Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-06-16
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Pell City Ala, June 4-EdlJor OF lhe
News:-It seems that l was little too |
previous in reference to our friend st. |
Johns correspondence. II l had waited |
until to-day | would not have written
portion of my letter. know | write a
most miserable hand, am frequently |
troubled to read it myself after it gets !
cold intended TO say it is Jesse"
Thach who is the only ohe OF my old !
playmates left in Jasper instead Of 'Je- |
hu," as it appears in the News
Well, ST. John, you have got me
where the hair is short when you poke
Greek and Latin at me. l only know
one language, the English, and that
very imperfectly, but | have an Oxford
/ Teachers Bible, that claims to give the
old and new revised versions of the
New Testament. | have just referred
to it to see if the revised portion OF it
claimed that Joseph was the son-in-
law OF He'll" as claimed by st, John in
his reply TO my criticism of the two
fathers of Joseph as given by Matthew
and Luke.
! The revised translation gives He'll as
the father of Joseph same as the old in
Luke 3. 1t is a little strange that a
com mi ttee of learned men selected from
all churches of Europe and America,
learned in Greek, Latin and Hebrew,
should overlook passage that is OF so
much importance as the pedigree Of the
Son of God.
1t was the river "Gihan" instead of
! "Zihan," as you print it, that encom-
/ passed the whole land of Ethiopia.
lay down as a proposition that
where three or four persons tell a story
that agrees with each other does not
necessarily make the story true, but
when three or four tell tale that con-
tradicts each other, one of the state
ments must necessarily be untrue. Con-
sequently, we are in doubt which to be-
lieve, and both may be lie, For over
70 years l have been taught by the
Church that the revised version of King
James was true. 1t has only been few
years since the church concluded to
make a new translation of the Bible
and Testament The new version
knocks He'll out of the Bible, but leaves
the contradictions in it just the same.
Take Joseph's trip to Egypt for exam
Pile. ST. Luke processes to give an ac-
count of Christ's whereabouts from his
christening to his death. Luke says in
second chapter that Christ was Circum-
cised in Jerusalem when s days old,
that his parents returned home to Naz-
areth in Gallilee, and that the child
grew, &c, No mention of Egyptian
trip, nothing said about the half dozen
or more children butchered in the lit
tie village" of his nativity. 1t is sin
gular that Matthew is the only one who
wrote of the butchery of Herod. The
other three are silent on that subject
There is quite a discrepancy between
the witnesses as to the occurrences at the
cruciixion Matthew, Chapter 25, YER
ses 81, 50, So, tells of most wonderful
things taking place at the Crucifxion
that neither Mark, Luke or John say
anything about. l will ask Uncle Joe
or st. John if they have any idea what
became of those who rose from the
dead, whether they went back into
their graves after the resurrection or
what did become of them. Matthew
says from the 9th to 9th hour darkness
prevailed SC. John says the sentence
was passed at the 9th hour. Mark says
expressly that it was the 3rd hour
g o'clock in the morning) Chap xv:25
John xix:14 Is it not strange thai
neither Mark, Luke or John said one
word about the earthquake, the dark
sun, raised dead, and that they shOult
fatty contradict Matthew as to the
hours of the day, &c. If those things
had happened and Matthew, Mark
Luke and John had been present anC
witnessed them, the facts would have
- been of too much Importance to have
been overlooked by either OF them
There is nothing unusual in an eClipst
of the sun or an earthquake, bat for
person to raise from the dead is sucl
}, an unusual thing, that it would hav
been of the utmost Importance to re
y cord it. Instead they all four recort
y trivial sayings as be said this and ht
- said that conversations showing n
very extraordinary wisdom of th
speaker even if they we're written o
} spoken. 1t is not hard job to tell
lie, but 1t is pretty big Job to supper
it. Matthew fails to tell US which on
q Of the saints raised from the dead o
what became Of them after and as he
not corroborated by either Luke, Mar
or John, am Inclined to the belief b
simply lied Matthew tells US tina
when Jesus was put in the sepulche
At that the Jews applied for a guard {
le watch the grave. The other witnessC
.e seem to either not know anything c
"a the guard or they deemed IL Of so littl
moment, that 10 was not worth recor,
ing. Matthew says as ii began to daw