The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1906-06-16
4 Farewell Letter.

tAASheh leNlts
Editor Times,
We have just finished onr course
IN the American School of 0steo-
pathy and our graduating exercise
will take place on the l4th inst
Many of your readers, from per-
sonal acquaintance. know why
we took up the study of 0steopathy
and we wish to say that we have
never regretted our decision; on the
contrary, our greatest desires and
expectations, SO far, have been fully
realized. Every day of our soiourn
here in this School, under the inAu-
ence of the founder of Osteopathy.
DR.. A. T. Still, has been a feast of
good things and the embodiment of
the principles of great Science.
There are already FIVE thousand
practitioners in the field and with
nine Osteopathic Schools which are
we'll attended and which are eontin-
ually adding to their curriculum.
The course requires three years at.
tendance of nine months each, and
studies cover all the branches re-
quired by Medical Schools, except
Materia Medica, in lieu OF which the
0steopath studies Principles and
Practice of Osteopathy.
We have greatly desired to visit
our old home and friends in
Boone County, Ark, but our Profes-
sional duties demand that we hast
en- to our home in the west. There
are no friends like the old friends or
the friends of childhood and there is
warm spot in our heart for each
and every one.
Many of your readers. knowing
full we'll our religious convictions
and extreme position on all moral
questions have doubtless wondered
why we should cast our lot among
Later-Day-Saints of Utah, but it Is
it is not so much a change in senti-
ment as it is a result of proper con-
ception, in fact we are more pro-
nounced on all moral questions and
it is the result of personal investiga-
ton of doctrine and OF a people of
whom a few years ago, we were
awfully ignorant and densely preju-
diced.
We know how to be charitable to
those who are still in the same
frame of mind that we were, but we
have been taught that "rhe glory
of God is intelligence" and that
God will save no man in ignor-
ance."
1t has been said that "a lie will
run a mile, while truth is putting on
its boots,' and it fairly represents
the case with reference to the charac-
ter and teachings of the Latter-Day-
Saints. flour former conception of
the Saints had been correct, nothing
could have induced us to change our
position but we discovered that the
facts had been misrepresented and
| that our former conclusions were
erroneous
We are reminded that an awful
crime. some forty-six years ago. was
committed in Utah, and the lie went
forth that it was Ito glut the MUIR
derous greed of "Mormonism," and
those who do not think for them
selves swallow the absurd state.
ments without consideration or ins
vestigation. But the. person who
was responsible for the traeedv~at.
Nfes.t.-4.-s,e s.lftttss4tss Us sfftu siisx1
convicted by a jury composed entire.
ly of "Mormons" The Federal OF.
hcers were rendered every assistance,
possible by the Saints in bringing
the guilty parties to justice. These
officers who were in a position to
obtain the facts, did not charge the
church. with being responsible for
the crime, but it was the political
CRATER and the foul-mouthed Sian.
derer who sought to hlacken the re-
putation of the innocent, who, col
lectively or Individually deplore such
crimes more than any other people.
Charity demands that we place
the blame for the violation of law,
where it properly belongs. Demons
who thirst for blood find their way
to every society. Even the ministry
does not escape. A Baptist minister
in Yell County, Ark, shot and killed
a man over a trivial proyocation
a nd was sent to the penitentiary,
but a charitable public did not
brand the church with being re-
sponsible for this deed A Method
list preacher, in Salt Lake City, muir
dered two girls, to cover up great
crime, and then burned their bodies
in the furnace in the basement of the
church in which he was paid sal
airy for preaching, but it would have
been inhuman to have blamed the
Methodist church for the depravity
of such a wretch. A preacher in
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