The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-03-05
IN(ONSTANT CHRISTIAN!



Did you ever stop TO think what a
really loyabie. cuddlesome sort OF u
lcreature SUNDAY Christian" Isl
What an austere parsonage he Ia and
what a wholesome trust you put In
him-as long as you see him. III you
don't happen to see him his stock de-
preciates. about thirty per cent ON
your mental exchange. Not that he
would premeditatedls do any wrong,
for ISM he one of the amounted, ad-
vance agents of spiritual welfare and
end man In the gospel ensemble, and
therefore, like Caesars wife, "abose
suspicion?'' IL is all right, he Is re-
spected and honored citizen, he
stands approved by the community,
but just the same 30 per cent Of the
people who occasionally indulge In
the American prerogative OF formn.
lating an opinion on some subjects,
treat the balmy weather Christian
with Difference, and do business with
him oo a strictly business basis dur
ing the balance of the week. For
there is no telling Just where the &c.
centricities of the orthodox individ
ual will develop on the unholy days
OF the week, and the wise man who
has had his fingers burned knoweth
his business and takes time by the
forelock.
There Is good deal OF consistency
about policy player He picks his
gigs and waits for the drawing at
the appointed hour, but he doesn't
worry much about the drawing until
the time comes.
That Is about the travelling cate.
CORY Of the balmy weather Christian.
lie trots In the same class. He plays
to the galleries, but forgets that most
of his audience Is In the same one
day patronizing bunch with himself.
And he is likewise TO be found out to
deacon S meeting one other night In
the week, when after Cody and
praiseworthy discussion OF how to get
the money to pay the pastors back
salary or TO equip some missionary
for service among the heather abroad,
usually adjourns to the home Of one
of the balmy weather brethren and
dabbles in whist for d shaving mug,
or II they are known TO be citizens
strong and rigid In the faith they
drag out the red and blue chips AMI
enter with zest and earnestness IN
the sanctimonious pastime Of taking
a fifty dollar fall out Of their good
and holy brother.
The balmy weather and one-day
pietist likewise has happy faculty
OF passing judgment on things OF
monalizing import, and the boldness
and the badness OF his heather ac'
ouaintances furnishes many theme
for Sunday exhortation and marrow
J bone fidelity to a short lived fanati
cism. And early Monday morning ht
Is at work or doing business as Z
conscientious backslider.
There are great hordes of one.day
: in.the- week Christian in this worlt
of commercialisni There are man,
men and some women who are tenn
porarily one thing aud the balance o
the time another. Subterfuge Is dai
ly In evidence and chicanery is lonI
suit masquerading In the guise o
decency. There are sometimes NOR
; Jekyl and Hydes In the holy circle
than there are Peters aud pauls.
II is not brain-racking proposition
to ferret out a Christian, for Their
are.Christians and Christians. 1t !
: no trouble To discriminate betweel
q the fictitious and the real. Member
ship In an organization, or paying a
: annuity to support such an organila
tion no more exemplities the sain
than the outsider represents or typ
= ies the sinner. Either can deyelo
: total abrogatlon Of principle {
purpose. But II Is the every day II
&c karat Christian that does the hear
good. lie TO may he an esteeme
e brother or a loyal partisan OF th
= good book, belong TO any sect or boo'
l. for any religious creed But Il
, man with clean purpose, an ope
J. hand for charity, who practic'
'e Christianity With his pocketbook an
y Is humane in every effort, who q
y files no one nor does injury TO b
D neighbor, who is a human being al
&c not a hypocrite. who goes TO churt
:" when he feels like 1t or to baseb;
~ game II he don't, who says, 81 I
not join a church because know Z
AZ many people who do, and ] cam
pc voluntarily subscribe 10 anytbii
~ that serves TO harhor people W
III practice one thing one day and {