Show AGAINST SECRET SOCIETIES I Synod of Reformed Presbyterian Church Passes Resolutions Mansfield 0 June IThe National I Synod of the Reformed Presbvterian church in session here denounced secret societies in the adoption of the following resolutions I We demand that this synod calls on each and every member of this church to give force to his emphatic testimony against every form of oath I born or promisebound secrecy by taking a public stand against the evil This synod testifies against those churches that knowing they permit their members while in allegiance to I this unChristian system to sit undisturbed undis-turbed at the Lords table or allow their ministers to officiate In the christian Chris-tian rites of the lodge room In the name of Him who is govern I ing among the nations we protest against the national and state governments govern-ments giving corporate existence to I any secret organization The state wrongs itself and its citizens in permitting per-mitting any association to be formed from which the officers of the state are I excluded We protest against civil and municipal muni-cipal officers appropriating funds I levied on the citizens for the entertainment tainment of any secret lodge and also against inviting any secret society to officiate at the beginning or completion of funds any building erected by public |