The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-13
THE HAND OF GOD
 IN HISTORY OF NATION
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Continued from Ninth Page) islander of the past, we may truly say, that England rather than Spain Prot estantism rather than Romanism, gave hospitality to these ideas; and the new world rather than the old world was the place for their great development. Names are significant, and I would es- pecially urge the young to make a habit of understanding and remember ing names as they express and hold in mind great facts. The Spaniards who planted the oldest city our our eastern shcre landed on the day consecrated to the memory of the great North Ameri- can bishop and relying on the form of their religion and making him the patron saint called the river and the city after him, St. Augustine
 Elizabeth, queen of England when Raleigh attempted to make settle ment on our coast, called the entire ter ritory, in honor of her unweddeds state, Virginia. The colonists of the first per- manent English settlement landing un- der a charter from King James I. gave royal names to everything. They nam ed the two capes at the entrance to the bay after the kings sons, Cape Charles and Cape Henry; they christened the river after the king himself. James,
 they named their settlement James, town. The Pilgrims and their success sors who later settled, this. our part lof the country, with tender remem
 brance of the country from which they came repeated it's names. They called the territory New England; they called their settlements Plymouth, Boston, New London, Stratford, and so forth in their desire to perpetuate the past. Not lunt!, after 1860 did a man arrive who on bodied the new spirit of the new times and baptized his settlement. ac- cording to an idea, and it was reserved for William Penn, the Quaker, the man of the spirit. to call his settlement Philadelphia, Brotherly Love. It was fitting, and it was in fulhllment of this spirit that here in the city of brother ly love. the seed planted in these sev- eral colonies should burst into beauti
 ful blossom in the Declaration of Inde- pendence and should bear fruit in the formation of our republic. It is fitting, also that Pennsylvania not only because of it's geographical position but because of it's spirit should be the keystone, the central and binding state of our re- public
 But in all this history whose blossom and fruit we have mentioned, the set clement at Jamestown played a most important part. The avowed purposes in sending these colonists were three, namely, to advance the kingdom of God. to advance the kingdom of Eng
 land: to secure the future good of the commonwealth.
 The first and the last of these pur
 poses have been achieved In this achievement the colony of Jamestown and the state of Virginia must ever be remembered. The cavaliers whose allegiance was so greatly to the crown soon died. The prisoners who were sent over were often political offenders who were of good family. The other crim- inals did not play any important part in the history of the colony. The per
 manent settlers were younger sons of noble families members of families whose sons had gone into trade; citi- zens of London; and well educated gen. tlenen. In this infant colony, first founded. was built the first cabin. and l2re was the first home. Here was the first marriage of white people, John Laydon, aged twenty mine, and Anne Burras, aged fourteen. Here was born the first white child of Virginia,
 Virginia Laydon. Here was the first church Captain John Smith says: II well remember we did hang an awning ! an old sail-to three or four trees to
 shadow us from the sun: our walls were rails of wood our seats were
 hewed trees till we cut blanks: our pulpit bar of wood nailed to two neighboring trees. This was our church till we built a homely thing like a
 barn" But the sexton rang the bell at the church at 10 o'clock in the morn ing and at 1 o'clock in the afternoon . and leach man addressed himself to , prayers" The governor who tried to transplant royalty worshlpped seated on green velvet chair with his guard of red coats standing on each side and , behind him. Here was the first trial
 by jury. Here also, was the first pop
 ular and representative assembly. Sc early in 1868 and 1909 there were pro- tests against exclusive government by the king. Concessions were made by t the king And at length in 1919 the several corporations then existing were 5 were permitted to elect representatives to general assembly, A popular gov ernment was instituted with some } twenty burgesses, six or more council ors and the governor who had the $ right Of veto. This was the embryonic l form of every state government now : existing among us and of our federal l government. The assembly met fol some time in the church. It's delibera-
 tions were opened with prayer. 4
 writer of the times said: But foras-
 much as mems affairs do little nrospel
 when Gods service is neglected, all tho
 burgesses took their places in the choir till the prayer was said by MT
 Bulk that it would please God tc
 guard and sanctify all our proceedings t to lis own glory and to the good q s this plantation" Here also the frs a college was founded in settlement !, called Henrico but 1t was subsequently, destroyed with the settlement, William , and Mary college subsequently, founded is next to Harvard the oldest college 1T . the country. The church at Williams
 town which succeeded the church O
 Jamestown as the court church, prob l ably has on it's roll the names of more