Methodists warn against Masons
NZPA-Reuter Birmingham The Methodist church said yesterday that Freemason practices could endanger Christian faith and recommended that its members not become Freemasons, the first Protestant church in Britain to do so. Delegates to the annual Methodist conference at Birmingham overwhelmingly adopted a report from the Faith and Order Committee saying that Freemasonry risked competing with
Christianity. “There is a great danger that the Christian who becomes a Freemason will find himself compromising his Christian beliefs or his allegiance to Christ, perhaps without realising what he is doing,” the report said. But a spokesman said that Masons would not be asked to leave the Methodist Church, which has half-a-million members in Britain, and promised that there would be “no witch hunt over Freemasonry.”
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Press, 5 July 1985, Page 7
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