Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-24
CAUSES FOR THANKSGIVING.
Rev. DIR. Domer of -. PauI's Enumerates
Some of hem.


In st. Paul's English Lutheran Church the
pastor, Rev. DIR. Domer, preached from the
text Psalms 65:l, Praise waiteth for Thee, o
God, in Zion"
In the general review Of the wear on this
Thanksgiving day, said Dr. Domer. al on pre-
ceding similar ones, our praises must not be re-
luctant We have received enough we enjoy
enough, as citizens, as worshipers, as individ-
uals, of goodness and mercy to make Us 60 with
cheerful feet to the place of thanksgiving and
prayer.
Forest. field and stream have contributed
their stores in abundant supply. We have had
enough AID to spare. We have had both the
ability and willingness to share with others.
when the cry of want came from far-away
shores. Through the agency of a minister of
our own church about SIS. 900 were sent to ST.
Petersburg and distributed among the famine
stricken people of Lutheran districts in Russia
Our summer land bloomed into abundant har-
vests, which were generously shared with the
needy and perishing people of more sterile
and wintry zones. We have reason for thanks
givings in the generosities of the citizens of
our country, as they are brought into play from
time TO time, by the pleadings of distress,
whether at home or in foreign lands.
In the home. and in the various relations of
life, We may find, amid the mixed condition of
LIES trials and successes, enough to bring us
thankfully to the place of worship TODAY. We
may have been brought into sharp conflicts and
into the face of bitter disappointments, and
with fearful eyes We may have been compelled
to count some new-made graves. But we have
also been made 10 know in these experiences
the blessed truth that ''God has gwen His
grace to the sorrowing." The trials OF life are
TO be studied in their deep connections with
the methods and movements of the Divine
providence, and then We shall be able TO see
how they are silyered over with the radiance of
the incoming light OF a better world The uni
versal sympathy of the country gathered
around the home of the President when the
recent sorrow made that home SO dark liz
there be democracy of death there is also O.
democracy of love and kindness There are
tears for fearful ones there are affection for
all homes.
TIE sEMI-cENTESNIAL OF THE CHURCH.
We are holding our last Thanksgiving TODAY
in the semi-centennial life and history of 81.
Paul's English Lutheran Church. A half hun
dred years will have been completed before
another anniversary of this kind ehall return.
and this fact adds peculiar interest 10 our
worship. how much has been done, how much
OF influence for good has gone forth from
this church during these years who can declare
or who imagine? Multitudes OF workers have
gone from mortal sight bnt the work goes on.
and as a society OF Christian people we have
never mao more nopelul OUTLOOK than now In
the various departments of church activity.
And as Christian men and women we nav en-
large our thought and find much to stir our
grateful feelings in the progress of Christian
citizenship and of the Advancement Of the
church Of Christ in every direction. We are
coming into clearer Consciousness and recoc-
milton of the Christian character of the nation
its lnws, its institutions, lis citizenship The
decision of the Supreme Court Of the land in
May last, in unr-pealab!e, words declared This
is q Christian nation
We are not unmindful of the agitations, the
labor troubles. the political connections
through which We have been passing We NAV
deplore the unrest, the unwisdom. the desola-
lions which have marked so much of our wears
history, and yet we ought TO be thankful that
the tides Of evil we're rolled back as they thun-
dered against the granite Of constitutional law
and power. We are thankful that in the recen.
political arbitrament perfect quiet has so
quickly followed and the government is sailing
on In tranquil waters. One Presbyterian Pres
ident is exchanged for another, and, somehow,
the verdict Of the people is accepted without
an undertone Of menace or murmurings We
are justified in our thankgivings because the
voice Of the people is accepted again in en-
phasis OF the great national maxim that ..Ours
is government of the people, by the people,
and for the people"