The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-19
DR.. M'DAN|EL SAYS
CHURCH STAYS PUT.
Tells Friends at Annual Dinner
That Place for First Baptist
Is Downtown.
POLLARD'S STRONG ADDRESS
Fine Tribute Paid Pastor Who
Urges Relentless War
on All Evil.

Two hundred aud fifty ,neu IF tin
congregation Of tho First Baptist
Church. representative Of all ages and
votations. gathered las; night At their
annual banque, in honor Of their mas
tor. Rev George w Mcdaniel . n
anu heard addresses from him and At
I torney General elect John Garland
Pollard President : = Mitchell OF tho
Medical College of Virginia. nrosideJ
r"sehtativ" A. j. Montague. United
states Circuit Judge Jcter O pritch-
ARD. scion j.. Woodnn and Rev joseph
u watts. sunday school secretary. Of
INC baptist state Missionary Board.
who delivered the invocation, L,iy
school room by tho women OF tho
churcn VINO had tastefuuv decorated
the hall. There was instrumental ruu-
-" and TWO vocal solos by Miss Isuacs
John Garland Pollard the first speak
or WAS Introduced b. Or. Mitchell as
true pnbiiclst. the latter saying that
70 him 'publiclst' was one Of the big
r"st words in the language
For Larger Civic Spirit.
IN" theme or Mr.. Pollard'S address
was the need for a larger civic spirit.
Let US put the spirit OF religion into
politics he said let us realize that
We have tremendous social and eco
homie problems IN Virginia, ana that
W.. As Christians. must 10 our fun par;
in their solution
Our conscicnces have not FULLY
awakened from the dulling they re
ceiNed in reconstruction days in VIZ
ginia. our election laws are honey
conbed with temptations to fraud. dis
honesty. falsehood ana corruption: they
indGcc men 10 do wrong Let us cease
electin,; men for the positions the.
have held. and choose them rather for
the PRINCIPLES they aggressively rep
resent. The time has come when serv-
Ice must be the standard by which
Virginia must be guided in the cleo
ton OF their public servants We are
too apt IL regard elections as sporting
rropositions-pick IA winner and dis
regard the issues involved.
"Nir2iniana are very much like
South Carolinians in that they are too
self satisfied, We are too prone 10
think ourselves perfect, and stand idi.
when there Is immense opportunity and
duty for constructive serving before
us. We must cease contemplating poll
ties as n dirty business and participate
IN IL and seek 10 make the princi pies
Of right rretailr
Asserting that South Carolina should
re-rela:c itself TO the great movements
around il, DIR. Mitchell. late president
OF the University Of South Carolina
said that in places like Society nm.
Charleston, Abbeville. Columbia and
other communities in that State he had
met people of culture and nobility
equal to any others he had met in Nir-
GINA or anywhere else.
VIII Stay Downtown.
Dr. Mcdaniel, introduced as the
preacher who speaks to more students
representative of more varied interests
and localities than any other man in
Virginia. spoke happily Of the harmony
81 nd of IL.
macy in many church activities in
Richmond. The First Baptist Church
he pointed out, was the first to have a
resident pastor in the city and the
second historically in respect to or
ganiZation. 1t occupied five other To-
cations before IT came to the present
one. which Dr. Mcdaniel declared ideal
because Of its central geographical
position and it's ncarness 10 the demo-
cratic part Of the city population.
Hero we take our stand, and here
remain" he said.
In FIVE years the Medical College of
Virginia having added to itself the
University OF Virginia Medical School
Will have in this ncighborhood from
600 to LOGO students and an endow-
ment OF from sl,500,00O to $4,000, 900
1t is our duty to minister to them. We
must resist the tide of church drift
and stay downtown. That will REQUIRE
4 triumph of conviction over convent
ence, but the opportunity to serve must
hold us here. Churches move away
from the centres OF cities where arc
tho great masses OF people requiring
our ministrations, but we must stay
here.
The conquering spirit" said DR.. Nc
Daniel. lis the great need of the
church. In religion there must BIO that
Same spirit OF unyielding determine
ton TO Win which animated the teams
In the Randolph Macon Richmond Col
lego football game on Saturday. We
must be driven by that same relent-
less purpose TO conquer If we are to
beat the Devil. and that's our lob"
Robbed Department Store.
John Brooks. coiored. sent to jail for