The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-13


Appointed after which the Bishop
Of Southern Virginia recited the
prayers.
The Bishop Of Honolulu read the
Psalter for the evening. and splendid
choir led the congregation In Singing
tho GLORIA In Excclsis," which rams
out with beautiful effect
Speaker. Presented.
The Bishop of Virginia read the First
Lesson, ana tho Coadju.or Bishop OF
Southern Virginia read the Second Les
son, nfter which the presiding bishor
said the creed and prayers. The re-
cital OF the creed was the most splen-
did moment of the service. for like an
inspiration ii filled the aii' and re-
sounded like n mighty anthem. ~
though IN noble chorus the mighty
army of the church to-day was pro-
claiming down the ages that same cX-
preston of confidence In Gods love
and providence which had Established
and strengthened Robert Hunt and his
little band Of fellow-Christians when
they stood on the same spot. surround
ed by sayagcs and unknown perls, 400
years before, supported only by an
abiding faith.
The Bishop of Southern Virginia
announced the hymn, 20 God. Our Help
in Ages Past" and after 1t had been
sung the addresses of the day were
Bishop Randolph introduced the
speakers in his usual graceful and
polished manner. He said:
II wish to express my thanks and
the thanks of the Diocese of Southern
Virginia to the General Convention of
both houses for accepting our invita-
ton, and l trust the associations of
this day and this beautiful scene will
be among the glad and pleasant memo
ries connected with this great con-
yention of the Episcopal Church OF
America. ] desire to express my thanks
TO the Association for the Preservation
of Virginia Antiquities for their kind
cooperation and their glad and willing
help In connection with the arrange
mcnts for this gathering, and TO the
dear people of the city of Richmond,
for they have done most of the work.
must express. as Bishop of. Southern
Virginia, my tender gratitude. And
row have the pleasure of introducing
as your first speaker the president of
the House of Bishops, the lat. Rev.
William Lawrence, Bishop Of Massa-
chusetts."
bishop Lawrence Speaks.
The Bishop OF Massachusetts said:
'You would not, my dear friends, want
me to address you without express
ing your gratitude to the honored
Bishop of Southern Virginia, and to
those who have co-opcrated with him
in this beautiful service.
"'rhese things have told you. that
when the time shall come you may re-
member that told you of them
$50 spoke our Lord to the disciples
in their anxiety as He expressed to
them the charge that they would re-
ceive in the illumination of the Spirit
and the satisfaction that they would
take in the remembrance even of the
sorrow When Robert Hunt gathered
his little company together under the
sails on that Sunday morning he
closed the Gospel for the day and ut
the same time, with some elements OF
habit, charged his hearers with these
words of the Saviour: These things
have / told you, that when the time
shall come you may remember tilal
told you of them
..,rhe spirit OF Robert Hunt and the
Gospel of that day. sent forth there.
masses to us, and we remember with
gratitude and joy the illumination
that has come to this land through
The anxieties and the SORROWS of those,
our fathers. And as l speak. Plymouth
Rock Seems to be almost mod
eru and late to come after lanes
town; nevertheless, Provincetown and
Cape Charles, Plymouth and James
town grasp hands across the sea, and
Massachusetts and Virginia take deep
satisfaction in having together and
in sympathy. worked and sorrowed
and struggled for the upbuilding of
this nation.
Much the Same.
.sThe elements of the two settlements
were much the same. We want to be
truthful. Those men that landed at
Plymouth and Jamestown came in Il
spirit of high chivalry, lat first NOT
even to set the cross upon this couu-
try, hut they came, the men and wo-
lnen of the middle classes, that they
might found homes and rear their
children and conduct their farming
and their business along a religious
and true way.
1T was the desire to build up new
communities, and there was the broad
foundation of integrity, and of CONNER
cfal and farming interests. And this
is far better than the spirit of any
Spaniard who landed on this Shore for
this landing waIs on the broad basis OF
home .and.family and village and town
and PROMISE OF a national civilization
Besides that however. and to relieve
them from the commonplace spirit OF
commercialism. there was touch of
chivalry in the two bodies. and Miles
Standish and John Smith stand for
those who for these three centuries
have always stood for the defense OF
The family, for the protection of the
people, and TOR the upholding OF the
spirit of chivairy.
Massachusetts and Virginia repre-
sent, we believe, only the spirit Of the
nation in the expression of these three
characteristics. Massachusetts and Nir-
ginia however, have special points OF
sympathy. We have known through,
opr fathers what II was TO land on an
enfriehdly coast
Hound Together.
THE starving band at Jamestown
Was followed by the disease and fam
inc of Plymouth, and these two colo
MES built IN into two Common
wealths, have passed through trials
SYMPATHETIC. and have had spirit
hat has bound them together as