing in the brief
news report aids disparagement of the
church through comparison with the
lodge.
A MASONIC BANK-WRECKER
PARDONED.
Charles W. Morse, a prominent Free-
mason, and banker of New York City,
was convicted of illegal use of bank
funds some two years ago, and sen-
tenced to fifteen years in a United
States prison. Immediately an appeal
was made to President Taft, on Ma-
sonic ground, to come to the rescue of
hi- brother ^lason. This appeal v/as
widely published and sent broadcast over
the country in an eiifort to secure a mil-
lion signatures to a petition for the re-
lease of Mr. Morse. A ministerial as-
sociation about the same time adopted a
patriotic resolution of which the press
published the following :
"Believing that Charles W. Morse, a
former New York banker, who was sen-
tenced to serve fifteen years in prison
for illegal use of the bank's funds,
should serve the entire term behind pris-
on bars and that the petition which his
friends are preparing asking for his
pardon would be in violation of justice,
the ministerial alliance by resolution
this morning voted to start a petition
in opposition to his release until the ex-
piration of his sentence."
During Mr. Morse's incarceration in
the United States prison one of the of-
ficials declared that Morse tried to bribe
him — be that as it may, Brother Taft
finally came to the relief of Brother
Morse, wdio with his w^ife and son sailed
last month on the Hamburg-American
liner Kaiserin Augtista Victoria for the
Mediterranean.
Ministers are handicapped in petition-
ing a president not to interfere in the
punishment of a Masonic criminal be-
cause of the President's oath to "fly to
the relief" of a brother Mason who
gives the "grand hailing sign of dis-
tress."
The editor of the Saturday Evening
Post, ignoring the part Masonry had
in the release, says editorially: "Scarce-
ly any statutory crime is more injuri-
ous to society than bank-wrecking — no
other crime brings more sufi:'ering to in-
nocent peo]3le. Pardoning Morse, the
bank-wrecker, was a hiunane act ; but
he was able to get the pardon not be-
cause he had not been a great criminal,
or because he was sick, or because he
had an innocent family — but because his
crime was of the genteel sort and he
had influence. If he had blown open a
post-office safe and abstracted the reg-
istered mail he wouldn't have been par-
doned."
No matter how much you have to do,
remember you can only do one thing at
a time. You can get through it all by
doing one thing at a time, and that's the
only way you can get throtigh. You are
lost if you try any other way. — E. K.
M^arreu.
March, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
343
CRUSHING DEFEAT.
A leader in the Federation of Roman
Catholic secret societies, who is also a
close friend of Archbishop O'Connell,
says, in speaking of that prelate's ap-
pointment as a Cardinal :
"Archbishop O'Connell's elevation means
a crushing- defeat for Modernism in this
country, which has urged as one of its spe-
cious arguments that American Catholic
interests were not understood or were ig-
nored by the Vatican. No one can ques-
tion the extraordinary^ ability, courage, and
prudence of the new Cardinal, and no one
dares to insinuate that he is not intensely
loyal to the church and to the flag of his
native land."
Yet there may be some who are so ill
informed as to imagine that he has any
purpose of tolerance, except such as is
compulsory during the period the secret
orders will seek to abbreviate, with the
first amendment of the United States
Constitution, or with its corresponding
section in the bill of rights in the con-
stitution of the State whose capital is
the central seat of his hierarchical do-
minion. To fasten Popish schools and
other institutions on the body politic, in
order that they may leech the veins of
public taxation, is one great feature of
Irish loyalty to church and flag when
they are viewed together. The Federa-
tion of Catholic secret societies will pow-
erfully co-operate with every plan of
Rome to bleed the American treasuries.
Two cardinals are now to be in this
country ready to attend to political plans,
while a high official intimately convers-
ant with everything in Washington is to
be henceforth in Rorne as a cardinal.
Working with all and through all the
societies, is the great secret order of the
Jesuits, whose head is called the "Black
Pope." Yielding and temporizing only
so long as it must, this society ever im-
poses the oath which includes such sen-
timents as these :
"The Pope . . . hath power to depose
heretical kings, princes, states, common-
zvealths, and governments, all being illegal
without his sacred confirmation; and . . .
they may safely be destroyed ... I do
renounce and disown any allegiance as due
to any heretical king, prince, or state, named
Protestant,"
More of similar tenor is in this oath,
and the men who take it are among the
world's more astute and skillful poli-
ticians. When an American diplomat
observed, in a Roman banquet that Card-
inals ate meat on Friday, and asked what
it meant, he was answered : "The parish
priest attends to that, our business is
political."
The World's Seventh Sunday School
Convention is to be held in Zurich,
Switzerland, July 8-15, 1913.
NO OTHER REASON.
Defining Chastity, the Century Dic-
tionary cites two lines of Salisbury's
spirited reply to King Henry VI :
Who can be bound by any solemn vow
To force a spotless virgin's chastity?
Since the accredited date of Shakes-
peare's Henry VI is 1590-1, this point-
edly antimasonic sentiment anticipates
a cardinal vice of Grand Lodge Ma-
sonry by a period extending forward a
century and a quarter. Much as Chief
Justice Show declared that "A law
which is not just is not a law," so the
great poet, earlier than the jurist, put
into the lips of an English Earl the prin-
ciple that an oath which is not virtuous
is not an oath. It is startling to find an
argument against one of the special
claims of Freemasonry worked out in
the passage from which the two lines
are taken, and prepared so long before
the Grand Lodge was born. It is found
in the second part of King Henry VI,
Act V^ Scene I.
The Earl of Salisbury. — My lord, I
have considered with myself
The title of this most renowned duke ;
And in my conscience do repute his
grace
The rightful heir to England's royal
seat.
King. — Hast thou not sworn allegiance
unto me?
Salisbury. — I have.
King. — ^Canst thou dispense with heav-
en for such an oath ?
Salisbury. — It is great sin to swear
unto a sin,
But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
Who can be bound by any solemn vow
To do a murd'rous deed, to rob a man,
To force a spotless virgin's chastity,
To reave the orphan of his patrimony.
To wring the widow from her custom'd
right,
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March, 1912.
And have no other reason for this wrong
But that he was bound by a solemn oath ?
Ouccii. — A subtle traitor needs no
sophister.
K'uig. — Call Buckingham, and bid him
arm himself.
Vork. — Call Buckingham, and all the
friends thou hast,
I am resolved for death or dignity.
"Whether he be right or wrong," says
the Royal Arch Mason, save for his oath
having no reason in law or morals for
his pledged action. "Whether he be
right or wrong,'' potentially includes, "If
he be wrong.'' To swear this, is to
swear unto a sin. and long before this
wicked vow was formulated, Shakes-
peare made an English Earl says : "It
is a sin to swear unto a sin."
THE PENNSYLVANIA CONVENTION.
Setti0 of ®ur Work
Last month President Blanchard gave
three addresses at Woodburn, Indiana,
east of Fort Wayne. There were four
seceders who testified, and another who
declared after the meeting that he ought
to have done so. One Modern Woodman
of America publicly renounced the lodge.
One man testified that the lecture had
kept him from uniting, and a young
man from a neighboring city urged that
more meetings of this kind be held. He
said that nearly all of the young men in
the section in which he lived had been
swept into the lodge, and that many of
them could have been saved if such a
meeting had been held in his town. "Pray
ve therefore the Lord of the harvest,
that he will send forth laborers into his
harvest."
TJie Christian Evangel, the organ of
the Central Illinois Conference of Men-
nonites, a magazine of forty-eight pages
and cover, beautifully gotten up and full
of valuable matter, prints in full, in its
February issue, President Blanchard's
article, "Murder as a Fine Art." The
Association appreciates the sympathy
and good will shown by the management
of this magazine in publishing a half-
page advertisement of our anti-secrecy
books and of the Christian Cynosure
on their own initiative.
Tarentum, Pa., Feb. 17, 1912.
Dear Cynosure:
I have never been more conscious of
the leading of the divine hand than dur-
ing the preparation for our Pennsyl-
vania State gathering. The invitation
extended by pastor and people here is
most cordial. Brother Crosby, formerly
pastor of the U. P. church in Aurora,
111., is now pastor of that body here.
He speaks very highly of his acquaint-
ance with President Blanchard, and the
good work he is doing. There has been
no difficulty in securing speakers. Strong
talented young men, new to the anti-
secrecy work, are to address tis. The
program will show what may be expect-
ed. The Free Methodist Church, in
which we meet, is central, on the street
car line, and near the depot.
We only wait the blessing of God and
the generous co-operation of friends
throughout the State, to make this one
of the most helpful conventions ever
held. It is to be a success. Let us make
it a large success, friends. May I ask
that each friend interested sit down at
once and write a brief letter telling of
the Lodge situation in their community,
of what is being done to enlighten the
people, together with what they would
like to help to do, and send it, together
with such contribution as they wish to
make in aid of the cause. Don't miss
the blessing promised the "cheerful
giver!" Some likely hesitate contribut-
ing because they are not able to give five,
ten or more dollars. If it's a dollar or
less, don't hesitate. All helps. Send
the letter telling of conditions, or giving
suggestions, if you are not able to con-
tribute otherwise.
Read this splendid program and come
up to the help of the Lord against this
lot of weak sinners. They are strong in
number, but weak in spiritual power.
Provision is being made along lines of
entertainment. If you are coming, don't
fail to let the writer know. Address let-
ters to "W. B. Stoddard, Tarentum,
Pa." I am writing this next door to the
Elks' headquarters. I see by the door
crates labeled "Sun Pop." Some of the
sons have been getting drunk here. Is
this where they were popped?
March, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
345
Since my last report I have delivered
three lectures in Lutheran churches. In
Fair Haven and Pittsburg, N. S., Pa.,
and Youngstown, Ohio. The first two
churches are connected with the Joint
Synod of Ohio, the last with the Mis-
souri Synod. All were well sustained.
Collections were taken in support of our
work. We are happy to have Rev.
Sheatsley of the Fairhaven church, as a
speaker at our State Convention. I
missed our good friend. Rev. Mr.
Brownell, on my visit to West Middle-
sex, he having passed to the better life
during the year. Our good friend Irvine
Caldwell helped the good cause, as he
always does. The United Presbyterian
Church of West Middlesex, is to be con-
gratulated in having as their new pastor
Rev. M. D. Telford.
The 2 1st of January was a day of
hard work. I walked some six miles,
spoke three times, and attended two Sab-
bath schools. The meetings were in the
F. M. church in New Brighton, Pa., the
Union Chapel, Fallston, Pa., and the F.
M. church, Rochester, Pa. I probably
addressed four hundred people at these
different services. Lodge people were
present at Fallston. A request for anti-
secrecy lectures for that place was
urged.
After my usual return home for a few
days I worked for a time in the Cumber-
land valley. The seed of the Pennsyl-
vania State Convention at Chambers-
burg is bearing fruit. There was an en-
largement of the Cynosure subscrip-
tion list among our Mennonite and Rad-
ical United Brethren friends.
I reached Greencastle, Pa., at lo
o'clock Saturday night, Feb. 3. In the
morning I surprised our Radical U. B.
friends by appearing at church. They
want no idlers there ; I was set to teach-
ing a class of boys. Called upon to ad-
dress the Sabbath school, and then to
preach the sermon. All of which I did
to the best of my ability. Three invita-
tions to dinner w^ere given. As I could
only accept one, two had to go on the
waiting list. Brother John Hussong
handed me a dollar, and said he felt the
Lord would have him give it in aid of
our work. T replied that I thought the
Lord would have me send him the
Cynosure, so he could see whether the
dollar was well expended.
Bro. Burkholder, v;ho is pastor here,
has reason for encouragement in the
progress of his work. Pastor Roth
thought the lodges at Chamber sburg
were dying. It was reported that they
could scarcely get a quorum to trans-
act business. Brother Lankey thought
the lodges at Fayetteville had largely
given up business. Surely, it should be
so. Men can hardly help getting tired
of the silly initiations. The Satanic
witchery of the false worship part is
not so easily broken, however ; Satan
has different ways of holding his man in
the lodge. So far as I could reach the
valley friends, there was good cheer,
and support given.
For some years we have been expect-
ing Brother Smeltzer, of Oberling, Pa.,
to die. He had a long pull, but, thank
the Lord, he is quite well now. May he
live long, to do much good. A visit to
the home of Brother John S. White
found him cheerful, and full of faith,
though the slack work in the mills made
the financial situation trying. The
friends at Flizabethtown, Pa., came up
splendidly with their renewals and new
Cynosure subscriptions. A friend pays
to send the Cynosure to the new Ma-
sonic Home under construction at that
'place. This Home will doubtless be
worthy a better cause. What a pity so
much money should be used to advance
a false worship !
In the Brethren colleges at Elizabeth-
town and Huntingdon, I addressed the
students in their morning worship pe-
riod. There were said to be 150 pres-
ent at the former, and 225 at the latter
place. The Brethren children are seek-
ing that which will make them strong
in life's battle. Some, I hope, will take
up the anti-secrecy lecture w^ork. Three
addresses were given to about five hun-
dred people in the Brethren Church,
Lancaster, Pa., and its mission school.
Good support was given to our work.
A run to Quarryville discovered our
good friend, J. W. Wilson, now in his
ninetieth year. He gladly gave aid to
our work, as in other years. A man
here said he was not now "an Odd Fel-
low," but had been. His statements fa-
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March, 1912.
voring tlie lodge were more common
tlian wise. He was not verv odd. At
Xew Providence, it was reported there
had been (juite a gathering of Eagle peo-
ple. Some of those who marched in
procession were dressed to represent the
devil. They acted their part well.
Lectnres are on for Lutheran. Church
(^lissouri Synod), North avenue, North
Side, Pittsburgh ; the Covenanter
Church. Parnassus, Pa., etc. Don't for-
get dates of Pennsylvania State Conven-
tion, friends, the third Monday and
Tuesda}" in ]\Iarch.
Yours for victory,
. W. B. Stoddard.
EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN ITS
SEASON.
Alexandria, La., Feb. 3, 1912.
Dear Cvxosure :
Since my last letter there has been
little change in weather conditions, and
the continued rain and cold have greatly
hindered my work here, and upset my
plans for operations abroad, but, God be
praised, there is now every indication of
a better season. The sun is shining
brightly, the dirt roads are drying, the
birds are singing, and everything is put-
ting on the garments of springtime.
The Secret Empire is on the alert, and
already they are making preparations for
their annual sermons, parades, picnics
and gala days, which will commence the
fourth Sunday in March, and continue
through the summer, practically every
Sunday until November, greatly retard-
ing the spiritual growth of the churches.
I am standing firm upon the rock of
God's Word, and against the Baal wor-
ship of secret societies, and every other
abominable iniquity.
Some of the lodge dignitaries here are
terribly wrought up over my opposition
to their Christless oaths and clannish
worship. They are unable to see any-
thing good in my work here, and are
magnifying every imaginable molehill
into a great mountain, in order to create
a division in my church ; but "our rock
is not like their rock," our God is a
''stronghold," yea, "3. very present help
in trouble."
The Secret Empire tried hard to de-
feat my re-election ; they canvassed and
met secretly, and set traps ; but God
baffled their efiforts and upset their plans.
On the day of the election, January 15th,
I was unanimously re-elected to the pas-
torate, and not a dissenting voice was
raised. Dr. H. B. N. Brown, D. D.,
General Superintendent of State Mis-
sions, and a member of my church, was
present and presided. After the election
he delivered a powerful address. He
complimented my work, and declared
that my call was a godsend to the church,
and that the strong hand of the Lord
was well able to make the work succeed
despite lodge influence and opposition.
He urged that the church give me their
imited support. When it was learned,
the next day, that I had been re-elected,
some of the lodge men almost frothed at
the mouth. One little "big fellow" whose
aspirations in the race for church leader-
ship are far above his ability, declared
that the church had blundered in its ac-
tion, and that he was sorry for it. He
then discussed my report made to the
church on the ist of fanuarv, and tried
to show that my reference to the Secret
Empire would array all of the lodges
agaijist the church, and prevent them
from preaching their annual sermons
there, thereby greatly lessening our
chances for financial success. This poor
lodge-deluded man seems to be ignorant
of the fact that the "earth is the Lord's,
and the fullness thereof ; the world, and
they that dwell therein," and that Je-
hovah saith, "The cattle upon a thou-
sand hills are mine." This kind of lodge
reasoning and opposition to the Chris-
tian Church is one of the strongest rea-
sons why Christians should "have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather reprove them. For
it is a shame even to speak of those
things which are done of them in secret."
It is true that there are good men in the
lodges ; but, according to the Bible, there
are some pretty good men and women
in Hell, for it says, "Lord, Lord, have
we not prophesied in thy name? and in
thy name have cast out devils ? and in
thy name done many wonderful works?"
but the answer is, "I never knew you ;
depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
H the Christian Church will only take
high gospel grounds, and "come out
from among them" God's merciful prov-
idence will overshadow them and make
their work succeed. (2 Cor. 6: 14-18.)
March, 1912.
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347
I ask the prayers of God's faithful
everywhere for power over sin, and
strength to withstand these workers of
iniquity who have banded themselves to-
gether in secret conclaves to oppose gos-
pel truth and withstand the works of
righteousness. If I can succeed in liqui-
dating this debt on the church, it will be
a great and glorious triumph over lodge
boasting and opposition.
Yours for a pure gospel church and
the uplift of depraved humanity.
F. J. Davidson.
Rev. G. A. Pegram, former State
Agent for Michigan, offers to send the
Cynosure to the reading rooms of col-
leges, seminaries and high schools, pro-
viding the management will agree to
keep the Cynosure in the reading room
for the use of students for at least a
month, and thereafter on file for refer-
ence. How many of the readers of the
Cynosure will secure a place in the
schools in their vicinity in accordance
with the above requirement ?
