The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-26
OUR THANKSGIVING DINNER
INTERESTING LECTURE BIZ DIR.
WILLIAM LEETE.

WILLIAM LEETE.
HThe Lesson of Good Dinner" Was
His Subject at the Dwight Place Com
grsEatIonaI Church Last Sunday
Evsning-An interesting Series OF
Sermons.
At the Thanksgiving praise service at
Dwight Place Congregational church
Sunday evening, under the auspices or
the Dwight Place Brotherhood, assisted
by the quartette and Choral society,"
was rendered fine musical programme
az follows:
Organ preIude-"Elegir'' .Ernot
Hymn-From all that Dwell Below
the Skies ................Old Hundred
oh, Worship the King All Glorious.
................... Lyons
Anthem-Rejoice in the Lord. Lansing
Anthem-Jesus Only ..............R oloh
Hymn-Praise to God, Immortal Praise
Nurembuts
Choir response-My Heart is Resting
80 ...... Hanscom
offertory solo-The Harvest FEAST.
Schneider
Hymn-My God, How Endless is Thy
Love. . ...,
Anthem-Thine is the Kingdom. .Gaul
Organ postlude-'tMarch' ......Barnby
The following eloquent sermon was
delivered by the pastor, Rev. William
w. Leete, the topic being ''The Lesson
of a Good Dinner" the text being,
John, 21st chapter, 18th verse: Jesus
said unto them, Come and dine"
Please suppose yourselves seated at
a sumptuously laid table. The first re-
Election is the extent Of territory put
under contribution to furnish such a
display. Look at the various articles
and ask where they come from, forget
ting Pauls injunction, asking no
question for conscience sake" Here
are your oysters on the half shell.
They were pulled off from the beds
along some rocky coast. Beside them
lies a piece of lemon. 1t ripened on the
sunny slopes of Sicily, or some warm
country Of the south. Next comes the
soup consomme, a very simple looking
dish, but what do we detect by our
analysis? Beef and veal. For it you
bled out of the deep earth and was Gre
ated ages ago. The butter, carrots and
onions were produced at home. The
pepper corns you sent for to Sumatra.
The cloves came from the West Indies
or Tunate. The cinnamon from Ceylon,
the mace from Singapore. The sweet
marjonam is a native of Greece,
though cultivated now in our gardens.
The savory sage and thyme, not indi-
genous to America, but transplanted
from the dry hills Of southern Europe.
The eggs were laid by representatives
from Shanghai. The salt was dug from
beds or evaporated from the ocean. 1t
came probably from New York, Michi-
gan or Canada. Simple looking dish,
perhaps, but in the little circle of the
plate have the products of the soil Of
two continents. Next comes our blue
fish caught off Nantucket. The garnish
for the dish is parsley, a reminder Of
the old walls and ruins Of Europe The
Hollandaise sauce we use upon our fish,
besides many Of the ingredients, draws
upon French Guiana for a pinch of cay
enne pepper. The roast turkey is a ma
tive of North America, but he must be
stuffed with bread and spice from a
southern cline. The vegetables are
worthy home productions, the sweet po-
tatoes coming from the south. The
pickles and ketchup combine home
and foreign products; tomatoes or Gu
cuinbers or peppers, with a11spice from
the West Indies. Cider vinegar, the
Juice Of our own apple; this mingled
with the cinnamon and cloves Of the
east, or perhaps you have apricots from
Leghorn or California or southern
France. With the vegetables is also a
dish of maccaroni. 1t was made in Ge-
neva or some other part Of italy, but
the wheat composing 1t was grown in
Odessa on the Baltic sea, or Apulia lin
Italy. The cheese to go with it was
made In western dairy. Other meats
may be saved: venison from the Adj
rondacks, wild game birds that fly and
other domestic animals and fowls,
sheep, chicken, geese. We may 60
wider, dredging the sea and bring up
score Of varieties Of fish--scollops,
sechrimps, Holsters, CLAIMS. We will
pass to the salad and croquettes. Your
salad has in it chicken from the barn,
celery from the garden, but for the
dressing you need some olive oil, for
which you are indebted to Spain, italy
or Syria, and mustard from China, In
dia or southern England. Your pies
and pudSngs are next, containing,
much that is growing near by. The
crusts of flour brought from Dakota.
The central material, If apples or pump
kin, raised at home; if mince, raised ev-
erywhere; but for f1avoring is a little
nutmeg from Jamaica, Brazil or NADIA
gascar, and some vanilla extract from
Mexico and Peru. Perhaps your pie is
a cocoanut contributed by South Ameri-
go