The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-11-29
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject; Now f. a Time For Rejoicing -
Peans OF Praise For the yictorie- of
Peace-The TTiumphs Of Husbandry
-Conquests OF the Pen

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! over the achievements Of brain and hauc
during the past twelve months: Ih'
! texts are: / Corinthians TX, 10, "He that
/ pioweth shall plow IN hope" Isaiah XII
| j lie that smOOtheth with me hammer;
Judges v, H.. They that handle the pen
OF the writer"
There is a table being spread across the
top OF the two great ranges OF mountains
which rldge this continent, a table which
reaches from the Atlantic 10 the Pacific
sea. IL IS the Thanksgiving table OF the
nation. They viii come from the East
and the West and the North and the
South and sit at H.. On u are smoking
the products of a.. lands, birds OF every
aviary, cattle from every pasture, hsh
from every lake. feathered spOils from
every farm. The fruit baskets bend down
under the products plucked from the
peach fields OF Maryland. the apple or
chards Of Western New York, the orange
groves Of Florida, the vineyard. Of Ohio
and the nuts thrashed from New England
woods. The bread ~ white from the
wheat feds of Illinois and Michigan, the
banqueters are adorned with California
gold. and the table - agieam with Nevada
silver, and the feast is warmed with the
fire CRATES heaped up with Pennsylvania
coal. The han il spread with carpets
from Lowell mills. and at night the lights
will fash from brOnzel brackets OF PhIia-
delphia manufacture.
Welcome, Thanksgiving Day! Whatever
we may think of New England theology,
we all Ike New England Thanksgiving
Day. What means the steady rush 70 the
depots and the long rail trains darting
their lanterns along the tracks of the Bos
ton and Lowell, the Georgia Central, the
Chicago Great Western, the st. Paul and
Duluth and the Southern railway Ask
the happy group in the New England
farm house; AL. the villagers whose song
g . L.. ,tv,r, Efstn sTp
the Berkshire hills, ask all the plantations
Of the South which have adopted the New
England custom OF setting apart a day of
Thanksgiving On, II is a great day OF ma
tional festivityl Clap your hands, We peo-
pie, and shout aloud for JOY! Through
the organ pipes let there come down the
thunder of a nations rejoicing! Blow the
cornet! Wave the palm branches "Oh.
that men would praise the Lord for His
goodness and for His wonderful works 20
the children OF meni'
For two years and half this nation has
been celebrating the triumph OF sword and
gun and battery. We have sung martial
airs and cheered returning heroes and
sounded the requiem for the slam IN bat
tie. Methlnks IT VIII be healthiul change
II on this years Thanksgiving IN church
and homestead we celebrate the victories
Of the ploy. the hammer and the pen, for
nothing was done at Santiago or Manila
that was of more importance than that
which in the last year has been done IN
farmers field and mechanics shop and
authors study by those who never wore
an epauiet Jr shot Il Spaniard or went
hundred miles from their own doorslI.
Come up, farmers and mechanics and liter
airy men and get your uues as tar as / can
pay them.
Things have marye,ous,y changed. Time
was when the stern ed!c, OF s2yernments
forbade religious a5semblaees. Those VINO
dared to be so unloyal 70 their king as 10
acknowledge loyalty 10 the Head Of the
universe were punished. Churches av,,
fully silent IN worship suddenly heard
their doors swung open, and down upon
the church aisle a score OF muskets
thumped as the leaders bade them Ground
arms!' This custom OF having the Gtners,
the husbands, the sons and brothers at
the entrance OF the pew Is a custom which
came down from o,den time, when 1t was
absolutely necessary that the father or
brother should sit at the erd or the churcn
pew fully armed to defend the helple-5
portion OF the family. but now now
changed! Severe penalties are threatened
against any one who sh.il Interrupt rehs-
ous services and annually, at the com,
mand OF the highest official IN the United
States, We gather together Tor thenksgiy,
ing and holy worship. To-Day | would
stir your sous 20 JOYFUL th&"Esslylng
while | speak OF the merc.cs o. God aad IN
unconventional way recount the conquests
OF the piow, the hammer and the pen.
Most of the implements OF husbandry
tlons, but the plow has never lost lts
reign II has furrowed its way through
all the ages It's victories have been waved
by tire barley Of Palestine, the wheat OF
Persia. the flax of Germany. the rice sta iks
of China, the rich grasses OF ltaiy. 1t has
turned up the mammoth o. Siberia, the
mastadon of Egypt and the pine groves OF
Thessaly. Its iron foot hath marched
where Moses wrote and Homer sang ana
Aristotle taught and Alexander mounted
his war charger. lt hath wrung ITS c)lter
on Norwegian wilds and ripped ont the
stumps of the American forest, pushing
its way through the savannahs OF the Gar
olinas and trembling in the grasp ot the
New Hampshire ycomanry. American
civilization hath kept step with the rattle
of its clevises. and on lts beam hath Ed
den thrift and national plenty.
| do not wonder that the japanese ana
the Chinese and the Phoenlclans so raE-
ticuariy extoled husbaGdry or that I'm
cnnatus went from the consu'shlp 20 me
plow or that Noah was c farmer before
he became a shipbuilder or that Elisha was
in the field blowing with twelve yoke OF
oxen when the mantle fell on hin or that
the Fqvptians in their pacanlsn Wor-
shiped the OK as 4 tiller Cf their lands.
To Get an appreciation of what the
American plow has accomplished taNe
you into the western wilderness. Here IN
the dense forest find a coAectlon Oh IN
dian wirwams With belts OF wlmrun
the mea iazilv sit on the skins OF oeer,
smoking their feathcred calunets, or. dnv-
en- forth by hunger, | troc.i Their rccca-
sins FAR away as Trey make tn forest
echoes crazy with their W. halloo r tsh
in the waters of the s;;ll ,cie. Now tnoe.
challenge and council nres haze. ana w"f
whoors rim, and chiefs liit the tomc-
hawks for bate. After awhile wagons
from the Atlantic coast come 20 those
forests Bv dsy trees are ielled. and by
night bonfres keep of the wolves. Log
cabins rise. and the great trees tegln 10
throw tleir branches in the path OF IN
conauering white man. Farms are ciearea'
Stumps. the monuments oi slam iores's'
crumblc and arc burned Villages appear,
with smiths at the bellows, masons on the
wall carpcntcrs on the hoasetop, Churches
rise IN honor OF the Great Spirls whom
the red men ignorantly woi ship. Steamers
on the lake convey merchandise 70 heE
wharf and carry cast the uncounted push
els that have come TO the market. BRING
bither wrcaths OF wheat and crowns oi
rye ana 'at the mills and the machiner,
of barn and field unite their voices 70 Gel
citrate the triumph. for the wilderness
hath re,reated and the plow hath con
With, orr time the President tial Cabin
et has ,dIcd a Sccretaryship c. Agricu.
tune Societies ere constantly teinS, es
tablshed Tor the education Of tie plow
Iourna's devoted 70 this ceparsmerg are
circulated through all the country. Farm
ers throush such culture have learned thC
attribute, of soils and found out that al
most every field has its peculiar prefer
cnces Lands have their choice rs e