The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-09
Return to the Old Paths.

While at first thought it would APP
pear impossible that the acceptance
by the North of that rule of action
which led 10 the invasion OF the South
could lead TO such alterations in med /
ical teaching and practices that the
former become open animadvcrsions on
tho goodness of Almighty Cod and
tho latter equally open attacks on
tho lives OF his creaturcs: Yet such
is The case and its logical explanation
is a matter OF no difficulty. as will at
once bo seen b. a brief rccapitulation
OF the facts
The South acceptc,. the creative fat
OF Almighty God, as exhibited by His
creatures IA good; ana from this. tho
only proper basis upon which To found
rules and base actions, formulated un-
der the Bill Of Rights, the statement
that each created being had fixed
place In the gamut OF creation, which
absolutely determined his or it's powers
and privileges, In the exercise OF which
tho Individual and the class were In
trcnchcd by the fiet OF God, issued
which were fully demonstrated and
equally circumscribed By the exhihi-
tion OF tho powers OF tho created be-
ing upon this BIZ of Rights tho
South maintained its course OF action
toward each being: neither debasing
tho higher nor cxalting the lower
creations.
The North assumed directly the re-
verse OF both the predicate and those
actions which govern human beings;
for II asserted that powers and posi-
ton as demonstrated by the creation
of the Individual had no bearing on
the rights and privileges involved. and
that, as result, human beings might
make and place IN execution what
90 al Z IN -
v!sable
AS Abel WAS prospered by his recog-
milton OF tho justice OF Almighty God
as displayed in His creations, so. for
the same reason, the South has pros
pered
AS Cain, cmbittercd b. his own rc-
fusal to recognize the justice OF AL
mighty, became inccnscd mt the SUI
perior degree OF prosperity enjoyed
BY Abel. SO The North became embit-
tered toward the South.
As the majority. led solely by the
sophistries OF teachers who sought TO
substitute majority fiat for the in
herent law OF God. crucified the very
Son OF God, so tho North. actuatcd by
the malice and bitterness, inevitably
resultant on tie acceptance OF 50
heinously criminal a doctrine, cruciied
not only tho South and the law OF
expoundcr OF that law, the Son of God.
Can IT be expected that human be-
ing, who accepts wrong-doing of such
criminalitY as his rule OF action, shall
apply that rule TO none save a certain
limo OF action?
Tho answer cannot so we'll be given
as In the words of the Son of God:
out OF no impure fountain can pure
waters flow, neither can there come
..sh s.i,
waters"
which attended the North. but which
is In reality merely the dead sea fruit
which follows the successful" theft
arson and murder. The South
paralyzed by its recognition OF its own
Impoverished and deplorablc condition,
has practically failed 10 recognize tho
great patent fact that the North has
recognized all forms and conditions
OF thought and of activity into some
degree or consonance with that cr!mi-
nal teaching OF majority fiat which
just impuened the justice OF Almighty
God for His hberalty toward tho
South for its recognition Of the cor
rectness OF His creative fiat; then de-
feated Ills law by invasion, rapnc and
burnings In a sister confederation and
the murder OF citizens; then destroyed
tho last senblance OF law by the dis
reimbursement OF the white. and final
" in sheer madness, arrogatinE TO
themselves powers superior to those
OF Almighty God, created of the black
an equal to the white.
Having accepted this rule OF action,
the will of a majority OF men is not
merely superior TO the rights OF the
minority, but TO the creative power OF
Almighty God, and having set their
seal TO this dissertation OF law and
right by Il series of crimes utterly bo-
yond historical parallel what must
have been and what must be the in
cvitablc course OF the North? Abso-
lutcly to continue tn use OF this in
famous doctrine in both the lesser and
the greater acts of existence, whether
they be those of the social circle or
the business community.
1t is solely TO this erroneous and OF
the present ridiculous teachings Of So
called modern medical men" Paraly2ed
in its educational powers rs well as
in its Industries, for many years the
South depended for the education OF
her children in Northern schools, and
as an inevitable result tho "risire' gen
Grafton" has been endowed with Il dis
belief in the goodness of Almighty
God, which would call their ancestry
in honor from their graves were this
possible. and in no line of education
has animadVersiun against Almighty
God been so persistcntly and so fierce
ly formulated as in that Of the medical
The writer, now entering we'll into
the thirty second year of the practice
of his profession and the thirty eighth
as n student. cannot but speak from