Evening times-Republican., 1903-11-26
UNION THANKSGIVING SERVICE.

UNION THANKSGIVING SERVICE,
Pastors of City Churches Participate
:, and Rev. Dempster breaches the
Sermon.
The union Thanksgiving services
were held this morning. beginning at
1880, in the Congregations. church.
Nearly all Of the pastors of the city
participated. and the attendance was
Ill that could have been desired. the
audience room being practically COM
pietely filled. Rev. A w. Sinden pre-
sided. and DR.. Elijah Brown Jones, OF
the First Baptist church, delivered the
Invocation. Dr. Jones also read the
proclamations of President Roosevelt
and Governor Cummins, after which
Rev. K. Michaels, of the German Evan
Eelinal church. led in the responsive
readings. Rev. Nathaniel Pye. of the
Methodist church, gave the prayer. and
Rev. Sinden closed the service with the
benediction. The Congrs gational choir
furnished special music for the service.
and Mr. P. NJ. Adamson presided az
she organ. a large collection was taken
and Will be given to the Inter-Church
Society.
Rev. David Dempster, of the Presby-
aerian church, preached the Thanks
giving sermon. taking his text from
Psalms 24:1, '@rhe earth Is the Lords,
and the fulness thereof. the world ana
they that dwell therein Mr.. Demp-
ster classified his talk under three sub
iects, Gods rulership,' gracious pro-
visions" and universal love-" He
opened by saying that the majesty of
God Is over all. The universe was
framed at his decree. The starry world,
the lanterns OF Gods handiwork, dis
PEELED mist and darkness when Je-
hovah said: let there be light" The
satellites and consultations, great and
mighty, marching up and down the
stellar avenues of the heavens-no col
lisions, no disorder-for God said let
there be law. order and harmony. This
planet was flying thru space with
clockwork regularity when God said
to motion. BE ye wings for the
earth
I'm the material realm beauty Is un-
bounded-picturesQu crag and roman
tic ravine, sturdy mountain peak and
broad prairie land, vast waves OF grain,
food for man and beast, apple, pear
tree and others, bowed with luscious
fruit. saluting the pretty daisy and
pansy, lambs frollicking on sunny hills
and In velvet meadows, larks singing
overhead, fish gliding In crystal brooks
and silent ponds.
How Is it in the realm OF mind? The
only. true realm, marvellous world, un-
circumscribed, unknown. The def1ni- |
tion OF all things vet defying definition.
The mind was pure when God breathed
the breath OF life into man, and foul
when Satan beguiled our first parents.
Open up: ye gates, mind, brain. heart, |
soul, conscience, earth, church. heavens
and let the king of glory take posses
sion. Let the flashlight of omnipo- |
tence permeate every sphere and radi-
ate every path for the earth is the |
Lords and the fulness thereof
I'VE can not separate this and that |
department from God, as purely earth
" and human: every speck. molecule |
and atom Is a part Of the sovereign
plan, one creative fat, one divine dec
aration, worlds and systems powers
and principalities. phenomena terres-
Jehovah's mind and will.
AL llIC U08illuHS CiSdtSQ LilS
heavens and the earth, a time when
here was no aroma from bush or lily.
no cattle on the hills. no bleating
ambs nor plumaged songsters, no
sound Of architecture, no sculptor's
nallet nor landscape artist, no genius
% devise, man to Invent or pelverss
spirit to distort, no star, no sun. one
elastic mass of nebula, boundless void
ind dismally deep.
Science and sacred revelation are
win sisters. walking different aven-
les to the same fountain. The evolu-
ion tree of organic life, with it's multi
orm branches. reveals in majestic
piendor the mighty hand of a sover-
ign ruler. In philosophy, it is true,
We have found diversity Of thought ana
much admitted speculation, conflicts in
rying to explain phenomena, to hac-
nonize the relation Of things with the
orrelation Of forces. The chasm be-
ween mind and matter still unbridged,
n impossible gulf. unknown and un-
relation, yet out of this mys-
cry, we hear voice, BE still and
now that ! am Cod
I'm apologetics, confbats by colossal
ntellects. deistic, theistic, skeptic and
nfidel. The scholarly insight, the ana
ytical argument, clouds of unbelief
covering over the nations, the cham I