Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-05-14
Third District.

.Sbccialfo me Maos.
Young Mr.. McNabb. of near KEEL
Tvs Ferry, was married here Friday
night to Miss Martha Ridge at the
brides home. Mr.. McNabb il pros
porous and highly esteemed scion OF
one of the best families in Marion
county, and the young couple will re-
side at his fathers on Tennessee river.
The writer wishes them long and
happy life crowned with many success
SEES through life and at the end hope
they will compose part of that unit
ed family that will sit around the
throne of our Great Redeemer, which
art in heaven.
John Presnell. the tick doctor, stay.
ed over night with We writer Friday,
and we had good time. John ia one
of my best friends. and Julius Pickett
and myself were the two first to COM
ply with the tick and quarantine law
on the east side of the river. We want
to be law abiding, even if the law is a
bad one. Always be ready, people, for
you know not what hour the tick in l.
spector will call and give you a lay off
with about thirty days confinement
with written instrument of writing,
which is called a straight quarantine
against old buck or muley.
We are very sorry indeed to pen the
death of Mrs. Malinda Ridge, one of
the best christian women that ever liv-
en- here. She has been true member
of the Methodist church for over 40
years and has led true and religious
life to the end. Ye writer can truth
fully state that her equal as christian
and church worker has never been
here, and she could pray the ablest
prayer | ever heard. She had more in
fiuence over me than all the preaching
and praying of all persons during my
past life that | ever heard. Her pray.
ers to me in the past will be long re-
membered
When it comes to a show down to
find man that's got heart full of
charity in it, can truthfully say that
there is not one to be found up here
equal to Julius Pickett. / have lived
by him 35 years and have tried and
seen others tried but Julius Pickett
has got more charity in his heart than
any other man living on the east side
of the Sequachee river. There are
three great principles involved in
christianity to constitute a holy man /:
hope, faith and charity. A man with
no charity i'll his heart lacks christian
qualifications, and the way I figure
out such men is that they don't possess
enough religion to keep from chilling
in August with an overcoat on. Yet
am sorry to state that just such chris
tians as that live up here who would
not let you have a horse to go after
bread or necessities of life, or if you
were sick in bed and your family was
to perish. Mark this paragraph: just
such persons as this live up here and
set themselves on the front seat as
christians with hearts as blank as a
piece of paper hung on the wall.
Will God condemn and send multi
tude of poor people to hell after leav-
ing the promise to the poor, for refus.
ing to pay $25. 90 per year to a hired
preacher that refuses to deliver the
Word without money and without
price? When 1 hire man to do 9
piece of work, either by the day, weei
month or year, call that man hired
man. If man breaches for money
and is hired by the church members tt
preach and labor, either by the day
week, month or year for money and hi
recognizes the right of contract ant
enters into the same for money, is h
not hireling, based on money sala
ry, hired by the people to preach tn,
| Word. Does God charge for the Bible
his Word, that he left behind to b.
delivered to his people2 Did he intent
to deny and deprive the poor people OF
his gospel and free salvation, jus
because its scale of wages has raiset
up to very large price with yer,
nearly ali the different denomination
of churches for wages for their minis
ters' They are now very well organ
lied ON their wage scale, and we hav
had some few up here that have struc
for higher wages.
Now, "Pearl Button, of Alabam
City, you signed you name with al
alias. That little pearl dress butto
you wore on your coat is too small for
gentleman 8 coat and from the piec
you wrote to me in the News l hav
sized up your brain. 1t is just abou
as large as your name, the size of
ladies' pearl dress button. You faile
to understand my article in the News
l didn't make any fight on the salarie
preacher subject. l only said the
were now based on cash basis and
would pay my part of the tax and ne,
er finch from it. You only got tn
wrong SOW by the ear. My subject wa
that the preaching of the gospel Wa
now based on cash basis Joe Hacl
, worth's was on salaried preachers; IT
piled to by G. w. White. He was o
one subject, / on another, so will e,
cuse You.