The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-25
UNION METHODIST SERVICE.
DR.. T. w. Pinkerton Delivers an I'm
prsssive Discourse.

a union service was held at the First
Methodist church by the congregations
of the First Congregational. First Pres
byterian. First and Second Methodist
and Central Christian churches yester-
day morning ar which Rev. DR.. T. w.
Pinkerton preached from the text: The
Lord of hosts is with US" Psalms
xxxxvi, H. He said:
The old-time custom of thanksgiv-
ing still has meaning TO the rejecting
mind. The earth has yielded he: har-
vest. and from field, garden and orch
ard the fruitage has been gathered. Be
side these there has been poured into
the lap of the nations wealth the rich
es of forest. mine and factory. Greater
than ali material blessings have been
the achievings in the intellectual, NOR
al and spiritual realm. Impulses are
the basis of habits. Good habits are
formed when impulses are put under
the restrain of right principles 1t is
not enough to express a sound senti-
ment now and then, TO do worthy
deed occasionally; it should be the hab-
il of the life to entertain and speak
the lOftiest sentiments and To perform
Draiseworthy deeds.
Most of tls have at times an intense
feeling of gratitude to Cod for his
benefits TO us The feeling is, however.
only temporary Perhaps we ought not
TO expect it to remain in its intensity.
1t ought, however. to be kept in MEM
DRY. To forget our best moments rs a
serious moral fault. Plato rejoiced
that he was man and not a beast.
a male and not female, a Greek and
not a barbarian, and a citizen of Ath-
ems in the time of Socrates. The phi
losopher had much to be thankful for,
but we have vastly more.
America Better Than Greece.
Better fifty years in the United States
in recent times than a cycle in the
Athens Of Socrates and Plato. 1 am
thankful to the giver of life that I
was born at the beginning of the last
half of the nineteenth century, the CEN
fury of all the centuries, in this fair
land of the Anglo-SaXon race and un-
der the influence of the Christian
church, In the golden time of the great
est Onrush of modern civilization. IN the
pregnancy of the times, in the signif-
canoe of what has happened. i'm the
Incompatible glory Of existence. I have
lived longer than any of the patri-
archs.
when we look back to the begin
ming of our nations history and trace
the events by which our independence
was secured. and this vast territory
between the two oceans and extending
from the lakes 10 the gulf, became dedi-
Gated to the experiment of self-govern-
ment, and not how through the great
crises Of our history we have been safe
IL brought to our present exalted pO-
sitiOn among the nations OF the earth
we are more firmly convinced that the
Lord of hosts has been with us. The
evolution OF the nation has secured to
US certain principles and forces that
are essential TO our permanency.
First, liberty; the right to prepare
oneself for its xercise-liberty Of
thought and conscience and speech.
Second the home. Blessed is the man
that abides i'm the house where he
lives. In days past we became exer-
cised because the name Of God was
not in the constitution of our country.
/ am not as anxious to have the name
of God in a book as I am TO have il In
the hearts and conscfences and home
life of the people. Third, the public
schools. Any man or any body OF
men who undertake to control the pub
lie schools for sectarian or political
purposes is an enemy of the nation. and
Gods miscreant
Signs of Prominence.
The signs Of promise: First, interest
and care for the individual: second.
an awakening sense of responsibility
to oneself and to the whole: third. a
united church in fulfllment of our
Lords prayer and in behalf of COM
mon humanity. More and more the
people are coming to trust only those
men whose anchorage is in God
Thanksgiving brings with il a deep
ening sense Of. responsibility. 1t Wild
ems the horizon of our vision. You
cannot be thankful today without re-
membering those who are sitting in
the shadow Of sorrow or pinched by
poverty. Thanksgiving upliftS be
cause it puts the heart of man against
the heart of the great and inhpite God
and sends him out on a mission of love
and service to the less fortunate"