Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-02-07
Doans, Tex.
Sbeciak to The Nl7OS.

oPEtfHE 20 me NftVS'
If you will allow me little space l
will try to give you brief sketch of
trip to my old home in Tennessee.
After an absence of seventeen years
went to see my old home. was an
ticipating quite change, but never
did | expect to find a complete revo-
luton. Everything had undergone a
change; not a single thing looked ma
tural. The large timber had all been
cut down. Places that had seemed
mile away did not seem half that dis
tance. Most all the farms that had
seemed to be large fields, seemed only
small garden places. The. rocks ap-
peared twice as large as they did when
left the old state. A melancholy feel
ing stole over me when | looked over
what used to think was once fine,
prosperous state, but now its face looks
poor with red hills and rocks, and great
gullies had washed through the land.
Prosperity seemed thing of the past.
My old home being on an eminence
l could see the hills for miles away.
How eagerly longed to see the place
again, but Oh how my heart ached
when | thought of the past. Most all
my old associates had scattered to the
four winds of the earth. Some that
dearly loved had gone to their long
resting places to await the summons
on the resurrection morning, when the
dead in Christ shall rise with harps,
singing honor to God of heaven and
their Redeemer who saved them and
took them home. | cannot tell my
thoughts and feelings when saw the
vacant places that used to be filled
with cheerful voices of childhood, but
now some are hushed in death and
others are are growing old. The ole
house that used to rush into fG my
meals has fast decayed and is nearly
ready to fall to its mother earth. Lots
of fruit trees had vanished from sight
also a favorite cedar tree that | had
! planted when a child, just next to thu
: old kitchen chimney had been hewr
down. Oh, how things can change a
time rolls on, and bring sad ant
strange feelings when we take retro
spectiye view of the past How sad
J felt to think over the past and thinl
who may be next to pay the debt thai
is due to all humanity. When | thinl
of the look of sadness and gloom tina
seemed to cover the face of the earth
l almost regret that I had seen the sat
, changes that my dear old home haC
passed under.
One thing that ] am sorry to say bu
must not pass unmentioned and that i
1 the people that claim to keep house fo
their Master, most all seem to be in 1
slumber and seemed to be cold and un
concerned, lifeless, f9rgetful of tn
things that make for peace. What i
= the matter? Who is to blame for al
the sadness? Death and bleating of lit
n tie lambs that are out in the cold un
sheltered. You people that have you
names on a church book ought to thin
of the little ones that are in the blea
cold that are still looking to you to b
led Alright. Do you ever think hoy
your acts of neglect beset and kee
d them out in the cold? Then you ough
= to think of this and help to keep
= clean house or have your name erase
: from the church book Dom be in tn
e way Of the one that wants to get int
e clean house. One had better be ou
= of doors than to be in an unclea
house. You ought to know who yo
+ are. Don't be in the gate and kee
is out lambs that are bleating for she
y ter How, it grieves my poor heal
% to see the house of God in confusion
% and persons staying away from til
a. place that should be there. Why {
n you do this? JOE HACKWORTH