Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-08-20
REPLY TO JUNGLE
TOMS" FAREWELL

Editor News
AS "Uncle Tom" informs his zen
courager" or "enoourager-e that
he has bid me long farewell,
please permit me to say:
l. have looked up his racket"
he imputes to me, to which / reply as
follows: ~ find in Webster's Die
tionary three kinds of "rackets, the
first one of which is, "A confused,
chattering noise, less loud than up
roar; applied to the confused sounds
OF animal voices, or such voices mixed
with other sound. We say. the child
rem make a racket; the racket of
| flock of birds. ?. Clamor, noisy talk,
and of course "Uncle Tom" could not
mean that l was guilty of this kind Of
racket, because l was not using my
voice at all, but only quoting Gods
written word with my pencil to him
and his comforter, AUNT Belle, and
so am clear of that kind of racket.
2. There is but one other kind of a
racket named by Webster of which I
could be guilty, and that is the one
which Webster says means, "a snow
SHOE, which reminds me of Billy G.
Brownlow' s expression in the North,
after he got out of 'Rebeldom," when
he said: 81 am going to fight the reb-
els now till hi freezes over, AMI
then | am going to fight them on the
ice" and surely "Uncle Tom saw
my racket snow shoes of Gods word
had him down, as dozens of people
said it did, and he surely was afraid
it would hold him down until, as
BIownlow said, Il freezes over"
and that it would continue to hold.him
down SO far below the ice, as that he
would get too ALFRED hot, and so he
quit, just as dozens said he would.
3. ALI readers of the News know
did not throw out at "Uncle Tom"
any such vitriolic, malicious, person
al, insulting, dirty things at him as
he did at Representative, time af-
ter time. Week after week he did all
his little snollygoster swunker could
enable him to do, to get up crack
et' with Bill White, dealing in the
worst personalities he could, none of
which have l dealt in at all, though l
have heard of many on "Uncle Tom."
even of his war record, but as a gen
tleman, left ali these out, and dealt
with only his unscriptural opinions
and absurd doctrines
4. No. 1 did not "condemu me
Uncle Tom) and others to hi who
have opinions and beliefs of their
own" for the following reasons: I.
II is their own beliefs and opinions
which have already done that, unless
they renounce them, and get the faith
which is the gift of God, (Eph. 2:S)
which is given by the Spirit, Il Cor.
1850. No man has any sort of right
to his own belief, but must have that
belief which is produced alone by the |
substance evidence, faith. Heb XII |
2. The Greeks and Grecian Jews
had dogmas, opinions of their own,
as good ones as ever anyone had, so |
good that they interliniugly and in
terpolatingly wrote them in "the mid |
die spaces between" the lines of Gods |
ordinances, thereby changed the truth |
of God into lie," and worshiped
and served the creature" (deviD Rom.
I, 25), because the devil is the author J
of all opinions, and the handwriting
of all these dogmas opinions, wrong
ly translated ordinances (Col. 2:14, 49,.
Christ blotted out, because it is hell
destroying for any man to follow his
town belief and opinion" God re-
q uires all His people to know. and if
you, "Uncle Tom are following
your own opinions and beliefs they,
not /. are sure to condemn and con-
sign you to hell, and that is the reas-
ons why am trying, as Il minister,
to save you from hell, because know
you are now sure on hells road Your
fruit makes me know it. In the spirit
and words of Christ l. too, ask, 'How
Chu 70 oSCdpo buo uohlh"uioh VI hOii
Matt. 90, 33). "Uncle Tom" have
no sort of an opinion, nor belief of my
own, and would not have either for
all the world, because / know either,
both, would land me in hell.
All sorts of belief are produced by
some sort of evidence, and of the
faith which is the gift of God. Paul
says it is the substance, evidence,
Heb. 11;1, and know it produced
belief in me, therefore neither are my
own, but both are of God.
5. When very intelligent wicked
man read what "Uncle Tom" said
about his having been called "hyp-
ocrit'' by those whom he had be-
he said: doctor, you and I
know it is natural and common for
people to always praise the bridge
that carries them over safely, and if,
IS "U ncle Tom" says, those whom he
mas befriended call him hypocrit,
then he surely must be a hell of
teller, "as the Irishman said.
Surely, "Uncle Tom" has no more
sense than "Aun Belle" and both
'eem to me to be thanking God for
what little ignorance they already
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