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

Sbedal 10 me Me7gs.
Well. "Bill Dooley," / was 80 glad
to see your acknowledgement in the
News as to WHY you vacated your reg
ular correspondence so long | holler-
ed at the top of my voice, three
cheers for "Bill Dooley," that he vet
liveth in the land of the free and the
home of the brave, and | hereby re-
lease aud discharge you on every
charge l preferred against you and
hope | won't hereafter ever have to
prefer another charge against you.
Please pardon me for having to dis
charge my duty. If you are ever here
after brought up on this charge the
second time for on-performance of
your duty l will convict you and have
you courtmartialed in sorghum court
and sent to the Pocket Gulf for two
years confinement in the tick prison at
hard labor, greasing and ticking muir
rain cattle, with the tick doctor out
there as your warden, and then
won't have much sympathy for you,
for have given you fair warning be-
fore hand
Now, Bro. 'Watchman, You have
jumped 'Representative" on the great
preachers salary subject, and charged
that you had been guilty of paying q
preacher TO support his family / will
say you are mistaken as to me fight.
ing that subject l said | paid my
part of the tax and never fiinched.
said that very nearly all the different
denominations We're now put on cash
basis, and you have to cite me and
give me the evidence, the thing hoped
for, before you ever make a point tC
shake my argument i'll the least. Why
don't you challenge me ON that point
and show up to the world the preach
ing of the gospel, Gods Holy Word, il
not based on cash basis Unless yor
do this, my brother, you haven't made
anything to disprove my words. There
fore unless you discredit the cash prin
ciples inserted in my charge to tn,
News, you haven't said anything We
on that line for me to answer. | will
only wait until someone will under
take to say it's not facts and the Who'll,
machinery is run entirely withou
money, and then viii apply to you
Now, Brother, you did a charity ac
in giving money to feed that preache
and family and 50 did l the same, bu
look here, suppose his family wa
nearly grown, laying around in idle
ness stout, bodied to do manua
labor, and willfully refuse to work a
anything or apply themselves to som
honest calling are they by nature an,
better than any other mans child tina
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for vagrancy2 Does the laws of tn
land, or the laws of God, deal out jus
tice in this light and do you uphold
preachers sons and daughters, an,
say it is right to let them live off tn
people, and be excused from doin
manual labor when mine, perhaps, an
yours have to go forth in the cold an
heat and hit her just the same
Preacher families, my family, you
family, all look alike to me, and ever
other family all over the country whe
it comes to a showdown, when there
a duty of charity to be performed
Now l want to tell all the readers {
the News just how to find heaven o
earth. Yea, listen to your uncl
Representative" just now. If 20
have your barn full of hay and you
crib full of corn and your smoke hous
full of meat, and you know of an
poor, crippled, blind or decrepid pei
son, or some poor old widow woma
that is washing for an honest living
whose husband got killed or sickene
and died and left eight or ten poor, Ii
tie ragged children behind, withor
any visible means of support, put i
a wagon or cart nliddling of mea
sack of flour, two bushels of meal,
gallon or two of syrup, few package
of coffee, few potatoes or anythln
to eat or drive hunger from a gang {
little children that went to bed tt
night before crying for bread, take tt
articles right in, set then down, ia
} right down ON your knees and ask Il
J great God of the Universe to bless yo
and that family, and you have dol
right. More than likely you will T.
ceive the greatest blessing of your lif
and God will open the heavens uni
you and you can in that charitab
deed look right into the kingdom
God on earth, and when you have dor
this, you have done the greatest chri
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lieve that "Watchman" is guilty
ever refusing to help out suffering h
mainly, but he might be guilty of u
holding some stout young man that
living in idleness because his dadC
was preacher and based on a none
salary, getting enough money from b
preaching to feed and clothe his who
family, and consequently they don
have to work as you and have to d
When God said thou ''shalt make Il
living by the sweat of thy face,
{ meant just what he said, and when
said, six days thou shalt work al
on the seventh day rest from your
Dor, he meant that he didn't me;
, six days thou shall loaf and on the Sc
enth day rest from six days loafin
If man fails to work the six da
when he stands all ready guilty
breaking Gods command is that ma
commanded to rest ON the seventh da
Pray tell me. As he hasn't work
q the six days, is he tired and what h
he got to rest from What is t
q difference for man to go to "A chur
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