OPINIONS ON SPECULATIVE MASONRY

RELATIVE TO ITS ORIGIN, NATURE, AND TENDENCY

A compilation, embracing recent and important documents on the subject, and exhibiting the views of the most distinguished writers respecting it.

by James C. Odiorne

PREFACE

EARLY HISTORY OR FREEMASONRY - By Henry Dana Ward, Esq. 1

THE PRETENSIONS OF FREEMASONRY TO AN ORIGIN IN THE DAYS OF SOLOMON - Extracted from Letters of Rev. Henry Jones

THE AROSE AND PERVERSION OF THE MASONIC INSTITUTION - Extract of an Address delivered before Montgomery Lodge in Medway, Mass. by Rev. Moses Thacher

CIVIL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF MASONRY - Extract of a Letter addressed to the Suffolk Committee in Boston - by C. P. Sumner, Esq.

FREEMASONRY PRODUCTIVE OF NO PERMANET MORAL GOOD. Extracted from writings of Rev. John G. Stearns

FREEMASONRY A SYSTEM FRAUGHT WITH DECEPTION, AND DETRIMENTAL TO HUMAN HAPPINESS - By Rev. Joshua Bradley

THE TENDENCY OF FREEMASONRY TO INFIDELITY - Extract from Thacher's Letters to a brother in the Church

ON THE OATHS AND OBLIGATIONS OF MASONRY - An Abridgment of Rev. Mr. Jones's Letters to Professing Christians

ON THE VALIDITY OF MASONIC OATHS - By Myron Holley, Esq.

VINDICATION OF FREEDOM FROM MASONIC OATHS - From Ward's Anti-Masonic Review

ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF THE MASONIC INSTITUTION - Extract of a Letter addressed to the Committee of the Worcester County Convention, by Pliny Merrick, Esq.

OPINION OF HON. C. D. COLDEN, UPON THE CHARACTER AND TENDENCY OF FREEMASONRY

REMARKS ON THE CHARACTER OF FREEMASONRY - From the Address of Rev. Moses Thacher to his Church, on the occasion of his seceeding from the Masonic Institution

CORRESPONDENCE IN RELATION TO THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF FREEMASONRY PRIOR TO THE LAST CENTURY - Between the Suffolk Committee and the Presidents and Professors of Andover Theological Seminary and Harvard College

ON THE LAWFULNESS OF FREEMASONRY AS A SECRET INSTITUTION - Extract from the Reply of the Genesee Consociation to Rev. Mr. Emerson

REMARKS ON SECRET SOCIETIES - Addressed to the Anti-Masonic Convention at Dedham, by Benjamin Waterhouse, M. D.

ADDRESS BEFORE THE ANTI-MASONIC MEETING IN FANEDIL HALL, SEPT. 8,1829 - By Rev. Moses Thacher

REASONS WHY THE CHURCH OF CHRIST SHOULD DISFELLOWSHIP FREEMASONRY - Extract of a Sermon by Rev. Henry Jones

ADDRESS OF THE WATERBURY ANTI-MASONIC MEETING

REPORT RESPECTING THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE MASONIC DISCLOSURES - Made to the New York State Convention

REPORT OF THE GENERAL CENTRAL ANTI-MASONIC COMMITTEE UPON THE PROGRESS AND CONDITION OF THE ANTI-MASONIC CAUSE - Made to the New York State Convention

REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY OF NEW YORK, ON THE ABDUCTION AND MURDER OF WILLIAM MORGAN

REPORT ON THE ABDUCTION AND MURDER OF WILLIAM MORGAN - Made to the New York Senate

ADDRESS OF MYRON HOLLEY, Esq. - Delivered at Lyons, N. Y. Sept. 11, 1829

ADDRESS OF THE REPUBLICAN ANTI-MASONIC MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS

ADDRESS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS ANTI-MASONIC CONTENTION TO THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMONWEALTH

RESOLVES OF THE MASSACHUSETTS ANTI-MASONIC CONEXNTION

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