The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-29

The speaker here alluded to the tendency
Of American people, both young and
old, to seek their recreation away from
home and under forms in which II Is impos-
sble for families. as such, to share. The |
man seeks his club, the bar-room, or some |
other public place. The woman gives her |
self to shopping, fashionable calling, opera |
going, or displaying herself at grand |
The poor children are left to
their own devices or to the care of untrust-
worthy subordinates. Or pains are taken
to provide for their amusement, they are
only too often practically taught to expect
their choicest recreation in full dress chill
drens parties rather than in anything
in which all the members of the
household can share. After such scenes
as these. it Is refreshing TO see a German
family, father, mother, and children, all to-
gether vending their way even TO so
Objectionable IL place as a beer-garden, to
find there in music and social converse an
amusement in which all can share. How
ever Objectionable this particular form of
united family pleasurc-seekng may be,
until we come to recognise the principle
here involved, we shall fail to work out for
ourselves the ordinary problems of life to Il
right issue, and we shall also fail to secure
the highest prosperity of the state. 1t be-
longs to us, then, to make home so attrac-
tive, that no one of the family shall ever
dream of finding choicer pleasures else
where so attractive that to every one. who
is casually admitted within its sacred pre-
cncts, it shall say, 90 thou. dud d0 M0ciSe,
so attractive that every younger member of
the household shall he inevitably impelled
early to win for himself just such another
home. So shall the State prosper, and so
shall we be helped to prepare for the home
above, where we shall enjoy perpetual
festival Of Thanksgiving and Praise"
UNION SERVICES.
An audience of about two hundred out
of a population of six thousand assembled
to Join in the observance of the day set
apart by the solemn proclamatons of the
President of the United States and the
Governor of the State, asking the people to
assemble in their several places of public
worship to give thanks to God for his ten
der mcrces in preserving us rs Il nation
and commonwealth, also to return our
| acknowledgements for the fruits of the
earth which have been gathered in. Surely
this small audience shows hut little regard
on the part of our people for the recon-
mcndatons Of the chief rulers Of the nation
or regard for the observance Of the day.
Another noticeable fact relative to the audi
cnce was that more than one-third weiC
strangers or resided out Of the village, ant
had driven miles, notwithstanding Tho
storm. to attend the service. Probably il
tI,n tbpon ,,lorna al, rnli4ri.tu gnr,+ ion
were held in the town of Rutland the com
bncd audiences did not exceed 400 in
population of nearly 10000 souls. Allu
sion has been made to this fact to shoy
how rapidly this ancient and good custom
of the fathers is falling into non-obsery
ance by the people, and yet we suppose
our Governor had failed to issue the custC
} mary proclamation he would have been dc
nounced as a goddess man and heather
and none would have held up their hand
in holy horror or rallied more loudly tina
those who absented themselves from III
religious services of the day.
SERVICES.
The services were commenced by I'll
reading of Il hymn, and its rendering i
a the choir of the Methodist church,
+ Rev. James Gibson Johnson read Il
1O3d Psalm, and offered fcryent an
p tender prayer Of thanks for the blcssin.
i vouchsafed TO us as Il people and Il natioi
@ also making touching illusions to the pc
thence which had rovo~od iho southc,
= ed the people. Fervent petitions were al.
i made in behalf Of the poor. and for tho
s in aillicton.
h After another hymn, read by Rev II. !
e Austin, and rendered by the choir, Re-
: Edward Mills, pastor of the Baptist churcl
5 proceeded TO the delivery Of the sermon,
! which the following is an abstract.
y SERMON.
p The history of THANKSGIVING festiya
takes us back to the days wien God
y ancient people were sojourning in the wi
+ derness. and where by divine comman
/ was instituted Tor their perpetual obser,
ance the feast of the Tabernacles. whic
was so called because that during its sever
e ty days continuance, the people withol
= distinction dwct in green booth,
T. constructed of branches of trees, in con
mcmoration of their wanderings in Ii
wilderness. This feast celebrated from Ii
10Th TO the 23rd of the month. correspon,
= ing with our month of October, and il WI
t therefore also called the ttaStof ngatherin,
being at the close of the fruit harvest. an
one of the essential features the present,
ton of Thanksgiving in recognition {
| IiVipa frop1nncp mi, M
Q giving festival was held for seventy col
q secutiye days, the first and seventh bcin
solemn conventions, characterized by I'll
most devout exercises and entire abscnc
from servile work.
1 In the christian dispensation, the purita
, fathers stand out most prominently in the
, observance of this annual festival of thank
giving and social reunion and thoug
5 their love of freedom drove them to t6
barren and inhospitablc shores of Ne,
England, where in seeking livelihood
they had to contend with almost insunerg
BILE difficulties, yet realizing their entire dc
pendance upon divine protection and pro
vision, they were ever ready to render (
God that tribute of thanksgiving and pras
which was his just due; and most happil
did they mingle the elements of gratef
devotion, social enjoyment, and Chrstia
benevolence for in the early part of tn
day all the piously inclined gathered in tn
parish Westinghouse, which had never bee
desecrated by the introduction of a stove 0
furnace; and where the cold wntcry wind
had full play through, crack, clcyicc an
loosely fitting windows. Having listene,
to Il lengthy and learned discourse, from
the highly respected village parson, the ser
vices closed, the fratornal greeting ended
the good puritan families would return 1,
their peaceful homes, gather around thc
festal boards, groaning beneath the bur
dens OF good things, and while with CRATE
full hearts they partook Of the ample feast
the whole was enlyened and swectencd b,
Il full flow of social Intercourse.
Nor did they ever forget the divine in
junction 'lf there be among you pooI
man in any of the gates of the land, whicl
the Lord thy God giyeth thee. thon shnll