Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-11-30
TAKE IT INTO POLITICS.

| the way he writes ABOUT purifying lnt
churches, and am sorry to say this is
wonderful task. Our government
and different denominations stand fol
competition and teach Competition
is the life of trade when in fact, II
is the death of trade. 1t is also the
| death of christianity. ... g.
When l speak of the church have
no reference to different denomination
al organizations of men named this OF
that. If the church of God is only
confined to these l am led to exclaim
with Wendell Phillips when asked If
christianity was failure. He said,
Il do not know, sir, it has never been
tried"
If it was possible to transform any
community into a society practicing
the Golden Rule and the eleventh
commandment, which is impossible
now, you would see results closely re-
lated to TIE preaching of Jesus while
teaching righteousness and righteous
living, or in other words, outlining
the Kingdom of God on earth.
Now, "Unele Tom," while you,
Brannan, and many others believe in
going to the ballot box to right the
evils of society. many church members
shout, "That's going into politics, -
and line up with the old parties and
vote to perpetuate them.
This has been hurled at us by politi-
cal stump speakers and political papers
until even our churches teach, keep
out of politics" and to my surprise the
great leader of w. G. T. u. ten
thousand strong. Mrs. Silena M. Hol-
man, who is giving her life to the
cause of prohibition believes she will
help destroy one of the greatest evils
of our land by keeping out of politics
except insofar as they may touch the
prohibition question. What would
happen in Tennessee If these ten thou
sand W. G. T. u. women could actual
ly go into politics backed up by the
church membership of the state in the
overthrow of every form of injustice,
and in establishing just such system
as Jesus talked of on the Mount Here
comes the objection: '.It is the duty
of the Church to preach the Gospel and
save SOULS, and not disturb the social
order or our System. This, no
doubt, is the Supreme mission of the
church, l. e., to preach the Gospel
and save souls, and when this program
worn, decaying social order will give
way to an order strictly up to 'Thy
kingdom come, and men and women
everywhere will join in the work of
saving our bodies, for in them dwell
souls
Then you believe in going into poll
tics2 Yes, sir. Go in and stay in.
Fight the evils of our land in ''our"
homes, our schools, our churches and
everywhere. Serve your country as
we should serve our God. You can't
serve political party which does
worse than nothing for society, and
serve God at the same time. If you
pray one day in the week, ''Thy king
ON come" and work six days to keep
it from coming, when will it Gomez
Who then are to go into politics and
help right these evils' Men and wom
EN- with equal suffrage with opportuni
ty to govern themselves will soon right
every wrong A preaching and soul
saving plan that does not definitely set
out to present gospel for this world
and salvation from social evils as
we'll as individual sins, but poorly
represents the teachings of Jesus.
The man who believes soul saving to
be the only mission of the church of
Jesus Christ is wanting to limit the
work of the church and binder "Thy
kingdom come on earth as it is in
heaven, and to my mind is either
ignorant or selfishly inclined Look at
the agreement between PLATE and
Herod to destroy Jesus and put him
out of the way. This was no meaner
than for praying churcbmen and work
ingmen of the devil to agree that the
church should have nothing to do with
the affairs of state and So
ciety. The church has welded a
great influence in spite of such teach
ings, but is often made the cats paw
of selfish and designing interests.
We have now society dominated by
the institution of wage slavery, sup
ported by the church, which is caus-
ing more poverty, ignorance and woe
than any other evil in the world to-
day. Do the churches offer to help |
change this or any other evil except |
by prayer and preaching No. want
to tell You, dear readers, that one of
these days you will join the Socialists
and help do something. An old darkey
prayed for Christmas turkey and |
kept at it until Christmas was very
near and no turkey. He met 'Brud-
der" Bone and told how long he had
been praying and no turkey yet.
Brother Bone said, ''When ] prays for
turkey, puts out my hand. an dar
1e turkey is. Lessen you puts forth
some work you gifts nothing" Prayer
and preaching is all right but when
you pray and preach for thing, vote
and work for it, and we will get it as
sure as Bone got turkey.
Give us the Initiative and Referen-
lum, Imperative Recall, together with
equal suffrage for men and women,
md we will the do what is best for
society, and it won't take long.