The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-01
THANKSGIVING.
Talmage Tells How to Regulate
the Weather.

Talmage Tells How to Regulate
the Weather.
The pulpit in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
on Thanksgiving day looked like sec
tiOn in an exposition. Palmetto trees,
cotton plants, sheaYes of rice, wheat
and rye, stalks of sugar cane, punches
of mllk-white ears of corn with the
husks turned back, blocks of mineral,
punches of bananas, grapes, and baskets
of fruits almost hid the pastor from
sight. The face of the horseshoe arch
of the gallery was adorned with ears of
corn made into the shape of stars, with
fan shaped branches of palmetto, with
sheaVes Of wheat and rye, and the
columns underneath We're bound with
| stalks of sugar cane. Baskets of tempt
ing fruit hung from the chandelier and
upon the PASTORS desk was such a pile
of oranges, Malaga and Catawba grapes,
| pears and apples as to form tempta-
tiOn to the preacher to eat rather than
speak. The only thing out Of season
was Mr.. Talmage's low shoes.
Mr.. Talmage found his text in Num-
bers, xxx, /: "Ye shall have a holy
cOnvOcatiOn; ye shall do no seryile work;
| 1t Is day Of blowing the trumpetS unto
| you" "Ahw he said, what kingIy
instrument of music trumpet is.
Beautiful, incisiye, eXhilarating, re-
sounding instrument" He said that
| yesterday should be a feast of trumpets.
All tunes Of minor key must slumber,
| and all dirges must wait. Having pro-
vided for tide feast of trumpets, he then
decided Congress had assembled
about him, and that the various
products were delegates from the
different parts of the country. Where
do you come from, o Cotton? Why, |
come from Georgia and the Sea Islands.
And you, Rice? Why, l come from
the CarOlinas. And you, 0 Corn? |
| come from Long Island, New Jersey and
New York And you, o Wheat? L am
from Michigan, Illinois and the praries.
And you, D Fruit? | come from the
orchards North, South and West. Whence
are thou, o Minerals? We speak of the
gold and the silver and the wealth under
| the soil. "There is plenty to eat" says
the wheat. 81 say peace and good will
to men," says the palmetto of the South
to the fruits of the North.
DIR. Talmage then deserted his congress
and took up the plaint of the peach deal
ers, who said there were no peaches; the
apple dealer, who said there were no
apples, and SAID that i'll spite of the
long drought the grass crop that had
come on in the late fall had more than
made up for the lack in the corn crop,
and to many who were complaining of
the cost of living, he would say that by
the mild weather they had saved enough
i'll fuel to pay for the increase i'll flour.
Then the peacher plunged into mass
of statistics which he said were from
headquarters. He wanted to show why
the people should give thanks. The corn
crop OF this year yielded 1876, l32, 800
bushels, worth at the sea-OOard $751;
| 77O,3I2; the wheat crop yielded 100000,
| 600 bushels worth $3.50, 100000; the cot
ton crop was 2,346, $4,000 pounds, worth
| $2Sl ,066,6SO. Petroleum yielded 15,OOO,-
| OUO barrels, worth SI64,SOOUOO. We
now send petroleum to 100 ports. The
sugar crop yielded 212OOOOOO pounds,
worth $15, 100000. "NOw, don't let me
hear you grunt," he added. "The worst
grunt in the world is religious grunt,
and after this exhibition of the result of
the sugar crop you cannot hereafter
stint my tea of its proper saccharine
modification"
again" he said, $4,000 swine have
been slaughtered this year, and yet
there are so many hogs left. [GTeat
applause.l Gold and silver are getting
so plenty that we will all yet eat out of
silver dishes and drink out of golden
chalices. Butter and cheese are ex-
ported by the million pounds. | look
at the figures on our balance sheet for
June 80, 1881. Value or domestic ex-
| pOIJS, pOGf,OUO,UOO, value OI imports,
S64O,0O0OO0. We have in our favor
| $1S4, 100000"
Mr.. Talmage then, much to the en-
tertainment of his audience, developed
a plan as to how this country may make
| its own weather. Drought, he said,
ought no longer to stop the people, but
the people should stop the drought
| The clouds were within reach. What
happened after the battle of WatsrlOOP
What after Austerlitz, Gettysburg, At
| lanta, Lexington and Bunker Hill?
| The earth was flooded with rain. What
happened after the Fourth of July
when it was celebrated in the old
fashioned way? Torrents of rain. The
| drought goes down under cannOnading.
When $20000O,OOO worth of property is
in danger, the people should get up
tremendous shower. Let the clouds be
bOmbarded Electricity is now carried
around in bottles. Let it out and direct
it against the sky. Let the forests re-
main unhewn so that the great oaks
may bring rain down over their shOul-
ders. With cannOnading and the cleo
trio stOrehOuses and the unhewn forests
| the world may decide its own weather.
| Prayer has less effect upon the weather
than upon anything else. Perhaps God
| intends that the people shall attend to
the weather themselves. In drought
word should go out to the weather sta
tions established by the Government to
| bring down the rain. Let the cannOnS
make the thunder, electricity the light
ming, and the clouds will furnish the