Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-05-20
Third District.
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Special 10 the Meas.
News is very scarce IN here this
week, Nothing new of much import
ance has happened. hope when re-
ceive the News this week it will be
full of good articles from all the differ
ent correspondents from every state
and territory in the union, so | can
find out what's going on and where
each of You and your families have
drifted. Probably we may never meet
again this side of the grave, but you
know its hard for me to forget the
past, SO hand it in to the News and
will get it in full just the same as if
you had written me personal letter.
Times are very dull all over this end
of Marion county with the best of
farmers and cripples and shut-ins and
those unable to make living by the
sweat of the face, almost perishing for
the want of attention from those with
plenty of money in their pockets and
plenty of meat and corn to spare God
may cut some of you off out of money
and that big 1000 to 1900 bushels of
corn next year. He sometimes brings
on a drouth, you know, and some
times verify believe God causes a
cyclone to strike some people and de-
stroy part of their property, just be-
cause they had too much stored away
and at divers times refused when ask
ed to give aid to those in need, or on
ly give a peck of corn or potatoes to
the sick, crippled and suffering hu-
mainly, when you had plenty of corn
and was feeding some old worthless
dogs meat. But don't understand that
| am fighting the dogs for ! am dear
lover of dogs, but I am fighting the
masters for feeding meat to them and
at the same time refusing to contrib
ute aid or assist sick, crippled and
dying humanity, and when you were
called on for help and assistance to
sustain life among those that couldn't
help themselves. For instance, one
we'll to do person only gave half a gal
lon of butter milk, but as God sent one
of His cyclones and he managed it to
strike this buttermilk man right in
the heart of what he had in store. 1t
swept away the buttermilk, it killed
his cows and horses, destroyed his corn
and hay, and laid his barn to the earth
and the next day he was in as bad
shape as some have been telling you
about. He was left without anything.
These judgements sure have happened
to several that | could mention. Let
it be right or wrong, | am not the
! judge, but God did the work for them
| just the same. | don't believe that
every time a man gets up and hollers
and bawls aloud in public that he is a
true christian and follower of Christ.
while at the same time he has plenty
and refuses to aid the afflicted. / be-
lieve and don't you, readers, that all
God does when such christians as
above mentioned squall out in public
places. He only just winks one eye at
them and passes them by, but may be
wrong | stand ready to be criticized,
but while am writing this piece to-
night | was interrupted by one of my
neighbors who stated to me that he
had tried at different houses to get
enough meal for supper and breakfast
and had made failure all around, and
his wife and children had gone to bed
hungry without any supper, and yet
the parties he called on we're chris
tians, so they say, and they had plenty
of meal but yet they told some kind Of
story to keep from letting him have
any. This man was very poor, had g
big family, times were very hard ant
work is hard to find listened to hi'
story and when he got through | tolC
the landlady of the house to get thu
brother what meal he wanted, ant
she was pleased to do it. never said
didn't have any, like some christians
do up here, for if l had l would SURE
be afraid there would be a charge pre-
pered against me. l say to you, on,
and all, that all christian people don
do or look alike to me by a jugful
This article is not intended to apply t,
any certain individual, but to the PEG
pie as a whole that are guilty.
am publicly charged with the of
fence of fishing on Sunday by a mem
Der of the church, and as l have al
ways made it practice Of my life t
publicly submit and make full an
complete confession to every act of m
life, good and bad, it's up to the pub
lie to read. am no snake in the grass
always publicly censuring somebod
and at the same time saying they ar
of a low type of people. l worked har
all the week and Saturday night l pu
out trot line, and on Sunday morn
ing | walked down to the brook an
run her and landed two very nice vel
low cat fish. I went right back to th
house, had fine one for dinner and
tasted mighty good didn't trespas
on anybody's land or pond or stream
l looked at this matter in this way
If God hadn't intended to make me
= fisher of men he could very easily Gu
J off those fish from my line and just lei
my line blank, but God saw fit to Il
them remain and guess, as l was
type of Adam and Eve, / couldn