Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-12-29
New Years
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| years TO the day on which our Savior
was born.
Nineteen hundred and ten years ago
there was no place for Jesus to be
born. No place for Him to lay His
head while living, and finally he was
! compelled to die on a cruel cross, be-
cause He told the truth, advocated JUS
tice and brought Good News, which
was intended to make all people free.
1t is long time when you try to think
of 1910 years, yet how sorrowful is
Christmas to the poor Not enough to
eat and wear, no comfortable, conyen-
lent, love-lit, music-flled homes, no
money with which to remind friends
of their affection; no chance to enjoy
and celebrate the blessed day in the
proper way, for every beautiful gar
ment and toy in the stores, every word
they hear, and every beggar they see
reminds them bitterly of their want
and helplessness.
Thanksgiving and Christmas season
are made hideous with beggery. The
Joy that one should feel on these occas-
ions is changed to sorrow and disgust
even weeks before these days of would
be joy and feasting come. For in our
town and country we have pious men
and women, who through Christian
benevolence" beg anything and every
thing to enable them to furnish pres
ents to the poor or Christmas dinner
never thinking of the meals before and
afterward, Finally, after having run
the gauntlet of beggars, and the claims
of dear ones near and far for three or
four weeks, when one sits down to his
holiday dinner of roast turkey, beef,
chicken, rabbit or whatever he has
money or credit to provide. he is filed
with the horrible thought that he is
but a selfish brute, feasting in the
presence of a country full of helpless.
hopeless, suffering poor. This thought
is enough to choke the appetite from
his throat and make any one deathly
ick-unless he hardens his heart as
true son of Capitalism, and says to
himself: ''Let the poor rot in their
poverty, [ intend to enjoy myself.
This is only a faint glimpse of the
horrors of the british capitalistic sys-
tenn under which we try to be happy
while multiplied thousands of our
brothers and sisters cannot even enjoy
one meal year only from that thing
called Charity. These thoughts
bring to our minds the horrors of the
british, insane system sitting on
ones stomach as frightful night
mare, and torturing ones soul like
grinning Deaths head at feast, de-
stroying the natural joy of the holiday
season and arousing a disgust and de-
spair SO deep that life seems not worth
living No man can be truly happy
till all the people are.
We may sing beautiful sentimental
songs of Jesus, we may place Him up
on tinsel throne to decorate our
cheap celebrations, we may profess to
believe in Him, we may go to Him
through form of prayer, and after
all this we find after 1910 years of
such, Gods poor are robbed and muir
dered at every turn for profit to enrich
criminals and loafers No wonder
people are losing faith in Jesus and
the "God and Father" VINO sent Him,
when those who pretend to worship
Him are blinded by Mammon and are
servants Of british system, which
robs workers, murders children and
ruins women and. in Short contradicts
every commandment given us by God.
"Glory to God in the Highest p
How can those who try so hard and
are so ruthlessly robbed, glorify God
when it seems to them that He has
made such a horrible, hopeless bungle
of human lifel
''Peace on earth". After 1910
years of worldwide. unspeakable
wrong justified by those who profess
to worship God, | say how can it be.
GOOD will to Mem. can never be
on earth while cunning and cruelty
are allowed to crush the workers into
hopeless poverty and Christmas always
will be mockery to the poor until
rich and poor Unite and overthrow
this insane. unhappy, british, hellish
system of Capitalism.
Let this be my New Years mes
sage to you. Mr.. Reader, Let us try
to make this world better from having
lived in it. We owe this to ourselves,
our country and our God Let us lose
sight for the time being" ,~of heaven
in the skies, and hell below, and work
for "Thy Kingdom Come" hers on
earth You can't get it by prayer or
voting democrat or republican ticket.
Read what Christ taught, not what
the preacher says about hell and
heaven. You will find that Christ
was the greatest example that ever
lived, and His teachings were for this
life, ten to one. You can never en-
JOY real happiness without others en-
joying it. This is christianity. not
1t is also Socialism.
A. J. BRANNAN.
Tracy City, Tenn.