The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-07-05

iiiuen overWorked In recent years. We
think when he says Thou shalt not do
so and so, that he will not do anything
to us if we do. That is the trend Of
the present day teaching. We will
never have another days grief. He
comes, he joins. Inside of thirty DAYS
the Lord lays his hand upon that
young fellow for something he has
done in the past, and the new church
member finds we have lied to him and
he quits the church. The truth is we
! should have told this young fellow to
| come along and escape as much of
Gods wrath as possible by ceasing to
sin, and that he would have to help
bear the punishment that is sure to
come for the evil he has already done.
1t matters little to me whether the
man who takes my home with the
mortgage is mad at me. 1t matters
little to me whether the surgeon who
cuts off my leg is mad at me and it
is little matter of concern whether
the great Judge of all judges is mad at
me at the moment he says depart from
me we workers of iniquity into the fire
| prepared for the devil and his angel.
| Even smile when that sentence is
| rendered would become thrust, We
must be saved from our sins and not
| in them.
God is slow to get around with
| either rewards or punishment l ofte n
think that it would be better if he
acted Immediately at the close of each
day and remind us what each was for.
If we had done good, give us the re-
ward and remind us of what he had
1r1f0o fhn An1v l.
| evil, give us our punishment and tell
us tor what it was. But God knoweth
best, and we can depend upon it, or
do good and lose out by having done
it.
Some things you can do with the
Bible and some things you can't. If
you can cut the devil out of the Bible
you can just as readily cut God out. If
you can cut out hell, you can in the
same way, cut Heaven out. If you
can cut out the punishment basis, you
can at the same stroke, eliminate his
love. You may put in forty years
doing either of all these errors, but
why take so long. Either accent it
or reject it and do it in five minutes,
tor there is no sense in taking years
to do what can be done in ten minutes.
II you can eliminate the story of
Christ getting mad, you can also elm
mate the story of him weeping with
Mary and Martha. Our God so loved
the world that he gave his only be-
gotten Son, that We may have way
OF escape the tortures of that same
loving Gods wrath. You never saw
two-foot rule with only one end,
never saw two-year old tree grow
i'll one month and God himself cannot
turn grindstone both ways at the
same time.
Here is a splendid man. For twenty
years we have known him. He is
paying as he goes, lives temporarily
and wisely. Is good to his folks and
friends and we love him, but one day
the crises comes and he is thrust be-
meath burden of pain. Calamity after
calamity follows after him and the
cry is made, now where is the justice
of God. Stop. God knew that man
man thirty years ago, long before you
ever heard of him, and God knows
him much better than you do. He
did enough not long ago to call Gods
wrath down on him and down it is
coming. That is it, pure and simple.
God has not forgotten. He has been
slow to get around, but he is not slack
concerning his promises as some men
count slackness, but is long suffering
toward us, not willing that they will
perish, but all should come to repent
ance. Reader, if you recall sins of the
past for which you never yet suffered,
rest assured that settlement will come,
otherwise you have even now gone so
far that the Lord has given you over
to your own condemnation.
Remember, this life is a cinch game.
You may have not accepted its terms
and would have things different if you
could, but you can't If you feel that
life with all its perplexities has sprung
upon you without your consent, let
the family doctor tell you you cannot
live more than two weeks, and see
how quick you will have call in a
another doctor to try and help the
first make the two weeks more of this
same kind of life. The wrath of God
is against every sinner in Idaho, and
until repentance comes, the hand of
God is against the disobedient.
The Bible state that God gets mad
at evil doors. We have tried to twist
that word around and make it mean
something else but it remains just the
same. God is not likely to do when
the is mad, as man will do when he is
mad, but the state of mind is the same.
God may not make so much noise
about it, but rest assured that about
the worst calamity that can befal a
man is to go on insulting and dis
obeying God until he has enough of
it. There is such thing as God get
ting enough of the sins of men. When
he trough there is something going to
take place.
The anger of God is positively
tremendous. A man would not have
it otherwise If he could. A weakling
coward is never willing to stand his
own. The is an age of pain dread.
Everything is made to relieve US OF
pain and its possibilities. Pain has
become the dreaded enemy and the
arch aovle Of fear Our law il Mad