Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-02-04
UNCLE TOMS LETTER

mn a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart
from it "
All fathers who really desire the
spiritual and temporal welfare of their
children should heed this council and
advice. In Eph GA Paul says:
'Bring them up in the nurture and
admonitiou of the Lord Z" It appears
to me a parent is under obligations to
God to teach his children the doctrines
of the church. He refers to Timothy
as having known the Holy Scriptures
from child. Solomon said to "chas-
ten them while there was hope. !"
The Bible is very plain concerning
the duties and obligations Of parents
to their children, aud equally as plain
to the children concerning their duty
toward their parents. The raising of
children in the nurture and admoni-
tion of the Lord from the reading of
the Scrirtural text on that particular,
began in some instances, before the
child was conceived and born, and just
how sensible men can ignore them
and object to them being brought into
covenant relation to God and the
church is a problem / can't solve. Do
such objectors really believe in God
and a churchS Abraham got the
promise because God knew he would
command his children after him.
Gen. 1919
There is plenty of Scripture to sus-
tain man in the scriptural training
of children, and If the church has any
authority to baptlze adults, the same
authority applies to children and
L. I no n
doubt that Paul baptized whole house
holds At least, such is my under
standing of the Scripture and nearly
all homes have children and some are
very young. The beautiful story of
faith as it appears in the 11th chapter
of Hebrew concerning Moses, Samp-
son, Samuel, Isaac and others-the
hope of these grand old patriarcbs was
in their children, and we have no ac-
count of single objection being offer
cd by any of them to the children be-
ing dedicated to God by the solemn
rites of the church. Mothers brought
their little ones to Christ, and no one
objected, save some of his unbelieving
followers who afterwards denied
Christ himself, and actually betrayed
him for 80 pieces of silver. Whose
SONS is it that violates the laws OF God
and man! Isn't it the sons of men and
women who never tried to train their
children in the nurture and admoni-
tion of the Lord 1t makes no differ
ence to what church they belong, ii
their sons go wrong they are to blame
more than anyone else, for Gods word
is tie truth, aud if you or l have
trained our children in the way they
should go they'll not depart from it
We have that manifested in the child
rem of democrats and republicans But
few 90 contrary to the political pur-
suasions of their fathers. Train,
teach and bling him up in the Lord
The bible is full of advice and council
concerning children, and we have no
account of anyone refusing to recog-
nize children save some of the dlsci-
ples who afterwards deserted Christ,
aud Que of them actually sold blm
Even a woman of Canaan had more
faith and confidence in Christ than
Jesus disciples, for they wanted her
sent away because she cried after
them concerning her daughter. The
woman's faith in Christ was great
while that of his followers was weak
and on other occasions duiing the
ministry of Christ did the disciples
object to children. Matt 1913 we
find the disciples rebuking them, but
Jesus, in the 14th verse said, ''Suffer
them to come and forbid them not
St. Mark 1913 says that the disciples
rebuked those who brought them, and
1t displeased Jesus. In the 10th verse
it says He blessed these little child
rem, and have no doubt every single
one of them had been circumcised and
were members of the Jewish church.
From the best information can get
no one has ever objected to the child
rem save those who claim to be follow
ers of the Lord Jesus Christ and mem
bers of the church, and we don't find
any objectors except those who claim
to be members of the church. Luke
says they brought infants, all agreeing
to the fact that the disciples did OBJ
iect, and that it displeased Christ.
Who are the objectors today Those
claiming to be members of the ch urch,
q class that does but little for the
widows and orphans and Is always
ready to condemn the people who are
willing to accept the children and
provide for them spiritually and tenn
poralily God has blessed such chur-
ches and such people above all Others
and today it is common saying the
Catholic and Episcopalians are the
widows and orphans most sincere
friends. Each are vieing with with
the other regarding the children and
the result is they outnumber all other
denominations combined | haven
yet said whether / believed in infant
baptism, but let me say, l believe in
that church that recognizes the infant
as being worthy of consideration, and
a factor in the kingdom of God, and
if there is any church that can adopt
the child and get him in the church
without circumcision or baptism,
that church, to my notion, is not OF
God. So while you are crying out,
''We are the church, then how comes
it you refuse the purest and most in
nocent of earth place among you. AT
what time did our Savior ever refuse
them recognition. What patriot OF
the ages past refused child its proper
place in the kingdom of God The
devil has fought the women and child
ren from the beginning John, the
revelator, gives us picture in the
18th chapter of that book Of the effort
of the devil to destroy the woman aud
her child, and we need not become