Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-08-26
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an article for your newsy paper MY
wife and have just come pack from
Higdon, Ala, better known as onllon,
where we were mingling Win olu
friends. Shiloh is beautiful place on
Sand Mountain. Their crops are as nne
as can be. Their society Is up'to-date'
There is fine Sunday school superin-
tended by ]. B. Counts, with. Ethel
Lancaster as secretary, two gooo ola
heads. The Campbellites held revlV-
al meeting with very good results
They have . fine literary school con-
Quoted by Miss Bertha Carton. rms Is
her second term at that place Whlch
speaks we'll OF him Mr.. Ethel Lam
kestsr has the postotfice with store
connected. TO stop in his store you
would almost think you were in Miller
Bros. store in Chattanooga. Ethel
looks fine behind the counter. he is
Of the old kind of people. His pants
and vest don't meet by SIX inches, and
always one of his galluses are down.
Ethel is hustler just the same. You
can tell that by his crops, for they are
as fine as are on the mountain, Win
six acres of fine potatoes. Everyoo
is doing we'll except Ike Vert lie is a
great man to murmur about his crops.
One day while we were there 1t rained
good shower but did not rain upon
the bluff, and there were some remarks
made about it. One said that God was
trying to stop Ike Vert from hnding
fault by sending him good rain on his
crop.
We are very much interested in the
debate in the columns of the News on
eternal Torment. | think those
endorsements should be cut out until
those two able gentlemen are through.
Will say to the two.able gentlemen not
to get mad at one another and keep in
good terms, for the arguments OF both
of you are to the point. Will say this
much the Hebrew word "Sheon, which
means the abode of departed spirits and
corresponds to the Greek Hades, or the
under world, Is variously rendered In
the auth orized version by grave, pit and
hell. OF these renderings, hell, IL 1t
could be taken in the original sense as
used in the creeds, would be a fairly ad-
equate equivalent for the Hebrew word
but it is so commonly understood of the
place of torment that to employ it fre-
quently would lead to inevitable mis-
| in the historical narrative have left the
rendering "the grave" or "the pit" in
the text with a marginal note, Heb
Sheol', to indicate that 1t does not sig
nifty "a place of burial, while in the
| poetic writings they have put most
commonly 'sheol" in the text and "the
grave" in the margin. In Isaiah 14th
| however, where hell is used in it's or
! iginal sense and is less liable to be
misunderstood and where any change
in so familiar passage, which was mo-
distinctly an improvement, would be 8
decided loss, the revisers have content
ed themselves with leaving hell" II
the text, and have connected it with
other passages by putting "sheor, il
the margin.
1t is awful to think that the soul o
man is conscious after death. Please
let me give some Scripture on the inter
mediate state of man:
Where do the dead sleep?
And many of them that sleep in tht
| dust of the earth shall awake. Dan
1912.
How long will they sleep there?
So man lieth down and riseth not;til
the heaven be no more they shall no
awake nor be raised out of their sleep =
Job 1912.
What must take place before Jo1
could expect to awake?
If man die shall he live again? AL
the days Of my appointed time will
walt till my change come.-Job. 14:14
Where does he wait?
If wait the grave is mRe house:
nave made my bed in the darkness, -
Job l7:l3
While in this condition what doe
one know of those he has left behind
His sons come to honor and be know
eth it not, and they are brought low
but he perceiveth it nOt.-Job 1927.
In what condl tion is the thought o
the dead?
His breath goeth forth; he returne,
to his earth; on that very day hI
thought perish.-Ps. 146:14.
Do the dead know anything?
For the living know that they shal
die but the dead know not anything
neither have they any more reward, TO
the memory of them is forgotten.-EcC
S:5.
How much do we know of God whe
dead?
For in death there is no remem bel
ance of thee.-Ps. 6:5.
II the deau cannot praise God, wha
what must take place to enable ther
to do so?
Thy dead man shall live together
with my dead body shall they arisC
awake and sing ye that dwell in dus
for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, an
the earth shall cast out the dead .-Isi
26:19.
If as we have learned in Eco 9:5, .th
dead know not anything, then the
will certainly have no knowledge {
time. A thousand years will be as
day or moment. To go down to th
grave and wait till the Resurrection e,
en- though it be a thousand year will b
to those who experience it like 500
den transition from this life to th
next. 1t ought to be consolin
thought to one whose life has been I'll
ed with anxiety and grief for loved one
who persist in wickedness to know thi
they will in death be spared tormen
Again il would MARI the felicity
ones enjoymentinh heaven in Heaven
be could look upon earth and see b
friends and relatives abused by stra
gers, or suffering from cold or hunge
On, IL Is wise that God has ordered il
expressed by the patriarch. His sol
come To honor and b. knowetn II no
and they are brought low hu; he pe
erlveth 1t not OF them, says Jot 14:9I
Pedro
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