The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-05-30

UrDanna 10 Mldulesex county, III which the
Baptist preachers were Imprisoned, and said
that he proposed that it should go into the
foundation Of the monument TO the memoly
Of these noble men. He Also exhibited tt g
lock of the old Jail ut Culpeper Courthouse,
where James Ireland. Elijah Craig, JOAN
Corhlcy and Thomas Ammop, pseachta
and Laymcn Thomas MaxfieId and Adj IN
Banks arrested for holding a prayer-me Ct
ing). and John Delaney (uoI member Of .the
church, but arrested for allowing the me ct
ing TO be held at bis housel were imprfson ed
DR.. Curry said that the Baptist church 1t
Cuiprper Courthouse now stands on the
very site of the old Jail; that his bona red
brother, Taylor. was its pa,tnr. and that the
brother who was now presiding over the
body U;cneraI Field wa; member Of that
church.
He would have this lork and key pla led
in the library of the college, and when in The
coming years the young men gaze on this
relic, il will remind them OF nober men and
nobIcr deeds than any key that ever tnrr'ed
on royal prisoner.
DR.. Curry also had 4 spoon which had
been used in prison by Waller.
The Memorial Fund.
At the conclusion of DR.. Curry's adj
Rev. 4. +. Dickinson proposed that they
should now so far change the progrulkme
announced a. to hear just how much has
been raised, and seek here and now 10 ra i>e
the balance of the Memorial fund. DIR.
Dickinson related several appropriate ancc-
dotes, spoke IN more than his usually happy
! vein. aud earnestly insisted upon still FUR
tier sacrifices to bring up this amount. He
| called out Dr. Burrows, who then made his
report to the Association.
Report of Dr. Burrows, General
Agent 90 the Memorial Committee.
! He had entered upon his labors the 1St OF
! October last by the request of the committee
rud consent of his church. Failing in efforts
/ to secure congregations ut weekday appoint
ncntS he had set himself TO work to have IL
| Memorial meetn. and collection in every
church on its regular Sabbath preachin@-diy-
| But the unprccedentedly severe weather, and
the large amount OF correspondence necessary
! to arrange for the meeting, and secure speak
! cr>, linu delayed the real Inauguration of the
plan until the middle of March. so tlrlt most
of the effective work has really been done
since that Time Of the 60i hite churches
in cooperation with the General Association
- have been visited and coec lions taken--
the time not having been sufficient 10 visit
the others.
bear most grateful aud emphatic testimony
to the zeal. devotion, and self. sacrifice Of Il
large number Of our ministers and brethren
who have been called upon TO give direct
service in raising these contributions. Sew
cral of our pastors gave up, with the consent
of their churches, their ordircwy regular
mini.tratiols, and cunsecrated their whole
time. for months, to this Memorial Scry re.
Others gave part of Illcir time, ~ u,,.ch
aS they could control. Many OF our laymen,
among them the professors nL The college.
held themselves ready To respond toany call
10 visit any churches and earnestly advocate
the claims of this jubilee and centenary move
mrnt 1t would give me grer,t pleasure to
present Il list of such laborcrs, md move for
them Il resolution expressing the grateful
THINKS OF this body for their u aWearcd aud
effective services. But the catalogue would
he too long.
And al this labor has been -.iycn without
uucilnilry compensation. Nv III their ow''
travelling EXPENSES some of tlIc>r enthu>i-
a,tic toilrr, have declined to receive, and
the total sum OF he personal contribution
Of these speakers themselves will tar more
than par the whole expenses Incurred in the
prosecution of the work.
The responses OF the chur ches have been.
i'm very many instances, muaiticent beyond
precedent. With generous .nthu>iaSm, With
>ct-denyiug zeal. in mlnv INSTANCES with
Irlin!lll personal sacrifices, oar people have
contributed 10 this thanksgiving Memo
rial ofrriE". The people of Virginia are
poor in comparison with tl.eir former wealth.
Those who have travelled and visited most
widely among t1en especially in the aGri-
cultural dislrct,l can best appreciate the
truth of tins stifRn!ent. In some sections
of Nirgnit the Il jv1r.e- OF tie people blyr
been severe, repeated, aud prutlactcd. For
i've year, there nave been no full crops. In
some of these years continued urouyiIt> have
lett only wilhrrcd fields TO answer the farm
er's tolls and oi>alIrulnt his hopes.
In SOME parts oi the State during the ltSt
winter aud spring the farmers have been
compelled for tue first time in their history,
to purchase corn andprovender, which their
own titled fields did not Yield, to sustain
their stock and their families. La not Il few
instances the docile horse stops in the fur
row. FROM want Of the strength which Slltfi-
cicut nutrimcnt gives, unable to draw the
plough. ON many plantations The cattle and
horses are poor ant G1nirlatcd, waiting the
early grasses retarded by the late cold spring.
In several counties | am It's :ured that the
mortgage; on the farms, rendered Necessary
by security and a,1c-War indebtedness and
all sorts of losses occa>ioned by the war,
more than equal the entire value of the land
at present available prices. And these ci-
antilles, too. have been suffered in those
:. ctions in which our Baptist church. &
are most numerous, our mcuheis ll
LARGEST. and among the best cultivated no.t
generous, and puUlic'>pliicd in the =; te
The contributions, therefore. of ANY O
these churches to the Memorial md ma,
not seem 20 large a>. Judging from, the well
,, known character and liberLlity of the peo
.lr, our hopes indicated. But .okiur MI tb,
circumstances into c"'ISldel' .tpn, they hay
Iu,ii wonderfully liberal. { a,i of the ,lrpth
nf their poverty thc'r llhcr' 4Iity has aboundcd
OF course there have DC III exceptions to tbi
, general clti"Sl"lic ala .emrut. Such. alias
r are always 10 be ,t,ud. But taken alto
""ther, tller" have ocrn noble. sublime, re
>pon>cs from CIV III The most depressed por
non oi tue S'a'' tD this call for grateful ibi
lee ana center .niaI offerings.
Il IN more dvorcd sections. and especially
from Inc entla aud Valley churches. gath
crcd, Org ,anizcd, and edited by the mission
r aries "l this General Association, most Gen
y crnh: contributions 10 our Memorial lllnt
maze come. They have paid back in thi
single year large percentage of the ne
:. cunary outlay expended in sustaining on
;, missionaries among them. The chllrche:
= Of the Valley Association have subsrihc(
+ their full quota of the proposed fund of 500,
900. Could we only have changed the chro
noio@y,and have arranged that 0ur jubilee veal
, should have been celebrated in past pros.
, porous times. OF could we postpone it to tie
y .lll.lre prosperous times, III whose coming
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