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SECRET SOCIETIES.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Preaches on Or.
ganizations That Work for
Humazity's Service.
WHY SILENCE IS SOMETIMES BEST.
{Copyright 18011
Wasnixarox, D. C—A practical ques-
tion which is asked in most houses and
for many years is here asked by Dr. Tal
mage and answered; text, Proverbs XXV,
9, “Disal™er not a secret to another.”
It appears that in Solomon's time, asin
all subsequent periods of the world, there
were people too much gisposed to tell all
they knew. It was blab, blab, blab; phy-
sicians revealing the case of their pa-
tients, lawyers exposing the private af-
fairs of their clients, neighbors advertising
the faults of the next door resident, pre-
tending friends betraying confidences.
One-half of the trouble of every com-
munity comes from the fact that so many
people have not capacity to keep their
mouths shut. When I hear something dis-
paraging of you, my first duty is not to
tell you, but if 1 tell you what somebody
has said agaiast you and then go out and
tell everybody else what I told vou, and
they go out and tell others what I told
them that I told you, and we all go out,
some to hunt up the originator of the
story and others to hunt it down, we
shall get the whole community talking
about what you do and what vou did not
do, and there will be as many scalps
taken as though a band of Modoes had
swept upon a helpless village. We have
two ears, but only one tongue, a physio
logical suggestion that we ought to hear
a good deal more than we tell. Let us
join a conspiracy that we will tell each
other all the good and nothing of the ill,
and then there will not be such awful need
of sermons on Solomon's words, “Discover
not a secret to another.”
Solomon had a very large domestis cir-
cle. In his earlier days he had very con-
fused notions about monogamy and poly-
gamy, and his multitudinous associates in
the matrimonial state kept him too well
informed as to what was going on in Jeru-
salem. They gathered up all the privacies
and poured them into his ear, and his
family became a sorosis or female debat
ing society of 700, discussing day after day
all the difficulties between husbands and
wires, between employers and employes,
between rulers om subjects, until Solo-
mon, in my text, deplores volubility about
affairs that do not belong to us and extols
the virtue of secretiveness.
By the power of a secret divulged fam-
ilies, churches, neighborhoods, nations,
fly apart. By the power of a secret kept
charities, rocilalities, reformatory move
ments and Christian enterprises may be
advanced. Men are gregarious—cattie in
herds, fish in schools, birds in flocks, men
in social circdes. You may by the dis
charge of a gun scatter a flock of quails
or by the plunge of an anchor send apart
the denizens of the sea, but they i
ather themselves together again f yon
y some new power could break the asso
cations in which men now stand, they
would again adhere. God meant it so. He
has gathered all the flowers and shrubs
into associations. You plant
forget-me-not or heartsease alone
off upon the hillside, but it will
hunt up some other forget-me-not or
heartsease. Plants love company. You
will find them talking to each other in
the dew.
You sometimes see a man with no out
branchings of sympathy. His nature
coid and hard, like a ship's mast
glazed, which the most agile sailor could
never climb. Others have a thousand
roots and a thousand branches. Innum-
erable tendrils climb their hearts and blos-
som all the way up, and the fowls of
heaven sing in the branches. In « .
quence of this tendency we find men com
ing together in tribes, in communitie %, In
churches, in societies. Some gather to
ether to cultivate the arts, some to plan
r the welfare of the state, some to dis
cuss religious themes, some to kindle their
mirth, some to advance their craft. So
may one
away
sSO0n
sociations of artists, of grchants, of
bookbinders, of carpenters, of masons, of
Plasterers, of shipwrights, of plumbers
you cry out against it? Then you ery
out agmnst a tendency divinely implanted.
Your tirades would accomplish™ no more
than if you should preach to a busy ant
hill a long sermon against secret societies.
