The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-16
DR.. !. B. Hawthorne

Tn "c-asnal Conversations and Observations
in the Macon Telegraph, James Galloway mas
the following on Dr. j. r. hawthorne VINO 'iNeo
in Richmond for many years
DIR. J. b. WTHORNE.~-The Telegraph
some days ago carried the speech OF Congress
man Hefin delivered at LYnchburg, va, IN
which he spo1;~ of some sufragettes stoning with
uply epithets the Apostle Paul for his utterances
in Corinthians l., a. "a 35. 81.
The incident related by Mr. Hefin recalls the
remarks of Dr. J. Il. Hawthorne before an At
Ianta audience some years ago. The National
Wornan's Suffrage association had held meet
ing in Atlanta and had organized brancn~ as
ISOLATION now in full blast DIR. Hawthorne
broad minded man, was a strict constructonlst
of the New Testament. regarding 1t inspired.
Or Hawthorne said whence comes this new
crazeo Whence comes this challenge Of apos~
tolic inspiration and authority Whence comes
this clamor for transmutaton OF woman
Whence comes this new slogan Down WIN YIN
aul and up with women? Whence comes this
cry that calls women to the pulpit. the ros,rn n
the political caucus, the ballot box and the leg
isIative hall? 1t comes from the same region
where every ism that has cursed this country
tor the last century had its BIRTH
From the birth of the republic to The present
cav this sunny Southland has been sirgularly
free from that Iatitudna rianism in religious be-
Iiefs and that irreverent spirit toward God s
word. which have been the blight and mildew
Of other sections There has been nothing in
our Southern soil and atmosphere TO give nutri-
ment to these noxious weeds
Let us abide In this spirit of loyalty to God
and his truth Let us present to these propa-
gandists of diluted and perverted Chrfstanlty
an unbroken front. and looking calmly and
trustfuly to him who giveth us the victory: stand
with the deathess devotion of martyrs by the
old flag Of the old faith.
The South needs to be sod-sold for the
Union fathers framed, solid for good gov
eminent. solid against class legislation, solid
against laws that golden girdles for the rich
and CALLING shacleles for the poor; solid for
peace and fraternity on the basis Of mutual re-
spect and confidence-~but abovf all. solid against
looseness of religious belief and practice. solid
against every appeal from Gods book to the
tribunal Of human reason or human conscious
ness solid for living ministry of men whose
lips and lives pure, and who will know
nothing among men, but Christ and him cruel
fed solid for Gods order In the Church and
the whole social economy, solid against the
/ folly and sin of robhng woman of her native
modesty. humility. loneliness and dignity by
thrusting her out of her native sphere into UNI
natural relations, and clothing her with func-
tlons which she not born 10 wear--in a
word. solid for God and against everything that
| IL false and wrong. The fifteenth chapter of
Corinthians lays down the very foundations upon
which the hopes of the Christian rest. There
/ the Apostle Paul dtscoses Gods plan of saliva
ton. who calls In question its inspiration? Yet
| the same Paul wrote the words of the text III
the fourteenth chapter of Corinthians. Both
! chapters arc from the inspired apostle. The
thing l write you are the commandments OF
I the Lord