Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-10-05
Tracy City.
Speaal 10 NE Nesos.

| 1ueIo are dDOuI O,UVU Ut ulOEc lcOpt'
in and around Tracy City. and |
preacher for every one hundred ant
thirty six people. and thirteen churci
houses, enough to hold the three thou
sand, allowing $50 persons to eacl
church house. We have the Methods
five times, the Baptist twice, tn
Presbyterian, the Christians, the Epis
copalians, the Catholics, and Nazar
enc, and the sorriest rel ort to make Of
any place, reckon there is, so far as
religion is concerned. Four of the
leading churches have no pastors, while
the dominant church of the town has
fallen from station to circuit.
The people imagine they are not able
TO support pastor. Our very hard
lot in life has come to us in the same
proportion as we have surrendered our
christianity. Our social christian pIo-
blems reach every man and woman in
Tracy City, and the storm clouds that
hover over this town are not directed
by the Lord God of Heaven. We as a
people fail to realize that Earth has
no sorrow that heaven cannot heal, :"
and that we only need new applica-
ton of christianity reflected upon this
whole town and inculcated in each
heart. Jesus Christ declared his mis-
sion on earth was to preach good It'd
ings to the poor, but, alas the poorer
we get here in Tracy City, the less in
clined we are to follow Christi We
are promised the Holy City. by the be-
loved John, and that the meek shall
inherit the earth, and that the right
eous shall not be forsaken, yea, all
things are ours, but we pay no atten-
tion to the author of our being or His
promises, and today we have silent
witnesses to our treachery and intidel-
ity toward God by the many silent,
vacant church houses No wonder
our conditions are bad and very bad,
No wonder we work today and have
to draw out our wages at night. You
ceased to render unto God the rent
that is due Him, and He intends to
have it if He has to withhold from us
the blessings He is SO we'll able to
give. Reject God and He rejects you.
What is the matter with Tracy City,
She's lost her old time religion.
What few christian men and women
there are in Tracy City are disturbed
and annoyed by the ungodly hoodlums
of the town until some of them have
almost ceased to attend church. A
people that honors God. God will hon
or and bless them. That is the history
and story in all ages There is Faith
erhood and Brotherhood that Jesus
taught and God certainly wants his
children to obey him. and when the
people began to let the churches be
closed, Gods blessings began to cease.
A few are doing all they can, while
Indifference an neglect stalks among
the majority. Christ will take care of
His relations, and there is no surer
road to good will and prosperity than
the road and way Christ points to.
His Book is +, the mind of God, the
state of man, the way of salvation and
the destiny Of the righteous and the
wicked, Its doctrines are holy, its
precepts are binding, its histories are
true, and its decisions immutable.
Read it, believe it, practice it, and
poverty will become, thing Of the
past. Let paradise be restored. heav-
en- opened. This book, the bible, is
given You in life, will be opened at
the judgement and will be, remember
ed forever. 1t invokes the highest re-
sponsibility, rewards the greatest Ia
Dor and condemns all who trifie with
its contents. Accept, believe and prac-
tice its teachings, is the best policy.
Bro. Ferrill Tate will begin a pro-
tracted meeting next Sunday. Oct. 9Th.
at Myers Hill church. We expect a
great meeting. -s.
Bro. N. B. Brown is carrying on
at Sweden Hill, Coalmont.
We have plenty of preacher here and |
it looks to me like some are just as
godly as any we might import.
We would like to have Elihu Fults
come over and help Bro. Tate in his
meeting.
Bro. Hence Levan has been helping
Bro n. B. Brown at Clouse Hill in a
Bro. Levan is all right
according to Bro. Brown. Go ahead,
Hence, and do..all you can. /
Our industrial activities are about
On par with our spiritual. We have
seventeen business houses to the credit
IF the town. which l suppose are max
ing just q living at present. So far as
am concerned get three meals a
lay and tolerable good. clothes to
wear. Lam not afraid of starving.
Never beard of a man trying to live
light and do right starving yet. lEyen
Lazarps had snough friends to dress
MIS- wounds. IT seems the dogs and
;het angeissgAve him attention. We all
wye 70 Sod . debt ana We opght 20
,ay..it with. the. best we asve. and all
We have. Asnea. 49, go
]. Let every man. woman and child
nave o chance to work in the vineyard
II the Lord. a. "a !, r. .,g..~.-
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