Mary Ettie V. Smith maintains that Mormonism has no relationship with Masonry.

Date
1858
Type
Book
Source
Mary Ettie V. Smith
Resigned
Critic
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Nelson Winch Green, Fifteen Years Among the Mormons (New York: Charles Scribner, 1858), 49-50

Scribe/Publisher
Charles Scribner
People
Mary Ettie V. Smith, Nelson Winch Green
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Mormons are anxious to have the "Gentiles" associate all they know of the beastly "Endowments," with Masonry, or as being a modified form of it, made eligible to women, as a blind to cover the real objects of this "Institution"; and I have noticed by the public prints, since my arrival in the States, that this was the opinion entertained among those "Gentiles" supposed to be best informed upon the subject. But this is but a mere blind; and the real object of these mystic forms is no way connected with, or borrowed from Masonry.

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