[623] Morse, Sermon on the National Fast, May 9, 1798, p. 21.
[624] Ibid.
[625] Ibid., pp. 22 et seq.
[626] Ibid., p. 23.
[627] Ibid.
[628] Ibid., p. 24.
[629] Robison’s reference to the “several” societies established in America previous to 1786 (cf. supra, [p. 210]) is specifically referred to. Cf. Sermon on the National Fast, May 9, 1798, p. 23.
[630] Ibid., p. 24.
[631] Morse, op. cit., p. 24.
[632] Morse had been at pains in his sermon to recommend Robison’s volume as throwing a flood of light upon “the causes which have brought the world into its present disorganized state.” (Ibid., pp. 24 et seq.) Later it must have occurred to him that the silence he had maintained in the pulpit respecting Masonry’s part in the conspiracy was bound to be noticed by all who upon his recommendation read Robison’s volume.