The Newtown bee., 1896-12-11

il gh- of tlmc calls your .,5ttutinu 10 this particular season, to that especial day, and says, it has peculiar h aniUg that you must not lose with the coumon breaking of dawns and sestirg of suns. IHANKs1NIN" pAf HAS THIS PECULIAR
 MEANING,
 the duty of reckoning Gods mercies and being rjuccrely thankful for them every one.
 I believe n the princjp.e ''Ncw ovea- Sio.s teach new duties; time m4kcs @n- ciont good uucouth," Bout this. duty of grotafuI thanks giving to God can uev- rr hu thrust out, uo matter what new ocr@-ion "say s.rp in. Thanksgiving day started a> d dag of thanksgiving q K 5d for tlF farvr-ts ot rhr field gather set in, and Ave must alwaqs thank God for tHzt. We are an agricultural nation.
 Though aur cities orc4 fa~t becoming greater, though the accumuIatiop of vHst numbers in kheso RFaat reservoirs of luz manity is fast becoming, if not already Fso, one of the great facts. and one of the great perjIs, in th5s country, yet for real prosperity we must ever go back to the soil The vast prairirs of the West and he extended sayanuahs of the south cannot ! give up their populations to the cities they cannot, if this nation is to live. We are an agricultural people; Iocation and Pb1tRdth of empire have. htred us for chac, and we must stay 90. The loom and the forge are not SD much the symbols of our narfuu's life us the threshing machine and thp plough. P!lnteou9 baryests must al-
 ways meau ealth O our whole nation, and sc1tnt harvcsts must always mean de- presei0n and, want to our whole nation. Just now we are seeing what great wheat harvest means for us at ditne when ehe wheat supply'in India is short. l.. It is autumn. The harvests are in the stOrchUuse. The farmer who went out with the few handfuls of grain has come home with arnful5 of g0odIy sheaves. AgJ the wirQcle of growth has been
 wfohght before our eyes, Again the haudful of corn is in the earth upon the | top of the mountains, and the fruit there Df EsAaizoE like Legpnon. Agahl BtA l glcans among the rCapers, and handfuIs are dropped on purpose chat she may | gather them in her arms. Again the store is garnered that shall make lie farmer smile with the feeling of security as the driftiHg-sAew covers the fences and the how alng windsighs the requiem of another dying gaaEs Again this na- tion, from the plus WoOds of Maine to the land wher@Ehe GTegoa rolls its flood ,has tknown thet8aep iQp 6fthose who rejoice ! as.in the time of harvest It is fitting that we celebrate this time,
 Oh, that for one brief while it might be granted me to read, not the faces, but
 what is in the hearts, of those gathered here today. I wonder with wha5 feel l ings yoa have come into Gods house. In the secret chamber of your being are you keeping Thanksgiving day? Were you glad when they said unto you, Let us go into the house of the Lord that we may celebrate this feast? How many of you have come here this marning with hearts melting in the warm rays of conscious gratitude? How many of you have hearts Esttfened and made still by the icy letters of ofthank1essness? ? How many are oppress- ed with an -unspeakable sense of Gods goodness? How many feel that, with Gods mercy to you in the pastyear fully Ireeognizedl to. be dumb would capse the very stones to cry out with praise IHow many, Knowing that this is the place where vows are wont 1tb be- made, are ready to ask, @What aha II I render unto the Lord for all His benefits towardme P How many come here with hearts made sore by blow upon, bLow of adverse. for tune and hard loU 1? Whoever you taFa, whatever you fiAd ydlr circumstances to be, the text comes plainly with it's ex. Eaortation to you, !, !. }
 .l Ft,1N EVERYTHING GIVE THAEBs.Y B
 NowlI want to,namel some things fdt which at this lime We may well give lihearty thanks to G0d3.I have only time for three. And, first of alla we should be thankfal Beeanse we have the spirit of thankfulEesss $ A thankful heart to God for all His bleBsing$ is the greatest blessing of all. 7 IS not ingratitude sin2 We'll, can you imagine a worse condition