The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-05
Carries All Before Him
in a MostsMasterly
Address.
FEELS AT HOME
IN OLD VIRGINIA
Tells How Church Dates Back
Before Augustine, and Shows
Original Patent Giving the
Bishop Of London Con-
troll Over the Ameri-
can Church.

troll Over the Ameri-
can Church.
Some OF the interesting paragraphs
from Bishop Ingram's address follow:
Il am sure on behalf OF all the Wis
Itors to Richmond. much in our minds
aftcr our splendid work OF this week,
iyou will allow me to use the express
sion in good old Virginia. You are by
way OF being all right"
Certainly when I started on what
4 seemed to me an enormous Journey I
never expected to stand In tho middle
! OF Virginia and feel absolutely al, IL
j I had lived there. all my life But 1
4 must explain to you that my role
this evening is a very unusual one to
4 me. I am looked upon in England az
rather an up-to-date bishop but ]
am to endeavor to pose this evening
~ mnsty old historian. ] feel about
ten years older already, but ] mean
| to do my best, in that. because think
that 1t IS IN that role that / can do
the greatest service possible tonight
In my small power for the church in
Virginia and for the American church"
We'll, now, what I am going to at
tempt to do this evening Is this. am
going to attempt to prove this thesis.
that religion was at the back OF the
settlement of your Virginia from the
/ very start, and the religion that was
at the very back OF all was the re-
liglon OF the old Church OF England.
Now find one or two people even
i In this up-to-date America little ig-
norant about ancient church history,
and I hnd some SO absolutely In the
depths OF Ignorance as to Imagine
4 that the Church OF England began In
the refgh OF Henry VIII. / want to
say to you that the Bishops OF London
4 have sat in Fulham Palace without a
Il Angle break for 1900 years. The very
4 frogs in the moat at Fulham know
l.better than this. and all the jackdaws
il In tho towerzof F'u,ham Church are as
4 tonished that up-to-date America can
4 make such an extraordinary mistake =
n my long experience has taught me
this, never imagine that your audi
. ence knows anything. :"
In Old virsiain.
Now we are coming on ito good old
'lVlrginia. am going to be fair enough
Ito assume that there are some here
lswho are not aware why Virginia Is
4 called Virginia. Now. when you speak
OF Jamestown and Bruton Parish
4 Church you are forgetting bit OF
4 your history which must bring in
Il Virginia at all, and that is due to the
Il efforts which were made before King
i Janes's day to co1onize In what Is
Il called Virginia. What have set out
i to substantiate this evening Is this.
i that all these early colonizations OF
Jyour country were carried out IN the
4 spirit OF prayer and the spirit Of reli-
I<vt~,r In n -
4 which was the first that really landed
/ upon these shores. we find Master Vol
i fall learned man. appointed by Her
i lMajesty's Council, with q good and
4 large living, having good and honest
i woman to wife and very towhrdly chill
dren, being OF good reputation amongst
Z the best, refused not to take In hand
this painful voyage (and I can quite
4 sympathize with him), for the only
|. care that he had was to save souls
and reform these infdels. II 1t We're
y possib to Christianity Here comes
the point: that Virginia was given
!. 1.-THE name Of Virginia from the virgin
|, queen Elizabeth. and, therefore,, your
name Of Virginia carries you back far
beyond that settlement which we shall
. .commemorate tomorrow, when the
\ name OF Jamestown connects 1t with
!. King James. We ought all now to give
d clap for the Rev. Robert Hunt, who
), accompanied the expedition to James
!. town in 1907
4 The bishop called upon Mr.. Christie,
. pherson, his travelling companion, to
assist him in showing the ancient
4 '|parchment, photograph OF which IS
|printed in this paper.
\ W ,..This is so yalua )" said the bishop.
: |.that I cannot give It even to America.
for it makes me your spiritual father.
!, I hope you are oil my good children
!. AS he took his seat beside the aged
! Bishop Tuttlc, OF Missouri and Bishop
) Gibson, OF Virginia, he received per-
q feet ovation at the hands and voices
: Of the audience. who would not rest
4 content until his lordship had come
!; forward and bowed his thanks.
) 1 Scene In Auditorium.
] lss The meeting opened with an an.
J announcements made by Bishop Lucien
: Lee Kinsolving. not on the program
: The Bisho p OF Brazil said: 'The ladies
,,l5in8 the audience are requested to res
t move their hats, provided It does not no
the stability. OF their back hair.
:: This was before the speakers had ar
! rived, y but not before the great Audi-
a forum was filled, for by 1850 o clock
Il there was not seat to "A be found
4 sI5within the building. On the platform
= were the H ouse Of Bishops and the vis-
:! lting prelates on one side OF the speak
"a ers, while on the other SIDE SAT tHe
t! choir, under the direction Of Mr.. ScrlYI--
o enor. 81 81
9 Promptly at 8 o'clock Bishop Gibson
: | announced q hymn. and The Church
! Is Our Foundation'' was sung with
4 lime effect, after which the Creed was
! said with an earnestnesl and hearti.
& ness most impress Bishop Gil bson
y then prayed for universal peace. and
\ the religious services We're concluded
4avn-.- N ~
i. The Lord Bishop OF London nSWas In.
8 Introduced. Bishop Gibson said
i sit is q great gratihcation. but
: | assure you no surprise, to see this
. . great audience present o-nightfto thea,
: something of the history5 OF the church