Our friend Mr. W. G. Waddell, of
New Athens, Ohio, writes : ''Dr. Blanch-
ard's 'Murder as a Fine Art,' is a strong-
article indeed, and truthful in every sen-
tence. The song of the Cynosure shall
one day be the song- of the victor."
One of our earnest friends and co-
workers, Mrs. M. M. Burnap, has re-
cently been called to mourn the going
home of her husband, who was in his
seventieth year and had been her com-
panion nearly a half century. He was
a Sergeant of Company E, 7th Missouri
Cavalry, in the Civil War. We express,
I am sure, the sincere sympathies not
alone of ourselves, but of every Cyno-
sure reader, for Mrs. Burnap.
A gentleman in Creal Springs, 111.,
wrote us an interesting letter of his dis-
covery recently of an old number of the
Christian Cynosure. He writes: "I
am very much interested in it for the
reason I once belonged to the lodge and
found it nil — I discovered a subtle, in-
sidious influence, which I could not en-
dorse, so I stepped down and out twenty
years ago." What a great work could
be done if each subscriber would pass
on his Cynosure to some neighbor.
In a letter to Rev. Dr. Torrey, a native
])astor of a church way up near Haran,
in Asia, writes asking what to him
seemed a very important question, as
indeed it is : "Let me not forget to ask
you to let me know about Free Mason-
ism. This is a new thing for us here
and we know almost nothing about it,
but some of our pastors and professors
say that Masonism is all Christianity. -
Christ was a Mason, they say, but 1 can-
not understand why they are not open.
Can you send me a book about this sys-
tem written by a Christian, or can you
yourself give me a full knowledge of
it?" The request was forwarded to
the association and full information giv-
en the brother. This is one of the ways
in which your contributions do good and
reach far beyond what you have ever
suspected.
South Haven, Mich., Jan. 2/, 19 12.
. The last Cynosure was one of the
best that T have ever read. I would no
more think of doing without this maga-
zine than I would think of doing without
my church paper.
Rev. L. V. Harrell.
Our friend and co-worker, Rev. A. N.
Bullock, of Ferry, Michigan, writes, in
ordering a good quantity of our tracts :
"I endeavor judiciously to pass around
these instructive tracts, praying that the
Lord of light and grace and glory may
through these shine to- the awakening of
the many who are now in worse than
Egyptian darkness."
Farral, W. Va., Jan. 26, 1912.
Was told last week that my three lec-
tures at Galenwood caused thirteen men
to withdraw from their lodge, and kept
four more out who intended to join. The
man said that he counted that many,
and that there micjht have been more.
Isn't that orood?
G. A. L^ECRA^I.
Marissa, 111., Feb. 2. 1912.
Editor LiiRiSTjAX C^■^■os^Rl■::
I have been away from home for more
than two months, visiting and traveling
through Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa,
and noticing the prevalency of secretism,
and especially the effect of the lodge up-
on the churches. I have found a ^tow-
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March, 1912.
iiii^- dissatisfaction because of the power
that the lodge wields in the churches,
which in many ways is detrimental to
the cause of Christ, and especially in the
matter of foreign missions. The average
lodge member of the church, after his
pa\ment of lodge dues, has often noth-
ing left to give for spreading the gospel.
He nuist pay his dues to his lodge or be
expelled : his church may be ever so need>
for nione\' to carry on its work, but he
retains his membership in it without fear
of expulsion. The lodge fares sumptu-
ously, while the church languishes. In
some of the churches that fellowship
secret society members, ministers are
leaving their pulpits, and going into oth-
er callings to make a livelihood, because
their churches are unal^le to give them
a support. These ministers are begin-
ning to learn that somehow the money
that should be forthcoming from church
members is used in paying lodge dues.
The Cvxosi'RE is doing a splendid
work in its efforts to open the eyes of
the people in regard to the evils of the
lodge system. May its power in expos-
ing these "hidden things of darkness"
be increased !
Fraternally yours,
Wm. Little.
A CONFESSION.
Sacaton, Ariz., Feb. 6. 1912.
Dear Cyx^osure :
I received my early religious training
in Germany, and, because of mv great
esteem for a certain professor, who' was
a Unitarian and a Liberal, I was led to
embrace his views. Before my re-en-
listment in the Army of the Potomac,
during the Civil War, some friends per-
suarled me to join the benevolent order
of J'reemasons. A few months after-
ward f was led by some Christian sol-
diers to become a Christian. I had mem-
orized nmch of the Bible in the old coun-
try, but up to that time it had been a
sealed book to me.
Some of the passages which made a
great impression upon me after mv con-
version were those in the fifth chapter of
]\Latthew, where the Lord says, "Thou
shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt per-
form unto the Lord thine oaths," and
the thirty-seventh verse of the same
chapter, "But let your communication
be, Yea, yea ; Xay,, nay : for whatsoever
is more than these cometh of evil." Real-
izing that One was my Master, and that
I was not my own, but bought with a
price, and that now the whole human
race was my neighbor, I buried my beau-
tiful gold Masonic pin in Virginia's soil.
May the time speedily come, when it
shall not be said, "For the nation and
kingdom that will not serve thee shall
perish ; yea, those nations shall be utterly
wasted" (Isaiah 60:12), but when "the
earth shall be full of the knowledge of
the Lord, as the waters cover the sea"
(Isaiah 11 :g) .
(Rev.) C. H. Cook.
AN OPEN LETTER.
BY A SECEDER EROM THE GOOD TEMPLARS.
ODD FELLOWS AND MASONS.
To Elder W. A. Humphreys, Presiding
Elder of the West Plains District,
St. Louis Conference of the M. E.
Church South.
In the last two numbers of the
Cynosure I showed you that Masonry
claimed to be a religion, and what kind
of a religion, and that your oration at the
grave over the said Royal Arch Mason
was deceptive. In this letter, I wish to
give you some of my personal reasons
for seceding from the Good Templars,
Odd Fellows and Masons.
At the recent "Old Settlers' Annual
Picnic" at Congo, the secretists stilled
free speech, in the manner following :
"The Committee of Arrangements" en-
gaged the writer, some time before, to
deliver an address on that occasion. I
went there according to invitation and
appointment, and was informed by the
committee that they were given tO' un-
derstand, that, if I attempted to speak,
there would be a general disturbance ;
that the funds for the expenses of the
picnic were in Masonic hands ; that there
were Masonic threats o-f violence to me
if I attempted to speak, and that the
funds might not be available if I made
an address ! Whereupon I left the
grounds, and there was no public speech
delivered there. This is another evidence
of the determination of the Lodge to
stifle free speech, and rule over Ameri-
can citizens.
Much of this letter may seem like
pages from the history of the thirteenth
century, and the administration of the
March, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
349
infamous Inquisition in Europe, rather
than a narrative of the deportment of
the members of a secret "reUgious insti-
tution ;" but Freemasonry is doing its
evil work as did the Inquisition of old,
and it is as vindictive and bloodthirsty
as the present state of society will per-
mit. :
If the press can be relied on, Dr.
Hyde — accused of the murder of those
people in Kansas City — a Mason, has
been granted a new trial. Does any one
think he will be convicted ? What will
clear him? Masonry. What shielded
and tried to clear the wretches who dyna-
mited the Times building, and killed so
many people in Los Angeles ? and what
shields labor rioters all over the world
to-day ? Organized secretism. To come
nearer tO' the cemetery where the craft
was so in evidence, we ask what shielded
Minnick, who shot and killed Mr. Mill-
saps, near Alton, and cleared him of the
crime ? Secretism — Masonry. The Holy
Spirit asks, "Shouldest thou help the un-
godly, and love them that hate the
Lord?" (II Chronicles 19:2.) What
moral effect was produced upon sinners
by your oration on the virtues of Ma-
sonrv, eternitv alone will reveal. Can
we wonder that the darkened minds of
unregenerate men hug this false system
to their breasts, shouting, with manifest
delight, "Masonry is a good enough re-
Hgion for me," especially when eloquent
ministers, like yourself, high in the coun-
cils of the church, publicly glorify this
anti-Christ, wearing his vestments, and
shouting for the Masonic Baal?
W^hat is true of Freemasonry, as
above noted, is also true of Odd Fellow-
ship and kindred secret societies ; they
reject the precious name of Jesus from
their ritual in their religious teachings,
to please His enemies, and do so especial-
ly in order to admit Jews, deists, spiritu-
alists, and others to their fellowship. In
short, secret orders are Satan's imitation
of the Church, and counterfeits of true
religion.
I joined the Good Templars ; but the
last time I was in a Good Templar
lodge the Worthy Chief was so drunk
that he was kept from falling by the
energy and united efiforts of the two la-
dies, his ''Right and Left hand Support-
ers !" The male members could have
carried Illinois for prohibition, at that
time, if they had kept their vows as Good
Templars. So I took my card from that
lodge, but I continued to vote as I
prayed.
I joined the Odd Fellows at La Salle,
111., and found myself in fellowshi]) with
spiritualists, deists and Jews, all of
whom hated Jesus the Christ. I with-
drew from that order, and have my with--
drawal card from it at the present time.
I had an exalted opinion of Freema-
sonry, and joined Maquon, 111., Lodge,
No. 530, in Knox County, Illinois.
On receiving the first degree, I was
so shocked by the Christless, deistic
prayer, that I begged them to let me
leave the order ; but I was informed
that, figuratively speaking, I was in the
"Old Dispensation" while an Entered
Apprentice, and that on receiving the
third or Master's degree, I would be in
the "New Dispensation," and w^ould
hear enough allusion to Jesus Christ to
satisfy my conscientious scruples.
I went on through, and still could not
rest. In the hope of reconciling me to
the order, the Worshipful Master made
me the Chaplain of the lodge. He called
on me to pray one night when he, as
Jubelum, had metaphorically killed the
candidate, and the latter was lying prone
upon the floor shamming death, as Hi-
ram Abiff. I prayed, as you would pray,
in the name of Jesus. When the lodge
closed that night, the Worshipful Mas-
ter came to me with Webb's "Freema-
son's Monitor," and, as he presented it,
open, said :
"Here ! All the prayers of Blue Lodge
Masonry are to be found in this book.
Confine yourself to the ritual as you find
it here. The way you prayed to-night
may be Christianity, but I'll assure you
it is not Blue Lodge Masonry," — and
he was quite right in that particular.
I immediately thrust it back to him,
and said, "Take your book, and don't you
ever call upon me to pray in this lodge
again; it is this that troubles me, and
I'll have to leave you yet."
As long- as I considered my lodge ob-
ligations binding, and its oaths to be
sacredly kept, I was in more or less spir-
itual unrest. I finally wrote the follow-
ing request to the lodge, after being re-
550
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
Marcli, 1912.
peatedly warned aiid counseled to the
contrary.
Maquon, III, iMonday, May 20, 1872.
Worshipful blaster. Fellows and Brethren:
I would respectfull}' ask leave to v/ith-
draw from the Order, as I can no longer
conscientiously remain a Mason.
Yours fraternally,
G. T. DiSSETTE.
Was my request granted? Not at all.
Several weeks elapsed, if my memory be
correct, before I heard from it, and it
ended by the Worshipful Master order-
ing me to attend the lodge, as I had
sworn to do when ordered, or sum-
moned.
To this day they have never granted
my request, nor called on me for dues,
nor notified me that they have discon-
tinued or expelled me as a member of
that lodge, so that I consider that I have
been held as a member contrary to my
will and request, ever since that time, for
I had paid all my lodge expenses, and
there w^ere no dues in arrears when I
left.
I paid about sixty or seventy-five dol-
lars for wdiat I learned of Masonry, as
I had not seen an exposition of it, and
about thirty dollars, more or less, for a
lodge feast. And, be it more or less, I
would have gladly given it all and my
right hand with it, to recall the whole of
my ]\Iasonic experience. Yet I was not
permitted to withdraw, and was warned,
that, if I ever lifted my voice against
^Masonry, they would follow me with
vengeance. Of course I cannot say how
far their vengeance has followed me,
but I am morally certain that they have
retaliated, from the time I bade fare-
well to the lodge, to this very day. They
forward a seceder's character to other
lodges, or to the one nearest to wherever
he may reside. Although I was assured
that, if I did not actively antagonize Ma-
sonry, I would be permitted to pursue
my w^ay in peace, I had learned enough
of lodge government and polity to know
that any such assurance could not be de-
pended on. Moreover. I liacl been Ma-
sonically assured to the contrary, viz.,
that there w^ere members of Maquon
Lodge w^ho would ''travel three thousand
miles" to inflict the penalties on any man
who would "go back on Masonry," or
do violence to his "obligation as a Ma-
son.
>>
Did not the treatment accorded Rev.
Stephen Brink, in that town, and the
satisfaction it gave to the members of
that lodge, w^arrant me in believing,
that, when a man withdrew from that
lodge for conscience' sake, he would
soon have reason to believe that, if the
tribunal of the Inquisition was abolished
in Em-ope, its archetype is set up in the
Masonic order in America, and is doing
business according to the methods of its
prototypes ?
Rev. Stephen Brink was a member of
the above-named lodge before I was ini-
tiated, and he was also a member of the
Central Illinois Conference, and preached
in Maquon. I never met him in the
lodge, or knew him personally, although
I have seen him a number of times and
heard him preach. But I was Masonic-
ally given to know that his horse's mane
and tail were shaved clean, his harness
cut up, as were also his buggy top and
cushions, and then smeared with ordure
in the darkness of the night.
Twenty years, more or less, after the
above incident, I was pastor at Little
River, in Rice County, Kansas, and
learned that Brother Brink was sta-
tioned at Sterling, about twelve or fif-
teen miles southwest of my circuit. I de-
termined to visit him, but when I finally
went there he had removed. He had
gone, after passing through great tribu-
lation and victory. The lodge vengeance
could not dent his "shield."
There have ever been two altars bless-
ing and cursing our race — the altar of
Baal or the altar of Baal's lineal descend-
ant, the lodge, and the altar of Christ.
Tw^o systems of religion have ever been
connected with those altars, one of which
is true, and one of which is false ; one
leads the soul to Christ and Heaven, the
other is of Satan, and will land the soul
in Hell. "Am I therefore become your
enemy, because I tell you the truth?"
(Gal. 4:16.) "For God shall bring every
work into judgment, with every secret
thing, whether it be good, or whether it
be evil." (Eccle. 12:14.)
From a mere human point of view, it
has certainly cost me almost all my pros-
pects in this life to renounce Freema-
sonry. It has lined my path, and often
surrounded my home, with alert, active,
yet hidden enemies, and were it not for
"the grace of God that bringeth salva-
March, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
351
tion," and the Holy Spirit, who enhght-
ens my understanding, I might have been
cheated, by the Masonic worship of Baal,
out of all my prospects "of that which is
to come." Is it not amazing that such a
despotic and anti-Christian system of re-
ligion as Freemasonry is favored, fos-
tered and admired in this enlightened
age and nation? How can you, a Presid-
ing Elder, believe the absurdities taught
and practised in such a system ? You
believe in them, or you do not. If you
believe in them, you are not fit to be a
presiding elder, not fit to be a member
of the church in any capacity; if you do
not believe in them, you are too good a
man to be in the lodge, and cannot get
out of it too soon for the salvation of
your soul. 'The man that wandereth out
of the way of understanding shall re-
main in the congregation of the dead."
(Prov. 21 :i6.) 'The way of under-
standing" is the way in which the Holy
Spirit leads ; and it is out of the lodge,
not into it. What is good for you, is
good for "the rank and file" of Chris-
tians. Hark, the voice that commanded
demons on Galilee's shore, to "Go !" is
heard, in tones of love and compassion,
calling to you. "Come out of her, my
people, that ye be not partakers of her
sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues." (Rev. 18:4.)
Every secret order's secrets, so called,
are faithfully published to the world, as
any one may learn by addressing the Na-
tional Christian Association, 850 West
Madison Street, Chicago, 111., and ob-
taining their catalogue of publications.
Yours in His name.
(Elder) G. T. Dissette.
Congo, Mo.
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS' BALL
**The" Event of the Season Attracts Big
Attendance.
The annual ball of St. Paul command-
ery, Knights Templars, which in late years
has taken the leading place in the social
events in the city, was held last evening in
Odd Fellows' hall and the Wellington ho-
tel, and was a success in every particular.
The decorations were elaborate, green and
white being the predominating colors. The
music, both for concert and dance, by the
Salem cadet orchestra of 15 pieces, was
excellent, and the attendance left nothing
to be desired except an increased amount
of room in the hall, for during the early
hours the dance floor was crowded to the
limit of its capacity.
When the line entered the ballroom from
the lodge rooms adjoining, the electrical
decorations were flashed on and the full
beauty of the hall was revealed. The ceil-
ing was a tent-like canopy of white and
green, the walls paneled by the same col-
ors, and on each panel was an electrically
illuminated emblem of the order. The back
of the stage, on which was stationed the
orchestra, was decorated with a huge
Maltese cross framed in electric lights and
when all the lights were turned on the
room was flooded in a brilliant blaze.
RIOT IN THE WOODS.
An adjourned meeting of the Modern
Woodmen of America in Chicago, gave
play to vigorous insurgency by which a
plan of the head officers of the society
was boldly opposed. The officials con-
fessed that the rate would soon fail to
secure the pretended insurance, and thev
advocated that plan of increase which
has been adopted by sixteen other secret
orders. Their plan was conformed to
the recommendation of the insurance
commissioners who met in Mobile, Ala.,
still earlier, and who prepared a uniform
law or rule adapted to the use of all fra-
ternal insurance societies. Against adopt-
ing the insurance commissioners' recom-
mendation the fight in Chicago was
made.
