The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-25

America, and she would thereby work
the ruin of England. We are thankful
today for the alliance between England
and America, for it means that hence
forth there shall rule over the earth the
best law that the heart Of God ever
conceived or the mouth of angels sang
Peace on earth, good will to men,
Dr' Almon Gunnison delivered a char
aoterisucallN eloquent sermon i'm the
course Of which he said in part: No
Thanksgiving that we have ever expe-
rleuced is more worthy to be celebrated
| than the one we are observing today.
We have passed successfully through
a great war; and America may now fit
ly express her thanksgiving for the
grand popular uprising that she has
seen IN behalf Of an oppressed people.
| IRON our hearts We may thank God for
| the picture Of our young men as they
went forth to do or die for the piinci-
pies Of liberty and human equality that
| their fathers established We have
seen thai true courage still exists in
American hearts, that patriotism has
not been smothered by the immense
development Of commercial and indus
trial prosperity
We realize today i'm this Thauksgiv-
ing season, that the horrors of war.
dreadful as they may be, are not com
parable TO the benefit that may accrue
to humanity from a righteously con
Quoted resort to arms. We are proud
today OF the record made by our brave
boys in the glorious deeds they did at
Manila, and the iudOmitable courage
they displayed before the deadly unseen
guns Of Santiago. 1t is true thai there
have been mistakes made in the con
duct Of the war and much unnecessary
suffering has been entailed thereby, but
in spite Of this the struggle has been
glorious, for it has demonstrated the
iron streak that still exists in the
American character. And better than
all, it has welded the north and the
south inseparably together with the
costly amalgam Of patriotic blood.
But We have a deeper cause OF
Thanksgiving than the national welfare
Unless [ have wrongly read the his
tory of America. there is just as dis
tinCt providence that has directed the
course Of our history as that which die
tated every act of the children Of Is
rael believe that the hand that
turned Washington back from the sea
and raised him up to be the founder
of a great people. was the hand of God
/ believe that the hand that selected
plain, unlettered Abraham Lincoln &c
make him the new Moses to lead his
people out of bondage, was the hand
of God and just so I believe that in
the recent war, the hand that directed
every act of our brave men on land and
sea for the good of the human race
was the hand of omniDotent God.
There never was greater lie than
that of Napoleon when he said: God
is on the side of the larger army.
There is no history that does not con-
tradict that God is ON the side OF
human liberty of righteousness and
justice on the title page of the his
tory of every nation is written that the
face of God is set against unrighteous-
ness.
The face of God is set against lie
Spain is today in the dust because she
has only the memory Of persecution
and sin behind her
Wellington said that next to the ca
lamity Of a defeat. the most dangerous
thing that he knew of was the posi-
BILE calamity of a victory In the mo-
men1 of victory, We stand in a certain
danger. In the feeling of the Ameri-
can heart that all safety lies in the
strength of navies and ornaments there
is great danger. Only as we remem-
her that God did it and only God did il
in the interest of human liberty are we
safe from the dangers Of victory.
Prayer was delivered by DIR. McCul-
lagh and the service was brought to q
close by the singing of America" by
the entire audience.