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Why We Have Anti-Masonic Conventions In America.
por these reasons mushroom parties now ancl then appear . Thus we had a native American party , Temperance and anti-Temperance parties , any number of Citizen parties ; AA' e haA ' e now an anti-Chinese party in California , a party to Christianize the Constitution of the United States , and others too numerous to mention . Our Mr . Blanchard is throwing out sAvcet Avords to the Temperance party , and is probably about to unite with tbe Christiani-zing party , or Avitb tbe anti-Chinese party , or some other
canting party . The fact , hoAvever , is undeniable , that the leaders of all these religious crusading parties care more for their OAvn love of notoriety and personal ambition than they do for religion ; but they use religion merely as a motive poAver to propel the machinery of their ambitious schemes . And UOAV for Mr . Blanchard ' s theological logic . According to the Gospels of Mark and Luke , Jesus not only associated AA'ith sinners , but he eA'en defended Himself for so doing . PaulhoweA'er , Avrote to the Corinthians ,
, " Be not unequally yoked Avith unbelievers ; for ivbat fellowship has righteousness with nnrighteousnes ? " etc . It seems to me that a Christian ought to follow the teachings of Jesus in preference to those of Paul . It is possible that Paid may not have seen the Gospels of Mark and Luke Avben he Avrote to the Corinthians . It may be Ave do not correctly understand Paid ' s meaning . It seems very presumptuous for any one man to say to another , " I am holier than thou . "
Our Mr . Blanchard , hoAvever , Avbile ignoring entirely Christ ' s precepts ancl example , presumes to lay clown the laAv that Paul meant that no belieA'er should join the Freemasons . Paul's text comprises the Avhole stock in trade of Mr . Blanchard ' s religious and political capital : from that text he constantly preaches , with that text he expects to convert all the true orthodoxies into anti-masonic voters , and Avitb that inscribed on his banner he expects to march into Washington a full-fledged President of the United States of America .
Withm three months Mr . Blanchard presided over a convention in Worcester , Massachusetts . An eye-witness described to me the performance of initiation into Masonry at that convention . I subsequently received some Worcester papers AA'ith accounts of three days' meetings . These I gave to our Boston Masonic librarian , who informed me that Mr . Eanyne , tbe performer or initiator at Blanchard ' s convention , was successively a Boman Catholic priest , a Congregational minister and a Universalis ! preacher , that lie was expelled from each of those churches for misconductand that he
, was imprisoned for SAvindling of some kind , since AA'hich time he yoked himself with Mr . Blanchard , to his anti-masonic team . If Banyne is a Mason , as he claims to be , he must be a perjurer ; if be is not a Mason , then be is a humbug ; but be he one or the other , he is certainly a pretty specimen of righteousness for St . Blanchard to be yoked Avith .
T . F . Salisbury is another satellite of Mr . Blanchard . Somebody used to put into my letter-box eA'ery month SaHsbury ' s Star of Freedom j AA'hether Mr . Salisbury is more knave than fool , or vice versa , I cannot tell . The Star of Freedom is an insult to common sense , and a / lisgraae to Christianity . I herewith inclose one of tbe Stars ; it is not so ridiculous as some of the series ( which I bave given aAvay ) , but it is ridiculous enough , and I bereAvith inclose it that English Masons may have an opportunity of . seeing and judging for themselves about the characteristics of our American
antimasons . The question HOAV comes : Is there any chance for the American reli gious crusaders ever to come into poAver . To which I ansAver : Among a rural Avestern population , a would be reli g ious persecutor might perhaps succeed in being elected to tbe office of select man of a village ; but I doubt A'ery much AA'hether in any toAvn of the United States Mr . ; 3 lanchard could ride upon his anti-masonic hobby into an Aldermanic chair . Americans sJ ^ o ^ iuU Avell that if a fanatical combination got into powerChineseJBAVSand
y , , , g ^ Ji . Stb ^ .. kinds of unorthodoxies Avould , one by one , or altogether , be driven out of the -4 ^ W | H-W 4 r , ; ' ^ . en woul < l folW a " thirty years' war" between the Protestant and h- ^^^ q ^ Mi . Cpt'h ^ ^ 68 ! this Avould be inevitable , for history demonstrates ¦ : W 0 ^ W ^^\^? i /? % "J ?^ ' ay halting-point between unrestricted reli gious liberty and a ¦ >^ - $ ty ¥ ^ MB ? L-l't ^ fy & . n ° one can dispute ; there is no fear , therefore , of the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Why We Have Anti-Masonic Conventions In America.
