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Union Service of Baptist Churches Held in Grand Avenue Baptist Church Sermon by Rev. James A. Elder of Hope Church-New Book and Literary Organization Formed.
 The New Haven Baptist churches participated in union Thanksgiving ser- vices held on Wednesday evening in the chapel of the Grand avenue Rantist church. Revs. Messrs. Foster of the ollVet church, Elder of Hope church. Myer of the German church and Cut ten of the Montowese church partici- pated In the services. Thanksgiving hymns were rendered by chorus led py IN. A. Beebe, with Samuel R. Bish- DO 2d as accompanist. The sermon was oellvered by Rev. J. A. Elder of Hope church, who selected as his text Amos '' verses and 8. In the course of his remarks he said:
 The thankful spirit is not such a very rare thing. We meet here tonight because We believe in the spirit of up- rlghtness and are thankful. A person that is upright must necessarily be thankful. They used to say the eagle was nationa! bird; the eagle does not die for the country, but the turkey IS siaugntered. And if there is any plfd that should be the national bird IL IS the turkey. Instead of worship ping the Lord on Thanksgiving we wor- snip the turkey, and If there is a hired glrl IT the family she cannot be trusted With the basting. The congregations are so small in the churches on Thanksgiving day that they almost rat tie round. People cannot come to church on Thanksgiving just on ac- count of this gormandizing. Let us try ard be more upright in the praise of God. God is upright in all his deal- ings with us. Consider what God is doing for our country. We are slowly getting out of the depression which set in about 1892. This year we raised 200,- 000,00O bushels of potatoes, and 2,e00,- Oo0,0O0 bushels of corn and something more than 10,000OOO bales of cotton. It has not been a bad year for wheat and the hay crop is the best every raised in this country. God in his goodness has been very liberal to us in his gifts. I shall not talk about the war. We have rejoiced over great victories and we will soon rejoice over a speedy peace, God is certainly very generous in his his leadings of us as a nation. Great nations rise and fall when they fall away from God. The history of our enemy, Spain, is an illustration of this truth. The civilized and Christian peo- pie felt that this last foot of soil in this hemisphere should be taken away from Spain. These are great pyramids of truth. Only as we are rooted and grounded in God can we honor Him in the worId.'
 The Cadmus club new book and library organization, has been formed in Fair Haven. The members will meet once in two weeks for exchange of books, reading of papers and talks on current events "Connecticut His- torically Considered is to be the study for the year. The programme for each meeting is previously arranged by a committee. The following ladies are members. Mrs. Charles H. Smith, pres ident; Mrs. John j. Wilmott, vice pres ident; Mrs. J. E. Emery, secretary; Mrs. Edward G. Fenton, treasurer; Mrs. John w. Hill, Mrs. William Hull, Mrs. James T. MacMahon. Mrs. Fred J. Jackson, Mrs. John Keeler, Mrs. Walter ePtrie, Mrs. Alex. McGregor, Mrs. John Hubbell, Mrs. Smith Turner, Mrs Frederick Sanford, Mrs. John Goodwin Mrs. Frank Fowler, Miss Nell lie Scranton, Miss Ida Jackson.