Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-28

today and services We're held. In the Cath
olic churches mass was celebrated, and in
the Protestant churches and the Jewish
Synagogue or Sth street sermons and ad-
dresses were delivered appropriate to the
day. In several cases the pastors and con-
Sregations of a number of churches united
in services at one church.
OUR CoUNTRY's GLORY.
DIR. TalmaGe on Americas Great Ad-
vantnEes.
Hundreds of people We're turned away
from the First Presbyterian Church at the
Thanksgiving services this morning. At
10 o'clock there as large crowd waiting
outside the church, and half hour later
every pew was filled and people were
standing in every available space. Two
great sheaves Of wheat and corn consti-
tuted the simple but effective decorations
of the pulpit. Services commenced prompt
ly at II O'Clock. After the invocation by
Rev. Mr. Allen. Rev. DR.. Sunderland read
the Thanksgiving proclamation. The Pres
ident and Mrs. Cleveland were in attend
ance.
Rev. DR.. Talmage delivered the sermon
He took for his text the 7th verse of the
oIth chapter of Genesis, For benold We
We're binding SkeavcS in the field, and 10
my sheaf arose, and also stood upright
and behold your sheaves stood round about
and made obeisance to my sheaf."
In the course of his sermon Dir. Talmage
said: Good grand. old Thanksgiving day
has come. 1t has pressed it's way down
through the months. weeks and days and
is upon us now IN all of its glory Little
children were in holiday dress to greet it
and Old people had assembled in Gods tab
ernacle to give 1t welcome. lie compared
the great difference which existed today
with the times of the old Presbyterian an
1estors in Scotland, who worshiped in
caves, haraSSed by governments and hunt
ed like wild beasts. Today, however. well
coined by the chief magistrate of the
greatest nation on earth, they were wor-
Shipping God in accordance with their own
views. 1t was indeed a Josaphic dream
Joseph, he said, had dream that while
binding uD his sheaves in the midst of a
harvest field his sheaf had suddenly arisen
DR.. TalmaSe said ne was in the center of
great harvest field For here in America
was indeed the center of all the industry
and prosperity of this earth. Other nations
may surpass us in title, pomp and magniti-
cence of landed estates, but in most cases
their Sheaf must bow in obeisance to our
sheaf. He believed the greatest constella-
ton of them all was this country of ours
and he said he had $4,000 new reasons for
saying 50. Last year that number Of peo-
pie came from foreign countries to iy,
with us. They came because it was the
best place. If it had not been so they never
would have made the journey. He said We
should thank God for the many advantages
our country possesses. The atmospheric
in the world, and he believed that instead
OF sending men to the north pole to suffer
and to die we should send them there with
a nobler purpose, of persuading those poor
1ce-bound SaVageS to come and live with u.s.
Taking the other extreme, he said he would
rather live on the poorest street in a two
story house than live in the torrid zone
and own all of China as well as the other
foreign countries.
Some Comparisons.
Our natural resources We're marvellous
From the great west We got our cereals;
from the south our cotton; our fish came
from the Hudson river, Potomac river and
Buzzard's bay. He compared the wages Of
the tolers on the other side of the great
ocean with our own laborers, and said cur
toilsrs were 10 per cent better off. America
was the paradise of industry. While in
Europe some time ago he was asked by a
fellow-traveler how this country managed
to stand political revolution once every
four years. and he replied that the govern
ment was far more stable than that of Eu-
rope. True, there was good deal of steal
ing of public funds in this country, but the
difference between our conditions and theirs
over there was that here every public Off
cial had chance to steal, while in Europe
the salaries of the royal family were so
large that there was not enough left 20
steal. 1t was far better to be taxed here
at home and have our surplus distribute ed
among legislators and lobbyists than to he
taxed and have 1t all locked up in yard of
palaces. Here in this country we had only
just begun to set the service for our
Thanksgiving dinner. Our resources are
inexhaustible, and when at length all OF
them are developed We shall set Our table
for the real Thanksgiving dinner and invite
the whole nation between the two oceans
to come and dine with US.
Peace and Good Will.
The land is full Of peace Those who
followed Stonewall Jackson to the north
and Gen. Sherman to the south have set
tied their differences. They did it by mix
ing their politics. A southern beauty mar
red northern beau, and the result was
an offspring that was one-half Mississip-
plan and one-half Yankee. Referring to
the financial condition of the country he
said we were better off in the way Of ma
tional debt than any other country. 1t was
true that our finances had been somewhat
complicated, but the law of pendulum
would settle it in time. The pendulum had
been swinging on toward bankruptcy and
Woe but it was beginning to change and
would swing just as far the other way to-
ward happiness and peace. England is for
manufactures. France for manners, Ger
many for scholars, Italy for pictures, but
the United States was for God. Although
this was his first Thanksgiving sermon in
Washington, he had always come to this
city to get his facts for his other Thanks
giving sermons. There vas always so
much lying about the condition of the
country that he wanted to get at the foun-
tain head of facts. He had heard some
people complain about this being a poor
year. and it was a great wonder to him
that the Lord did not blot it out and make
it over again. In reality, the present year
was most prosperous one, and our cereal
products was 1,SSI,701, AGO bushels greater
than last year.
Concluding, he said Now, go home to
the sumptuous repaSts that have been pre-
pared for you and if one be absent this
year-who was with you last don't let your
grief overcome your gratitude, but bow
your heads and give ttnnks to the Lord for
His mercy and goodness"
A GOODLY HERITAGE.
Sermon Delivered by DR.. Johnston at