# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1894_S14
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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Wendell Phillips—‘‘Eyery good citizen
should make war on all secret societies, and
give himself no rest until they are forbidden
by law and rooted out of existence.’’

Edward Everett—‘‘A secret society so widely
diffused and connected as this puts a vast
power, capable of the most dangerous abuse,
into hands irresponsible to the public.’’

(For the **Lutheran Pioneer.’’)

A Day of Joy.

The first day of March, 1894; was a day of
joy for our little band of friends at Winfield,
Kans., and also for all of the visiting brethren
who were there on that day of joy. On that
day, in the forenoon, St. John’s Lutheran
College, in the presence of a Jarge audience,| Gen. U. S. Grant—‘‘All secret, oathbound
was dedicated, or set apart to the service of | political parties are dangerous to any nation,
the Triune God, to prepare boys to carry the} no matter how pure or how patriotic the mo-
message of peace to the lost and needy; and | tives and principles which first bring them
in the afternoon of the same day Professors | together.’’
“Henry. Sieck and H. Stoeppelwerth were in-; Chief Justice John Marshall—‘‘'The insti-
stalled with appropriate ceremonies, to be the | tution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as
professors of that college, who, by the grace} one capable of much evil, and incapable of pro-
of God, are to prepare boys to preach the/ducing any good which might not be effected
gospel of peace in English. by safe and open means.’’
. Now, dear Christian fa-
thers and mothers, at Win-
field we have a magnificent ~
building, well furnished in
every respect already, save
one,.and that is, the spa-
cious, comfortable rooms
. are not full of young boys
to work for our glorious
~2 faith. The boys are yours.
You can fill these rooms.
The Hon: J. P. Baden, a
ae lover of the Lord, indeed,
Pe. did not only give $60,000
to have the gospel preached
in its purity in English to
the glory of our God, but
also gave a son immediately
tothe work. Can not each
one of us also find one to
place in that college, and
not only this, but a little
money to support indigent
“students of that college?
2 That is the best way to
fulfill the Lord’s command

Traveling by Wheelbarrow in Japan.

and slavery ; and they must both be destroyed
if our country is to be the home of the free,
|as our ancestors designed it.”

Garrett Smith, in an address, 1870 —‘' Ma-
sonry murdered Morgan. If it could not con-
ceal his murderers, it nevertheless protected
them. It overrode the laws of the land and
ruled the courts and ballot-boxes. Moreover,
it is capable of repeating the crimes. Why
|then should we not dread secret societies,
jand do what we can to bring them to an
}end?”’

William H. Seward, in a speach on Know-
Nothingism in the U. S. Senate in 1855 — ‘‘Be-
fore I would place my hand between the hands
of other men in a secret lodge, order, class or
council, and, bending on my knee before
them, enter into combination with them for
any object, personal or po-
litical, good or bad, I would
pray to God that that hand
and that knee might be par-
alyzed, and that I might
become an object of pity
and even the mockery of
my fellow-men. Swear, sir!
I, aman, an American citi-
zen, a Christian, swear to
submit myself to the guid-
ance and direction of other .
men, surrendering my own
judgment to their judg-
ments, and my own con-
science to their keeping!
No, no, .sir!
well the danger of confid-
ing power to irresponsible
hands, to make myself a
willing slave.’’ ‘‘Proscribe
& man, sir, because he was
not born in the same town,
or county, in which I was
born. No! Mr. President,
you know now the length

: in Matth. 9, 38.: “‘Pray ye

i therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will

qi send laborers into His harvyest.’’

é In the evening of the same day, March Ist,

e - the brethren met again at St. John’s Col-
a lege and organized a conference, naming it
St. John’s Conference. It organized with ten
members and will meet again, God willing,
July next at Winfield, Kans. '

_ : Onr hearts are full of thankfulness to the

‘ good Lord, because He has done such great

_ things for us. - J. E. Raver.

President Millard Fillmore, John C. Spencer
and others—‘t The Masonic fraternity tramples
upon our rights, defeats the administration of
justice, and bids defiance to every government
which it can not control.’’

John Quincy Adams—‘“'I am prepared to
complete the demonstration before God and
man, that the Masonic oaths, obligations and
penalties can not by any possibility be recon-
ciled to the laws of morality, of Christianity,
or of the Jand.””

na ——— Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield—‘‘In conduct-
Byres Testimony of Statesmen Against Secret |i2g the governments of the world there are not
ra rites Societies. only sovereigns and ministers, but secret orders

cey John Hancock—‘‘T am opposed to all secret
* associations.’’ are

_ + Samuel Adams—‘T am decidedly opposed eee

all'secret societies whatever.”? ; Charles Sumner—‘‘I find two powers here

Thaddeus Stevens —‘‘By Freemasonry trial)in Washington in harmony, apd both are an-

jury is transformed into an engine of despo-| tagonistical to our free institutions, and tend

. 7 to centralization and anarchy— Freemasonry

40 be considered, which have agents every-
where—reckless agents, who countenance as-
Sassination, and, if necessary, can produce a;
massacre.’”

and ‘he breadth of my con-
nection with the new and mysterious order of
patriots, the Know-Nothings!”’

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Bible Reading.

A young lady, asked by her friend to ex-
plain what is meant by devotional reading of

the Bible, made answer as follows: ‘‘Yester- -

day morning, I received a letter from one to
whom I have given my heart and devoted my
life. I freely confess to you that I have read
that letter five times, not because I did not
understand it atthe first reading, nor because
I expectéd to commend myself to the author-
by frequent reading of his epistle. It was not
with me a question of duty, but simply one of
pleasure. I read it because I am devoted to.
the one who wrote it. To read the Bible with
the same motive, is to read’ it devotionally,
and to one who reads it in that spirit, it is,
indeed, a love letter.”,—U. P. -

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