Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-12-22
10000 10000 e@,e@@@G
UNCLE TOMS LETTER.
2IeIeIeeIa GIG/&Ie/GIe @IAE/s/4

My weekly letters, l hope. have
done some good. I've had right smart
to say to the children. The reason
did it was because l believe the child
rem are the most precious beings on
earth. and as such / do believe every
parent, rich or poor, should be live
wire and do something to encourage
help and make glad the young hearts
of our country, and then keep doing.
I've no quarrel to make with any one,
but hope every parent who reads the
News, will look at the children as i
look at them and do something Ihey
are not little animals but human be-
ings, and dependent on pa and ma or
some friend. The man that can get a
jug of liquor can get something nice
for his children. The man or woman
that can foul their mouth with tobac-
co and snuff every hour they are
awake, can certainly provide some
thing for their children. Such men
and women should clean up and do the
right by their children. Show to the
community in which you live that you
care for your children. Pardon me
for saying this. come in contact
with parents that [ fear love their
children about like animals. l infer
this from the way they treat them.
They won't put anything on Xmas
tree for them, or give the committee
as much as a nickle to help them.
Neither will they prepare or pack a
basket fer them on a picnic occasion.
Thus, by their trifiingness they train
their children to become sponges. 1t
is So
God bless the children, and God
bless the big hearted men and women
who seek to encourage and elevate the
children. 1 think hell is going to be
full of no count, trifiing parents. l
don think such parents will ever get
to heaven to be sponges in that fair
city at all. am pretty sure from the
teachings and life of Christ they
won't. Heaven is a place of happi-
ness, and we should try to make earth
place of happiness also, and if we
can't have Il jolly, lively Sunday
school we had better omit The only
thing in the way is the sore-toed, sore
backe and sore-hpaded parents, who
seek every subterfuge under heaven to
keep from helping the officers and
teachers in Sun ay school, This is
fact. 1t seems they expect the officers
and teachers to furnish all the morey
to buy the literature, furnish all the
grub for a picnic, and all the presents
for the Xmas tree. Amt telling the
truth? Well, should think so. Does
the community admire such parentsS
/ say no, and the community talks
about them no little, and it ought to.
Yes, talk about them and skin them to
their face. Sponges, training their
children to sponge on the generosity Of
others.
As in Sunday school, so in church.
If they were to happen to pay 81 90 for
the benefit of a preacher they'd have
genuine fit Our churches are almost
dead on account of the dead stewards
The church people never get above
their leaders. 1t takes live men and
women to run things these days
Some Sunday schools and churches
have men AMI women in them not
worth cent to them. It's a fact.
The day has come when old long face,
puritaniral specimens can't succeed.
OF all the disgusting things on earth
it is to sit and listen to some whining,
sing song fellow, trying to preach.
No SPIRIT, no life, no vim, no energy,
nothing attractive or fascinating, a
mere put on, nothing even natural, let
alone spiritual. I urge and plead with
everybody to help the children. To
day, Sunday the 18th, ten needy, help
less children have been reported to me,
and | am certainly going to practice
what | preach, or try to. Who will
help me help them. l admonish and
persuade all to hunt up such children.
The children in the Sunday school are
all right, but these orphans are the
ones we must not neglect
Monday 1 and Misses Crabtree and
Sitz 60 to town for the purpose of col
letting the prizes promised us some
time back. We have about 90 students |
that haven't missed a Sunday and |
about that many haven't missed
question, and about five that stand at |
The head of the list on recitation. AL
20 we have lady that is widow wo-
man with four small children, who
haven't missed but one Sunday, and
another married lady that hasn't miss
sd a single Sunday and the fact is,
The has the best and most orderly class
n the school. These two are worthy |
If emulation. Somehow it's got to be
when a lady marries of late years, she
leases to be of any benefit to her COM
nunity. | believe it is trifiingness
md nothing else. We have three mar
led ladies in our school that are of
'alue, and a host around us of no val
le to the school. We've four married
nen who have ambition enough to
elp the school. This is bad show
ng for the married people.
Well | will wrifa Won how x,,o ANNA