Secret Societies, rot a secret to another.” 3 ary y 63 1 } LT appears ul tell all they knew, £ +} affairs of their clients, sident: pretended friends EYTRAYING CONFIDENCES, Ue from the fact that le have not capacity to keep munity many peop their mouths shut, +} ’ v . yor » Hing GISparag! t to tell S HOU W« comes ror ng you, of you, my first duty 1 But if 1 tell what somebody has said against you, | then go out and tell everybody else [ told you, and they go out and Vv SELES i what d we all go out, some to hunt rigin: of the and t it down, we shall get the ity talking about what 1d what you did not do, » a8 many scalps taken Modoes had We have tw lor story swept illaoe age, tongue FH CLOSED DOORS members | , al h other with a grip, are right or wrong. I ane r that it depends entirely on the na- ture of the object for which they meet, Is it to pass the hours in revelry, Was. ail, blasphemy, and obscene talk, or to fp pass v $ “i tte ple ! ible to the State, or to debaue h the then I say with an em- phasis that no man can mistake, No! jut is the object the defence of rights of any class against oppression, the improvement of the mind, the en- largement of the heart, the advance- ment of art, the defence of the Govern ment, the extirpation of crite, or the nnocent, Sis kindling of a pure-hearted sociality then I say, with just as much emphasis, Xes, There is no need that we who plan for the conquest of right over wrong should publish to all the world our in- tentions, The general of an army never send¢ tothe opposing troops informa- tion of the coming attack. Shall we who have enlisted in the cause of God and humanity expose our plans to the enemy? No! we will in secret plot the his cohorts, «lay we will fall upon them by night, wing we will fall on their right. plan of battle formed IN EECRET CONCLAVE we will come suddenly upon them cry. ing. Grideon.” Secrecy of plot and execn- tion are wrong only when the object and ends are nefarious. Every family is a secret society, every business firm, and every banking and insurance in. stitution, Those men who have no «4; acity to keep a secret are unfit for ERE we culturing a capacity to keep a secret, Men talk too much, and women { There is a time to keep silence as well | as a time to speak, Although not belonging to any of the great secret societies about which there has been so much violent discussion, 1 have only words of praise for those as- sociations which have for their object i the maintenance of right against wrong, or the reclamation of inebriates, or, | like the score of mutual benefit 100, | vide tempcrary relief for widows { orphans, and for men sickness or accident livelihood, Had it SECRET LABOK from 10t been for the NIZATION Cur ORG would lon 4 in this coun i ago have, under t ground the labori tolerable i want tl try monopoly i it is ponderous wheels, into an in servit men who whole earth to tl would have got it before this had it not | been for the banding together of great | secret. organizations, And while we { deplore many things that | been t done by them, their existence i sity, and their le MO te Hae, the wemselves itimate i ¥ fluence on home, That wife ence over her and foolishly looks absence as an assanit How are the great enter and art and literature and beneficenc and public weal to be carried « every man is to have his world bounded nome, s soon lose hia} d + nusband who yt A ‘ upon a even . 1 » i on domesticity ‘4 af dg prises of reforn on the other side by his back window, knowing nothing higher than his own #ttic or lower than his own eellar ? That wife who becomes jealous of her husband’s attention to art or literature { or religion or charity is breaking her own sceptre ot conjugal power, 1 know an instance where a wife thought { that her husband was giving too many i religious convocation. She systemati- { cally decoyed him away, until now he | attends no church, waits upon no chari- table institution, and is on a rapid way | to destruction, his morals gone, money gone, and, I fear, his soul gone, | her husband consedrates evenings to { the service of humanity, and of God or | anything elevating, Dut LET XO MAN SACRIFICE HOME can point out to you a great many names of men who | sacrilege. They are as genial as angels at the society room, and as ugly as sin at home. They are generous on all sub. i jects of wine suppers, yachts, and fast horses, but they are stingy about the | wives’ dresses and the children's shoes. That man has made that which might be a healthful influence, a usurper of | his affections, and he has married it, and ho is guilty of moral bigamy. Under this process the wife, whatever her foa- tures, becomes uninteresting and homes —_ critical of her, does $, does not like the way she arranges her hair, is amazed that he was so unromantic as to offer het There are secret 8ocie- ties where membership always involves shipwreck, Tell that WHHIeS domestic Iie more about him for ten will write his history if he The man is a wine guz broken-hearted or prema old, his fortune and hi home a mere name in a directory, nothing still alive, gone, A BUGGE FED RATIO Here What eculars shall I do with tl the hn ights ¥ iil Le six f shard four of these and entertain to the improvement ment ther family { or in good neighborhood I of my home vole one to charitab institu s O11 Here | i ras did 1 have them afterward? (rend that union, Padi nfluer I atte nded ted sont mn house of with He CONN mnvself \ self from religious i Which would you rather and when vou come te ids or a Bible? W rather ha the closing shazzarean wassail or the chalice of Christian communiion? Whom would vou rather have for your pall-bearers the elders of a Christian church or the companions whose conversation was full of slang and innuendo? Whom wonld vou rather have for your Ve presse «1 ) | to moment--t he cup of ETERNAL COMPANIONS ting, gambling, swearing, carousing. child, that bright girl whom the Lord took? Oh, you would not have been away place since. Your wife has never She never will get over it. How long the evenings are with no one to put to bed, and no ome to whom to tell the beautiful Bible stories! What a pity it is that you canmot spend more evenings at home in trying to help her bear that sorrow! You can never drown that grief in the wine-cup, You can never break away from the little arms that used to be flung around your neck when she used to say, *‘Papa, do stay with me to-night. Do stay with me to- night.’ You will never be able to wipe { away from your lips the dying kiss of your little girl, The fascination of a bad secret society great that sometimes a man { turned his back on his home when child was dving of scarlet fever, went away, night the eyes bad been closed, the un- i dertaker had done his work. and wile, | ing, lay i Then Lalrs | 18 80 unconscious in the next the returned father and he sees the | he What is the the Judgment Day he what the matter, Oh, man astray, God help you! 1 to make TOON, up COHes AVS matter? will find out Was Oly 5 and wind they am going to threads them t 1 i rope 1} of the marriag + thread i i a thre t hires threa ocTal Hence, ladys Beatrice Hi Smit Vi ICH, We LAN 1, and Une can i sympathi the fact that many pleasing 1} hi the fact that many pleasing h itation Onsul And by the young mother and her husband in deciding what name will sound most mellifluously, and assort most fittingly ities which are so perceptibly packed up in that little cherub, their first-born. The ancients had many as to names, nd study to a science under Onomantia, even elevated numbered the citizens, they were al- ways careful that the first name taken should be an auspicious one, More than one Emperor owed his elevation expedition to Africa, gave a command { to obscure Scipio, because the people | believed that the Scipios were invinei- { ble in Africa, Similar influences weighed with the | French envoys, who went to negotiate a marriage between one of the Spanish princesses and Louis VIII, They re- jected Urraca, the elder and more beau« | tiful princess, who was intended for | their royal master, and preferred her | sister, because her name, Blanche, had | @ more musical sound, | A Spanish Ambassador to the court {of Elizabeth considered his dignity | slighted when the Queen appointed a | wealthy citizen to receive him because | his host bore the very short name of John Cuts, He soon found, however, | that if Cuts had a short name he had a long purse and a right royal way of dip- ping into it for the sake of upholding the English name for hospitality. I ons Neither despise nor oppote what you do not understand, SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. BUNDAY, MAY 8, 15837. Child Moses. TEXT, 1-10.) The 1. FLSS( 'N (Exod. 2 LESSON PLAN. TOPIC OF THE QUARTER and Deliverance, GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER: other Cod that can deliver after this sort. — Dan. 3 : 29, Tovic: A Deliverer (1. The Child Hidden, va ’ fhe Child DI covered, vu, 6.6 (4, Toe Culla Nourished, va. 1 xT. The Lord Dorn, is Hove READIN 1-10 Ne i Fhe Watchful Sister i ompassion i an Under a Divine leg plishing a m ~he omentous opened riosity: 9 }’ ance, “The babe wept.” its own discomfort; a queenly compassion; rating a royal destiny, 111. TH Care: Take this cl me (3 CHILD NOURISHED, i ld away, and nurse it for he. ..nour- » ished (2 Sam, 12: 3 dren (Isa. 1: 2). father’s house (Acts 7: 20). Acts 7: 21). 1 Growth: And the child grew (10). David waxed greater and greater (2 Sam. 5: 10, The child grew, and waxed strong in spirit (Luke 1: 80). Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature {Luke 2 : 52). Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord (2 Pet, 3: 18). IL. Royalty, He became her son (10). Ye shall bse unto me a kingdom of priests (Exod, 19: 6), Pharaoh's daughter. . . nourished for her own son (Acts 7 : | Moses. . . refused to be called son of Pharaoh's daughter (Heb, 11: 24). Ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood (1 Pet. 2:9), 1. *‘Shall I go and call thee a nurse?” (1) A question seemingly incidental; LT tid 2) A question actually pivotal; (3 A question practically momentous “The maid went and called the child’s mother,”’ 2) The mother’s TESPOTISE (3) The child's safety The princes Purpose (fF Lord's design, “The child right in ai grew I I 2; Amid favor 2 traction able surrounding destiny LESSON MOE F Abrah; 1. 2 Ma Imperiled in Matt, 2 Imperil OF note LiL te About Weird Spirits Imaginary Four Bits or ryiaan the isla: Was y ' i came back after a SON SO lie aller soon afterwa When the cry was went over and y the otinat ¥ ; 2 ng the ghost, where naving ever © i iis ong wn in England hasa spook, biel amusement seems (0 be to throw large stones, brickbats or any- thing he can lay his hands on, at mnof fensive pedestrians, He occasionally varies this performance by stealing potatoes, A Constable detailed to \ ty is § fer- ret out his ghostship was shortly after- wards found iying on his back, with his hands tied and his mouth ful. of clover- seed. A great many people believe it | to be the work of his Satanic majesty and great excitement prevails through- out the neighborhood. An old German wood-sawyer of Ga- lena, 111, is said to be a victim of super- stition more fanatically grounded than | that which prevailed in the days of | witcheraft, The man is perfectly sane | otherwise and is well educated. He | imagines himself to be continually sur- { rounded by witches, and wears a belt | filled with chunks.of lead to prevent them from flying away with him, He | also weights his ankles to such an ex- tent that it is dificult for him to walk. His place of residence is literally filled with bottled toads, lizards and other hideous objects, which are supposed to possess the power of protection from witches, i ——— A Rick Find. A man purchased two old pictures from a second-hand furniture dealer in Nashville, Tenn, recently for §1 each. After cleaning them up he discovered they were famous plotures by Carle Vernet. He sold them for $15,000 to a collectur who sent them to Paris
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