The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-28
REASONS FOR GRATITUDE.
REV. MIR. RAIL SUMS UP THE
B0UNTIES OF THE YEAR.

NEV' MIX. KALI SUNS UF THE
BoUNTIES OF THE YEAR.
There Is Dark Side to the Picture, How.
ever, bat the Light Breaks GIoEIousIy
ThrOugh-End of Coal Strike Most
Momentous Lesson for Peace in In
dustriaI Histnry-Large Attendance at
Union Services Ia Plymouth Church.
The church services in this city yes
terday were again a departure from the
old UNCONVENTIONAL services, and their
character as .neighborhood union SER
vices were the outcome of a resolution
adopted by the UNCONVENTIONAL union
last spring, and the large attendance
at them yesterday was indeed crafty
ing to those churchmen who arranged
for the movement. These services were
conducted at Center, Grand avenue
Baptist and at Plymouth churches. At
the latter church the congrega tions of
Calvary Baptist, Trinity M. E., Dwight
Place and Plymouth churches united.
The church was we'll filled. The clergy
men who took part in officiating at the
services We're Rev. DR.. McLane, Rev.
DIR. Leete, Rev. DR.. Ferris, and Rev.
Mr.. Rail, The sermon was by Rev.
Mr.. Rail of the Trinity M. E. church.
His text was Psalms XIV, IL: Thou
crownest the year with thy goodness"
He in part said: I'VE keep this day
as a day of national Thanksgiving.
There are other national days that call
us together We have the day upon
which we rejoice in the fact of an in
dependent national life. We have the
Memorial day of grateful remembrance.
We have set aside two days in which we
celebrate the memory of this nations
greatest leaders-our Washington and
Lincoln-and teach our young by the
method of example q lesson of patriot
ism. But this is the day of thanksgiv-
| ing, and 7 can do no better than to
lead you further in that worship of
Thanksgiving in which we have been
engaged. And so from the balance sheet
of the year / wish to take here and
| there some items of which we as
Christian people and citizens of our
common land have reason to be CRATE
full. The Psalm from which our text
was taken was psalm Of thanksgiving
| for harvest and we may well begin
here. Despite all our commerce and
| manufacture we are still an agricul-
! tural people and the deepest source of
| our prosperity is still the land A
| bountiful harvest is our first reason of
pr1tjtn0n this No IN
history has eyer been richer. The five
| thousand millions would not express
| the full harvest for the land. One item
| may be brought more clearly to our
| mind, that this year has given us
larger corn crop than the fields of all
| the countries produced two years ago.
Of what is nearer to us I may not re-
| mind you-the continuance of unex-
| ampled prosperity in commerce and
| trade.
But let US turn to the economic and
| social world, Here the question may be
raised, What reason have we for
Thanksgiving? Is there not more of
| darkness than of light in the picture?
| few? Have not the industrial problems
| been more pressing than ever? Have
J we ever seen worse industrial warfare?
And all this we may admit. Here is the
indictment against capital. Take sin
| gle example-that of the Reading rail-
| road. We have here over capitalization
at two and one-half times the cost of
construction. That means robbery Of
| public or employees. We have defiance
of the state laws in road that owns
| coal fields as we'll as engages in carry
| ing coal. We have unlawful discrimin-
alton in charge for hauling anthra-
| cite twice as large as for bituminous
coal. And when public and labor ask
| for arbitration of questions that arise
| the answer is: This Is our property;
ours is supreme and absolute right;
there is nothing to arbitrate; the public
has nothing to say" Or If we turn to
| organized labor we may see other dark
aspects of the picture-the threat which
| prevents the individual man from using
| his free labor, the use of intimidation
and violence. Or note such an event as
| that Of recent occurrence when the in
| dividual laborer had to choose between
| fealty to his union and loyalty to the
state For the expulsion of a member
because he belonged to the militia,
meant the assertion of the union as a
] supreme power-above peace and order,
above the state. And to this bad pic
| ture must be added a moral loss more
than that Of money. for all war is hell
industrial war, too. And the passions
aroused, the enmities created, the pre-
JUDGES deepened, the dwindling OF
churches and communities-all this can