National Christian Association (anti-secretist)
From Kook Science
| National Christian Association | |
|---|---|
| Formation | organised 1868; incorporated 1874 |
| Dissolution | 1983 |
| Purpose/focus | Anti-Secretism |
| Headquarters | Chicago, Ill. |
| Main organ | The Christian Cynosure |
The National Christian Association was an American anti-secretist organisation, formed in 1868 and incorporated in 1874 at Chicago, Illinois, existing in order "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."[1] Toward that end, the association published a regular newspaper, The Christian Cynosure, and hosted conferences across the United States, at which speakers "directed attention to the anti-christian and despotic character of the secret lodge system," as well as "its deceitful and dangerous work."[1]
Among the groups early lecturers was Edmond Ronayne (1832-1911), a former Past Master of the Keystone Lodge No. 639 (Chicago, Illinois), who wrote anti-Masonic books, including The Handbook of Free Masonry (1876) and The Master's Carpet, or Masonry and Baal-Worship Identical (1879).
Resources
- Christian Cynosure, archive.org, https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22Christian+Cynosure%22&page=2 — scanned issues of the NCA's primary organ
- National Christian Association (NCA) Records, 1868-1983, wheaton.edu, https://archon.wheaton.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=66&q=&rootcontentid=50616
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The National Christian Association, https://books.google.com/books?id=igwdAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA13-PA17-IA4#v=onepage&q&f=false — a pamphlet describing the NCA, its goals, etc.