St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-12-21
q SONG OF THANKS.
Rational Congratulations for the
Achievements of Past Year.
Thanksgiving Sermon Of DR.. Tai.
mage In Which He Speaks of
Many Marvellous Changes
Victories of Peace.

speaks
Many Marvellous Changes
Victories Of Peace.
copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch. N. 7.
I Washington.
This discourse of DR.. Talmage is ,
1ational congra tulation over thu
achievements of brain and hand dur
ang the past IL months. The texts are
Z. Corinthians 9:10, "He that plowett
should pillow in hope;" Isaiah 41:7, "He
that smootheth with the hammer;
Judges 5:14, "They that handle the
Pen of the writer"
There is table being spread across
the top of the two great ranges Of
nnountains which ridge this continent
q table which reaches from the At.
antic to the Pacific sea. It 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 it. On it are smoking the prod
'Facts of all lands, birds of every aviary,
cattle from every pasture, fish from
every lake, feathered spoils from every
EARN. The fruit baskets bend down
tunder the products plucked from the
Peachfields of Maryland, the apple or
ehards of western New York, the or
Ange groves of Florida, the vineyards
of Ohio and the nuts threshed from
New England woods. The bread is white
from the wheat fields of Illinois and
Michigan, the banqueters are adorned
with California gold, and the table is
A~gleam with Nevada silver, and the
Heast is warmed with the fire CRATES
,heaped up with Pennsylvania coal.
2he hall is spread with carpets from
Lowell mills, and at night the lights
IwIll flash from bronzed brackets of
philadelphia manufacture. The fin
gers of Massachusetts girls have hung
The embroidery, the music is the drum
panied by the shout of children let
loose for play, and the gladness of the
Iharvesters driving BARNARD the loads
-tof sheaves, and the Thanksgiving Of
The nation which crowd the celestial
gates with doxologies until the oldest
harper of Heaven cannot tell where
the terrestrial song ends and the
celestial song begins.
Welcome Thanksgiving day! What
ever we may think Of New England
theology, we all like New England
Thanksgiving day. What means the
Bteady 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 railway? Ask the happy
group in the New England farmhouse.
Ask the villagers whose song of praise
In the morning will come over the
Berkshire hills. Ask all the planta-
rtions OF the south which have adopted
the New England custom of setting
apart day of Thanksgiving. oh, it
is great day of national fcstivity!
Clap your hands, We people, and shout
aloud for joy! Through the organ
pipes let there come down the thunder
of nations rejoicing! Blow the cor
net! Wave the palm branches! "Oh,
that men would praise the Lord for His
Goodness and for His wonderful works
TO the children of men,"
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 return
ing heroes and sounded the requiem
for the slain in battle. Methinks it will
be healthful change if on this years
Thanksgiving in church and home
stead we celebrate the victories of the
pillow, the hammer and the pen; for
nothing was done at Santiago or Ma
Mia that was of more Importance than
chat which in the last year has been
done in farmers field and mechanics
shop and authors study by those who
never wore an epaulet or shot Span
lard or went a hundred miles from
Eheir own doorsill. Come up, farmers
and mechanics and literary men, and
get your dues as far as can pay them.
Things have marvelously changed.
Tine was when the stern edict of GOV
eminent forbade religious as
semblages. Those who dared to be so
unloyal to their king as to acknowl-
edge loyalty to the Head of the Uni
verse were punished. Churches awful
ly silent in worship suddenly heard
their doors swung open and down up
on the church aisle score Of muskets
thumped as the leaders babe them
><Ground arms!" This custom of hav-
ing the fathers, the husbands, the sons
and brothers at the entrance of the
pew is custom which came down from
olden time, when it was absolutely
necessary that the father or brother
should sit at the end of the church pew
fully armed to defend the helpless por-
ton Of the family. But now, how
changed! Severe penalties are threat
ened against any one who shall inter-
rupt religious services, and annually,
at the command of the highest official |
in the United States, we gather togeth- !
er for thanksgiving and holy worship.
To-day would stir your souls to joy
full Thanksgiving while I speak of the
mercies of God and in unconventional |
way recount the conquests of the pillow,
the hammer and the pen.
Most of the implements of hus-
have been superseded by mod
ern inventions. but the blow has never