The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-12-02

For every kindly ord and deed,
| For happy thoughts and holy talk,
For guidance in our daily walk,
For everything give thanks!
For beauty in this world of ours,
For verdant grass and lovely flowers,
For songs of Birds for hum of bees,
For the refreshing summer breeze,
or hill and plain, for streams and wood,
For the great oceans mighty food.
In everything give thanks.
For the sweet sleep which comes with right,
For the returning mornings light,
For the bri ght sun that shines on high,
For the stars glittering In the sky,
For these and erything We see,
y Lord, our heart we lift to Thee,
For everything we give thanks
Thursday opened bright and clear and
warm with every promise OF the most au-
spicious weather and during the morn
ing the promise was fully verified
though In the afternoon In grew chilly and
cloudy The most elaborate preparations
for the observance of thanksgiviug..had been
made both socially and privately through
out the city and the appearance of the
people on the streets In holiday attire at
an early hour showed that business was TO
be forgotten for the noDce by saint and sim
ner alike, in fact, everybody but newspaper
men seemed TO have a day of, and even
they wore their best last winters clothes
and put on a smile of expectant pleasure
as they wendell in and out the moving
throngs preparing TO tell everybody what
everybody else did. Religious services had
been announced to take place at the
Southern Methodist church and the
Congregational church at ii a. m
and at the East Sedslia Methodist church
at 2:30 and 7:30 p. m. The services at the
Congregational church being a union serv
ice Of the congregation of that church, the
Cumberland and Broadway Presbyterian,
Ohio Street Methodist, the two Baptist and
the Christian church congregations.
Long before the hour announced,
THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
was crowded TO its utmost capacity with a
refined and expectant audience. The serv-
ices opened with singing by the choir, fol-
lowed by the reading of the 1lSth Psalm
by Rev. Jones, of the Methodist church.
Rev. Fuller, of the Baptist church, then de-
livered most tervent and eloquent prayer,
in which he enumerated many of the most |
vital reasons why We of all people and ma.
lions on earth should be thankful to God |
who had not only spared us from the sfflc- |
lions Of war, pestilence, famine and storm,
which were depopulsting the old world to |
an unusual degree, but had bestowed upon |
US peace, prosperity. good government, |
abundan harvess weslth and plenty to 4 |
degree almost as marked as that with which |
he bad shielded and fostered the Jews In |
olden days wheG, as his chosen aud an
nointe1 people, hey were wont to assemble !
as did this nation to-day. One thing which |
seemed to cast a gloom over the coner, ga
he cd ~ 4
critical illness of the wife of the pastor of |
the church in which the services were being
held. Mrs. Allen Van Wagner and most
fervenllv did Rev Fuller petition in behalf
Of the afflicted ones that wha ever should be
the will of the Divine Master they might be
prepared to bow 10 its mandate fe ling that
all things work together for the best, and his
petition found earnest response In the
hearts of his hearers
The prayer was followed by the choir
singing, "All hail the power of Jesus
name"
Rev. Stephens, who had been designated
ss the orator of the occasion, then rose and
liter inviting Rev. Payne forward 10 seat
among the ministers, gave out his text,
Nehemiah, 9th chapter, 9Th 10 10Th verse,
Go Your Way, Eat the Fat and Drink the
sweet, ETC."
His sermon was fervent, appropriate,
lOquent and listened to with marked at !
ention by his large audience. Following
S synopsis:
1t is well to pause occasionally in this I
usy, busting, whizzing age aud think. 1t =
5 good that We have one day in the year I
n which the channels Of commerce and the
nsrts of trade are measurably closed and
IN anif f.,f II Il
vOndrous workings of bis ways and cres- I
ions as compared with their own puny :
ut all abso bling aims and view as the !
raveller from the mountain height, $
Jews the landscape beneath. How puny !
nd insignificant have been our efforts, how s
I'LL OF failure, mistake, disaster, heart q
urnings and disappointment, and grand e
nd immeasurable have been the gifts and s
ounties of him who has rescued us from '
Ut own mistakes and landed our footsteps %
pom the safe and sure foundation OF peace
enc ath and prosperity in spite of our g
Ives, and as We 10 ok backward our minds r
re filled with wonder and admiration for F
lie great God who has given 10 us the \
essings of peace and prosperity. Politi- v
lily, commercially, socially and spiritu- C
ly. p
Thanksgiving day finds its origin not, as p
believed by some, with the pilgrim faith. 81
5 at Plymouth Rock, but in the feast of b,
e tabernacles. as observed by the Jews 81
Id instituted four centuries before Christ. O.
Overnor Bradford may have his authority
the law of God, and in the example of CT
ehemiah the founder of the feast, and b.
builder of the walls of Jerusalem, but az
om that day to this have nations more or ri
IS observed thanksgiving day. The ri
eaker here gave a very interesting &C. G.
unit of the feast and the building of the $40
ais and proceeding commented on the IN
any things for which we as q people
ould give thanks to-day, our bounti- an
crops, free government, peace, plenty, ar
osnarifu freedom from nlanr,aa -....: x