por these reasons mushroom parties now ancl then appear . Thus we had a native American party , Temperance and anti-Temperance parties , any number of Citizen parties ; AA' e haA ' e now an anti-Chinese party in California , a party to Christianize the Constitution of the United States , and others too numerous to mention . Our Mr . Blanchard is throwing out sAvcet Avords to the Temperance party , and is probably about to unite with tbe Christiani-zing party , or Avitb tbe anti-Chinese party , or some other
canting party . The fact , hoAvever , is undeniable , that the leaders of all these religious crusading parties care more for their OAvn love of notoriety and personal ambition than they do for religion ; but they use religion merely as a motive poAver to propel the machinery of their ambitious schemes . And UOAV for Mr . Blanchard ' s theological logic . According to the Gospels of Mark and Luke , Jesus not only associated AA'ith sinners , but he eA'en defended Himself for so doing . PaulhoweA'er , Avrote to the Corinthians ,
, " Be not unequally yoked Avith unbelievers ; for ivbat fellowship has righteousness with nnrighteousnes ? " etc . It seems to me that a Christian ought to follow the teachings of Jesus in preference to those of Paul . It is possible that Paid may not have seen the Gospels of Mark and Luke Avben he Avrote to the Corinthians . It may be Ave do not correctly understand Paid ' s meaning . It seems very presumptuous for any one man to say to another , " I am holier than thou . "
Our Mr . Blanchard , hoAvever , Avbile ignoring entirely Christ ' s precepts ancl example , presumes to lay clown the laAv that Paul meant that no belieA'er should join the Freemasons . Paul's text comprises the Avhole stock in trade of Mr . Blanchard ' s religious and political capital : from that text he constantly preaches , with that text he expects to convert all the true orthodoxies into anti-masonic voters , and Avitb that inscribed on his banner he expects to march into Washington a full-fledged President of the United States of America .
Withm three months Mr . Blanchard presided over a convention in Worcester , Massachusetts . An eye-witness described to me the performance of initiation into Masonry at that convention . I subsequently received some Worcester papers AA'ith accounts of three days' meetings . These I gave to our Boston Masonic librarian , who informed me that Mr . Eanyne , tbe performer or initiator at Blanchard ' s convention , was successively a Boman Catholic priest , a Congregational minister and a Universalis ! preacher , that lie was expelled from each of those churches for misconductand that he
, was imprisoned for SAvindling of some kind , since AA'hich time he yoked himself with Mr . Blanchard , to his anti-masonic team . If Banyne is a Mason , as he claims to be , he must be a perjurer ; if be is not a Mason , then be is a humbug ; but be he one or the other , he is certainly a pretty specimen of righteousness for St . Blanchard to be yoked Avith .
T . F . Salisbury is another satellite of Mr . Blanchard . Somebody used to put into my letter-box eA'ery month SaHsbury ' s Star of Freedom j AA'hether Mr . Salisbury is more knave than fool , or vice versa , I cannot tell . The Star of Freedom is an insult to common sense , and a / lisgraae to Christianity . I herewith inclose one of tbe Stars ; it is not so ridiculous as some of the series ( which I bave given aAvay ) , but it is ridiculous enough , and I bereAvith inclose it that English Masons may have an opportunity of . seeing and judging for themselves about the characteristics of our American
antimasons . The question HOAV comes : Is there any chance for the American reli gious crusaders ever to come into poAver . To which I ansAver : Among a rural Avestern population , a would be reli g ious persecutor might perhaps succeed in being elected to tbe office of select man of a village ; but I doubt A'ery much AA'hether in any toAvn of the United States Mr . ; 3 lanchard could ride upon his anti-masonic hobby into an Aldermanic chair . Americans sJ ^ o ^ iuU Avell that if a fanatical combination got into powerChineseJBAVSand
y , , , g ^ Ji . Stb ^ .. kinds of unorthodoxies Avould , one by one , or altogether , be driven out of the -4 ^ W | H-W 4 r , ; ' ^ . en woul < l folW a " thirty years' war" between the Protestant and h- ^^^ q ^ Mi . Cpt'h ^ ^ 68 ! this Avould be inevitable , for history demonstrates ¦ : W 0 ^ W ^^\^? i /? % "J ?^ ' ay halting-point between unrestricted reli gious liberty and a ¦ >^ - $ ty ¥ ^ MB ? L-l't ^ fy & . n ° one can dispute ; there is no fear , therefore , of the