Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-09

Colleg" AMI member of the Civil
/ Colonial Council The Rev. William
still. later rector, was n successor
of the commissary of tho Bishop OF
London in the headship of our ancient
educational institution. Tho Rev. Miles
| Scldcn was chaplain Sof tho Virginia
Convention OF l775: that. on March 20.
Of that year, assembled In this. his
church.
In all this we have historical justi-
fcatior Of tho unique relationship OF
tho Protestant Episcopal Church to
political affairs and to civil govern
| mcnt. I'm that II keeps its mcddling fin
gers out Of tho former and gives to
the latter It's daily prayers and it's un-
faltering support.
But there is another and far more
important side to the Monumental tcs-
| timony of ;his church and It's people,
| sccing that this is indeed church
and not Il Legislative hall and that It's
chief function has always been TO FUR
| fish a shrine for the worship of God
and that tho chief relationships Of its
people are those which they sustain.
directly and spiritually, to their God
| and Master.
| So we proceed to our second point
2. This church and it's congregation
| witness. to our and to all succeeding
generations, that the blessing OF God
rests upon missionary cndcavor; that
tho promise, II am with you always
| s fulfilled co-ordinately with the obed-
fence of the church to the command,
| Go, ye'; Make disciples" .:
"Baptizing them; and
teaching them"
! EVIDENCE OF MISSIONARY
| ZEAL OF ENGLISH CHURCH
The missionary enterprise of the
| Church of England in relation to the
| Virginia Colony has not due credit.
! when we hear of Protestant missions
| as having their origin with William
! Carey, and as being only "A little more
J than q century old. Unless we shall
| stand on modern tcchnicalities, and
| claim that Virginia was domestic soil
! to Great Britain. we must allow that
| the ministers whom the Church of
| England sent. expressly to convert the
| Indians, We're foreign missionaries.
/ Certainly her attitude therein was as
much a case OF attempting great
things for God. and expecting great
| things from God" as was that Of the
cobbler Of Paulerapury. in 1892.
This tablet. to the memory Of Rev.
! Alexander Whitaker, declares him to
be "a consecrated. faithful. Jealous
| missionary OF the Church Of England.
! having I'm view the conversion Of the
| Indians" And he not only, for that .pur-
[ pose. left his warm nest" in England
! III 1911. but also. in 1917 gave his life
to the cause. Il century and three quar-
/
/ TO Or. Arthur r. Pierson, went forth
as the first foreign missionary from
/ English shores. Whittaker's ministry
20 the Indians was not merely Incl
+, dental TO his main work among the
| white immigrants and settlers TO
both Whitaker and Dale IL seemed
| that the gaining OF the soul of one
| child Of the forest. in the person Of
he Princess Pocahontas. was enough
% make them think, in Dale's Ian
| guage. that their time and tolls were
we'll spent Moreover. they both un-
iertook their mission when the NOVELTY
and romance Of emigration TO Virginia
! nad passed, and after the earlier pious
aope that the Indians would. in a large
! measure. accept civilization and Chris
siantty had been disappointed. Whit
Iaker came TO this land. in the face Of
! stories OF prirations. hardships and
disasters that had percolated back to
| england. And the spirit in the Church
" England. that moved Whitaker and
Dale from behind. is manifest in one of