THE CHARACTER, CLAIMS and WORKINGS of FREEMASONRY

This is old stock inventory…the author was a former Mason…. a series of articles of his views of the character and tendency of the institution. “Forty years ago we supposed that it was dead, and had no idea that it could ever revive. But, strange to tell, while we were busy in getting rid of slavery, Freemasonry has revived, and extended its bounds most alarmingly….I was struck with a part of the oath as not being sound either in a political or moral point of view…”