Constitutional Musings: Note 7 - Secret Societies, Masons

From time to time the Office of the General Assembly is asked if the Assembly has stated a position on secret societies: whether they are cults or heretical;  whether a person is permitted to be minister or an elder while being a member of a secret society. 

There is no reference to General Assembly actions relating to Secret Societies or to the Masons in more than seventy years. It took some digging to find but the most recent action is from the United Presbyterian Church in North America, Article XXXV of The Confessional Statement, adopted in 1925.