The New York herald., 1871-11-30

ike the sensation oil gonS ID cnurch tnfec or !our
times year spend the morning In the temple Few
services are 80 well attended as those Of Thanks
giving. The ordinary utterances OF gratitude seem
10 rain a fresh and VIVID meaning, the 1eeling
among the audience corresponds with and reflects
the feelings OF the preacher and the conversation
Is lit up INTO O state OF altogether unusual and
extraordinary enthusiasm. No preacher. unless ut
teriy stupid, could help prea hing an able and eff
fecttve sermon under sucn exceptionally favorable
circumstances. Looking on The bright faces OF his
mock that reflect as In a mirror the sentiments OF
giadness and gratitude that possess their souls. he
must indeed be dead TO all the sympathetic
forces that ought to constitute his fitness for ms
vocation il on sucn an occasion he does not move
the hearts OF his hearers and rouse them to greater
degree earnest thank1uiness than tnat which they
brinQ with item TO the house OF PRAYER
But though churchgOlng Is only common feature
OF the thanksgiving celebration, the eating OF the
thanksgiving ainner IS universal m NO one oi course
the turkey. Without turkey. indeed IL IL scarcely
possloe TO imagine such thing as genuine
the pyramids 1t is the necessary and MOTTO.
be.done- without element OF the repast. A
simply beef or mutton, or even goose or duck, is
| Only deuslon ana snare. Holding the words OF
why Is IT, we WONDER that turkeys seem naturally
to arrive al perfection at thus happy seasonf At no
at all times, their chief merit Is always that they in
| evitaDly remind one OF Thanksgiving. Even II you
dcaI,y that it is the earlier festival you are cee
bra;mg by that time-honored and labor ous, though
SOaSssa Rnass %hener this wide ~ora
there is such q beautiful object as
| we'll cooked turkey on o THANKSGIVING Day table.
With It's plnioned limbs Its tint oil delicate brown,
| its fragrant SAVIOR and its mountaineering tout
ensemble, 1t seems TO emoody within It's unior.
| tunate carcass world OF beauty and sentiment aud
pleasure. 1t Is sight tRat Is IN Itself alone eul-
cent to MAKE existence worth loving to II being
| dissected by paUerfamia5 and distributed among
the plates OF the waiting family conotUes. Though
it is hard to why, seems TO be sort Of sacred
essential to the full carrying out Of the ritual Of
| Thanksgiving. The white, juicy meat contrasts so
gracefully with the dark red Of the cranberres
companion, and the remaining and scantiy
| clad bones Of the almost useti-up bird
such m for . the as 9
ever, and he Is never happy on the third or fourth
Thursday Of November ever after whichever 1t may
| happen to be- unless he sees II again.
| Ah, that happy thanksgiving dinner Joke about
it as we may, what . glorious TACT IL is for IT
thousands OF happy families that to-day have been
charmed by Its magic spell INTO an annual intercom-
0Us' az me highly democratic % and untasn,onaois Hn @
character Of the festival: Very rIcn men,
i aucht and to whom expense Is nothing at ali
might indeed, afford to dispense with the holiday.
But the passa9y rc o apa' h a sun more the poor and
| opportunities that are lett to tuem to remni Them
OF the brightness and happiness Of whlcn lie Is
fnese are the ord mary methods Of celebrating
thanksgiving. There is. however, another feature
Of Its ceremonies, which, thank Heaven, Is never
missed by kindly. genial American hearls. TAis Is
the Tightening up for the day OF the lot OF The
poverty-sricken, the miserable and the criml-
nal. Not charitable institution, not a jail even,
but will to-day resound with the echoes OF an unu.
sual gayety. Grim prison walls wn ring with laugh
! ter, such as their inmates have not ndulged In
since the )ong-passcd ard almost forgotten days
@ that y Ve known
VINO can say how many reformed man dates back
ms return % the path q honor @ and serespect from
been perhaps broodng for long months IN his dim,
dark cell over the necessity tnat male HIM
| thief; the iron mad indeed entered his soul as
he felt himself cut on from all companlonshp ex-
cent tnat Of men as bad or worse taan
give me chance would snow them that i am only
| lows" But separated from all communion with the
| outer world, he has settled down Into the blank
every nope that OF being able to sin and suffer
as he had already begun, and having "Glade his
ing complaining TO sucn a one, the cneery iesllv.
1 lties OF today must open up new career OF
ana Rss H lie %
material comforts provided Dy Christian llberaty
inspire nIln, ne takes new heart, and determines
place are thrown apart 70 lead a new life and begin
the world afresn. Many a blessing is showered
proof OF the brothernooa OF mankind by decreeina
the universal enloyment OF this happy day.
and misery and misfortune. Whenever the victims
Of q pltlless iate-foundllngs, bereaved children
loving instrumentality OF Christian hearts, this day
is marked out with white stone. the destitute
joys and pleasures to which they have long been
strangers or which perhaps they have never known.
;sn' sss int sss. hard .SsssSs
a2 70 pass 81 t me
OF the Five Points House OF Industry. Roast turkey
is good, but 10 others eat 1t with such wonderful
zest Is even better tnan eating 1t oneself the con-
trast between the outward surroundings or the
feast-the dirty streets and the wretcned dwell
ings-and the brilliant light and comfortable
Christmas do KIND hearts aud open hands reap
should be mentioned the efforts OF the charitable
among. the poor who are not thus visbly
companions, Liberal donations find their way into
the gloom and tine misery O. sQuahd tenement
houses and the efforts OF WIS visiting ladies' @aSe tne
ures OF those who thus minister TO the wants OF
their brethren and sisers-the children of the same
awise Father-may indeed be euvled and the
more they copied the better will be the world
live in clay not up ior yourselves treasures on
"he that glvelh to the poor lendeth 10 the Lord"
are precepts which may be proftably remembered
Among the better classes or the poor-those who,
by pinchlng and economy, can manage to lay BY
sendsr Iare Tor q Sa
ment. Deoarred by late hours. perhaps, from every
form Of pleasure ,ey invest x few dimes in visit
rain down applause from the gallery upon the ac-
tors. II is to them comparatively new sight; It is
possibly year since they last venured into the
ialryamd OF the footlights. Well may the players DO
their best 10 draw down such a house as TINS Long
VIII the hours thus wniled awav enthusiastic
mirth be cmbered, aye, even when, perhaps,
successful industry may have brought abundance,
ana leisure and the privatiOns OF the past but
melancholy dream to be spelled out over a sump-
tuous dinner to the younger branches OF the family.
But with the readers OF the HERALD 1hanxsgiv-
Ing Day has already begun. Having told them how
It has been enjoyed In the past and what have Deen
its customary features the writer makes his bow OF
adeu by hoping that they will find to-day the
brightest, gayest happiest and most memorable
celebration they have ever known.
SPECIAL FESTIVITIES.
The following are among the principal charitable
dinners that will be glven:-
The Newsboys Home.-Several hundred OF the
useful and active little ven OF literature, whose
energy has been OF service 10 all OF US, will be re-
gaed az their quarters IN Park place. All who wish
10 reward these deserving and industrious members
of society by timely gift should send their dona-
tons TO Mr.. U'Connor, 40 Park piace.
The Howard MissiOn.-Flfteen hundred persons
will be feted.