Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-08-14
UNCLE TOMS LETTER

Don't be quite so sarcastic when refer
ring to the Holiness people. | guess
they are as honest in their beliefs as
any other religionist on earth. Smart
Alecs of the world have always i'm
peached the Holy Ghost crowd. begin
ming at Jerusalem on the day of Pente-
| cost.
Well, "Mollie," you ought to care
fully read fellows letters before you
make a charge against him as advoca-
ting this or that What are you going
to say about DIR. l. F. F. Kayhoes s
sermon on amusements! Your "Uncle
Tom wants the young people and old
ones also, to amuse themselves If they
can, in as harmless a manner as posi-
BILE, while some of you object and take
no thought about theil social recrea-
tions at all. None of you seem to have
any idea that there are harmless and
sinless amusements, and none of You
have the courage to point out any
thing, only, 81 object. Object to
what2 "Well. i just really don't
know" and so you don't. Why. a la
dy of my acquaintance got very much
wrought up at me for saying there was
no harm in an icecream supper or in
box supper No more harm to sell ice
merchant to sell you goods. Both are
sold to get gain. Then if one is sin.
the other is sin, also. / tell you,
some of You goody goods will condemn
this thing and that, and allow our
pastor to work his life out in pro-
tracted NEE ting for ten or twenty
days, and he only gets little upwards
of 50. So Yo ur crime and sin Is in
not paying your pastor and in spend
ing your money in a picture show. Do
your duty first to your church, and
don't neglect your pastor. Our object
ors to social recreations are the poor,
est pay masters we have, especially to
the cause of religion. There isn't
much to them. like great, big
hearted. jovial man or woman.
Now, "August Fly" I'll tell you
true story. When the Holiness people
first came to Tracy City, the religion
lists of the town made all manner of
fun of them and their doctrine and an
tics and closed the doors of the church
es against them, and said it was
against the interest of their church to
let them in, and the result, so far as
Holy Ghost religion is concerned is
about like an old sage field that is
fresh burned off in the spring, and it
has been that way for ten years in
that particular church. and God has
withdra wn His spirit until they are as
thirsty "a congregation as you ever laid
eyes on. Sanctification is an unknown
grace to them, and holiness is not
down in their program at all. They
have tried to have revival lately but
failed. The Baptists are trying now
but will fail for the want of the Holy
Spirit. God works by his spirit thru
human beings, according to his words.
They ignore the Holiness people and
the preacher and choir are its in a re-
vival service now. l have told you
this in order to warn you against
throwing off on the Holiness people,
for every single church that does SO
suffers to my certain knowledge. The
Methodists and Baptists of Tracy City
need to repent and ask the forgiveness
of the Holiness gang Will they do it'
No, they will not, and why, because
they ara strangers to the sanctifying
power and grace of God. That is why
they lay all their short comings on
other causes. / used to criticise Sc
verely everybody who didn't worship
like l did, but I've learned better
sense of late years y Then, again,
we've got so elite and narrow that our
hospitality doesn't measure up to any
thing near what God teaches. We
board out the preachers that come to
preach to US and hold our revivals,
consequently we have no revivals
worth the name The choir sings and
the preacher breaches and that is all
there is to it. 1 would love to see
revival sung up by choir and preach-
ed up by the preacher. God only
works thru the church, and am sure
lot of pretty girls such as we have
here in Tracy City are not the church.
Well, the first of September is the
time set for protracted meeting to
begin on Shadrick Hill, under the aus
pices Of the Congregational Method
lists. Revs. G. D. Nunley, Bax ter
Meeks. John Smith and Ed Nunley are
the preachers expected to hold it. Old
Uncle Carol has been a successful
preacher. Uncle G. d. Dykes will
help if not called away, at that time.
The Congregational Methodists have
been the most successful revivalists
here at Tracy of any, and can and do
reach people the other churches don't.
The company got its bristles up and
discharged some seven or eight men
as being union men. believe can
prove beyond single doubt that not
one of them belongs to the union here,
but let the company rip for she only
Injuries herself and shows how despotie
companys and corporations can be
w hon fhav have a chance