The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-02-12

lets and villages with 200, 800 or 400
souls, supporting three churches, are
pointed out as so many spasms of
man S tomfoolery that he calls re-
ligion.
Every possible effort is being made
to conserve decent religion. Here
totore 1t has been in Idaho the same
as 1t is in Massachusetts; the boy
when he is emerging from that age
when he never washed his ears clean
and when his neck was always dirty
below the chin-he quit Sunday school
and was sure he knew the whole
thing was frame-up. But not so
hereafter, for he is to be followed
by tried and true friend whose life
work is to anchor him. The teen age
Is not going to be forsaken even if
older folks must root hog or die.
The governor is Hebrew, and yet,
, when he went through the state like
Kansas cyclone making his COM
palgn speeches, he had more to saw
about the Rcdeemer of mankind"
than all the governors have said since
Rockefeller bought that Texas oil
held and put in his first lO-inch pipes.
or the copper king. Heinz, put his
brother into the pickle business. Some
say 1t was a ruSe to catch the Chris
tan vote, but the general opinion is
that our noble Jew" is going to be
blessed to us in religious way. Dur
ing the campaign there were those
wiseacres who stood out against the
noble Jew" on the ground that he did
not believe in Jesus Christ. To this
his friends replied, When did you
ever have a governor who cared a
straw for your Christi" and then both
rag chawers went home athinking.
The state is just now erecting sew
eral nice little rural and suburban
churches, most Of which get a third
of the money from the church building
society. The public school buildings
are universally used, where needed.
tor the country church. The piety OF
many is being disturbed, however, for
these same school houses are often
used by the dance folks.
Many of the leading Idaho preach
ers have quit talking about the hell of
the New Testament and have gone TO
absolutely denying that of the Old
Testament. Some are standing ont
boldly against that of the New Tesla
ment, and hundreds of the young
church set have gone to dancing and
swearing and cutting up in proportion
to the degree they have taken in the
new Sprout on religion. This state OF
affairs has put heavy burden on the
hearts of many a pious mother who
supposed that Bessie would never glide
around over the lurid trail. Hundreds
OF young women dismiss piety with
an airy toss of their heads and go on
sticking thornS in mothers heart in
her declining days. The eastern church
folks who have cast anchor here are
having hard time swallowing this
bitter pill but since the high school
IN the capital stands for all the "arm-
length" and "not-touch" dances, it's
difficult for the rural regions to see il
another way.
The county of Canyon, in Idaho, had
the highest grade in the United
States, when illiteracy was the meas.
ure. Here they had less ilhteracy tc
the square mile in 1912 than in any
other region in all the fair land oil
ours. In Canyon county but few per.
sons have to travel more than five
miles to chapel or church. Here they
have about 81 varities of religion You
can pay your money and take your
choice. If all the churches in any
one city were thrown together into
one heap, therewoud be no more vari
ance OF doctrine than is found in the
average popular church.
We have decided that heaven is Z
nl9Ca whore no tyvO thi1Ly o1ilSa arJ :,
two agree on as many as four sub
Jects. If they do not need to agree
there, why should we quarrel about il
here? Heretofore, it did not require
much doctrine to justify a new de,
nomination. Not so henceforth anC
forever, for consolidation is the word
Merchants have served notice tha
they will help support churche!
enough to care for the spiritual vel
fare of all the people, but that they
will not put up money to lay in al
overstock of an unnecessary, weak anC
useless article.
The Idaho preacher used printer
ink freely. Many little journals ar,
being printed Throughout the state. TIL
advertising pays the expenses and TIL
subscription money, if any, like tn
marriage fees, goes to the minister
wife; she keeps it until the coal bill
is due and then she forks it over, feel
ing good that she had it as Tonga
she did.
The long looked for missionary Doc
, that some times reach the families O
: the hard-toiling missionaries have thi
! time gone to Europe to the war SUI
fercrs. This caused a little run o
dye Stuffs when the ministers wive
commenced to change the colors @
their old buds.
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