Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-26

OF our sense Oh Sl8nl, Ill HppStitS all tilGsS
were appropriately dwelt upon and illustrated.
God has also given us abundant opportunities
for intellectual qualification. The delight in
natural beauty which we see all around us is
an aid to our moral and spiritual culture
These are some Of the plans which He has
arranged and developed for our benefit. Gods
special providences to his people were SPOKEN
of. What but this was it that brought the
| Mayfower to these shores to establish here
free commonwealth. In these and other con-
siderations the speaker found abundant reason
why we should praise God continually. 1t
was especially right and proper that we should
cheerfnly assemble together on this day for
thanksgiving and praise.
In his opening prayer, Mr. Twombly prayed
| tervently for those now under sentence OF
death for the crime of attempting to Gberate
from slavery their follow men,
REV. MR. wAYLAND's DISCOURSE.
The three Baptist churches united in
Thanksgiving service at the Westinghouse of
the Third Baptist Church. After the execu-
ton of suitable anthem by the choir, and an
exceedingly appropriate prayer by Rev. Dr.
| Pattison, the usual sermon was preached by
Rev. Mr.. WayIand. The text was Eccles. l,
g. Subject the material progress of America
during the past few years. This progress was
exhibited in the departments of agriculture, of
the means of INSTRUMENTATION, and of the
manufacturing and mechanic arts. Prominent
among the characteristic features of the mate
rial progress are its humanity, its democracy,
and its tendency toward human elevation.
This progress, however, is attended by dam
gers. There is liability to selfsufficiency
and pride, to cupidity, to excessive luxury, and
to torgetfuness of the obligations of justice
and humanity. The remedy for these dam
gers is to be found in occasional adversely, in
| popular education, i'll the exercise OF charity,
and in the presence and power of Christs re-
| ligion. The sermon closed with brief view
of the grounds for thankfulness which we have
for the age in which we live, for the country
and the commonwealth in which our lot is cast.
| Our blessings citizens, as individuals, as
members of families, are numerous; and even
our Affections are administered in mercy. AT
the close of the sermon, which was rather
more than an hour in length, and which was
| listened to with close attention by the large
| audience, a collection was taken up for the
poor. This eXcellent custom, most appropriate
to the season, is worthy of universal imitation.
REV. MR.. sHIPpEN S DISCOURSE.
From the text Psalm 105:33, 95, Mr.. Ship
pen discoursed of the good time of Today
ing out the problems of destiny for the future.
Considering first the land we live in, he spoke
of the physical characteristics of our national
domain in reference to humanity, as inviting
and demanding high civilization. The old
world is cut into patches by mountains and
CULTS, giving marked contracts of climate,
separating the people into small nationalites.
The sunny shores of the Mediterranean first
nurtured the race and gave the worlds boy
hood the best place for the first crude expert
ments OF government. But our land seems
rolled out for life on the grandest scale-ltis
kept hidden by Providence, and is waiting till
the race was prepared by centuries of school
ing to take it. Then after Christianity is well
established and beginning to grow-when
Luther has fought his battle with Rome, and
Europe fairly begins to awaken, and the i'll
creasing lite trammelled at home needs better
Held. Providence opens our continent as a
fresh unsullied soil where the best results of
progress may take new start and find a home
What then is our equipment to use thunder
this head the progress and preparation Of the
race were considered in science, machinery
morals and religion. We have in our hands
the concentrated results of all past labor. Our
wonders wrought in iron were commenced by
Tubal Cain. Every steam engine is memo
rial OF Watt. host of engineers, astrono-
mers, chemists, mechanics have been expert
menting, exploring and toiling, while we were
sleeping and waiting for the good time to
come. And, now as we wake up in the noon
of the nineteenth century, we may go forth
with all this inheritance in our hands to or
game upon this virgin continent the best life
the world has seen. The preacher gave facts,
statistics and details of progress to show how
cd for
And spoke at length upon our moral and reli-
gous equipment-closing with some illusions
to the day, its memories and joys.
SALEM STREET CHURCH.
Rev. A. 2. Marvin, of Winchendon, preach7
ed at the Salem street Church, from Ecce-
siastes 8 IA, Is: "There was little city, and
few men within it, and there came great king
against it, and besieged it, and built great bull
warks against it. Now there was found in it
poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered
the city, yet no man remembered that same
poor man." He announced as his subject
"Calvinism and civil and religious freedom"
He remarked, that while people differed in the
explanation of Calvin's power, there could be
but one opinion respecting Calvinism as a
power for freedom After showing that Cal
wins theological views tended to make strong
men, who would think for themselves, each 90
to the Bible for himself, and feel his individual
responsibility to God, the speaker drew pic
ture Of Protestant countries in contrast with
Catholic, county with county, canton with
canton, in Switzerland, and claimed that where
Calvnsm prevailed man was freer more en-
terprising and virtuous. Calvinism tended to
make the strongest character, for it required
independence Of thought and action. Not only
John Knox, but John Brown, was legitimate
product of Calvinism.
REV. DIR. swEETsER's DISCOURSE.
Rev. DR.. Sweetser, at the Central Church,
preached from l Kings 10; 49, $50 King
Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth
for riches and for wisdom" His general sub
ject was, the elements of true civilization"
He alluded to the different states of civiliza-
ton prevailing in the various governments in
the past ages of the world, pointing out their
defects, as compared with our own, and made
a contrast OF New England with the southern
states of the Union, much to the advantage of
the former stating the difference to be owing
to the wider diffusion of christian ideas and
| principles. He said there could be no true
civilization without christianity, the institu-
ton Of slavery being among the most anti
christian of human institutions.
EXERCISES AT THE JAIL.-Approprat ex-
ercises were conducted at the County House,
under the patronage of the Sunday school
teachers who make that institution their field
of labor. beautiful voluntary by the choir,
under the direction of Mr.. Mason, was followed
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