Report and Address OF The Right Reverend A. M. Randolph, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L. Bishop of the Diocese of Southern Virginia AND Report of Bishop Coadjutor Rt. Rev. B. D. Tucker, D. D. TO THE Twenty-second Annual Council May 26-28, 1914 REPORT AND ADDRESS OF THE BISHOP, The changes in the Diocese, by removal, have been fewer than for several years past. The Rev. James William Boyd died at his home in Roanoke, Virginia, Sunday, March 15, 1914. His health had been failing for several years, but he never gave up the work of the ministry until his strength was gone, during the last months of his life. When I last heard him preach his sermon had for its theme the love of Christ, and it is sweet to remember how the thought appeared to have saturated his feeling and kindled his imagination. May God bless his memory, and send comfort to his home. The reports of your Bishops will record nearly as large a number of confirmations as any previous year in the history of the Diocese. I have observed in my own ministrations a larger number of adults coming forward for confirmation than in previous experience. The good will and the confidence in our Church and its fidelity to the Gospel among the Protestant Churches around us, notwithstanding the attitude of the anti-protestant elements which have disturbed our peace, has as far as my observation extended, grown and deepened among the Protestant Churches around us. But I must transfer the discussion of this hopeful sign of our time to later on in this address. VISITATIONS 1913 August 24. Visited Parish at Massie's Mills. Service at Church necessarily postponed. Visited St. Andrew's Church, LawrenceSunday, November 2. ville, Confirmed 10. November 16. Preached upon the occasion of re-opening of St. Paul's Church, Norfolk. The history of St. Paul's. Church is a chapter of significant interest in the his Bishop's Address. With its tory of the Diocese of Southern Virginia. present able ministry and its loyal congregation, it is holding the love of descendants of its original congregation, and is accomplishing a missionary work in many directions most effective and gratifying. Sunday, November 23. Visited Epiphany Church, Danville, preached, and Confirmed 21. November 23, P. M. Visited Emmanuel Church, Chatham, and Confirmed 8. November 30. Visited Grace Memorial Church, Lynchburg, preached, and Confirmed 19. December 14. Visited Trinity Church, Portsmouth, preached, and Confirmed 2. 1914 Sunday, February 1. Bruton Church, Williamsburg, preached, and Confirmed 2. Sunday, February 8. St. Mark's Church, Lambert's Point, preached, and Confirmed 5. Saturday, February 14. St. John's Church, Hampton, special service, private Confirmation 1. Sunday, February 15. St. John's Church, Hampton, preached, and Confirmed 47. February 15, P. M. Private Confirmation 1. Night Service, St. Cyprian's Church (Colored), Hampton, Confirmed 11. Sunday, February 22. St. Andrew's Church, Norfolk, preached, and Confirmed 9. February 25, P. M. St. James' Church (Colored), Portsmouth, Confirmed 9. Sunday, March 1, A. M. St. John's, Petersburg, preached, Confirmed 27. March 5, P. M. St. John's, Portsmouth, Confirmed 1. March 6, P. M. Galilee Church, Virginia Beach, Confirmed 9. Sunday, March 8, A. M. St. Paul's Church, Petersburg, preached, and Confirmed 17. Sunday, March 8, P. M. Church of the Good Shepherd, preached, and Confirmed 2. Sunday, March 15, A. M. St. Peter's Church, Norfolk, preached, and Confirmed 26. March 15, P. M. St. Peter's, private Confirmation 1. Confirmed 16. Bishop's Address. March 22, A. M. Grace Church, Petersburg, preached, and Confirmed 16. March 22, P. M. St. Stephen's Church (Colored), Petersburg, March 27, P. M. St. Thomas' Church, Berkley, preached, and March 29, A. M. Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Confirmed 26. April 5. mond. Palm Sunday, P. M. Bishop Tucker kindly took my appointment for St. Luke's Church, Norfolk. April 8, night. Grace Church, Newport News, preached, Confirmed 10. April 10. St. Paul's Church, Suffolk, preached, and Confirmed 19. April 12. Emmanuel Church, Kempsville, Confirmed 4. April 12, P. M. Old Donation Church, Princess Anne, preached, and Confirmed 12. Old Donation Church deserves especial mention as an example and inspiration to missionary work in the Diocese. It reveals the power of a faithful pastorate and the mission of the Protestant Episcopal Church in holding the memories and loyalty of its people through long generations. The ruined walls of the Old Church are still standing. Near by is the new temporary structure, built withing the last year by the people. In this humble building I preached to a congregation of 300 people, among them many lineal descendants of the earliest settlers in America. Would you honor the past of your homes and your country, would you extend the hand in generous brotherhood to the descendants of your oldest Episcopal community in the Diocese, give us $3,000.00, and we will build the Old Church as it was in the long past, and make it a blessing to the generation of the present. Sunday, April 19, A. M. Visited Lee Memorial Church, Lexington, Confirmed 20. Church of the Good Shepherd, Forest Hill, Confirmed 4. St. John's, Portsmouth, Confirmed 15. April 22. April 24. April 26. Trinity Church, Staunton, preached, and Confirmed 8. April 26, P. M. April 28. April 30. St. John's, Waynesboro, Confirmed 11. |