Head officers of the Woodmen submit-
ted figures showing that in two years
the society would not have available as-
sets adequate to cover the face value of
its insurance. The plan involved ma-
terial elevation of rates, but it was pro-
posed to scale them for members more
than 53 years old so as not to drive them
out of the insurance altogether. This is
an old story often told, and the side of
the society is not the only one. L^nex-
pected swelling of rates, disappointing
shrinkage of returns, with virtual forc-
ing out of old patrons, show the melan-
choly side of those who have trusted
too fully such a word as "cheap" or
"fraternal." It is no very fraternal act
to trifle with a man's care for his family,
or with a woman's means of caring for
her children with herself after the death
of their father and her husband.
I have lived to thank God that all my
prayers have not been answered. — Jean
fugelow.
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"V
Annual Meeting Call
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News of Our Work
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE
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CONTENTS
X. C. A. Annual Meeting 353
The AA'oman's Lodge, by Rev. Alexan-
der Thomson 353
Modern Woodmen Agitated 354
Brave yien of Old, A Poem, by Rev.
William X. Tobie....^ 355
Masonic Office Holders, by Pres. C. A.
Blanchard 356
"The Wiles of the Devil," by Rev. E. R.
Worrell 361
Union Evangelistic Campaigns, by Rev.
^lilford H. Lyon 362
Counterfeit Money and Other Counter-
feits, by Elliot Whipple, Ph. D 363
The Broken Seal, by Samuel D. Greene ;366
Editorial — .
Churches Friendly to the X^. C. A 369
Pastoral Settlement 369
Mormon Woodmen 369
Knights Assail X'egroes 369
Damage and Damages 370
Treaties Coolly Treated 370
A Lonely Death ...371
Simon A. Hershey, obituary 371
News of Our Work —
Secretary Stoddard's Report 373
Pennsylvania Convention Report 374
"Lizzie Woods' Letter" 374
A Xew Book 375
In Perils of False Brethren 375
Index Volume XLIV . .377
GENERAL OFFICERS.
President, Rev. E. B. Stewart; Vice-
President, Rev. J. W. Brink; Recording
Secretary, Mrs. N. E. Kellogg; Secre-
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
George W. Bond (Congregational), J.
M. Hitchcock (Independent), C. A.
Blanchard (Congregational), G. J. Haan
(Christian Reformed), Albert B. Rutt
(Mennonite), E. B. Stewart (United
Presbyterian), Joseph Amick (Church of
the Brethren), E. R. Worrell (Presby-
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T. C. Wendell (Free Methodist) and P.
A. Kittilsby (Lutheran).
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Rev. B. E. Bergesen, 1727 West 56th
St., Seattle, Wash.
J. S. Baxter, 414 West 7th St., Okla-
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ARE SECKET SOCIETIES A BLESSING?
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VOLUME XLIV.
CHICAGO, APRIL, 1912.
NQMBER 12.
N. C. A. ANNUAL MEETING.
The annual meeting of the N. C. A.
occurs on Thursday and Friday, May
23 and 24, in Pentecostal Nazarine
Church, 6417 Eggleston Ave., Engle-
wood, Chicago, 111.
The opening session will be at 7 :30
o'clock Thursday evening, followed by
a Friday morning session at 9 :30, an
afternoon session at 2 :00 and an even-
ing session at 7 :30. Besides the elec-
tion of officers and the transaction of
other important business, there will be
addresses by able speakers.
Elmer B. Stewart, President.
Nora E. Kellogg, Recording Secretary.
THE WOMAN'S LODGE.
REV. ALEXANDER THOMSON.
When pastor of the Congregational
church in Washburn, Wisconsin, I was
in very intimate relations with the pas-
tor of the Methodist Episcopal church.
This gentleman was an unusual man,
able, scholarly and thoughtful. One day,
in conversation, our thoughts turned to
the question. Why are there not more
men in the church? Washburn was at
that time a new town of considerable
size, perhaps three or four thousand, but
in our two churches, the leading ones in
the town, there were only about twelve
men members. Surely then, the ques-
tion. Why are there not more men in the
church? was a pressing one to us. I
thought I knew the cause, and questioned
my friend. I said, ''My brother, I know
you are a Mason. You are inside of the
lodge. I am outside. I have thought
that the lodges are stealing the hearts of
the men away from the church. What
are your views?" Instantly his thought-
ful face became sober as he replied, "Air.
Thomson, I am both a Mason and an
Oddfellow, and I know that what you
say is true, to an extent that }0u cannot
understand."
A few )'ears after that, I \\"as spend-
ing my vacation in a little town in ^lich-
igan, and attended the prayer-meeting in
the Congregational church there. The
pastor, who led the meeting, was an old
man. kindly, gifted and earnest, and I
knew him to be a man of more than com-
mon ability, and earnestly serving the
Master. There were present at the meet-
ing a number of women. The minister,
another man and m3^self were the only
gentlemen present. It was a tine sum-
mer evening with nothing tr» interfere
with the prayer-meeting. This minister
was a Knight Templar, and wore his
sign. When the service was over, I
walked home with him in earnest con-
versation. As we walked. I sought the
views of this good man. I said in sub-
stance. "My brother, you know how
manv men were at the prayer-meeting
to-night. I find the same condition pre-
vailing everywhere. Our women attend,
but where are the men ? You arc a
Mason. I know. Do you believe that the
lodge has a hand in this?" The sub-
stance of his reply was as follows. "Mr.
Thomson, you see I wear a Knight Tem-
plar's pin. T received it from a dear
friend when lie was dying. I wear it for
his sake. I am a [Mason, and I know
that the lodge is responsible, in part at
least, for the non-attendance oi men up-
on the services of the church."
Now it was about this time that T ven-
tured to make a prediction to some of
my friends. It was this. 'Tf the day ever
comes when the women go into the
lodges as the men do to-da}'. it will be
death to many of our churches." That
dav has now fullv come, and T leave all
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March, 1912.
thought tul people to judge as to the
truth of m\- predietion.
\\'hen in one of my helds. I had. as a
member of ni}' chiu'ch, a tired mother
caring for her home and two little chil-
dren who were hard to manage. On my
visits to her home, she often expressed
regret that she was unable to attend the
prayer-meeting. I replied that with her
work and cares, her duty might be at
home, for as she said, she could not well
lea\"e her babies. That lady joined one
of the woman's lodges and was out until
ten or eleven o'clock at night without her
babies ! Now the woman's lodge is
everywhere. There is hardly a town
where there are not as many of them
as there are churches, and sometimes
there are more. What have been the re-
sults ?
First, a great loss to the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. Fifteen
years ago that noble organization was
strong in every town and village, at least
so far as I knew. The white ribbon
movement was the right hand of the
church. Now the W. C. T. U. has ceased
to exist, or nearh^ so. in the small towns
and villages, and it has become rather
rare to see the white ribbon upon a wo-
man's breast.
Second, the nature of the social life,
largely directed by women, has greatly
changed. It is now the card party, many
times with the valuable prize that makes
it real gambling, and the ever attractive
dance. In some towns well known to
me. the card party and the regtilar lodge
dance are almost the only factors in so-
cial life that strongly appeal to the peo-
ple. How far these women have wan-
dered from the noble ideals of the W. C.
T. U., we need not stop to inquire.
Third, the prayer-meeting in many
churches has received a deadly blow, in
some a death blow. It was largely for-
saken by the men before, and now, in
places, it is nearly forsaken bv the
women. In some churches the poor min-
ister who loves the praA'^er-meeting, and
knows that it is that which largely reg-
isters the condition of the church life,
is not sure that there will be any one
present besides himself and the sexton.
In not a few cases, the prayer-meeting
has become a thing of the past.
Fourth, the increasing difficulty of se-
curing women who can be relied upon
for faithful Sabbath School teachers. A
night at a card table, or one at a lodge
dance is not a very good or favorable
preparation for Sabbath School work.
The women do not really want to occupy
a false position, and therefore do not
take part in the w^ork of the Sabbath
School. •
Fifth, a large amount of money that
once found its way into the treasiuy of
the church, now finds its way into the
revenues of the lodge, with the most dis-
astrous results to church life and ex-
pansion ; and finally the man of God
whose soul is in his work, when he comes
before his people on the Lord's day, with
a messap"e warm from his heart, and
looks into the faces of his audience,
misses that spiritual support which once
shone in the earnest faces of the noble
women, wdio, in the great battle for the
Kingdom, so strongly and earnestly held
up his hands.
Endeavor, Wis.
MODERN WOODMEN AGITATED.
The Modern Woodmen have come to
it. January 26 they raised their rates 47
per cent. Within four years there would
have been a deficiency of two hundred
and eighty million dollars. It was about
time that some action was taken. When
bankruptcy is only four years off, even
the most luxuriouslv furnished manager's
office begins to feel very hot and stuffy.
Of course, these gentlemen do not admit
that they knew all these years what was
in store for their "brethren," drawn into
membership by the lure of rates 53 per
cent of what they should have been. Oh,
no ; these officials have been actuated by
the most benevolent motives in adding 47
per cent to the yearly premiums. Says
Head Consul Talbot : "We were deter-
mined to get the best possible insurance
that could be computed." As if no better
insurance had been computed previous to
1912!
One hundred years ago the rates on
which an honest insurance business or
mutual benefit arrangement in case of
death can be established had been com-
puted from many years' experience by
German, French, and English actuaries.
Insurance companies organized on this
basis in 1797 (Pelican of London), 1813
(Union of London), 1827 (Gothaer),
and 1828 (Lubecker) are doing business
March, 1912.
Cf^RlSTlAN CYNOSURE.
today. They have not at any time been a
trade secret. The second edition of the
Encyclopedia Britannica, printed a hun-
dred years ago, contained the gist of the
whole matter, as did every encyclopedia
since.
But there are people who found it con-
venient to forget that there is such a
thing as a multiplication table and a table
of mortality. They organized fraternal
insurance societies — lodges. Their sys-
tem of rates appealed to people who have
the get-something-for-nothing idea. The
class that imagines all laws suspended
that govern ordinary business, when it
comes to figuring insurance. And so
they went into "cheap insurance,'' that is
to say into the most expensive, the lodge
kind; went in by shoals, squadrons, and
platoons.
And all went merry as a wedding bell
until the table of mortality did its fine
work. When the rate of mortality among
the older members reaches a certain
point, the reserve fund, upheld for a time
by the rapid influx of new members, is
wiped out, and then there is the choice
of a reduction from the face value of the
policy, or increased rates, or bankruptcy.
There are more than 150 fraternal or-
ders (secret societies, lodges) doing bus-
iness now in the United States on the
hot-air rate plan. Every one of them
must raise its rates or go out of business.
None can survive until 1924 under the
present system. In sixteen states they
are prohibited by law from writing poli-
cies. In these states their business is
rated on one level with that of card
sharps and shell-game artists ; they must
reform or quit. In six states the same
legislation is pending. And even if there
were no legislation, the combined forces
of the table of mortality and the multi-
plication table (the "two tables" of in-
surance law ) will within a very few
years strangle the life out of every order
trying to write death benefit certificates
at less than cost. — Lutheran Herald.
The January, 1912, number of the
Cynosure was out of stock before the
month ended. We could use extra num-
bers with advantage to the cause and
hence ask those who can do so, having-
no further use for it, to send your Jan-
uarv Cynosukr to this offi;ce.
BRAVE MEN OF OLD.
KKV. \\]JJ..AKD N. TOmi-:.
Brave men (jf old! who stood against the
world
Of constituted wrongs in Clnircli and ^tale.
Defied the principalities, and hurled
The truth against the serried ranks of liate.
That for tlie hist of worldly power and gold
linslaved the world, haptized the earth in
blood,
Rode down each hrave revolt for truth, and
sold
The lil)crties of men — a Judas hrood,
That used the holy name of Christ to grace
ddieir demon deeds of cruelty and ^hame —
Brave men ! to front such foe with steady
face —
Yea, men of God — and worthy of the name.
Where learned ye to defy the sword, the flame,
Tlie Inquisition's rack, the pope, the king,
Tlie anti-Christ of every form and name?
Whence came your boldness? Courage high
to lling
Awa}' your lives in martyrs' altar fires
For shadowy dreams impalpable as air ?
To call these crowned and crosiered t^-rants
liars.
Who christened crime? Their heartless wrath
to dare?
Not from beneath that power to dare and die;
No sense-l)orn dreams these lofty deeds
inspire
That brave the legalized, W'Orld-ruling He.
Your souls were bathed in pentecostal fire
That issued from the heart of Him who
waged
Contention wdth the ruthless powers of night.
Unmasked the canting hypocrite, and raged
Against the temple-thief, and flashed the light
Of love and truth on selfishness and lies.
Bared His heroic breast to priesth- hate.
On king or rabble looked wdth fearless eyes.
Blanched not at death, bur highly met His
fate.
Shall we, blest children of the better years.
Contend less bravely 'gainst our time's decay?
Shall we 01 gentler foe ha^•e greater fears?
They faced the fagot in the elder day,
The lion, reeking dungeon, Roman cross —
Now gone fore\er — thanks to them who liled
To bring these gentler times. A petty loss.
A stinging word, a sneer, a loaf of bread
Boycotted from the hand, official place
Denied — (oft ])etter in the loss tlian gain 1 —
Such dangers look us moderns in the face —
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April, 1912.
And rarch" worse — a scratch, a paltr}- pain —
Dangers our fathers would have scorned. We
lighr
The same old dragon, but his claws are
clipped.
Shall we. then, be less valiant for the right
Against a foe of ancient terrors stripped?
Nay ! Shame on cowards in this milder
day :—
Rise. men. be valiant I ]\Ieet the times' de-
mand I
Be worthy of your sires I Fling fear away!
Remember Christ's brave heart and pierced
hand I
— -V. W. Christian Advocate.
MASONIC OFFICE HOLDERS.
I was recently attending a meeting of a
City Council. I was not personally ac-
quainted with all of the officials but I
recopTiized three of the aldermen as mem-
bers of a masonic lodge, one of them
had I think been what they call the
"Worshipful Master." I knew the mayor
not to be connected with the masonic
order, and one of the aldermen I knew
to be opposed to secret societies.
There are hundreds of votes cast each
year in our city. The members of the
masonic lodge are comparatively few.
The question arose in my mind, how did
so many Free Masons chance to be elect-
ed to the positions which they hold. Was
it because they were men of such large
ability and public spirit that their neigh-
bors and fellow citizens insisted upon
their occupying this position ? Was it
because they wished it and got their
brother lodge men to help them to se-
cure an election? Was it because they
desired the ofBce and worked for it and
secured it without the particular aid of
their brethren in the lodge? All these
questions naturally arise, especially
since we know that members of lodges
generally like public office and secure it
in some way or other.
What Difference Does It Make?
The question may legitimately arise,
What difference does it make how lodge
men secure public office, or indeed
whether public officials are lodge men or
not? 3klembers of secret orders gener-
ally say that they do not use their lodge
membership to secure public positions ;
that they are not elected because they
are lodge men but for other reasons, and
that their lodge relations have no influ-
ence upon the performance of their pub-
lie duties, so that really it concerns no-
body to know whether public officials are
lodge men or not. On the other hand
very many careful students of public af-
fairs have believed that lodge men are
continuously using their lodge relations
to secure public office, and the}^ believe
that lodge men are incapable of properly
fulfilling public duties by reason of the
special obligations which they owe to
their fellow lodge men. Their theory is,
in a word, that a public official should be
in a position to do equal and exact justice
among all the people over whom he is
trusted to rule. They feel that a member
of a lodge, especially of a masonic lodge,
is under such peculiar obligations to his
brother Free Masons that he is unable
properly to exercise his duties as a public
official.
What Are the Lodge Obligations?
In a word, to stand by, aid and assist
brethren of the order, whoever they may
be and wherever they may be found. The
application of such an obligation when it
is taken in secret, and the persons who
are to be favored are unknown is obvious.
Let it be a question of taxation. Sup-
pose a public official should wish to get
some money. He is a lodge man and,
after or before a lodge meeting, he con-
fers with a number of brother lodge men
who are with him in the lodge meeting.
He says to them, 'Tf we could put in a
public improvement at the expense of the
people I should get so much money for
my work in connection with that improve-
ment." It is obvious that his brother
lodge men might make an arrangement to
April. 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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help him at the expense of the tax pay-
ers. It may be said that tax payers
could prevent the improvement which
the lodge committee have decided upon.
Undoubtedly they could, but also un-
doubtedly in many instances the labor,
expense and trouble which would be in-
volved will not be taken, so that the pub-
he monies may be distributed for the
benefit of the lodge brother involved. O'f
course, if the masonic official were a
judge, he might be called upon every day
to befriend brethren in ways which
would be inconsistent with public inter-
est.
We return to the original statement of
the principle involved : a public official
should be in a position to serve equally
and impartially all the persons over
whom he is trusted to rule. He should
never put himself into a position, or re-
main in a position zvhere he will be
tempted to use his trust as a public offi-
cial for the benefit of his lodge brothers.
Then What Use Is There of the Lodge?
I imagine that this question will arise
in the minds of almost all lodge men
who are office seekers. They will say to
this, if it were not for the lodge and the
help that I get from my lodge brethren,
I could not get office. I am not elected
because of my ability, I am elected be-
cause of the friendship of my brethren
in the order, and if I should put myself
on my standing as a man in the commun-
ity, irrespective of my lodge relations,
there is little or no reason to suppose that
I should occupy the position which I
hold. Of course if this is true, it is in
itself an objection to the masonic order,
and is a reason why members of that
order ought not to be elected to public
positions.
