The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1901-11-29
A SONG OF THANKS.
Iational Congratulations for the
Achievements Of Past Year.
sermon Ut DR.. Tai
mage In which He speaks of
Many Marvellous Changes
Victories OF Peace.
Copyright, 1901, by Louis Kiopseh. N. Y.


Judges 5:i4, They that handle the
pen Of the writer"
There is table being spread across
the top OF the two great ranges OF
mountains which ridge this ontinent.
a table which reaches from the At
lantic to the Pacific sea. II is the
Thanksgiving table Of the nation.
They will come from the cast aud the
west and the north and the south and
ait at It. On It are smoking the prod
ucts Of all lands. birds OF every avIary.
cattle from every pasture, fish from
every lake, feathered spolls from every
farm. The fruit baskets bend down
under the products plucked from the
peaehfelds OF Maryland. the apple or
ehards OF western New York. the or
hnge groves OF Florida, the vineyards
OF Ohio aud the nuts threshed from
New Eng andwoods. The bread is white
from the wheat fields Of Illinois and
Michigan, the banquetcts are adorned
with California gold, and the table is
A.glcam with Nevada silver. and the
feast is warmed with the fre CRATES
heaped up with Pennsylvania coal.
The hall is spread with carpets from
Lowell mills, aud at night the lights
will fash from bronled brackets Of
Philadelphia manufacture Tho An
gers of Massachusetts, girls have hung
the embroidery, the music is the drum
ming Of ten thousand mills, accom-.
panied by the shout of children let
loose for play and the gladness OF the
harvesters driving barnward the loads
Of sheayes, and the thanksgivings OF
the nation which crowd this celestial
gates With doNologles until the oldest
harper ot Heaven cannot ,ell where
the terrestrial song ends and the
Celestial song begins
Welcome Thanksgiving layl What.
ever we may think of New England
theology, we all like New England
Thanksgiving day What means the
steady rush to the depots and the long
rail trains darting their lanterns along
the tracks Of the Boston & Lowell, the
Georgia Central, the Chicago Great
Western, the St, Paul & Duluth and the
southern railway9 Ask the happy
group Up the New England farmhouse,
Ask the villagers whose song Of praise
In the morning will come over the
Berkshire hills Ask all the planta,
lions OF the south which have adopted
the New England custom OF setting
apart a day Of thanksgiving. oh. IT
ia great day Of national festivity!
Clap your hands, ye people. and shout
aloud for joyl Through the organ
pipes let there come down the thunder
Of nations rejoielpgi Blow the cor.
pet Wave the palm bFaneheSl h0h,
that men would praise the Lord for His
iooiness and for His wonderful works
10 the children Of men"
For two years and half this nation
has been celebrating the triumph OF
word and gun and battery We have
mng martial airs aud cheered return.
ing heroes and sounded the requiem
Tor The slain Ia battle. Methihks It will
be a healthful change IL on this years
Thanksgiving IN church and home
,iesd Ne celebrate the victories of the
ploW, the hammer and the pen. for
poihlng was done at Santiago or Ma.
pila 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 thase who
never wore an epaulet or shot q span.
ard or went hundred miles from
their own doorstll, Come up, farmers
and mechanics and literary men, and
ge your dues as far as can pay the NJ.
Things have maryeously changed.
Tine was when the stern edict OF gov.
eminent forbade religious as
,cmblages. Those who dared o be so
anluyal 10 their king as TO aGkppNl.
'dge loyalty TO the Heai pt the Uni,
Serse were punished Churches awful.
~ silent In worship suddenly heard
their doors swung open and down up.
On the church aisle score Of muskets
thumped as the leaders bade them
Ground Armsl" This custom OF hav.
Ing the fathers, the husbands, the sous
and brothers at the entrance OF the
| pew is 4 SusloW which came down from
bldeu time. when it was absolutely
pecessary that the father ey brother
should sit at the end OF the church pew
fully armed to defend the helpless por,
on OF the family. But now, how
hanged Severe penalties are threat.
ened against any one who shall inter
rupt religious services, and annually
At the command OF the highest oaicis
in the United States, we gather tqgstE
sr Tor Thanksgiving aud Aply worship
To-day | would stir your souls to Joy
lul Thanksgiving while | speak OF tn,
mercles OF God and In unconrentiona
way recount the conquests of the plow
the hammer aud the pen.
Most Of the implements az ms
bandry have been sppersedsd by mod
ern inventions, hpt tAe ploW has meyer
lost It's reign II has fwrowed its wal
through all the ages. lis victories hay,
been waved by the baGiey Of Palestine
the wheat pf Rrsia, the TAX OF Ger
many, the rice stalks of China, the rlcl
grasses Of Italy, II has turned W
the mammoth OF siberia, the mas,odol
Of Egypt aud the pine groves of Thes
ialy, Its iron foot hath marche,
where Moses wrote and Homer san,
and Aristotle taught and AleYandei
mounted his War ch9ygsT. II hatl
wruns its Golfer On Norwegian Wild
Ind ripped out the stumps Of tn,
American forest, pushing Its wa,
through the saN0nnas Of the Carolina
and trembling in the grasp OF the New
Hampshire yeomanry American cl,
! iliration hath kept step with the RAJ
tie Of ita cleyises, aud 90 It's beam hat
ridden Thrift and national plep,y,
, ! do not wonder that the lapapes
and the Chinese ard The Phoeniolau
so particularly ex,olled husbandry q
! that Clnplnnatus went from The cor
sulshlp TO the plow or that Noah was
: farmer before he became u shiphuildc
or that Elisha was in the field plowin
with u yoke Of oxen when the mantl
, fell on him or that the Egyptians !
their paganlSm worshined the OK as
tiller OF their lands,
. "llthcus, the king. found some rlc
gold mines in his province. SO !