Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-05-08
RIDOUT MEMORIAL
IN ST. ANNE'S CHURCH
Tablet of the Law and the Gospel
Unveiled and Dedicated.
TO THE LATE WEEMS RIDOUT.
Perfect in Every Good Work---lm-
posing Services---Impressiye
Ceremonial

celebration OF the Holy Communion at
II a. m. yesterday. in St Anne's t.
Church. a memorial TO the late Weems
IddOut was unveile~: and dedicated
The memorial consists Of the TALES
OF the law tthe Ten commandments
and the Cross of Christ. significant OF
the Gospel. 1t is placed behind the
pulpit and is of stone. selected with
great care to match the interior stone
work of the church. The cross is a
Latin" cross, the length and breadth
OF the tables of the Law. upon either
side, beneath the arms. The whole
rests upon brackets similar in DESIGN
to the ornaments of the capitals of the
of the stone pillars of the church.
The service of dedication consisted
of two hymns, For All the Saints"
and Breast the Waves Christian, D." YES
steals, collects and dedicatory prayers.
1t was conducted by the rector. the
Rev Or. McComas, assisted by the
choir and congregation. The veil was
withdrawn by Master Horatio Ridout.
the son Of the late Weoms Ridout. ami
lily was laid upon the shelf (Which
upholds the tableD by the daughter.
Miss Anna Maria Brice Ridout. Mrs.
Ridout stood with the clergy and her
children by the pulpit during the cere-
mony, which was concluded by the in
troit TO the communion service. Ps. 20
The Rector took for his text the in
scription upon the tablet. Perfect in
Il ii
his subject, THE Law and the Gospel.
Perfection Through Christ the Good
Shepherd" Yesterday. the second
Sunday after Easter. was Cool Shep-
herd Sunday At the conclusion of his
sermon the Rector spoke of the late
Mr.. Ridout as a good citizen, loyal
churchm-an and faithful vestryman. but
best OF all and from which all elsecame
religious man, and so, perfect in
every good work.
The inscription between the brackets
below the table is as follows.
In Lsving Memory 0s
WEEMS RID0UT
ls59-19I3.
Vestryman fS96-I9I3.
''PerieCt in Every coed Work"
Erected by His Family.
Many relatives. friends and neigh
bors from Annapolis and elsewhere at
tended the service as a tribute to the
memory to him to whom the tablet
is erected.
Mrs. Grafton ID. Ridout was too i'll
to be present, but the lily laid upon the
shelf of the tablet was her tribute. Mr..
Ridout was vestryman OF St. Anne's
Church, as his ancestors had been,
from the earliest history of that church
and died in office after seventeen years
service. He was the son of Horatio
Ridout, of Whitehall, and Jemima
tDuvalD Ridout. and tie preat-grand-
son of John Ridout, A B., of this city.
ami Whitehall who came from Eng
land as private secretary to Governor
Horatio Sharpe, more than a century
and half ago,and who was the recip-
lent of all the honor that the affection
of Governor Sharpe and the favor of
Lord Baltimore could bestow
Mr.. Ridout was also a lineal de-
scendant of King Edward J.. of Eng
LARD, and KING Robert H., of Scotland
through line OF the most distinguish
ed nobility of both countries. as well as
of three of the Colonial Governors
Bladen, Tasker, and Ogle
The greater part OF Mr.. Ridout's life
was spent in this city, where he held
prominent place in its civil, business
and religious life Modest and unas-
suming in his manners, he died as he
had lived, and humble servant OF the
most high God, passing a life OF love
and good will towatls his fellowman
in peace and charity.
The design of the memorial is most
appropriate to one who loved Gods
holy Will and COMMITMENTS ami walk
ed in the same all the days of his life.
With the aid of the artistic suggest
ions of the Rector of St. Anne's and
Mr.. Walter b. Norris, a graduate Of
the Maryland Institute School of Art.
the memorial was the work of Mr. T.
Roland Brown, OF this city. who execu-
ted the SOuthgate Memorial