Men, who are entrusted with the sol-
emn duty of ruling over their fellow-
men, ought to be of such a character as
would naturally commend them to the
suffrages of their fellow citizens without
any such secret aid as is involved in ma-
sonic membership. If they are elected to
office because they are masons, the pri-
vate conferences which nominate them
being attended by masons only, there is
every reason to suppose that they will
use their positions for the benefit, not of
the people whom they profess to serve,
but of the lodge brothers who have put
them into their places.
Aside from the obligation to favorit-
ism, which is a fundamental objection to
such positions there are special obliga-
tions which are more serious in character.
For example, take the obligation which
every Free Mason is under, to recognize
the signs, summons and tokens, given,
handed, sent or thrown by a Mason or a
lodge. No living man can tell when he
swears that oath what he will be askea
to do in order to fulfil it, and if he wishes
to secure a public office and to be called a
judge, a sheriff, an alderman, or what
not, he can never know from day to day
what he will be asked to do to make that
obligation good. Of course, the principle
involved applies to all secret societies,
but it is particularly weighty in the case
of the masonic order because the masonic
obligations furnish the pattern by which
all the other lodges work, and they ex-
press clearly, what the obligations of
other orders often merely imply.
What Should a Lodge Man Do?
It is clear that if he wishes to be a
good public official he should at once re-
nounce his lodge obligations, at least for
the full term for which he is nominated
or elected to public office. If he recog-
nizes these oaths and attends the lodge
meetings, he is practically certain to be
in lodge caucauses respecting the pu'hlic
interests from which any high spirited
man would most seduously keep himself.
We were told, years ago in our city, that
the masonic lodge regularly held cau-
cuses on the eve of all public elections,
the purpose of these caucuses being to
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March, 1912.
secure the election of lodge men c^r of
those who were friendly to lodges to pub-
lic positions whenever it was possible. Of
course these conferences were not held
in open lodge, at least they need not have
been, luu might easily have been ar-
ranged before or after the lodge had
been opened or closed. It is equally
plain that when lodge men are thus cau-
cusing to secure control of their neigh-
bors, and the handling of the taxes, they
will desire and attempt to secure other
advantages b^- reason of the position
which the}- occupy. There may be occa-
sionallv men who will spend time and
mo^e^■ in thus planning and w^orking for
pul)lic station, who do so simply because
they desire to be officials, but the public
plunder which is going forw-ard in every
part of our country at this time, shows
ver\- plainlv that men who work for office
generally hope and expect to get some-
thing out of them for themselves. In
the wa}- of relief from taxation, in the
way of special appropriations, in the way
of grafting of some sort or other. It is
fair to presume that men who use secret
methods for securing office will use secret
methods to make the office they get
profitable.
We repeat that a high spirited man,
who belongs to a lodge and washes to
hold public office, ought to free himself
from all his lodge relations for the full
term for wliich he is elected. When he no
longer desires to be a public official, if he
can think it profitable to identify himself
with the masonic order, of course, that is
a matter which must be referred to his
own conscience, but while he is a public
official, that subject is not only of interest
to him but it is also of interest to^ all his
fellow citizens. They have a right not
simply to hope but to knozv that he will
be in a position to do equally and impar-
tially b}' all men, if he seeks to rule over
all. ^
A Case in Point.
I was, years ago, visiting the Treasury
Department in Washington. I have for-
gotten the name of the head of the Secret
Service at that time, but I think it was
Col. Brooks. That is immaterial. The
office in which he sat had on the w^alls
the pictures of scores, I think I could
truly say of hundreds, of criminals whom
he and his subordinates had arrested.
Counterfeiters, mail robbers and what
not, all w^ere there. I said to him, "Are
you connected with any secret societies?''
He replied, 'T used to be a Free Mason."
I said to him: "Why did you leave the
masonic lodge?" He said: ''Because I
found that in this position I w^as being
coiistantl)' appealed to by criminals for
relief under the masonic signs and tokens
and obligations." He said: 'Tt became
unendurable. I could not refuse to recog-
nize my masonic obligations to men
who evidently w^ere Free Masons, and I
could not falsify mv oath to administer
my office honestly. I, therefore, w^ent to
my lodge and told them that they must
excuse me from my lodge obligations as
long as I was at the head of the Secret
Service." This action on the part of this
public official is clear and to his credit as
a man. I not long afterw^ard met a sub-
ordinate of that same service. He told me
that he was a member of three secret
orders. I asked him if in the transaction
of his work he Avas not constantly ap-
pealed tO' by criminals because of his
lodge relations. He said that he was, but
that he invariably refused to recognize
those men as members of the orders and
did his duty to the government. Of
course this is what he ought to do but he
was from choice in an essentially false
position. He was under oath to recognize
those men who made themselves known
to him as members of their respective
lodges. Fie was under oath to do for
them certain things which they wanted
done. He was also under oath to the
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
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United States to perform his duties as a
public official and these oblij^ations con-
flicted. He cut the (lordian Knot by
saying, ''I will not recognize the lodge
signs, summons and tokens when given
to me by men whom I am hunting down.
Some lodge men would commend him for
this, others would condemn him, but
whether approved or condemned, he was
still in this false position. He should
have done what the head of the Secret
Service did, that is, he should have said
to his lodges, "you will have to excuse me
from my lodge obligations as long as I
am in a public position." That is what all
lodge officials ought to^ do. If they have
not courage enough or strength of char-
acter enough to do this they should
promptly resign from public position and
should not become candidates for such
positions again. A man's honor, as a
man, is too choice a thing to be needless-
ly subjected to such strain.
When a man offers himself for the
suffrage of his fellow citizens he ought to
be able to look them all in the face with
the knowledge that he is absolutely im-
partial and in a position to do equal and
exact justice to them all. It will save him
from a thousand temptations to little,
tricky, mean, underhanded, secret accom-
modations and actions and put him in a
position to act a part that will be honor-
able to himself, beneficial to the commun-
ity and a satisfaction to the worthy men
who know of his action. We cannot too
frecjuently remember, that public officials
are under obligations to the public. The
partisanship of our age has led men often
to forget or to neglect this obvious truth.
The Republican too frequently imagines
himself to be the servant of the Repub-
lican party. The Democrat tries to please
Democrats and this natural tendency is
terribly re-inforced when the partv to
which the man belongs is a secret one,
hiding as far as possible its work from
the public, which is compelled to bear the
expense of government and to suft'er in
case the work is not honestly done.
Publicity is one of the cries of our
times and while there is no one device
which will make dishonest, tricky
men honorable and public-s])irited, there
is no question but that jniblicity is .'i
great protection, b(jth to the official and
to the communit} . ( )ne of the great oIj-
jections to all secret societies is that they
train men to- secret methods. It is easy
for persons who learn to wink and gri])
and otherwise communicate with a small
minority of the people for one purpose,
to do' the same sort of thing for another.
Men of Honor Honorable Men.
No man is under obligation to hold
public office unless his character and abil-
ities are of such a sort that he can render
a service to the state which could not by
others be equally well performed. But
when a man does solicit or accept at the
request of others public station he is un-
der obligation to serve the pul)lic in that
position, and not only to serve the public
but to have his relations and actions of
such a character that the whole world
may know that he does this. To go into
a City Council, or a State or National
Legislature and see groups of lodge men,
who' are under secret oaths to one anoth-
er, and to know that they get together as
lodge men to talk over their relations to
one another and other purposes is in
itself a most unfortunate situation. When
the tax payer looks over the governing
body, with wdiich he has to do, he ought
to know that everyone of those men is
under as serious an obligation to him as
to anyone else in the community. ''Fair
play is a jewel," and fair play cannot be
when men are obtaining secret advan-
tages over their fellowmen.
Throats Cut and Tongues Torn Out.
I find it difficult, if not impossible to
understand whv ooocl friends of mine,
whom I know to be Freemasons can toler-
ate the penalties which are repeated over
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
April 1912.
and again in the masonic lodge. Every
time a ^lason addresses the master, en-
ters the lodge, or retires from the lodge,
he is obliged to give the token which re-
minds him of his penalt3\ It seems to
me that it would become intolerable to a
high spirited man to be continually re-
minding himself, and reminding others
that he had sworn under penalty of hav-
ing his throat cut across, his tongue torn
out. his heart and vitals taken out, and
his body cut in two. What right has any
lodge to put American citizens under ob-
ligations like these? No church does it.
No civil authority does it. These bloody
oaths belong exclusivel}^ to secret socie-
ties. \Miy are they used ni a day like
this ? My friends, who are lodge men,
tell me that they do not mean anything,
that the lodge never executes them, that
they are a relic of a barabrous age con-
tinued in our own time. I am afraid
that they are mistaken. That these pen-
alties have been enforced in numbers of
instances we positively know, but I im-
agine that their principal purpose is not
to secure killing, but to secure obedience.
Lodge men are not anxious to cut some-
body's throat, but they are anxious that
men. who have sworn under that penalty,
should continue to stand by them in case
of need. I think that this is the secret
of the continuation of these penalties.
Such bloody imprecations make it still
more important that men who are to ex-
ercise public office should do as I have
suggested above. Every lodge man
should, when he offers himself for the
suffrage of his fellow citizens, publicly
announce that if intrusted with power he
will hold himself absolutely free from his
lodge or lodges during the term for
which he is elected.
"It Will Never Be Done."
I have heard this ever since I was a
child about every great need of human
society. When I was a boy those who
protested against American slavery were
told it would never come to an end.
When we protest against the liquor trade
we are answered in the same manner.
When we speak for the kingdom of God
against gambling — the fashionable and
professional ; the dances where young
men and women are ruined bodv and
r'
soul ; the Sabbath breaking which chains
millions of our fellow men to ceaseless
toil ; when we urge any action against
powerful and entrenched evils we are told
the thing cannot be done. It is said that
when Mirabau was told by his secretary
that a certain thing was impossible he
started to his feet and shouted out, "Im-
possible! Never again name to me that
blockhead O'f a word." I do not mean
that it is impossible that men who hold
public office should be honorable men.
Many of them are not, many of them
never will be, many of them are and more
of them will be, and one is a fool who
sits down in the presence of unquestion-
able evils and says that it is impossible
that they should be changed. Anything
which is wrong can be made right, and
before God is through with this world,
wrong things will be made right.
O'f course all intelligent people know
that there are lodge men who hold pub-
lic office who abide by their obligations
to the public rather than to their fellow-
lodge men. Everyone wdio is fairly intel-
ligent knows that there are other lodge
men who do differently. The trouble is
that no one can tell how any particular
man will do until he is tried. The fact is
he cannot tell himself. The men who
murdered William Morgan were as good
men as there were in western New York
at that time. They did not kill him be-
cause they wished to, but because they
felt that they must do so in order to
protect the lodge and keep their obliga-
tions.
The purpose of this article is to urge
all worthy men, who belong to secret
societies and who hold or desire to hold
April, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
361
public office, to put themselves in a posi-
tion where they can be free to live out
their lives in honorable and effective fash-
ion with no interference from the lodge
oaths and brethren. We believe it is
entirely within the scope of reason and
possibility that such a thing should take
place. Faithfully yours,
Charles A. Blanchard.
And, as the path of duty is made plain,
May grace be given that I may walk
therein,
Not like the hireling for his selfish gain,
With backward glances and reluctant
tread.
Making a merit of his coward dread —
But cheerful in the light around me
thrown '■
Walking as one to pleasant service led;
Doing God's will as if it were my own,
Yet trusting not in mine, but in His
strength alone.
John Greenleaf Whittier.
"THE WILES OF THE DEVIL."
REV. E. R. WORRELL^ D. D.
"We are not ignorant of his devices,"
writes Paul, and thus suggests that a
knowledge of Satan's methods pertains
to a sound Christianity. Now, a device
is anything formed by design — a strata-
gem (Greek, stratagos, a general) ; i. e.,
a mode of operation which displays gen-
eralship. The war of the evil one against
Christ is not carried on by chance or by
guess. Ignorance here is disastrous to
the cause of truth, and will not be tol-
erated by earnest Christians.
The devil foments religious wars in
which the brother delivers up the brother
to death, and thus makes religion, which
is the only hope of man's salvation, the
most powerful engine for his destruc-
tion. The first war of religions was
waged between brethren in the first fami-
ly of the human race. Cain, in behalf of
a false religion, attacked and slew Abel,
who represented the true.
In talking to Abel (Gen. 4:8), I con-
ceive Cain made three definite proposi-
tions : ( I ) to substitute the religious
ceremony he (Cain) had devised for the
sacrifice of Abel, which was made by
faith, Heb. 11 :4; (2) to construct a new
religion by the admixture of ceremonies
with faith; (3; death to Abel in case he
refused to do either and insisted on faith
alone. Poor Abel ! Perhaps he could
not decide which of two evils was the
least, so chose neither and died. He was
murdered by his brother according to the
flesh, who was no longer his spiritual
brother ; for Cain became a child of the
devil when he championed ceremonies
for a religion as opposed to faith. Thus
ended the first campaign of a war that
is still going on. Though Abel died, it
was a decided victory for righteousness,
for
"... saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer though they die."
Mohammed may have acted madly in
the propagation of his false faith, but
there was method in his madness. He
offered men the Koran, tribute or death.
The Koran meant substitution of Mo-
hammedanism for other religions. This
might easily be done by all w^ho had no
faith in their own religion. Those who
paid tribute might, in form, maintain
their own faith, though in reality they
would be nourishing Islam. And the
sword — well, ''all that a man hath will he
give for his life" is a statement of the
devil that holds true all too frequently.
But some refused both Koran and trib-
ute, and died. To them there was a deep
meaning in the words, "He that loseth his
life for my sake shall find it." They be-
lieved God, and thereby established their
kinship to faithful Abraham.
As an illustration of this ancient de-
vice of Satan, I refer the reader to the
antagonism between the church and the
lodge. This variance is much like that
between Cain and Abel, which was, pure
and simple, a war of religions. Cain had
no atonement — no blood in his offering.
The lodge has no atonement — no Christ
in its prayers. It does not confess itself
to be anti (against) Christ, but simply
without Christ, and is therefore con-
demned in the Scriptures as anti-Christ,
I John 4 :3.
This lodge system, in order to the es-
tablishment of itself in power, boldly
teaches : ( i ) Substitution of its Christ-
less ceremonies for saving faith. Substi-
tution of loyalty to a wicked oath for
every duty to his fellows. The church
must give the lodge member up. The
rights of the family are ignored. Courts
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
Marcli, ]i)l-2.
have no authority. By this two-fold sub-
stitution the law of love to God and love
to men is displaced. In other words, the
lodge becomes supreme. (2) Tribute.
All outside of the lodge are to pay trib-
ute in praise or silence. Platform (pul-
pit included) and press are to pay in
either coin they wish, but they must pay.
(3) In case of non-compliance with one
or otlier of these, social ostracism, secret
persecution, death and horrible mutila-
tion of the body after death, according
as the lodge is able, with safety to itself,
to inflict.
Thus Satan pushes on the battle
against Christ ; but "we are not ignorant
of his devices."" This has been his
method from the beginning. It will con-
tinue to be his method until every "ref-
uge of lies"' is destroyed and he is com-
pelled to take the open field for a last
stand, when a battle shall be fought in
which no flag of truce shall be waved, no
quarter shown, and the Lamb shall over-
come him.
UNION EVANGELISTIC
PAIGN?.
CAM-
REV. ^11 LFORD H. LYON, DIRECTOR.
Wheaton, 111.. Jan. 28, 191 1.
A\'. I. Phihips, 850 Madison St., Chicago.
Dear Brother : In reply to your request
for a statement of my position regarding
secret societies I will say that I never have
joined any such organization myself and
have both privately and publicly advised
others to refrain from doing so. While
an undergraduate student in university 1
was convinced that the evils of the college
fraternity system far outweighed their
vaunted benefits. This belief has been
confirmed in observing the efifects of this
system in society at large.
I have been impressed that the secret
societv principle has a tendency to estab-
lish fellowship and fraternity upon a
false and untenable basis, not of com-
mon aims and purposes, but rather of
-elf interest, oatlis and unnatural and un-
reasonable obligations.
Likewise this system has tended to
fetter the free workinij of the will and
conscience of the individual. It has obli-
gated him to partisanship and favoritism,
fre^uiently at the expense of his better
judgment, and he has decided from the
M. H. LYON.
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rather than right and reason.
Furthermore, as a Christian I could
not endorse the lodge, as it teaches in the
main a gospel of salvation by works
rather than by faith in Jesus Christ. It
gives men a religious confectionery that
dulls the appetite for any wholesome
spiritual food. It blinds the vision from
beholding the only true basis for brother-
hood ; viz., the Lordship of Jesus, the
Son of Goci. "One is vour Master, even
Christ, and all ye [His disciples] are
brethren."
i^^ralernally yours in Hi-n,
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False religions have another and even
more dangerous purpose than to keep
men from coming into right relations to
God. That alone does not satisfy the
devil. He wants to secure them as his
servants and worshipers.
He offered to give Christ all the king-
doms of the world and the glory of them,
if He would but fall down and worship
him. In appearance, this offer would
have made it easy for Christ to secure
all that He came here to accomplish ; and
many a good man, before and since, seek-
ing to benefit mankind, has been cap-
tured by a similar snare, and so become
an agent in turning men from the wor-
ship of the true God to some form of
devil worship, with all its fearful conse-
quences.
That all false religions are forms of
devil worship is a truth, which, though
ignored in much of current theological
teaching, is abundantly recognized in the
Bible. In the 17th chapter of Leviticus,
precise directions are given for offering-
sacrifices, so that the people should "no
more offer their sacrifices unto devils."
In Deut. 32:16, 17, it is said: "They pro-
voked Him to jealousy w^ith strange gods,
with abominations provoked they Him to
anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not
to^God."
