Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-29

Jews are great family throughout the world. They care for their poor; they
 nurse their sick, and so they have fewer | poor and sick to care for. This does not obliterate the law of prosperity. The very Providence which
 marks out the bounds of our habitation 1 begetS thereby the sense and right of 1 property. We are not buffaloes wander l ing in herds, nor birds of a feather flock | ing together. Our wants differ, our l tastes, cur capacities
 3. This opens herein to the further l thought that Gods bounty is not ire 1 speetive of human character. There is | a divine government in the world as well 1 as a Proyidence-a providential govern
 ment. A man who will not work, or who l spends his all in the vicious courses may l not come to me and say: Pm hungry 1 and the world owes me a living. l must l live" 1 might answer with Talleyrand | 'I don't see that. For aught I know God | may intend you to Starve. I must help you personally so far. and I must give l with my neighbors in certain general l measures of relief, but beyond that I am
 not called upon to go." My honestly got l ten property has paid it's generous lien | toward the poor and the sick to divide l share and share alike with one who might have had IS well as l. and may | have had tenfold better chance than I. It cannot be denied that the worthiest l man may be reduced to poverty, but it is | also true that if there were no unworthy poor it would be a light task to help the unfortunate poor. And who believes | that if the law of love obtained we could l ever have the distressing panics that | come upon us-often, too, with the land | glutted with food and treasure. Yet it must be recognized that men by their l own sins largely cut themselves off from | the bounty of God and the help of their fellows. And it is right that these dis l functions should obtain~ It would be | strange if equal advantages were given I to the law-breaker and the law-keeper | Such Providence would beget improVi- dence. It would legalize the wrong. It would put premium on it. I have thought it profitable today to | state sharply to ourselves these consider l ations which vindicate and illustrate the | providence of God. Yet how wonderfully | He cares for the mass of His creatures, despite idleness and crime, despite self | ishnesS and waste. In lg t a small per | centage of American homes will there | not be a dinner today to regale the palate | of a king, and that whether a word of | Thanksgiving be spoken or not. And so I at last Gods providence is a wonderful exposition of His grace.
 And now we have met to give express | sion to our gratitude How blessed are l we, my friends, to live in land where l it is now good form for the chief mag l istrate of the nation and state to call
  | be ''bad politics" to omit this. The GUS l tom. however formally kept up by our l magistrates. is marvellous proof that 1 ours is a Christian nation and that the | mass of our people desire to see God l recognized as the giver of all good. Let l us then not be like the rich fool described l by our Savior. He stood and looked upon l the amazing yield of his fields until his | eyes dilated in wonder and he exclaimed,
 What shall do? Where shall bestow
 all my fruits and all my goods?" God l had emptied the cornucopia of the year l upon him and he cries out with aston l ishment where are barns for this? "Ahl' 1 says St. Ambrose, man, thou hast barns the mouths of the orphans, the houses | of the widow"
 1 All about us are Christ's poor Let us 1 seek them out. But the thought of the l day is chiefly thanksgiving. We are to | be "rich toward God" And so I ought l to name a fourth law and say: Fourth. 1 That Gods bounty will be great or small l to us very much according to our own l disposition.
 l Industry must seek out Gods plenty, l brotherhood distribute it abroad the | law of character should rightly appor- l tion it, but the disposition of the~rnan at 1 last must enjoy it. There is many a I millionaire whose desires can never be | satisfied, and then there is many an hum- l ble Christian who is as happy and feels l as rich as a king. So with all Gods dis | pensations Jacob said, "All these things | are against me-" but Paul said, "All l things work together for good for me-" l It is the difference between Jacob and 1 Paul.
 l A thankful temper, my brethren, Is the l best sauce with which to eat our turkey l today; a generous spirit is the best sea- l Soning for it all
 l At Temple Emanuel. l The Thanksgiving services at Temple | Efrn1nIInl niOht in l teresting and were witnessed by a large l congregation. The choir and orchestra | rendered splendid music, and the ad- l dress delivered by Dr. O. P. Fitzsmons l was one of the best that has been heard l in Birmingham in a long time. The pro- | gramme, an excellent one, was as fol- l lows:
 Anthem, America" - Congregation 1 choir and orchestra.
 l Prayer-Dr. w. B. Phillips. l Trombone solo-Prof. F. L. Grambs, ac-
 companied by Miss Mary L. Wilson and l Grambs' orchestra.
 l Responses from Psalm 104-Rabbi and | Sabbath school
 | cal solo-Mrs. B. Guckenberger. Adress-Rev. Dr. O. P. Fitzsimons.
 Hear Us, Father''-Choir.
 Responses from Psalms-Rabbi and
 | Sabbath school
 | Babylon" vocal solo-Mrs. D. G.
 | Chandler.
 | Prayer-Rabbi Morris Newfield l star Spangled Banner"-Congrega-
 | tion, choir and orchestra. Finale, Inauguration March"-Orches- | tra.
 At St. PauPs.
 l Thanksgiving services were conducted | at St. Pauls yesterday morning at g | o'clock by Father Riley. The exposition of the blessed sacrament | will begin this morning after the 8 o'clock l mass and will continue the high mass | Sunday at 10:30 o'clock Considerable | interest is being taken in the Catholic l bazaar which will be opened next month. l The proceeds will be used in completing l the church.
 School Children in Atlanta. The public schools had holiday yes l terday and about 200 of the pupils spent 1 the day in Atlanta seeing the exposition. | They went over to Atlanta the day before | in company with several of the teachers