The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-30
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Continued from our FIRST Pogel
aglean with Nevada silver and the feast
warmed With hre-grate heaped high With Penn
sylyania coal.
The hall Is spread with carpets from Lowell
mills, and the lights flash from bronzed brackets
of Philadelphia manufacture. The fingers OF
Massachusetts, girls have hung the place with
beautiful embroidery. The music is the drum
OF ten thOusand mills, accompanied by the
shout oi children let loose for play, the gadness
of haryeslers driving harnward the load OF
HheaVes, the glee of iour million bondmen peat
ing time with their snap ped shackles, and the
doxology OF q redeemed nation that rises up
with anthems that fly heavepward, Wlng-and-
wing, till the celestial gates are CROWDED Win
the hosannas, and the Oldest harper of heaven
cannot tell where the terrestrial anthem ends or
the celestial song begins.
Never before was sush table spread. Sing
aloud, all ye people Sons and daughters OF
God clap the cynbals Through the organ
pipes let there come down the tnunders OF ma
tlonal rejoicing, There must be feastlng to-day.
Join hands Iift up the palm. branches "0h
that men would praise the Lord for HIS good
ness, RDd for His wonderful works to the chill
dren ~ men! !"
We are in q state of peace. The New Orleans
massacre Is past, and the cloud that hung over
Baltimore 1s withdrawn. The monitors sleep
with shut portfolios. The MOnddnOcb goes on
a pleasure excursion across the sea. Aptlttam
is yeilOw with corn shocks. While statishclans
and tinanciers have been planning, and every
brick IN the pavement of Third street has had
Is seltsppointed prophet God has been putting
~ bit ip the mouth of our war debt, and guiding
1T in the right direction. With one billion OF
dollars less OF national debt than England, we
have a revenue exceeding hers by one hundred
and seventy millions of dollars per annum. Mr..
Gladstone startles the British Parliament with
the prophecy tRat one hundred years Will eX-
haust England's eoal-beds, while we have just
begun excavation,
Those no crst foretold reputation will not
now be satisfied with anything but seven
thrtics." The graln.fcld5 have passed their
haIyests above the veto of drought aud deuge.
The oat nun of the nation is fall. Hark TO the
wild ri sh OF the wheat through the Chicago
grain fTrers " Clear the track for the long
freight trains transporting the Western harvests
TO the seaboardl The fishermen of Gloucester
have this year Cast their net or the right side OF
the Jhip. The "tars' that lie in their rough
JACKIE is, stark among the coral reefs are few com
pareC with those who have successfully flung
the sarpoon and plunged the pike.
EF country stands in the first rank OF nations.
Gr1 ntis cannon shook the wlndow-glass of
stI bdy our institutions. The British press toll
nj Ehtly to prove that they always were friendly.
TT y leve OF the British Ministry and the Washing
10 Cabinet bids fair to be Ike that OF David and
J' nathan. We worship God in our own way. A
to bw months ago, in this church, whole families
IOWded into the kingdom, and old men wept,
md Haid:-''We never saw II IN this WISE" The
Funlght struck upon the waters OF baptism,
ttha1 from fingers t.emulous with pastors joy,
henupon the smooth brow of childhood, and
the wrinkled temples OF old age typical of the
pcoming tme when Christ will set upon their
sforeheads the CRYSTALS of heaven. As a churcn,
rive close the year Of our greatest spiritual and
temporal prosperity.
Gather your families to-day, and bid them
'praisc the Lord for sunshine and flowers, for
day and night, for eyesight and hearing, tor
food and sleep, for pure laughter of children
If, sweeping 5hroueh the glowing hours of
Thanksgiving reunion, there come a chill
rdraught from the opened door OF a sepulchre,
think OF the richer banquet in more brilliant
halls Good cheer to-day! ] have not the
hoart to keep you longer from the home-group.
Set the chairs to the tabe-the easiest tor
grandIathe and grandmother if they be still
alive: nigh chair Tor the youngest and the
least. All seated round, for a moment let lauga A.
ter bush. And when you have bowed for the
blessing. "Oh give thanks unto The Lord; for He
is goou, for HIS mercy enduretn fOrever!'