The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-09-06
And ! Died
B. w. RICE

For 7 was without the law once;
hit when the commandment came,
Gin revived, and died. Romans, ~.
The great apostle Paul wrote my
+ext after he had taken that memo
rable trip to Damascus; after he had
his nose bloodied more than once for
The cause of the Christ; after he had
heen scourged and logged more times
than that; and after he had heard
Christ's voice personally.
paul said that he was in very
oueer condition. No matter how much
he resloved he was going to do the
r;oht thing, something would come
along and knock it all over. He found
there were two men inside of his skin,
sometimes one would rule, sometimes
the other, and Paul had to live also
in his own skin and watch the battle
between these two other fellows.
| was reading just yesterday where
the scientific hobbiest has succeeded
in grating the beginning of the fly
upon the beginning of the spider and
has actually made the creature live
and mature. In that one new mon
strosity is the habit of the spider
mingled with the life of the fly. One
head, yet filled with two desires, one
to catch and destroy itself, while the
other passion is for getting away
from itself. These two lives united
in one body become the hideous thing
one would imagine. The spider eter-
nally after the fly, while the fly plans
his escape from himself The spider
part staying awake to lay his net for
the fly part, while the fly part loses
sleep to escape his ever present enemy
the spider.
When the spider part is weaving
its web, the fly part sees in it his own
destruction and then when the fly part
escapes the net it makes it both mad
and glad. When the wings of the fly
would fly, the clinging nature OF the
creature wants to remain and make
his web. That which is satisfying to
the one is destruction to the other,
vet the two must live in one body.
Paul said he found it thus, even
after he was converted. He said the
spider and the fly life was his. When
he would escape some lust, the other
desire would rush to the aid of just
that lust and he would be conquered.
He said he had come to the conclus-
ion that he would lay everything on
sin that he did contrary to his best
judgments, and that when he was
able to do good, that was Paul, and
nothing else. He siad that when he
started out in the morning to be a
nice little fly all day, his old spider
nature came along and chased the
fly across the room and right into the
net he had woven himself and there
he was, escaping from himself and yet
he was to powerful to escape, there
he was holding the fly in wise like
grip, gloating over the victory, while
at the same time perishing with teai
of itself. Paul said he was sometime,
the fly, and sometimes the spider ant
oten both and always one or the Other
tainted by the other. He said thai
every time he would do good, evi
was present and usually got the uppel
hand of him. He said he was chasing
himself from morning till night ant
never got away from himself ant
never succeeded in catching himself
He said he took good deal of deligh
in doing good, but that he did not ge
time to enjoy it, for he was Away
present with that spider destroying
nature so Nthe brilliant fly life wa
DESTROYED. He said he was in ter
rible fix about it. He said that if h
could get a whack at the spider ma
ture he would knock it out, but tina
his fly nature was all he had to d
this whacking with and the spide
part was too much for it. The fl
could not kill the spider nature n
matter how much it tried for ther
was ever present the spiders desir
to live and have his way in the creatur
When the fly would bask in the sui
the spider was creeping upon it. Whe
the spider would go out and weave
web, the fly would go along and tax
his part in it, all the time wishing +
could get out of it.
The 9TH chapter Of the Roman lett
tells about this and locates near
every one of US. When the Spirit
God has commenced his work with
us, we are conscious of two laws, OF
bringing the other into captivity. Pa
said he was very thankful that. the la
of sin did not get deeper in him tn;
the flesh, and that he was able
keep his mind serving the law OF Go
He stated that he could never
around to doing what he wanted to
and was all the time doing what
didn't want to do. He siad when "
see me doing anything you can put
down that I don't want to do tn
and when you do not see me doing
thing. you may rest assured that thu
is what l would be doing if cot
do the things l want to do.
can see where the great apos
was right. In his day they used
strip certain criminals and bind
ked corpse upon their backs and
them 60 around that way until
corpse went to pieces and dropp
of its own putrihcation, and P'
said it just seemed to him that
was in that sort of a predictiment
the time and called out on one occ
ion: Who shall deliver me from I,
corpse carrying condition of Ii
Paul said, now when ! do that VIII
| don't want to do. you can't lay
me at all, for / won't let it go Z