When Jeroboam headed the secession
of the ten tribes, in order to prevent the
people from going u]:> to Jerusalem to
worship Jehovah, and so being led to
"return to their allegiance to the house
of David, he took counsel and made two
calves of gold, and said unto them: "It
is too much for you to go up to Jeru-
salem : behold *thy gods, O Israel, which
brought thee up out of the land of
Egypt." ''And he ordained him priests
for the high places, and for the devils,
and for the calves which he had made."
Of course Jeroboam did not conscious-
ly go about to institute devil worship,
nor did the people of Israel consciously
and intentionally substitute devil wor-
ship for the worshin of the true (lOfl;
but the results amply justify the state-
ment of the Bible that it was devil wor-
ship, for from that time on the history
of the ten tribes is one of rapid dete-
rioration, until they were destroyed as
a nation, and the ])eo])le carried awa}' ])\'
Shalmaneser, king of Ass3Tia, into a
captivity so absolute and final that no
trace of this portion of the Hebrew race
has ever been discovered in the subse-
(|uent history of the world, l)ecause, as
we are told in the I7t]i chapter of 2d
Kings, they had "feared other gods,"
and "set them up images" and "served
idols." And in Psalm 106:36, 37, it is
written, "And they served their idols:
which were a snare unto them. Yea.
they sacrificed their sons and their
daughters unto devils." And in i Cor..
10:20, Paul says: "But I say. that the
things which the Gentiles sacrifice, the>'
sacrifice to devils, and not to God ; and
I would not that ye should have fellow-
ship with devils." False religions are of
the same nature, and will have the same
results to-day that they did in the days
of Jeroboam or of St. Paul.
We often hear it said that it doesn't
make much dift'erence wdiat a man be-
lieves, provided he is sincere in his be-
lief : but it is only in moral and spiritual
matters that any such fallacy is tolerated.
An honest belief that a counterfeit coin
is good does not confer upon it the pow-
er to pay debts. A farmer's belief that
he i5 planting good seed, however firmly
and sincerely entertained, does not se-
cure a good crop from poor seed. \\^ in-
vestment in worthless mining stocks will
not be profitable, however sincere the in-
vestor may be in his belief that lie has
found a bonanza.
A young lady of my acquaintance
W'hose beauty, amiabilitv and excellence
of character won the admiration and es-
teem of all, one dav, after she had become
head of a family, gave to her sick
child a dose from a bottle of i:)oison tliai
stood on the mnntel lieside the healing
medicine the physician had given her :
but her undoubting belief that A\q. was
using the rioht preparation did not save
the life of her darling, nor her own life
from the cloud of a great and permanent
grief.
.\ sincere belief in the righteousness
of their cause did not make it right fc^r
Stonewall Jackson and numerous othc
Confederate soldiers to light to over-
throw the best government the world
has vet seen, in order to establish a slave
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April, 1912-
empire. St. Paul verily thought he ought
to join in persecuting the followers of
Christ even unto death, but such a be-
lief did not make his persecution of
Christians right.
The proposition we are considering,
like many another of the devil's counter-
feits, has gained acceptance because it
contains a half truth. An essential ele-
ment in true religion is sincerity of be-
lief, but this is not the only essential ele-
ment. It is equally necessary that what
is believed should be true, and, as we
have already seen, it is one of Satan's
subtlest snares to get the worship of men
directed toward hitnself while believing
they are worshiping God.
It may be asked. "What else can a man
do than adhere to what he believes to
be the truth?" To which it must be re-
plied, ''Nothing else." And this ren-
ders it all the more important that his
belief shall be a right one. If it be ob-
jected that God will not punish men for
obeying a belief honestly held, the reply
is, that, in all the other affairs of life,
as we have already seen, men do suffer
the full consequences of obeying mis-
taken beliefs ; and. if the same God rules
the moral and spiritual realms, that in-
stituted the course and constitution of
nature, then it is reasonable to suppose
that the same methods will prevail in the
one as in the other, and this argument
is confirmed by the indescribable degra-
dation and misery that have resulted
from the dominance of false religious
beliefs all through human history.
One method of counterfeiting is by
raising the denomination of true money,
and one of the later and most successful
of Satan's devices is to lead men to adul-
terate true religion with man-made ordi-
nances, commands, or creeds, and then
to magnify the importance of these at-
tachments until they come to take the
place of faith in Christ and a full and
complete surrender to His will. This
scheme owes its great success to the fact
that men, conscious of sin. and fearful
of what may happen beyond the grave,
are v/illing to do almost anything rather
than accept the atonement of Christ and
chano-e their lives into conformity to his
teachings. This explains the ease with
which money was secured to rear mag-
nificent cathedrals in times when there
was little true piety in the church, and
little wealth among- the people, and the
readiness of men to voluntarily under-
take the severest penances that human
ingenuity can devise.
Nor is this evil confined^ to Roman
Catholicism and other degenerate forms
of Christianity. It was not very long
ago that preachers of one of the minor
protestant denominations explicitly de-
clared that whoever had been baptized
by their method might fitly be received
into membership, and would surely be
saved : and not infrequently, in all prot-
estant denominations, mere intellectual
belief in a creed and outward conform-
ity to the practices of the church are
substituted for true faith in Christ.
Whatever men come to think of as es-
sential, or even very important, for sal-
vation, is apt to get between them and
Christ, and thus they are prevented from
abiding in Him, without which they can
have no true Christian life.
Occasionally, when a particularly dan-
gerous form of counterfeit money has
been put into circulation, the Govern-
ment seeks to guard the people against
accepting it, by issuing a special warning.
So Christ uttered a solemn and striking
message to those who rely for salvation
upon professions of religion. It is re-
corded in Matt. 7:21-23: ''Not every one
that saith imto me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but
he that doeth the will of my Father
which is in heaven. Many will say to
me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we
not prophesied in thy name? and in thy
name have cast out devils? and in thy
name done man}^ wonderful works ?' And
then will I profess unto them 'I never
knew you ; depart from me, ye that work
iniquity.' "
And Christ has not failed to give us a
test by which we may find out what kind
of a religion we possess. "By their
fruits ye shall know them," and in Gal.
S -.22, 23, "But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentle-
ness, goodness, faith, meekness, temper
ance ; against such there is no law." It
is well worth while, then, for us to ap-
ply this test to our character as mani-
fested in our daily lives, that we may
know whether or not we are growing
into likeness to Jesus Christ.
When Satan cannot impose upon men
with false religions, nor ensnare them
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
365
with perversions of true religion, he ha.^
yet another snare, perhaps more danger-
ous than any other. It is not necessary
that an institution should be labeled as
a religion in order to do its deadly work
of separating men from Christ. xAny de-
vice that benumbs and obscures the sense
of guilt, and produces in men's minds a
feeling of security as to the next life,
accomplishes the devil's purpose. Among
the methods employed are symbols, burial
ceremonies that imply that the dead
man's soul has gone to a better world,
and sometimes a more explicit promise
that faithful adherents shall go to a place
of happiness ; always without any hint of
the atonement of Christ. Sometimes, in-
deed. His name is cut out of passages of
Scripture which are prescribed for use
in their rituals.
Yet it is usually true that such insti-
tutions have been founded, and have
often been promoted, by men with no
conscious purpose to do aught but good
to their fellows. Their evil results may
be understood if we consider how they
usually affect their adherents. If one
vv'ho unites with such an organization is
not a Christian, he is generally rendered
impervious to the gospel of Christ there-
after. If a member of a Christian church
already, one of twO' things is likely to
happen ; either his relation to the rival
institution will be purely formal, or else
his interest in the work of the church
will visibly decline; he will no longer
have the time or the desire to attend
prayer-meetings, and will graduall}^ fall
into a backslidden condition, if he does
not drop his church relation entirely.
Thus it is coming about that our churches
are losing their hold upon their various
communities without seeming to be
aware of the true cause of their decline.
We are so accustomed to deal with the
visible that it is hard for us to realize
the existence and power of the invisible ;
yet, even in the most practical affairs,
more and more we are coming t«o utilize
invisible forces. Unseen by the eyes of
men, the power of a waterfall, trans-
formed into electricity, is carried scores
of miles to furnish light and heat for
great cities, and motive power for great
manufactories. By wireless telegraphy
messages are transmitted without visible
means of connection to and from vessels
a thousand miles from land. At the Cen-
tennial Exposition there was exhibited
a small model of a steam-engine, made
entirely of glass; but, when men gath-
ered about it to see how steam does its
marvelous work, there was nothing to
be seen in the cylinder, for when steam
pushes the piston back and forth, it is in
the form of an invisible gas. W'e see the
results accomplished; but what human
eye ever saw any of the great funda-
mental forces of nature, such as gravita-
tion, magnetism, cohesion, chemical af-
finity? It is not strange, then, that we
fail to recognize the powers that are at
work in spiritual realms.
According to the plain and unmistak-
able teachings of the Bible, a tremendous
spiritual battle is going on in the world,
in which a being of inconceivable ma-
lignity, great cunning, and superhuman
though not unlimited power, is contend-
ing for the souls of men with Jesus
Christ, who, with unbounded love, un-
limited wisdom and unlimited power, in-
vites our allegiance and promises salva-
tion from sin in this life and eternal life
in the next. And we may rely upon His
promises to the uttermost, assured that
no one shall be able to pluck us out of
His hand, assured that "we all, with open
face beholding as in a glass the glory of
the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, cacu as by
the Spirit of the Lord."
The supreme test of a counterfeit coin
comes when it is put into the refining
pot. Then is the gold separated from
the dross. So, too, is there to come a
time when the worshipers of God shall
be separated from the -worshipers of
Satan. "When the Son of man shall
come in his glory, and all the holy angels
with him. then shall he sit upon rhe
throne of his glory ; and before him shall
be gathered all nations ; and he shall sep-
arate them one from another, as a shep-
herd divideth his sheep from the goats :
and he shall set the sheep on his right
hand, but the goats on the left. Then
shall the King say unto them on his ri^lit
hand, 'Come, ye blessed of m\' Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared tor you
from the foundation of the world." '^' '■'' *
Then shall he sav also unto them on
the left hand, 'Depart from me. ve
cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for
the devil and his angels.' "^ ""■' '■' And
these shall go away into everla-tinsr pun-
duo
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
March, 1912.
ishmeiu : but the righteous into Hfe
eternal."
c ) God, we thanlv thee, "that neither
death, nor Hfe. nor angels, nor principal-
ities, nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come, nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creattu'e, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God, which
is in Christ jesus our Lord."
A man's hand, a whale's flipper, a
bird's wing and a horse's hoof are all
developments of the same formation.
There are 100,000 children less than
fourteen years of age at work in the
United States ,; 30,000 of them are less
than ten years of age, 20,000 of them
are working more than twelve hours a
day, 18,000 of them are at night work,
and 10,000 of them are younger than
eight years.
The world is made economically poorer
every year by unscientific agriculture,
the worth of the land being taken out
and nothing done to restore it.
^
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N
^
From the personal reminiscences by Samuel D. Greene of the abduction and mur-
der of Captain William Morgan were taken some of the facts so vividly brought otft in
Miss Flagg's "Power of the Secret Empire," which ended in the December number of
the CYNOSURE. The story has created so wide an interest that we propose to .give our
readers in the next few months some of these facts as recorded by Mr. Greene, an eye-
witness.— Editor.
CHAPTER V.
Abduction of Morgan Continued.
Let us turn back now to Batavia, and
see what was transpiring there during
this same day, from another point of
view. The deposition of Mrs. Morgan is
in itself so clear and touching a docu-
ment, and so well calculated to throw
light upon these transactions, that we
give it entire.
The Wife's Sworn Testimony.
Gene?ee County, ss. Lncinda Morg^an,
a^ed tv/enty-three. the wife of WiUiam
Morgan, of Batavia, in said county, being
duly sworn, deposeth and saith, "That on
Monday last, about, or a short time before,
sunrise, her said husband left his house,
and went into the street of the village.
That, finding he did not come home to
breakfast as usual, she made inquiries for
him, and was told that he had been forci-
bly taken away by six men, and put in a
carriage and taken to Canandaigua. That
during the whole of Monday she remained
in ignorance of what way he had been
taken, or who had taken him. except by
loc^e information that an officer fr-^m Can-
andaieua had taken him.. That on Tuesday
morning, soon after breakfast, she sent for
William R. Thompson, the sheriff, and re-
nuested to know of him if he knew on
what pretext her hu^^band had been taken
away. Said Thompson told her he under-
stood he had been taken under a charge of
having stolen a shirt and cravat, and that
he presumed it was merely a pretext to
get him away, or carry him away. That
thereupon this deponent asked him if he
thought Mr. Morgan could be got back,
or brought back, if she gave up to the Ma-
sons the papers she had in possession. Said
Thompson answered that he thought it was
very likely that Mr. Morgan would be
brought back if she would give them up;
but he would not obligate himself or un-
dertake to say that he should be brought
back. That thereupon said Thompson pro-
posed that this deponent should go to Can-
andaigua, and take the papers, and give
them to Morgan, or to them, or give them
up; and deponent agreed to go and take
the papers accordingly. Thompson then
asked this deponent if there was any per-
son or friend whom she would like to have
go with her. She mentioned Mr. Gibbs
(meaning Horace Gibbs), and asked if it
would do for him to go. Said Thompson
said it would not do for him to go, as he
was not a Mason, and added it would not
do for any person to carry her there but
a Mason. She asked him twice if Mr.
Gibbs was not a Mason, and he said he
was not. and then asked deponent if she
was arquainted with Mr. Follett. Deponent
spid she was not. Thompson said he was a
nice man. and a gentleman with whom she
could safely trust herself. Said Thompson
departed, and sonn returned, and told de-
ponent that Mr. Follett was not willing to
go. unless she would let him (Follett) and
March, 19J2. CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE. :V;7
Mr. Ketchnm see the papers; he did not 1 shall see you day after to-morrow." They
want to go on a Tom fool's errand. This then proceeded to Avon, and stayed all
deponent then objected to these papers be- night. The next day they again started
ing seen by them. Thompson then said it for Canandaigua, where Ketchnm put the
was useless; he should do no more, and papers into this deponent's trunk. They
he could not send her out there unless they arrived at Canandaigua about twelve at
could see the papers. Deponent then, with noon, and stopped at a tavern at the cor-
great reluctance, finally consented to let ner of the main street. After being there
them see the papers, if they would take her some time, this deponent asked Ketchum
to see her husband. This second visit lasted if he had heard of Mr. Morgan. Ketchum
about twenty minutes, during which time said he had not; that the Masons would
Thompson urged deponent to let the papers not talk to him; he could rot see them;
be seen. Deponent told him she was afraid they seemed iealous of him; thought him a
they would take the papers away from friend of Mr. Morgan, and were afraid he
her, if she let them see them. Thompson had come to get him away from that place.
said they would not. She offered to let Then he asked her where the papers were;
Mr. Thompson see the papers. He said he took them, and said he would go and
that would not answer; they would not make further inquiries for Mr. Morgan;
take his word. Thompson then told her and if he could find him, or w-here he was,
he would go to Humphrey's and stay until or where they had taken him, he would
she had got the papers, and she must then let her know all he could find out. This
make a sign to him when she was ready. was about dinner time. He returned again
Accordingly, a short time afterwards, she a short time before night, and told her he
made a sign to Mr. Thompson, then stand- had heard Mr. Morgan had been there; had
ing on Humphrey's stoop, and immediately been tried for stealing a shirt, and cleared,
after, he, with Mr. Follett and Mr. Ketch- and had been put in jail for a debt of
um, came to her apartment, when Thomp- two dollars; and that Tuesday night a
son introduced Follett and Ketchum, and man had come from Pennsylvania, who said
said they had come to see the papers, which he had a warrant against him for a debt
this deponent then handed to them. They he owed there; that he. the man. had paid
all looked at them a short time; and the two dollars, and taken him awa}- in a
Thompson then asked her if she was ready private carriage on Tuesday night, and that
to go, saying Mr. Follett was ready to he had no doubt he was gone; and asked
take her. Follett then said he would go this deponent when she would go home
home with the papers and look them over, again. The deponent then expressed her
and told Ketchum to stop for him at his anxiety to return speedily, on account of
gate. Accordingly, about four o'clock in the having left her child of two years old, and
afternoon of Tuesday, deponent started having with her a baby of two months old.
with said Follett and Ketchum, in a small Ketchum then went out, as he said, to
wagon, and proceeded to Stafford, where take a passage in the stage, and returned
they stopped at a house, where she was after candle-light. This deponent was then
conducted into a back room, into which walking the room in great distress, and in
Follett and Ketchum came, and were joined tears. She asked him if he could hear noth-
by one Daniel Johns, and by James Gan- ing of Mr. Morgan. He then seemed to
son; all of wdiom immediately proceeded pity deponent, and told her not to be un-
to examine the papers with much earnest- easy and after looking at her a short time,
ness, and held much low conversation with told her to come and sit down by him, and
themselves in under voices. Ganson ap- asked her if she would feel any better if
peared to speak the most. One of them he told her what he knew. Being answered
asked Johns if those were the papers that yes, he then said that Mr. ]\Iorgan would
were in the office when he was there. not be killed; that he would be kept con-
Johns answered that there was one de- cealed until they could get the rest of the
gree back, and then took a piece of paper, papers. She asked him what papers were
and folded it up, and said the papers that back. He said there were some sheets of
were back were folded so. They then held the Mark ]\Iaster's Degree back; and they
considerable more conversation in voices wanted also to see the printed sheets that
too low to be heard. Follett then turned to Miller had printed on the three degrees,
deponent and said, he did not see that he He then said he wanted to take the papers
could go with her; that Mr. Ketchum was which he had received from this deponent
going to Rochester, and would be w^illing to Rochester, and he thought thr(Tugh the
to take her to Canandaigua to see Mr. Mor- means of them he could find out where ^Nlr.
gan; said he was not much acquainted with Morgan was; it was a secret where he was.
him (Ketchum), but took him to be a gen- Said he had j^aid her passage, and gave
tleman; and Ketchum then said he called her two dollars to bear her expenses home,
himself a gentleman, and she need not be H'e then wrote his name with a pencil on a
afraid to trust herself with him. Ketchum scrap of paper, hereto annexed, as follows:
then took the papers and tied them up in "George Ketchum. Rochester.'" and prom-
his pocket handkerchief, and took them ised to write to her if he could hear of ]\Ir.
with him into the wagon in which they .Morgan. He then told her if she would,
rode. Johns then got into the wagon and by any means, get hold of the papers that
rode to Le Roy. where he got out, and Miller had. or find out where they were
bade Ketchum good-bye. saying, "I hope deposited, so that he could get hold of
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
April, 1912.
them, he would give her twenty-five dol-
lars out of his own pocket, and he had no
doubt the lodge would give her one hun-
dred if she could get what Miller had now.
