T. B. H. Stenhouse notes that Church leaders saw Freemasonry as degenerate version of priesthood.

Date
1873
Type
Book
Source
T. B. H. Stenhouse
Excommunicated
Hearsay
Direct
Late
Reference

T.B.H. Stenhouse, Rocky Mountain Saints, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1873, 698

Scribe/Publisher
Ward, Lock, and Tyler
People
T. B. H. Stenhouse
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

The Mormon leaders have always asserted that Free-Masonry was a bastard and degenerate representation of the order of the true priesthood. The reader needs, therefore, no other statement than that of the leaders, to form an estimate of the signs, grips, passwords, rites, and ceremonies of the Endowment House.

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