Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-08-02
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few dots from this locality.
Crops are reasonably good. Wheat
is making from 20 to 80 bushels per a.
Gre; oats 40 TO 20; corn is looking fine
cotton is little late ON account of SO
much cold rains, health is generally
good and laboring hands are very
scarce, ranging from 81. 80 to 81 per
day.
i notice great deal is being said
about one being christian. Win
some of You please tell. me what it
takes for one to be a christian. Also |
dom think it best to try to convert
our newsy little paper into religions
paper. If any of you want to read
good religious paper just send one dol
lar to Tioga, Texas, and get the Bap-
fist Trumpet. If we should try to
convert this into religious paper,
with its variety of correspondents /
think you would have real Duke
Mixture. Remember | don't object to
anyone wishing to give their views
and feelings on a religious subject.
This is their right. Neither do | OPP
nose "Dofetchit. This is his right.
Come again We read where one Of
old told us TO eat, drink and be merry
for tomorrow Won may die. Now,
Just let me show you some reasons why
/ say it would be a failure. Suppose
YOU take paper for some news and
your eyes fall on sacred piece. Then
you are fooled for your mind is not on
that part Of life, and again some one
would try to teach you that by grace
you are saved and that not of yourself
YES 1t is the gift of God 'You are
a chosen generation, a royal priest
hood, peculiar people, holy nation,
chosen in Christ before the world be-
gan and another would come in
the same issue and tell you that you
only had three important things to do
and that you don't have anything to
do but be baptised for the remission of
your sin and you then would be ON the
safe road to heaven, only read your
bible. It is the word of God. Another
would tell you that God was up yon-
der on the hill with pencil pleading
with you to come up there and let
Him write your name in the Lamb 5
Book of Life and place your sins on a
scape goat and then would bear them
into a land of forgetfullness. Another
would jump up and tell you that he
had great big rubber on that pencil
and if you did not do just as He told
you to that He would rub off your
name and call that old goat back and
place your sins back on you. Another
would tell you that He was without
variableness or a shadow of turn.
mo man can come to me except my
Father, which sent Me, draw him. -
Another would tell us that part of
our Bible had been mistranslated and
was only calculated to mislead us.
Then don t you see where it would lead
to? Then let's have only newsy lit
tie paper as it has been in the past.
with now and then fox chase from
the Brimers field Come on, J. A.
Heron, and let's have one
Come on, Dofetchit, if those people
get too full of religion to read your
pieces just let them pass by. | hope
to read a good one from you in the
next issue.
Come again, Whiskers Your let
ter was fine. also appreciated Uncle
Gid s letter on the refinement of our
boys. Boys, have sou ever thought
that the future government of your
land and country is soon to rest on
your Your fathers will soon pass over
the river of death and you young men
will have to fill their places. Then
had you not rather have peaceful
land to raise your families up in?
Then set the example for your COM
panions to follow. Lead them to be
good moral, civil boys that they may
be ornaments to their neighborhood
and parents. This you all can do by
being sober, thoughtful, civil and hon
est. But this is not religion. This
alone will not take you to heaven, but
it is your duty to be that. Christ told
Nicodemus that he must be born
again. Then it is needful of you to
and that not of yourselves 1t needs be
of God. You dare not and cannot
trust in one single deed that you have
ever done to merit you heaven. This
alone is of God. You can not teach
your neighbors to know the Lord, for
all shall know me f9om least to the
greatest. " I sometimes hear people
say they do not commit sin and are
perfect. You may know right there
that they do not depend on God for
sustaining grace If they are right
must be wrong. can not depend on
self. l must depend ON Christ for al
my help cometh from him. Christ i:
my only hope for salvation. This is
the hope that sustained my sainted IA
ther and mother in this life. This wa:
the faith that comforted Daniel in the
lions den, and want to tell the dear
readers Of the News that this is the on
| ly hope that will do. This is the faith
that enabled the Hebrew children to e
through the furnace and feel no harm
and all the weary souls that have evel
entered the pearly gates. Often il
midnight darkness fear and quake
that l am wrong and deceived in m,
part of the whole matter.
Let us have a good, newsy littlt
paper-one that will give us the new
of old Sequachee Valley and othe
parts. That is what look for when
get my welcome little visitor | an
glad to get it, to unfold and read iron
its columns filed with newsy letters
Peter Haunch, | enjoy your letters