The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-29

men who have moved the world nave peeH
the ones with bright hopes. I could work
better on ship that was not sinking.
you have but to look over the field,
the great world, to see the strides that
have been made in the cause OF Chris
tianity. The gain in the Nineteenth
Century was six times greater than that
in the Eighteenth. There never was
broader stream off gold into Christianity's
treasury than there is now. There never
were more consecrated ministers OF God.
There never was a time when people were
putting thir canvass, SO to speak, to
catch the breezes of God more effectually.
1--WE are on no sinking Ship Get the
thought out of you that the Devil is
turned loose.
Am 1 right when l say there is less
selfshness in the world now than ever,
especially less i1 religion. We are get
ting down to rock bottom.
There was a Scotchman once who re-
solved to be eternally asking for some
thing, and to keep on asking for that
thing till he got it, and when he got 1T
to be eternally asking for something
else. l believe Christianity is getting
away from: % God! Give, give, give me
something. Christianity is getting away
from it's own family.
I'm this the first great thanksgiving of
the new century there is a sweeping I'M
dercurrent that shows us that the broth
erhood of man is today more than ever,
before worldwide / see that we are
looking more and more out there, to help
the helpless.
Don't understand me to be holding up
perfection, but / believe we are getting
to Johns keeping unspOtted from the
world 1t will not come by leaders such
as Mrs. Nation, breaking up saloons with
a hatchet, but by the quiet way in which
those other women are working for a
purer citizenship. There is ground swell.
There never was a time when so much
was done for child-life as today.
WAS there ever a day in the history
of Raleigh when acts Of kindness were
more frequent Thank God for such a
time as this, for we are literally walk
ing on flowers. look yonder at the Home
for Old Ladies, and l look over yonder
at the Home for Veterans, and / look
out to the edge of the city at the Home
for Orphans and those others at Charlotte
and elsewhere, and tell you these things
grow out of religion. It's a rising sun,
until Thanksgiving is farce. It's a
rising sun as long as you kiss your
wife and child in happy home. It's a
rising sun with such unselfsh leaders
as we have in Raleigh.
II believe with the man who said
This is the best century of all the CEN
turtles; this is the best decade of the
century; this is the best year of the de-
cade, and the best day of the year and
the best hour of the day
The services were concluded by the
singing of Gospel Hymn 201.
REVEREND B. H. MELTON. Pas
tor of Christian Church., Wilson:
THE growing spirit Of brotherhood as
seen at the death of cur lamented Pres
ident should be hailed with thanksgiv-
ing The heart of humanity is better
than we give it credit for being.
The fundamental elements of Ameri-
can citizenship, as embodied in the life
of William Mckinley, appealed strongly
to the diviner nature Of our whole peo-
pie and all parties and creeds united in
their tributes of love to him whom they
trusted in life and honored in death.
Let us devoutly thank God for the ap-
preaching death Of sectionalisrl and for
the growing spirit of the brotherhood
of man.
REV. M. W. HOLTON, President of
Claremont College: "As nation we are
fortunate in being at peace with the
world. AS a State, we should be pro-
foundry grateful for the material, social,
religious and intellectual progress within
our borders. AS individuals we should
be grateful that we are privileged to en-
joy and participate in these blessings,
the gift of an all-wise God to the great
est race the world has ever seem"
MIR. FRED B. WARREN. of Wash
ington: Thanks for clean newspaper
in the State and for the State. May each
succeeding day Of thanks have in store
more blessings for the News and Obser-
ver."