Show TERCENTENNIAL IN EPISCOPAL CHURCH Commemorative Services Held HeldY Y on Anniversary of First Rites in Virginia A RECORD OF THE PAST Dean Brewster Tells of the Str Struggles ggles of Founders and t Plan of Work in III the l' l In er e every Episcopal church chuich United States yesterday was celebrated the tho centennial ler of the thc church and of or the nation Yesterday was the tho third thir Sunday Sunda after Trinity anti and In the Episcopal copal chin chuich ch it has hns been boen d designated designated lg- lg as the aay ay for the thc observance Dean Brewster of ot St. St Marks Mark's s 's church memorable sermon sermon ser ser- yesterday delivered red a mon In iii commemoration of oC the event e r It was on May Ia 13 1607 that the shores of oC Virginia were reached by the he founders found found- r J ers CIS and on the third hird Sunday after Trinity they celebrated together th the holy communion at Jamestown Dean Brewster found his ext yesterday yesterday yes yes- in St Matthew 1 xv 13 Every Ever I. I plant 1 which m my Heavenly Father hat hatnot hath bath not hot planted shall shaJi be rooted up I In part parle he spoke as follows follows' The collect for this third Sun Sunday Sunda a aft after ca' ca Trinity said Id this morning in ou oui oua service lc was wa waid said id under Cr very different but buter er very Impressive circumstances circumstance f three hundred years Cars ago on the banks bank of or the James river in Virginia Plow low significant those hallowed words must have seemed to that group j of nf settlers rs on that occasion By Br thy thy mighty l 11 aid aid bc be defended and comY com coin Y r forted in all ull danger danler and adversity Twenty years before one of oC Sit Si Walter Raleigh's colonies had begun a settlement and on Roanoke Island Islan oft off North Carolina the first t baptism Indian child had been administered an 4 I and the first firt child born of or English J parents in fri America being heing- admitted into the church chuich thereby 1 But this settlement in 1 1587 proved IHO abortive and as aa we all know linow It was J fn In f Ma May 1607 that lint the settlement at l Jamestown the first permanent English Eng Eng- lish colony colon was ma made e. e nc-lI nc Religion lon In Ju the Colon Colony There nacre then on the he third Sunday unda after Trinity June 21 1 three hundred years cals ago RhO the second great sacrament was administered to the little company com coin Jan pany of settlers on tin that new and wild coast although dally daily morning and andS S evening prayers had been a part of I the life lIc of tho the colony For I claim that t the time l religious elf ious life lIe of this colony wasA was It is true A a. a most important feature 1 that these VII Virginia lnla settlers were not religious idealists like the Pilgrim later S Fathers who thirteen years r t came to tho the New England shores to tot t enjoy liberties of or religious worship and amI to found the he Kingdom of or God on which accorded with their tJi the lines Sd ideals But Dut we need not miot be all an Idealists i. i Because there Is lacking this clement time the the romantic clement In clement In the re religion IC ligion of the Virginia settlers if it docs does not follow that their religion was not lc real l and sincere The They were ere not idealIsts idealists idealists ideal ideal- but the they believed in God an and His Providence The They came to this country coun coun- I try In a a. spirit of adventure and adventure and man many of you men have ha come to this West est in ina ina ina a spirit of adventure They had the mistaken Idea that they the could hInd gold sold goldon soldon on the tho Atlantic shores or 01 at least A At t Not Northwest th west Passage e to the land o of the Indian So have you many of you t th the expectation of fin finding gold or 01 COlli copper cop cop- i I per r in the mountains or have hae interest t i in some great project for developing I l L the country There Js Is llo nothing wrong in such I aim atm aim provided p th that t it Is not made the on only 1 or the tho chief aim of ot life You Youcan Ff j can call couple c with them religion and the lie lovo love of your and patriot patriot- i.- i. do this So did ism Many of or you o those thol e colonists If if Jamestown The prayer book they brought with them themis is Indeed a fit comp companion nion for religious f Idealists but because It is u u. Catholic many many- sided many book hool the expression ton of oC the thc Catholic religion it al also o admits of or I being a sustaining sobering fo and purifying purl purl- 4 tyIng Influence for practical men who reverence God Goll and want to obey o His tt f 5 laws I 1 dwell on this point for there has been too much of a disposition to contrast con eon the Virginia Vh Church of En England L lj e colonists with the Puritan colonists to the disadvantage of the former We c j. ought to know better Judgment of or u at People It IL is that It was wal not heaven there In Jamestown They did no not claim to be saints They had the their theil jealousies and their quarrels It i Is also true truc that tho the policy of f tho the Lendon Lon Len don company under which settlement was ma made e brought blought some somo undesirable emigrants the emigrants the rUT rare ot ur I men of or broken bi fortune and loose char char- acter actor Frontier 1 life the experience of taming the wilderness always had hadan hadan an tin attraction for such 8 types The Thc f curn of nf a stream am drifts to the edge But let us be fair Judge Ju e an age i ju judge c a a. community by y Its average vera e 1 character take character r take due account of It Its best anti and noblest Vo Vc do not want tin character of the th Confederate tide side