The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-11-24
ton and now we will unitedly uphold
him in his most important ofice.''



He Delivers Thanksgiving Sermon Last
Sunday Morning.
Rev. John r. Henderson delivered a
Thanksgiving sermon at the Congre-
gational church last Sunday morning,
his text being from Heb. s: 10:
''For this is the covenant that I will
make with the house of Israel after
those days, saeth the Lord: I will put
my laws into their mind sand write
them in their hearts; and will be to
them a God, and they shall be to me
a people,
Rev. Henderson said in part:
1.-The roots of our prosperity and
the cause of our rejoicing are of slow
growth. They received their first i'm
petus ages ago when God said to his
servant Moses, Il am that I am Tell
my people Israel that I am beyond
the comprehension of man: that in
Me alone is the source of power and
in Me alone is found strength for
national greatness or individual char
acter.'
Through the ages human thought
has beenan element of progress. From
the dim cropping of the newly awak-
ened mind, seeking for that which
should more than satisfy temporal
wants, man has progressed by slow
and steady movement till the age of
stone is transformed into an age of
steam and electricity. The Pickering
intellect has matured to a broad in
telligence and an understanding of
human responsibility.
"Our larger comprehension of laws,
human and divine, bring larger
field of usefulness. This broader in
telligence produces right thought. TO
think rightly is to create. The man
who thinks rightly can no more help
progressing than the sun can cease to
shine by it's own volition. The immu-
table law of God DEGREES that thought
and deed shall bear fruit in kind. An
individual or a nation committing it.
self to right thought and living is pro-
crossing toward the consummation of
its mission and attaining larger
power and influence. If our ship of
state shall at some future time run
upon the shoals and meet with dis
aster, wrong thought and wrong action
will have caused that wreck.
"The nation that ceases 10 seek the
upbuidling of it's higher life and pur-
pose, Immediately ceases it's march of
progress and it's day of rejoicing be-
comes a season of mourning.
1.-The greatest burden a nation or
an individual has to carry is self.
The most difficult thing nation or
an individual has to manage is self.
Our own daily living. our fears and
feelings, our especial weaknesses and
temptations, our inward affairs of
every kind, these are the things that
wrong US more than anything else,
and bring us oftenest into darkness.
In laying off our burdens the first bur-
den we must get rid of is self. We
must hand ourselves and all our in
ward experiences, our temptations
and our feelings, all over into the
keeping Of an omnipotent power and
leave them there.
"As an individual goes through the
fiery ordeal of testing, so God puts
nation into the furnace of trial.
There it is tested, and principles Of
right are intensified. Experience af-
ter experience is given it till it cries
out, what does all this mean?' and
God replies, I want to make some
thing useful of you, something with
which to build And so the process
of development continues. Right
thoughts become yet more creative and
the nation increases in prosperity and
has cause to rejoice.
!, :, But from whence is the immediate
source Of our prosperity? A nation
is strong only as the citizens of that
nation are strong, united, and pro-
crossing toward a right termination
of individual effort. If we walk in
the light, as He is in the light, we
have fellowship one with another and
the blood of Jesus cleanseth us from
all SIM In our cropping for the right
and efforts for brotherhood, the voice
OF Jesus says to US, Il am the way,
the truth, and the life Il, if I be
lifted up from the earth, will draw all
men unto myself It is in the heed
ing of this word that we are directed
in right thought and individual effort,
and by this thought and effort is our
nation made strong.''
Puritan Dinner.
The following Puritan dinner menu
sounds palatable: I.
Clam Soup.
Boiled Fresh Cod Drawn Butter.
Cold Slaw.
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