Christian Cynosure . s taught by Christ which areso essentially necessary, to the making ofa Christian, that Christianity is an utterimpossibility without them. If it can be shown that the life prin-ciples of Freemasonry are out of har-mony with, and antagonistic to, the lifeprinciples of Christianity it is apparentthat Freemasonry not only does not holdthe essential principles of Christ anddoes not promote Christianity but de-stroys it. The whole question must bedetermined by a comparison of thefundamental principles underlying thetwo institutions and mans relation tothese principles. Truth.
Christian Cynosure . s taught by Christ which areso essentially necessary, to the making ofa Christian, that Christianity is an utterimpossibility without them. If it can be shown that the life prin-ciples of Freemasonry are out of har-mony with, and antagonistic to, the lifeprinciples of Christianity it is apparentthat Freemasonry not only does not holdthe essential principles of Christ anddoes not promote Christianity but de-stroys it. The whole question must bedetermined by a comparison of thefundamental principles underlying thetwo institutions and mans relation tothese principles. Truth. Truth takes its place at the veryfoundation of Christianity and is so vi-tally related to Christianity that it can-not exist without it. In this presenta-tion of Christianity, as compared to Juda-ism, St. Paul offers truth as the firstprinciple. He says, Whatsoever thingsare true. (Phil., 4:8.) James says:Brethren, if any of you do err from thetruth and one convert him, let him now 116 CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE August, 1918. PLAYING DISTRESS OVER BODY OF HIRAM ABIFF. know that he which converteth a sinnerfrom the error of his way shall save asoul from death and shall hide a multi-tude of sins. (James, 5:19-20.) Fromthese two Scriptural quotations, andespecially from the one in James, it isshown beyond question that to be with-out truth is to be without God. Chris-tianity lives as the result of embodyingand promoting truth. The very opposite is true of Freema-sonry. Freemasonry lives as the resultof embodying and propagating 24, as laid down in the Ma-sonic Constitution, contains the follow-ing paragraph: The temple of Solo-mon was the cradle of the institution,and, therefore, the reference to the op-erative masonry which constructed thatmagnificent edifice to the materials andimplements which were employed in itsconstruction and the artists who were en-gaged in the building are all componentand essential parts of Freemasonrywhich could not be subtracted from itwitho
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