The Newtown bee., 1906-10-19
BETHLEHEM. A Century of arish
 Life. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH CELE-
 BRATES. Addresses by Bishop Brew ster, Rev Samuel Hart,
 D. D, and Others.

uGUluSly OUooE NCus "iOA ooA s'oS0 ginning Sunday morning, and contin' uing til Tuesday, in connection with the Litchtield County Archdeaconry meeting, Monday and Tuesday. The weather for the three days was ideal, and the attendance and interest large. The attractive church interior was made bright with autumn leaves, field and garden flowers and the brilliant red berries of the forest. The service Sunday morning was conducted by the popular and capable rector, Rev Sidney H. Dixon. The hymns used were 'sOnward, Christian Soldier" "Glori- ous Things of Thee are Spoken" 70 God, Our Help in Ages Past" and "The Church's One Foundation" There were present about 75 people, a large congregation for this church. The sermon was by Rev MT Dixon and was listened to with deep interest. He chose his> texts as follows:
 Chron. IT IA: "But will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom forever; and his throne shall be estab- lished forevermOre."
 Psalm 72 8, IT: "His dominion shall be also from the one sea to the other: and from the flood unto the worlds end. His name shall endure forever; his name shall remain under the sun among the posterities: which shall be blessed through him; and all the heathen shall praise him."
 Jude 3: in part: "The faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints"
 Almost nineteen hundred years ago there appeared in Palestine 8 person of very remarkable character known in history as Jesus Christ. take for granted that all here know the facts of that life as they are recorded in the Gospels and summed up in the Apos- ties Creed,-tbat He was the Revela- tion of God the Father, that He Him. self was divine and eternal, and that He was born of Virgin and lived and tue Father, that He worked miracles, that He claimed the power to forgive sins, that He gathered about Himself 8 little body of disciples and taught them the things concerning the King dom of God, that He established a Society, the Church, to represent Him visibly in the world, that He appoint ed the Apostles as it's chief officers, and gave chem their commission, "Go ye therefore, aDd teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost"
 At any rate these men, Peter and Paul and John and the others, believed that they had received such a commission from such Person. More over, not only did they firmly believe 1t, but many suffered torture and even laid down their lives for their belief. We read that they travelled the length and breadth of the civilized world and penetrated far beyond the confines of civilization, enduring hardship and danger that they might teach men the way of salvation, that by baptism they might make men members of the Church, ch,-members of Christ, the chil. dren of God, and interiors of the king dom of heaven.
 SOME OF THESE EARLY CHRISTIAN MS l slONAR1Es ENTERED BRITAIN.
 There are traditions that Christianity was preached by St Paul, by Lazarus by Joseph of Arimathea. But we may here dismiss mere legend. The fact established there, and in 3l4 three British bishops appeared at the Coun. Gil of Aries. But these early British Christians were driven by the Morse and German invaders into Cornwall and Wales, and the greater part ol England still remained heathen.
 Some of you perhaps remember that beautiful story of Gregory the Great
 AS he passed one day through Roman slave market he was struck by the beauty of some fair-haired children, and being told that they were Angles
 he exclaimed that they ought rather
 to be called Angels, and straightway
 resolved to go some day as missionary l nnIo- 10nH Pr1t ho 0o11nd f(
 be Bishop of Rome, and the long cherished missionary work had to bs given to another. In 596 Augustin.
 left for England with 40 monks. Hi.
 mission was successful; he became the
 first Archbishop of Canterbury. Year
 afterward the remains of the earliel
 British Christianity were assimilated
 and there was established the great historic Church of the English-speak ing people. Who can count the mum Der of her saints or the influence O. names of Alban, Alden, Cuthbert, the
 venerable Bede, George Herbert Johr Keble. Long under tribute to tht
 bishops of Rome, often oppressed by the tyranny of wicked kings, some times rent by the schisms of unholy men, she yet survives in strength anc proclaims to men the Gospel of Salva' tion.
 Three hundred years ago this com ing spring, 13 years before the landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock, there landed at Jamestown, Virginia, a little company of English churchmen
 The Rev Robert Hunt, their chaplain, held daily morning and evening prayer, preached on Sunday. and celebrated the Holy Communion quarterly. In the Jamestown church in 1919 was held the first representative assembly of the New World. Let us not forget that ruined ivy-mantled tower of the Jamestown church, and let us not for. get the part that Churchmen have