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Title: Christian Cynosure
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Phillips, William Irving
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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erhood ofElectrical Workers, Lewis Jones, a mem-ber of the union yesterday filed suit for$15,000 in the Circuit Court against theorganization. He declares he was work-ing in the postoffice building when theassault was made. The business agent ofthe union, whose name the plaintiff sayshe does not know, demanded to see his working card. Late Disappointment. An acquaintance of ours who now un-derstands insurance well, at some earlier T have forgotten it, Jones says he re-plied, but I am a member of the union. Youre nothing of the kind and yoitcannot work here, the agent is said tohave answered. The only thing for youis to get out, and you cannot come backuntil you have joined. The union representative insisted,Jones alleges, that he prove his member-ship or leave the work. On the plaintifffailing to do this he says he was assaultedand, in the fight, one ear was nearly sev-ered from his head, permanently impair-ing his hearing. —Chicago Tribune, May 14. June, 1904. CHUISTIAN CYNOSURE b3
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THE ETHICS OF SECRETISM.By Rev. A. C. Dixon, D. D., Boston. A tale-bearer revealeth secrets, but lie that isof a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.—Prov-erbs xi:13. Neither do men light a caudle and put it under-a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it giveth lightto all that are in the house. Thus let your lightshine before men, that thej may see your goodworks, and glorify your Father which is in heav-en.—Matthew v:15-16. Our first text gives the basis for a se-cret society, the purpose of which wouldbe to suppress scandal-mongering andgossiping. Some young women inBrooklyn organized such a society. Itdid not last long, but it did some goodwhile it lasted. There are other kindsof secrecy which the Bible commands:When thou doest alms, let not thy lefthand know what thy right hand doeth,that thine alms may be in secret; and th)^Father, which seeth in secret himself,shall rew^ard thee openly. Sounding thetrumpet in praise of ones own gifts is notChristian. We are also commanded t

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