Secret Societies
MacDill, David, 1826-1903;Beecher, Edward, 1803-1895;Blanchard, Jonathan, 1811-1892
English
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SECRET SOCIETIES:
A DISCUSSION OF THEIR CHARACTER AND CLAIMS,
BY
REV. DAVID MACDILL,
JONATHAN BLANCHARD, D. D.,
AND
EDWARD BEECHER, D. D.
'Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.' --EPH. v: 11.
CONTENTS.
- by Rev. D. MacDill
- by Jonathan Blanchard, D. D.
- . by Edward Beecher, D. D.
- CHAPTER I. The moral character of secrecy.
- CHAPTER II. Associations or combinations involving secrecy.
- CHAPTER III. Religious rites and worship in societies or organizations, open or secret.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
CHAPTER I.
Their Antiquity.
1. Secret associations are of very ancient origin. They existed among the ancient Egyptians, Hindoos, Grecians, Romans, and probably among nearly all the pagan nations of antiquity. This fact, however is neither proof of their utility nor of their harmlessness. Slavery, despotism, cruelty, drunken falsehood, and all sorts of sins and crimes have been practiced from time immemorial, but are none the less to be reprobated on that account.
2. The facts that these associations had no existence among the Israelites, who, alone of all the ancient nations, enjoyed the light of Divine revelation, and that they originated and flourished among the heathen, who were vain in their imaginations; whose foolish heart was darkened, and whom God gave up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts (Rom. i: 21-24), is a presumptive proof that their nature and tendency are evil. We do not claim that all the
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