Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-30
Problems Presented,
VARIOUS THEMES,
Education and Peace and the Natfon.s
PrOGress.

AT ire Thanksgiving service this morning
IN the Mount Pleasant congregational
Church the pastor, Rev. NJ Ross Fish
burn, presided. and there were five other
speakers. In his introductory words Mr.,
Flshburn analysed the Presidents procIa-
nation, and indicated to the congregation
the nVe great reasons named by the chief
7'HtNe "h'h summon our nation to
give thanks in this year of our Lord Tbesa
reasons were as follows: First, The bless
lilSs winch nave come to our homes. 500
ora, The Improvement in financial aca
hoinlc ana Industrial conditions; third The
gam In the moral and educational prowtb
vi OUT national character; fourth The ex-
aitation of patriotism; fifth The ratifica- :
ton of an honorable peace with Snaf, ard
the 1rlendliness of our relations to all othar
nations. The speakers were Dean
Eweil' ID; D.. Rev: w: H. MCDOWELL, presl-
dent j. e. Rankin, LII. D.; Prof I w
Chtchering and w. f. Andrews. Sneciai
music was rendered by the choir of the
church, Composed of Mrs. A. D. Melvin
soprano Miss Mary +. Pond, contralto
Mr.. w. II. Ronsavile, tenor, and Mr. II
H. Craft. basso.
With reference to The cain in the Moral
and Educational Growth of Our National
Character, President Rankin said in part:
The hope of the nation is in the moral
strength of its youth. Its youth that Will
not disappoint this hope are today In
schools and churches We hold the fort
today but tomorrow they take possession.
me tendency of our period is to study the
things and to do the things that we nra
fer: We refer all questions to the taste
and the sensibilities. There are great sinh
1ects that ought to be studied great prob
lens that ought to be solved; great achieve
ments that ought to be attained by Young
Americans. If we fancy them it is all
right II we think 1t will pay it is all
right. And right here sometimes war is
a Godsend. 1t comes with the pressure of
new obligation. 1t comes with its de-
prlVations and sacrifices. with its hard
ships; with its sorrow and death Lieu
tenant Colonel Guy Howard is shot from
amouscade; Major John A. Logan at the
mead OF his column. They die but the iro,
that was in their blood flows in the veins
OF their children and their chiidren's chill
dren-fructihes to the end of time These
young men met an obligation They will
nave perpetual youth In all their posterjtv
TO the latest generation.
When the President asks us to thank
Goa FOR steady gain in the moral and ed
ucational growth of our national Character
ne means this; that the churches and
the schools are doing their work better
year by year. There is certainly great adj
vance in the philosophy of educational
work; we know better how to teach: how
to make learning simpler and more attrac-
i've; to make the process more analytic
and logical. Whether we have the same
august sanctions to duty is another ones
ton. Ethics, of course, take their author-
tty and dignity from the motive"
Honorable Peace.
Mr. W, e. Andrews, auditor for the u.
S. Treasury Department, speaking of IAN
honorable peace" said:
The passing years have witnessed the
decadence of Spain and the ascendency of
the United States. the latter being a new
creation, yes, brilliant revelation in mod
ern civilization My friends, it is eminent
~ proper that we render thanksgiving to
Almighty God because He wrote the origi-
nal Magma Charta of this nation in the con-
stltutton of the human soul. and decreed
that the evolutions of society should ulti-
mately reveal intellectual, civil and reli-
gious freedom as the guiding star of future
progress
AS the events of the Spanish war recede
from us, some people seem to think that
inns nation sought or created an oppor-
tunity to wage war against Spain. Not so
me arts of diplomacy We're exhausted in
vain efforts to solve the Cuban question
without war We waited, and waited un1iI
Performance ceased to be virtue The Gu
bans demanded release from the cruelties
of years. Our national treasury demanded
release from the heavy expenditures re-