FREEMASONRY

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 15, 1879

DURING the past week, Mr. Edmond Ronayne, Past Master of Keystone Lodge, No. 639, Chicago, has given three lectures on this subject, in this city, working before the audience the first three degrees of the order. The object was to show the real character of the institution, as a safeguard to all who might witness its ceremonies against being drawn into its folds. Mr. Ronayne has been the “Worshipful Master” of a Master Mason’s Lodge, being as high in the order, and as low in the degradation it imposes, as he could bring his conscience to consent to his going. He now feels it to be a Christian duty to expose its character and warn all against it.

He proves most clearly from the testimony of their books, that modern Masonry is identical with the ancient worship of Baal, its ceremonies being the same as the orgies and mysteries of the old pagan world. The ceremonies of initiation into the various degrees are not only disgusting and degrading, but are fearfully blasphemous.

We would recommend all wherever Mr. Ronayne may give these lectures and exhibitions, to hear and see them without fail; not that any S. D. Adventist needs this instruction for himself; for as a body we stand opposed to all secret organizations on principle, and do not knowingly receive any as members who do not stand clear in this respect. But for the sake of being better able to help others it is well to be informed in regard to these things, when it can be done so safely and so fully as by attending Mr. Ronayne’s lectures. See Book Notice in Publisher’s Department.