Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-06-20
Booth Anniversary of the Establishment of the
Episcopal Church in America, at Jamestown,
Virginia.

establishment Episcopal Church in America at James
Va the Third Sunday after Trinity in 1907
aey observed Emporium Episcopal Church. this place
day with all Episcopal churches the United States Three hundred
years ago. Third Sunday Trinity worship
assembled the spot where jamestown celebrate
the holy communion church constructed between by stretch
old sails poles and laid the foundation the Episcopal Church
the United States The duly celebrated throughout
the country Emmanuel Church made Thank Offering last Sunday
Robertson Rector delivered following appro-
pirate
Text: Psalm so; s-l1.
If the services Third Sunday Trinity
that they those who took part the jamestown
the anniversary of which to-day could hardly
In Episte Day they your
e me esns ali the yo % ae hps o a m M
Whether they fully conscious of those early pioneers
the parallels the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin the Gospel for the
Day In the First Lesson the present dictionary have the story
ally realized the fulflment of the Second Morning
story great expansion
of the Christian Church In the eigheth Psalm of the
a applicable the beginnings and development of American life and
institutions Thou broughtest vine and plantedst it, Thou
preparedst before deep
1t sent out its branches unto the and its shoots unto the
The not only the planting
marks well the beginning this continent of that English type
a factor in makg nation what Our whole history bears
that we are not an nChstan Or non Christian nation ~
We must be aware too that the dominant form Of Christianity
Roman ypewe call the English Christianity including
both turgca and non-ugca both Curcman
In the first beginnings Amer
@ and in emphasizing the played by English Christianity
Christianity outside our own Communion New
England will lose the imprint of its early Puranism Penns
loving from the German mystic and que
fe Middle Wes w % sho
forget the of the
fore spirit the
beginnings OF religious life and worship Jamestown Christians
should feel interest the which
to-day While Churchmen naturally padonab
special interest have right show
exclusive than should Congegaonals right
brae the landing of the Pilgrims in spirit than should
Quaker have right to claim exclusive interest in William Penn
thing OF the special influence which communion has exeed
national institutions.
Quaker colony certainly such the
point may profounde
the nation from them The religious
and tne must oe to the record of religious
manifest entire history and religious should
this nation with mission; seeking
any special religious influence we
ask in what contributes the working out Of the problem which
The supreme political problem by
great scale individuals and localities without
sacrificing individual and local freedom This
social and spiritual problem the solution
the unique by emphasis upon
social solidarity The gospel Christ the gospel the kingdom
children great
dc brotherhood THAT they all be ONE The working
of the political side of the fundamental problem.
In ancient times the largest oindvda freedom
Greece cooperation among
the reean states Greece fell for of central
Babylon Persia and Rome solved the problem bringing
many peoples nations and languages under the
authority but this achievement at the e individual
freedom All these empires crumbed because of the decay
ua manhood and freedom Europe nherng the
methods and results of the civilizations up problem
anew SPAIN France and to some extent the Empire became strong
centralized but this development secured through the
pendence kept alive during the medieval period
Italian and German cities but union among themselves
their served point general great
powerful democracy contradiction Only England
this largely owing her nuar position there