Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-05-18
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UNCLE TOMS LETTER.
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am one of those old chaps that be-
lieve in progress and Improvement,
both in church and state l believe
there is a possibility of raising the
standard of christianity exactly to that
holy purity and brotherly love our
Saviour taught. l believe ouI politi-
cal make up has to be transformed
and made to harmonize with the Cos
pei of the Son of God, and can't see,
because l favor a higher plane of
christianity and politics, why l am to
be rated as an anarchist, etc. When l
read the Prophet Isaiah and the other
prophets, and see so much said against
oppressive governments, l wonder
how it is that such governments are
allowed to exist among so many peo-
pie protesting and claiming to be
christians. Then 1 am puzzled to
know how it is these same christians
will sit down and see their brother
robbed and oppressed, and never en-
ter a mild protest. Then l am lost
in midnight darkness when men
claiming to be human beings will
have the audacity and inhuman prin-
ciple to uphold a system that grinds
the face of the poor. can't be that
british and inhuman, can't be that
unbrotherly. True, we have a nation
big and powerful, and less than half
very prosperous, but she is rotten to
the core. She is proud, naughty, I'M
just, vile, false and full of bribery
and prejudice. Strife and confuson
dominates her halls of legislation,
and it seems to me we all ought to
know our nation is wrong and if we
uphold such we are also guilty. We
know our so called leaders have splen-
did mental powers, but those powers
seem to be INSTRUCTED. They DON
seem to care for the poor, but rich and
powerful corporations seem to be their
favorites, even when they know the
masses are protesting against their ex
actions. The men who oppose the
above condition of things, have always
been regarded as heretics, traitors,
disturbers of the peace, enemies and
devils, and are maltreated, when the
truth is they are the worlds best ben
efactors. but the political world treats
them as malefactors. In every gener-
alton of the past, even this very gen.
Grafton in which we live, some have
been put to death for adhering to their
principles. Well. the price of liberty
has always cost the best blood of each
generation and age. A prophet gets
no honor from the generation and age
in which he lives, unless he is false
prophet. We honor the martyrs of the
past, but the generation of which they
were part did not. We see our So
cial conditions and current religious
practices as needing something to
make it more humane and upright,
and we search and hunt the world ov-
or for something to meet the exigences
and find it not. SO we give up in de
spair, yet we have in our homes a safe
and sure guide that tells us what we
ought to do. Fear God and keep His
for this is the whole
duty of man. - The social side of life
is on the wane and so is the hospitable
side. As these things retrograde and
90 down so does the spiritual. Men
calling themselves good oppose social
Perhaps they have for
gotten that the spiritual, mental and
man has to be provided for or
become dwarfed. The spiritual man
can't thrive where the mental is dis
,ased and dwarfed, and | wish people |
who oppose piCnics and other social |
would invent something
20 take their place or stop trying to |
lwarf the mental and physical man by |
lenying to him the social recreations, |
which makes him more loving and |
Kind. Hospitality is on the wane be-
yond doubt and l believe this to be
;hargable to kind of so called sell
ish christianity that has no founda
ion in the Bible. Sociability and
are two things essential to
he human family if progress is to be
made in a universal brotherhood. 1t
GEMS the Jewish church had feast
lays, celebrations and social recrea-
ions without number, and our Savior
lever once condemned them. | think
ignorance is the cause of men and
women opposing social recreations.
Well,I believe in them and do not
are to surrender my privilege. don't
are anything about tyrannical social
olitical systems with their mockiers
nd shams, but do care for the COM
of my neighbors and
riends. l believe in social, moral
plift, something edlfying and elevat-
ng. People often become so prejudic-
d against social recreations that they
you'd strip boys and girls of the last
estage of it. A great big hearted
amily is spoken OF in complimentary
erms by all who know them, while a
arrow, selfish, inhospitable family
ever receives any eulogy or compli-
rents from anyone. 1t Socialism can
aise the standard of church and state,
nd then take the individual by the
and and uplift him, then who is so