Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-05-07
Third District
Ssseialto the Me1Os.

not public worship, and it is the next
thing to night party, and there have
been several shooting scrapes and cut
tings and stabbings and many cases of
public drunkenness committed at these
worldly entertainments, and we had a
number of boys indicted before the
grand jury for disturbing public wor-
ship, and all the judge did was to turn
them loose and further held that box
supper was not held in the law as pub
lie worship. hold out this doctrine,
that in the house of God is not the
proper place for box supper. A life
lost now and then of some young man
in the bloom of life in your conimuni-
ty is worth more to the parents than
all the good that could be derived from
box supper, but time and experience
will teach some of the fathers and
mothers a lesson that you will long re.
member, rs some of you have in the
past. Box suppers don't deal ON jus.
tice every time as they ought TO. This
is why ! oppose them. There was one
given on the creek to buy Thomas
Saynes wooden leg, given by the
christian, church people, and when
they met they had two boxes. All the
members of the church absolutely fail
ed to contribute to this cause in a case
of absolute necessity, and Mr.. Saynes
went away in christian land, among
large delegation of church members,
hopping on crutches and ON one leg,
without one dollar being contributed
| to this charitable cause, and he is still
going on one leg and subject to chart
| ty. Shame ON the officials of that no.
ted box supper, for what good was de-
rived from the same. l would rather
give soc to held buy neighbor a cork
leg than give to preacher that is
based on 81, 900 salary, with two
good arms, two good legs, stout, able
bodied to do manual labor.
One of the reverends that is making
such a cry and bowling SO loud in the
News and up-holding salaried preach
ers, is not. to my own personal knowl-
edge, based on any salary as pastor of
any church, and has about quit preach
ing, either at home or abroad, and yet
he admits that nearly all the different
denominations of churches have now
become conducted on cash basis The
church at Hickory Grove, to which
my wife is full member, has been
abandoned OH account of refusing to
pay a preacher the price he charged
for his services and if the ministerial
work now days hasn't come to a show
down and put upon and run on cash
basis, pray tell me what has long since
become Of the church you belong to at
your own home to which l always
with glad heart paid my wife's dues
AS long as we kept up the money on
the board you kept your church to-
gether and when you failed to suffer
her to be placed on cash basis she went
down and for the last ten years has
been a thing of she past. say unto
you unless she is placed and put upon
a cash basis again she will go down
again as handful of chaff thrown
out in the wind will blow to the -four
quarters of the earth 1t costs half as
much nowadays to get free gospel
preached in an enlightened land as il
does to run the National Government,
and yet will you still hold out that old
foggy doctrine and say that the servic'
es of the preachers all over the country
are not based on cash basis? l may
be crazy but amt no fool. / expect
to pay my part of the salary and ne
yer finch. but only sustain my ar
gument in the News that Christ
christianity was not placed on a cash
basis. Is preacher called Of God t.
preach his word, If he fails to get {
certain sum of money and then absol
uetly refuses to preach. If he refuse.
to preach Gods word he steps dowr
and out. Answer me, do you believe
that God ever called such man Of
not2 / don't know. only ask {
question of those that are in position
to know. Please, Mr.. Editor, excuse
me for occupying so much of your val
liable space on this one subject. Som'
great writer's seem to get offended a
other writer's for not endorsing ever,
word they put in their arguments.
think as a regular correspondent to tn
News, that 1 am entitled now ant
then to a few words along this lin
while others are filing up SO mucl
space with so much argument on mat
ters of little interest to the reading
public. One answer and one reply W
think is enough on any one subject {
weary the patience of the editor, s
, then, stop before you run subjec
into the ground. If any reader Q
the News doesn't want to endorse ev
cry word that appears in my article
please don't get offended. / grant 20
the same privilege with your ow
+ views on any subject that appears i
the News as do on any of mine an
> you have the same right and privileg
as is granted to me and won't g
mad if you don't see subject as | dc
J l am not a preacher. If / was ] woul
! be true to my calling. that is if l we
a truly called to preach by God. If Go
, calls man TO preach his word an
|, that man resists and refuses to obey n
calling or respect his God that he d.
. clares called him, his own wilful col
, duct before the children of man, an
his own wilful disobedience to God
9 commands, is enough to condemn hil
at the Judgement Bar, where there
no repeal or respite granted. This
not intended TO apply to anyone, but
the shoe fits you wear it. II 1T don
it is intended for the other fellow.
Mrs. Jordan Ridge is no better an
is not expected TO live.
= Lon White has been very sick tn
. week, but is out of danger.
Pearl White, wife Of Frank Whit
! has been very poorly with la gripp'
but is mp again.
/, w. II. White has granted permissio
: TO seven or eight families to put the
: mail in his box, No. 20.
James Saynes and wife called on J
writer Friday.
There was certain party got scare
|. here the other day, ran home, put
: big paddock on the barn door and loci