News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-23
4 HAPPY THANKSGIVING
DIR. TALMAGE IN FINE SPIRITS,
And He Max His Hearers Particularly
Happy About Taelr Dinners.

Clear out of the old channels of con
ventional Thanksgiving sermons | shall
steer to day, and make you thank God
for some things that you may have for
gotten or never thought of at all |
Among the things to be grateful for this
Thanksgiving day are your hereditary
blessings. Have you ever thanked God
for your fathers and mothers2 But for
the raising we had we would have prob
ably been in poor house or penitentiary
Show me the cradle and | will make a
prophecy of everything clear on to the
grave What a glorious race of old folks
those who passed off in the last genera
ton. Talk about your doctors-allo- |
pathic, homeopathic, hydropathic and
eclectic-and | believe in all of them
was there ever better doctor than your
old fashioned country motherl What
boneset tea to sweat out cold. What !
Catnip to soothe restlessness. what
peppermint for all s!omachic disturb !
ances. sWhat ''varbs" for whole race
of disorders -''yarbs.'; What warm hop
pillow for toothaching face until the
country doctor in sulky drove up the
lane and with one yank of the Internal
tourniquet took out the hollow tooth, /
leaving you under the impression that
jaw and head and shoulders had gone
with it Was there anyone like your
cd mother to pOultice without hurting
a runaround finger, or to make boil
stop boiling2 You were not ashamed to
let her see you cry, although You were
so big others would have called you a
crvbaby. And today l take the re-
spOnsibility of the medical colleges in ,
comforting degrees, and l doctorate all
that generation of mothers, besto wing
upon them NJ. D.-maternal doctor.
Would that we could have doctored
them as well as they dOctOred us,
for perhaps we might have kept
them with us, and to day at our Thanks
giving table those wrinked and vanished
faces might have beamed upon us among
the home group and we might have
taken from them one more blessing be-
fore their final departure Some say
they would not bring back the departed
to this poor world even if they could
But | would risk it, and if | could,
would bring back to your dinner hall
to-day the two old folks, and | would
pat them one at each end of your table,
and your wife could afford to stand and
wait upon them while the celestial visi-
tors tarried in your dwelling. | would
rather live in Brooklyn or New York in
1t IOuSC Will AOul AOOuls Nlldu ~ i've III 4
the torrid lands and own all Mexico, all
Brazil, all Hindostan, all Arabia, all
c INA. In other words, would rather )
i've between 30 and so degrees north ,
l,titude and own nothing than between
10 and 80 and own everything. Thirty |
years of life here are worth 100 any =.
where else. In addition to the blessings .
hereditary and atmospheric are the bles- q
sings OF the picturesque. Get up on the
tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, or in
Trinity steeple, or in the cupola of my
house, and see at your feet the bright
and Furnished saber OF the Hudson and
The silvered girdle of tn East River.
See the graceful undulation of the land
Gu which Brooklyn is built Beho d
our two paradises in miniature ! :
pect and Washington Park, with :
kiosk and rustic bridge and artificial :
lake and the grand path for questrian, '
better than London's Rotten Row,
and carriageway better than Partisan y
Bois BOulogne. Behold our bay, the II
grandest of all the continent, with glis-
tening wings of ships by day, and by a
night all along the beach of Staten
Island and Governors Island and Long 7
Island and New Jersey, bewitching :
lights-Iights white and scarlet and |,
azure; an enchantment of fairy land;
while the Atlantic Ocean at the High !,
lands and at Brighton beckons their !
great population to come down and
battle while the angel of health troubles :
the waters On these shores are the
brightest homes of Christendom. while !
near by is Gods acre. the most glori- d
Gus place for the final slumber in which
pilgrims ever Law down to rest-Green- y
a &c
aud palaces for the silent-the West
minister Abbey of America, containing >
more kings and queens than ever sat on
all thrones of the world-once rulers in
science, rulers in literature, rulers in art, :
rulers in commerce and rulers in the
high realm of home. The grandest :,
place OH earth from which to witness Y
the splendOrs of the Resurrection morn =
1t is my business, also, to-day to recall u
the blessings of survival We have ID y
three wars-eIther of them sufficient to =
demolish a nation. 1775--a few men u
without disc pline or arms against the :,
empire on which the sun never sets. a
The American eaglet, with one pin y
feather, flying at the British lion, whose u
roar shook the earth. All through the
Windsor Castles and the Tuilleries of
the world rang the laugh of deriSiOn. 1t
VAS like going out with blunderbu
to capture Springfield Armory. But n
again the Lord delivered us. 1S62-the c
last war. May the political buZzards h
who would hatch out another perish O
in their nests. Blessings of semi C
omnipresence through the tele- h
phone. Blessings OF foreknowledge O
through the Weather Probabilities b
Blessings of comfort in every ascending O
aud descending house elevator. Bless s.
ings of stenOgraphy to take down Il
swiftest utterances. Blessings of elm "
tied express" bringing New York and il
Chicago within twentyfOur hours. h
Blessings of life insurance keeping back O
from our households the wolf after we 81
can no mole hight it. Blessings of lights Fl
ee trio. Blessings of ilIustrious citizen L
ship all around us Blessings Of this Il
individual churc our 3,40) communi- h
cant membership constantly charging s.
and many sons and daughters being Il
brought to glory. Each year in orr his Il
tory more prosperous than its predeces- Il
sor and all we want is twice as much II
room for our congregations. And who Il
knows but that some day gentlemen f,
may desire to purchase this building as c
an academy of music or gallery of art, Il
and then we will build place that will Il
hold 10000. But whether we have il
church room On earth, or do not have il, s.
there win be room enough in our Faith b
cr's house on high, where, l pray God, b
we may keep Thanksgiving day eternal. 81
AT that festal table many of our loved o
ones are already seated. They will keep p
place for us right beside them, and
before long we will go in and take it.
And though to-day we sorrowfully and
tearfully miss them from our homes
here the present separation will make
the final reunion the more exulting.
Therefore, praise We the Lord, let every e
thing that hath breath praise the lord =
All ships, all houses, all lands. all seas, u
all earth, all Heaven, Alleluja. And II
alter we have sung one more hymn we v
will adjourn for dinner, and declare !
that if in all this assembly there are any u
who have nothing 10 eat and they can y
not get anything anywhere else if they ;
will cone to my house, No 1 South Ok II
fora street, will provide them with the .
means for a good dinner, though it Z
should take the last potato and the last .
turkey wing OFF my table.
80 Let There B. No Strife" -