This act shall not apply to assessment associations or to fraternal benefit societies, orders, or associations, having a lodge system with ritualistic form of work and representative form of government; or to beneficial and relief associations formed by churches, societies, copartnerships, associations, or corporations, with or without ritualistic form of work, the privileges and membership in which are confined to the members of such churches, societies, and to members and employes of such copartnerships, associations, or corporations.
40 P.S. § 365