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“No Church that has seriously investigated the religious teachings and implications of Freemasonry has ever yet failed to condemn it.”

“It is not lawful to belong at the same time to Christ and to search for redemption and moral perfection outside Him.”

You cannot serve God and Mammon.

Freemasonry is a physiolatric or nature worshipping religion.

“One could answer that a subtle heterodoxy from within can be more deadly than the open enemy without. But in any case has the Mason a right to ask that question unless he in turn can explain why Grand Lodge has passed a similar measure of condemnation on a body of respectable, generous, and Godfearing women ?”

“Naturally, then, her fellowship here on earth is human and desperately imperfect. But it has a divine reality, and amidst all her storms and stresses she offers, not hearty conviviality, but the true joy that comes from the peace of God that passeth all understanding. What, then, has Freemasonry to teach her?”

“To all mankind, therefore, the Church spreads out her arms in her call for penitence, for a realisation of the true and wider brotherhood of man redeemed by the precious blood.”

“For Christ suffered and died on the cross to open the gate of Heaven not only to the respectable businessman, bánk manager, doctor, lawyer, oflicer, parson, and civil servant. He died for the woman and the child too.“

“The Masonic ritual with a matter-of-fact business-like common sense warns against this ideal of Christian charity. The third degree obligation pledges the Candidate to relieve a brother Mason in need only *‘ so far as may fairly be done without detriment to myself or my connections,” a phrase which is repeated in various charges and lectures.”