Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-05-05
AMOS L. GRIFFITH
Asks Questions of St. John and
Brings Up Some Remembran.
CeS of 0ld-Time Friends.
Pell CITY. Ala AnriI u. 1901

Pell City, Ala, April 27, 1904
MIR. St. John, where do you get
your authority that Luke gives the
genealogy Of Mary instead oi JOS,
eph? | have heard that statement
many times before by those who
tried to make two contradictory
statements tally. If that was true
there certainly ought to be some
ancient history that to effect Give
some evidence besides mere asser
ton. Does the Bible anywhere say
that Mary's genealogy was given
by Luke? | have as much right to
say that Matthew gave the geneal,
Nogy of Mary, and that Luke gave
Joseph's, and you can't prove TO
the contrary. And | now dety you
to trot out your proof, il you have
it, that Matthew did not give Ma
ry's pedigree. Matthew says that
Herod had all (not pOrtl0n) the
children killed, that were in Bethe
lehem and in the coasts thereof
from two years old down. Now
il he killed al the children. the
word "all" will include female as
wei as male. Seneca was born five
years before Christ, and died A. D
. IS. He was a philosopher and his.
. torian. If there had been the
hutchery OF "alI" the children from
two years old down, it would have
so shocked the world that it Ger.
tainly would have reached his ears,
and would have been mentioned
ty him The elder Pliny, bora
during the time Christ was ON
earth, it is singular that Ire failed lo
mention so noted an event. | do
' not think JOsephus says anything
about the killing by Hrrod. He
was born A. D. SO. What does
Luke say about Joseph heeingi
verse 39th, 10th and 4lsJ. Dom
look much like trip to Egypt,
does it?
:, ANY how, if Herod killed all the
II children under two years old, how
> did 1t happen that John escaped
who was born just six months he
n fore Christ? Did he 90 to Egypt
n too?
Recently i'll the News l saw two
pieces written by my old GrienC
y and schoOImate, Peter Haunch,
Il and also a very kind and interest
ing letter from my friend, David +
~ Chaudoin. Those letters brough
y to my mind many pleasant recoI
" lections of our boyhood days. Ye
have gone swimming in "OlC
Fed many Sunday with Peter
and Dave, | have not forgot an,
?, y Of our old tramps and scrapes, anC
v | read with pleasure Peters two let
If ters in the News. | was born Dec
y 2, 1880; when were you born Peter
ID l think you are about one year old
. er than | am. Our old friend, Jes
Sc Thach is about the same age a
Peter, | think. Jesse il the Onl
one in Jasper that was living ther
.. when we were boys together, Bill
re Thach was born after | moved /
10 Jasper He is All old resident
r. though. Write again, Peter. Al
IL long as can see your name in tn
News written by yourself, l vii
know that you are not dead, and
in hope it will be hundred wears be
ggs g fore tits necessary to write up you
it obituary, and that you will hav
e, good health all that time.
Mr.. Editor. The word "sequa
is Cherokee for hog, and "chee
means feeding place; "sequachee
R. means hog valley, or hog trough
'r- 1t may be that some of your read
as a ers do not know that they live in
e. hog trough, but according to Chez
be okee they do.
in Wishing all the readers of tn
IL News together with the Editor an
"Devil" long life, good health an
happiness, | am respectfully,
AMOS l.. GRIFFITH.