Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-07-14
RECEIVED HOSPITALITY.

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To my friends and the people of Sc
quachee Valley and all the readers
of the News.
Having recently visited your beauti-
full valley and been in several of your
homes aand partaken of your hospital
ity and worshipped at the Tabernacle
recently built for that purpose. want
to compliment you every one for your
fidelity to the cause of the christian
religion as we'll as for your fidelity to
your home.
/ had thought that hospitality was
waning and on the decline. but from
observation and experience while in
your beautiful valley, my mind is
somewhat changed and hasten to say
so. / had concluded that the younger
men and women had lost that chival-
rous regard for others that characteriz-
ed the fathers, but so far as the sect
ion visited in and around Whitwell
is concerned, allow me to say | was
mistaken. The young and middle ag-
ed are not selfish, consequently can
as a newspaper scribbler. pay no high
er tribute to them than to say they are
true gentlemen and ladies, and have
regard for the welfare of others as well
as for themselves Their invitations
and preparations for the tabernacle
meeting and their expenditures are a
witness to what am trying to ex
press. They have not let modernism
and modern ways knock out the old
time kindness and hospitality. Some
10 or more people from my own town
can witness to this fact and to this
statement.
noticed one thing, the aged of the
valley have not been chloroformed and
laid on the shelf, but stood in the very
front rank of the congregation, some
of them over 80 years of age. Then l
thought and said in my heart, there is
one place where the young have not
forgotten to honor their father and
mother. The young and middle aged
were kind to the old. and it seemed SO
natural that guess they never thought
one time that it would ever find its
way in print and eulogy would be
passed on them for their reverence and
respect to. the aged ones. Kindness and
politeness always is the mark we can
judge people by. | am confident, these
valley people in and around Whitwell
will have no compunction of con-
science as to how they have treated
strangers and each other. / saw moth
ing that led me to believe there was
any ill-will or aninmosities among
them. did not assume the roll of in.
quisitor as some scribblersAdo to find
out the daily life'of men and women,
yet found out .enough to convince me
nine-tenths are The equal Of any other
coinmunity and abov9 par to some.s
Thase observations don t think can
be refuted by any critic. The young
men were orderly sand well behaved.
and the girls were nice and genteel
Now, + liked their sunny dispositions
and cherry Aniless Ed Bull and the
Holloway boys and many others too
numerous to mention, all seemed to
be possessed of happy natures and dis
positions and their homes were cover
bright happy sfaces with lots
of Sunshine in them. The warmth. of
tHeir gentle dispositions was no put on
or. make. believe. It was natural,
showing they had been brought up in
a sunshine like atmosphere, and that
their make up was not dual, .and they
did not have one face and tone of voice |
fornompany and another for home.
Even the. smallest lad and lass had
gentle sweet voices that were bewitch-
ing.
/ am thinking Of my little friends
now, the fellow that was proposing to
play ball with me while his aunt Lou
got ready for church. Then little Luz
cile with her pretty black eyes and
sweet disposition. / mean to write a
special letter sometime to them and
tell them of love that is deathless-a
love that triumphs in loss, bringing
Joy to the hearts of the children of
men and unites them in one grand an
them of love. Sweet, happy children,
may you never know the regions of
night, but always be filled with the ra-
dent light of love while on earth you
live. UNCLE TOM.
Tracy City, Tenn.