Lodges and Prayer Meetings by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 12, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 23.

Lodges and Prayer Meetings

By Editor

WEEK before last a lawyer in this State shot himself through the heart. The paper which recorded the fact stated that he was a member of the following orders: “Workmen, Knights of Honor, Chosen Friends, Odd Fellows, Knights and Ladies of Honor, Knights of Pythias, Freemasons (Blue Lodge and Chapter), Red Men, and American Legion of Honor.” And yet they wonder why he committed suicide! If he had attended prayer-meeting one-half as often as he must have been obliged to attend lodge, any number of papers would have promptly ascribed his suicide to insanity caused by too much religion.