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