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 thy ways be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations."

England to Virginia.—"Behold I bring you glad tidings, unto you is born a Saviour, even Christ the Lord." Virginia to England.—"How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings and publish salvation." These facts have been dwelt upon because it is worth while that they should be placed in the foreground at this time as a witness to the truth, as well as an inspiration to Churchmen. Already the Colonists had begun to settle in other places along the shores of the great rivers of Virginia. Dale in 1611 had established a colony on James River at Henrico. Here Rev. Alexander Whittaker, a graduate of the University of Cambridge, served as Chaplain. He was a man of devoted zeal and godly piety. To him was committed the Christian instruction of the Princess Pocahontas. In a letter to the Lord Bishop of London, who was also Bishop of Virginia, Sir Thomas Dale reported the baptism of this Indian maiden, who, he said, had subsequently been married, in the church (at Jamestown) to one John Rolfe, an English gentleman. Rev. Alexander Whittaker also reports this baptism in a letter written to a clergyman in England. A letter was written by John Rolfe to the church in England which contained a masterful argument in behalf of giving to Foreign Missions in Virginia in which he revoiced the cry of Macedon, "Come over and help us." The Church and Early Legislation

A great modern historian has said that "The Christian Church has proclaimed the great truth which forms the only foundation of our hope for humanity, namely, that there exists a law above all human law, which is, in all times and in all places, the same." The Virginia Colonists recognized that the law of God was the fundamental basis of human