Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-06-18
Makes Reply to G. W. White
and "Watchman."
LConcluded from last week.

you were born nrSb. Ion you Know /
that there are five or six hundred peo-
pie who know us both, who know you
wrote that which was untrue, for they
know the records show me to be two
years the Oldest. Now, under the rules
of practice, if | discredit you on one
point Of your charge against me, you
are not to be believed ON the whole,
and then you stand before the readers
Of the News impeached.
Now, "Watchman, and your broth
er, sc. W." am better acquainted
with each of you than any other per-
sons living, outside of your wives.
from the fact that have been raised
with you, known you longer, have liv-
ed by you, and have had personal deal
ings with you. You may think you
know a man in every particular, but if
you live by him twenty years and new
er have personal dealings with him,
you will never know him. After you
have had these personal dealings then
and not before you can truthfully say
you know that man, and when you
get through with me you can tell your
neighbors and friends you know me.
Now, you made bad botch out of
answering as to God having regular
pay days to pay off his preachers in
money and how often. You lodged
the very point by saying when a
preacher died God said "enter into the
joys of thy Lord and receive your re-
ward. Money is one thing and after
death reward of mankind is another
subject, quite different from the other.
That, my brother, is debt we all owe
to God for our lives, and that is our
debt we owe to him for letting us live,
not to preachers only. That is a debt
that all the money of earth will not
free us from. If you call it pay day
with God to preachers only. will say
that there is not nickle or a dime
of money handled in that transmission.
You invariably lodged the money is
| sue
Now, you referred me to few secret
lodges that I might join. You say it
would help me out l will say in an
swer to your suggestion that I am re-
cognized with two or three as good Sc
cret lodges as ever was in the United
states. belong to three Detective
Branches and served one term for I'm
Gle Sam. have a certificate wish to
get to man of God that paid 81 to,
and he boarded out $40 with me. 1t
either went on my dues or my wife e..
1t s all the same to me. The first Off
cial work | ever did after got my Gre
dentials was to serve state warrant
on a Baptist minister for horse
stealing, taking two horses and rig
from L. 0. Reed, Chattanooga, and ]
landed him safe behind the bars al
Chattanooga. When his trial came off
he was given two years in the pen and
sent to Tracy City. When his time
expired he was rearrested on charge
of murder, taken back to Howard Co,
Mo-, and hung by the neck uutil dead.
AS you doubted my paying any of my
wife's dues, and were so anxious tx
! procure few certificates don't fail Il
get this one as you slide along dowr
the line. The name of being minis
ter, holding pair of credentials does
MT amount to very much, if anything
when the heart is not right. You
jumping off the subject onto me an(
attempting to assail my personal char
acter by saying that / had failed t.
work at any period of my life, reminds
me of big fish tale Bud Vanhoose
told me about, that a friend of hi
caught one that weighed 1900 pound
and he declared it took that fish hal
an hour to wink its eyes. That fisl
tale is like Waterman s. tale-t,
big. Too much gas and wind an,
without any foundation. He wantet
to get that into the minds of the read
ers to see if he could not get some on
to say ''Hurrah for Waterman in
stead of Representative. A mai
that is always finding so many fault
with his neighbor does surely lack on
element of christian qualification. Tt
complete bona fide, true christian il
every whit, the scriptures say: II
that says he sinneth not is liar, an,
the truth never did abide in such
man as that. So, you see we are al
l prone to sin and none excepted.
Now, a word to SC w / sal
what about a preacher who is called t
God to preach his Word that neve
!. preached anywhereT Why we ha
| three preachers up here of that de
scription. He further said if the sho
fits wear it, As you tried to make you
so-called defence to that, you withou
doubt sustained what l said. Yo
put a doctors certificate to prove wha
said was so, but if you could hav
filed a certificate from God instead {
A.; man, God might release You, MAJ
: called of God to preach before God
Excuse that man of God. He mus
consult the God that called and &c
: release papers from him that givett
. You use the word 'we" all the wa
through your article. You say Nv
i haven't ate so and so for many year
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