The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-21

Bishop Burton. referring to the be
EinnlnEs of the church ana state II
Virginia and In America, spoke a
follows.
IAN indomltable determination Il
push on is characteristic of thu
Anglo-saNon race. In obedience TO !
the hardest of the jamestown set
tiers, week after the!i. landing OF
that island. sailed up the river sixty.
five miles They were interrupted
they say by great craggy stones ir
tho midst of the river, where the
water fallest SO rudely that not anS
boat can possibly pass We recognize
the description as appropriate to the
rocky rapids opposite this city, known
IN Colonial days as The Falls on an
lslct at their foot. on Whitsunday,
May 24th, the explorers, led by New
port. John Smith. Archer and Perry,
erected a cross inscribed: 'Jacobus
Rex. 1907. There is reason to think
that on this hill they visited an
aboriginal settlement. such as war
ranted the name of Indian Town.
anciently given TO this locality. Three
days later they returned to James
town.
"Whitsunday. May a. 1907. is, there
fore, the birth date of this parish,
landing at Jamestown.
Desperate Experiences.
Almost exactly four years elapsed,
crowded with desperate experiences
for the infant colony down the river.
Then on Thursday May 10. 1911. there
Joined 1t Il ayman and Il clergyman.
with whom this afternoon our story is
chiefly concerned-Sir Thomas Dale,
High Marshal OF Virginia, and the
Rev. Alexander Whitaker. 9
The tales told by the little band
that first planted the cross In this
parish made both Dale and Whitaker
impatient to find fresh material for
their missionary zeal, and to go he
yond the point at which the church
had substantially established itself.
Dale took imemdiate advantage OF ms
release from duty and proceeded early
in September up the river to tonnd
city for himself. Whitaker accom-.
panied him. The plateau embraced
within the remarkable bend OF the
river, now cut off by Dutch Gap. was
the chosen site. y handsome church
of wood was erected at the start. even
before Dale had laid the foundation OF
his own official residence. Snort!
mission was established at ahotne'
.ett,ement of Dale's at Bermuda Hun
dred. ..,ro
ont a glebe of 100 acres. ana sls..
thereon parsonage. across NV I'M. na
+ha river. protected by the fofts anu
1rithin sight of the town. and yet con.
yenient OF location to the Worh a
both stations. The parsonage was cur.
ed Rock Hall. The town on the pa ~
opposite was called Henricopolis. AFTER
- nf "a ing whose name
had already been bestowed upon Inc
river and the first settlement. TINS
was the actual beginning or Work IN
14enrico Parish. Captain John smith
cross Dedicated the site of the parish
To Christ and the church. Rev. Alex !
ander Whitaker was its trst rector:
Sir Thomas Dale. its founder and pa
sry system after the American type
was practically intsoduced by Dale
* hen later he became Governor of the
COLONY. Each of the clergy was d.
most religious and better disposed to
keep watch over the people and TO
keep the church in repair Dale him
self. therefore. We shall think of as
and influential men who have served
kmong the vestrvmen of this parish.
Inspiration OF Heroism. II
Il would say nothing here to lessen
the iustre of the halo of Robert Hunt,
who had gone to his reward. But
whatever of romance there had been
IN the first expedition had faded out. |
and Whitaker here In the wilderness
showed the real sacrifice. the necessary
Inspiration of heroism.
Dale and Whitaker must have been
congenial spirits. though as strangely
gontrasted In TEMPERAMENT as in yoca-
ton: and ] suppose they were both
of them different tyoes of men from
yspkprt HINT his asGnpiataS Roth
Whitaker and Dale We're intense CAL
Sinists. Indeed. they were among the
first of those Puritans who in 1919
gina. AleS = der Whitaker may be
supposed to nave bibed the theologi-
cal tenets of his father. DR.. William
Whitaker master of St. Johns Coll
f rgsme csraEs ns saaer Wn as s ss
pervaded the university. He it was
who. at Lambeth Palace, in 1895. pro-
posed the nine articles that were to be
added to the original thirty mine in or
mat We're disturbing the church,
The ninth of these Lambeth Palace
articles, as they were adopted reads
thus: 1t is not placed within the will
Alexander Whitaker himself writes of
Dale as our religious aud valiant Cow
ernor,; he called him a man of great
conscience In all things, both which
be rare in martial man
Great Missionnry.
THE growth 81 the colony under
Dale was rapid ani healthy and when
he returned to England in 1916 he left
behind him order in the settlement and
pacific relations with the sayuges who
surrounded it. Three parishes were in
Active operation--J anne stown under
the Rev. Richard Buckle, who had sue
ceedad Robert Hunt in 1910 and Hen
rico and Bermuda Hundred. united UNI
der Alexander Whitaker. Meanwhile
Whitaker had had great encourage
ment for his missionary purposes in
the baptism of Pocahontas and in her
residence. with her p!ous and manly
English husband, within the confines
Of iienrico Parish And the birth and
probable baptism of their child must
have seemed to him a harbinger both
OF peace between the Englishman and
The Indian. and of their common saliva
lion through Christ and union with His
church. y 49,
THE watery grave that swallowed
Whitaker in the spring of 1917 has
Kept Its secret all these centuries. Wo
know nothing of the accident which
caused has sudden and uNtimcly death
unless we may infer that he was cross
ing the river from his parsonage to
iienricopolis, or going down the river
70 ms lower parish at Bermuda Hun
nred such is the story of the found
ing OF Henrico Parish and the account
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