The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-15

10 be accomplished in the weaker parts
of the diocese May we not remember also
with gratitude that among the very few
| free hospitals in the State. Independent OF
aid from the public funds, the church
maintains three. These are st. Agnes
! Hospital for negroes in connection with
ST. Augustine School Raleigh: the Good
Samaritan Hospital in Charlotte, also for
| colored people and St. Peters Hospital
| Charlotte for white people and connects
with ST. Agnes Hospital in Raleigh. We
have an excellent school for training young
| colored women to be nurses, the only
school of its kind that is for colored wo-
men in the State, / believe. In speaking
of these things I cannot feel that my own
part in them has been very great. l have
nothing in these past ten years as l look
back upon them that 1 can boast of. Since
1 took upon myself twenty-five years ago
the solemn vows of the holy ministry l
have never been able to contemplate my
work with any feeling of self-satisfac-
ton. see too many things
in it hidden from the eyes of others. But
in spite of manufacturers, Gods work
goes on He works by many as by eew,
/ by the weak as well as by the strong.
and it is great happiness TO feel that
our work is His work, and that if we do
cur best He will forgive us our faults and
our failures and will make the weakness
of man to glorify Him. If young men
could fully appreciate and understand
the joy and the blessedness of His services
in the Holy ministry, they would prefer
it before all other callings.
ut is a privilege and a happiness for
which | daily thank God that | am at
least part of the good work which He
is doing in His State and diocese of North
Carolina, and in the world ard that
enjoy the love and confidence of so many
of the very best of His subjects and
must let turn from the past and look al
! the future, forgetting these things that
are believed and pressing on to that
which lies before Us. that is the love of
life and bring the love Of life.
christianity. which is the true lie
and only real and abiding element in
man. Christianity gives us that for out
standing direction. Go We. that is the
Masters word left for us. Today was
another year. Tomorrow another period
begins, long or short, no one can say.
but another day for work. Much as ali
must sees of unworthiness in ourselve,
and of failures in our best endeavors we
have a noble heritage and many blessed.
Memories and influences from the past
20 make US brave and hopeful in our
work for the future. No Bishop i'll
America today can look back for en-
couragement and inspiration to a noble
line of Bishops going before him. Think
what ideas and what ideals these names
face up: Ravencroft. Jones, Atkinson and
/ +hasp yth
greatness remain in the church. which
ment my deficiencies. and think which
an inspiration their is for us all in the
great principles represented in our
American Christianity by this church, IN
which it is our happiness to love
This church stands for three great
principles in Christianity. First. she
stands for the principles of -------.
This testifes to the world that Christianity
is something mere than the not natural
experiences and principles and affections
of Christian people This individual ex-
perience of the truth and the power OF
God is great and precious thing. but Ii
is not all. The truth of this faith is
something really personal to the believer.
1t is the -- Of God to the world
the saints and committed to a devinely
appointed body of the church. which has
come down to Us in an unbroken tradition
handed down from one to another and
representing cooperating and --- of
Christ
at represents the idea of authority in
religion, not of an arbitrary authority
deeming what it pleases, but an authori-
L.. a.,
testimony of the ages to the Faith in The
-mple essentials accepting il Loyalty,
neither adding to it nor taking from It
and deliver it to men as he has received
it from the beginning.
ut represents the idea and the aspira-
ton after unity in the now divided body
! of Christ Little as this may have been
understood by many and as it may still
be by some, this idea and hope of unity
has been almost the very strongest ele
ment in the life of our branch of Christ
/ Church
"She will not accept or be content with
| a sentiment and profession of a oneness
Of feeling, not because she has not in her
| heart the love of all her divided brethren,
but because that sentimental union was
a matter of fact held both as substitute
| Iol ana preventative against the ul+ity
| of what our Lord himself prayed and
which His church, should never dispair of.
She avails the merely sentimental union
and often the hearts of her children
bleed as they do so. because she cannot
obscure her testimony to the DUTY OF
real unity. Such unity as the world
shall see and acknowledge and so be
brought to confess the truth of the Savior
mission. Let us then my brethren, stand
fast In this faith and tradition OF our
fathers, and let us pray God to pardon
| all our errors and to use us for His glory.
| After the conclusion of this and the
singing of selection by the choir Rev.
M. NJ. Marshall came forward and read
the following resolutions:
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The resolutions of the Standing Commit
nittee are as follows:
The Standing Committee OF the Do
ccse of North Carolina, IN the recess 81
the Convention, speaking for the CLERGY
and laity of the Diocese, would express
to the Right Rev Joseph Blount Cheshire.
L D., their beloved Bishop, their con
sTatulations to him on this the tenth an