Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-01-30
Pryor Ridge.
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on The short line of railroad graded |
by Mr.. Coplin, near Coalmont, is com
pleted. That is, the grade work, and |
If the weather will admit the road TO |
Pryor Ridge will he done. The same
crew is working in entry at Pryor |
Ridge and the coal is of fine grade and |
is four feet and ten inches thick, with |
! a good top. There are several con
tractors getting out ties for new
road ! think there have been about
twelve or thirteen hundred taken IN.
The saw mill work has been suspended
for n while.
Ye writer is feeling very much under |
the weather today and it may be due
to wetting got few days ago. I !
viii tell how this happened. had
business i'm the cove and went ther8
alone and after getting to the desired
place, that is known a. the Smith Con-
pinger place, i'm Indian Cove, had a
desire to cross the creek, and looking
about for a place | saw couple of
inch planks lying FROM high rocks
across the stream. | concluded tu walk
over, So | started over anil about tho
time ! got half way SNAP and d0wu
went We writer into fall IF ak feet
three feet above the water and three
feet into it, and the bottom hpiug
limestone and slick Went down TO my
chin. With scramble and several
grunts | got out on the desired side
AMI Us you may suppose | felt very
badly over my situation. The next
time | start across that creek ! will
he sure 10 look out for safe cross
ing.
saw in looking over the News last
night that one writer signed ''ZenO"
censured me with disappearing
things of the work of the great God.
Now, Mr.. Zeno, you are little
wrong You ought not to get off so
much until you can get yOur little dot
of stump water to flow alright. There
are lots of smart alecks" that don't
know straight up that are always shoot
ing their baZoO to make themselves
popular with the public. You want to
let on Ms If | was an infdel and did not
l believe in Supreme Being. Sir, |
s was better raised than that and 10 one
ever heard me intimate Such thing.
, AS / said in the issue from which you
got your start, / believe that every
! mans destiny depends upon his own
g conduct. | do not believe that man
can serve two MASTER at the same
Y time. If man is living right | do
a not think he will have hankering
after dancing and other worldly
amusements, but will get his heart
cleansed from such. What is it that
+ condemns man in the sight of God2
a 1t is sin, and sin is of the world.
When was little boy l well remem-
Der going to hear the Gospel preached
by one Hargess and another by the
i name Of Denton. They were both Bap-
4 fist preachers. Now what am going
O to get to is what l was on when YOU
9 picked me up Pride, pride. Is this
essential to the saving of the souls of
> men II man takes pride in the
y things of this world and let's his mind
:. 20 run, do you think he will get to
n that upper and better kingdom when
time is no more2 Know We not that
, the friendship of the world is enmity
u with God2 Whosoever, therefore,
:. would be friend of the world is the
d enemy of God.
10 You spoke about the motherless
children and direct to me. put my
, little girls ont at good homes where
. they could learn to be useful and cared
II for in way that could not care for
:, them, knowing that they were not in
N a country of angels as it seems some
think. | know that we have nice peo-
pie, and not few either, and know
- that we have some of the lowest class
n es. SO as / considered this, one of my
I'd motherless girls being sixteen years
le old did not feel safe to run the risk
of leaving them alone as my business
~ sometimes called me off for a week al
~ a time.
re Now, "Mr. zeno," if you and your
IN ice cream suppers are all right, it il
Dr. your good pleasure. Go your way, i
AT is nothing to me. | do not belong t.
any church From this day on yor
should get at the facts of a case ant
l. not get off something that you canno
+, substantiate. fully meant just wha
W said about my giving what had tt
er give to the poor and not to the preach
~ ers Pm poor and feel sure of on
y, fact that when l am dead you canno
say that wanted to stuff the earning
re of some poor hard working man dow
at into my own pocket to treasure up TO
of the comforts of this life may mis-
o. heaven-I hope not, and do not wan
- any soul to go down to that place o
'h despair, and if should be so unfor
g tunate as to go to eternal despair, i
oI Will uOl Dt lOI btlllHS ldlSOuOOu
or for covet answers or taking th
ma property of my neighbor without val
Do ne received. speak from what Sc,
- going on almost every day. If yo1
" have paid out as much in charitable
e. deeds as l have, you have done well
ed | don't know whether you ever paid il
90 dollar or not, ! doubt it.
+o You say in my zeal for the widow
w and their children to please remembe
nc the motherless. As for my motherles
ones, they are in good condition, an
Y. You need not fret yourself about them
il They don't concern you.
- YOu say that am afraid som
e' preacher will get rich off Of life-tim
re devoted to the church. / care nothin
'r- for what they gain. The kind spok
B., of will never relish another dollar G
10 my money. l have Bible and l rea
! it and go to hear who | want to heaI
!" and if | have dollar to give he wi
ITO need it.
n Friend L, I want to say to yol
h. that am of the opinion that God
n work doesn't need any twisting 70
NO say that my declaration of cutting o
- the supplies of the ministry places IN
H. in opposition to the word of truth.
Ter am sure of one thing. We as a peOpl
r. of Gods creation, above all ought
go ont in the world and look after tn
sick and blind and poor widows an
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