The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-20

have been treading in paths consecrated
by the feet OF her, tender infancy, and
breathing the air still sacred with the
memories of her welcome birth. Here
by daring adventure. knelt and prayed
for the first time on American soil.
I'VE have erred and strayed from Thy
ways like lost sheep. We have left
undone those things which we ought
TO have done. and we have done those
things which we ought not to have
done; and there is no health in US"
Humbiy Grateful. Y
Hitler English character brought
English principles of liberty without
license and authority without despot-
tism And hither were brought the
Book Of Common Prayer and the Eng
lish Bible soon to be set forth in an
authorized translation to be til e sacred
and abiding enshrinement of the Eng
lish principles. These precious things
so Anglo-Saxon Christianity and Eng
lish liberty and law have brought forth
abundant fruitage. In American Chris.
tianity and American civilization and
American life.
Can we be less than shumbly and
warmly grateful for what Gods proyi-
dence has permitted this church to.be
and to do In tile three hundred years
past? She has not obscured the faith.
She has not broken unity: She has
tried In the main to speak the truth in
love. She has striven to be loyal to the
Divine Master, her Living Head. She
tient in MISUNDERSTANDING towards all
who profess and CALI themselves Chris
tians. She earnestly and faithfully
holds fast and tsets forth Gods holy
ence and dignity and order, and his.
toric stability, and for completeness of
doctrine as full and rounded as is her
own Christian year.
r1,ay, To-, I, ,1rr ~
brethren. can We not associate ourselves
in loyal and loving efforts of faithful
devotion for the future?
II seems to your chief pastors that
the unbroken harmony and abiding
love, evidenced in this convention. and
the missionary zeal and warmth and
discriminating intelligence enlisted and
manifested. are full of promise that
your gratitude for the past shall grow
future.
If hearts be filed with thanks and
warmth and love. we shall not fail,
under Gods gracious guidance. to go
in lovingly and earnestly commencing
this church ofours to the American peo-
pie. and in unitedly and untiringly
and and unseifishly standing by her mis-,
great JOY may be known to all people,
and. so far as she can lovingly make
It, shall be accepted unto the abiding
peace ana ETERNAL SalVaClOn OF all VINO
hear and heed.
Dear brethren in the Lord, stand
steadfast In the faith. Keep step to-
gether In the oneness Of the truth. in
59e bond 4 ct peace and in
GOD: stand by good things for Him
Bate not one jot Of heart or hope..'
u. Gods merclfulness in Christ. as He
If only we will let Him, be with US and
with tlris church, loved Az our mother,
through our pilgrimage and conduct us
to our rest. d
sGood-by means God be with YOU. We
say 1t in all loving earnestness, and
we humbiy commend you to the care
of God the Father and to the nnercifuI
l LON, OF God the Son and to the gracious
guidance gu, OF God the Holy Ghost. now
and 2evermorc. Amen.
Closing Scene.
81 There was pause OF probably a full
minute as the last words died away.
and then the choir sang splendidly tho
TIE Deum." The concluding prayers
Of the service We're said by the pre-
siding bishop standing at the commun-
ion table, and 1t was he who pro,
nounced the benediction, after which
themosts splendid incidentfo Of the whole
service occurred, when the immense
audience. together with the bishops
and the choir, sang With a strengthen
feeling and with power which shook
the building the wonderful Gloria In
Excelsis.n AS the bishops filed out In
occasional. the choir and the congre-
CATION sang tile battle hymn of the
church. THE SonSof God Goes Forth to
War; and as the last bishop passed
through the door the choir and the
people said Amen and the General
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