The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-10-04

in sight on her edges, and the silver
plating may have all worn off years
since, but then she is vessel just the
same. Paul would have you find out
where sister H belongs and set her
at IL. -
She may have big joints on her
fingers where she has toiled and toll
ed, raising some pretty daughter who
now plays the piano her husband pur-
chased for her and now looks upon
her mother with a sort of apologetical
forbearance and really thinks that she
looks like a sack of wool with rope
tied about it in the middle. but sister
H might also be vessel to honor,
so the preacher will 60 at it prayer
fully and carefully.
There is old brother s.. He paid
in a dollar forty last last year and
smoked $23.l5 worth of Bull Durham
and Dukes Mixture. He might be
used as some sort of vessel. He got
the habit of smoking away back yon-
der when Andrew Jackson hit the pipe
and when brother Yoeman smoked
pipe up to the minute of going into
the pulpit. The habit has chung to
him through all these years and is
not hurting him very much even at
Sc. Look upon him with good deal
of love and sympathy. There is not
much good in a smoke, and yet there
are worse things on earth than smok-
ing a pipe or a cigar. 1t would be
worse to do it and lie out of it than to
do it and admit it. There is nothing
of itself so bad as the same thing with
a string of falshoods tackled on to it.
used to carry swill to the swine. l
took a bucket in each hand and work
ed faithfully at my job. You may have
J some swill buckets in your church,
but let them stay. Keep the hoops
frightened up and set them in the shade
I: between times and they will get along
all right. It is not our business to 60
around slam-banging people in the
church. Some folks think Jesus went
| to Peter and said Simon, lowest thou
me more than these? Well then. spank
my sheep. Simon, lowest thou me
more than these? Well then, Slam
| bast my lambs. Simon. lowest thou
me more than these7 Well then goad
! my sheep" Jesus told Simon TO
FEED the lambs and FEED the
sheep, and that is the work OF the
church to-day. Timothy was about TO
make the mistake OF his life'ad the
Old apostle with one foot in the grave
saw through the move and stopped Il
4 instanter, for we never hear OF Tim
othy cutting mems names of the
church book simply because they
could not pray in public or put up the
apportionment gotten up by the dea-
cons. Nothing Is said about Timothy
| telling the elders to cut names OIL the
roll simply because they would not
vote for one OF the brethren who was
running for dog catcher on the Her
culean ticket. Paul wanted il under
stood that the church 10 gotten up to
SAVE sinners and in order to save
them the church will have to keep
Il them where It can get 1t them. With
Jesus Christ coming out for fellow.
Il is difficult matter to throw that
1 fellow in the cold. Somehow there Is
4 a sort Of cohe sive-adhe inertia
about it that keeps the fly wheen from
y going to pieces. 1t dosen't take much
Of a man when Christ is on his side
and somehow or other there is no
! much to anybody when Christ has
not come out on his side.
il Away back in Genesis God told the
devil there would be an eternal rum
|, pus between him and the children ;ol
men. God spoke to the devil and said
~ ou, win be able to bruise the heel o.
the children of men but the children
Of men will brsiise your head. tn.
most of US find this saying to be still
II true. Do the best we can. something
E keeps from being perfect. We arr
I crippling through life, limpihg alonl
: on bruised heel. That Is the worl
5 Of the devil and it Is so. He doc
) not have the power, to bruise tn
: heart however, halleujahi and tn
i wabble we have as we go along is iron
I that sore place down on the heel 9
our frame. and every once in q Will
n we get a good whack at the head Q
$ satan, Just az God said it would be
. and some day, by the grace Of God
n all the satan that is left in us will &c
! ! good sound rap over his head am
t we will be free. In the meantims
Il lets keep ALL the vessels in tn
t church, those Of honor and those to
d dishonor, each doing its own dut,
: each respecting the others and eac
Il spilling as. little as possible on tn
other, and each occupying its RICH!
full place in this great house, which !
= the Church of Christ