The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-02-28
SYNOPSIS OF SERMON
Delivered by Rev. Dean Richardson, OF
San Antonio, at Missionary Confer.
ence Recently Held in Browns
vile.
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One Side, ana 10 PROFESSIONALISM OF
the Other.
Text: St John, 1921. THAT
they all may be one; as Thou
Father, art in me, and ] in Thee
that they also may be one in us
that the world may believe that
thou hast sent me.
Texas has been a very shuttle
cock in the game of nations. She
has belonged in turn Oeaving out
the aborigines), first to Spain by
rights of discovery, then by ces-
sion TO France, then TO the United
States, then 10 France or Spain
again, then to Mexico, then an in
dependent republic, then to the
United States, then to the Confed-
crate States, and at last to the Unit
ed States again.
There have met to-day under
peculiar circumstances, here in this
Western land, nearly two thousand
years from their source, two dis
tinct types of civilization, and, as
ISOLATED with them, two streams of
Christianity, or at any rate of &C.
clesiastical obedience, each claim
ing to represent i'll historic success
sion the original and true Chris
tianity-our Church and that of
Rome. This latter Church, aside
from her power and greatness in
the Christian world, past and pres
ent, her former relations with our
mother Church of England, and
more recently special local cir
cumstances incident to the settle
ment Of this Western world, is of
special interest TO us here and now.
In the person of her late Pontiff, |
Rome has spoken and declared that
the Anglican Church, is without a
valid ministry. We also have
spoken, and in the Reformation in
the Sixteenth Century repudiated
Rome's exclusive claims, as the
British Church did one thousand
years before.
There are those of our Church
who seriously question our right to
enter into territory occupied by the
Church Of Rome, though She be in
error. Truth has a right to attack
error any and everywhere, other
wise we sboDlc exclude ourselves I,
from three-fourths of our present
territory.
So our Church sent TO the Re
public of Texas her first foreign
missionary bishop nearly seventy
years ago, and now the Church in
Texas has just given one of her
sons. RI. Rev. III. ID. AYES. 10 gol
as a missionary bishop to Mexico.
II is an historical fact that the
first Christian services ever held
within the confines of our present
terri ory, except Florida, were
held by a prieSt of the Church of
England, cha Jain to Sir Francis
Drake. in Cali Srnia, in 1878. ].
II was a cur rus and providential !
thing that Corambus was led by
the fight of migrating birds to
change his course (Which would
have brought him to the coast of
Georgia or South Cardinal to a
more southerly one, carrying him
and the type of faith and civiliza-
ton which he represented TO the
West Indies and to what has ever
since been known as Spanish
America. and leaving the Northern
continent to the Anglo Saxon s
sturdier race and faith.
These two forus of the faith,
widely as they now differ, were
originally derived more or less
directly from the great Apostle to
the Gentiles, who FIRST as prisoner
AT Rome and later as a missionary
in Britain. preached Jesus and the
resurrection.
ST. Paul. though not perhaps the