The pathway of life; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love (1894) (14783090475)

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Title: The pathway of life ; Intended to lead the young and the old into paths of happiness, and to prepare them for a holy companionship with him whose kingdom is as boundless as his love
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt), 1832-1902
Subjects: Christian life and character
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pub. and manufactured by Historical Pub. Co. for the Christian Herald
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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NOPOLY. The men who want the whole earth to themselves would have got it beforethis had it not been for the banding together of great secret organizations. And,while we deplore many things that have been done by them, their existence is anecessity, and their legitimate sphere distinctly pointed out by the providence ofGod. Such organizations are trying to dismiss from their association all mem-bers in favor of anarchy and social chaos. They will gradually cease anythinglike tyranny over their members, and will forbid violent interference with anymans work, whether he belongs to their union or is outside of it, and willdeclare their disgust with any such rule as that passed in England by the Man-chester Bricklayers Association, which says any man found running or workingbeyond a regular speed shall be fined two shillings six pence for the first offence,five .shillings for the second, ten shillings for the third, and if still persisting,shall be dealt with as the committee think proper.
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(499) 500 THE PATHWAY OF LIFE. There are secret societies in our colleges that have letters of the Greekalphabet for their nomenclature, and their members are at the very front inscholarship and irreproachable in morals, while there are others the scene ofcarousal, and they gamble, and they drink, and they graduate knowing a hundredtimes more about sin than they do of geometry and Sophocles. In other words, secret societies, like individuals, are good or bad, are themeans of moral health or of temporal and eternal damnation. All good peoplerecognize the vice of slandering an individual, but many do not see the sin ofslandering an organization. It was a disposition to slander and intrigue againstthe government that led Mar>, Queen of Scots, to the scaffold, and if all whohave been equally as guilty had been as severely punished the roll of victims would have been immensely large. But secret societies have done incalculable good. One of these gave for therelief of the sick in 1873, in