The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-31
PASTOR DANIEL i.
DUH IN J ]. | !. |: !:
The New Bishop 81 I'll. the First:
& Baptist Church Meets
s N. Cordial Nelconlc. a.5
The EXERCISES SUNDAY y NJ. ! /
THE EXERCISES 1: &c S:'E::S';'
The Church Edihce# Crowded
With People to Witness liz
"a. stallation Services. 3@@

Il Since the resignation of the Rev. Dr..
Cooper MS pastor more than az year ago,
the First Baptist Church. the oldest
church Of that denomination In the city,
has been without pastor. The church
had not been closed, and the grand work
the congregation there has been engage
in for more than a. hundred years went
right along. The pulpit was filled every
Sunday. the Sunday school fourished,
tho missionary societies kept up their
work, the 1eacons looked after the sick
sss.ad the distressed. andlthe general spirit,
{ AL %orE &art on; but the. fact was, the
ureh did not have a regular pastor
1 rhe committee appointed to find a pas
;ir was kept busy enough and finally
rsported in favor Of calling Rev. George
w. Mcdaniel, of Dallas, Texas. He was
sailed, accepted the call, and came to
y Richmond and is now the youngest
4 preacher in the city at the head Of one
of the Oldest churches.
Installation Day.
Sunday was tile day set apart for the
FORMAL Installation Of Mr.. Mcdaniel as
pastor or this ancient church, md mt $3.50
clock In tho afternoon the auditorium
Il OF tho old church was well crowded with
people to hear and to take part in the
installation service.
Dr.. Mitchell. one of the professors at
Richmond College, who Is n member Of
tho First Church, and who had been most
ncceptably filling the pulpit since Dr.
Coopers resignation, presided over the
the venersb5is. Bew Dr.. j. r. Garlick
opened the eXercses with prayer, 1nnd
Rev. DR.. ]. b. Hmson. OF the Pine Street
& Baptist Church, read the Scripture scec-
l ton.
Professor Charles II. winston, chair
man of the committee appointed to call
i a pastor to the church. was the first
speaker on the programme and he offered
to the new pastor the cordial greeting
Of the church body, skilfuly Indicated
what the church might reasonably expect
OF its pastor, and what ii believed it had
found in the Rev. Mr.. Mcdaniel.
Baptists in History.
0 Rev. Or. ]. 3. Hawthorne the pastor
Of the Grove Avenue Baptist Church. and
s former pastor of the First Church
G spoke In words of welcome OH behalf Of
the Baptist Minister'S Conference and o.
other Baptist churches OF the city.
In opening, DR.. hawthorne referred
most STslCcIu!lV- stilO uutluilYE 10 lht
motherhood OF the old First Church. IL
said: "She Is the mother NJ us all, art
whatever is pleasing 10 the old mothr
D can but be- gratifying TO her children
II lie referred 10 the great work the OIL
church has done in its one hundred an
twenty-five years of life In advancing n
cause of Christianity and the BAPtlf
{Sg DENOMINATION In Virginia. Throughout -.
South and in foreign fields. lie spoke air
\ OF the figure Virginia Baptisis had COZ
the fight for religious freedom. q agt
that eliminated in the adoption Of Jt
5:erson and Madison's famous bill fosav'
guaranteeing 10 Virginia and Amefic
a 5thc priceless boon of rel!gious llfs2rt
81 Said the speaker;
'"Thr echoes 81 the victory that Ia
lists won in Virginia more than ce
fury and nunrter ago arc being heal
around the world to-day, They are heir
repeated in thunder tones In WARSAW
st. Petersburg and IN Moscow. and
gInsiand Raptists are to-day using u
ZANE arguments against the 'Establls
,net,t, and making The same fight ~
4lF,heir brethren used and made in VI
s# sFiiia away bnck IN the eighteenth &c
gEsFsiryt
/, conclusion, Dr.. Hawthorne cordial
aieo,Eea the young pastor into me arm
sf;,f is SUI figlbnR for religious llbcr'