The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-06-20
THE OBSERVATORY.
ALL KINDS OF CHURCHES

on some of these doings and others
like them as simply proof of their
teaching that all the world, except
me and my wife, my son John and
his wife, us four and no more, as
gong wrong, and fastening the end
of all things, which is close at hand.
And, apparently, to help the confu-
SION along, stages a drama on Sunday,
which, while it may be called "sa-
cred" on the strength of being found
ed on the Bible history of Belshaz-
ears great feast" in his vast banquet
hall, is funny enough on its ten feet
square stage to make the saints laugh,
even if the awful days are near at
hand.
Others claim consideration and ad-
hesion because of age; so old that
they have become stiff in form and
formal in action; much of the Ian
guage of their form of worship is
noble and upliftine-the finest the
! mind of man has ever evolved for
such purpose, but in past days, like
some other elder brothers, they have
demanded that we younger ones fol-
low exactly in their steps, without re-
gard to our conscientious scruples'
and have sometimes been rather in
.sistent that we conform" to their
teaching and form of worship, or take
the consequences, sometimes harsh
Some l will "treat absently" for
fear they will think and say I do not
love them.
the time would fail me to tell Of" all
A.
faith. l have no membership with
any of you; but | believe have
Christian love for you all, and God
is my witness, whom serve with my
spirit in the gospel of his Son. that
without ceasing l make mention Of
you (alD always in my PRAYERS
believe in unity, if it is that of the
spirit; / do not believe organic unity |
is possible, nor do care for it any
more than l do for the pueblo me-
thod of housekeeping; but have
long thought there was so much like
ness of heart and aim in three, or
four, or five of the congregations of
this city that thew, if they would exer-
else as much forbearance and patience
as we do in our homes, could most
happily worship, pray, and listen to
preaching in one Westinghouse; but
rather than try to constrain you all
to join my communion, or suffer pen
allies and pains, or l be compelled,
forced, to join any of you, l would
even welcome few more churches
to already over-churched Caldwell;
which, the good Lord forbid.
In the Epistle to the Hebrews. we
are told that Levi paid tithes, being
yet in the loins of his father; mean
ing that in the sense of paying them
through the act of Abraham, his
great-grandfather, four hundred years
before his own day. Now in that
sense / have been in the church of
my fathers over three hundred years,
and although love it for what it has
done for religious and civil liberty
and missions to all the world, yet
Tor more than a dozen years I have
steadily opposed the establishing of
/ church of that order in our city;l
Ind while about half the officers and
members of one of our existing
churches were once in churches of
ny own communion, yet they are we'll
served where they are, modifying the
,thers, and being modified perhaps
themselves, yet I would no more
hink of disrupting that church for
he sake of my "ism" than / would of
pitching a tent in your dooryards. Be
assured we feel at home with you all.
Is you try so much to make u.s. And.
bray tell me, WHY should it not be
10? Do ar e US believe our present
differences are to continue in the
ioirit world. with p resent "shibbo-
ethss partitions and methods Hioh
,hureh. Low Church, this that and
he other?
If the word pictures of the Reeve
alton are a portrayal of the spirit
world we learn that there are to be
songs (no mention of psalms),' harps
llleluias and abundant anaens.