Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-12-17
UNCLE TOMS LETTER


I've been looking over the county
some and 1 find cur grand old Cuhber-
land mountain offers as golden oppor-
tunities a. aay ulaCe under the shin
ing sun. If this country here tad the
opportunity OF the mountain people
tbey onla soon grow prosperous and
rich, unless they 10 like the noun
tain people drpend on the mines for
their bog and homiEy. / know the
mountain land is as fertile IS tais, and
these people produce plenty anu to
spare Five acres well cultivated on
the mountain will produce ali an av-
erage family woVld need and then the
industrious housewife of the mountain
can raise chickens turkeys or any
thing else and fnd rsauy home mar
ket for all she might have to sell No
use of our mountain PEOPLE grumbliug
ana growing about their hard lot, for
il is becoming d we'll known fact the
mountain is soon going to be the
garden spot of Tennessee and the
South, and | write to stir up our min
ers TO secure leases of land or buy it
outright and get in the swim while
they can.
was glad that the News called at
tention to the 70 or ii miles between
Tracy City and Sequaches with hardly
a farm on the whole route. Folks
need not tell me the land won't pro-
duce anything, for | know better. Tue
timber is too large and of too quick a
owth not to grow corn or ANYTHING
else suitable to the climate. Public
works are all right for a baud to
mouth living, and that is about all
any man has ever gotten out of it
while the tiller Of tue soil gets more
True, farm products are low Stock
is low, but then Cue farmer generally
knows where bis rations come from
and how it comes. With cora ia tue
crib and bacon in the smokehouse
much of human anxiety is assuaged
From my observations the industrious
housewife is clothing her household
so years ago when the loom and tne
spinning wheel was their dependence.
There is no slavery now like as then,
for she has learned the poultry prod
uct business procures not only the SUI
gar and coffee, but clothes as we'll
wish | could stir M our mountain
people to soc their golden opportunity,
most especially our miners and get
them to ee and rsalize they can pro-
duce from the soil tDat lies idle all
around them about all they need l
know men at Tracy City, who have
boys and girls plenty old enough to
raise all tbey need. Ask the company
for the privilege Of cleaning M four
or five acres of lend or lea it, anu in
It Wo years your hand to mouth or pa
per sack living will be thing Of the
past
Read my letters, frienis, and see if
I am not giving you good advice.
Land is cheap aud taa cream of Ten
nesses is on the mouutan and around
it, I've seen people from ths vet and
almost every mere else, and | am sat
isfed the mountain has no superior
anywhere.
Mrs. Grundy ought to get busy, shH
has the best opportunity to help Grun-
dy county of any laper anu hope
sne will
Well, "Aunt Bell, am due you
further explanation of my position re-
gariing Christ and His works There
is not TIE least aoubt in my mind bat
his whole mission in tue world was
to destroy tho work 0f the devil ana
to set NJ his Father's kingdom, as
foretol by all the pro nets and IN
spired writer Of the Bible, and the
last enemy he ID to conquer ia atat1
I don lieve any OF the UGrss or
creations Of God gill b. annihi LATED
or destroyed Even tha earth viii b.
purified aud Claan su an remain for
ever al 6ecl8rel in Eeclesiastes, "A
Anyone can run taa marginal rfferen-
ces if they care tc find ont TINS auth
The destruction of Satanis aorEs -
Clearly set forth in the Bible Even
the kingdom's OF the earth ara all TO
be de troyea, for TIE Lord Cos Of
heaven so declared by the mouth OF
Daniel, and all the other pro1bGts
Even Isiah IN Che 65th chaut gives
US beautiful pieture of what wall
take place under the glorious reign OF
Christ We ars not Lift dear aunt, to
guess ct the glorious reign of Curist,
Satan will rot b. allowed to ruiz ard
govern under the Attn epoch of the
WORLDS history, AND men cannot OBJ
press and 1efrau1 their brother and
rob him of his birtbright and take
IrOIu uIul ufS tuubElt6i 20 oOu Ill
people the earth AMI they shall long
enjoy tie labor of tbeir hands a. is AS
plainly taught as anything else in the
Bible No, aunt, don't think cal
umny and abuse il argument, AMI as
such | believe it is my duty ani your
duty to work aud pray for the erection
of GODS kingdom here on earth and
do everything we can to deffat toe
devil in his war on the Prince or
Peace, "death, hell AMI the grave "
The time will come when men can
cry out and say, "Ohs death, where is
thy sting, o grave, where is thy VIC
toryS" My opinion on hell is tnat
God will abolish this hell of torment
the human family is suffering here
on earth, aud all tears and all anxiety
will be taken from them under His
glorious reign It is useless for me
to draw the picture of it as the Bible,
the STANDARD Of all truth, does that,
do not for one moment doubt TIE
of the willfully and NAL
iciously impenitsnt That is not the
point, but Christ came to save and re-
store unto man what he lost in Adam.
Is He ables / firmly believe be IS
Aunt, your high conception of Coos
love and mercy is to be commended IN
the place Of being slurrea and reflect
ions cast We are to be judged &C
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