Here we find the oft-discussed question
whether associations that do their work
with closed doors and admit their mem
bers by passwords and greet each ot!
with a secret grip are right or wrong
answer that it depends entirely
nature of the object for which the
Is it to pass the hours in revelry, wassail,
blasphemy and obscene talk or to plot
trouble to the state or to debauch the
nocent, thes | say with an emg
no man can mistake, “No!” Ba
object the defense of the r
class againet oppression, the Improvement
of the mind, the enlargement of the
the advancement of art. the defense of
the Government, the extirpation of crime
or the kindling of a pure hearted sociality
then 1 say with just as much emphasis,
“Yes. »
There is no need
meet
ghts of
heart
hat we who plan for
the conquest of right over wrong should
publish to all the world our intentions
The general of an army never sends to the
opposing troops wmation of the
ing attack. Shail we who have enlisted
in the cause of God and humanity expose
our plans to the enemy’ No: we wiil in
secret plot the ruin of all the enterprises
of Satan and his cohorts! When they
expect us by day, we will fall upon them
by might. While they are strengthening
their left wing we will fali on their right.
By a plan of battle formed in secret con-
clave we will come suddenly upon them.
crying, “The sword of the Lord and ol
Gideon!” Secrecy of plot and execution
18 wrong omy when the object and ends
are nefarious. Every family is a secret so
ciety, every basiness firm and eve ry bank-
fog and maurance institution,
hose men who have no
keep a mecret are unfit for
trust anywhere. There are thousands of
men whose vital need is culturing a capac
ity to keep a secret. Men talk too much,
and women, too. There is a time to keep
silence as well as a time to speak,
Although not belonging to any of the
reat secret societies about which there
as been so much violent discussion, |
have only words of praise for those asso
ciations which have for their object the
maintenance of right against wrong or the
reciamation of rat or, like the score
of mutual benefit societies called by dif-
ferent names, that provide tem JOTREY Te
bef for widows and orphans and for men
incapacitated br sickness or accident from
earning a livelihood. Had it not been for
the secret labor organizations in this
country monopoly would ago have
under its ponderous wheels ground the
Ia ring classey into an intolerable servi
tude. men who want the whole earth
to themselves would have got it before
this had it not been for the banding to-
ne od,
h
com
capacity to
ositions of
gether of great secret organizations,
while we deplore many things that have
done by them, their existence is a
necessity and their legitimate sphere dis
tinetly pointed out by the providence of
God. Buch izations sre trying to dis
mise from their associations all members
0 are in favor of anarchy and social
thos. ney will gradually cease any.
© ranny over their members,
and will forbid violent interference with
he bel t
their union or is outside of it will
an that Tassad 1 Fogiand "by The pps
in En t
chester Bricklayers By sociation, Ww, eh
ing
shillings and sixpence for the first offense,
five shillings for the second, ten shillings
for the third, and if still persisting shall
be dealt with as the committee thinks
proper.
Let any Christian wife rejoice when her |
husband consecrates evenings to the serv-
ice of humanity and of God or anything
elevating, but let no man sacrifice Jove
lifs to secret society life, as many do. I
ean point out to you a great many names
of men: who are guilty of this sacrilege,
They are as genial as angels at the society |
rooms and as ugly as sin at home. They |
are generous on all subjects of wine sup- |
pers, yachts and fine horses, but they are
stingy about their 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 mar-
ried it, and he is guilty of moral bigamy. |
Under this process the wife, whatever her |
features, becomes uninteresting and
homely, He becomes critical of her, does |
not like the dress. does not like the way |
she arranges her hair, is amazed that he
ever was so wunromantic as to offer her
hand and heart
There are secret societies where member-
ship alwavs involves domestic shipwreck. |
Tell me that a man has joined a certain |
kind and tell nme nothing more about him |
for ten years. and I will write his history |
if he be still alive. The man is a wine |
guzzler, hiz wife broken hearted or pre. |
maturely old, his fortune gone and his |
home a mere name in the directory.
Here are six secular nights in the week. |
“What shall I do with them?’ savs t!
father and the husband. “I will give four |
of these nights to the improvement and |
entertainment of my family, either at |
home or in good neighborhood. [I will de-
vote one to charitable institutions. I will |
devote one to my lodge.” I congratulate |
vou. Here is a man who saves. “Out of the |
six secular nights of the week 1 will de- |
vote five to lodges and clubs and associa-
tions and one to the home, which night I
will spend in ‘scowling like a March squall, |
wishing I was out spending it as I have
spent the other five.” That man's obitu- |
ary is written. Not one out of 10,000 that |
ever get so far on the wrong road ever |
Gradually his health will fail |
through late hours, and through too much
stimulants be will be first-rate prey for |
ervsipelas and rheumatism of the bert
The doctor coming in will at a glance see |
it is not only present disease rust |
fight, but years of fast living. The cler
gyman for the sake of the feelings of the
family on the funeral day will enly talk
in religions generah The mea who
got his yacht in the eternal rapids will
not be at the obsequies. T
stops.
