Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-08-04
JASPER JUMBLES
How they are RecOnstructing the
Southern Methodist Church
Building, and Praise of
an Earnest Preacher.

Jasper is the county seat OF Marion
County, in the famous Sequatchie Val
ley. l am told that 'SeQuatchie'
means "hog trough, and in years
past thousands of hogs we're raised and
shipped to :market cannot under
stand why this is not done now, since
"hog comes so high. 1t may be that
ninety cent corn does not pay put into
nine cent hogs, yet it does seem to the
"uninitiated'' that there is still mon
ey in feeding swine.
This valley extends between two
spurs of the Cumberland Mountains,
from the Tennessee River north to
Pikeville, about one hu ndred miles,
traversed by the N, c., & st. l..
Railway, and also by the big and little
Sequatchie Rivers. The main towns
are South Pittsburg, Jasper, Dunlap
and Pikeville The territory is occu-
pied by the Chattanooga and Harri-
man districts. Brother Dew is at
Pikeville, Brother Griffiths at Dun
lap, the writer at Jasper, and Ray
Trent was at South Pittsburg but is
now connected with Centenary College
at Cleveland, leaving that charge to
be supplied until Conference.
Jasper will have the best Church
property of any charge in the valley
when she finishes her improvements on
the church and parsonage, which i'm
provements will aggregate 81, 000 The
parsonage will be raised eighteen in
ches to give better ventilation under
meath, will be recovered, dormer
windows placed in the roof, finishing
good bedroom upstairs, bath room
and fixtures built and put in, and the
whole painted inside and out and
papered; the dining room is to be en-
larged, and the house will compare
with our best preachers homes in the
Conference. The entrance to the
church is to be made Greek or Gothic,
finished in concrete and large pillars,
the floor inclined, Sunday school
room built on the south side 15x30 feet
for prayer meetings, ladies meetings,
Leagues, ard used as class rooms dur
ing the teaching period of the Sunday
school. An alcove will be built ON the
north side 15K30 feet for pulpit and
choir. The seats will then be placed
in circular form. 1t is to be heated by
hot air furnace, a system of lights put
in, large art glass windows placed in
the north side back of the pulpit, and
in the west end the other windows
will be of art glass, but smaller. I'm
derneath will --be a ground floor for
furnace and coal. This will give Rs
good church equipment here for years
to come.
Jasper, with county high school
and modern church and parsonage
and 81 900 salary, will be among our
most desirable charges Then, with
the scenery about here, with the moun-
tains towering ON either side Of us and
the Sequatchie and Tennessee Rivers
flowing near by, and Battle Creek
with her big bass, the mountain for
ests with their squirrels, and our fields
with quail in winter, with the sum
mer town, hard by on top of the noun
tain, where we go camping for the
and still are close enough to
come down home when we feel like it, |
some pastor will be wanting to trade
with me- Only one thing would tempt
me, and that would be good charge
near some school, where could send |
my children to college from home. not
being able to send them away to col
Iege. If any one has a charge of that
kind, might talk of swapping with
him.
We have recently had a revival in
which I was assisted by Rev. Tom
Priddy, of Trinity, Chattanooga.
There were some twenty conversions,
md we have received during the year
;wenty additions.
On general principles | am opposed
% special evangelists; but / do favor
my man for that special work when it
GEMS that he is especially endowed
or that particular kind of work.
Tom Priddy, in my opinion, is adapt
d to revival work, and / am not sure
,ut that the Conference should place '
i'm in that work. Put him out
Without any string on him, and he '
will make his salary and will do un- {
old good. We had hard, long pull
ere; but Tom stuck to his job like a 6
ero, preaching against Indifference,
ain, and sickness, and the world, the '
esh, and the devil, and ofttimes we c
ad victory. Many a man would
ave become discouraged and quit;
ut we went on for three weeks, and
ON was preaching better sermons
,hen we closed than when we began.
we had run a month, l verify be- !
eve he would have preached some :
ure enough. He won the love of our !
eople by his sunny, pleasing disposi- '