lithe III li th the civil war to be judged by the thc nor the Union army arm by Ber S Butler Wo We remember rather that theone the thc theune one une side Hid pro produced ucc a Lee and and the othel a Lincoln And tho average of both sides was high So So toda today we lun o ha 0 our social renegades rene remic- gades but wo we dont don't want ant to have future fu- fu ture ure Judge us as a whole b by them Suppose e three hundred years car from now an historian should tako ako as a fair Call sample of oC what tho twentieth lelh century has hRS brought forth o so- cia daily II some of the characters revealed in n the trial now now- going on at Boise Yet Vet that thai is I what wo we do when we wc take note nOle otc only of the loose Joose characters the lie social ocial outcasts the lie down broken and other ther similar characters who found Coun I in the lie seventeenth sc century In Virginia As s As a son of oC New England I take tal c thIs ils opportunity of oC doin doing honor to the tho religion of the time Virginia settlers I II claim laim that they were a Go God fearing I set of men inca on the whole If not martyrs martyrs mar mar- for 01 conscience if fC not finding it Incompatible with the temper to honor honora a a. church that had bishops yet ct they believed bellove in obeying ln conscience an and I Ithe the they found comfort and strength Inthe Inthe in inthe the service of oC the church I claim that the tho same Fame spirit of I sober self reliance based basc upon trust trustIn In lii God characterized them aa ml characterized characterized char char- those Pilgrim Fathers one I of or whom nobl nobly said It Jt t is not wi with h hus hus us as 36 with men whom small things can discourage c or or small cause to wish themselves home again From the lime Same Sante Soil Soli These men inca were all of the tame same good English s stock lock matured in the same saute fundamental fear of God an and the thc I desire to lo serve Him The Plymouth settlers to be sure liked not bishops and written prayer but it was chiefly I think through the folly foUy and despotIsm despot despot- Ism of or the tho Stuart kings that hat these small differences were ma magnified lute Into the radical i divergence ot of a later day I think there was more argument In Inthe Inthe the time beginning than has has- always alwa's been recognized It wj W Ws s s under the Influence of r men who were high minded seeing far and aUlI religious that tile Ute paper o of Instruction Instruction In- In given to tho the Jamestown colonists col cot contained this passage Lastly and chiefly tho hO way to prosper and achieve good success Is 15 to make yourselves yourselves yourt your your- t selves es all of oC one mind for fOl the tho good of ot your country and your youa own and to servo selve and fear God the giver gl ot- ot all goodness for Cor every plant which our Heavenly Father Iathel hath bath not planted shall shaH bo be rooted out Now No this his plant Ilant this vine brought over oyer the sea sen thought though It often orten languished lan lan- bui hed was not nut rooted out The rite help of God Go was with it ft It spread out its ils branches over the land Later Latel shoots from the same ame parent stock of oC the Church of England brought out with a more distinctly missionary purpose purpose pur pur- pose 1050 un under cr the Venerable Society for forthe forthe forthe the of ot the Gospel pio- pio among among the missionary societies The church of oC the speaking English I race with Its historic Episcopal or organization organization or- or Its orderly administration of or Sacrament Its open Bible Its sober Hober reverent and fervent prayer Its rational ra rational ra- ra temper Its tolerant and Catholic Catho Catho- lic spirit has become truly a church for oa the American people It has received refreshment and gained strength from many quarters quarters- even een very marked markedly I from the Idealistic Idealistic Ideal Ideal- New England school of religion which once felt estranged from It It Not Content With VItIa tho lie J Past The plant planted b by our OUI Heavenly Father has not nol been rooted up t l tt t Is Is however largely in our keeping I mon mOll and brethren brethren yours yours and mine m IIo How 1 is It with us and nd our loyalty to toL L It it our our zeal for Cor It Are wo simply I content to be he proud with the past Surely not It is with fth a view to this responsibility which is ours as us a church hurch in this twentieth century that the who wite and attractive plan has had ha been adopted of using tho ho commemoration of oC Gods God's goodness to lo the church In tho the past three hundred years ears as us a means o of new missionary effort and advancement advance advance- ment meat You men arc are asked to give a thanks offering ottering which shall afford equipment for th the tho ministration of or the church wherever our flag goes oes yes cs and among brethren of oC all alJ raC races races races- 8 wherever a 0 progressive l e church keepIn keepIng keepIng keep- keep Ing In pace with American trade and enterprise en en- has undertaken to plant this I plant of oC our Heavenly Fathers Father's plant- plant Ing You are ale asked to Join with your brethren all over the country In supplying supplying sup sup- plying the nutrition for Cor this great war ar for tor God and truth and righteousness ness These are arc our leaders and lI lieutenants on tho the tiring line lino Bishop Rowe Howo in Alaska Brent In the Philippines Kin Kin- solIng in Brazil Graves and Root in China McKim and Partridge in Japan There Thoro are arc other lenders leaders besides these men like our own bishop here bringing bringing bring bring- ing the church to tho the people of ot the hom land Jand I |