Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-02-25
UNCLE TOMS LETTER

Farmers are blowing every day the
can. All are now done gatherin,
corn. Oats look fine, but wheat is no
looking we'll Neither is rye. Lots ar
OF land is being cleared up. Only il
the last few years have the farmer
learned how to cultivate this barrel
land ana make it produce. They nov
know and are making plenty and tc
spare. This land is easy to cultivat,
TO what the hill lands are, and a MAJ
makes an easier and better living her,
than in the hills. SO 90 per acre i,
cheap for this land and there is plenty
for sale.
Well, Charlotte, l was awful
glad to hear of those 20S conversions
at the Chapel, but awful sorry real
nice and pretty girl like you had nc
one to court her. Didn't you fib lit.
tie, Miss Charlotte, You certain.
" don't want the News readers to be.
lieve you are an outcast from Cupid's
realm Well, we'll wait and see.
I've been going to meeting myself.
Sister Skidmore has been holding A So
ries of meetings at Center Hill and is
now at Young's Chapel in Cannon
lJOQDLHs Oub ClulLlb ann
sword must perish by it. Nations that
have lived by enforcing the death pen
atty, have persisted by the same meth
cd. Christ is the Prince Of Peace, and
came to stop the shedding of blood.
and to teach people better and high.
er way. Nations must learn war,
death aud destruction is wrong and
wicked The lion and the lamb must
feed together. "They must not hurt
or destroy in all my holy mountain.
saith the Lord I believe the cities
of refuge set apart in the promised
land means whole lot and points to
something better than rope or the
electric chair for a criminal Christ {
gentle rebuke to Peter shows he did
not favor the shedding of blood, and
declared all who lived by the sword
should perish by it. We must learn
war no more. We must cease to take
life, Our judgements must be more
in harmony with the divine law of
love. We must cease to be british and
be humane God and Christ have de-
clared against killing folks and tells
us vengence is His and He will repay.
Don't believe He anywhere has dele
gated His power and authority to kill
and to slay. He has plainly told us,
"As we SOW, SO shall we reap I" II
we kill we shall be killed; if we lead
so does her husband, but some how
not many people in this, our day, have
much confidence in saEctified, tobac-
co Using preacher. No preacher down
here that uses tobacco is looked on as
a clean man Well, l can't hello 1t
These folks have asked me to secure a
good holiness preacher to hold meet
ing for them in July, so | am going
to write Brother Henry Handy to
come, and / want his sister to come
with him. 1t is strange, but sinners
are nearly all believers in holiness in
these digginS.
notice a great deal is being said
on Capital Punishment l am one
who does not believe in Capital Pun.
ishment. l don't bellows we should
take that which we cannot give, life
Our Lord told Peter to put up bis
swold for they that would live by the
into captivity we shall go into capt.
witty. If we obey Gods law, which is
a law of love, we'll never kill /
don believe in mi'representing God.
God is a God of love. Peter, himself,
this law of love, and did that
which all followers of Christ are for
bidden to 90. If mans laws are bru
tai and inhumen, no christian is
justifable in endorsing them and up
holding them mean clamoring for
a life to be taken. Man has no right
to create ard make laws brutal and in
human Capital Punishment is not
the law Of God to the nations of earth.
Gods law is love, Love the Lord,
thy God, with all thy soul, mind
aud strength and the second is like
INTO it, thy neighbor as thyself . Up
Oh these two hang all the law and the
prophets Here is Gods command
to us, and l am sure if we love our
neigbbor as .ourself, we'll never ag-
rec to have his life taken, though be
be- criminal Our love would for
bid it. But if we've got no love for
The poor wretch we'll soy, "Hang
him, send him to hell as quick as pos
,ible" Christ knew the brutal and
wicked laws Of the nations and pre-
licted His own death, and so did all
the prophets to the most minute de-
;ails. His teachings vera so sublime
and grand that they accused him of
being an enemy to Caesar. Christ was
not a vicious teacher, but sought to
ave the people from their own vic
business. His whole life was spent in
preaching the gospel and pardoning of
lin in his name He never perverted
, single text Of Scripture. He and
His followers all suffered martyrdom
Except John, and he was banished.
They suffered as criminals and NAL
actors. The Scriptures we're pervert
ID to convict them. Mans law must
De satisfied, and GODS law set at
,aught as in this our day. Men are
,sing the Scriptures now to uphold
yile and vicious laws, and will quote
ext after text and claim it is COM
nand or endorsed by the God of Heav-
IN. Christ never endorsed Caesar or
Caesars kingdom. His kingdom is a
,ingdom of love and is the end of
he law to all men who believe Oh his
lame Don't tell me christian will
consent to the stoning to death of any
nan. They won't do it. Christ's an
wer was, "He that is without sin. |
of him cast tho frat atOne' Did he |