The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-06-21

and be on our guard when passing
through dangerous territory which we
are DOING all the time, and to be ever
ready to go quickly to the assistance
of those who need us. A good many
in the audience were lifted to ter
race a little higher, and the wheels of
thought were started with new touches
here and there.
In the splendid new Baptist church
the morning services were detected
to make room for a rousing and enthu.
siastic lecture by Rev. DR.. Wright, OF
Boise, the State Superintendent OF
Sunday Schools. Mr. Wright made
Sunday School work look good to the
the regular audience in the new brick
edifice and we got the idea that
Sunday School is the church action.
The old veteran in gospel warfare
knows the trails to every house of wor-
ship all over Idaho and is just as IL
able to be heard in some insulated
school shack a hundred miles from
anywhere, as in one of the larger
churches. His field appears to be the
state and he cultivates as he goes:
In the evening Rev. Mr.. McComb
got down to business before an extra
lot of listeners. This time they were
the Caoets and the Woodmen. The
rise in the evening audience was
caused by this special sermon to the
lodge which gave its undivided atten-
ton to an instructive and earnest
historical gospel teaching. Rev. Mr..
McComb is one of the oratorspreach-
ers in southern Idaho He starts off
as deliberately as a mogul engine
feels for the rails as it starts out of
the yard limits, and at the first down
hill stretch it makes free coast for
the rise beyond and thus carries its
train over the, ridge, where oratory
may be used to advantage in the pull
pit. He watches for the signal as al
Gritty as the engine driver on the fast
mail and when he gets it, he is off.
He has touching and tender levels in
his discourses and looks we'll to his
photographers, and is Baptist first,
last and all the time.
The congregation and fellowship is
growing uder his work.
The little Christian Science church
had been remodeled on the inside, the
seats changed and a new rostrum
erected which gave the quiet retreat
a fresh appearance. The usual ser
vice OF love was rendered. The au-
dience grows from month to month.
until thrifty to fifty people are now
regular communicates. Mrs. Cary
Scott, as first reader and Mrs. Mary
r. Jones as second reader had charge
OF the Sunday services and mingled |
1t with beautiful hymns. Every person
entering this little edifce has a newI
thought concerning life, and a careful
review of these worshipers as thew
approach the church, will disclose a |
change of physical bearing when near
ing its door. As by some previous ar
each one, no matter how
oiithe before nor how frail from for
mer ills and decisions, steps lighter.
breathes deeper and with more con-
hdence, and assumes for the hour, a
better level of life, when he finds him
self entering the vestibule of that
place which to him has become a
house of refuge and a retreat of
ove.
At the Methodist church DR.. Pow
Eli gave way in his characteristic style
and let the women take the hour in
me interest of the Woman's Foreign
Mission work. Mrs. Ross Madden
brought message from the great
General conference and enthused her
hearers as she broadened the horizon
ot intellectual and spiritual world
VIDE work. That women have largerI
leld than ever before was the fore
gone conclusion. Mrs. Madden went
over her points very thoroughly and
With a depth of penetration that is
always pleasing and convincing. Wo-l
nan has been placed upon a higher
evel since the advent of the Christ
md IN civilized lands now occupies
he front rank with man. When she
las come into her own and knows
where her own is, she will be indeed
help mate in all the varied work ofl
he church and up-building of the
ace.
The attentive audience felt we'll.
'aid tor the/ hours worship and will
lot soon forget its opportunity to
each out to brothers and sisters If
ess favorable surroundings. and who
re environed by narrowness and
ignorance.
Mrs. Cooke. of Boise, was a new
nd entertaining speaker at this morn-1
ng service and brought converted
vomanhood before the people in herI
sual pleasing and interesting wav
ne morning hour was genuinely and
ichly printable. 800
In the evening the indefatieable and
m the-spot Ross Madden gave ma =
plendid resume Of the General Con
erence at which he was an Idaho dele.
ate The echo of the convention
made scores glad they are Methodist
no brought out new resolutions thatl
aethodists shall continue its hold
Don people all over the world. I'll
ook him forty minutes to get throuoh
rs terse and pointed talk which was
interesting throughout and withaI q
lose study of the subjects debated
nd discussed by the brainest men in
ne church. The heart power and the
rain force of all those Converted fsI
n