The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-07-30
THE F|XER" OFFERS A
FEW MOST STARTLING
SUGGESTIONS

hospital and have the members all 90
over to the Methodist church and wor-
ship there, do away with paving one
minister, stop a lot of duplicated ex-
pense, hush the hue and cry about
Sectarianlsm and put the money de-
rived from selling the Christian
church into the debt on the Method
lSt church and pay out, then spread
the sails Tor the eager winds that will
soon be pushing hard against the
canvas.
The members Of the Christian
church would be accepted as so many
angels OF the Lord when they came
and laid down $1,000 % and asked
permission to worship in the splendid
Methodist equipment The difference
between theological training would go
gllmmering. Then every Sunday at
two p. m let us all have a basket din
ner IN the basement of the big church
and SIT there and listen to the jingle
and Jingle of the knife and fork,
which instruments after all, are the
real harbingers of civilization.
Then your fixer would want the
Baptlsts and Presbyterians to make a
similar sort of a deal, selling one of
/ the church properties and putting the
proceeds into the other. After two
years of this sort of thing, then let
them all go into the one larger ANAL
gamation and have one religious work
IN the city, with a few of the smaller
| works holding out tenaciously for
their way of looking at things.
The Sunday dinners would relieve
hundreds of housewives who must
now prepare dinners at their homes.
With the new regime working and
with all the women interested in it.,
not more than one-quarter of them
would have to worry about dinner
every Sunday.
If there is really enough doctrinal
and working difference between the
various churches to justify them in
maintaining separate institutions, how
can they ever expect to disseminate
such doctrines so we'll and sweetly as
to mlngle with those who need their
particular kind, and talk" it as they
meet in fellowship.
Your hxer got to thinking about the
little union church four miles east of
town. How would it do for the Good
| OiANNA NllD ONNl liClC ~ RO Ill Will
that little church and build a good
community center headquarters? Your
| hXer knows of missionary board in
the east that will put $4,000 in a nice
$25OO00 structure. This community
building can be placed so as to &C
commodate about three of those pros
porous school districts. This will be
the means of drawing two hundred
women together in frequent COM
munity meetings, put two hundred
men on better terms with themselves
and make neighbors out of acquaint-
ances and acquaintance out of moth
ing" and arouse a friendly spirit
among a thousand suburban dwellers
Seventy-hve ranchers could easily
haul the gravel and sand from the
river without missing the time. The
hired man could go down at times
when nothing was rushing. Men
without hired men go down days
when work is light and haul up load.
Soon the material would be on the
ground. The ten dollars worth oil
donated labor by a hundred men
would build the house when combin.
ed with the $4,000 missionary money.
The outer walls of the building could
be made of cobble-stone of left "stuc-
co" finish, either of which is very at
tractive.
This community center could have
big basket dinner every Sunday in
the year, at noon There $50 people
could sit down. In the South when
we want to curse a family proper, we
simply wish they might have a bad
ncighbor. This community spirit
would leave no room for bad neigh
| bors.
The missionary board will give the
money outright and never expect its
return so long as its little church is
used for that purpose. The church
members could control their church
and the community could control the
community features and church and
community would blend so nicely that
il would soon be difficult to tell who
was church and who was community,
Some farmer would come up with an
acre of good land on a cross roads,
others who could not well haul mater
| ial or do labor on the structure would
put in a little cash. The community
| room would be used for community
purposes, the church room be used
for church purposes. The pastor
would look after the spiritual welfare
of all the community, do the preach
ing, do the planning, marry the
young, counsel with the weary, bury
the dead and comfort the sorrowful.
The Good Cheer club leader would
stand back Of social functions, CO.
operate with the church, propose
plans for the community interests
suggest ways and means, advertise
their doings, beat down differences
that were about to cause estrange-
ments, be peace-makers and counsel
lors, and guide social affairs.
Your hxer don't see why the scheme
to drain the Golden Gate addition to
the city of Caldwell could not be made
to include the removal of Indian creek
over to that section of the city, aud
thus eradicate lot of nuisance with
which we must now contend. A hun
bred dollars will pay your fxer for his
idea.