St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-25
NATIONAL PROSPERITY.
Rev. Carnahan Treats Upon Its
Moral ASPECTS.

Moral Aspects.
At the Park Congregational church,
corner Holly avenue and Mackubin
street, was very large congregation at
the Thanksgiving services of yesterday
morning Rev. Mr.. Carnahan, of the
First Presbyterian church, was the
speaker. His theme was: "rhe Moral
Purpose of Prosperity" His text was:
Thus saith the Lord. Let not the
wise man glory in his wisdom, neither
let the mighty man glory i'll his might,
let not the rich man glory in his riches:
But let him that glOrieth glory III
this, that he understandeth and know
eth me. that am the Lord which eX--
ereise loving kindness, Judgment, and
righteousness, IN the earth; for i'll these
things | delight, saith the Lord.-Jer.
xiv. 1924.
The following is an abstract of his
sermon:
This day is the day of Thanksgiving
for all grateful souls in all our land. 1t
is national day of personal gratitude.
1t is day when gratitude and thanks
giyings to God should not be in the least
diminished by reason of a reversal of
nope which may have recently occurred
TO some of us. 1t is not day. nor are
these the places, it seems to me, to dis
cusS national issues or grieYe at ma
JiOnal perilS or c0ntrive national RENE
dies 1t is the day TO spread out our
hearts and lives before our Fathers
face in gratitude and sing our thanks in
sweetest melodies. and tell the story of
gracious care in our beautiful modern
homes. And if in the quiet home and
heart some sadness loiters from hope
blasted or love stricken, then let the
great living hope tune the gentle note
i'll anticipation of the morning
when tire night is gone. Here
is striking passage in the his
tory of the second of The Jewish patri-
archs; a passage that has doubtless
caught our attention many times:
Isaac went out to meditate in the field
= the eyentide." Struck by the poetic
zntiment, it is nevertheless most rarely
3lat any reader catches the real beauty
and utility of the situation and sees the
real point of that eventide reverie Oh
the hillSlopes of Hebron.
The young patriarch is just emerging
from youth ami its subsection, to young
manhood and its personal responsibility.
The heritage OF his fOrefatherS. richer
in prospects and promises. i'll cove
nants and Oriental good wishes,
i'll hardShlpS ana cOnqueStS to be en-
countered, than anything else, was de-
Scending now upon him. The caravan
of the envoy, sent forth to procure him
that great necessity Of every young
Hebrews comfort, a wife, was that mo
ment approaching nearby. For behold,
the camelS were coming. The vivid
sense of the divine presence. character.
istic of the Semitic mind, is upon him,
and sets his imagination agloW. And,
tOu bt less the ynunp bAnrt thrilled nm
der vivid sense of the divine goodness.
His grateful soul Wellcd up 10 God in
thankfulness Of the heritage and COW
enantS OF his fathers; of the betrothal,
which was the blessing awakening a
sense of manhoGd'S first days; and OF
racial honorS. prophesied iD the Gov
enant, of universal extension and bless
ing.
All our past days we have been
taught. with more or less vivid appre-
henslOn on our part, that every good
gift and every perfect gift is from
above, and cometh down from the
Father OF Lights. with whom is no yari-
ableneSS, neither shadow Of turning"
AS the world Of intellect moves on in
its orbit Of progress and reverent dis
covery, it is more and more appreeia-
lively learned that the intelligent source
of all human comforts beStoWS them
through secondary means: health to
sickness through personal care aud
medical Skill; intelligence through faith
full and skiIlful research; prosperity
through industrious. able and ec0nomi-
cal enterprise; civilization through
sobriety, honesty. intelligence and re-
!igiom.
And so 1t comes to require reyerent
meditation, like lSaac'S: or if you think
better for this nineteenth Christian
century, then honest, intelligent relig-
iOus judgment upon our advantages. our
opportunities and our possibilities.
There is not the danger of formulated
materialism as of unconscious and
thOughtleSs materialism. With reVer-
ent thought, then, we may pierce, pene-
trate. the intermediate means that Weld
all goodness, and find our Fathers love
and power hidden within their shadow.
Tie speaker sad that the highest ma
tive comforts of human creatures are
constituted from a triple alliance of:
first, Intelligent, ingenious sagacity;
second, physical circumStantial power;
third, abundant financial resources.
Then he proceeded to dilate upon each
Of these three heads. He at length
gave an exhaustive review of the re-
sources OF Minnesota and of the nation,
speaking of our great agricultural inter
eSts, and the volume of this years pro-
duct, ofour great mineral resources and
forests, and the product of these during
the year, and OF our great industrial re-
sources and their product Tor the year.
He spoke eloquently OF the American
home.