Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-29

Tc.athan Edwards, the COCA, Aai"
pierrsuont Edwards. the bad, belong
~ the same family. Aaron Burr, tne
dissolute, had most eHcesle5's iaei.sr.
Diving vet immortal hearer' oy uls
solemnity of the parental and maj
and coni,,val relation, by the sacred
moss n the family hearth, by the honor
Of the family name, by the memory OF
5.rarted kindred. I point out this part
ing OF Ruth and Orpah-
WY PEOPLE REFUSE CHRIST
Again. this subject suggests to me
t~o Of the prominent reasons why PEG
r,la refuse the kingdom OF Christ. There
NAV have been many other reasons why
Ornah left her sister and nother-in-law
and vent back home. but there we're
two reasons which | think were more
rrorninent than the rest. She had been
brought up in idolatries. She loved the
heather gods which her ancestors had
worshiped. and though these blocks OF
wood and stone could not hear, she
thought they could hear, and though
thew could not see, she thought they
could see. and though they could not
feel, she thought they could feel. a
new religion had been brought to her
attention. She had married godly
man. She must often have heard her
i mother-in-law talk of the God OF Israel
She was so much shaken in her original
belief that she concluded to leave her
idolatries. but coming TO the margin OF
the land of Bethlehem her determine
ton failed her and speedily she returned
to her gods.
This is the very reason why multi
tudes of persons never become Chris
tians. They cannot bear to give up
their gods. Business is the American
JugRernaut that brushes more men than
the great car of the Hindoos. To ii
they say their morning and evening
PRAYERS A little of Christ's religion
may creep into the Sabbath, but Mon
day. Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday.
Friday and Saturday are the days de
voted to this American idol Ever
hour there is sacrifice on the
altar. Home duties, health of body
manly strength and immortal affections
must all burn in this holocaust. Men
act as though they could take their
bonds and mortgages and saws and
trowels and axes and day books with
them into the kingdom of heaven.
There are many who have no unholy
thirst for gold, yet who are devoting
themselves to their worldly occupations
with ruinous intensity. Men of the
stock exchange, men of the yardstick
men of the saw, men of the trowel, men
of the day book, what will become Of
you, if unsorgiven, in the great day
no goods to sell. and no bargains to
make2 1t is possible to devote ones self
even to a lawful calling until it be
comes sinful There is no excuse on
the earth or under the earth for the
neglect of our deathless spirit. Lydia
was seller of purple, yet she did not
allow her extensive occupation to keep
her from becoming a Christian Daniel
was secretary of state and attorney
general in the empire of Babylon. and
yet three times day he found time to
| pray with his face toward Jerusalem
The man who has no time to attend to
religion will have no time to enter
heaven.
THE WORSHIP OF HAMMoN.
But there are others who, while their
worldly occupation has no particular
fascination over them. are entirely alb
sorbed in the gains that come TO that
occupation. This is the worship of
Mammon. The ring of dollars and
cents is the only itany they ever utter
/ Though in the last day the earth itself
will not be worth a farthing, heap of
+ ashes scattered in the whirIwind. they
are now giving their time and eternity
for the acquisition of so much of it az
/ you might at last hold in the hollow of
one hand.
/ The American Indian who gave
enough land to make state out of for
string of beads made princelv bar
gain compared with the speculation of
that man who gains the whole world
and loses his own soul dow much
comfort do the men take who died nm.
forgiven ten years ago, leaving large
fortunes 70 their heirs2 Do they ever
come up to count the gold they hoard,
ed or walk through the mansions they
bulltf Though they could have boupht
an empire, they have not now as much
money as you have this moment in
your pocket, Solomon looked upon his
palace and the grounds surrounding if
pools rimmed with gold and circlinc
roads along which at times rushed his
fourteen hundred chariots while under
the outbranehing sycamores and cedars
walked the apes and peacocks which
oy the navy Of Hiram had been
Drought from Tarshish, and from the
WINDOW curtains with embroidered gold
ana purple through which came out
the thrill of harps and psalteries min.
gllng with the song of the waters.
"hen Solomon saw that all these
Injuries of sight and sound had baa,,
purchased by his wealth he broke forth
IN the exclamation, Money answeretb
all things" But we cannot receive II
as literal 1t cannot still the voice ~
conscience 1t cannot drown the sor
rows OF the soul. 1t cannot put a bride
IN the hand of death. 1t cannot nnloot
the gate of heaven The tower of 81,
loan feli and killed eighteen of its od-
mlrers, but this idol to whose -. ~