The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-28

Ezekiel l3-'As for the wheels. II was SAID unto
them in my hearing D WHEEL" Man, sain inc
preacher. small speck of the universe was SET IN
big world. high mountains rising before hiin' "e,p
seas arresting his pathway and wild beasts capable
of his destruction surrounding him. yet he mas 70
conquer 1t could not be by physical force or specu
ye. ne was 70 conquer the world. ne ~
iniorced SO God sent him the wheel. when nrouRn
the centuries has been all the time gathering mo
mentum and splendor until. seeing what II ias Done
Tor the WORLDS progress and happiness, we cap our
hands IN thanksgiving and employ the apostrophe OK
the text. crying. 20 wheel!' call ON you IN TINS
annual festivity to thank God for the triumphs OF
machinery which have revoutionzed the world.
Even Paradise must have been comparatively dull
hardly ANYTHING going on; no manutactories Tor inc
f&sniohs were exceedingly simple. To dress III the
garden could not have required more than ten min
utes. and. having nothing 10 do its inhabitants got
thing for them to be compelled t0work. TO help
man up God sent the wheel. II it ahead the
race advances; If it turn back the retreats.
shall show you what the wheel has done for the
domestic the agricultural. the travelling and the
literary world
IN aomestc LIE the wheel has wrought revolution
by the sewing machine. which has shattered the
punctured the eyes and pierced the SIDE .'Sitch.
stitch. sti.ch; Thomas Hood set it to poetry. but
The tragedy of The needle is the tragedy Of hunger
aud cold and insult and inconsistencies and suicide
nve acts! But hear the rush OF tho Wheel and the
needle. once the Oppressive tyran becomes cheer
full slave, winding bobbin, tuckng, ruiing. cordng
and embroidering, undertaking. lockstitch. GRO
chst stitch. Laughter.) 1.-The Last Rose OF
ewing machine than on piano Roll
last shacEied woman Of toll shall be- esnancipatad.
Secondly. look into tho agricultural world to.
whit tho wheel has accomplished. The grain
two men with fails stood opposite each other
pounding tho wheat out OF the stalk. Thump!
the buzz Of wheo.s in the distance! The farmer.
taking his throne on q reaper working with arm
OF iron where once he worked with arm Of flesh &C
complishing in few hours what took many
days. Can you imagine anything moro beautiful
than this cotton ttaking a few hollis of cotton from
snow. How beautiful it isl 1t was a severe process
to separate the seed from the cotton. but Massa-
chusetts Yankee woke up aud solved the problem.
(Laughter) The South Is enriched aud the COM
nerce of the world is rovoutionized. Thank God
for the inventive genius that has done it. Enough
cloth to cover the tables of tho nation and enough
cord to fly all the kites outside OF Wall street.
Naughterl Have you ever studied the construction
Of the cotton gin? There three wheels on ono
side, three the other. and on the third side ono
ana gratitude 30 whcel!''
When see in the travelling world what the wheel
has accomplished am astounded. John Fitch, the in-
ventor of the steam engine. said there was nothing
80 perplexing and vexatious to man as turbulent
wife aud steamboat building. tLaughter.) II the
steamboat boiler didn't blow him up his wife would
(Laughtsr.) Now the wheel has made transatlantic
Voyages SO common that sensible man would no
more boast of 1t than IL he had been to Hoboken
Gowsnus. tLaughter.) The rivers and lakes and
Of the steamboat wheel, and in it's phosphorescent
wake sails the worlds commercial prosperity.
Again. look into the literary world and see what
the wheel has accomplished. Behold the almost
miraculous power Of the printing press! Now in
one hour 1000 sheets may be printed cut. folded
and pasted ut the back. Over eight hundred daily
newspapers in the United States~nd over six thou
sand weeklies! Turn on. with wider sweep. o wheel
of light and civilizaton--wheel Of Christianity
wheel Of divine momentum On the four wheels of
the sewing machine, tho reaper. the locomotive and
present prosperity. On this platform to-day we
have specimens q all the products of the nation
Of Northern wheat aud Southern rice. bound
together. May the bond never break Great
s ll, Here Is the sugar cane iholding up
homely stick could come such luscious product
On either end of tho platform bundles OF rye
you see that any one who comes on it is coming
through the rye. Haughier) Here is gold from
Virginia and Georgia. Here are apples. making you
bors came in and You had apples ana hickory nuts
and cider. Uaughter.) Here is corn from my native
State Of New Jersey and am little glad it is the
largest on the platorm-lsughter)-a state which il
sometimes caricatured by people who mad be-
cause they were not fortunate enough to have been
mention them last because they are 80 unpoetCwaro
pumpkins from Brooklyn-QauEhter)-itis prod
It seems to me that ali these specimens dash
to the platform and there walk In four beautiful be-
ings. The one H. garlanded with wheat and bios
is garlanded with rice and blossoms OF magnolia,
and find she is tho South. Another is garlanded
with seawecd and blossoms OF spray. and find she
is the East. The fourth is garanded with silk of
corn and blossom OF California sold and find she
IL the West. Coming face to face they take on their
garlands and Irvine them together into something
that looks like wreath. but it is wheel-the wheel
Of national prosperity. and say In outburst Of
North and South. East and West 20 whecll" On
tins platform to-day have convention Of all the
Corn King C1ssSn MnS Rice s King
down before the King OF kings, to whom be all the
glory OF this years unparalleled productions. Jap
plause)
CHRISTIANS AND HEBREWS CLAsPING HANDS
THANKSGIVING SERMON BY REV. DIR. BEL
LOWS AT TEMPLE EMANUEL.
Temple Emanuel, on FIFTH avenue, was
crowded in the afternoon with q congregation of
mingled Jews and Christians. gathered to listen to
Thanksgiving sermon by DR.. II. W. Bellows The
unusual. IL not unprecedented occurrence of Uni
tartan clergyman preaching in Jewish temple was
of itself enough to attract crowd. The preacher
took for his text the first verse of tho 11Sth
Psalm.-"O give thanks unto the Lord for He is
good. because His mercy endureth forever" He
spoke at length of tho origin Of the Thanksgiving
festival attributing it to the for Scrip
tural usages which obtained with the Pilgrim fathers
and pairing it to the jewish feast of ngathering
more commonly known a. the Feast of Tabernacles.
He described the ceremonies OF this feast with
siderable detail. comparing tho last evening of the
eight-day festival with tho American Thanksgiving.
which had grown out OF its original New England
character 10 a national holiday. We much Of
social and political fabric said the speaker to
the reverence OF our forefathers for tho
Mosaic law. II they had had their way
would perhaps have pad more complete
thcocracy than was ever attained, except in
theory, even among the Jews. They
anxious for religious freedom than for their MAZE
rial interests. The stormy Atlantic was their Red
Sea. the wilderness WAS their desert. the Indians
their Canaapitos and the New World was their
Promised Land In spite OF the alleged superiority
or tho New Testament the Old In Christian
minds the Old has done more to shape our institu-
tons than 1t did even among the Jews themselves.
1t IN too much to say that the Old Testament has
been more preached than the New and with the Same
authority. The imprecatory psalm has equal rever-
cncc with tho beatItudc. The proper unity of God
is the only thing the. Christian church leaves un-
honored and unrecognized. All honor to the people
who have held to this belief. The learning aud pety
OF world have tried in vain to convince you that
those to whom your laws were first addressed did
not understand them.
PERvEEsIoN OF SCULPTURE
The Scriptures. Old and new. have been mado to
aupport crecds. hopes fears and doctrines of hch