Deponent told him she would not try to
get the papers Miller had, and would take
no money, and would not let him have the
papers she had delivered to him, but on
condition he would try and find out where
Mr. Morgan was, and let her see him. He
then repeated his promise to tr^^ and find
out. and said he would write to her as soon
as he got to Rochester, and urged her to
write to him immediately on her return,
and let him know about the papers, and
what the people were doing generally, at
Batavia. and whether they were making a
great rumpus about Mr. Morgan. Deponent
then expressed her fears, that, if she did
give him any information about the papers,
he would not keep his promise about let-
ting her see him. but would keep him con-
cealed until they got all the papers, and
finally kill him. Ketchum then said, "I
promise before miy God that I will not de-
ceive you. but will do all I can to find
out where he is, and let you see him. I
have no doubt, when I get back to Roches-
ter. I can find out more, and I think I can
find out where he is." He then again urged
her to find out w^here the papers were and
let him know. In the course of his con-
versation, he said, "that if Mr. Morgan had
managed rightly, he could have made a
million of dollars if the work had been
published." Ketchum then departed for
Rochester, leaving this deponent at the
tavern: she. the same day, started for Bata-
via. The papers taken away by the said
Ketchum were numerous, and formed a
very large bundle; they were written in the
handwriting of her husband, excepting a
few. which were written by a person who
sometimes assisted her husband by copying,
or taking down as he dictated to him. The
deponent further says she has no knowl-
-edge of the place Vv^here her husband now
is. or what is his situation, and feels the
most anxious fears for his life; that she was
born in Virginia, and is a stranger with-
out intimate friends or relations in this
county, and is left with two infant children,
without any money, except what is left of
that given to her by said Ketchum, and
"has no property or any means of support-
ing herself and children, her constitution
l^eing very feeble, and her health being bad
most of the time. L. Morgan.
Sworn the twenty-second day of Septem-
"ber, 1826, before me.
Daniel H. Chandler, J. P.
"The Tender Mercies of the Wicked."
It needs but slight help from the im-
agination, while reading this afBdavit, to
find in it a pitiful story of sorrow and
distress — of labor, weariness, and anxi-
ety, all to no purpose. How utterly false
and cruel this treatment w^as, will appear
when we remember that Mr. Morsran
had been in jail in Canandaigua, and this
Ketchum, without doubt, knew where he
had gone. The story of the man from
Pennsylvania, who paid the two-dollar
claim, and took Mr. Morgan away to
parts unknown on another claim, was a
piece of fiction, based on certain facts,
and worked up to serve the purposes of
the moment.
On her sad journey home, with her in-
fant child, when she reached Le Roy,
James Ganson, before mentioned, who
kept the tavern at Stafford, got into the
stage with her, and told her that he was
on the way to Batavia, "to make arrange-
ments for her support/' He went on to
give her the information, that her hus-
band was still alive, but that she need
not be surprised if she did not see him
again for a year; and, in fact, if she
never saw him again, she should be well
taken care of, and her children should be
sent to school as soon as they were old
enough. When she reached Batavia, and
had been home only a few hours, she was
called upon by Thomas McCuUy, the
man on whose claim Mr. Morgan was
arrested in August, and made to pass the
Sabbath in jail. He came also to assure
her that he had been appointed by the
lodge to look after her support, and pro-
vide accommodations for herself and
children. He proposed to board them
at the tavern of Mr. Danolds, in the east
part of the village, where her husband
had been taken immediately after his
arrest the Monday before. Who shall
say that Masonry is not a kind and be-
nevolent institution after this? Mrs.
Moirgan, however, promptly answered
that she should accept no aid from the
Masons, for she regarded them as the
guilty authors of all her troubles, and
she should not consent to take the bread
of charity from their hands.
Her case, however, was one that ap-
pealed most strongly to her old neigh-
iDors and friends. She was, in the truest
sense, an object of pity. As far as pos-
sible, her wants were supplied, and
everything done that could be, to soothe
and comfort her. An agent was dis-
patched on her behalf, to go to Canan-
daigua, and try to discover the facts
about Mr. Morgan. He did discover
facts, portentous facts, and such as
aroused the unmasonic part of the popu-
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369
lation of Batavia, and the region about,
to a n?ost unwonted pitch of excitement.
Up to that time people had been inclined
to believe the Masonic talk. They thought
that Morgan, in the hands of men of
such high standing, could certainly re-
ceive no wrong. They trusted in the
idea that these men had gone along with
him to see that he was treated fairly at
Canandaigua, and that no harm should
be done.
( To be continued.)
foundation. Naturally, college friends
would continue to be friends afterward ;
but if the interests of the Kingdom are
proved to be made secondary to those of
society membership, where those who
were not in the same college are affected,
churches as well as pastors have a right
— not to say a duty — of protest, exposure
and resistance.
tMtoriaL
' CHURCHES FRIENDLY TO N. C. A.
Let us look into each other's faces. If
we cannot do so personally, wt can by
proxy. Let us get together. The N. C.
A. annual meeting occurs Alay 23 and
24 in this city, as per notice in this num-
ber. A great blessing would come to the
churches as well as to the Association if
ever}- testifying church would elect a
delegate and pay his expenses to the
meeting on May 23 and 24. Bring this
matter before your church at its next
meeting. The expense would be but a
small contribution to this warfare. The
life and welfare of the churches would
be conserved beyond what any of us can
estimate. Advise the editor of the Cyno-
sure, Chicago, at your earliest opportu-
nity as to the name and address of your
delegate.
PASTORAL SETTLEMENT.
A religious paper published in Ken-
tucky says :
"A brother preacher remarked the other day
that he thought that the secret fraternities of
the colleges are having much to do with crea-
ting ministerial rings, that have much to do
with the locating and dislocating of pastors.
May be so. Anyway, the churches have very
little to do with it any more ; except in the
country, and may be not there."
There may be an extreme condition
in Kentucky, or the statement itself may
be extreme, yet in another State, far
distant, it w^as noticed that the "Deke"
seemed to figure in an almost obnoxious
way. Of course, a just judgment any-
where requires comparativelv wide and
continuous observation, and neither of
these opinions may have had an adequate
MORMON WOODMEN.
A Sunday-school missionary in Wy-
oming reports that ''the work goes stead-
ily on in Jackson, in spite of opposition
and indifference. The Sunday-school at-
tendance has been very good * '■' *
While the Mormons here are not as
much Mormon as in Utah, they are in-
fected with the cunning peculiar to their
cult. As an example, the women's auxil-
iary of the Woodman lodge leased the
club-house for the coming year. Leading
members of this auxiliary are ?\Iormons
or warm friends of theirs, and the ma-
jority of the others are opponents of re-
ligion or indifferent to it. Once in the
management, they announced a chil-
dren's dance every other Saturday even-
ing. This would not have been so far
reaching, but the Mormon element then
told certain children that they could not
dance if they kept on attending the
Sunday school, for the were strictly
against it. This is a sample of the ef-
forts to take the children from our
school. But truth and right must pre-
vail. While the battle here will not be
easy or short, we shall conquer." The
closing words are cheering. Though thev
do not come from a National Christian
Association worker, they are neverthe-
less from an ally, a servant of our Mas-
ter able to set us the example of Chris-
tian patience and confidence.
KNIGHTS ASSAIL NEGROES.
A legal race war has resulted in one
defeat for the colored men, who defend-
ed their title to the name "Knights of
Pythias." but lost their case in the su-
preme court of Georgia. Damon would
none of Pythias. In February, briefs of
arguments were filed for the colored
lodge with the supreme court of the
United States, before which the case was
CHRIST! AX CYNOSURE.
March, 1912.
opened. On one brief as counsel for the
colored men was Alton B. Parker, former
candidate for the presidency of the Unit-
ed States.
The case calls to mind that of a man
who many years ago became anxious to
enter a masonic lodge in a well known
manufacturing- city. Having made appli-
cation he showed elation at the prospect.
But while he waited with a member of
that lodge in another room, he received
the disappointing word that he had been
blackballed. He himself w^as much cha-
grined ; but his masonic friend in telling
the story said, "I didn't pitv him." In a
somewhat similar way we would be rath-
er glad for the colored men if, losing
their case, they should also lose confi-
dence in the whole secret clan system
which likes to call its exclusive cabal fra-
ternal. A good many white people have
found room to live in the world outside
the lodge, and colored men can. We
were sorr}- when their fathers were
slaves, but to be feathery knights is not a
necessarv alternative.
the World did not have to hear another
explosion making bare the dignified se-
crets of their noble order in open court.
DAMAGE AND DAMAGES.
A large audience gathered in the court
room at Newark, X. J., ^larch 5, but left
the place disappointed. A ten thousand
dollar damage suit drew added interest
from the prospect of testimony relating
to a secret initiation. It appears that
John A. Hetzel conceived it to be for his
profit to go into the business of a Mod-
ern Woodm^an. So he ventured into the
Bloomfield camp, where he was struck,
not by a falling tree, but with what the
newspaper story of the case calls a "slap
stick which contained a blank cartridge."
This is not the first time we have had
news of this important implement of
initiation. The report moreover states
that he was struck across the small of the
back, which we think not to be the part
of the back for which slap sticks — other-
wise paddles — are designed. The cart-
ridge is said to haA'e been improperly
placed, whether the paddle was improp-
erly applied or not. In March the victim
of misplaced confidence was yet suft'er-
ing the efi"ects of the explosion which
occurred in August, and he seemed to
think his lodge benefits oueht to amount
to ten thousand dollars. But he settled
the case and the ^Modern W^oodmen of
TREATIES COOLLY TREATED.
An unusually large meeting assem-
bled in the Hibernian hall of a promi-
nent manufacturing city of New England
the second Sunday in February, and dis-
cussed the pending arbitration treaties of
this country with France and Great Bri-
tain. In the discussion the treaties were
quite uniformly condemned. The follow-
ing resolutions were given to the press,
and copies were forwarded to the Massa-
chusetts senators. Lodge and Crane. AVas
it for the purpose of impressing the emi-
nent "scholar of politics,'' Henry Cabot
Lodge, that the Flibernians furnished in
their very first sentence the freshly mint-
ed word "Nationhood" ?
"Resolved, that we, the chosen representa-
tives of 1,500 members of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians of the city of Holyoke, Mass.,
in meeting assembled, earnestly ask the United
States Senate not to ratify the pending ar-
l)itration treaties with Great Britain and
France.
"Resolved, that the sentiment of nationhood
instinctively revolts at the suggestion of for-
eign interference in any shape. And the un-
limited arbitration treaties in proposing to
constitute a commission, composed one-half
v)f foreigners, runs counter to the feeling of
national pride with which every patriotic
American is imbued. We believe also that
the ratification of these treaties at this time
with two nations which were on the verge of
war with Germany a few months ago, and
may be at war in the very near future, would
not tend to create peace, but instead would
act as breeders of war."
However an}- sentiment may revolt,
arbitration is already far past the line of
experiment, and it has worked well. A
secret order, sul^ject to Italian — or Ro-
man— influence, may drag behind the ad-
vancing sentim,ent of civilization, and
hug a misleading sentiment musty with
medi^evalism ; but whatever becomes of
the particular treaties in question, arbi-
tration is an established fact as real as
international commerce. There is a cer-
tain drollery in the horror which this
Irish clan affects when it catches a
glimpse of foreigners.
March, 1912.
CHRISTIAX CYNOSURE.
371
A LONELY DEATH.
About the end of January there died
in Paris the grand niece of a famous
hero of our own navy, who himself died
there one hundred and ten years ago next
July. It was his hand that hrst displayed
the American flag, when, as senior lieu-
tenant, he hoisted it on the flagship Al-
fred. He it w^as, also, who commanded
the Ranger, when for the first time a
foreign power saluted this new national
emblem. Both at home and abroad he
received significant gifts and distinguish-
ed honors, for services no less distin-
guished.
At some time he was initiated in a
Masonic lodge, and five years ago it
came to the knowledge of certain Free-
masons that a lady living in Paris w^ould
sell records made by him. His grand
niece w^as found at the point of starva-
tion, earning four sous a day. Being in
deep distress, this aged widow parted
w^ith treasures to which her family had
always clung until now. Together with
things of less value went a pistol used
in the engagement of the Bon Homme
Richard with the Serapis, the command-
er's own written report of the fitting out
of the Ranger, and the decoration which
Congress permitted him to accept from
the king of France. It is rumored that
the poor woman retained until death a
miniature portrait of her great uncle,
and she is said to have left a locket
containing a lock of his hair, and a
sword, all of which the landlord is re-
ported to have seized for debt since she
died.
Born in Charleston, S. C, she was
sent to a private school near Gramercy
Park, N. Y., where she became pro-
ficient in several languages, including
French and German. Her marriage to
a Frenchman made Paris her home.
Though her husband was prosperous,
yet before he died his affairs began to
decline, and the widow fell from afflu-
ence into destitution. Being a person
of sensitive pride, she concealed her
need, fighting bravely w'hile the wolf
ever threatened her door.
Already three-score years old when
left a widow, she was handicapped by
age when time and again she sought em-
ployment in the shops of Paris. At
length she turned to acting as guide for
tourists visiting the French capital. She
died at 67, and it was five years earlier
when she was found addressing letters
while she starved on her four miserable
sous a day. In that dire strait she sold,
to the wealthy American distiller who
held eminent rank in Freemasonry, a
few of the precious family heirlooms.
At that time, five years ago, there was a
little talk about a plan whereby the ban-
queting order here in her native coun-
try would provide during the remnant
of her lifetime means to keep her from
starving. Nothing came of it, and she
starved.
When her body was found, she had
been some time dead. She died of starv-
ation, and she died alone. That once
proud form of a w^ealthy, cultured wom-
an lay uncared for. Then the landlord
seized the treasured links that had clasp-
ed her failing life to the history of her
family and her fatherland. The Masons,
however, retain the glory of having per-
formed their mummery over John Paul
Jones.
SIMON A. HERSHEY.
Mr. Hershey w^as born January- 28,
1847. and died at his home in Landis-
ville, Pennsylvania, October 10, 191 1.
He was a member of the Church of God
for twenty years, and a subscriber to the
Christian Cynosure for a like period.
He was induced to join the Knights of
Pythias lodge at Mt. Joy, Pennsylvania,
and he told the writer that he never fell
so near hell in his life, a'^ on the nis:ht of
his initiation. He resolved, if he lived
to get out, that he would never enter
such a place again.
To his inheritance he added consider-
able during life. He never married. He
spoke several times to the writer of his
intention to contribute largeh- to the
National Christian Association and to
his church interests. He died sooner
than he anticipated, and many of his ex-
pectations were not realized. How glad
he would be now if he had provided for
the distribution of his property as he had
intended I "That thou doest, do quick-
ly," should come with special force to
those who would contribute in aid of
work like that which the National Chris-
tian Association is prosecuting.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
April 1912-
iem0 of ®ur Pori
The N. C. A. national convention, be-
ginning ]\Iay 23, is to be held this year in
the Pentecostal Nazarene church, which
has nearly six hundred members in this
city. At the session of their General As-
sembly in Nashville, Tennessee, last
vear, they passed a law forbidding mem-
bership to members of secret societies.
This Church is mainly a separation from
the ]^Iethodist Episcopal Church. It has
nearly doubled its membership within the
past three years. It has about twelve
hundred members in Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia. When the pastor, Rev. I. G.
]^Iartin, of the church in which the con-
vention is to meet, was asked if he would
like to have our conference in his church,
said, ''It will delight my heart to have
vou meet here, and there will be no
charge for the church or for any services
that we can render."
One address on lodges changed a con-
gregation's sentiment on that line, so
that it voted at its next meeting never
in the future to accept lodge members.
It was the Norwegian Lutheran Church
at Arlington, Washington, Rev. E. Baal-
son, pastor. The lecturer was Rev. B. E.
Bergesen of Seattle. Groups of farmers
inside and outside the church discussed
the question after the lecture, and the
church paper, "Pacific Herald," said that
some of the listeners spent a sleepless
night after the address. The truth sets
men free and strengthens the church.
Upon the invitation of President
Weidner of the Lutheran Theological
.Seminary, President Blanchard was se-
cured to give an address last month be-
fore the students of that school. One
result was the renunciation of Masonry
on the part of a ministerial member of
the school who confessed that the posi-
tions taken by President Blanchard were
correct. He wrote to his lodge refusing
longer to be considered a member.
Upon the request of the ]\Iennonite
brethren of Normal, Illinois, President
Blanchard gave four consecutive ad-
dresses on the Lodge last month in their
church. ....
