Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-30
THANKSGIVING,

The proclamation of the President and the
Governor, setting yesterday apart IS day Of
thanksgiving. was generally observed in this
city. The Courts. public offices, shops and
places of business in general were closed, and
Sabbsth-day quiet seemed to rest upon the
town. Family reunions. social gatherings
and turkey dinners were the order of the day.
union service was held in the church of the
United Brethren in Christ, corner OF Four
teenth and K streets, at 1915, all the pastors
of the Ministerial Union being present; also
a very large congregation. The sermon was
delivered by Rev. 7. s. Dunn, of the Sixth
street Methodist Episcopal Church. from the
Goth verse of the fifth chapter of Ephesius :
"Give thanks always, and for all things,
unto God and the Father. in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ" Said he: "The custom
of national Thanksgiving had its beginning in
the days Of the old Jewish commonwealth.
under a government neither republican nor
monsrchical, hut theocrsticsl, and its war
rant in divine command, which went forth
from Sinai, that all should observe the feast
at the end OF the year, when the
fruits of the fields had been gathered.
In our own country the custom orig
mated with the Pilgrim Fathers. Though
at first observed only in Massachusetts,
and the other New England States, the Gus
tom, as spokes radiated from the Hub,
gradually extended to the other States until
the whole national wheel was filed" The
thought outline of this very excellent dis
course was that our love for God and country
should be as one, and to Him we should look
as the giver of civil privileges. and home in
land of peace and plenty. Our fields yield
beautifully, and we might safely ? firm the
sun never ceases to shine on some one humaH
being who is nourishing his physical man
from the productions of our SOIL" The elo-
quent speaker strongly denounced the evils
that beset the upward and onward march of
our national prosperity, and, like charity,
began at home. " Sacramento" said he, 81
city of the Plains, but with more righteous
ness than one of old. Sacramento, of thee
may it be said, Thou hast come up through
much tribulation.' Fires, floods, slickens,
sin. whisky and beer have ell failed to de-
stroy thee. The three former have only
come at long intervals, but the
three latter evidently intend to stay.
In all those natural advantages which make
q people prosperous and happy, our Golden
State excels Those of older States say we
Of California love to boast, but Boosting is
not vanity when it rests on foundation of
truth. Some of us have seen the older States
and have vivid recollections of freezing win.
tiers, slushy springs and melting summers.
We who enjoy continuously this feast of
nature may ourselves keep silence, and only
quote what travellers Of other chimes have
written. For instance, one has said Cali.
lorna. country where the largest carniver.
BUS qusdruped in tie world roams
the mountains, and the largest bird
Of the continent scars in the sunlight
where the plains are without curculios, the
wheat fields without weevil, the farm without
need Of barns, and the cocooneres without
lear of storms; where the OK needs no fodder |
The ass no stall, the lambs no shepherds care
where the bee yields more honey, the worm
more silk, the kline more muscle, the sheep
more wool, the vineyard more wine, and the |
fields more grain than any other spot on
earth; where the olive and apple grow side |
0y side, the fig tree and the pear intertwine |
each others branches, and the rose opens it's |
petals with the earliest tulip and the latest |
iahlis, and Christmas is as fragrant as
May, ANNALS become perennials, perennials
and exotics become naturalized. !
The wheat of one year becomes the spring
wheat of the next. Trees that, had they
grown on Mount Olivet, might have witnessed
The Savior's agony and accompanied Him in
His ascension three hundred feet into the
fields of light, still flourish where its rocks
are rich in treasures and rivers roll down
golden sands where nature moves even vol |
,anic forces and molds caves chasms and
,atsracts into forms so sublime and pic
5uresque as to make an atheist stop with ad. |
niration and mathematician tune his Tyre {; |
where the refreshing nights of the temperate
zone, married to the luxurious days of the
'ropics, make the outgoings of the morn
ng and the evening to rejoice. OF |
course there are croakers here as else-
Vhere men who would crosk even in heaven, |
we're the golden gates sjar for such unreason.
'ble, upgrateful wretches. This only proves
'urs to be land where every prospect |
lleaEes and only man Is vile ~