Word: masons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here is a statement on the contradiction between Christianity and Masonry by a Mason who frankly renounced Christianity: "If 'we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, by faith and not for our own works or deservings' (Christianity), then it cannot possibly be true that the All-Seeing Eye 'pervades the inmost recesses of the human heart and will reward us according to our merits' (Masonry). One of these declarations excludes the other...
...carried him past the shadow of the electric chair three times, through the highest courts of the land and deep into the hard, rotten heart of the Alabama penal system. But in July 1948, Haywood Patterson finally made it. He escaped from Alabama's Kilby prison, crossed the Mason-Dixon line and hid out, a fugitive, an almost forgotten speck on the national conscience-the eighth of the Scottsboro Boys to get out of jail...
When the book begins, heroine Lady Mason is a loved and lovely widow, long domiciled at Orley Farm. Over 20 years have passed since her aged husband, on his deathbed, bequeathed the farm to their infant son. Or so the legal world had always believed-and would have continued to believe, had not young Lucius Mason, on taking over the old farm at the age of 22, brusquely brought to an end a certain Mr. Dockwrath's tenancy of two of the Orley fields...
...Dockwrath was a sly, vindictive man. He was also a shrewd country lawyer. When he was kicked out of Orley he retorted by digging into an old trunk and producing a couple of legal documents that threatened ruin to Lady Mason and her impetuous...
...Littlehampton on the outskirts of town, about 1800, to house the noble lord's friend, the poet Jeremy Tipple. At first a pretty little country house, the building becomes in turn a town house crowded by a garish gin palace and a draper's shop, a mason's workshop, and finally-in the Drayneflete Plan-a pickled historical monument ornamenting a main traffic artery...