Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-01-21
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UNCLE TOMS LETTER

I've been on a tramp visiting nv old
frisnds and associates. Had t Q pleas
nre of staying all night with nv old
friend. John M. Brandon. a d talking
over old times. His good W lfe had ID
tease me a little about old times.
Saw the Hon. Fl. L. Preston, the
father of Tom Preston; SO Dock Pres
ton. the president of the bank at
Woodbury.. Took dinner with him.
Woodbury. has been almost destroy
ed by fire. Some said insurance was
the cause of so man. burn outs, |
think il is cigarette Nearly all the
bows and men under middle age play
cards ard smoke Gig Arettes. and hence
the burn-outs.
Il has been so 8 and disagreeable
that the farmers a g not all done gath
ering corn yet.
/ asked Eau Belle q question
without giving -er my belief. Now
will give her y honest and candid
belief. The dead are yet in their
graves. Rec d John 5:2S-99 and John
11:t1. Just cad the marginal refer
ence and b onvinced that my posi-
ton and b lfef is correct. We certain
" all have to die and go to the grave,
and there await until our change
comes. Tnat change means the re-.
uniting of soul and body and the soul
is The breath of life, that God
breat ed into the body and it returns
to GOD who gave it and is preserved
until ne resurrection.
My position is, Aunt, there is no
life while the body is in the grave, no
wisdom, no knowledge or device of
any kind, either to the soul or body
but the whole man is asleep in death,
the soul paying the same penalty that
the body is paying and further, l do
not believe the death l am talking
about is eternal. / confess can {
find in the Bible where the immor-
tally of the soul is taught. We all
koow or believe the body dies Don t
the Bible teach the soul that sinneth
shall diep Then if this is the truth,
il cannot be immortal. All the lower
animals have "souls" They have
about the same senses man has but Of
lower order. The body returns to
dust as it was, while the spirit, or
breath returns to God who gave it.
It is no longer under human control.
SO our hope is in the resurrection. See
Acts 1850, 1896; 9 Pet. ga, Cor.
1915, I Cor. 15:13-18, / Cor. 1899
apply to the body Cor. 1851. Then
again, Thess 4:13; also the LIST verse
and 18th chapter. / am plunging in,
"Aunt Bell" but believe there is
plenty of scripture to sustain me for
find the ancient worthless we're not re-
warded at death, for the Apostle Paul
tells the Hebrew church in the 18th
chapter, 13, 80 and 40 verses '"These
all died in faith, not having received
the promise that they without us
should not be made perfect. David
is not yet in heaven according to Acts
2:s4. Jesus said no one had assembled
to heaven except him who come down
from heaven. My letter is only a syn
opsis and not specific, as would like.
"Aunt Belle" and myself, though we
may differ in few things, will not
use ugly OIL unchristian language to-
ward each other. We are trying to ex-
press our views in our own mother
tongue, and as said, as we under
stand our own English language and
neither cares ANYTHING about the
Greek and Hebrew which is nothing
more to us and the readers of the
News than the quacking of goose. If
Greek scholars, so-called. want to ar
que the question and parade their
learning before your readers we have
no objections.
Well, "Uncle Tom, what proof have
you that both soul and body can be
destroyed! See Matt. 1923; Pisa.
1850. Eek 18:4-20; Pisa. 22:29; Josh.
1926; lisa. 3817; Pisa. 56:13-30: Matt.
1898. guess you all will get tired
of reading the references but you no.
hellites must understand that both
soul and body are in danger Of eternal
punishment and that in the grave
whittier we go there will be no chance
of being redeemed, for both soul and
body are inactive and cannot repent
or exercise faith.
So far as am concerned goose talk
is just as good to me as Greek. If
you want to got me good and tired,
just begin to use languages not one in
a hundred understands. What do
know about Greek Not thing. I've
heard such stuff used 80 often and by
people I've no confidence in that pre-
FER the old backwoods English to it.
Let me and "Aunt Belle" alone, If
you please, and keep out of our con-
Fab.
ryxy<xr r, roxs