Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-05-21

or some others l would mention to
You, but let that be as it may, / have
lived in christian land. | have been
sick eight years and have probably had
more experience than You, as | am the
oldest, but you may be like man who
started out on journey and said he
had learned everything possible to be
learned. However, he called at Il
house TO get a match to light his pipe.
A very small, ignorant boy came ont
and said, "Pard, we hain't got no
matches here " "Well, please bring
me chunk of fire." 1--WE hain't got
no chunk of fire, but Just wait min
ute and will light your pipe Just the
same, " and ne left and presently re-
turned with pile of cold ashes in the
palm of his hand with a live coal of
fire on it, and lit up the mans pipe,
who said he would confess that the
scriptures were right when they said
it took the weak to confound the wise
as that was something new to him
The older man gets the more he has
to learn. and as You get older,
Waterman, you will he apt to
learn that the preaching of the word
of God nowadays from different pull
pits in different churches, one and all
alike, and none excused, is absolutely
without a shadow of a doubt, put on
cash basis. | believe like Gold
Wave, if you enter into contract
with man to pay him a salary to
preach by the year, pay him. You
made the contract with him. 1t takes
more than one to make contract, and
as you helped shuttle the money to put
him on a cash salary, if he will swear
to his account and it's legal and law
full one, pay off that debt just as you
would pay off the man that you hired
to plow for you. There isn't any
difference Both men made contract
with you, and you hired both men,
and you both recognized the right of
contract. So, if you hire man to do
piece of work and he does the job up
as per contract, then you are in duty
bound to pay him. | want to know if
God ever had any paydays to pay off
his preachers, and if so how much
money did he pay per annum, and if
| Christi disciples that were called TO
preach his gospel, were charged to
preach to every living creature, or
We're they called to preach to IA certain
tribe of church members, Just to the
church he belongs to, which has him
hired, and why does he refuse to
preach to other different churches
which haven't hired him, and yet he
says he is called of God and God
charges him very pointedly to preach
to every living creature. Tell me, are
not all different churches that keep his
commandments, living creatures.
Why does he refuse to preach to them
just because they haven't got him hir-
ed and he skips over such large per
cent. of the children 1t is hard
question for me to comprehend.
want some of my brother writer's to
give me the passage of scripture and
where can turn and find it, where it
says if you fail to pay preacher big
sum of money that God will cancel
his commission and silence him, and
shut him off and refuse to allow him
to preach, and | want you to further
show me the Scripture that authorizes
this. My dead brothers. wife belong
ed to the Presbyterian church, where
said church had their preacher based
on cash basis salary and she got little
| DtIlluu WIFI ucI uutSs 1Hcy buIHtt
her out of said church on the grounds
of failing to pay her part to a salarieC
preacher and, yet she was a true, goo(
christian woman. She then Joined thu
Baptists Is such action as that auth
orized by Gods words2 am left il
deep wonder over that and the onl,
thing can allege is this-the love o
money is the root of all evil. TAX,
the subject, readers, and do justice tx
! all and if have said anything that i
of interest to you, very good. If not
pass it by.
! The box supper at Hickory grow
: brought $17.70.
Everybody and nearly all the cook
. are digging star root on Walden
ridge.
G. N. Vanhoosier, Cally Beesly
Josie Vanhooser, Rev. G. W. White
JAS Holloway, Will Barnett, Johl
!, Burnett, John Bands. Lige Murphey
. P. G. Grayson, were visiting ye writ
g er today.
l Green Layne and John Bennett wer
the two best men at the box suppe
and bought more boxes and paid NOR
3 money than any of the rest, and at
with the two prettiest girls.
r. F. Rogers and wife We're presen
: at the box supper when the roll wa
? called
}. Mr.. Farmer has raised fine lot c
J, chickens, and said he wanted the Hin
. OILS correspondent to come and ca
: chicken with him again this fall.
= W. H. GraysOn is very low and nc
:. expected to live. The report thi
J morning was that he was dying.
. l am very uneasy for fear the editC
: will pluck the down off some of I
u writer's for writing too much abor
! salaried preachers. am going I
u quit, boys. Don't fool with me an
further, for | saw a frown on til
!, editor face the other day that didn
3 look right.
j If You have any loose change yo
u don need just now. | would like t
! get 80 cents off of each of you to buy
u friend of mine cork leg.
70 Representative
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