New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-30
THANKSGIVING SERMONS.
MR.. TALMAGEs REASONS FOR GRATITUDE

MR. TALMAGE'S REASONS FOX GkAllloDh
In the Brooklyn Tabernacle yesterday, as
usual on Thanksgiving Day. the producuveness OF .ne
Garth was Illustrated Ears OF corn hung ABOUT inc pat
form The pulpit bale OF cotton AT 'no UaeA VI
the nIotform were sheayes Of oats wheat and other
rans About the galleries were hung punches OF var1-
ops nlants and autumnal fruits. Specimens OF many
Kinds OF minerals lay side table. The peWs were
Allied half an hour before the service began ana wheh te
Rev. Mr. Tamage stepped upon the PLATFORM inc "slcs
ard spaces In the OF the seats were croWueu WIN
or.ons who remained standing through the service
Many were turned away from the doors Inc music was
furnished by Henry Eyre Brown, Organist Peter An
corpet nayer and quartet consisting of Messrs Brady
Doo,ttie Hin and Smith. who sang the Tie Deum
Iondanus before the sermon. The National anthem
NY Country tits OF Thee" sung by the congrega
ton. 100. -,
Mr. Talmage took for his text Hosea ill., u ana y;
VIII hear saith the Lord will hear the heavens ana 'hey
shall hear the earth; ana the earth shal near tno corn
and the wine and the oil and they shall hear JezreeL
Dios,,g sod he start at the throne Of God, ana go
,hoo rhont the universe. This year the country
has been nj PRAYER aud all around us on the patoh
the answer In wheat and corn and oats ana barley anu
cotton and rice. Here arc rco ana cotton rom 'no O
linas oranges from Florida, ponegraiihes rom bousr
ana pears from Cafoniacan there be any doubt as 10
where such pear this beside rue comes from = so
silver and asbestos and coal from all quart rs OF the
cnnntry About us the platform ana ABOUT lp giitIy
are the products OF Long Island New,norh ana H S
Jersey. | have recently come III PoI'oS,ion va az
Soid mine-of facts Last week wrote 10
the Treasury Department to geI LnctS On Tho T shef
f he bureau of statistics, sent me the nRtH OF thcpo
duets OF the country for sixty years But only 70 compare
those Of years and THIS year. c2dIo we 80
600 600 bushels OF corn OF this year WIN me 9 lVOv
bushels OF 1873 and the 4l9Uop 0oo bse. oq i7s
Then the potato crop. The potato j. not lavoe hine
in DISCOURSE for Che word i'd SG Eaab NOT a Te than u
good rotate whether II is boiled or baked or mashed,
fried or cToqueted, OF Safnpsaa Ireland and
free America overbessed potato Jolnpr9 tno
$4,000 900 bushels OF crop OF 49, "i - oi 30 Ieo
bushels OF ten years ago compare S o,S
M cotton OF this year with the 39joOOO OF 1913; NO
s In Hnerca AS thi4 Better breakfasts
LAY hi morning than ever beore-boter coffee. with
los chircory in II butter that was more honest butter
IL, bnI, ~ chnrns; meat that yOu could chew.
Then there are the pleasant memories 9t the days gone
nv The scenes like those OF Kaleidoscope We see
10 rathertug I'm OF the old household. There II
the Thanksgiving dinner; the monarch 1i tno
lis @oble gone stuffed with that he never digest
h before we had learned at school that Greece was
SCUM "a hr SrHae Law the carvingknfe the breast
and divide 1t up. Give To the BOY lhal u s'nlih.Da,
one sl7PnsGu no 10 as What mlnce pies in which You
nose Ana the pres. N Wnd Win ir"iXnre "A sort of
gorihed hash not mlnco pies win utfp NY s'.Ivs vi
origin, but pies that mother made on 1o,.u'u w
old fashioned Jersey mincrp PIE lurn tue ieuo7cope
again and Down the hill they ga. ioui sles aDTs.
Tnen an tho hill pantingthe history OF many oil our llNer
WORKING our az NJ hill just Tor the purpose OF sliding
down Turn again the Kaleidoscope ana SO the ncgh-
horhood quiltngs merry hroup would assemble
fun of news u-cd 10 think there were more thdh htcte
slrv To quit blanket but othcr thlhG. Were quilru
urirhbOflne,s sympathes, COMMUNAL bliss AGAIN
we zee the chury h, the choir WIN broken tdut me
elder, awal1ng to the notes " My drOw-y powers, Why
sleep Sc 40 T. the aged minister good enough Tor hhs-
ton the whole -phere more lul oil True Religion lih
dozen more prcicntiuu- churches Ihcu ilc g1ho"l-
house the woods in which We wandered, the mouse
warning. uIo hu-kIugbse-, the spIhstine blossoms:
Aud Il d., not only the past but the present thAt j. Iu "I
gratitude think Ui tue blessing now IN your
homes the children, the books aud all the c'nN nrc"s
for u cn other men Ly9 labOrrd that you might ENJOY