St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-12-06

church was profusely adorned with corn
| from the West, sugar cane from LOUISE
ana, wheat from the North and cotton
| from Georgia. The opening hymn
was:
Loud as mighty thunder's roar"
The subject of the sermon by DR.. Tai
mage was, Thanksgiving Day, 1884,
tha texts were Ezekiel xii: II, AN
nther door toward the South, and Rev
| Citations xxi: 13, 'On the south three
gates.n =
| England, at the close OF the revolution
arv war, in which he had lost the thlr-
teen colonies, set apart a day for nation
| al thanksgiving because OF the return
Of peace. A chaplain OF the hlng asked
him: care you going to give thanks
| for the loss of the thirteen brightest
| Jewels Of your crown r. NO, not Tor
| that answered the hlng. because
so many millions have been added to
answered the King. Because so many
| thousands have been slain, though be-
| hanging to the same race and religion z"
"NO. not for that" answered the hIng.
sFor what then" insisted the chaplain,
"does YOUR Majesty want us to give
tbanSs )" "Thank God,n vehemently
cried the King, ''thank God it is not any
worse" And if the year now past has
been to any Of you misfortune, or ca
| iamity. or bereavement, you have so
MANY mercies left that You ought to
thank God that tidings are no worse
| with you than they are
Fuf to vast throngs of us it has been a
wear of overarching mercy, and as in
| dividuals, as a Church, as cation, we
keen Jubilee, and would to God that our
habit Of gratitude might become as fixed
/ as that of st. Felix, the monk of CaDta-
| lice. who on all occasions, whether
stoDpjng fight or soliciting aims for
| the monastery, cried out, Dec GratIas,
thanks be to God, until the Church call
ed him Brother Dec GratIas and the
children hailed him along the street as
Father Dec Gratias. After year ID.
which other nations have felt the
scnnroe Of epidemic, but this land has
heen shared after emerging unhurt
| from presidential contest in which the
| blind Samson of partisanship threaten
| ed to pull down the pillars of state and
| to leave the temple fiat in the dust, and
after .365 more days of kindness from
orr God, we are here. In the graceful
| and splendid decoration OF this church
| to-day with the grains and fruits OF all
IsecfIons we have an American congress
| of national products. Delegations from
| North. South, East and West. Here
are delegations with white hair from
| the cotton fields of the South. Here are
those with auburn beard aud iocAs from
| the golden wheat fields of the North.
Here are fruits that have in their round
cheeks the blush OF the setting sun OF
the West. Behold this moss from
Southern woods, the bridal veil OF the
forest. Behold these plumes of pampas
from the far West. Behold this rice
| from the Carolinas, and these grapes
and pears from California. Behold
these apples from CorneGtlcut, the land
Of steady habits. Behold these great
banana frees, standing sentinel at Ell
ther end of the platform, by last steam
Ell from Florida, but the fruit this mo-
ment growing and one of them in bios
som of resplendent orb. Behold this
coal from Pennsylvania, and this iron
ore from Idaho, and this silver from
Nevada, and this lead from Colorado,
and this copper from Lake Superior,
and these great blossoms of New York,
and New Jersey, and Long Island cereal
luxuriance. Harvests OF 1884 looking
down upon air their predecessors. Tile
l'Wave of temporal blessing has dashed
to the top of the nations corn bin. Aye,
THE PROSPERITY oFTHrs NATION
has rolled up until the crest of the wave
| has broken and recoiled upon itself
More corn and wheat and cotton and
rice than we can find profitable market
| for. More manufactured goods than
we can dispose of. The grain markets
are glutted and the factories by the
hundreds stopped or run with only half
the spindles harnessed, and wages are
cut down because the supply has
1 mattaS to-day with this country but
/ oyer-n 9duction and uDder-consump-
ton. 1fllere there is work forten there
are tWeE Y who offer their services, and
the hunA i'd thousand wheels Of Ameri-
can induSa1y are slowing up not because
there is top little, but because there is
1 too much Mod has showed upon the
/ track of theSaotion such vast accumula-
| ton of prospA ty that the engine which
draws the traiNiEann0t pillow any further
tkSnugh. The american nation is being
choked to death NSsith sugplusof produc-
ton md manu- ectur6. Too much
wheat, too much c&gn, too much cotton,
too much fruiG Foo uch coal and iron,
too much haTdWafaS too many dry
goods, too rE5ny shFs, too many car
pets, too many philosophical instru-
ments, too many catf h, too many sEeepg
too many artisans, TO many merchants,
too many lawyers Itoo many doctors,
and from the largefAua bers Of excellent
men in my own pro, ession ,withouaz,set-
Elements. some migst t4lnIk too many
ministers. 81
THE DELtGE pa SUPPLY
tains Of demand. The loassRf national