Seldom, if ever, has the Pennsylvania
Association met with greater head winds
in preparation for a convention, and will
experience, we hope, more far-reaching
benefits from this convention than from
any in the past. A partial report was
sent us before the convention adjourned
which we give our readers this month,
and they may hope for a fuller report
next.
Daniel Kaufifman, editor of The Gos-
pel Herald, Scottdale, Pa., writes to
Secretary Stoddard that his article will
be printed in an early number of The
Gospel Herald, and adds, "May God
speed the day when all 'Owls,' 'Eagles,'
'Elks,' and other birds of the secret
chamber may be no more."
There are twenty-four states of the
Union in which some measure of suf-
frage is granted to women.
Illinois voters of the Prohibition ticket
will be interested in an article in this
number on "The Wiles of the Devil,'*
by E. R. W^orrell, D. D., who is candi-
date for Governor of this state.
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 29, 1912.
At one time I was a member of a
lodge, but I thank God for calling me
out, saying to me, ''Be ye separate." We
are making great progress in our "Bible
Training School" this 3^ear, and we give
God all the glory for it.
Melvyn M. Lawton.
Mr. Joseph Potter Graybell of Viola,
West Virginia, writes that he lectured
recently in Greene County, Pennsylvania.
He is also contemplating a lecture tour
through portions of Pennsylvania and
West Virginia.
For several months our readers have
been wondering what had become of
Mrs. Lizzie Woods, and we are sure they
will gladly welcome her back in this
number of the Cynosure, as well as offer
their congratulations upon her marriage
to Rev. E. D. Roberson. We propose to
retain the old and familiar heading to
her contributions.
April, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
373
SECRETARY STODDARD'S REPORT.
Tarentum, Pa., March i6, 1912.
Dear Cynosure:
We are on the eve of the State Con-
vention. I have worked hard to make
this meeting what it should be, a help to
many in great need.
I do not think that in all of my trav-
els I have ever found a section where
lodge idolatry had a stronger grip on
minister and layman than in this valley.
Fully one-half of the ministers are in the
lodges (usually the masonic) and most
of the other half are afraid, shall I say —
at least are unwilling to bear public testi-
mony ag-ainst organized secrecy. Here
and there a minister asserts his freedom
and rebukes what many of them know
to be evil. I am told that the situation
was much the same in the ante-bellum
days with reference to slavery.
Ministers declare to me that they have
been Masons for years and "never saw
anything wrong in it." The first ques-
tion asked me is : Have you been a
member? This is followed by the declar-
ation: If you have not, you don't know.
If you have left the lodge, you are per-
jured, and cannot be believed.
It is the same old foolish lodge song
everywhere. The worst thing about it
all is, that these people have thought
wrong so long, it is exceedingly difficult
to get them to think right.
Some of the friends have recognized
this condition, and expressed their ap-
preciation of this efijort in their midst
bv their contributions. They have my
thanks. Collections have not come in as
at other times, perhaps, because it is
March, but God has never failed me, and
I o-o forward with confidence.
I have found the usual number of op-
portunities to address the people. At
Vandergrift Heights fifteen minutes was
given prior tO' an evangelistic sermon.
A revival was in progress. Our good
Covenanter friends at Parnassus came
through rain and hail in goodly numbers.
They gave a collection and subscribed
for the Cynosure. On Washington's
birthday I lectured in Pastor Horst's Lu-
theran church , North Side Pittsburg,
with good result. In a trip to Hickory,
Washington County, I found encourage-
ment. I greatly missed our good friend.
J. P. Morris. He was an earnest, faith-
ful Christian, a pillar in the United
Presbyterian church, a generous contrib-
utor to many good causes. Our loss is
undoubtedly his gain.
Providence indicated that I should
spend a Sabbath at Washington, Penn-
sylvania. Here I attended and took part
in several services. Our good friend,
B. C. McGrew, superintendent of the
W^est Side M. E. sabbath school, with
two hundred and seventy members, in-
troduced me to the children by telling
them that I was not an Elk, Moose,
Eagle or Owl. He would let me tell
them what I was. I told the children I
had seen a picture of a beautiful child
surmounted by pictures of three owls,
with the statement underneath, "The
owls protect me!" This is a lodge sym-
bol, and a very poor one even if it were
true that lodges protect children. The
owl is a stupid thing that cannot see in
the light, lives on vermin — who ever
heard of an owl protecting anything!'
It does not protect itself. It would be a
better symbol of an enemy to children.
Standing in front of the Y. M. C. A.
in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, I saw
in blazing letters F. O. E. I asked a
young man, ''Wliat foe is that?" He re-
plied ''The Eagles." They evidently ad-
vertise correctly.
At Kittanning, I discovered Rev. Mr.
Large, whom I found also to be gener-
ous ! Through his kindness I was per-
mitted to address large audiences in the
Free Methodist church. An offering
was taken.
My judgment is that we shall have a
convention worthy the time and money
being expended. The enemy is already
angry. The friends are praying and
working. Look for a brief report of the
convention in this Cynosure. ,
The Lord our God hath done great
things for us whereof we are glad.
W. B. Stoddard.
HOUSE FOR SALE.
Anyone desiring to purchase a home
in Wheaton, Illinois, will do well to write
the Editor of the Cynosure for particu-
lars about a seven-room house, modern
improvements, two lots, and within three
blocks of two depots, and about the same
distance from \Mieaton Colleee.
371
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
March, 1!»12.
PENNSYLVANIA CONVENTION.
First Day's Sessions.
An address of welcome was given by
Rev. C. F. Johnson, pastor of the Free
^lethodist church, which was responded
to hv Secretary Stoddard. Rev. A. G.
Dornheim. pastor of the EvangeHcal
church in Beaver Falls, addressed the
Conference on the subject, "Cietting
Light." Rev. J. A. Alexander, pastor of
the United Presbyterian church, Crafton,
took as his topic, "Is Lodge Connection
Helpful to the Christian Life?" An ad-
dress. "Lodge Effect on Church and
Home," was given by Professor W. J.
Swigart of Huntingdon College.
Of the first day's sessions Secretary
Stoddard writes, "The Convention
opened with bright weather and pros-
pects. Our Yice President, who was ex-
pected to preside, was detained, but oth-
erwise the program was carried out as
published. There was a fair attendance
at the opening session. Several respond-
ed in the "Introductions" with testi-
monies and discussions of profit, and
much light was given both by the one ad-
dressing us on "Getting Light," and by
those who followed. The evening ad-
dresses w'ere delivered by Masters. The
addresses were different both in matter
and presentation, and held the luidivided
attention of the large audience that filled
the church.
Dr. Alexander kindl}' responded to the
request of the convention to send Cyno-
.SL'RE readers the substance of his ad-
dress. Huntingdon College may w^ell re-
joice in such a man as Prof. Swigart to
represent her principles. We look for a
great day tomorrow.
"LIZZIE WOODS' LETTER."
Dyersburg, Tenn., ?\larch 13, 1912.
Dear Cvnosuke :
I have not written to you for more
than three months, but don't think that I
have been asleep on the lodge question.
]\I}' health failed after I left Browns-
ville, Tennessee, the twelfth of Novem-
ber. T was sick about two weeks.
1 taught Bible Lessons to a class of
women in Memphis, Tennessee, for a
week, and there was not one woman in
the Bible Band, that I organized, that
belonged to a lodge. A good many of
them had been members, but thev had
given them up, and said they were
wicked.
I went to Memphis to organize the
Band, and also to visit the State Lloli-
ness Convocation. One night while a
minister was inviting sinners up to the
front for prayer, I went back to the rear
of the church to talk to some poor sin-
ner women. While talking to them, a
Presbyterian minister came up the aisle,
and said to me, "I don't see just how it is
that I am not living up to what that text
says, and I am shepherding a flock."
The text was I Thessalonians 3:13. He
said, "Now, what do you think about it?
There is something- wrong."
I said, "Well, the Word of the Lord is
right. Perhaps you belong to a secret
society." He said, "Well, yes, I do carry
a little insurance in the Oddfellow
lodge." I answered, "That is your trou-
ble. You want to die the death of the
righteous, and you want Balak gold.
(Numbers 23:10). You are like the
Irishman w^ho said while he was dying,
'Oh, good God, good Devil !' His wife
said, 'Why do you call on God and the
Devil too?' Lie said, 'Well, I don't know
whose hands I am going to fall into.'
Now, you are an Oddfellow^ and you are
the shepherd of Christ's flock. How can
you be both? 'If the Lord be God, fol-
low him ; and if Baal, then follow him.' "
He said, "You think I am astride the
fence, then?" I said, "Y'es, and if you
do not get off the fence — do not decide
w^hom to serve, you are 'halting between
two opinions.' (I Kings i8:2T.) Mr.
Lapton says in his Character Sketches
that if you 'stay on the fence the devil
wall take you off.' "
The minister said that he meant to do
right, and serve God wnth his whole
heart; that if the lodge was wrong, he
did not know it, but that he knew that
there was something lacking in his life.
I could see that he was in earnest, and I
plead with him to give up Baal, and take
God for his needs. Lie said, "Pray for
me, that the Lord may lead me into the
light." Oh, friends, I am sorry for the
men of God who are tied up with the
devil's rope, calling it a "cable tow."
When I left Memphis, I went to Tren-
ton, Tennessee, to spend the holidays,
On the twenty-sixth of January the
Masons in Trenton gave a big banquet.
March, 1912.
CHRIST] AX CYXOSURI..
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They set two large tables, one for the vis-
itors and one for the Masons and their
wives. When all was ready for the sup-
per, the Masons and their wives marched
up to their table. Among them were
professors, deacons, Methodist and bap-
tist preachers, bootleggers and gamblers.
One of these ]\lasons w^as a man who
had left his wife for another woman,
and as he came up to the table one of
the masonic bootleggers began to kick
about it, and said to the ^lost Worship-
ful Master, 'Tf this man is going to eat
at our table, I don't want anything to
eat. My wife don't believe in you. That
is why I can never get her to come to
these suppers ; and if she were here to-
night, she should not go to that table."
The professors and preachers tried to get
him to keep still, but he said, 'T won't
keep still. That man is a deacon and a
Mason, and he left his own family for
this woman, and do you all think that I
would eat with him ?" They nea'rly broke
up in a row, but rather than eat without
that man and his mistress, they changed
the tables and let visitors and all eat to-
gether. The bootlegger got mad and went
home and told his wife all about it. His
wife is a Christian, but he is unsaved.
He told her that professors, deacons,
preachers and class leaders — all were
protecting that man and woman.
The bootlegger's wife told it the next
morning and said, "I tried to kee]) my
husband out of that crowd, but he would
not listen to me. They kept him selling
whiskey until he was ])ut in prison, and
now they are showing him some more of
their secret deviltry.
"They tell him that ^Masonry came
from the Bible. Xo wonder he rejects
Christianity !"
I encouraged her to pray for her hus-
band, telling her that he had seen some
of the wrong in the lodcje, and that he
would soon see it all, and ciuit tlie whole
business. Yours in tlie Master's work.
I.IZZIE WODDS Roi'.KRSON.
A NEW BOOK.
Hie Cnited 1 brethren Publishing Es-
tablishment lias just ])rinted a sixteen-
page book for Rev. L. \'. Harrell, South
Haven, Alich. The title of the book is
"The Condemnation of Secret Socie-
ties." Rev. Mr. Harrell was one of the
speakers at tlie Xati(jnal Christian Asso-
ciation's convention in 1910, and gave an
interesting account of how he successful-
ly met the lodge intluence in his parish
b)' calling week day meetings and read-
ing out of first one secret ritual and then
another, and commenting upon them.
The outcome of his study of the lodge is
the present booklet, wdiich sells for ten
cents, and will be sent to any address Ijy
the author. Rev. L. \'. Harrell, South
Haven, Michigan.
IN PERILS OF FALSE BRETHREN.
Alexandria, La., March 8, 1912.
Dear Cynosure :
Since my last letter, the Secret Empire
has been greatly stirred. My letter in
the March issue of the Cynosure caused
a great deal of murmuring, and, true to
their oath bound obligations, they set
about to entrap me.
Early in the afternoon of Tuesday,
March 5, Mr. Kelso ]\1. Johnson, a
deacon of my church, accompanied me
to the home of one of the sick members
of my church for the purpose of admin-
istering the Communion, but before en-
tering her home, a preacher hailed me,
and said he desired me to step inside of a
restaurant a moment, as he desired to
discuss a matter with me. This man be-
ing a minister, I entertained no thought
other than that he was sincere and de-
sired to discuss some matter pertaining
to our denominational work. On enter-
ing the restaurant, I very soon discov-
ered from his rough speech that a con-
spiracy of some kind was on foot, so I
beat a hasty retreat to the street, fol-
lowed by this masonic minister, who be-
gan talking very loud and excitedly, and
in less time than it takes to tell it, a
number of gain1)ling. drunken secretists
had gathered, whose every appearance
was that of a mob bent on carrviiiir into
execution the obligation oi the entered
apprentice degree. Mr. Johnson and 1
entered the la(l\"s home to discharge our
duty, and the masonic preacher followed
us even into the woman's bedroom,
where she remonstrated : he then retired.
When T had concluded m\- labors and
attempted to leave. I found him .sitting
bv the frcMit door to prevent my exit. T
attempted to avoid him and get outside,
but he got between me and the door and
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
April, 1912.
began to advance toward me, and to
breathe out threats to the effect that I
had been talking about him, interfering
with his church ati'airs, and he intended
to hold me personally responsible, and he
shook his tinger in my face. Seeing the
impossibility of getting away from him
otherwise, I struck him a blow over the
head with my walking stick, and walked
out. By that time, one of his whiskey
drinking associates raised the old fami-
liar lodge cry of distress and that I had
assaulted an innocent brother for noth-
ing. This occurred on Lee street, one of
the prominent business thoroughfares of
the city, and by this time a few of my
friends and Mr. K. M. Johnson were on
the scene, and further violence was re-
strained. In a short time a complaint
was made out against me, and two po-
licemen came to my house. They showed
me great consideration ; they notified me
to go to the police and give bond, but did
not place me under arrest. Meantime
Mr. C. L. Williams had heard of the
trouble, and he at once came to me and
accompanied me to the station and put
up a cash bond to prevent me being in-
carcerated, thus proving that he prized
his religious duty far above oathbound
lodge obligations. I am informed from
a reliable source that some of the lodge
men tried to persuade Mr. Williams not
to sign my bond. Their hope was to
humiliate me, but Mr. Williams refused
their counsel, knowing as he did the
whole thing was a trumped up con-
spiracy.
Wednesday morning the case was
called for trial before Judge Hove. The
masonic preacher was on hand early with
a number of his henchmen ready to
perjure themselves and condemn me. One
of his chief witnesses was a drunken,
gambling negro who knew absolutely
nothing about the affair. He came up
just after the blow had been struck; but
he svvore in court that he knew all about
it, and that I was the aggressor, and that
his masonic preacher was absolutely in-
nocent, and that I had not only imposed
upon him, but that I had struck him for
nothing. Another one of his witnesses
also swore to what he knew were ma-
licious and wanton falsehoods, but he
told enough to convince any unbiased
mind that his testimony was largely a
fabrication. After hearing all of the
testimony. Judge Hove, in a very digni-
fied and honorable way, reviewed the
case, deplored ministers of the gospel
bringing their differences before courts
to be settled instead of before a church
committee. He gave the masonic preach-
er to understand that the evidence pro-
duced showed him to be the aggressor.
He then dismissed the case and sent it
back to the churches for settlement.
Reader, are you a Christian ? Are you
an honest man ? If so, how can you have
fellowship and association with men who
are bound by an oath to come to the de-
fense of a secret order brother — right or
wrong, no matter who he is or what he
has done ?
I have preached several sermons lately
which have inflamed the Secret Empire,
and the church of which I am pastor has
expelled three of its prominent masonic
members, all of which has filled the air
with rumors of masonic vengeance.
I am to attend the Executive Board
of the Eighth District Baptist Associa-
tion at Bunkie, Louisiana, next week,
where I shall not fail to sound the alarm.
I also have an invitation from the Presi-
dent of the First District Baptist Asso-
ciation to attend his association in New
Orleans, and preach one of their ser-
mons.
Mrs. Davidson's health continues un-
favorable, although she is not confined to
her bed. She recently returned from
New Orleans, where she had gone for an
operation, but the physicians declared an
operation would be very dangerous, and
would quite likely prove fatal. She there-
fore prefers to suffer as she is.
I forgot to say that as a tribute of
their confidence in my integrity, a num-
ber of the members of Shiloh Church
and their friends gave us a pound party
surprise, on the same day that the ma-
sonic preacher attacked me. The church
is standing loyally by me thus far.
Yours for a pure church,
F. T. Davidson.
One and one-half letters and postal
cards per person are sent through the U.
S. mails in each and everv week.
April 1912.
CHRISTIAN CVXOSURE.
377
INDEX TO
VOLUME XLIV.
For the twelve months ending April, 1 91 2.)
Note. — Articles marked thus " were print
ed without regular heading but are indexed
under titles showing their general bearing.
"After Us the Deluge" 307
^Aggressive Reform Service 28
American Yeomen 79
Ancient Anti-Masonry 274
Annual Meeting N. C. A
33
Letters 77
Report by Sec'y Stoddard 39
Anti-Free-Speechism 16
Arthur Brisbane to the Hibernians 19
Asking in His Name 301
Astounding Pronouncement 238
Balaam, the son of Bosor who Loved the
Wages of Unrighteousness. C. A.
