The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-08-01


You cannot make me believe that they
would belong to bad institutions. They
are the men who would stamp any
thing iniquitous, and 1 would certain
" rather take their testimony in re-
gard to such societies than the testI-
mony OF those who, having been sworn
in as members. by their assault upon
them confess themselves perjurers.
One of these secret societies gave
for the relief Of the sick in 1873 in this
country. s1,490.274- Some of these So
cleties have poured a very heaven of
sunshine and benediction into the
home of suffering Several OF them
are founded on fidelity to good citizen
ship and the Bible I have never TAX
en- one of their degrees They might
give me the grip a thousand times and
1 would not recognize it, am ignor-
ant OF their passwords, and I must
judge entirely from the outside. But
Christ has given a rule by which we
may judge not only all individuals, but
all societies, secret and open. by
their fruits We shall know them" Bad
societies make bad men. Good socie-
ties make good men. A bad man will
not stay in a good society. A good
man will not stay in bad society
Then try all secret societies by two
or three rules.
Influence Home Life.
Test the first: Their influence on
home, if you have home. That wife
soon loses her influence over her hus-
baud who nervously and foolishly
looks upon all evening absence as an
assault on domesticity. How are the
great enterprises OF reform and art
and literature and beneficence and
public veal to be carried on If every
man is to have his world bounded on
one side by his front doorstep and on
the other side by his back window,
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attic or lower than his own cellar?
That wife who becomes jealous of her
husbands attention to art or literature
or religion or charity is breaking her
own scepter of conjuga1 power I
know instance where wife
thought that her husband was giving
too many nights to Christian service,
to charitable service, to prayer meet
1ngs and to religious convocation- She
Systematically decoyed him away until
now he attends no church. waits upon
no charitable institution and is a
rapid way to destruction, his morals
gone, his money gone and, fear, his
soul gone.
Let any Christian wife rejoice when
her husband consecrates evenings to
the service of humanity and of God
or anything e1evating, but let no man
sacrifice home life to secret society
life, many do. I can point out to you
guilty of this sacriIege- They are as
genial angels at the society room
and as ugly as sin at home. They are
generous on all subjects of wine sup
pers, 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
| hea1thful influence usurper Of his af-
| lection and he has married it, and he
| is guilty of moral bigamy. Under this
| process his wife, whatever her fea-
| lures, 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 unroman-
| tic as to offer her hand and heart
| There are secret societies where mem
| bership always involves domestic ship
| wreck Tell me that man has Joined
| certain kind and tell me nothing
| more about him for ten years, and
will write his history if he be still
| alive. The man is a wine guZzler, his
wife broken hearted prematurelJ
old, his fortune gone and his home
mere name in the directory.
Evils Associations.
The doctor coming in will at
| glance see it is not only present dis
| ease he must fight, but years of fas
living. The clergyman, for the SAX
of the feelings of the family tn
funeral day will only talk in religion
generalities- The men who got hi
yacht in the eternal rapids viii not b
at the oosequies. They have pressin
engagement that day. They will sen
| flowers to the coffin, will send thei
wives to utter words of sympathy, Blu
they will have engagements else
where. They never come Bring N
ma1let and chise1, and I will cut tina
mans epitaph, Blessed are the dea
who die in the Lord2' NO you sa
that would not be appropriate LIE
me die the death of the righteous, an
let my last end be like his?" mo 20
say, that would not be appropriate.
! Then give me the ma11et and the chist
and will cut honest epitaph, Her
lies the victim Of dissipating associa
| tionsi'
Another test by which you can fin
whether your secret society is right c
wrong is the effect it has on your sect
lar occupation I can understand ho
!. | through such an institution a man ca
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