Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-06-17
LOOKS BACK TO TENNESSEE
Thoughts by One Who Lett Here
Seventeen Years Ago.
Saint Flizabeth Hosrital.

Editor News:
Through the loving kindness of a
dear christian sister and kinswOman as
well, Mrs. Cora Il. Brumley, of
Roope, Tenn, am receiving the
News, and | wish to thank her through
the columns of the News, and wish
to express my appreciation of the pa
per- and also my inbred love of the
hills, and the wonderful people of my
blood and boyhood Having been rails
ed in those old hills, and having been
away for many long and tedious years,
it is almost like viewing panoramic
picture of the thousand sweet faces,
and familiar places so dear to the
heart of my childhood
/ was born aud raised on Etna
Mountain and know every hill and
trail in the surrounding country. |
used to know everybody there. and |
guess l was one of the meanest boys
that every lived. ! see many familiar
names in the paper-names from Chat
tanooga, Kelly's Ferry, Browns Fer
ry, Victoria, Whitwell, Roope, White
side, Monteagle, Bridgeport and some
new places | never heard of before. |
see the names of the dear children who
have become men and women since |
left there nearly seventeen years ago.
| have many old friends and host of
kin living at Whitwell, Roope, Chatta
ppoga and other neighboring places.
| can discern much progress and inn
provement by the mention of new
postoffices and towns that have come
into existence in the past fifteen
years. l have been much interested
by the mental review afforded through
the columns of the News.
Now, | want to say word for the
people of my boyhood, the people of
the mountains, sometimes referred to
as the American Highlanders
have been in nearly every section,
and seen many kinds of people, lots of
good people too, but have never seen
any that surpassed as whole the ma
tives of the Appalachian mountains,
covering East Tennessee, North Geor
gia, and Alabama. The people of those
regions are the healthiest, brightest,
wittiest, most cheerful folk in the I'm
tied States. They are closer to Nature,
closer to the Primitive, and therefore
| n1r tT nd or IND
point than any others. This isolation
from much that is called ''civiliza-
tion" has been a god send to them /
thank the Lord that l originated in
the virgin soil of those eternal hills.
1t gave me constitution and original
ity without which | could not have
survived.
Dear brothers and sisters, uncles,
aunts, nephews, neices, cousins, neigh
bors, everybody-God bless you. 1
cherish the hope of seeing you again
some day And as tine Lord has bless
ed and called me to His kingdom and
glory, you are of much more concern
to me than you can ever know in this
world of mixed happiness and sor.
rows. remember you each day al
the throne Of heavenly grace, and as
try by his favor to work out my own
salvation and rejoice in the evidences
of his love, | rejoice also to know that
his plan is one that embraces all Of
his creatures And in closing, with
the editor kind permission, l wish tC
invite your attention to that weighty
p text of Acts 3t:9, 81. Repent ye
therefore and be converted that your
t sins may be blotted out when the
times of refreshing shall come from
t the presence of the Lord: And ht
shall send Jesus Christ who before
r was preached unto you, whom thu
heavens must retain until the times
of restitution of all things, which Got
hath spoken by the mouth of all hi
t holy prophets since the world began. ,
These times of restitution" of re
S storation of all that has been lost by
original sin and the curse of death il
to take place at the Second Advent o
our Lord, if we accept this scripture
a and as christians we all believe it
Get your Bibles and read what thu
e prophets from Moses to the revelfto
have spoken. Read about that "nev
= earth, that new order of societ,
d wherein dwells righteousness. Real
d about that highway of holiness,
+ that will then obtain, whereon tn,
wayfaring man, tho fool, may g,
e and not err therein When the knowl
n edge of the Lord shall cover the eartl
as the waters cover the sea. An,
k when the eyes of the blind shall be op
ened and the ears of the deaf unstop
/ ped, and when it will not be needfu
for every man to teach his neighbor
V saying, Know the Lord, for all shal
know him from the least to the great
d est. When there shall be no more cry
ing, no more signing, no more dying
" and all tears shall be wiped from OF
all faces. Dearly beloved and longe
- for, this is the gospel. behold
bring you good tidings of great joy
4 which shall be to all people. THE
shall not hurt nor destroy in all N
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