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Show WHY MAKE IT A SECEET? A former Freemason, Sir Francis Burnand, asks: "Can a Christian be a Mason V His reply may be seen in his action in renouncing the lodge and entering the Church. Sir James Crichten BroAvne, put the query very neatly to a well known j Mason holding high office in the fraternity: "If ' Hasonry has a secret the knowledge of which would benefit all mankind, then for Masonry to keep such S knoAvledge to itself is immoral. If," on the other : hand, the 'secret' is not for the benefit of mankind, I in professing it to be so Masonry is again guiltv j of an immoral act. If you Masons say that it U only to benefit certain persons, who are prepared j to receive such knoAvledge, then there is an end of J the Brotherhood of Freemasonry." f |