Blanchard 197
Beast and Bird Fight 23
Beheaded in China 20
Bergesen, Rev. B. E. An Exhortation
to Pastors 189
Bethlehem Orphan Asylum Assoc 60
Bible Contradiction. C. A. Blanchard. .234
Birthday of the Father of His Country.. 300
Blanchard, Charles A. Balaam, the son
of Bosor, who Loved the Wages of
Unrighteousness 197
Bible Contradiction 234
Church Rules 139
Freemasonry and Civil Liberty 321
Masonic Office Holders 356
Questions and Replies 97
Shame of the Church, The 8
To Defend Dishonest Officers 292
Boles, D. H. (Letter) 32
Book Notices.
Chinese Translation Work 108
Freemasonry Made Plain 88
Boy Scouts Are Opposed 3
Brave Men of Old. Rev. W. N. Tobie.
(Poem) 355
Broke-n Seal, The. S. D. Greene
263. 294. 330, 366
Caged Fraternity, A 52
Call to Prayer, A 11
Camorra, The 16
Camorrists and Others 4
Censure from a Subordinate Lodge.... 274
Chaplain Prays — to Whom? L. F. Cass-
ler 213
Chicago's Civilized Progress 110
^Christian Cynosure 38, 185, 270, 347
Christian Science Falsely So Called. W.
L. Brown 211
*Church and Freemasonry. C. G. Fin-
ney 329
Church Rules. C. A. Blanchard 139
Clemens. Moses H 32,94, 121. 151
Coffin, G. L. (Letter) 94
Comments on Elder Dissette's Letter.
Adolf Hult 313
Compromises. J. M. Hitchcock 132
Concord with Belial 306
Confession. A. Rev. C. H. Cook 34
Conflict and the Victory. J. W. Elliott. 168
Cook, Rev. Charles H. 311, 348
Cook, Ezra A. Reminiscences. . 11, 46, 171
An Appreciation by J. M. Hitchcock. .203
Counterfeit ]Mone3' arid Other Counter-
feits. Elliot Whipple 289, 326. 363
Credited, Miscredited, or Discredited. .. Ill
Credited to a Sermon 342
Crushing Defeat 343
Cr}' from West Australia. J. S. Nelson. 152
Damages and Damages 370
Davidson. F. J 30, 57,
93, 122, 149, 191, 218, 249. 279, 308. 346
Davis, J. L .94. 219
Deplorable Influence, A ; '. .210
Did Method React on Motive? ...... 90
Dissette, G. T. An Onen Letter ,.
:...252. 235.. 314. 348
Divided Allegiance. Mrs. H. R. Smith.
(Poem) '. 155
Drake. Ella N. Eastern Star Order.... 284
Economy of Proof \ . . .208
Editorial
...16, 50, 87. 109. 185, 208. 235. 270. 300
Elks, Lions and W^olves. Rev. Theo-
dore Lohrmann 59
Elks' Tribute to Honored Dead 261
Elliott, James W. The Conflict and the
Victory 168
Emperor William not a Mason. 179
Encouraging Words 51
English Ritualism and Masonrv 242
"Et tu. Brute?".... ." 24
Evangelist Pegram's Experience. G.
A. Pegram 309
Exhortation to Pastors, An. Rev. B.
E. Bergesen 189
37S CHRISTIAX CVNOSl'RE. March, 1912.
Experiences as Pastor and Evangelist. King's Battle Prayer, The June Cover
Rev. G. A. Pegrani 280 Knights Assail Negroes 369
Eaithtul Pastor. A 220 Knights of Columbus 155
l'\aithtul Witness. A 93 Knights of the Royal Arch 271
Earmer Toiner, The 269 Knights Templars. Edmond Ronayne. .201
Eield and Pastoral Worl: 308 Knights Templars' Ball 351
Pierce . hut Victorious Battles. S. B. ^ LaFollette. Robert Al. Rev. PI. A. Day . .262
Shaw 179 Largest Damages 109
I'^inney. Charles G. The Church and Law or Anarchy — Which?. . 302
J-"reemasonr}' 329 Lav/ to Shelter Crime, A 4
1-dy in the Ointment 209 Lawyer Morals 261
Foreign National Festival, A 18 Lawton, Melvyn M. A Seceder 372
l-'raternities in High Schools. J. M. Letter to the Editor of "The Menace."
Hitchcock ^ . 71 W. B. Stoddard. . . _. 317
I'raternities of Assassins 275 Letters to the Convention 246
Freemasonry. Lady Blount 206 Little, William 347
I-Teemasonrv and Civil Liberty. C. A. Lohrmann, Rev. Theodore. Elks, Lions
BlanchaVd -■■.■■. .321 and Wolves 59
Freemasonrv versus Christianitv. Rev. Long, Rev. S. P 154
T. C. Peacock '.. ..135, 174 Loyal Order of Moose. W. I. P 207
Friendlv Word, A. C. W. Maguire ^ . . . .313 ^Lutheran Church in America 1, 51
Frisky Goat, A 329 McNamara Case 271
From Editor Daniel Kauffman 372 Madame Blavatsky a Masonic Orna-
From Our Mail.. ..58. 153, 179, 251, 283, 311 ment 240
Gethsemane. T. E. Kennedy. (Poem) Many Defects 239
.November Cover Masonic Bank-Wrecker Pardoned, A... 342
Golden Jubilee 291 Masonic Office Holders. C. A. Blanch-
Good Enough to Bad Men . 243 ard 356
Grand Arm}-. The. Rev. H. B. Hem- Masonic Officer in Murder Trial.. 237
meter 204 *Masonry 235, 236
Grange. The 211 Michigan Annual Convention ....215
Gravbell, Joseph Potter 122. 151, 251 Michigan State Convention 186
Great English Strike. The ....129 Millard, A. J 30, 153, 221
Great Masonic Distiller Dead 208 Modern Brotherhood of America 154
Greene, Samuel D. The Broken Seal.. Mormon Woodmen 369
^ • • • • • • '■ \ ^^^' S^' ^^9 Modern Woodmen Agitated 354
uroup Morals. 235, 236 Mongolian Masons 236
uu"^^ V '""^ Qo Murder as a Fine Art. C. A. Blanchard.257
Halt Truth 89 nv^ , • t» r , co
Harmonious Opinions 301 ^r'''^'' '\ ^^"^^^i ' : ^\%
Harrell, Rev. L. V 58, 149, 347 ^- C- A. Annual Convention 353
Hartzler IE 29 Annual Meeting 33
He Was a' Joiner ." '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. '. '.'.'.'.'.'. 42 Cash Contributions 192
-Himself Hath Done It." J. B. G. Letters ._ 77
(Poem) 283 Questions and Replies 97
''His Way into Various Societies" 306 Report of the Board of Directors 34
History in Words 239 Report of Sec'y Stoddard 77
Hitchcock, J. M. An Appreciation 203 Resolutions 41
Compromises 132 National Fraternal Union 114
Hofthmes, Rev. Joseph 154 Nebraska Bill, The 32
Homiletic Revie\v Correspondence 22 Nelson, J. S. A Cry from West Aus-
-^Houghton Seminary ..152 tralia 152
Houghton Seminary Association 57
How One Denomination Looks at La-
Nelson, Rev. John 119
bor Unions 211 ^:^-^^ of Orioles 157
Hult. Adolf. Comments on Elder Dis-
Never Heard It 304
sette's Letter 313 New Mexican Penitentes 305
Plunting Owls .................... .302 Newell, Mrs. Bessie 311
In Perils of False Brethren. F. J. News of Our Work 28,
Davidson 375 55, 92, 120, 147. 186, 215, 245, 277, 307
Inaugural Imprecation 275 No Other Reason 343
Incompatible and Inimical 273 No Secrets Today 272
Indiana and Ohio Work. Sec'y Stod- Not Idea but Ism 241
dard's Report 120 Obey or Do Nothing Ill
Indiana A.ntisecrecy Convention .... 115, 116 Obituary Notices.
Is It a Risky Reliance? 240 Bacon, Philip 41
Italian Children 50 Berlin, Samuel 41
Italian Order, An .239 Cook, Ezra Asher 161, 203
Jesus Our Only Refuge. (Song) 80 Cullor, Mrs. R. A 140
Johnson's Veto 2 George, Rev. R. J 41
Jones, Russel L 277 Good, Samuel M.. 41
March, 1912.
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
379
Hershey, Simon A 371
Hitchcock, John M 333
Hyatt, Rev. Isaac 41
Johnson, Mrs. Sarah L 41
Keyser, N 41
Kletzing, Rev. Henry L 40
McMillan, H. H 41
Porter, Rev. Samuel K 41
Richards, Rev. J. A 41
Ronayne, Edmond 41
Smith, Rev. Cyrus 41
Steiner, Rev. M. S 41
Stratton, Rev. L. N 41
Whitham, Emma R 277
Obstinate Connivance Applauded 303
Ohio State Convention 147, 152, 180
Old Soldier's Plea, An. Rev. A. Thomp-
son 325
Old Time Revival, An. S. B. Shaw 251
Only Christian, so Profane 20
Open Letter, An. G. T. Dissette
252, 285, 314, 348
Open Parliament. (Report of N. C. A.
Meeting) ^■^
Open Societies in Boston Schools "61
Order of Harugari 1
Order of Moose 2
Our Canadian Letter. M. H. Clemens
94, 120
Painted Regalia 3
Pastoral Settlement 369
Pastor's Testimony. Rev. C. A. Mor-
rison 212
Pegram, G. A 347
Pennsylvania Convention. W. B. Stod-
dard 307, 344
Personal Eciuation, The 109
Personal Experiences. Gilbert E. Mart-
ing 232
^Personal Reminiscenes of the Morgan
Abduction and Murder. Samuel D.
Greene 129
Pertinent Paragraph, A %1
*Political Power of Masonry 274
Power of the Secret Empire. Miss E. E.
Flagg
5, 44, 81, 102, 141, 180, 193, 225, 271
*Prayer Circle 1, 60, 192
Promises 113
Proposed Precedent, A 273
Questions and Replies. C. A. Blanchard 97
Raps Lodge as Ruinous in Effect 117
Real Success May Cover
Remarkable Allegations by Foes of Se-
cret Orders 118
Reminiscences. Ezra A. Cook.. 11, 46, 171
Report of Pennsylvania Convention ... .374
Right to Know, A 51
Riot in the Woods 351
Risky Endorsement 114
Sarcophagus and Mission School 272
■'Scarcely a Caricature" 130
Scottish Made Masons 329
*Seceders 344, 347, 348
Seceders' Testimonies 91, 212
CAMORRA.
Caged Fraternity, A 52
Camorra, The 16
Camorrists and Others 4
Pertinent Paragraph, A 88
Seen from Outside 'h'})
ELKS.
Elks, Lions and Wolves. Rev. Theodore
Lohrmann 59
Elks' Tribute to the Honored Dead 261
To Defend Dishonest Officers 292
FRATERNITIES.
Fraternities in High Schools. J. M.
Hitchcock 71
Obey or Do Nothing Ill
HIBERNIANS.
Arthur Brisl^ane to the Hibernians 19
Foreign National Festival, A 18
INSURANCE LODGES.
Is It a Risky Reliance? 240
Modern Brotherhood of America 154
National Fraternal Union 114
Without the Lodge 130
KNIGHTS TEMPLARS.
Knights Templars. Edmond Ronayne . .2(J1
Knights Templars' Ball 351
LABOR UNIONS.
Did Method React on Motive? 90
Great English Strike, The 129
How One Denomination Looks at Labor
Unions 211
Largest Damages 109
Law or Anarchy— Which ? 302
'''M cNamara Case 271
Murder as a Fine Art. C. A. Blanchard. 257
Alurder is Murder 52
Right to Know, A 51
Typographical Union Obligation 262
MASONS.
Ancient Anti-Masonry 274
Asking in His Name 301
Astounding Pronouncement 238
Birthday of the Father of His Country.. 300
*Church and Freemasonry, The. C. G.
Finney 329
Comments on Elder Dissette's Letter.
Adolf Hult 313
Confession, A. Rev. C. H. Cook 348
Conflict and the Victorv, The. I. W.
Elliott .^ 168
Credited, Miscredited, or Discredited ... Ill
Economy of Proof 208
English Ritualism and Masonry 242
E.xhortation to Pastors? Rev. B. E.
Bergesen 189
Freemasonry. Lady Blount 206
I'recmasonrv and Ci\'il Lil)erty. C. A.
BlanchaVd 321
iM-eemasonry versus Christianity. Rev.
J. C. Leacock 135. 174
Frisky Goat. A 329
Good Enough to Bad Men 243
Great Mason Distiller Dead 208
F I armonious Opinions 301
li(^miletic Rc\iew Correspondence 11
Letter to the Editor of "The Menace."
W. B. Stoddard ^17
Madame Blawitsk}- a Masonic Orna-
ment 240
Masonic Bank-Wrecker Pardoned, A... 342
Masonic Office Holders. C. A. Blanch-
ard 356
Masonic ()rficer in .Murder l^rial ITil
M ongolian M asons I'SC')
380
CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE.
April, 1912.
Only Christian, so Profane 20
Open Letter. An 252, 235, 314, 348
^Political Power of Masonry 274
Scottish Made Masons 329
■■Their Altars by His Altar" 17
Treason Proscribed 210
Unfounded Assurance, An 112
"What is Duty?" 30
Whisky and Instruction for Colored
Masons 22
MODERN WOODMEN.
Mornum Woodmen 369
jNIodern A\'oodmen Agitated 354
Riot in the Woods 351
* Woodmen of the World 236
ODD FELLOWS.
Open Letter, An 348
Pastor's Testimony, A, Rev. C. A.
Morrison .212
OWLS.
Beast and Bird Fight 23
Credited to a Sermon . • 342
Hunting Owls 302
MISCELLANEOUS LODGES.
"After Us the Deluge" (Foresters) 307
American Yeomen 79
Balaam, the Son of Bosor, who Loved
the Wages of Unrighteousness 197
Beheaded in China 20
Censure from a Subordinate Lodge.
(Grange) 276
Chaplain Prays — to Whom? L. F. Gass-
ier ..213
Church Rules. C. A. Blanchard 139
Concord with Belial 306
Deplorable Influence. (Negro Lodges). 210
Eastern Star Order. Ella N. Drake. .. . .284
Experiences as Pastor and Evangelict.
Rev. G. A. Pegram 280
Faithful Pastor, A. (H. P. Dennecker) .220
Faithful Witness, A. F. J. Davidson... 93
Fly in the Ointment 209
Fraternities of Assassins 275
Half Truth 89
Knights of Columbus 155
Knights of the Royal Arch 271
Law to Shelter Crime, A 4
Loyal Order of Moose. W. I. P 207
Nev^ Mexico Penitentes .305
Old Soldier's Plea, An. Rev. A. Thomp-
son. (Grand Army) 325
Open Letter, An. (Good Templars) .. .348
Order of Harugari 1
Order of Moose 2
Personal Experiences. Rev. G. E. Mart-
ing 232
Promises 113
Questions and Replies. C. A. Blanchard. 97
Raps Lodge as Ruinous in Effect 117
Remarkable Allegations by Foes of Se-
cret Orders 118
Seceders' Testimonies .• . .91, 212
Secrets of Fraternal Societies Protected. 2
Shame of the Church. C. A. Blanchard. 8
Some W. C. T. U. Testimonies. .. .283, 284
Sons of Hermann 79
To Defend Dishonest Officers. C. A.
Blanchard 292
Voices Inside the Door 208
Secrets of Fraternal Societies Protected. 2
Seen from Outside 53
Smith, H. R., Jr 57
Smith. Mrs. H. R. Divided Allegiance.
(Poem) 155
Sowing the Seed. G. O. States,
280
Spirit Filled Watchmen Needed. Nels
Carlson 312
Spirit Led. A. Z. Yeghoyan 312
Statement by Sec'y Phillips. (N. C. A.
Meeting) 38
Stielsen. Rev. G. A 220
Stoddard, W. B 29, 55, 92,
120. 147, 179, 216, 248, 277, 307, 317, 344
Annual Report 39
In Ohio 147
Stratton, Rev. Lemuel N 43
Tameness Emptying Churches 50
Tasks for a Year 270
Testimonies of Pastors 25
Testimonies of Seceders. 26, 91, 212, 213, 214
Testimonies of Statesmen 27
Testimony in Kansas. L. V. Harrell. . . 149
Testimony of an M. E. Pastor. Rev.
E. L. Thompson 214
Testimony of Evangelist M. H. Lyon.. 362
"Their Altars by His Altar" 17
Thompson, Rev. A. An Old Soldier's
Plea 325
Thompson, Rev. H. A 154
Thomson, Rev. Alexander. The Wo-
man's Lodge 353
To Defend Dishonest Officers. C. A.
Blanchard 292
Tobie, Willard N. Brave Men of Old.. 355
Treason Prescribed 210
Treaties Coolly Treated 370
Typographical Union Obligation 262
Unfortunate 90
LTnfounded Assurance, An 112
United Brethren Church 156
Valuable Movement. A 3
Voices Inside the Door 208
Watchmen, What of the Night? C. A.
Blanchard 164
*Wave of Innocence. . 307
Weighty Resolutions 303
"What is Duty?" A. J. Millard 30
What Should Be the Attitude of the
Christian Minister Toward Modern
Secrecy? 65
Wheaton College 108
Wheaton College. C. A. Blanchard. .. .311
Whipple. Elliot. Counterfeit Money and
Other Counterfeits 289, 326. 363
Whisky and Instruction for Colored
Masons 22
*White Slave Traffic 317
"The Wiles of the Devil." Rev. E. R.
Worrell 361
Wisconsin State Convention 245
Without the Lodge
130
Woman's Lodge, The. Rev. Alexander
Thomson 353
*Woodmen of the World 236
Woods, Mrs. Lizzie
....... .31, 56, 93, 123, 148, 191, 219. 250
Workers Together With God. Rev. A.
J. Bailey ...132
Worrell, Rev. E. R. "The Wiles of the
Devil" 361
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