Connecticut western news., 1901-11-28

k1gs&g@ge@!gg2Gi1' 1g&g@!ggzG1' /, WARRINGTON, Nov. 24.-This discourse of Dr. Talmage is a national congratu- lation over the achievements of brain and hand during the past twelve months. The texts are: Corinthians ia, 10, He that ploweth should blow in hope;" Isaiah Xii, ', "He that amootheth with the hammer" Judses V, 14, "ThSey that handle the pen of the writer"
 There is A table being spread acfDsg the top of the two great ranges of mountains which ridge this continent a table which reaches from the Allan tic to the Pacific sea. 1t Is the Thanks giving table of the nation. They will ceme from the east and the west and ths nurth and the south and sit sit it e q arc smoking the products of all 0lA birds of every aviary, cattle ff00 svert pasture, fish from ever! lAhA feathsred spells from every farm 3aDp fruit baskets bend down under the peoaucts plucked from the peachfieldn Of Maryland, the apple orchards of WQo10n New York, the orange groves 0 1euridA, the vineyards of Ohio and thD nuts thrashed from New England Wo0ds. The bread Is white from the WAaAtnelds of Illinois and Michigan, tAo hanQueters are adorned with Cali teenla guld, and the table is agleam W1tA Nevada silver, and the feast if waened with the fire grates heaped - with Pennsylvania coal. The hall Is e0esAA with carpets from Lowell mills, ard at night the lights will flash from bsonzed brackets of Philadelphia man. ufsct,1re.
 Welcome, Thanksgiving day! What s~eT we may think of New England t1lNpls,gy, we all like New England Thanksgiving day. What means the maadY rush to the depots and the long tsaf trains darting their lanterns along tais tiYcks of the Boston and Lowell, thu 0tOrgia Central, the Chica go Great &tsstern, the St. Paul and Duluth and tass Southern railway? Ask the h ippy l1spup in the New England farmhouse; ssahk the villagers whose song of p :alse Ia the morning will come over the l;sfllshire hills; ask all the plantas ions of the south which have adopted the New England custom of setting apart . day of thanksgiving. Oh, it Is a great day of national festivity! Clap your hands, ye people, and shout aloud, for 3oy! Through the organ pipes let there come down the thunder of a natson's rejoicing! Blow the cornet! Wave the palm branches! "Oh, that men would prnlse the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the chil- drep of menw
 Victories of Peace.
 Fer two years and half this nation 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 homestead we celebrate the victories of the blow, 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 me ehanic's shop and authors study by t2Ose who never wore an epaulet or ohot a gpaniard or went hundred Difea from their own doorsill. Come up, farmers and mechanics and liter axy rnen, and get your dues as far as can pay them.
 Things have marvelously changed. Time was when the stern edict of gov sfnments forbade religious assembla- Ges. Those who dared to be so unloyal ta their king as to acknowledge loyalty tA the Head of the universe were pun isied. Churches awfully silent in wor ship suddenly heard their doors swung open, and down upon the church aisle . score of muskets thumped as the leaders bade them Ground armsv' This custom of having the fathers, the husbands. the sons and brothers at the entrance of the pew is custom which came down from olden time. when 1t was absolutely necessary that the fa- afE.r or brother should sit at the end of ahs. church pew fully armed to defend ah, helpless portion of the family. But Eow how changed! Severe penalties m. threatened against any one who shah interrupt religious services, and anauallN at the command of the high eus official in the United States, we esrther together for thanksgiving and hUly worship. Today I would stir your souls to joyful thanksgiving while 1 speak of the mercies of God and in un- conventional way recount the con quests of the blow, the hammer and the pen.
 Most of the implements of husband ry have been superseded by modern inventions, but the blow has never lost its reign. 1t has furrowed Its way through all the ages. It's victories have the wheat of Persia. the flax of Ger many, the ricestalks of China, the rich grasses of Italy. It has turned up the mammoth of Siberia, the mastodon of Egypt and the pine groves of Thessaly. Its iron foot hath marched where Mo Bes wrote and Homer sang and Aris- totle taught and Alexander mounted his war charger. It hath wrung its colter on Norwegian wilds and ripped out the stumps of the American forest, pushing it's way through the savan- mas of the Carolinas and trembling in the grasp of the New Hampshire yeo- marry. American civilization hath kept step with the rattle of Its clevises, and on It's beam hath ridden thrift and national plenty.
 I do not wonder that the Japanese and the Chinese and the Phenicians so particularly extolled husbandry or that Cincinnatus went from the consul ship to the blow or that Noah was a farmer before he became shipbuilder or that Elisha was in the field blowing