The New York herald., 1871-12-01
IG,icinss at tae Howard, Five Points and
Water Street Missions, Soldiers and
Sailors RCmc, Home for the Friend
less and Bellevue Hospital.
On. NEWMAN ON THE AMERICAN CITIZEN
The Busy Doings Of Ministerine
Hands ard Genial Hearts.
WHAT WAS D0NE AT THE THEATRES.
Sermons by Rrvs. II. w. Beecher, Tai.
mage, Caapn, Bellows and Me-
Wicker and Father Preston.

Another Thanksgiving, with Its glorious burden
OF heartfelt thanks anu ma opy reunions ana bright
memories has come and gone. Many pleasant
holiday intes oelwe 1t ana It's successor,
none ofttem Will enJoyeu with the same deep
eirnestness, the same thorough sincerity as tnat
which has marked oar greatest OF American festi-
vas The day. 10 veyer, Is en- icaed with the ustre
OF another peace vi celebration, ana Thank gtving
OF lS72 VIII dawn Oh certain November Thurs lay
go much the dearer to memories the pleasant
festivities Of the happy yesterday tnat has fed In
the irrecoyerab.e past.
Among other things that we had TO render
thanks or was the weather. 1t would have been
charactenslcall, American day. Thanksgiving Eve
was ushered III with yecome cold snap, and the
Keen wlntcr air, i0hcd in ITS wild endeavors to
pierce through overcoats and shawls, brought
healthy glow into the Cheeks and light into the
eyes, and braced 10 the limos and hurried into
faster low the cutreats OF our le-blood. We may
hope, TOO. that did good service IN guickening the
charitable energies of those anon. US who are
blessed with abundance an reminding them Of the
needs vi tLelr less happy fellow crea ures
Tie Door were certainly not forgotten in the pre-
paratons for material reloicugs but there Il little
lear til IL they will be 100 wen remembered.
Side by side with cvi izaliol COWS almost, as 1t
were, by an inevitable necessity, the sad army OF
The unfortunate AM the helpless. Despite every
endeayor OF ministering hands and kindly hearts
many tenemen, house yesterday enclosed in iys
squaor dozens Of misery stricken families to whom
the gayety OF The ST OF the worl but added to the
sense OF their prvatons And II Is idle TO say that
poverty and suffering are IN this fertile ana pros
porous land mercy The appropriate rewards Of
vicious indu gence recall want OF THRIFT. Even
uthey are VINO at such a season as this could hold
his hand a5t CLOSED
Yesterday morning broke bright and clear. The
ground, boul1 oy severe frost, rang like metal
beneath the trea OF the PEDESTRIAN ana still louder
and more musical,y beneath tne rolling car wheels;
the air was pure and Draciag, ana the austy winds
that DISTURBED 1t seemed only 10 be DO ster0usly
active in order 10 properly celebrate the occasion.
Quite early the streets were alive win people, who
haunted the few hat were open for the first
Two or three hours OF dayl gat TO supply mental
nourshment I'm the shape OF newspapers) and
material food 10 a hungry puoiic BY ten O'Clock,
how ever, most people we're dressed aud ready for
church. and trooped lortn, like good, pious men
and women their smiling Give branches by their
side, TO render thanks for past and present
pefcies
Rarely indeed. have Thanksgiving services been
b.tter attended. Perhaps the dasn OF misfortune
Which has recently tingei oar cup with bitter
III Michigan anl Wlsconsn-has made our people
more tnan ever sensitive TO the Kindness and liber
atty OF the Hand that has lod US through so many
great troubles into such wonderful and unex-
hmpled prosperity. Even he fashionaoc churches
were iairiy luil, and many Of the pews held hand
some men aad lovely women, sparkling with da-
monds and spleniid III rlcn raiment, Who had
mingled IN the brilliant tnTong that rallied round
tue Prince on the previous evening at the Academy.
Though pleasure had kept them ont OF their beds
till almost dawn they nevertheless faith
fully answered the higher call 10 join in
bunoly cx ressing iher gratitude TO the Father
who had blessed them with such oveIIowing abun-
dance. No doubt the Thanksgiving dlnner was en-
ioyeG with a greatly added zest in the conscious
uess THAI they had inns fulfilled clear religious
Iga ION. The rank and 1e Of the churches, also
the temples tDat are attended by the .'passably
rich" sprIuklcd with needy. struggling men-were
generally crowded. IL Is curious thing that the
less prosperous strata IN society aIways come out
totn NJ lass and es,ts win The greatest alacriiy
and d.spia, by the earnestness ana sincerity OF
Their dcvoions Tar lvciler sense Of gratitude for
the little tney have than do their more fortunate
Deigbbors INTO whose lap tne Horn OF Plenty Itself
has been emriied Everywhere, however, the SER
vices were unusually impressive, aud, as VIII he
seen by the reports tnat oiiow, great many OF the
aiscourses were slngulary appropriate aud lorci-
bic.
After church came the grand ceremony OF the
dav-,ne dhiner. Even fashionable people gene
rally d,ne ON thanksgiving lay al the Old Puritan
hour, IN the midde Of the day. Yesterday we de-
scriied Nv anticipation this Imposing least and d.
taed at lengin upon he turkey and the happy Iacps
that would he gathered around ". All that was
said mas been unled. according To the testimony
ri ciond OF witnesses, 10 the verJ letter. Never
were 80 many turkeys more summarily and CON-
pieely III -pIsed uf WIN greater relish and saslac-
lion. Aud IL would I've difficult indeed 10 describe
hut that every one knows what wish 10 paut in !
uords, The general Joy ana gadncss that entered |
Into the banquet. Every family upon which some /
gfea sorrow nad not recently fallen happy. |
Into TIE circle Of dear ones, too. were gathered
whose dsily duty M lie stationed hlm scores per.
psps hundreds, OF wear. leagues from his early |
nome. RAskng again IN the warmth oi the familiar
heartii- and surrounded by dear and loving aces,
thOugn gone they have not Dcen utterly lost: the
memory o them Viii endure for ever, AMI In fancy,
n leasi, they Will I've lived aud over again In |
many reyerie ana day dream.
MOI less happy anu Joyous the dinners az the
various Charities aud public INSTITUTIONS. below |
VIII oe found detailed reports OF the Ies- |
uvitles, and they seem TO have been uniformly |
.uccessuL All honor TO the Kind hands |
orphan, the aged and the helpless ana the unfor.
tuhae God alone can tell low much good Is done !
uy lhese pleasant gatherings. Bright episodes In
ives lna' are STEPPED ~ misery and squdlor and
frequent foundations, they strengthen many soul
thal, but lOr the consciousness OF sympathy thus
hnOidca hn, aOuiu liant by the wayside from sheer
Nearluees, hni end tie dark problem OF life by
fuicdci OF seek 10 emerge rom misery by the yet
Asno.g the newsbOFs and drunKards' orphaus VINO
YESTERDAY tasted the Tree bounty that was provided
ioI lncm MAY I'VE " themselves bask In weatn
hhu leisure. They, too viii then the work
% love ~ when they yesterday pronted, aud the
P'f'lVN VI "s,,h can never DC gIIicen.
~,,' "vs'a ~ pe uhNt 100, To Thesnians 10 omit
p"''e " '"e SuNeeaIui Efforts ines inade ~ add 10