| Show THE tae MASONS Or POSED OPPOSED NOW the ancient order of masons is Isina in a bad badway way that Is it Is made the object of a good deal of opposition once more the head of the order in england has recently gone over to the church of rome that church is fulminating anew against the order and extra rigid protestants bie aie equally opposed to what they term secret societies so bo that the brethren of the mystic tie are opposed on more than one side and are placed placeda at best between two fires and those directed largely by rel rei religious iglus bigots the order however has sustained many severe a attack tucksand band sand still thrives RELIGION AND moral MORALITY aTy dr J G holland talks in the following foll ow severe fashion of rigid religionists and morality if anyone will take up the thee early ariy colonial records of new england he will be surprised and shocked at the amount of grosa gross immorality which he will find nind recorded there rigidity of doctrine the tho felmina tion of the most terrific punishment in the future life the passage and the execution of the most moat searching and definitive laws against every form of social vice go hand in hand with every form of vice there was adultery in high places and adultery in low slander heid held high carnival common scolds were almost too common to be noteworthy in brief it seems that a religion which makes most of its orthodoxy or nr most of its frames or emotions of mind is a religion most divorced from morality A man who is told that the genuineness of his religion depends mainly upon the orthodoxy of his lais faith or mainly upon the tile raptures of his hs mental experience is outher euther partly demoralized by his reception of the statement or specially unfitted to meet the temptations of ills his life that reminds us that the party in utah which does so much mouth mouthing lug ing about executing the laws law syl Is composed of the tho mos most t lawless characters in the country set a rogue to catch nn an honest hon est cst man |
