The Penn's Grove record., 1901-11-29
DR.. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: Now Is a Time For Rejoicing =
Poans of Praise For the Victories of
Peace-Thc Trlumphs of Husbandry
-Conquests of the Pen.

Subject: Now Is a Time For Rejoicing =
Poans of Praise For the Victories of
Peace-Thc Triumphs of H~usbandry
-Conquests of the Pen.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-This discourse of
Or. Ialmage is a national congratulation
over the achievements of brain and hand
during the past twelve months. The
texts are: | Corinthians tx, 10, "He that
ploweth shall pillow in hope" Isaiah XII,
] He that smootheth with the hammer"
Judges v, IA, They that handle the pen
of the writer"
There is a table being spread across the
top OF the Two great ranges of mountains
winch ridge this continent, a table which
reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific
sea. 1t is the Thanksgiving table of the
nation; They will come from the East
and the West and the North and the
South and sit at il. On it are smoking
the products of all lands, birds of every
aavlary, cattle from every pasture, fish
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 vineyards of Ohio
and the nuts thrashed from New England
wheat fields of Illinois and Michigan, the
~banqueters are adorned with California
gold, and the table is agleam with Nevada
silver, and the feast is warmed with the
fire CRATES heaped up with Pennsylvania
coal. The hall is spread with carpets
from Lowell mills, and at night the lights
will fash from bronzed brackets of Phila-
delphia manufacture.
Welcome, Thanksgiving Dnyl Whatever
we may think of New England theology,
we all like New England THANKSGIVING
Day. What means the steady rush to the
depots aud the long rail trains darling
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; ask the villagers whose song
Of praise in the morning will come over
the Berkshire hills; ask all the plantations
of the South which have adopted the New
England custom Of setting apart a day Of
thanksgiving. Oh, it is a great day of ma
tionel festiyityl Clap your hands. We peo-
pie, and shout aloud for joyl Through
the organ pipes let there come down the
thunder Of a nations rejoicing! Blow the
%cornet! Wave the palm brapchesl "0h,
that men would praise the Lord for His
goodness and for His wonderful works to
the children of men!"
For two years and a half this nation has
been celebrating the triumph of sword and
gun and battery. We nave sung martial
airs and cheered returning heroes and
sounded the requiem for the slain in bat
tie. Methinks it will be a healthful change
if on this years Thanksgiving in church
and homestead we celebrate the victories
of the plow, 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
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