Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-08-24
Third District.


4 bic. openly confess thar in all my
past life l never witness d such re-
/ vival before. There were fully 1000
people assembled and such able SER
! mons / uever listened To before and
there were 80 or mois professions and
/ additions to tue church. There never
in the history of time before was such
a stir, aud such meeting held at New
Hope as has just clio ed held by Rev.
Founders and Rev Frisbie, and while
there was requested 10 write to the
! News and correct a little mistake re-
ported to me last week about the cost
Of the tent being Sl15. the informer
made a mistake in giving out details
tome. I win gladly correct that par
agraph by saying The net cost of the
1 tent as $3.50 and while at Hill City
they collected $40, and credited the ac-
, count " 18th that amount, which left a
! balance du5 Of $t90 and while at New
Hope they asked me to state that they
have collected $40 for the purpose. A
donation by work and labor and use Of
saw mill of e. j Barber of $35 90 was
given, aud Mr.. Barber suggested that
| the good peorle of New Hope and the
surrounding neighborhood come to-
gsther and give a donation of cross
tie timber, and ne would saw them in
to ties free Of charge, and so some 16
| or II men came together and furnished
and got out 100 cross ties, which were
put on the railroad at Condra's Station
| today, and they are getting our $50
more to be put at the station by the
| last of this week, total $50 ties, which
when sold will be donation to the
Rev. Founders and will pay the bal
ance due on said tent in full by the
| good people of New Hope. just such
| christian workers as there are at New
Hope can't be found or equaled in any
part of Marion County or Sequachee
| The News reporter hands out this
good piece of christian work to the
reading public. to let other parts Of
| the christian world know what they
are doing for the cause of christianity.
and morality of the place called New
Hope. They further ask that the
names of those that appear on the list
of this free donation be published in
the News that they may occupy a
place of recognition. They are E. J.
Barber Joe Anderson, James Layne,
Jack Kelly, Aaron Tate, J. Bonds &
Sons, j. G. Brown & Sons, Robt.
Kelly, Abe Hudson, JAS. Pickett, G..
S. Smith & Sons, W, M. Pickett, B.
w. Condra, E. H. Hudson, Will East
erly and few others whose names !
failed to get who did noble, good work
along this line to help support the
Gospel, and will get their reward
some sweet day. / don't think | ever
witnessed such hard working chris
tian band of workers as Bro. Founders
and wife and Bro. Frisbie and wife,
and the entire community did to con-
vert every sinner in the community,
and this grand and glorious meeting
will be long remembered by the people
from Whitwell to Dunlap for many
wears to come. Ye writer was escort
ed to the rostrum by Rev. Frisbie and
was introduced to Mrs. Founders and
Mrs. Frisbie as News reporter, and
was given few practical sketches of
the success of the New Hope tent meet
ing, and Bro. Frisbie reported to me
while on the stage that he had sue
ceeded after so long time in captur-
ing the finest little woman on earth,
and he was the harpiest man living,
$40, 900. OF course as happy man
as he was you know was just in the
right humor and spirit to carry on a
big revival meeting to victory and
crown it with great success.
| It seems that we have few preach.
ers up here of local nature who are
| full of prejudice and deceit, so much
so they refuse to attend the union
meetings, and are always finding
fault with the preachers and the peo-
pie of their own home. A man
claiming and representing himself to
be man called of God, who stirs up
and keeps up continual disturbance
| in his community and never enters in
to prayer in his own home or family
circle or even graces his own table and
never breaches at home and has to
leave his own neighborhood to preach
and seldom ever breaches at all is not
doing any good Their own family
can see plainly that there is something
wrong and they need genuine shak-
ing up, and last of all need to be con-
verified, and let their light shine that
they may at some stage of life be able
to convert others. / don't advocate
the doctrine of a lazy preacher who
doesn't get huckleberry move on
him. don't endorse any man s works
| if he has absolutely made total fail
ure in life to set up or establish a re-
cord before the people Of some note,
worthy of setting up and giving out to
the reading public of what he has
done, or what he is now doing, or
| what he intends to do hereafter. If
You profess to be certain thing and
fail to establish it, for Gods sake
raise up now and come to the front
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