National Christian Association (anti-secretist)

The National Christian Association was an American organisation, formed in 1868 and incorporated in 1874 at Chicago, Illinois, having as its purpose "to expose withstand and remove secret societies, Freemasonry in particular, and other anti-christian movements, in order to save the churches of Christ from being depraved, to redeem the administration of justice from perversion, and our republican government from corruption." Toward that end, the association published a regular newspaper, The Christian Cynosure, and hosted conferences across the United States, at which was "directed attention to the anti-christian and despotic character of the secret lodge system," as well as "its deceitful and dangerous work."

Resources

 * &mdash; scanned issues of the NCA's primary organ