CONTENTS.
Reading edition
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. Shall Christians Join Secret Societies? Supposing it to be Innocent, Will It Pay? Is it Obligatory? Is it Right?
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.