The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-07-14
GAVE THANKS TO GOD
CHURCHES OF THE CITY ANSWER
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
SOME CAUSES FOR GRATITUDE.
Rev. I. w. Corey Speaks Eloquent Words
at the First Baptist Church other
Churches Also Offer Fervent
Thanks for Victory.

In response to the proclamation of
President Mckinley nearly all the
churches of Kenosha held special SER
vices Sunday to give thanks to God
for the success of American arms.
Large crowds were in attendance at
all the churches and songs and prayers
were uttered with patriotic ferver,
which showed how fully the religious
people have entered into this the strug
gle for freedom. The heroes were
given the praise due them and prayers
for the repose of the souls of the brave
boys who persisted were waited up
before The throne of divine grace.
The songs sung and the scriptural text
all had a ring of glorious victory as
we'll as fervent thanks.
All the ministers seem to think that
Christians are at the helm in this war.
There is in it no hope for, no spirit OF
conquest and it was the christianity of
America which caused us to enter this
war. But all seemed to think that
there was greater cause for rejoicing
than victories on land and sea.
America is in the hands of Christians.
A devout and God fearing president
occupies the presidential chair, while
generals and admirals who are eXecut
ing his orders are all working not only
under the guidance of the president but
also under the direction of the divine
providence. God has given us the
victory and to him is due the praise
was the spirit of every service.
Some Causes for Gratitude.
Rev. /. W. Corey preached the
thanksgiving sermon of the day at the
First Baptist church on the subject OF
some causes for gratitude" before one
of the largest audiences ever assembled
at the church. He spoke of war and
the rise and fall Of nations. L,tera-
ture and intelligence had builded Rome
and Greece only to watch them crum-
BILE to decay and ruin in the midst of
their glory. Morality is the true key
stone in the building of nations and
without it all nations and governments
must fall. Morally men are always
growing to the zenith and the glorious
christian men who are leading our
TROOPS on land and sea to incessant
victories make a complete and over
whelming contradiction to the pessi-
mist who claims that the morality of
the United State is in it's decline.
Far back in traditional history Rev.
Corey found two causes for thanksgiv
ing. Our ancestors. Proud are the
American people of their English an
cestors, and to them is dne largely
their learning, their love of freedom
and their God fearing nature. We are
proud of what we are and of those
who made us what we are. But an
other and greater cause for congratu
latfon is our religious and political
liberty. 1t came with our ancestors
and when they landed at the base of
Plymouth rock the first banner I'M
furled was the banner of religious and
political freedom. This spirit stood
behind the soldiers at Valley Forge
when hardship and suffering caused
many a noble hero to fall. 1t stood
behind the men at Bunker Hill, load
ing every musket and directing every
charge. Burned IN the nations blood
it was the guiding star at Gettysburg,
and today it has inspired courage for
great victories at Manila and Santiago,
and as the last vessel of SPANS power
full squadron was beached upon the
reefs of Cuba's shore it blazoned out
a new motto for new nation. That
same spirit stands on the intrench
ments at Santiago today and gives the
brave boys in blue greater and
grander motive than conquest of king
doms and empires.
You can't make people from moth
ing. A fool educated is only an edu
Gated fool, and $4,000 man can never
be made from a ten cent hog. The
American people have basis for their
greatness. Blood will tell and it has
told in the development of great race
from our English ancestors.
Rev. Corey also spoke of the un
crowned heroes and declared that
there were not thrones enough to
crown the men who had made
themselves greater heroes than
kings and emperors. Four thousand
uucrowned kings volunteered to sink
the Merrimac in the harbor of San
tiago. Behold their spirit when the
enemy's ships were sinking and Span
iards were sinking in their unequal
battle with the raging surf; our brave
boys were the first to lend their aid
and carried them safe to their ships.
This was the true military spirit when
victorious sailors reached out for their
sinking enemies as brothers.
Gratitude also for such leaders as
Cant Jack Phillins of the Texas who