Church critic John Hyde ridicules Church's use of Freemasonry.
John Hyde, Mormonism; its leaders and designs (New York W.P. Fetridge, 1857), 100
There is one thing that is utterly ridiculous, the pretending to claim inspiration as its source. Its signs, tokens, marks, and ideas are plagiarized from masonry. The whole affair is being constantly amended and corrected, and Kimball often says, "We will get it perfect by-and-by."