The Caldwell tribune., 1916-12-15


them out on most of our high, dry,
sany loan land, and raise 500 worth OF
seed per acre each year | think that
tens OF thousands of acres of high dry
land now useless will at once be worth
hundred dollars per acre Where
man has irrigation water with which
to raise seed, | still believe it is best
to set the alfalfa in hills about three
teet apart each way, and cultivate it
few times and use less water | think
the time to take water is when the
bloom has about one-quarter podded
out, then let it go all the way dry.
L his paragraph is more than a passing
whim-it is worth reading time after
time.
The point has been raised as to
whom, the boy or the girl, should
select the minister to tie the knot.
Also what qualities should the minis
ter possess? The bride has the first
| choice on the minister, but if she
detects any preference on the part of
little. If the groom much prefers
minister not her own selection, she
is liable to forego the pleasure of
her sweetheart this great JOY. 1t US
ually makes no difference. however,
to the boy. He, at this time, thinks |
all ministers look alike to him, and |
he is not analyzing the difference be-
tween proposition and proposition;
he wants the girl. Most all the min
listers possess all the needed qualifi-
cations. 1t doesn't make any differ
1 u, Al.
does not say, just so he does pro-
nouncc them husband and wife. 1t he
should forget that, the couple would
not be married, no matter how much
folderel and pretty stuff he said be-
sides
What shall do then with Jesus
who is called Christi" The Hired
Man does not presume that he has
answered all the modern questions,
for he has hundreds of these yet un-
answered, nor does he turn to some
ancient questions on the grounds that
the modern ones will soon be ex-
hausted. but he ran on to a few old
queries that he will answer from time
to time, in his columns. This ques-
ton was put to mad lot of fellows
who wanted to get away with Christ,
because he told them they would go
to hell if they kept on in their way.
The king did not have to wait half
minute for their reply. They said
kill him tomorrow without fail Sup
} pose Plate had put the question to
God, what would have been the reply?
Suppose he had put the question to
Christ himself, what would he have
, answered.? Here is the answer that is
, being given by most people at the
present time: We don't care what
you do with him. We have washed
! our hands of him long ago. You look
to that We are too busy to be both
cred with him. There are too many
hypocrites canning to follow him and
!, we don't want to get mixed up with a
lot of hypocrites. We couldn't hold
out if we did begin. We don't under
, stand his teachings and don't want to.
} There are so many contradictions in
5 the bible that we don't know which is
t the right way. We have so many
different churches, they can't all be
right. In short, we are doing some
I things that would make it inconsistent
e to have much to do with Jesus, so you
d do to him as you like and don't
y bother us.
r The question has been raised as tc
r what will happen if the human race
d never lives again after the grave anc
a thus finds that the resurrection prom
e sed is only hoax to jolly us into
t being good while here? Well, here
e is thew va it is. The shrewd mar
h tries to play the cinch game. In thi
matter let us play the double-barrelet
cinch. If there is no resurrection anC
|? Inone of us ever live after the grave
there won't be any wise fellows owe
,r there poking fun at us. Up to dealt
At we have as good fighting chance OF
id the point as they have. If, on tn
< other hand, there is a resurrection
;" and our obedience to bible teaching
| | here has put us in better conditio
id over there, and these fellows who wcr
to SO mortally afraid that there is no lif
at after the grave and have thus re
TX Trained from accepting the Christa
O. | religion, have simply lost out for thel
W, pains. Then. if there were no III
IN lfter this, we all know that to liv
the quiet modest Christian life Will
we are passing through this vale {
n c | cars lldkCS us DCltNl anu htPP'N' "''
~ healthier and better contented an
20 makes us go down into death wit
hf more nerve than the fellow witho'
.h hope in that hour. OF course, yo
,st can pay your money and take yo'
h choice.
III Some one has asked me pointed
om Just why so many good men in an
If about Caldwell decline to join any
90 the churches. OF course am {
IN record as holding that the church
en- the greatest institution on earth t
,rt day Decree that no church sscrvic
ne will be permitted again in Caldwell f.
MR. MR. forty years and it would put us fu
ed ' ther back than taking up the stea
w and electric roads and your real esta
would not be worth forty cents on Il
-th dollar and not ten per cent OF o
- - people would stay here even II tn
w W had to give their property away. b
." au ,e to whv co manV good m