"I wish now to add that previous to writing the above I had never seen any exposures of the Lodges, save when a boy about 13 or 14 years old, I read some in Morgan's book, that I now know to be true, with but slight verbal changes from the form of words in the Lodges I attended; changes not in any wise relieving the situation or altering in substance Masonry the world over; as the exposures go to show. Witness the latest given in public print, that of the ex-Prefect of Paris, Andrieux, giving the cut-throat language of the oaths I took here in Ont. My renunciation was made on the basis and strength of my own interpretations of the institution, the Lord being my helper. It cost me more to do what I have done, and am ready to do, than perhaps some may think. I have been called liar, perjured villain, and I need not say more. God that searcheth all hearts and who has declared by His Son that 'There is nothing hidden that shall not be revealed,' He knoweth I have uttered truths, undying truths only, in what I have written of Masonry. If to be placed 'Under no less a penalty than to have my throat cut across, and my tongue torn out,' etc., in the first degree, and 'My left breast cut open and my heart torn therefrom,' etc., in the second, 'My body severed in two, my bowels torn thereout, and burned to ashes in the centre,' etc., in the third degree, the very position of every man who becomes a Master Mason, if, I say, all this and more, Oh! how much more! be right, be of the saints in the light (?) here below, and not of the 'unfruitful works of darkness,' as I supposed, then I have been wrong in writing my 'renunciations' and in publishing as from house page ix tops what I saw 'in the chambers of their imagery.' Glory to God, I revel in my freedom from the snare. Hating nobody, loving, I trust, everybody, I am yours for Christ, and his cause.