The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-08-08
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
DISCOVER NOT 4 SECRET TO
ANOTHER"
Keeping ons's 0wn Counsel People
sheaid Le-rn 70 So Sothinn Of Others
Ihat Il Not of Coed Inport-Pro..
srbs XIV q

tCepvright 1901, Louis Kiopsch. n Y
washington july ga praetica
question which is asked IN mos
houses, and for many years. is her,
asked BY DR.. Talmage and answered,
text Proverbs XIV. g. Discover not 4
secret to another"
L appears that 10 solomon's ume
As In al subsequent periods Of the
world. there were people too much ais.
posed 10 tell all they knew. It was
olab, blah. blab'' physicians revealing
the case Of their patients. lawyers ex-
posing the private affairs Of their cli-
ents. neithboEs Advertising the faults
OF the next door resident pretended
ffie1ds betraying condolences
One-half Of the trouble OF cry com
munity comes from the fact that So
many people have hot the capacity to
keep their mouths shut when J hear
something dlsparaging Of YOU, my first
duty Is not 10 tell you. but II / tell you
what somebody has said against you
and then 60 out and tell everybody
else what J told you. and they go out
ana telI others what ] tod them that
s9ie you, and We all go out, some 70
nunt up the originator Of TIE story
and Others 10 hunt It down. we shall
Eet The whole community talking
about what you did not do. and there
vii be a. many scalps taken as though
band OF Modocs had swept upon d
helpless village We have Two ears.
but only one iongue. physiological
suggestion that we ought 10 hear a
eood deal more than we tell Let as
Join a conspiracy that We win tell each
other all the good and nothing Of the
III. and then there win not Be such
awful need Of sermons on solomone
words, Discover not a secret 10 an
other
Solomon had a very large domestic
circle fn his earlier days be had very
eonfuaed notions about monogamy and
polyGamy. and bic multludinous asso-
ciates IN the matrimonial state kept
him too well Informed as 10 what was
going on IN Jerusalem They gathered
up all the privacies and poured them
into HIS ear. and bis family became a
sorosis Or female debating society OF
700, discussing day after day an the
dlfncul,ies between husbands and
wives, between employers and em-
ployea, between rulers and subjects.
until solomon, In my text. dsplores
voiubihty about Affairs that DO not
beiong TO Us and extols the virtue OF
secreiiyeness.
buthraf chinxs % sympathy,
You sometimes see a man with no
outbranchings Of sympathy His ma
ture IL cold and hard. like a ships
mast Ice glazed. which the most agile
sailor could never climb Others have
q thousand roots and thousand
branches. Innumerable tendriis climb
thelg hearts and blossom an the way
'ub and the fowls Of heaven sing IN the
branches Ii consequence Of this ten
dency We ind men coming together in
tribes. IN communities. 10 churches. IN
societies Some gather together 10 cul-
tiyate the arts. some 10 plan for the
welfare of The state. some 20 discuss
religious themes some to kindie their
mirth. some 20 advance their craft
50 svery active community ia divided
into associations n artists. OF mer-
chants. Of bookhlnders. of carpenters
of masone. Of plasterers. OF ship 1
wrlghts Of plumbers DO you cry out
against ~ Then you CRY out against /
: tendency diYineiy implanted Your
Trades would accomplish no more than I
n you should preach 70 a busy ant
bin a long sermon against secret So
cieties.
Here We End the on discussed ones
zion whether associations that DO their /
work with closed doors and admit their /
members By passwords and greet each /
other with q secret grip are right or
wrong answer that Il depends en-
tirely on thN nature or the object for
which they iaeet Il Il 10 pass the
hours 10 revelry wassail. hlasphemy
and obscene talk or to plot trouble to
the state or 20 debauch the innocent
then ] say, with an emphasis that no
man can mistake No But is the
object the defense of the rights OF any
class against oppression. the improve
ment Of the mind. the enlargement of
The heart the Advancement Of art the
defense of the government. the exiir-
patton Of crime or the klndling of
pure hearted socialiiy. then sar. With
Just a. much emphasis. Yesi
secret socieiis.
There are secret rocieties 10 our ct!.
iege6 that have letters of thc Greek al
phabet for their nomenclature. and
their members are a. the very front In
and irreproachahle In NOR
ais while there are others the scene
Of carousal, and they gamble. and they
drink. and they graduate knowing
hundred times more about sin than
they do Of geometry and sophocios
In other words. secret societies like
individuals. are good OF bad. are the
means OF moral health or Of temporal
md eternal damnsiion All good peo-
pie recognize the vice Of slandcring an
Individual but many DO not see the sin
,f slandenng an organization. There
are old secret societies in this and
other countries. some OF them cen.
luries old, which have been widely de-
bounced as immoral and damaging IN
heir influence. yet I have hundreds
1f personal friends who belong to them
friends who are consecrated to God. {
pillars IN the church. faithful ln an re-
esions Of life. examples OF virtue and
,iesy They are the Kind Of friends J
whom 7 would have for my executors
Il the time Of deoease. and they are I
ne men whom ] would have carry me- !
lui 10 the last sleep when I am dead Z
fou cannot make me believe that they n
would belong 70 bad institutions They
re the men who would stamp on any (
hing ubiquitous. and ] would certain q
y rather take their testimony in re- }
Iard to such societies than the testi-