Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-09

highly useful in its aims ana so prosperous III
its administration; and one which so fully
secures the cooperation and aid of some of its
best and wealthiest citizens.
Anti-HasOmic COnventiOn-SecOnd Day.
The national association opposed to secret So
cieties, met in Washburn hall again yesterday
morning, at halipast eight One hour was
spent in a prayer and conference meeting, at the
close of which Rev. T. H. Kenaston and Rev. N.
Calender were added TO the business committee.
Rev. |. Hart, corresponding secretary, read his
annual report which was accepted The work
of raising money, and addresses by Prof. Sloan
and Rev. L. N. Sratton, of Mexico, N. Y, were
made the order of the evening. Elder David
Bernard then addressed the association. He is
eighty-three years old, and is the author of
| Light on Masonry" At the time of the Nor
gan excitement he, with others, was appointed
committee by convention of seeding Masons
to write out masonry. He gave graphic &C
| count of the persecution with which he has
been followed on account of his renouncing and
exposing masonry. The committee on nomina-
| lions reported as follows:
For president, j. w. Phelps, of Vermont; for vice
presidents, Judge Z. D. Parish, Of Ohio, Prof /:
w. X. Sloan, of Pennsylvania, d, Carpenter of
Massachusetts, Prof j. C. Webster, of Illinois, Rev
| G.. NJ. Lodge, of Iowa. Rev J. w Hiatt of Indi-
ana, f. w. Hooper, iof New Hampshire, Rev. j.
Levingston, of Michigan Philip Snyder, Esq, of
New Jersey, Rev. II. Mckee, Of California, D. C..
McLaren, b. D., of New York, Rev. S. C. Feemster,
of Mississippi, Rev. j. Could of Minnesota
taries of the convention, Rev. l.. c. Partridge of
Vermont, and Principal r. T. Gross, of Oberlin, o..
for secretary of the national association at Chicago
Rev. j. A. Hart; executive committee, Prest j.
Blanchard, Philo Carpenter, Esq. Rev. A. Crooks,
editor of American Wesleyan, Rev. j. A. Hart,
Rey Chag IA A. Spring E va A. Carpenter Esd j. W.
j. p. StOddard Prof. o. Il. Lumry, II. l.. Kellogg,
Esq E. A. Cook, Esq.
At the opening of the afternoon session,
President Phelps took the chair, and made a
brief address, in which he defined his position
on the matter in unmistakabe terms. He
spoke of the efficacy of the old Puritancal re-
| ligion in governing our people-forty millions
of turbulent Anglo SaXOns-over the stultifying
| mummery of Free Masonry. He denounced the
| order as an ''unchristian unrepublican sham"
of which all men of sense ought TO be ashamed
saying that the argument that it furnished
passport insurng good usage and hospitality in
travelling was nothing in its favor, for where an
honest, upright man would not be used well in
travelling, if he were not Mason, there was
state of society that none of us wished to see in
this country.
The nominating committee reported as a COM
mittee on the Cynosure, Philo Carpenter, Rev.
j. Lexington and Charles A. Blanchard; COM
mittee on address to Christian ministers and
IeCNs n. SIOOhS, IIOl. d. w. IL. OiOdHe,
and l.. Ayers; committee on political action, Rev.
j Ia. Hart, Rev. ID. c. McLaren and N. Wheeler;
committee on correspondence, Rev. l.. N STRAIT
ton. The report was adopted
paper was read from DIR. j. b. Walker,
president of Benzonia college, Michigan, and re-
ferred to the committee on political action; and
the report of the treasurer of the national asso-
C alton was read, accepted, and referred to the
committee on the CynOsure. Rev. d. p. Rath-
burn gave his experience with the order of ma
sOnry, giving an account of his being mobbed
after lecturing against it.
The committee on the Cynosure reported that
the Cynosure had now nearly 5000 subscribers
and that it should be made weekly paper in
stead of a semi-monthly as it is now. The re-
port was adopted.
At the evening session, the articles used in the
initiation of candidates to the Masonic lodges
were exhibited, after which the meeting opened
with prayer by Rev. Mr.. Blanchard Rev. l.. N.
Stratton of Mexico, N. Y, delivered an address
upon the following proposition: Free Masonry
is incompatible with the constitution of the
United States, has the power to paralyze the
laws Of the land, defeats the end of justice, and
in its nature and tendency is at war with the
genius, spirit and liberties Of the great and free
republic of the United States, and therefore
should be abolished by law" This proposition
he proceeded to prove by reference to the obi
cations imposed upon Masons, as recorded in
the reports of the extended Investigations of the
order made by the states of New York and
Rhode Island, and as now found in the state Ii
braries of these two states. These state reports
affirm that these oathS are nowhere explained to
mean anything but what the language of these
terrible obligations naturally implies. He
claimed that the obligations of Masons were in
direct opposition to the fundamental practice of
the common law, and especially the laws of our
free republic.
Prof Sloan of Allegheny theological semi
nary, Pennsylvania, was next introduced, and
spoke of the anti-Christian character of Mason
ry, by adducng the following arguments:
LIST. Masonry is a secrecy.
I'd. 1t is supremacy selfish.
Sd. 1t intrudeS upon the peace and felicity of
the domestic relations.
4th. 1t raises and expends vast sums of
money to be used, not in works of beneVolence
and mercy, but in costly temples, sumptuous
entertainments, and in securing various official
and political benefits for each other.
5lh In its Oaths and penalties it is terribly
and Shockingly profane; nor can these oaths be
explained away without doing violence to mans
conscience, and to every just rule of the inter
probation of language.
9th. 1t is Il strange mingling of sacred and pro-
fame things, both in its lectures and its use and
explanation of the word of God it is an altar
erected over against the altar of God, upon
which the only atoning sacrifice, the Lord Jesus
Christ, has been offered.
It'll 1t is a system of deception, pretending to
impart valuable secrets, while the fact is there
is no secret of art, science learning or religion,
which is of any benefit to the cause of God or
the elevation or salvation of men.
Sth. And lastly it stands condemned before God
as a prosecuting institution.
Abundant proof was offered upon this and all
the other points so briefly noticed.
To-day at O'Clock A. NJ. Mr. Rufus Nuttng,
of Vermont, will address the convention upon
the secret temperance orders.
Sanitary eSSrS. Editors: The city of
Worcester has been spending money most pro-
fusely in supplying its citizens with water and
good sewerage, both intended as promoters of
health and comfort. The water coming as it
does, is a comfort to all, and gives facilities for
cleanliness that are almost invaluable. Sewer
age connected with water is intended TO promote
the health of all by furnishing means silently
to carry off all foul water and other offensive
matter without its communicating the air by
evaporation or otherwise And to do this all
must feel it duty, as well as a privilege, to
connect all their sink conductors of water, as
well as other water pipes, with the sewers. This
being carefully done, our city should be as well
arranged for health and cleanliness as perhaps
any one in New England. The board of health
are called upon with many complaints in regard
to nuisances, which would mostly be abated
were all prompt to avail themselves of making
connections at once with the sewerage.
In a round of examination yesterday, the
board of health were surprised to find many
places too filthy for a civilized people, and felt
Obliged to order notice of complaint to be issued
in some thirty or more cases, and it is now
hoped that where sink spouts or any other mat
tiers detrimental to the health Of q neighbor-
hood are known TO exist, the owners of such
places will feel in duty bound for their own
good, as well as for the goodiof others. to see to
for our mutual good, and the chairman of the
board of health does il on his individual re.