The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-30
THANKSGIVING OF ALL KINDS
SaValnahialS Made More Of the Holiday
This Year Than Ever known.

t1V1t1es-The Churches w ere Wen At
tended, and the Recreations in and
Out of the City Drew Crowds-Tybee,
Thunderbolt, Wilmington Island Isle
of Hope and Montgomery Each Had
Their Numbar-Business Was Almost
Totally Suspended and the Business
Part of the City Was as Quiet as If 1t
Were Sunday.
Thanksgiving was made more Of by sa-
vannahians this year than is usually made
of the holiday. 1t was typical Thanks
giving day. The weather was clear and
crisp-just cool enough to make it enjoy
able. 1t was universal holiday in Sa-
vannah, and everybody took advantage of
it to obtain a days recreation.
The morning services in the churches
were largely attended. Special services
were held in the Episcopalian and Roman
/ Catholic churches. The evangelical
/ churches held a union service at Wesley
/ Monumental church, at which Rev. w. c.
/ Schaeffer, pastor of the Lutheran church
preached. The church was crowded. The
music was a feature. While it was not
/ furnished by the Festival Choral Society,
under the direction of Prof White, as
/ had been expected, it was nevertheless adj
/ mirably rendered Not enough volun-
! teers from the choral society could be OBJ
/ tanned to form a creditable choir, and
/ hence the project was given up A few
voices were hastily gathered together,
without rehearsal or director, to sing the
hymn tunes, and Mrs. Haynes sang an
offertory solo most charmingly, but no
| effort was made to present other festival
music.
Dr. Schaeffer took his text from the
one hundred and twenty-sixth Psalm. At
ter referring to Thanksgiving day as one
on which people are called upon to render
thanks to God for the blessings of the
year, it is most BETTING, he said, that
we should remember those who are less
favored by the allotments of providence
than we are and who are in poverty,
privation and distress.
THE lives Of many" he said, "are
darkened by afliction and want, and it is
the grateful duty of those who are more
highly favored and blessed to carry the
sunlight Of hope into such lives by re-
lieving their wants, tightening their bur
dens, and Frightening the shadows that
darken their pathway Blessed is he
that considereth the poor! This" said
DR.. Schaeffer. the thankful heart will
! do"
He dwelt at length upon the unfolding
of the Christian religion and all that the
people of this country have to be thank
full for.
"Thankfulness," he said, lifts us above
the darkness of despair and puts us
in touch with God. 1t helps us to
| see, as Emerson once wrote to Carlyle of
his dependencies, that less than a mile
| above these mists of earth the sun is
surely shining in his strength"
"Unthankfulness," he declared "recog-
nizes not the innumerable mercies and
benefits of our dear Heavenly Father.
but blights and mars all life. Cultivate,
| then, this glorious grace of thankfulness
/ and for you the sun will shiae more
/ brightly, the flowers have sweeter fra
| GRANGE, your homes a more heavenly at
| mosphere your business be more pros
/ porous, friendship strengthened, love
/ glorided, and the earths paradise re-
| gained This spirit will prepare us prop
| erly to approach God in suppHcations for
| our daily need. With thankfulness let
! your requests be made known unto
! God "
! The decorations of the church were in
| keeping with the day.
| The hearts of nearly a hundred of Sa-
! Vannah's poor-men, women and child
/ ren-were gladdened by an elegant
/ Thanksgiving spread prepared by the
/ ladies of Circle No. of the Kings Daugh-
/ tiers. The dinner was given in the hall
/ adj iniuiDpr Trinity phnrph nd he 10
/ were on hand during greater part of the
/ day The dinner was a great success,
/ and all the poor who had the good fortune
! to attend were not only most bountifully
| served with warm and steaming viands,
| but they were given a good supply to take
! home with them. Those who so charita-
/ bly, contributed to this dinner will no
! doubt be grathed to know of it's abundant
/ success in so worthy a cause
The boys at the Bethesda orphanage were
| given a royal Thanksgiving dinner by the
| board of stewards The stewards are al
ways mindful of the welfare of the boys,
and three times a year they are given an
elegant spread.
AT all of the asylums and hospitals
! there was some observance of the DAY.
| The hand of charity was everywhere felt
| At the Jail the prisoners were remem-
| bered and in the convict camps there was
| some slight recognition of the holiday to
/ cheer the hearts and soften the labors of
the men in stripes.
The management of the Georgia In
| Urinary acknowledges a gift from the
| children of the East Broad street school
(colored), consisting of ten pairs of blan-
| kets, two dozen towels, two dozen pairs
of stockings, two dozen pairs of socks,
fourteen mems night shirts, three bed
| spreads and three large baskets of fruit.
The teachers of the East Broad street
| school are to be commended for the faith
| full manner in which they keep their schol-
airs interested in good works This is not
the first gift the Infrmary has had from
the same source
In the business part of the city IT was
! quiet as IL is on Sunday. There was more
| general closing than has ever been known.
OF course the banks, exchanges and gov
/ eminent Offices We're closed and the courts
| adjourned, but there were more business
! houses closed than has ever been the case.
/ On the river there was very little doing
and Jack made the most OF the day on
shore or on shipboard, as the case might
be. Work on the wharves was suspended
The railroad employees had a day off. The
| freight departments were closed and the
| clerks had a rest.