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Vol. III, # 13, Nov. 5, 2004.
PH: For those into mathematical problems, how many days will 1,784 diapers last for four toddlers? Prayer Rounds PH has not been informed of any new prayer concerns. PH and Brenda sat at the same table with Sue Hodder on Wednesday night and she seemed fit as a twenty-nine year old fiddle. Ann Sledge Has an Earthly Connection to the First Freedom Center Those of you at the Wednesday night dinner this week heard Hal Wingo describe the significance of the 1786 Virginia statute of Religious Freedom. That statute was adopted at the General Assembly on January 16, 1786, in downtown Richmond in a building which stood on the east bank of the block bordered by Fourteenth, Cary and Main Streets. Here is Ann's story:
Missionary Doctor Fowler and Dorcas Are Traveling Again Franklin wrote the following:
Dr. Deer Performed for Mobutu PH informed Donald Deer of the excellent music performance at RRCB on October 24 by the Manhattan Music Ensemble. One of the performers, a cellist, had played for Gorbachev and Putin. PH asked Donald of he had ever played for Stalin. Here is Donald's reply:
For more information on Mobutu, see the link below: Sheila and Terry Invite All for a Thanksgiving Afternoon Read more:
Trunk or Treat Was a Huge Success Reverend Barbara should be commended and praised
for a super Halloween celebration for RRCB children and adults.
The moon Shepson Gene Will Teach on this Sunday: All Saints Sunday Is This Sunday Schubert's Mass in G will be a part of our
worship on this Sunday. The Chancel Choir and symphony members will
perform. There is No Shepson Birthdays This Week, But... The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom Previously in this PHA reference was made to the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. This is a document that all should read, especially presidents of the United States who read. The text of the statute follows:
If you are interested in reading an interesting speech from the past that marks the importance of religious freedom, PH refers you to President John Kennedy's speech to Southern Baptist leaders on September 13, 1960. The text of that speech can be found at the link below: The Election is over. PH has no comment except upon request. |
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River
Road Church families contributed 109 warm winter coats,430
diapers for adults; 1,784 diapers for children, and 624 diaper
accessories (wipes, underpads) to an October
campaign on behalf of Interfaith Services
of Henrico (ISH). 
Remember
in your prayers: Bob Tyler's grandson Carter, Sue Hodder, Charlotte
and Bill Simpson, Helen Spitzer and the Spitzer family, Rick and
Linda Mears, Donald and Barbara Deer, Audrey Thomson's sister Sharon
Ruben and Sharon's family, Jared Oliver, Julia Tyler and her parents,
Mary and Julian Pentecost, Kay and Bob Culpepper, John and Margaret
Oliver, the Church clergy and staff, our military and civilians
in harm's way, and those only known to you. 
H.
Williams & Co. at 20 So. 14th from something like 1930 or
before until he sustained a fire (I remember watching it) just
before Susan was born...she"s 42 (PH: Ann should have said
29). As long as I can remember there was a parking lot on the
corner next to the store which we always crossed coming from where
he parked...a service station just beyond the fountain.....of
course there was no indication that the parking lot had any significance,
so I couldn't believe it when Hal said the parking lot was where
he referred to in the Spire. W. H. Wms & Co was not rebuilt....he
sold the Company....name etc. to Culpeper & Son...its now
Performance Foods...I think they used to have his canned goods
at church...Bellwood Food products. However, since nothing is
for sure, Gus and I have decided that once there may have been
a bldg. but then there was not one, so as we leave we will ride
down there. I haven't walked on that property for 50 some yrs.
next to the parking lot I mean! Ive bored you long enough....see
you Wed PM." Love. Ann
Baptist
are celebrating their 200th birthday. My Father was the first
native of Florida to be appointed by the then Foreign Mission
Board, in 1904, as a Foreign Missionary, so I have been invited
to be there to represent him. I will miss the fellowship and the
superb teaching of Bob.
"As
for my command performances as a (')cellist (not cello player),
I never played for Stalin, but I did play once for Mobutu in the
interior, and the next day had a 20-minute audience with him,
at the end of which he handed me a check for the equivalent of
$20,000 for our work. We got a plane to stop near our place later
the same day, and the check didn't bounce when deposited the following
day in the capital!"
Looking
for Something Fun to Do on Thanksgiving Afternoon? Sheila and
Terry Marsh are hosting a Thanksgiving social this year for class
members and church members. Watch football? Talk and relax? Enjoy
turkey? Yes, all three. If you can attend, please e-mail Sheila
and Terry at >
bounce
worked and there were pony rides, a petting zoo and goodies such
as hot cider, other beverages, pumpkin soup and doughnuts. This
may become an annual event and something similar could be tried
for stewardship. Maybe it could be called "Cash or Charge Festival."
We
are moving through I Samuel. Shepson Gene is likely to start at
I Samuel, chapter eight. We will likely learn how the leaders of
Israel ask Samuel to select a king. This sounds familiar.
an
excellent explanation of Schubert's Mass in this week's Spire. Chris
Lindbloom of the Chancel Choir wrote the article. Franz Schubert
was thirty-one years old at the time of his death. He had contracted
syphilis at the age of twenty-five and it is believed that he died
of typhoid fever. He was buried next to Beethoven.
Charlotte
and Jim Ladd are celebrating twenty-seven years of marriage today
and Betty and Gene Damon will celebrate forty-one years of marriage
on next Tuesday.
own
opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible,
and as such endeavouring to impose them on others, hath established
and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world,
and through all time; that to compel a man to furnish contributions
of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves,
is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support
this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving
him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to
the particular pastor, whose morals he would make his pattern,
and whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness, and
is withdrawing from the ministry those temporary rewards, which
proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct, are
an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labours for
the instruction of mankind; that our civil rights have no dependence
on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics
or geometry; that therefore the proscribing any citizen as unworthy
the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being
called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or
renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously
of those privileges and advantages to which in common with his
fellow-citizens he has a natural right; that it tends only to
corrupt the principles of that religion it is meant to encourage,
by bribing with a monopoly of worldly honours and emoluments,
those who will externally profess and conform to it; that though
indeed these are criminal who do not withstand such temptation,
yet neither are those innocent who lay the bait in their way;
that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into
the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation
of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous
fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because
he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions
the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of
others only as they shall square with or differ from his own;
that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government,
for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt
acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is
great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper
and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from
the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural
weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous
when it is permitted freely to contradict them:
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