Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-29
SERVICES At
THECHURCHES
THANKSGIVING WAS VERY GEN
ERALLY OBSERVED IN
BUTTE TODAY.
THE UNION SERVICES
At THE AUDITORIUM.
Under the Auspices of the Ministerial
Association-Speakers Were Revs.
Whiteman and Noftsinger.

Today is Thanksgiving, and it has
been generally observed by the people
OF the city of Butte. All stores and
places of business have been closed and
a holiday has been enjoyed by all. The
religious services Of the churches in the
morning We're well attended and the
offerings to the poor We're large.
In the Auditorium a union Thanksgiv-
ing service was given under the auspices
of the Silver Bow Ministerial associa-
ton at II o'clock this morning, and the
speakers We're Rev. J. H. Whiteman and
Rev. ]. F. Noftsinger. At the same hour
services We're held in the Mountain View
Methodist Episcopal church and Rev. S.
III. c. Burgin of st. Paul's Methodist
Episcopal church South delivered the
Thanksgiving sermon. 1t st. Johns
Episcopal church ArchdeacOn Weber de-
livered the sermon this morning. This
evening the Trinity congregation will
hold services and will witness the cam
collation. of the mortgage on their place
of worship.
The programme at the union services
in the Auditorium was as follows:
Organ Voluntary ........ ..............
-. Miss Florence NJ. PAUL
Doxology-'Praise God From Whom
All blessings FLOW
Invocation $500. ....Rev. N. p. Hansen
''Gloria in EXcelsis' ...... ........ChOir
Reading of Thanksgiving Proclama-
ton ...... edward Olive Tilburn
Hymn-'Joy To The World ..........
-. ...... Congregation and Choir
Reading the Scriptures and Prayer.
49,. .......... Edward Oliver Tilburn
Anthem-'God of the Harvest Lor-
G1lZJ &. 49,. -. . |llo
Address ...... REV G. H. Whitaman
Duet and Chorus-''My Blessed Jesus
So. misses Mcguire, Reed and Choir
Hymn-"The Spacious Firmament'
tHaydn) .....C Congregation and Choir
Address ............Rev. j. f. Noftsinger
Offering for the poor Everybody
Hymn-"America' ...... ..............
49,. ..... ...... Congregation and Choir
The address of Rev. G. H. Whiteman
was a most eloquent one and in full was
as follows:
My friends. we are met here this
morning to perform a duty and enjoy a
privilege which belongs to every one of
us, viz: The duty and privilege of CIV
ing thanks to the Great Giver of every
good and perfect gift for His bounties
and blessings to us through the year.
National days OF thanksgiving have
their ORIGIN III the NoIu u ATou. WV
find such a festival in the history Of the
Jewish people. The feast of tabernacles
was a public holiday, kept for the pur-
pose of giving ank to God for the
blessings of the year. We may safely
say that it is a very old custom, so far
as civilized nations are concerned. The,
Pilgrim fathers found such a custom
among the Dutch with whom they found
an asylum before coming to the shores
of America, and no sooner had they set
tied in the New England colonies than
such days of thanksgiving were instl-
tuted by them. The earliest record that
we have of any such day in the United
States is one celebrated by the Popham
colony on the coast of Maine, In August
OF 1907, thirteen years before the landing
Of the Pilgrim fathers at Plymouth.
The next recorded is one set apart by
Gov. Bradford, December 10, 1921.
Gov. winthrop appointed Saturdays in
the years 1853 to 1857.
President Washington, in 1854. From
then on the days We're not regularly
kept; but Lincoln, in 1865, called the
nation to thanksgiving for victory, and
since that time it has become IA part
of our national custom and always been
kept as a yearly festival, the president
regularly appointing it on the last
Thursday in November.
God in his inspired word has much
to say about the giving of thanks. This
is as much a duty as prayer, yet how
more ready we are to ask than to
give thanks for What We receive. In
everything give thanks, for this is the
will of God in Christ Jesus concerning
you"
Our duty is plain. We are not to be
neglectful of Gods mercies toward US.
The extent of this duty is brought be-
fore us. Too often we discriminate; we
place an estimate upon certain things
which we consider worthy of thanks. 1t
is easy enough to be grateful when all
is we'll and prosperous. Yet in his we
may make a serious mistake. Many
things in our life for which we feel the
least thanks may in reality be our great
est observation-disclosures of thrift, self reli-
ance and patience the most valuable
things in the building up of a character
and a people, may be taught us by ex-
periences for which we fel little thanks
at the time. The strength of the Amer
lean people is seen. not SO much in the
vast wealth and prosperity of the nation,
as it is seen in the reverSes and calam-
tiles which at times oVertake them.
Galveston, for example. In, or for every
1NHS we are give tidllkS, uIuei all
circumstances, this duty is to be per-
formed, for it is the will of God con-
corning u.s." If we inquire why the
performance of this duty comes within
the range of the Divine will concerning
us, we see plainly in the service rem
dered.
The giving of hanks leads us to a
contemplation of God as the giver of
all our blessings. He openeth His hand
and satisfieth the desire of every living
thing" H. is the fountain of all good
ness, the source of all mercies.
Material wealth of a nation is the ust
of hat has already been placed at our
disposal by God. All the labor expended
Upon these mountains would have avail
ed nothing had not the Great Creator
gone before men and placed the vast
resources at their disposal. We are in