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Title: Christian Cynosure
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Gault, W.A.
Subjects: Secret societies - Religious aspects - Christianity.
Publisher: Chicago, IL: National Christian Association
Contributing Library: Buswell Memorial Library, Wheaton College (IL)
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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e. Those who attended the re-cent anti-secrecy convention in the Re-formed Presbyterian Church, Allegheny,.will recall his presentation of the lodgesfalse idea of brotherhood. In union withother pastors in his ward, a petition was-prepared and presented to school trusteesprotesting against the laying of the cor-ner stone of a new school building withMasonic foolishness. As he has been ac- February, 1900. CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE. 341 tive in advocating the anti-secrecy, as wellas other reforms, it might seem strangethat the obituary notice appearing in achurch paper failed to mention this whenenumerating the various reforms in whichhe was interested. The Doctor has for years been a readerof the Cynosure. He always had words of cheer and helpful counsel to offer yourrepresentative. The high esteem in which he was heldby those who knew him best was evincedin the large concourse of people attend-ing his funeral. Probably not less thanone hundred and fifty ministers werepresent. W. B. Stoddard.
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CHRISTIAN CYNOSURE. February, 1900. ELDbR JOHN HUNTER. Elder John Hunter, of Sterling Valley,New York, was born of May 29, 1828,and died on November 29, 1899, aged 71years and 6 months. The first thought which came to mymind when I received the telegram an-nouncing Mr. Hunters death was this:that God had put the high honor of Hisseal of approval upon Father Hunterslife by permitting his last public act to bea testimony for the Sabbath. Our read-ers will recall that in our Thanksgivingnumber we printed a letter from Rev. G.M. Robb, of Syracuse, telling of the suc-cess of Mr. Hunters set purpose to dem-onstrate the practicability of running acreamery profitably without desecratingthe Sabbath by handling the milk on thatday. On my way from Crocketts to SterlingValley, to attend the funeral, I fell in witha man over 70 years old, who had comefifty miles in the driving rain to pay hislast tribute. He and Mr. Hunter hadplayed together as boys. Waving a handover the far-reaching fields, he s

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