32078 SERMONS AND ADDRESSES -ON SECRET SOCIETIES, -BY REV LEBBEUS ARMSTRONG, REV. DANIEL Dow, REV. W. P. MCNARY, REV. R. T. CROSS, REV. JAMES WILLIAMS, REV. J. SARVER, PREST. J. BLANCHARD, PREST. H. H. GEORGE, PROF. J. G. CARSON, REV. M. S. DRURY, REV. ROBERT POST. FOURTEEN PAMPHLETS IN ONE VOLUME. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. EZRA A. COOK, PUBLISHER, ADVERTISEMENT. These fourteen pamphlets are here bound together for the convenience of those who wish them in permanent form for public and private libraries. The attentive reader will not fail to find in this volume arguments with which to meet the most subtle attack of the powers of darkness. Quite a number of the authors speak from their own experience in these Secret Orders; and others are reckoned among the clearest thinkers and most logical reasoners in the nation. All speak from a thorough knowledge of the subject and no christian or patriot will think of joining any secret order after a careful perusal of this volume. These pamphlets are still published separately in paper covers. EZRA A. COOK CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. MASONRY A WORK OF DARKNESS. A SERMON BY REV. LEBBEUS ARMSTRONG. The copy from which this Discourse is printed, was found in tne "United and Reformed Presbyterian Pulpit" for December, 1869, and January, 1870, then published at Xenia, Ohio. The following Note was subjoined by the Editors. NOTE. Upon the abduction of Wm. Morgan, Sept., 1827, the eyes of the entire country were opened to the true character of the [Masonic] organization, and the dangers to which our country was exposed from it, and many good men, who had been entangled with it, publicly acknowledged its character and withdrew from it. For a time it seemed to have received its death-blow, and thereafter for years received but little attention. But it has been secretly growing and working its way to place and power, until recently its impudence and assumptions have again aroused the fears of Christians and patriots; and the notes of alarm are being sounded not only from Oberlin, but over the length and breadth of the land. The following discourse, though delivered several years ago, yet presents the nature of the institution so clearly and succinctly, and there seems to be so much need of something of the kind, that we cheerfully give it a place in the PULPIT. Should it be said that Masonry has |