The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-01
DR. TALMAGES
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or Dr. Talmage is nauohai eohs. esx ton over the achievements of brain ana hand during the past twelve mon.ths. The texts are: Corinthians K, lv. that smoothest with the hammer JuuSos V. N, They that handle the pen oi 'ne
 There is table being spread across the top of the two great ses CT Mtshls tains which ridge this col cnenS .ay,e .ne which reaches from the Atlanus e9 sIs Sis Pacific sea. It is the Thankssiving taSie of the nation. They will come from the East and the West and the North ana the South and sit at It.. On It are sMoh ing the products of all lanes, , pass nsstnre vi fish from every lake. feathered spells from every farm. The fruit baskets bend down under the products plucked from the peachhelds oi Maryland, the inc orange groves of Florida. the vine- yards of Ohio and the nuts thrashsd from New England woods. The bread is white from the wheatnelds or Hhnois ana with, California gold. and the table t2 agleam with Nevada silver, and the feast Is warmed with the fire grates heaped up with Pennsylvania coal. The hall is spread with carpets from Lowell 1ilis, and at night the lights will flash from bronzed brackets of Philadelphia manu-' facture.
 Welcome. Thanksgiving day! Whatever we all like New England Thanksgi yins day. What means the steady rush to tht depots and the long rail trains darung their lanterns along the tracks of tht the, Chicago Great Western. the St. Paul and Duluth and the Southern Rail way? Ask the happy group tn tnS New England farmhouse; ask the villagers come over the Berkshire hills; ask all the plantat tions of the South which have adopted the New England custom o6 set. ting apart day of Thanksgiving. o9, II your hands. ye people. and shout aloud for joy! Through the organ pipes let tKere come down the thunder of na- tion's rejoicing! Blow the eornet! Wave praise the Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the ehii- dren of menr'
 X Victories of Peace.
 For two years and a half this nation has been celebrating the triumph i oi ing heroes and sounded the requiem for the siafn in battle Methinks 1t will be 2 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 or more importance than that which In the last year has been done In farmers field dHu ACCuhthC SiiOP dH0 dutHpA 2 Skeoy by those who never wore an epauiet or shot Spaniard or went a hundred miles from their own doersill. Come up, farm eFs and mechanics and literary men, and
 Things have marveiously changed Time was when the stern edict of gov ernment forbade religious assemblages. Those who dared to be so unloyal to their king as to acknowledge loyalty to the Head of the universe were punished. Churches awful,y silent in worship sud- denly heard their doors swung open, and down upon the church aisle a score Of them Ground arms!" This custom of having the fathers, the husbands, tn sons and brothers at the entrance of tho pew is a custom which came down from essary that the father or brother should sit at the end of the church pew fully armed to defend the helpless portion of the family. But now how changed! Be- any one who shall interrupt religious ser vices, and annually, at the command of the highest official In the United States, we gather together for thanksgiying and holy worship. Today I would stir your souls to joyful thanksgiving while speak of the mercies of God and In un- conventional way recount the conquesti of the blow the hammer and the pen.
 Most of the implements of husbandr, have been superseded by modern inven' tons, but the blow has never lost its reign. It has furrowed its way through all the ages, Its victories have been waved by the barley of Palestine, ths wheat of Persia. the flax of Germany. tn, ricestalks of China, the rich grasses oi 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 Moses wrote and Homer sang and Aristotle taught and Alexander mounted his war charger, II hath wrung its colter on Norwegian wilds and ripped out the stumps of tho American forest, pushing Its way through the savannas of the Carollnas and trep- bling In the grasp of the New Hampshir yeomanrv. American civilization hath