Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-12-24
BIAL0cK'S SCATTERING
DEAD SHOTS AT BELLE"
AND HER SCATTER GUNS

Editor News:
As Belle and her allies have laid tn
necessity upon me Of shooting scatter
ing dead shots, / do it thusly:
I. No, Belle, did not try to maxi
you out a liar, for you ''did it your
self" and only told you of it truth
fully. for never used the admission
words which you falsely imputed Il
me, neither did l say hades is ''sever
al times translated grave, "as yOu now
falsely accuse me of, because 1t il
only ONCE SO rendered, in Cor,
15:55. and it is wrong there. Q. Had
admitted IL was several times &C
translated that would not have COM
mitted me to il as q correct transla'
tion. 8, l know in Phil. $3.50, the
Greek word, "politeuma. is transla-
ted, Conversation. when 1t no more
means, conversation, than il does
'green cheese" for the whole text
rightly translated reads: "For our
well ordered republican government
fret began in the heavens, from
whence we look also for the Savior.
the Lord Jesus Christ" A. One of
the King James translators was an in
fidel, two OF them were 30 called Puri-
tans and forty-fo of them belonged
to the Church Of England, and this In
fideI being best Hebrew and Greek
scholar among them. they all bowed
unto bis scholarship as to meaning of
Hebrew and Greek words, and he be-
ing really a poor English scholar, SO
rendered it, and was the first man of
earth to render the Hebrew ''Sheol, I"
and Greek "Hades.' by the word
grave, and he did it wrongly, too
.. Your last explanation but adds
insult to injury because: I. In your
first your assertion was positive that /
said Hades meant only the grave,
''the state of DEATH, while your last
says. sit s-e-e-m-s to me that Is ad-
mitting it means the grave" leaving
off, "the Estate of DEATH" for the
reason that one meaning of "seems, "
is "speeious, that is, your own spe-
cious. counterfeit, skeptical opinion
of what / said. which idea you got
from Russell, as I will now show.
Recently lady in Esst st Lou
is, Ills. clipped from some oaper, a
so called sermon by the so called
"Pastor Russell with his picture
at head, of it, and mailed IL to me.
for me to answer. and which do
here Russell said Everything
has been prepared for the establish
meut of the millennial kingdom upon
the. ruins Of present systems +" Yes,
he says, "upon the ruins of present
systems, My God what founda-
tion for Millennial Kingdom to stand
upon According to Russell, the on
" foundation upon which tue millen-
ial Kingdom can stand is the ruins of
the present systems Any ten year old
school boy knows that the present sys-
TENS would make far better founda-
tion than their demolished. smashed.
criss crossed "ruins" would. Any and
all persons who believe as Russell
does, it is only because they know not
God, neither His Kingdom nor its
and their doctrines and
all their religions are false. They
are yet lost sinners, led captiyes by
the devil at his will
4 OF false. falsely, falsehood, lie,
lied, lies, lying, liar and liars, God
mad His prophets, apostles and Christ
to tell th ose who were guilty of them
two hundred and thirty-four times in
the Bible, and so / am in good COM
pany in so doing, too We all do 1t
In perfect good christian humor, be-
canse we want to save people from
lies, because we know all liars shall
1ave their part in lake that burns
with fire aud birthstone The devil
md his folks never give the lie on any
,alse doctrine, no matter how false.
They only give the lie when mad. and
;hen they give 1t whether the thing is
rue or false. On being christians
hey are like the two ''hobblede-
loys," neither men nor boys, Bob
Ouckett AZ d Jim Townsend, who were !
,oing accounting. Bob said to Jim,
Now, Jim, when we get to courting |
hem girls, 1t won't do for me to call |
,ou Jim, nor will it do for you to call
ne Bob, but you call me Mr.. Duck
1T, and will call you Mr. Town
end !" like as If that would make
hem men. but it no more did SO than
t makes christians Of my enemies for
hem to call each other brother and
lister, yet they SO call them in opposi-
ion to Chri-t's plain teaching, when
1e said: ''Behold my mother and my
'For whoseever shall do
he will of My Father which is in
leaven, the same Is my brother. sis
er and mother Matt. 1e;49, 50) and
can easily prove that not oneof my
have ever done that will.
therefore, they are not brothers and
listers to me-not one of them.
8. Belle, of me says, "Now, we
now that he said that hades is trans
ated grave several times, and it seems
0 me that is admitting that it means
be grave" in consequence of which
have just now gone over all my ar
icles in the News, and find no such
anguage Of mine In any of them.
'elle. this statement of yours is as un-
rue and false as was your former
alse statement on me I defy You to
how any such statement of mine In
ny of my articles. You evidently
ave as little use for the. truth as a
og has for side pockets. 1t must be
u awful bad cause which req uires
ne falsehood to bolster up another one
nth. Belle, please tell something at
sast half way like the truth on me.
'on't impute words to me you know
never used, as you have now twice
lainly done How can think you
re any part of a christian How can
think YOU are Truthful, with such
lain glaring, false statements of
1urs before mine eyes, How can I