Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-02-15
DIVINE PROVIDENCE
WILL SETTLE SOCIAL
STRUGGLE IN LIFE
Editor Valley News.

Editor Valley News:
I enclose SOC to keep the News com
ing for another year. The new yea
of grace 1879, is a month old. How
time flies It finds me in improves
health looking for Opportunities AM
desiring to be led by the lords spirit
word and providences, How glad
am that this is SO.
The Socialist writer's seem to b.
having it all their way. And truly th,
Socialist argument is a strong one, es
pecially in the face of low wages anC
high prices for life's necessities. Con
ditions are alarming everywhere. Ny
mind goes out to the poor in this city
Just think of paying half the monthly
wages for rent-for place to sleep
and eat the other half. Take men whe
receive $40 to $t5 per week. If they
occupy home with modern improve
ments, such as bath. gas, etc, this
will cost from $2t.50 mp to $50. accord
ing to location and grade OF improve
ments. Then gas and fuel and water
must be paid for extra. Then carfare,
which is no small item If the place OF
business and school are at distance.
When these bills are paid it requires
close economy to subsist and keep mp
good appearance on the remainder.
Truly the strain of modern life is tre-
mendous. No wonder the world is fill
ed with violence and suicide. No
wonder asylums, jails and pens are
full, and the down and out class null
tiplying. No wonder that people ale
restless and grasping at every ism and
every impossible theory for relief.
The trouble is they expect TO do 1t all
themselves. As our Socialist friends
would say, We will vote the Kingdom
in; we will put good men in office,
men who are true, men who cannot be
influenced by selfish or sordid reasons;
we will make equitable laws and give
every able worker a home with full
wages for eight hours toll, leaving
eight hours for sleep, and eight hours
for recreation; thus we will make life
so easy that men will, by nature, be-
come good, and earth become para
disc But how thoughtless and un-
scliptural the premise How impossi-
BILE the theory when obstacles are con-
sidered The very fact of mans fall
en-, sinful state makes it, impossi BILE.
The very fact that by Gods decree
Adam was expelled from Eden expell
ed from the divine presence and de-
MED communion bars all hope from
human quarter. However, we know
that this expulsion is not to continue.
We know that the divine aim was that
man should have dominion over fish,
sea, fowl, air, and over every living
thing that moveth on the earth. Or
igirally created In Gods moral i'm
age, man had power to subdue the
earth, command the beast of the for
est and be lord and benefactor to all
living. We see from the divine ar
rangement that every man was to be
his brothers equal. There were to be
no lords, no grandees to sway others,
but every man with Gods law written
in his heart would have had no oppos
ition, nothing to oppose, hence no
friction, but love and plenty meeting
it, kindred response everywhere, The
words, ssLet them have dominion
etc shows that no lord or lady was to
have authority over others but all
were to have dominion and make use
of. earth products for the common
good. All the mineral and vegetable |
weaatb, all the varieties of fish and
animal life were thus disposed by +
bountiful Creator, and had the race
remained perfect and carried out this |
original design, the dark history of |
sin and death would have remained /
Socialism. in all its grand.
eur and ireonceivable glory, would
have obtained wherever man is found. /
The Golden Rule, to love the Lord thy
tod with all thy heart and with all
thy mind; and thy neighbor as
thyself, would have been the only law
desply graved in every heart. But
alas sin entered and the dominion
Slipped from his grasp. Communion
with the heavenly Father was lost,
man becanae convict and Satan, the
became the "god of this
world, !" its mighty one, it's prince, its
ruler, as styled In Scripture and prov
"a to our senses repeatedly. With Sa-
tan's triumph over man, Gods origin
Al Kingdom was displaced and the
fallen, groaning creation has since
plodded along its weary way. defeated
AZ every turn, even its best efforts
void, yet ever hoping that its
dreams Of a golden age
we're at hand.
Again during the Jewish age God
the people of Israel as his
Kingdom under Moses and the Judges
This was sort Of republican form but
VAS only typical and soon gave way to
, more deepotic rule under David and
solomon. This, too, was typical of
he airon rod Kingdom promised un-
ler future messiah Under this typ
cal arrangement and unlike the sur
.ounding nations, Israel had Jehovah
or their King, and their rulers nomi-
,allv served under him as we learn
rom Psalms 7S:7071. Again in
yhrou. 1873, and Chron I. 1913, Isra-
i II called the Kingdom of the
ord and it is stated that Solomon
AZ an the THRONE OF THE LORD
nstead of his father David, who sat
u the same throne following Saul, the
rat king. But this typical kingdom
srved its purpose and was overthrown
! The day Of Zedakiah, the last on the
hrone OF Dayid's line. Here the scep-
ar of royal power was removed. Gods
gora relating thereto follows "Thou
rofane and wicked prince of Israel,
those day is come, when iniquity
ball have an end. saith God: remove
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