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Christian Cynosure |
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From Pat Deveney's database:
Christian Cynosure, The.
Opposed to Secret Societies.
In secret have I said nothing -- Jesus Christ
1868–1923 Semimonthly, then weekly, then monthly
Chicago, IL. Language: English.
Publisher: Ezzra A. Cook; National Christian Association. Editor: Ezra A. Cook, publisher and editor; Rev. A.H. Leaman, editor; William I. Phillips, publisher. Corporate author: Official Organ of the National Christian Association
1/1, August -1923 (?). 4-8 pp. as fortnightly, 16 pp. as a weekly, 32 pp. as a monthly, $1.00 - $1.50 a year. The journal was a Christian (anti-Catholic) magazine of current events, politics, and reform, organized around its theme of opposition to secret societies, primarily Masonry. It contained regular examinations and condemnations of spiritualism. The journal also published a series of Cynosure Tracts on subjects like "Masonic Murder," "Masonry, A View from Woman’s Stand Point," etc.
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| Issues: | Christian Cynosure V1 1868-9 |
| Christian Cynosure V2 1869-70 |
| Christian Cynosure V3 1870-1 |
| Christian Cynosure V4 1871-2 |
| Christian Cynosure V1 Weekly 1871-2 |
| Christian Cynosure V2 Weekly 1872-3 |
| Christian Cynosure V5 1872-3 |
| Christian Cynosure V3 Weekly 1873 |
| Christian Cynosure V6 1873-4 |
| Christian Cynosure V4 Weekly 1873-4 |
| Christian Cynosure V7 1874-5 |
| Christian Cynosure V8 1875-6 |
| Christian Cynosure V9 1876-7 |
| Christian Cynosure V13 1880-1 |
| Christian Cynosure V14 1881-2 |
| Christian Cynosure V15 1882-3 |
| Christian Cynosure V16 1883-4 |
| Christian Cynosure V17 1884-5 |
| Christian Cynosure V18 1885-6 |
| Christian Cynosure V19 1886-7 |
| Christian Cynosure V20 1887-8 |
| Christian Cynosure V21 1888-9 |
| Christian Cynosure V22 1889-90 |
| Christian Cynosure V23 1890-1 |
| Christian Cynosure V24 1891-2 |
| Christian Cynosure V25 1892-3 |
| Christian Cynosure V26 1893-4 |
| Christian Cynosure V27 1894-5 |
| Christian Cynosure V28 1895-6 |
| Christian Cynosure V29 1896-7 |
| Christian Cynosure V31 1898-9 |
| Christian Cynosure V32 1899-1900 |
| Christian Cynosure V33 1900-1 |
| Christian Cynosure V34 1901-2 |
| Christian Cynosure V35 1902-3 |
| Christian Cynosure V36 1903-4 |
| Christian Cynosure V37 1904-5 |
| Christian Cynosure V38 1905-6 |
| Christian Cynosure V39 1906-7 |
| Christian Cynosure V40 1907-8 |
| Christian Cynosure V41 1908-9 |
| Christian Cynosure V42 1909-10 |
| Christian Cynosure V43 1910-11 |
| Christian Cynosure V45 1912-13 |
| Christian Cynosure V46 1913-14 |
| Christian Cynosure V47 1914-15 |
| Christian Cynosure V49 1916-17 |
| Christian Cynosure V50 1917-18 |
| Christian Cynosure V51 1918-19 |
| Christian Cynosure V52 1919-20 |
| Christian Cynosure V53 1920-21 |
| Christian Cynosure V54 1921-22 |
| Christian Cynosure V55 1922-23 |
| Christian Cynosure V56 1923-24 |
| Claude-Generated Themes:
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The Christian Cynosure (Chicago, from 1868) was the weekly organ of the National Christian Association, the leading American voice of evangelical opposition to Freemasonry and secret societies. Under the masthead 'In Secret have I said Nothing,' it catalogued and denounced the lodge system — Masonry, Odd Fellowship, the Knights of Pythias and their imitators — as un-Christian and anti-republican. It is not an esoteric journal but its mirror image: a sustained, hostile documentation of fraternal ritual that remains a key source for the reception history of Freemasonry in Gilded-Age America.
Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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| Topics: | Freemasonry and Masonic Orders | Spiritualism |