Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1911-03-23
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UNCLE TOMS LETTER.

the right ring. happened to be pres
emit when Mr.. Brannsn read it to a
dozen or more of our men, and they
all said it was fine
! Well, am not jealous of you,
Yankee If you have taken the cake,
but Socialists are not built on the
principle of selishness. You and ]
cannot afford to become envious if we
would be true Socialists and followers
of our great leader, Christ, and when
| come to read and ponder on such
words as these. comrade, which Christ
uttered, am filled with wonder
II lay down my life for my sheep. .
II come to deliver the captives, to set
at liberty the people that are bruised. .
AS the Father hath sent me. even so
send ] you.' Christ came certainly
to establish kingdom of the good on
the earth, and feel, brother, that So
cialism STANDS for all that is pure and
good, both temporal and spiritual /
realize that the good Samaritan is GER
tainly figure that represents Social
ism in its endeavor to alleviate the
sufferings of our poor wage workers,
who are robbed of their productions
and have to live on less than any one
else. Not only are they deprived of
enjoying the labor of their hands, but
their health and strength are destroy
ed and then they are left to die, un-
cared for, and the ugly and most helm
GUS feature in the parable was priest
or preacher saw the man suffering and
did nothing to help him. Then Lev
lite, high church member. also saw
the man, and he, too, went on having
good time. and as it was then so it
is TODAY. Men are tramping from post
to pillar, or from Jerusalem to Jericho,
hunting for a job or place to lay
their weary bodies All the world
knows this to be fact. All the
priests and preachers see the unhappy
condition of our laboring people and
SO do the high church members, but
they pass on Only the hated and de-
spised Socialist comes to the rescue
and claims these poor. Woodworking
men as their brothers, and offers to
help them erect just and righteous
government on the earth Cut out
the good Samaritan part of religion
and politics, and you've got nothing
worth contending for.
Jesus in this parable gave us true
picture of the struggles of poor
workers, He gave Us an insight of
the class that occupies high place
in the, church. Oh, how this class of
preachers and Levites prance from
one side of the pulpit to the other and
tell the poor of the mansions in the
skies prepared for them If they will
only be faithful few more days.
Yes, believe we all will have home
in the beyond, but we wouldn't have
if lot Of preachers, Levites and mon
opolists had chance to rob us of our
birthright and inheritance over there,
as they do and have done here under
government controlled by Mammon.
What is the use of preaching such a
doctrine as home in heaven and de-
nying him one here ON earth? Is there
anything to such religion? Don't
you know it is fraud after the read
ing of the parable following the two
great commandments in Luke the 10th
chaper, the latter part of it, Gods
kingdom is to be established in right
eousness here ON earth, just exactly
what Christian Socialism is working
and agitating for the time. has come
when they will not be an ally to the
oppression of any human being. We
must press forward to victory for hu-
man brotherhood and real freedom.
Oh, am SO glad Socialism is making
good in every great nation on earth.
We want our preachers. yes, everyone
of them, to join us. "All things are
yours says the apostle.
Well, my letter has spun out much
longer than / intended, so You chris
tiana take mn the narahle and preach