Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-08-06
Empire. Ala.

The strike at this place is st;ll on
and everything has passed as onietiv a.
couid be, There hasn't been any
trouble. There are now 345 that have
Joined. There are just few that are
trying to work. One Of those parties
that are at work told the writer that
he dld have many good friends in EN-
pire but they didn't respect him any
more than if he was dog and don't
notice him He said that it surely was
not right to work and that he had
worked his last day for the company
until there is change.
The Empire Local marched from this
place to Horse Creek Thursday. II
looked like Coxy's army when thew
came in sight of Horse Creek. Those
people that were under guard Just
shouted, for they knew that they
would get their liberty. It was an
awful sight to behold men in their
own homes guarded like outlaws. not
allowed to come out of their own
houses for fear they would Join the
union. When the Empire boys got to
Horse Creek they were Joined by other
locals and was a little turned about
marching to West Pratt There was a
line about one half mile long. To
the surprise of all, little, nervy wom-
an stepped in front and said, ''Boys,
follow me-" and there was new life
put in the boys. They cheered and
cheered, and this woman marched
straight to West Pratt. Sheriff Moore
tried to stop the march by driving his
buggy in front of the line, but the
woman took hold of the horses bits
and showed him back, and shouted,
Come ahead and away they went
to West Pratt and to Rabbithead mines
and then back to where they started,
and there was good speaking from the
different locals. Such is the shape at
Horse Creek and West Pratt and wv
Leaf mines. Can man that has a
speck OF christianity about him ap-
prove of resisting unionism. A man
can operate mines or any other legiti-
mate business and be a christian at the
same time, for God says in Deuterono-
my S;18, "Thou shalt remember the
Lord, thy God, for it is he that giveth
thee power to get wealth. God did
not mean here for a man to get rich.
When man becomes Christian he
does not sever his relations to the
world in which he lives. Some we'll
TODD men in business when you
ask them to be christian will say, II
would have to give up my business be-
fore | could become christian. :"
Christ said to the Father, "As thou
hast sent me unto the world, even so
have | also sent them unto the world, +"
and again Christ prayed, 81 pray not
that thou shouldst take them out of the
world, but that thou shouldst keep
them from evil. +" 1t is the will of
God for his people to engage in the or
binary avocations Of this world that
they may earn an honest living and at
the same time show forth to the world
the saving and keeping powers of
Christ. Though it is the will of God
for his people to engage in the bust
ness of this world, at the same time
the christian must not engage in any
business which will harm his fellow
men. If you are in a business which
is honest and legitimate, others will
share with you the benefits of that
business, and now, if your gain is loss
to others you employ, then your bust
ness is not the business in which a
christian man can engage in. The
apostle says to us to be ''diligent in
business and fervent in spirit. Why
do 20 many look for gain and try to
get rich, when the Bible so plainly says
it is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of needle than for rich
man to enter into the kingdom of
God. Jesus says that the man who
pays too much attention to money get
ting is apt to lose the faculty by
which he apprehends God and spiritual
things. What shall it profit a man
if he gain the whole world and loses
his own soulY' The temptation is to
neglect the higher for the lower, to
give up the unseen for the seen, but If
all those operators were good men and
would share their profits with their
employees as God intends they should,
strife would not exist. But those un-
spiritual men have caused all this
strife and confusion, but God is in the
lead, because all the locals open their
meetings with song and prayer.
There is to be a big prayer meeting
at Horse Greek Tuesday, Aug. 4. by
all the nearby Locals. Empire eX-
poets to attend in full and they expect
great results and if the answer does
not come in the way we look for it,
let us look around and see If the flow
er we longed for is not blooming else
where. God answers prayer, so right
will always win. PEDRO.