Evening star., 1898-10-17

he is accompanied with all the counsellors,
other officers and all the gentlemen, with
guard of halberdiers in his lordships livery
faire red cloaks to the number of fifty,
boath on each side and behinde him. and,
being in the church, his lordshiD hath his
seat In the quier in a greene velvet chaire.
with cloathe with a velvet cushion spread
on the table before him. on which he kneal-
eth and on each side set his COUNSEL cap
taines and officers, each in their places 3"
The structure was of brick, brought from
England, and was built in a most substan-
tial manner.
Bishop Lawrence's Remarks.
At the close of DR.. McKim $ remarks
there followed one of the most notable in
cidents of the day in the address of Bishop
Lawrence of Massachusetts, who won the
enthusiastic piaudits of his hearers
In large family" said Bishop Law
renee, there are often two children who,
as the years pass, become bound together
by peculiar ties of affiLation and sympathy.
In the household they can be depended
upon to move together and support each
other
'In the family of the thirteen original
states, Virginia and Massachusetts have
stood shoulder to shoulder. To be sure the
Englishmen who landed here in 1907 were
not the Englishmen who landed on Ply
mouth Rock in 1920. The settlers of Vir-
g1nia were churchmen: the settlers of Mas
Sachusetts had broken from the Establish
ed Church.
THE two bands, the Virgfnian and the
bay state, came from different parts of
England and had many points of contrast
in their social estate and education The
settlers of Virginia and Massachusetts
however, were Englishmen, not Dutchmen
or Huguenots: they, with all their super
hcial contrasts, were fundamentally the
same, their race, history and traditions and
churchmansnip up to within few years
OF the date that they set sail were the
same. They both had the Engnshman's
love OF liberty, respect for constitutional
law, common sense and enterprise and
courage under hard conditions
Ihough separated during the first CEN
tury by the colonies of New York and
Maryland, though unsympathetic in their
religious tastes and habits, the bonds be-
tween the two pure English colonies, Vir-
ginia and Massachusetts, were steadily
Vftalizing and stren gthening, so that before
the revolution came and the repres
of the different colonies gathered the hands
of Virginia and Massachusetts met and
grasped each other with that instinct which
draws brother and brother and they then
pledged themselves to uphold liberty and
to stand shoulder to shoulder in the strug-
gle for the rights of Englishmen"
The bishop referred In enthusiastic terms
to George Washington and the pride which
Massachusetts felt in him. and continuing,
said:
No Massachusetts man can touch Vir
ginia soil without feeling his heart throb
and MS eyes we'll up with tears as he re-
calls how the verp verdure that we look
ePO4i - SiliiSiicd ny lHe DlOOQ or AaSSa-
chusetts. Aye, our boys are buried here
and through their blood and sacrifice again
we are one. bound together we pray God
IN bonds that neither time nor trial nor
anything else can sunder
Have l dwelt too little on the church
and our common interest as churchmen of
Virginia and Massachusetts,? In the old
bay state we find that many who for con-
science sake LETT the mother church In the
throes of the seventeenth century are now
returning to their old home We cannot
forget that, in evangelical faith and a rev.
erence Tor the Scriptures and what goes
TO make the foundations of the Christian
religion, the Virginia churchman and the
Massachusetts, Puritan were one
We are reminded that the great prophet
OF the church of this century PhiIIins
BROOKS, born in Massachusetts came to
virginia and drank of its spiritual foun-
Jams before he returned to his own city.
ana by MS eloquence and love enriched the
"hole world with his teachings In church
and state, in sympathy and a common
love, may the two states ever stand united
Hou save the commemorative of Virginia
and Massachusetts
Hlshop Nichols of California followed in
brleI address, and then the dcyotional
SAerclses were resumed. Bishop Randolph
dlsmssinS the worshipers with a hene5ir.
unn, and they returned to the steamer
AS the boat swung out into the gtre.r,
the delegates assembled in the stern 70
take d parting look at the lonely !i.tle
lS.and which, under the waning afternoon
sun, and with the crumblng ruins of the
tower to mark TIE spot where so nanv
thousand English colonsts perished looked
very desolate.