Christian Cynosure . hold aseries of meetings. After the first onewas held, however, the secret society menmade a great uproar and directed us tohave no further meetings in the said : Well and good. Who owns theland next to the church? and a gentle-man was pointed out as the proprietor. Iasked him if there would be any objec-tion to our holding a meeting in thegrove. Certainly not, it was free to us,SO we had a large meeting the next dayin that grove at the side of the my address on that occasionI said to the people: The masonic lodgehas shut this church, which you bu
Christian Cynosure . hold aseries of meetings. After the first onewas held, however, the secret society menmade a great uproar and directed us tohave no further meetings in the said : Well and good. Who owns theland next to the church? and a gentle-man was pointed out as the proprietor. Iasked him if there would be any objec-tion to our holding a meeting in thegrove. Certainly not, it was free to us,SO we had a large meeting the next dayin that grove at the side of the my address on that occasionI said to the people: The masonic lodgehas shut this church, which you built andpaid for yourselves, in your face. Ofcourse it was true, and it stirred themdeeply. When I was announcing themeeting for the next day one of the lead-ing citizens said: Just wait a little, , and I paused. After con-ferring with a few of his neighbors hesaid to me: You may say that the churchwill be open tomorrow^ I did so. Itwas open, which goes to show that the March, 1915. CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE 335. CHARLES A. RLANCHARD IN 1870. power of secret societies is not invin-cible : that when men decide to stand forthe rights which God has bestowed theyare ver} likely to accomplish what oughtto be done. It was remarkable to observe how onething led on to another. For example,in one of these towns in Boone CountyT deliver-ed three lectures, in a publichall which had been secured by ourfriends. At the close of that series Iwent across the Wisconsin line to a littletown called Sharon and delivered a likeseries there. While at Sharon a localpaper which Avas published in the BooneCounty town, Capron by name, came outwdiich contained a ridiculously false re-port of my lectures. I was at that timeguest with one of the prominent farmersof that region. J\Ir. Maine. There werea number of families of that name there,all so far as I knew them strong andgood men. He took his carriage anddrove me down to Capron that I might talk with the editor about that article. Isaid to the edit
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