considerable eminence in the 17th century, said, in reference to the
complaisant spirit of the early church towards the Pagans, that "it was
attended by very bad consequences, since Christianity became at last,
by that means, nothing else but reformed Paganism, as to its divine
worship." See Stillingfleet's defense of the charge of idolatry against
the Romanists, vol. 5, page 459. M. Turrentin, of Geneva, Switzerland,
a learned Protestant writer of the 17th century, in one of his orations
describing the state of Christianity in the 4th century, says "that it
was not so much the Empire that was brought over to the faith, as the
faith that was brought over to the Empire; not the Pagans who were
converted to Christianity, but the Christians who were converted to
Paganism." Thus, having shown that the Catholics derived all their
cardinal tenets from the Pagan mythology, the Protestants must surely
have obtained theirs from the Catholics, for they teach all of them
except that of Purgatory.



FREEMASONRY AND DRUIDISM.

The rites and ceremonies of Astral worship, under the name of Druidism,
were primarily observed in consecrated groves by all peoples; which
custom was retained by the Scandinavian and Germanic races, and by the
inhabitants of Gaul and the British Islands; while the East Indians,
Assyrians, Egyptians, Grecians, Romans, and other adjacent nations,
ultimately observed their religious services in temples; and we propose
to show that the modern societies of Freemasonry, and ancient order of
Druids, are but perpetuations of the grove and temple forms of the
ancient astrolatry. In determining the fact that Freemasonry finds its
prototype in the temple worship of ancient Egypt, we have but to study