The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-11-25
Sabbath Day Quiet Prevailed
About the City.
UNION SERVICES HELD
The Rev. r. f. Lowe Preached Annual
Sermon at the Presbyterian Church
Last Eeyening, Telling Of Rea-
sons for Thanks.


Thanksgiving Day Ia Barre was very
quietly observed yesterday as beftted
the oeasion All business was suspend.
cd and with the exception Of the drug
stores during portion Of the day not
q store door was unlocked nor curtain
raised. Stone sheds, Offices and the like
were also closed. There was, too, very
little going on In the line Of amusement.
Everywhere there were quiet family par
ties and reunions, but the day ap.
preached the nearest to Sabbath-da
calm Of any holiday in long time.
The Union Thanksgiving Service.
| Az the Presby terian church last even
ing the annual union Thanksgiving Day
service was held and the auditorium held
large body Of worshipers, many more
4 than have been IN the habit Of attending
this service. The Rev RI +. Lowe, pas
4 tor nf Hedding M. &. Church. preached
the sermon. fle spoke on Thanksgiving
for Spiritual Blessings, with the text
lfrom Ephesians 1:3. Referring to the
fact that it il fitting that Christian
people should occasionally meet to give
thanks, he said that residents OF the
4 United States in general and OF Yer
mont in particular have great cause
for thanksgiving this year We must
mot be thankful alone for temporal
blessings He then repeated the begin
ming of Paul's letter To the Ephesians
(which read, Blessed be the God and
Father Of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
Hath blessed us with all spiritual bles,
lsings in heavenly places in Christ"
while the blessings Of the old testament
Iare largely temporal, those Of the new
are spirituallove, Joy, peace, long-suf-
fering, patience, gentleness, kindness.
The greatest blessing is that Of @being
born from above or beginning life
anew" This new life awakened must be
cherished. The Holy Spirit is a comfort
er, not only introducing us 70 q new
life, but guiding us into al truth.
Our spiritual blessings are To have
mo end. God aims at our absolute per
fection. The speaker saida That rough
column of granite, Clipped out by hand
Eif it could think, might not see ths
necessity Of being slowly turned ID tbs
lathe, but the architect ID not satisfied
until 1t Is perfectly rounded and polished
land stands glistening az an ornameni
and support at the front Of some greai
structure So We may not see the ne
Icessity Of the trials through which VI
lare passing, but the seer OF lonely Pat
mos said, aBlessed Is he that oyercometh
be shall be q pillar in the temple Q
God
The Rev. Mr.. Lowe referred witt
qualification to the fact that we praoti
cal American people have taken tn
aseity OF God out Of dreamland and ar
building il upon earth.1 Yet there woul
be an awful loss If the dreamers, seeTs
| and poets were deferred from seeing th
heavenly vision.
II The source from whence All our bless
ing come il found in the last words Q
the text, in Christ
9The world is so hard, cold and barre
that try as best he may, man canHo
save himself NumbeTless individual
/ have but failure written all over thei
] efforts. At the beginning Of the Chris
! tian era. man had climbed to the highes
point Of civilization and culture, an
lyet the heavenly vision had fled m
men were worse off than ever. But I'll
hopes and fears OF all the years wer
eentered in the babe Of Bethlehem
Through him, man found his way bacl
through the wilderness to his fathers house
! The ancients believed that if they coui
only find the philosophers stone It wonl
transform ali things into gold. Jesn
Christ Is transmitting all the facts ant
Experiences of life into valuable fooi
for the Christian Life, death, thing
present, things to come, prineipalitie
. and powers all are made subservient t
lis that are in Christ Jesus