The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-06-21
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James and John tried to hog-tie
Jesus on one occasion and secure from
him promise before they had told
him what it embodied. Jesus said
said he did not like to promise any
thing until he knew what it was. They
insisted that it was perfectly legitimate
and pressed their claims. Jesus fin
ally turned them down and they
rushed of and got their mother to
come with them. The good old mother
went to Jesus in the interest of The
sons and asked that he would grant a
request she was going to present to
him. He said 60 on and tell what it
was. The mother in her eagerness
and mother devotion said she wanted
James to sit at his right hand and
John on his left when he took charge
upon the throne of Heaven.
Christ said it was very good of her
to start the movement so early but
that it would be impossible for him to
grant her request. W
These two sons had a little of their
mothers blood in them and their
egotism. was theirs by natural family
relations.
am not sure that Zebedee secured
= marriage license in due foxm when
he married this jealous woman, but
God sanctioned her offspring and
Jesus used these two sons at the very
axle of his church. They became
ambitious at once to get as high up in
the church as was possible and when
they had succeeded in this they also
went it one better and wanted to sit
in the big chairs in Heaven. The l
AM predominated and cropped out
upon this occasion to the point of re-
buke. 1t was James the Great and
John the Good who were working this
political wire. The mother in the case
was doubtless the acknowledged wife
OF Zebedee. She had namesake who
was the daughter of Herodis, who
danced before Herod. This second
Salome danced John the Baptist's
head off and introduced performance
which has since then decapitated its
thousands of heads, until many a man
thinks he has head when only his |
neck IS grown up and haired over.
At this stage of their Christian de-
velopment, referring to Peter and
Johns soul growth, neither one of the |
men would janitor the vacant boot and |
shoe store in which they held their
little meetings and John put Peter up |
to rushing on to Jesus to get authority
to call FIRE down from Heaven UPON
the heads of little squad of people
whom he thought were doing church,
business without a license. His
thought took root and prevails to an
astonishing extent to this day. Jesus
told Peter: peter you don't realize
what kind of spirit you are getting
to be-"
Jesus had to hold right before the
eyes OF the Twelve the fact that they
were in possession of a ticket that
would draw a very handsome prize
in Heaven, before he could them to-
enter actively into the work of the
church. Christ frequently told them
that he would have to be killed tol
bring around the final climax of the
whole scheme of redemption, and he
rarely ever mentioned his death thatl
he did not in the same breath 20 on
and tell them he would rise again, and
yet these two brothers forgot all about
= within an hour after it took place.
They were largely human up to this
point. They were setting the neces-
sary wires to head off the other men,
bers OF the Apostles Board, and their
good old mother stayed awake nights
planning to run her sons around the
other nine and she frequently told
some of the other members where tol
head in at.
About this time the Holy Spirit|
his operations upon the
natural hearts of the men Connected
with the new church. 1t was like
breaking broncho cayuses. It is like
hat yet. /
James soon got the idea that he was
working especially for a reward in
Heaven was just about as selfish as
,e who was working for a reward on
:arth. and he said so. He was the
irst to intimate that he would pray
n secret just because he knew God
would reward it was no better than
he man who would pray where it'll
night be heard by some other earthly
ars. James. after reading nearly
very thing that had been written byl
Il other writers of the Bible. saw
hat appeared to him to be weakness /.
n regard to the power of prayer and ,,
o he got his namesake to bear down
q that truth in his Bible writing. ,
When Jesus discovered that he had !
NO men by the name of James, he
old one of them that thereafter he .
'ould be known as Mr.. James Boan- ;
rges. He remained in Jerusalem and ,
nally got into trouble with Herod t
nd got his head taken of. James l.
ever felt better however than when 4
e got in history as the Greater as a
istinguished from the writer of the O
lme known who asked to be called Il
lines The Less. 10
James and John used to go over to g
thsaida to see their father, Zebedee, II
and tell him how they were
.tting along and on these occasions ia
llome would sit breathlessly to hear ft
r sons tell how they were making it b.
It'll Jesus. They would some times b.
} out on the lake and help their
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