SECRET SOCIETIES:

A DISCUSSION OF THEIR CHARACTER AND CLAIMS,

'Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.' --EPH. v: 11.

I. SECRET SOCIETIES: A TREATISE by Rev. D. MacDill
- CHAPTER I. Their Antiquity.
- CHAPTER II. Their Secrecy.
- CHAPTER III. Oaths And Promises.
- CHAPTER IV.Profaneness.
- CHAPTER V. Their Exclusiveness.
- CHAPTER VI. False Claims.
- CONCLUSION.
II. SHALL CHRISTIANS JOIN SECRET SOCIETIES? by Jonathan Blanchard, D. D.
III. REPORT TO CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS. 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.

CHAPTER I.

Their Antiquity.

1. Secret associations are of very ancient origin. They existed amongth

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