Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-11-30
THANKSGIVING
An Instructive and En-
tertaining Sermon By
REV. 7. \. MITCHELL
Union Services Were Held at
Hedding Church

Union thanksgiving SeTVlCeS "cIt
held yesterday morning at 1870 at
the Hedding Methodist church and
most instructive and entertaining
sermon was delivered by the brilliant
and popular young pastor of the Local
Presbyterian church, the Rev. Thomas
Fl. Mitchell. His discourse was as
follows:
1t is an easy thing to come in here
this morning to praise God for his
many mercies throughout another
year, but it is Il hard thing to go out
from this house and glorify him, hour
by hour, in our lives. And so it would
be an easy work for me to enumer
ate many causes, for which we as a
nation. as a community and as indi-
viduals ought to be gratitied, but !
prefer to call your attention to the
fact that Christian living in the home,
on the street. in business, is the most
acceptable gift we a return to God
forall his benefits to US. ThankSgiv-
ing day is not intended to gather unto
itself a whole year Of thanks. 1t is
intended rather to give the key note
for all the years life. Life's true con-
cert pitch is praise. And today is a
good time for US all to take a new
start ia joyous, peaceful living.
l have selected this passage from
one Of Paul's epistles because, as it
seems to me, it gives US three prac.
lical directions for the guidance of our
lives, which We very much need. Let
us look at these in order:
/ In the first place Paul tells us to
be careful for nothing.
l was talking, about ten days ago,
to u Of the prominent business men
of the city and he said to me, "Why
don't you preach sometime, upon
worry? why," said he, 81 know scores
of men right ia III community who
are simply letting worry eat out their
lives" | do not think it can be
doubted that worry is the great Am.
eric n disease. And it is a wonder to
me that the American people who are
SO practical, do not learn the futility
Of it. The wise men tell US that
every creature Of nature has some ben
eticent use. Even the fly, they say.
is not Without a purpose. 1t is one
Of natures scavengers. But what
good does worry accomplish? cit
impairs appetite, it spoils digestion
it disturbs sleep, it weak. rs the mind,
it warps the character, it is a popular
form ofsuicide."
Now some one has said there are
two occasions when one should not
worry, the first is when we cannot
help the result we fear: the second is
when We can help it. And these two
occasions you will notice, cover all
the circumstances of our lives.
How shall we overcome the habit?
The undertaking is not an easy one,
but the application of simple common
sense to the practical affairs of life
will greatly aid US. The German peo-
pie have what they call the heroic
treatment for many forms of disease.
We must adopt this method;iu dealing
with worry. AS the writer already
quoted says: I'VE must realize with
every pulse Of our being the utter and
absolute useleSsneSS Of it,. We must
understand that if we could spend a
whole series of inilmities in worry, it
would not change the fact one lot or
little for the better"
Another Wy to overcome the worry
habit is by gstting into a higher al.
titude of living. Sometime ago we
were discussi"g this topic in one of
our mid-weeh meetings. One mem.
Der of u circle, who always has
something good to say told US that |
when a boy he had discovered that If
he climbed atree he could in that way |
get rid OF the annoyance of mosqui.
toes. Worry is a good deal like mos
quitoes. g 1t is not n large indi-
vidual sorrow like anxiety. 1t is a
whole colony Of petty, vague, insig-
niicant, restless imps of fear" And
these little imps are never found
above the ground. The opposite
ives too near the ground. He needs
to climb into the altitude of hope,
faith and love, and to learn the
essen Of the flowers and the birds.
Behold the fowls of the air" said the
master, "they SOW not neither do they
cap nor gather into barns, yet your
Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are
We not much bitter than they? And
Why take We Thought for raiment?
Consider the Ii lilies OF the field, how