The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-01-12
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AZ 80 Andrews Episcopal church
the morning sermon was preached by
Rev Walter d. Capers, of the Diocese
0f southern Virginia. Mr.. Capers is
500 of the Right Rev Ellison Capers,
Bishop ofsouth Carolina. The sermon
$3.50. not only am interesting and force
fool ono. bu, wa, particularly striking
because 0f Dos direct reference to the
na.s of ile church under the condi-
filn- of expansion and the consequent
bringing under American civilization
and Christian enlightenment the peo-
plies uon united with us.
rAe text was taken from the thir-
teeufn chapter and eleventh and
twelfth verses Of the Epistle TO the
Romans -"Aud that knowing the
time, chat now it is high time to awake
out of sleep; for now is our salvation
nearer than when we believed. The
uirnt b. far spent, the day is at hand
.et us therefore east OIL the works Of
darsne--, and let us put on the armor
ofHeHl"
Mr Caper- began his discourse by
speaking of the spiritual and moral
condition OF the world at the time the
apostle wrote this Epistle to the
Romans. Each world power, lsaid he,
had ruu it. course and had sunk either
into decay and moral ruin or was in
the thr0a- of spiritual death. Greece
had become eneminate and corrupt in
bier pur~ltof luxury and ease and so
when, $50 years before the birth Of
Christ. the Roman power was hurled
l-a.l-. her, sine zen AN easy prey 10 its
corq.uug armies. Rome soon ran it,
magnificent and splendid career by
lyerhudug the superstructure Of her
government, aud, becoming corrupt
and degraded in her practices, she, too,
was doomed lo follow the course Of the
empire sine had conquered. The bar
oauan SAD bon darkness and in the
shadow of spiritual death, while the
jew was oliuded by his narrow pre-
judice- AND conceits, and thus the
shadows of darkness and deep night
had settled down upon the face of the
world, when the Sun Of Righteousness
arose. with healing i'm HIS wings, to
bee Che Saviour of mankind, to turn the
-0rr1Ns of those who felt His divine
and magic touch into joy, their mourn
ing to g'adne--, heir despair to hope,
and transformed them from death to
lie.
Then ihe preacher spoke of the Apos-
/ ue- efforts, in this epi,tle, to arouse
fhe Romans t0 a sense and full appre-
citation of their duty and the necessity
of immediate action. Closing that part
of Dis sermon. he said that rs we are
now al tine beginning of a new church
year. the thought Of the progress Of
/ Christianity among the different peo-
n.e's of lhe world and ITS wonderful in
nueucs- upon the mind, morals and
civilizations Of mankind was natural
one. Here the speaker sketched, in a
clear and attractive way, the progress
+ of Christianity to tine present time,
and lnen asked what was the church's
uor. BOO lhc future in the light of pre-
sem. events. I'm This Mr. Capers devel-
oned lhe dominating ideas Of the mis-
..uuy spirit as lt was prospectively
appicaD.e To- the peoples recently
bmnaht under the government and
influences oi our country, and those
ofour nations adjacent thereto.
Ai iho night service Mr.. Caper-
preached at SO. Stephens Church, TAX
ins ar lois subject Christian Charac'
.r Bandng Tie preached from II
Peter. 1861 "Aud besides this, Civ
noaH diligence, add 20 your faith, yir-
the. and fo virtue knowledge, and t.
+ knowledge. temperance, and to tenn
peance. patience, and to patience, God
illness. and to Godliness broiherly
kindness. and to brotherly kindness