Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-01-27

the sACTeu hIo1 test - aHOAiN ~ Out
and be lost forever.
Finally men learned to kindle FIRE
by friction; that is by rubbing one
piece Of wood over another, and later
by boring a soft piece Of wood with
a pointed stick. This was a wonder
full discovery.
Our matches are simply a modif-
cation of that great principal of pro-
ducing FIRE by friction.
You have heard of the vestal vir-
gins of the Romans. They were
priestesses of the goddess Vesta,
Now Vesta was the goddess of fire,
Of the hearth, and the duty of the
yestal virgins was to keep the sacred
fire burning.
In Roman times men were about
as highly civilized IS they are now,
and knew we'll enough how to kindle
fire at any time, and anywhere. The
fact that they still chung to the old
custom of keeping a perpetual fire
long after its usefUlne had ceased
shows how important and sacred the
custom had been at one time, and
how many, many centuries 1t had
been in use,
A trace CT this old custom fingers
with Us even today, in the holy fire
seen on the affairs of Catholic church
ss,
Just think Of what We should do
without fire! No wonder the an
clients worshiped the sun, the original
source Of FIRE. l could tell you OF
many customs among as today which
had their origin in sun-worship. Os-
tara, or EaStre, was the goddess Of
morning, or East, and also Of spring
the dawnrng or awakening Of nature
from the death OF winter. The
Church pursuing her usual wise policy
gave Christian significance to such OF
the old pagan rites as could not be
rooted out.
The old pagan festival of "Eastre'
, based on sun worship wac preserved
but it was thereafter celebrated il
horror Of the rising of the sun o
Righteousness, and is our Easter o
. today.
l.. But must go on. Once startec
!, on this course of advancement, mar
continued to advance from age t,
J. age, mp to the present time.
= We have seen how be began as al
b animal; how he fought, killed ant
Q ate his fellow animals. Now, nal
e still inherlts those old animal habits
n Some men today in Africa stall xii
and eat each other just as they use
:, to when animals. Even highly CIV
e liked nations 60 to war and slaugh
} ter and torture one another. Sue
l. facts clearly indicate our animal or
If gin. You see. it takes thousands {
! years to outgrow the old animal pas
l. sions and habits. We have curbe
i many of them, but they are sti
X there, and suddenly crop out. On
70 man will up and kill another in
ID twinkle. The old habit of killing
err age after age, when an animal suddel
Iy asserts itself and for the momer
al over rides the great structure of VII
er tue and self control Rhich centuri,
of hard work have reared. The
y men, in turn kill the murderer, aga
ii illustrating the force OF the ola hab
it of killing animals which crossed o.
q path.
~ So the origin Of evil is plain.
al all comes from our animal nature
to How significant it is that we ha'
of come 70 call these bad habits levi
I'd or ''sin," BY which We mean that '
d. discCuntenanCe them, and desire
n overcome them, as other animals {
or not.
i'll So much for the origin of our pa
i'll siOns. Now for the specific cas-
your own temptation.
es Owing to our animal origin we I
IT, have passions and so temptation
II But because our immediate ancesto
IT. yielded often TO certain temptation
be each Of rs inherits some particular
1T bad trait, Every person has sOr
lie ane great Termination. the overoomil