The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-07

wealth without toll. It was Smith who |
taught idlcrs to work, who transmitted
Spanish gold dfeaSl
merce and industrinlism. From wine
and debt and oatlis free, he was
chnrchinan by birth, baptism and al
legiance. Noscontroversy with church
or parson stains Smiths record.
Romantic Figure.
Never did nation or colony possess |
a moro romantic figure than tic slim
! wonnnly Indian girl who brought the
warning. notAonec. but many times.
barring her breast to be the colony's
shield. Pocahontas received the holy
ixbnptlsm OF tho church, and lad Its
lbenedlction on her marriage. What LIES
has been so ficcked With light and
shadow as hers which sank SO soon
to Il Christian's sunny sleep In an alien
Hand? She lived to be the mother OF n
| knightly line OF high born men and
women. SHE was ana Is the church's
own. The first fruits OF the church's
missionary enterprise tn America. and
of the new missionary spirit which is
encirclins the globe.
THE questions OF church and state
| In Virginia were solved by tobacco.
that fragrant weed in which church
/ men have ever since claimed an cspe.
ciul right. Itwus tobacco that was the.
1 price of a siiplcad of wives. and With
1 tobucco the planters paid their tithes
i to Tie church with punctiltons rcgu-
3larity.
sslt5 was Rolfe who experimental In
! tic raising of the fragrant weed, and
1tt was Smith who exported It and
testablished a trade for Virginia that
ihns endured to this day. IL was Smith
4 who1mapped The coast up to the Maine.
!, islands. Not5ineffeetivn in their fa.-
tseeins plans for the colony were th-se
lchuycimen of Virginia. Sons OF the
tlipn blood from all nations came 10
! help to subdue and overcome the will
/ derness. and ftaked out the claim
English lordship on the A,ant:.
lstaboard from Florida 10 Maine. arc
lISiag.
First Legislative Assembly.
Twelve years after these beginnings
the first Legislative assembly in America
Imet In the little wooden church at
4 Jamestown. Whatever may be claims
lsof tho nation was at Jamestown. and
there the colony was rocked by the
hand of our holy mother church.
'.AsEthe fathers sowed broadly, they
I lost sight of. The University of Henri
4 copolis was planned. and one Gabriel
Parker, of I4ondcn. contributed 500
4 guineas. signing himself Dust anc
4 Ashes" prophetic OF the outcome Of
the undertaking.
The Lord Bishop OF London gave
lsfl,OOp to ,.ae undertaking. which would
4 nave been executed AS planned but for
!. an Indian massacre. and the failure OF
the London Company. This was cigh
q wears before the coming OF Winthrop
to Massachusetts and the founding OF
4 Harvard. and shows that the virginia
q colonists had plans equal. large and
inspiring az the Puritnns of New Eng
siland. Seventy years later plans ma
q tured9for a school In Virginia. and VIII
4 liam and Mary College, the second In
stitution OF higher learning In Amer
4 lea, was established under the church,
q man. james Blair.
Z "In dealing with the Indians the
fathers of the colony We're secosd only
to Penn and his Quakers. whose fingers
Knew no war. The colony planned
generously and largely for the uplift-
y ling of the sayaSes. showing the mis-
sionary spirit which haunted the blood
Z lSof the early churchman
Fruit or the seed.
"Wha. fruitagc came from the seed
thus sown in Underwater Virginia? OF
tho four founders OF the repn bic
Hamilton-threc were churchmcn
-siSaicbard Henry Lee, George Mason, au-
: thor OF the Bill5of Rights: Lewis. hero
I. s5of the Western frontier: Henry, the
. torest-born Demos themes. WHO III ,yon-
l, der quaint church on the hill stirred
as!the8 hearts Of oul. ancestors to do and
!. Ito dare--all the Virginia slEncrs Wtrc
q nursed at the cllurchs side.
(. Tho Palm Sunday OF the Revolution
. was succeeded by its Gethsemane. Dis.
$ endowment came With discstablts
t. ment. stripped Of her prestige robbed
+ OF her Slebcs. by every ] awB of Coo
h and man her rlghtful property MIL VIII
n
Z her, the church is found H SAYING
+ Rather, forgive them; they know no
: 1T was then that the Yirsinlt
= to-day 1t does not curse those swhon
.-EGod has not cursed. nor d ely thos!
y whom G Cd has n t. defled. " hen Pres
u byterians. Eaptists or Alethodists nay,
q the church has failed or been negll
r. gent, the Virginia Episcopacy has beel
al ryompt to ackno wledge their mission
: airy zeal aud Christian spirit.
9 starving in J III Goa raised up Wpl!an
: Meade. who rode over he Virgins
g lhills OF hts diocese, numbering Lost
s lost! LOST. But even then The N rs $
b, rounded school for YOU tbs on tn,
n where the cadets OF the cross hay.
|drilled, many ofSwhom have gone Tort
3saIa sLHelIpt
Meaue' S episoopacy and from thl
" rchool went forth tile men Who plant
leS "a the church In China and Japan AM !.
n Il: ia u noble band WHO Ind down th tIt
N lives In Ca pc I'a mas. 5is8i. rs
81 Religion In he Tome. sffss2
cad iyad ellg'on in,the mons y
Il Itswas then that the church, saw I, "
w dutyFto the alaves. More negroes d ll.
his I, qntnhe re enure q
y 81 ceses ID tho Yirginins. III shop Mead
bnek to Gp;l When rs th n $ )
N We're called to pledge their Ives an
honor for the night as they a.s say " =
e e faIl$ on every ihe I'D S
sneak at hnt one;sfsee1 3 !,
saSntelys known this day as NlHrsei NO p
Ghurnll- born and Church hret
title te rsf1s
u, the world HOW ubllnne si thing y 4
sffal and he N y a, J, y
ofsandS VA lie who 'yii anu lis 81 y