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...Mason also be a Christian? To the Rev. Walter Bauer, pastor of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Lake Erie village of Fisherville (pop. 2,200), the answer is no. Nowhere in their prayers or ritual, he told his congregation in a sermon, do Masons make mention of Jesus Christ.* Furthermore, he had come upon a passage in a Freemason lexicon that defined the Bible as a "symbol of the will of God." Pastor Bauer concluded that such teachings were unChristian. He challenged lodge members to disprove his charges...
...church's congregation knew that their pastor's words were aimed at three members who belonged to a Masonic lodge in nearby Hagersville. To the three Masons, Pastor Bauer gave an ultimatum: give up your lodge affiliation or leave the church. He refused to let them take Communion. He had, he claimed, the full backing of his twelve councilmen...
...Masons refused to drop their lodge membership. Said one: "Mr. Bauer is 150 years behind the times . . . He'll take our money but he won't give us Communion or bury us." Retorted the pastor: "If a Mason wanted a lodge burial, I would refuse to officiate." A church council decided to put the issue to a vote...
...Bauer met Remington in April, 1944, when entering the Navy Oriental Language School at Boulder, Colorado. Later both men served as Russian language experts for the Office of Naval Intelligence in Washington...
...considered Remington a friend," Bauer stated yesterday, "and I still consider him a friend...