Complex sentence: Joseph Smith was a member of a freemasons lodge before he the formed the Church of the Latter Day Saint, and used symbols and various hand grips, pass words that remained until the late 1900s.
Split into simpler sentences: Joseph smith was a member of a freemasons lodge before he the formed the Church of the Latter Day Saint. And used symboles and various hand grips, pass words that remained untill the late 1900s.