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Show "MASONS AND MORMONS." Error, falsehood, mendacity, misrepresentation or abuse, or all combined, characterizes ninety-nine hundredths of what is written about the "Mormons" by non-"Mormon" writers. The following under the head of "Masons and Mormons" appears in the New York Herald. The Masonic Order in Utah have taken strong ground against "the abomination of Mormonism" and refused to receive "Mormons" into the fraternity. On Wednesday the Grand lodge of California passed resolutions of sympathy with their Utah brethren and declared that "it is a fundamental principle of masons to believe in and [?ent] God and keep his commandments, and also to be true to the government in which we live. *** Mormonism, as now existing in the Territory of Utah, is wanting in both particulars. The Masons have good reason to detest Mormonism, for, according to what John Hyde, Jr. who once was a "Mormon" Elder, but apostatized, says of the endowment ceremony, for which inspired origin is claimed [it's] signs, tokens, marks and ideas are plagiarized from Masonry, and Lieutenant Crookston before he was murdered by the "Mormons," said that the Saints claimed that Masonry, was originally of their Church became perverted and was restored to it's true work by Joe Smith! The masons cannot afford to tolerate even the few respectable fanatics who may belong to a "Church" that has so [??] traduced them. |