The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-12-06
THANKSGIVING SERVICES.
Elder GoodaCre's Story Ct the Past
and the Present.

| thanksgiving services at the
court house last Thursday morning
were attic nded by an unusually
large crowd, and those present were
treat, I'd to a programme rich with
Thanksgiving mnsic, prayer and
e!oquence. Elder Henry Goodacre
OF the Christian church preached
the sermon of the day. He began:
''The seed of the Puritan crop,
ripe in the reign of ungainly James,
was sown in the long reign of Eliz-
abeth. They brought Thanksgiv-
ing from the old world.
''The first command God gave us
was to subdue the earth. Let US
note the success thus far attained
in bridging the gulf between man
and the seraphim, and note how he
who was
Bowed by the weight OF centuries and did
lean
| Upon his hoe and gazed upon the ground
is beginning to enter hisinheritance
and
-.have dominion over sea and land
And trace the stars and search the heaven
for power.
| And feel the passion of eternity
I'VE are in the last minutes Ct the
eleventh hour of the nineteenth cen
fury. Let us note It's progress.
The world is waking; she has slept
for centuries, but the indicating
hand on the dial of the Almighty
points to the hour of waking. In
it's magnetic center there flashes
electric currents in every direction,
startling the steam whistle into a
scream, the horse into stampede,
and a thousand bells to changing.
She is walking with majestic slug
gishness to the fountain of knowledge.
bathing her drowsy eyelids with
the waters of discovery and cloth
ing herself with the morning robes
of invention.
"Men now live more in a decade
than they did formerly in century.
This century can only be compared
with all the centuries that have
gone before Wonderful in activity
it is full of omens. The twentieth,
must be child of vigor, offspring
of such an active parent. Watt and
Franklin were the fathers of this
century, steam and electricity its
dynamics. Intercommunication has
buried the hermit and the hermit
age. For more than 80 centuries
no progress was made in travel.
The ancient Roman, Greek, Assyri-
an and Egyptian could go as quickly
as our fathers. Now, the iron horse
runs over every hill, and the ocean
greyhounds chase each other over all
seas aud have made immortal the
names of Watt, Stephenson and Full
ton. Elias Howe of Massachusetts.
by his lock stitch sewing machine:
James Hargrayes Of England, by
his spinning jenny, and Joseph JAG
guard of France. by his loom, are
clothing the millions.
IMore than half century of cen
turtles saw man with no better arti-
fetal light than torch. tallow dip
and oil lamps. Now, a catalogue of
lights from the brilliant white of
the arc lamp to the invisible X ray
would weary you. Photography is
the hand maid of arts and science,
enabling meteorolgist, physicist
and biologist, with their delicate
self-registering instruments to re-
cord the most fleeting natural phe-
nomena. The photographers dream
is fulfilled in pictures of natural
color. Time would fail to tell of
harvesting machinery, telephone,
typewriter and ten thousand other
contrivances for saving labor and
material. And these have their
moral influence The man who
drove the OK team deemed his anger
and oaths necessary implements to
reach the end of the road. Now, he
stands by the platform of the street
car and finds cool head and civil
tongue more in demand. We should
be thankful, too. for the move on
the part of the press to give the
people opportunity to improve their
position, Tightening the drudgery of
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