1
ne
ties
They have press.
ing engagements that dav. They will send |
flowers to the coffin, will send their wives
to utter words of sympathy, but they will |
have engagements elsewhere. They never |
come
Another test
whether your
wrong is the effect it
occupation. I can
which
rocietly
has on
3
retand i
by
secret
Orn
ciety has
{ dling
credit
more
bale of goods
were
Al before
gency
the
ran
r two mem-
death with
tips with the
social
bere, their beaten
ball player's bat or cut ;
fy prow of
i
under the swift hoofs of
ont he regatta or gom down
{ the fast horse
or drowned in the large potations o £
nac Monongahela. The secret so
the Loch Earn. Their business
Ville de Havre They struck,
Ville de Havre went under!
The third test by which yon may know
whether the society to which vou belong
is good or bad is this: What is its effect
on vour sense of moral and religious obli.
: Now, if 1 should take the names
of all the people in this audience and put
them on a roll. and then I should lay that '
ro back of this organ, and a hundred
years from now some one should take that
roll and eall it from A te Z. there would
ot one of you answer. I say that any so-
ciety that makes me forget that fact is a
bad society.
. Which would you rather have in vour
hand when vou come to die—a pack of
rards aor 5 Bible * Which would you
rather have pressed to your lips in the
Crex the cup of Belsharzarean
] chalice of Christian com.
Whom would you rather have
vallbearers—the elders of a
bristian church or the companions whose
mversation was full of slang and ingen.
Whom would vou rather have for |
vou eternal companions—those men who
spend their evenings betting, gambling,
ring. carousing and telling vile stories
or your little child. that bright girl whom
the Lord took? Oh, vou would not have
awar so much nights, would you, if
"i had known she was ROINg away so
oon? Dear me, your house has never
wen the same place since. Your wife
int never brightened up: she has never
ent over it: she never will get over it
How long the evenings are with no one to
put to bed and no one to whom to tell
the beautiful Bible stories’ What a pity
it is that vou cannot spend more even-
home in trying to help her bear
sorrow! You can never drown that
arief in the wine cup. You ean never
reak away from the little arms that
used to be flung around vour 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
nur lips the dying kiss of vour little girl. |
The fascination of a had secret society ia
#0 great that sometimes a man has turned |
hie back on his home shen his child was
fying of scariet fever. He went awsy, |
Before he got back at midnight the eyes
had been closed, the undertaker had done |
nis work, and the wife, worn out with
three weeks’ watching. lay unconscious
in the next room. Then the returned
[ater comes up stairs. and he sees the
cradle gone. and he says, “What is the
matter? On the judgment day he will
find out what was the matter i
Oh, man astray, God help you!
going to make a very stout rope. You
know that sometimes a ropemaker will
take very small threads and wind them to-
gether until after awhile they become a
ship cable, And I am going to take some
very small. delicate threads and wind
them together until they make a very
«tout rope, will take all the memories
of the marriage day—a thread of laughter, |
a thread of light. a thread of music, a
del] a thread of congrat.
wist them t t
have one strand. Then I aks a Ry
ihe hour of the first advent in your house
n thread of the darkness that preceded,
and a thread of the light that followed’
and a thread of the utiful somrf that
little child used to wear whan she bound.
ed out at eventide to greet you, and then
a thread of the beautiful in which
you laid her away for the resurrection,
and then I twist all these th to: |
gether and I have another . Then
take a thread of the scarlet robe of a
suffering Christ, and « thread of the white
raiment of your loved ones fore the
throne, and a string of the barp seraphic |
and I twist them all together, and Th ve
a third strand. “Oh.” vou amy, “sit
strand is enough to hold fast a world.” |
No: I will take these strands. and 1 will
twist them together, and one end of that
rove I will fasten not to the communion |
table, for it shall be removed: not to a
pillar of the organ, for that will erumble
in the ages, but 1 wind it round an
round the cross of a sywpathizing Christ
and having fastened one end of the rope
to the cross I throw the otper end to Po
ing moment
the
union?
your
mga at
3
taat
I am
Lay hold of it!
Ayo a it! Pull for your life!
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