The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-01-17
A MEMORIAL TO
REV.F.S.STICKNEY
Unveiled Sunday Morning at Monu-
mental Church.
THE BIRTHDAY or GENERAL LEE.
The Anniversary Sermon Preached 10
Lee Camp sunday Afternoon by
Rev. DIR. w. 4. Barr-An Flo
qnens Discourse.
THE BIRTHDAY or GENERAL LEE.

AT Monumental church Sunday both
the morning and afternoon services were
~ unusual interest. At the CORNER the
memorial window recently placed In the
church I'm honor of the late Rev. Fenner
8. Stlckney. its former beloved rector,
was unveiled, and for this service special
preparation WAS made. In the chancei
were Bishop Homer. Of the Diocese of
Asheville; Bishop Gibson: Rev. Mn
Dennis, Of Manchester, and Rev. Or.
Barr
Bishop Hornor took for his text Acts
Ky. verses IS and 70. 1T seemed good unto
rs being assembled with one accord. TO
send chosen men unto you. with our be-
loved Barnabas and Paul: men that have
ha1arded their lives for the name Of our
Lord Jesus Christ"
lie preached practically two distinct
sermons. the first consisting 81 a logi
cal exposition of the truth underlying
the words OF the text; the latter being
"a glowing ana beautiful tribute to the
character OF Mr.. Stickney. The musical
programme WAS elaborate and finely rem
dered.
In the afternoon. in anticipation Of the
birthday Of General Robert T.. Lee. DR..
Barr invited the members OF r. T. Lee
Camp TO attend i'm a body. and delivered
most striking sermon taking as hts
text the versicle Of Psalm xvii" have
considered the days Of Old. the years OF
ancient times" lie spoke in part as
follows.
MEMORY AN IMPORTANT FACTOR
The most important factor g. the hu.
man constitution is the memory. Both
the mental and moral nature rest upon
It as the wall OF a structure upon the
foundation. Reason. judgment. compari-
son depend upon IT, and the emotions
and imagination arc the vines that flour
ish in its soil Hope and fear alike
spring from II. Without IL men could
have no past and no future. Without n
progress wOuls be but a name Destroy
Il and YOU 0biterate all conscious iden-
tity. In fine. the destruction q the mem.
Org would mean the destruction OF the
man.
While not I'm fits nature moral faculty.
yet il is the foundation OF the moral
character And. indeed. (. is the spring
OF the whole religious life.
Dear friends, Il IL memory that brings
you together I'm this capacity to-day.
Into a memory and only a memory the
Southern Confeiersc is fast fading. As
sat on last Sunday in the presence OF
the last Offices over the remains OF that
great man whose life has just gone out
among us (Rev. Or Hoget among my
many solemn reflections perhapsc the
saddest was in the thought that one OF
the last great links in that chain that
bound us TO the past had been broken:
that one Of the last important leaves I'm
that wonderful chapter OF Southern his
tory had been turned. For although. as
he once said to me. he had lived through
three distinct phases Of Southern his
tory, I think II is with the period OF the
Confederacy that his memory will al
ways be closely bound, venture TO pre-
dict that when posterity looks
back to that immortal group,
composed OF it's Lees and Davises,
its Stevenses and Jacksons. somewhere
within the lights and shadows OF that
picture will be deserted the tall form
and strong visage of Moses d. Hoge.
IS But A MEMORY.
Seeing then. dear brethren, that the
Confederacy is but a memory, what re-
ligious uses can you make OF that mem
DRY to-day?
First of all. as individuals you can but
regard II in the light Of great deliver
ance. The children Of Israel, we are
told. after their deliverance from all thu
and perils of that wilderness
march, remembered that God was their
rock and the high God their Redeemer,"
and it is charged upon them as 9riev
ous offence when they remembered not
the Lord their God who had delivered
them out OF the hands Of their enemies
on every side" Upon the eve OF their
entrance into the Land OF Promise Moses
warns them. lest I'm their prosperity, they
forget the Lord their God, who brought |
them forth out OF the land OF Egypt and !
the house OF bondage.
Members OF Lee Camp. how great a de- /
Iyerance was that war 10 each Of you !
In the morning OF life. IN the carelessness |
of youth, black from the mouth Of hell,