The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-10-04
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To most people the fact the existence Of a
National Christian Association was made
known for the first time the other day, by the
unwilling of statue erected by the association
in honor of one William Morgan. Judging
from the names of those who took part in the
edifying ceremony, the National Christian As
ISOLATION consists chiefly of Blanch ards, to-
gether with an occasional Taggart, but it is
evidently an energetic and determined body OF
men, who are resolved to save their country if
they have to erect a dozen monuments
At first sight it may seem rather odd that
National Christian Association should take
pains to honor the memory of drunken vaga-
bond whose one claim to fame lies in the fact
that he either violated dozen or more OF the
most solemn oaths or told large collection of
ingenious falsehoods. To add to the beauty
and symmetry of his moral character, Mr.. Will
liam Morgan always maintained that he yio-
lated his alleged paths and betrayed the conf
dence of his associates from a sense of duty.
He thus crowned his moral edifice with hypoc-
risy, and was as various and miscellaneous
rascal as our prolific country has produced.
That such man should have been honored by
monument by an association of Christians
would certainly be very singular fact were it
not that the National Christian Association is
engaged in a work of snch tremendous impor-
tance that it cannot stop to inquire into the
moral character of its great apostle and proto-
martyr.
From the proceedings at the unwilling of the
Morgan monument at Batavia, N. ", it APP
pears that the National Christian Association
has for its object he exposure and defeat of
the helllsh conspiracy against Christi anity,
morality and free government summarily COM
pretended under the name of Freemasonry.
Mr.. William Morgan was one of the first men
who called the attention of Americans to the
dangerous character of Freemasonry, and that
either he or some one else was thereupon killed
by Freemasons, or other persons, is, in the
opinion OF the National Christian Association,
an undoubted fact
Every one knows of the existence at the
present day of Freemasonry, but had it not
been for the National Christian Association,
few of us would have known what desperate
and wicked men the Freemasons are. They
are, beyond any question, the leading fends of
the nineteenth century, and their practices
are as abominable as their principles are infa-
nous.
Hypocrisy is one of the inyariable character
iStlcS OF the Freemason. 1t is this that enables
him to wear the expression of innocence and
dizziness which one always notes in the faces
OF the Freemasons when an entire lodge stands
up to be photographed with its aprons and
horse-collars. The fat, amiable brother who
wears his hat to denote that he is the Master of
The lodge is apparently utterly incapable of
murder and treason, and the rest of the breth-
rem look as II they were on the point of singing
hymns and giving five cents each TO the mis-
slonary cause. Yet, thanks to the National
/ christian Association, we know that these men
are the most skilful of hypocrites, for in spite
of their smooth and innocent faces they are
plotting the destruction of everything and ev-
erybody, except their villainous fraternity.
The Freemasons of the lower grades are
sworn to bear eternal hatred to religion, mo-
rallty and order. In the secrecy of their lodge
rooms they commit the most fearful crimes
They inveigle upright men into their lodges
and then cut them into fine Slices and dispose
OF them to the manufacturers of canned provi-
sions; and they take turns in trampling on the
Bible and in reading aloud selections from
Ialmage's sermons and Tupper's poetry. Tie
Freemason who is a juryman always votes for
the acquittal of a brother Freemason and the
conviction OF every prisoner who is not Free
mason. Contrary to the opinion entertained
by many worthy Protesi ants, that the Jesuits
are the instlgators OF every crime that has been
committed for the last century, the Freema-
sons are really the guilty parties. They brought
about our civil war merely to crafty their
thirst for blood, and the recent Egyptian war
was solely due to the hatred of Arab, who is
leading Freemason, toward Gladstone, who
has never joined the fraternity.
The higher grade of Freemasonry, known as
the order of knights Templar, is simply an
armed and drilled force with which the Free
masons propose, at the proper moment, to seize
upon the government and establish military
despotsm. These warriors present a most fe-
rocious appearance. Clad in cooked hats,
black coats and shoulder straps-the unifor m
worn by the original Templars in the time of
rhe cFhsaders-they march through our streets
and fill the minds of the members CT the Ma
tional Christian Association with just alarm.
It is now pretty well ascertained that prior to
setting the government of the country the
Templars intend to poison nine-tenths of their
fellow citizens by potting arsenic in their beer,
and thus rendering them incapable of resist
ance. 1t is with this purpose in view that the
Templars have made themselves familiar with
every beer saloon in the country. and have
gained the confidence of every beer seller.
The proof that they have done this is simply
overwhelming, and the act admits of but one
Interpretation, provided we rigidly exclude
all others.
Fortunately, the National Christian Associa-
ton is aware of the nature of Freemasonry,
and will battle with monuments the wicked
schemes of the Freemasons. The unwilling of
the Morgan monument has already stricken
terror to the hosts of Freemasonry, and if the
association will only erect few more monu-
ments and make few more speeches the Free
masons will disband and throw themselves on
the mercy of the National Christians.