Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-11
ANTI-SECRET SOCIETIES.
Opening the Conven lon Which Is to Lay
Bare the DOings OF tn BrOtherhoOds In
General and Especially the Masons.

Opening the COnven lon Which Is to Lay
Bare the Doings OF til Brotherhoods in
General and Especially the N1asons.
The inaugural proceedings attending the con-
vention Of the Minnesota Christian Association
opposed to secret societies took place at
Kuauft's Hall on East,Sevcnth street last even
lug. Admission to the entertainment was
free, viii h probably accounted, in part. for the
large attendance, the hall being densely packed
with auditors who listened to the addresses Of
the evening with marked attention.
g. The first address Ut tho evening was deliver
ed by Elder u. P. Rathbun, who commenced
his remarks by referring to the claims of Free
Masonry as opposed to the Christian religion.
The speaker called attention to Mackey's
Manual of Masonry, section 2. page 16. in
pared to the Christian religion as being free
from sin. The speaker said that Masonry re-
pudiated the religion of Jesus Christ and &C.
cording to their own Interpretation either
Masonry or religion was necessarily false.
1t taught that duty tt Masonry was superior
at all Christian things. 1t laid high claims to
charity, the highest Christian virtue. To il
lustrate the alleged charity of speculative Ma
sonrDthe speaker compared it to seive in
which all but a select portion of humanity
were made to go down. First the children fell
through, all womankind were ignored and they
too, had to 60, all cripples fell through, old
men in their dotage fell through, all under 81
years of age fell through. all the impotent, and
last of all, Jesus Christ fell through.
Masonry admitted all sound and able men
with 1926 or $50, and if they paid their duer,
they were finally given decent burial. Ma
sonic lexicon was referred to, in which it was
laid down as an immutable law, that no woman
could be admitted to Masonry, although the
speaker said that French gallantry had par
TALLY overcome that difficulty.
The speaker said that no woman would con.
sent to the indignities incident to Masonic
initiation.
An illustration of the worship attending mi
tiation to a certain lodge of the order was
given as comprising the sacrifice of dog,
which was roasted alive amidst the screams OF
the worshipers, dancing and waving of toma-
haws. The Masons compared the grand lodge
as next door to heaven. The bible only spoke
of two places after death, and as the true re-
ligion of Christ alone pointed to heaven, spec
ulative Masonry, its arch-enemy, must lead to
the alternative.
The speaker had helped initiate Methodist
preacher to the three degrees of Ju bu-la, Ju-
bu-lo and Ju-bu'lum, and a ludicrous picture
was drawn of the abrupt manner in which he
was brought from perpendicular to a dead
level.
The same man had exhorted his people the
had chastised a sister for having the temerlty
to adorn her bonnet with ahower.
The Rev. J. l.. Barlow, pastor of the Baptist
church at Menominee, Wis, was then intro
duced. and commenced by making personal
allusion to the former speaker.
He said: 1t is not Masons that we care to
war with. We have no fault to find with the
men. 1t is the principles which actuate the
order that have done more to root out
christianity than all other institutions put to-
gethe1
The speaker said that Methodist preacher
had been known to assist at an initiation where
the novitiate had been made to believe that his
heart would be shaped to righteousness by the
square and hammer. and the next day he had
preached that the blood of Christ alone
cleanseth from all sin. The young man had
naturally exclaimed tkat his pastor was either
hypocrite in the lodge room or in the pulpit.
The entrance was described as the Mason 8
new birth and the indignitiesito which the novi-
tate ale subjected to, were alluded to in the
most ludicrous manner. The speaker read
from the minutes of Maria lodge, New York
State, IN which two sessions were reported, in
the course of (which twelve men had imbibed
five quarts of rum. .s.
A dispatch was read from President Mitchell
stating that he had missed connection, but
would be at the meeting to be held in Pfeifer's
hall at 10 o'clock this morning. This evening
Ed. Rathbun will publiclyiinitiate candidate
into the first degree of Masonry at Pfelfer's
hall.