ANTI-MASONIC SCRAP BOOK:

©

Consisting Of Forty-three Anti-Secrecy Tracts.

from the

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSOCATION

© 1996 Acacia Press, Incorporated.
MONTAGUE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Oringinally Published:
1883
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

1. The National Christian Association.
2. Freemasonry in the Family.
3. Selling Dead Horses.
4. Masonic Chastity.
5. John Quincy Adams on the Duty of American Voters.

This Association arose to meet a great want created by the growth of secret orders, and the ignorance and timid silence of public teachers as to their nature and effects.

For a century or more, in Europe, discerning men have recognized Freemasonry as the mother of revolution, undermining and wrecking family, religion and government. Prof. Claudio Janet, of the University of Paris, thus describes the influence of Freemasonry and kindred orders:

"Regardless of differences of climate, race or state polity, it spreads among the people the ideas and formulas of insurrection." [Witness the slavery war.]
"The people north and south are tainted alike, the young Republic of America as well as the monarchies of the old world. Russia, with her popular communal institutions, immense territory and thin-sown populations, is shaken by the revolutionary breath equally with the crowded populations of the manufacturing districts of the west."

In May, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Secretary Burke, were assassinated in Dublin, Ireland. The English Parliament, understanding the murder to be the work of secret societies, instantly put on its passage a bill making membership in them a crime.

In the United States, occupied by schemes peculiar to young nations, secret orders are not now met or understood as they are in Europe, as working by misrepresentation, intimidation and murder; or even as they were in this country fifty years ago. Then Captain William Morgan said, "I owe to my country an exposure of its dangers." He made the exposure and Masons murdered him in 1826.

The excitement caused by Morgan's abduction and murder lasted ten years. And Daniel Webster, Edward Everett, John Quincy Adams, John Marshal, Wm. H. Seward, Thaddeus Stevens and other great men condemned the lodge in the strongest languages men can use. The lodges feigned dead in the free States, and hid beyond discussion in the slave. The Anti-masonic army disbanded, and the lodges silently crept back into power.

Seeing this, Christian men met in convention in the City Hall, Aurora, Ill., October, 1867. A National meeting was called, and "The National Christian Association, opposed to secret societies," was formed, at Pittsburgh, Pa., in l868. This National body has met annually since: in Chicago, 1869; Cincinnati, 1870; Worcester, Mass., 1871; Oberlin, 1872; Monmonth, Ill., 1873; Syracuse, New York, l874; Pittsburgh, l875; Chicago, 1876; Dayton, Ohio, 1877; Worcester, 1878; Boston, 1880; and in Galesburg, Ill., 1881.

The presidents of the National Conventions have been: Bishop David Edwards, Rev. J. C. Webster, Hon. F. D. Parish, Gen. J. W. Phelps, Pres. J. Blanchard, J. G. Carson, D.D., Rev. B. T. Roberts, Dr. David R. Kerr, Pres. H. H. George, Pres. S. B. Allen, Rev. Henry T. Cheever, Dr. A. M. Milligan and Pres. J. B. McMichael.

Its organ, the Christian Cynosure, was started in the summer of 1868, published three years fortnightly; ever since, weekly.

Prof. C. A. Blanchard was the first agent and lecturer, (1870-2,) succeeded by Rev. J. P. Stoddard, Secretary and General Agent; Rev. H. H. Hinman, agent for the South, and Prof. E. D. Bailey for New England. Eighteen State Associations have been formed up to date, 1882: Alabama, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan. Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshie, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia.

Thus, though little, yet something has been done:-

1. We have called the nation's attention to the secret, false worships, displacing the worship of Christ and preying like night vampires upon the vitals of the Republic.
2. We have unveiled the secret orders and shown them to belong to the same family with Jesuitism, the Commune, spirit circle, free-love and Mormonism.
3. We have encouraged and strengthened those denominations which exclude the adherents of secret orders from their Communion.
4. We have encouraged many to renounce and expose, and many to withdraw from lodges, while less substantial men are going into them.
5. We have commissioned and aided a few lecturers and we hope to see such soon in every State.
6. We have though the blessing of God largely stopped the growth of the two leading secret orders, Freemasonry and Odd-Fellowship, as shown by the official statistics of those orders.
7. We have sustained the Cynosure, which goes to post-offices scattered through thirty-two States and five Territories. from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic, and from Canada and Nova Scotia to the States along the Mexican Gulf.

THE NATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION IS A NECESSITY.

Though some two-thirds of our globe is governed by rulers who acknowledge Christ, from three-fourths to nine-tenths of the world's population are deluded, taxed, and more or less corrupted by secret societies in pagan and Christian lands. God has raised up the National Christian Association to meet and change this fearful state of things, and thus "Prepare the way of the Lord" to come and reign on this earth.

It thus states its belief: --

" We think that Christ is the author of indissoluble marriage, true religion and just government; that faith in him is the sole ground of acceptance with God; and that grace received by faith is the sole power of regeneration."

The three fundamental degrees, on which all rites, Scotch, York, Egyptian or other, in all countries, are based, exclude Christ altogether, and Templar Masonry, now so poplar in this country, is a vile parody on the death of Christ, and travesty of the Christian religion.

In the Rose Cross degree, in opening the lodge the presiding officer asks his first assistant, "What is the hour?" Who answers, "It is the instant when the veil of the Temple was rent; darkness shrouded the earth; light was extinguished; the pillars; and implements of Masonry were broken; the flaming star disappeared; the cubic stone gave out blood and water; and the word was lost. -- Des Champs, Vol. 1, p. 56.

This odious jumble of Bible narrative of the crucifixion with lying Masonic legends, like the caricature of Christ raising the dead and mock regeneration of the candidate in the Blue lodge, works double; it dignifies Masonry, and degrades Christianity. And thus the whole lodge, from base to apex, is really one solid pyramid of blasphemous burlesque of the Christian religion.

It is but few years since Strauss, in German, and Renan, in French, wrote "Lives of Jesus" for the million, which make him a mere man, and an imperfect man at that. All the lodges of Belgium a subscribed to a presentation made to Renan inn honor of his book; and when Strauss died, the Masonic journal Banhutte, of Leipzig, called on "every Freemason to treasure up the ideas of that heroic illuminator of the lodges"; and adds, "thousands and millions of brethren will sympathize with that destroyer of the rubbish from the plan on which the future temple of humanity is to arise." The "rubbish" so hated by the lodges was the divinity of Christ! Thousands who read and wondered at the works of Strauss and Renan, did not know that they wrote as agents and as emissaries of the lodge.

To meet this anti-Christ; to turn back the inky flood of ignorance, timidity and fear, which chloroforms now the press, the pulpit and the legislature of the United States; in short, to tear off this political, moral and religious shroud, which, like the fabled shirt of Nessus, enfolds our entire globe, God has given birth and being to the National Christian Association and has thus far given it success.

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. 221 WEST MADISON STREET, CHICAGO.
Tracts, Books and the Christian Cynosure (weekly), opposed to secret societies.

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