The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-12-01
Union Thanksgiving Services.

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bestowed on us during the past
wear. All the ministers who
we're present in the city partlcl-
pated in the holding OF these
services and there were present III
the congregation many people
who felt that they had cause to
be thankful to the glver OF all
good and perfect gifts for HE
bountiful goodness.
The church was decorated with
flowers and palms. which were
quite appropriate for the occasion,
a splendid choir rendered IN a
thorough manner beautiful
service Of song.
The program was as follows:
Song.
Reading Of the Scripture Lesson
by Rev. j. d. Scott.
Anthem by Choir.
Prayer by Rev, CatIett Smith.
Duet by Miss Whitfield aud
Mrs. f. Geo. Allen.
Annual Thanksgiving Sermon
by Rev. Percy W. Jones.
The following is synopsis of
Rev. Mr.. Jones sermon:
Many things has happened
during the past year which should
make US thankful to Almighty
God In material things our
country has so prospered that
this period is likely to go down in
history as the period Of pros
perity.
Bankers declare the future
promising. The corn crop in the
United States is ten per cent
larger than last year The great
bulk of our exported grain is
seven per cent larger.
The South is more prosperous
than IN any period of its history
and no part of the South is more
prosperous than Texas.
Referring TO the presidential
campaign, the speaker said that
this campaign through which the
country had just passed, had
caused but little interest. THIS
, lack of interest was due to the be-
lief which prevailed, that M
matter winch candidate was
elected, this country would be IN
the hands of II president safe,
> competent, honest and brave
f Therefore, politically speaking,
this country was never sounder
than it is today.
Today, so far as the civilized
t world is concerned, it is the de-
g sire of all nations that peace shaI.
reign and that war shall be ne
more.
The establishment in 1899 OF
. an international peace tribuna
> at the Hague is an evidence thai
: the Nations Of the civilized
t world are fast coming to the
q point when they will be able anC
- anxious to put into practice thu
: truth which Benjamin Franklin
= uttered 100 years ago, when III
IS said, "that civilized nations, /
q they are really civilized, mus
find some way of settling thei
disputes without first cutting on
- another's throats."
- The powers of the Hague trlbu
b" nal should be enlarged and it
II jurisdiction enlarged until it j
lie broad enough to provide universe
20 peace.
# The speaker said, that, las
preacher of the gospel of Jesu
Christ, ! must needs rise abov
dead facts to living principle
20 and say something to this con
~ gregation that will give to 70
v and to me a push upward towar
"a God
~ lie referred to the decadence Z
NJ professionalism and said that whe
NJ one studies the history of tn
40 time of Luther and Cromwell an
NJ compares it with the present, h
i. finds that rs an effective tore
A professionalism was spent force
pa The speaker detailed reasons fc
Ia this condition and said that i
~ attributed it to the direct an
hn subtle influence of the devil,
ny The progress of the ear
> church was remarkable.
No spread over the world. Theol,
10 pions have studied its history
~ see what were its doctorines,
" Quoting a passage from the IT
~ chapter of the Acts of the Apo
II ties: "Men took knowledge
iT of them that they had been wit
IN Jesus The speaker said TIL
=" was what individual Christians
&c every protestant church must d,
49, must so live that men shall taI
"n knowledge Of them that they ha
.or been with Jesus. If they will
" that professionalism will rear
ara head again to victory. If nc
,n then the sceptre of power will d
ire part from professionalism,
la To fill the dark soul with t
" sunlight of Gods service is swee
er than the honey in the hone
cOp,b IF Won will SarVp the I,OT