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Show I Old Publications. An odd bit of tho post turns up In list of old publications soon to be sold at auction, namely, to give It ItH full, Imposing title. "A Sermon Freached at White-Chapel, n tho Pros-ence Pros-ence of Many Honorable and Worshipful, Worship-ful, the Adventurers and Planters for Virginia." and "Published for tho Ben-fit Ben-fit and Use of the Colony, I'lnnted, and to bee Planted Ihore and for the Advancement of their Christian Purpose." Pur-pose." Tho nev. William Syraonds preached that scrnion, notes tho Christian Chris-tian Science Monitor, and described Virginia as n rand "with tho- fruitful-ness fruitful-ness whereof England, our mlstresse, cannot compare, no, not when she Is In her greatest pride," Yet ho prcuched to rather a sorry congregation, says history, largely composed of Immigrants Immi-grants who hud failed at homo through bad habits little calculated to help In a new country. |
