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| Dwight L. Moody |
From the Lighthouse Blog - What Would D. L. Moody Say Today to Moody Bible Institute About Mingling Truth and Error?:
"By Dwight L. Moody
I do not see how any Christian, most of all a Christian minister, can go into these secret lodges with unbelievers. They say they can have more influence for good, but I say that they can have more influence for good by staying out of them and reproving their evil deeds.
You can never reform anything by unequally yoking yourself to ungodly men. True reformers separate themselves from the world. But, some say to me, if you talk that way you will drive all the members of secret societies out of your meetings and out of your churches. But what if I did? Better men will take their places. Give them the truth anyway, and if they would rather leave their churches than their lodges, the sooner they get out of their churches the better.
I would rather have ten members who are separated from the world than a thousand such members! Come out from the lodge.
Better one with God than a thousand without Him! We must walk with God, and if only one or two go with us, it is all right. Do not let down the standard to suit men who love their secret lodges or have some darling sin they will not give up! (source: https://www.thebereancall.org/content/dwight-l-moody-masonry).
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GJ - Many people enrolled in various Lodges, often as the first churches to reach the lands being opened up to farming and ranching. Since many Evangelical and Lutheran ministers were also members, the laity saw no harm in the Lodge.
The Lodge is not as secretive as some imagine. I know many of the rituals and claims. Their dogma is easy to find, and it is anything but Christian.
The Lodge may have taught the mainline denominations how to double-speak, pretending to be Christian while being anti-Christian. My maternal grandfather was a leader in his lodge and taught his local minister the rituals. My mother and sister joined, and I was recruited but demurred. Later, under the influence of an LCMS pastor in St. Louis, my mother rejected the Lodge completely, after years of ignoring it.
The Lodge is not doing so well today. The Detroit Masonic Lodge downtown - simply The Masonic - was built beyond anyone's imagination for size and splendor, but it is on the brink. If you are a Church Growther (Shrinker), click on the link. There are your buddies, your examples, your dark future. Flint's Masonic is up for sale - only $500,000.
I used to go to my hometown's Scottish Rite Cathedral to hear special guest celebrities. That building was up for sale not long ago.
Like the UOJists, Masonic leaders are notorious liars. Yes, various famous men have been Masons, but the Lodge deliberately exaggerates the stories about these men. Certain Masonic leaders know what they really stand for, but the rest of the members are allowed to blend the Lodge in with their own religion, lack of religion, or Christianity. The Mormons were long treated as a renegade Lodge by the Masons, because so many LDS rituals are blatant copies of the original.
