Blanchard J (anti-masonic) - Scotch Rite Masonry Illustrated Part I

186 MASONIC MURDERS PROVED IN COURT. “THEY WREN NOT AT ALL AsHAMED.” 187Popery does not burn heretics when she will lose morethan gain by it. Masonic crimes are plenty enough inAfrica, as Messrs Hinman and Cole are witnesses, bothof whom have been there; and the latter, Mr. Cole, wasborn there, and l~as been in thc African lodges. Othermissionaries confirm their statements. But thoughidolatry is practiced in Christian as well as in heathencountries, the crimes of idolatry in Christian lands mustbe covered. Nay; lodges sometimes go through thefarce of expelling men whose crimes have made themoutlaws; while in Africa where murder is not unpopularit is well known that human flesh is eaten as proof offealty to the secret orders.But we have murders enough proved in open courtson the lodge, as of Pritchard, Miller, Morgan andothers, to show that Masonry is murderous in practice,as its oaths prove it to be in theory; and is any one soweak as to suppose the mass of Masonic murders arenot secreted as the mass of its proceedings are?The thing, however, to be chiefly noted in this degreeis, that it is a lynch law execution of a supposedmurderer of J{iram by killing him in his sleep and cuttingoffhis head; when this very murder in the third orMaster’s degree has been executed by order of Solomonin a totally different way. (See Bernard’s Light onMasonry, Third Degree.)Now, if this were all professed fools-play, legend,liction or what not, the case were different and mightbe endured. But this open historic contradiction andfalsehood is solemnly sanctioned by men, not children,and that by oaths and prayers to God, and “they werenot at all ashamed neither could they blush.” Jeremiah6, 15.