Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1901-12-20
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
subject; Now Is Time For Rejoicing :
Peans OF Praise For the Victories o
Peace-Ths Triumphs of Husbandr,
-Conquests of the Pen,

/ oe"H VI EEhAso or the Victories O
feace-rhe Triumphs of Husbandr,
-Conquests of the Pen.
| WASHINGTON, d. C.-This discourse Of
LIT. Tamage is a national eongratulation
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
2 He that smootheth with the hammer; !
Judges v, a.. 'They that handle the pen
OF the writer"
There is table being spread across the
Top OF the two great ranges of mountains
which ridge this continent, table which
reaches from the. Atlantic to the Pacific
sea; 1t ls 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
ssviary, 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
woods. The bread is white from the
wheat fields of Illinois and Michigan. the
banqueters are adorned with California
gold, and the table is aglcam with Nevada
silver, and the feast is warmed with the
hre, 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 DAY. Whatever
we may think of New England theology.
we all like New England Thanksgiving
Day. What means the steady rush to the
depots and 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 viii come over
the Berkshire hills; ask all the plantations
OF the South which have adopted the New
England custom of setting apart day of
thanksgiving Oh, it is great day of ma
tional festivityl Clap your hands, We peo-
pie, and shout aloud for JOY! Through
the organ pipes let there come down the
thunder OF a nations rejoicing Bow the
cornet! Wave, the palm .branchest ooh,
that men would praise the Lord for His
goodness and for His wonderful works to
the children of mem"
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 returning heroes ands
sounded the requiem for the slain in bat
If on this years Thanksgiving in church
and homestead we celebrate the victories
of the pillow, 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
authors study by those who never wore
an epaulet or shot Spaniard or went a
hundred miles from their own doorsill. |
Come up, farmers and mechanics and liter |
airy men and get your dues as far as | can |
pay them.
Things have marvelously changed Time |
was when the stern edict of governments |
dared to be so unloyal to their king as to |
acknowledge loyalty to the Head of the |
universe were punished. Churches aw. |
fully silent in worship suddenly heard |
their doors cwung open, and down upon
the church aisle score Of muskets |
thumPed as as the leaders babe them Ground
armsl" 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 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
against any one who shall interrupt relig |
ious services, and annually, at the com,
mand Of the highest official in the United
States, we gather together for thanksgiv, |
ing and holy worship. To-day ! would
stir, your souls to joyful Thanksgiving
while speak Of the rnercies of God and in
unconventional way recount the conquests
Of the plcw, the hammer and the pen.
+. Most OF the implements of husbandry
have been superseded by modern inven-
tions, but the pillow has never lost its
reign. 1t has furrowsd its way through
all the ages, Its victories have been waveo
by tho barley of Palestine, the wheat OF
Persia, the flax of Germany, the ricestalks
OF China, the rich grasses of Italy 1t has
turned up the mammoth of Siberia, the
mastadon 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
on Norwegian wilds and ripped out the
stumps of the American forest, pushing
its way through the savannahs OF the Car
olinas and trembling in the grasp OF the {
New Hampshire yeomanry. American
civilization hath kept step with the rattle
of its clevises, and on its beam hath rid
den thrift and national plenty.
1 do not wonder that the Japanese and
the Chinese and the Phoenicians SO par
ticularly extolled husbandry or. that Gin
cinnatus went from the consulship to the
pillow or that Noah was a farmer before
he became a shipbuilder or that Elisha was
in the field blowing with twelve yoke. of
oxen when the mantle fell on him or that
The Egyptians in their paganism wor
shipped the OK as tiller of their lands
To get an appreciation OF what the
American plow has accomplished | take
you into the western wilderness. Here in
the dense forest / find a collection of In
dian wigwams. With belts of wampum
the men lazily sit on the skins of deer,
smoking their feathered calumets, or, driv-
en- forth by hunger track their mecca
sins far away as they make the forest
echoes crazy with their wild halloo or fish
in the waters of the still lake. Now tribes
challenge and council fires blaze, and war
whoops ring, and chiefs lift the toma-
hawks for battle. After awhile wagons
from the Atlantic coast come to those
forests. By day trees are felled, and by
night bonfres keep off the wolves. Log
cabins rise, and the great trees begin to
throw their branches in the path of the
conquering white man. Farms are cleared.
Stumps, the monuments of slain forests,
crumble and are burned. Villages appear,
with smiths at the bellows, masons on the
wall, carpenters on the housetop. Churches
rise in honor OF the Great Spirit whom
the red men gnorantly worship. Steamers
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