The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-08-01
TALMAGE's SERMON.
DISCOVER NOT A SECRET TO
ANOTHER.'s
Keeping Ones Own Counsel = People
Should Learn Say Nothing of Others
THAT Is Not Of Good fmport-Prov-
CRIBS xXVs D.

Washington. July 2s.@A practical |
question which is asked in most |
houses, and for many years. is here |
asked by Dr. Talmage and answered; |
text, Proverbs XIV, 9, Discover not a
secret to another
1t appears that in Solomon's time,
as in all subsequent periods Of the
world, there were people too much dis
posed to tell all they knew. Tt was
blab, bIab, blab; physicians revealing
the case of their patients, lawyers ex-
posing the private affairs of their eli
ents, neighbors advertising the faults
Of the next door resident, pretended
friends betraying condolences
One-half of the trouble of every COM
n,unity comes from the fact that so
many people have not the capacity to
keep their mouths shut. When 1 hear
something disparaging of you, my first
duty is not to tell you, but if tell you
what somebody has said against you
and then go out and tell everybody
else what I told you, and they go out
and tell others what I tod them that
l 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 did not do and there
Will be as many scalps taken as though
band of Modocs had swept upon
helpless village. We have two ears
| put only one tongue, a physiological
| suggestion that we ought to hear a
good deal more than we tell Let us
| join conspiracy that we will tell each
] other all the good and nothing of the
| i'll, and then there will not be such
| awful need of sermons on Solomon's
| words, Discover not a secret to
| other.''
| Solomon had a very large domestic
circle In his earlier days he had very
/ al, n
| polygamy, and his multitudinous assoc
| clates in the matrimonial state kept
| him too well informed as to what was
| going on in Jerusalem. They gathered
up all the privacies and poured them
into his ear, and his family became
| sorosis female debating society OF
| 700, discussing day after day all the
difficulties between husbands and
| wives, between employers and en-
ployes, between rulers and subjects,
| until Solomon, in my text, dep1Ores
volubiltty about affairs that do not
belong to US and extols the virtue of
secretiveness
Outbrar chinss Sympathy.
| You sometimes see a man with no
| outbranchfngs of sympathy. His ma
| ture is cold and hard like a ships
| mast ice glazed, which the most agile
| sailor could never climb. Others have
a thousand roots and thousand
|
their hearts and blossom all the way
up, and the fowls of heaven sing in the
branches. In consequence of this ten
dency we find men coming together in
tribes, III communities, in churches, in
| societies. Some gather together to cu1-
tivate the arts, some to plan for the
| welfare of the state, some to discuss
| religious themes, some to kind1e their
| mirth, some to advance their craft.
So every active community is divided
into associations of artists, of mer-
chants, of bookbinders, of carpenters
of masons, of plasterers, of ship
wrights, of plum ers. Do you cry out
: against it? Then you cry out against
[ a tendency divinely implanted. Your
| TRADES would accomplish more than
if you should preach to a busy ant
hill a long sermon against secret So
cieties.
Here we find the oft discussed ques
!, ton whether associations that do thei1
work with closed doors and admit the
members by passwords and greet each
other with a secret grip are right Oh
wrong. I answer that it depends en-
tirely on the nature of the object fol
| which they meet Is it to pass the
: hours in reve1ry, wassaiI, blasphem,
and obscene talk or to plot trouble tt
| the state or to debauch the innocent
then I say, with an emphasis that NJ
man can mistake No. But is tn.
| object the defense of the rights OF an,
class against oppression the improve
ment OF the mind, the enlargement o
! | the heart, the advancement Of art tn
defense of the government, the extir
: patton OF crime or the kindling OF
pure hearted soeiality. then I say, witt
). just as much emphasis, Yes.
Secret Societies.
a There are secret societies in our col
r 1eges that have letters of the Greek al
o phabet for their nomenclature, an
: | their members are at the very front il
4 scholarship and irreproachable in NOR
- ais, while there are others the seen
e | of carousal, and they gamble and the
s drink, and they graduate knowing
e hundred times more about sin thal
they do of geometry and Sophocles
In other words, secret societies, lik
individuals. are good bad, are tn
| means Of moral health or of tempora
: and eternal damnation. All good PEG
5 | pie recognize the vice of 51andering a