The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-07-05
The Mad Christ
B. w. RICE

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and cast out all them that sold and
bought in the temple and overthrow
the tables of the money changers, and
Matthew 2l-12.
When Adam was created he was
about thrifty years of age. Eve was
created when she was about twenty
four years of age. They were both
doubtless created on the same day.
Adam put in the forenoon looking
over very unsatisfactory lot of
animals and turned to God for one
made after the highest pattern and got
it. .. u.
Not long after the creation of Adam
and Eve, God said he was sorry he
had ever made man and if it were to
do over he would not do it.
Christ said, clear out of here with
all this rubbish. Do you not bring
another vessel through this temple
Take those tables away from here.
You are making my Fathers house a
den of thieves.
God is not altogether maple syrup.
| have watched his work for thirty
years and am convinced that he goes
after certain individuals with red
hot iron. | have read the history of
his work during the past five or six
thousand years and am satisfied that
1t is terrible thing to act in such a
way as to turn God against our
families. l am satisfied that certain
angels are sent around with cancer
germs and tuberculosis material and
appendicitis pusS and strangulation
documents, and that God knows it all.
| am satisfied that there is a stern
side of our loving Heavenly Father
and that it is poor policy to disobey
his commandments.
Some one recalls that saying "He
sendeth his rain on the just and the
unjust" That's truth and we will
get wet, good or bad, if we get out in
the rain. l also suggest that there is
a whole lot in this life beside the rain
we get. ..f
Gods old church had failed out
He urged his beloved Son to come
down and try different plan. The
old church was hard up for money.
There were too many salaried men
connected with the institution. They
all had to be paid. The fittings were
showing deficits one after the other
and they conceived an idea of raising
money by getting up some sort of 4
traffic in doves and pigeons and cake
and pie, ETC., etc, and they contrived
to save rent on buildings by taking
the whole show right into the temple
It was financial move, pure and sim
Pile. and had for its prime object, the
raising of funds for church work. They
paid their surgeons big fees freely,
the cows and calves brought a good
market price, the wage Garner got his
pay, hay was on a good market and
wheat and barley were as good as
gold, but God began to get the tail
end of it all If member had enough
to satisfy all his own desires, he gave
God little. The church was poor
in the midst of plenty and now some
OF the ambitious stingy members con-
cieved the idea of selling two ten cent
doves for forty-fve cents, being as it
was a. church social nobody would
have the termerity to object. The
money changers were getting in their
work too, for they could short change
one OF these finicky sissy fellows and
ne would never know the difference
The gushing sister in her zeal for
dong something in the shape of work
OF the Lord would also be an easy
mark, for she would be satisfied if she
got coin enough back to rattle, for the
whole affair was church proposition
and who cares. The old sinner would
slip in and buy bun and eat it with
some fair damsel whose mother would
faint if he spoke to the girl on the
street the next day; but it was all for
the Lord and what difference did it
make. Besides, what harm could the
old reprobate do the young woman by
eating broiled dove with her, when
the whole thing was the work OF. the
Lord.
Jesus was mad He made a run at
some of those tables and showed them
over against the wall He pushed the
dove dealers heller SHELTER and
as they ever did anything in the world,
and they got.
| am satisfied that if we will not
hearken to Gods COMMUNICATIVE
do them-that dissapointments shall
come upon US, and that the fruit of our
land and of our bodies and of our
stock shall be cursed to failure and
loss. l believe we shall be dissapoint-
ed when we come in and when we go
out. believe the Lord will send upon
us cursings, vexations and rebukes in
all that we set our hands to do. The
Lord will make pestilence to cleave us
and Our nation because of the wicked
ness of our doings. l believe that the
evil at our Capital City in Washing
ton will either be repented of immedi-
ately, or else the Lord will overthrow
every other government in the history
of man, who turned from him and his
commandments. believe it is fact
that no government of nations has
ever fallen SO long as that nation was
trying to do the will of God and also
believe that no nation has ever long
endured after it had VIGOROUSLY de-
serted God and his wishes. I believe
the Lord shall smite us with consump-
ton and fever and inflammation and
with extreme burning and with the
sword and with h1n sting and with mil