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Special Thanksgiving Services at Grand
 Avenue Baptist Chureh-Great Drop
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 Union Thanksgiving services were held yesterday morning in the Grand avenue Baptist church and were well attended. The pulpit was appropriate ly draped with a large American flag The order of the services was as fol- lows:
 Organ voluntary.
 Hymn,
 Come ye thankful people. come
 Raise the song of Harvest Home. ,......... ........... .........Cholr Prayer-Rev. E. c. Tullar.
 Reading of Scripture.
 Rev. George A. Alcott Reading of Governors Proclamation,
 ....................R Rev. Dr. Sheath America Choir and Congregation Offering for City Missions.
 Offertory solo,
 "The Lord is the Light of My Sal
 vation'-Miss Hendee.
 Sermon-Rev. Charles G. Smith. Hymn-"God Bless Our Native Land" 7" Benediction-Rey. Dr. Sheath. Organ Postliude-Miss Edith Fowle.
 Rev. R. E. Brown presided at the services.
 rLo Do-, TVl,o,Io- ~ c,,,;tb v,raa obad an excellent Thanksgiving sermon, a brief outline of which follows:
 Text-Psalms, 65:11, Thou Crownest the year with Thy goodness"
 Tn this text God approaches men through the golden gateways of the over-arching Providence.
 This is a Harvest Hymn that will never become threadbare or pass into oblivion. It will be read and chanted by grateful hearts everywhere to the end of time. ssz5S
 "The writer declares that the source of. all blessing is Jehovah. He believed in personal God. Great but conde- scending. God was more to him than an Abstraction" or an idea" He was "a living bright reality"-a friend who will never leave nor forsakt.
 Tt follows, therefore, Hs natural sequence that we are depend nt upon God for every thing. Tn Thee We live and move and have our being" The writer filings him@elt upon this great rock foundation of the Christian faith: "All is of God! If he but wave his
 hand,
 The mStS collect, the rain falls thick and loud,
 Till. ui'1 q smile of light on sea and
 land,
 To! he lYi,lls back from the departing
 cloud.''
 This sense of the imminence of God and our indebtedness to Him, lies at the tap root of this festal day. Apart from this conception there could be no Thanksgiving day." This was the ideal in the minds of the Pilgrim Fath- CTS when ten months after landing at Plymouth-in the autumn of 1621-they held a week of festival and thanksgiv- ing for the mercies of God, If you will read the graphic and touching account of that inaugural thanksgiving you will be convinced that, in spite of the stern times and their severe religion, the Pilgrim Fathers were not sour, gloomy men. They were rather like the middle-class of EngIishmen; stur- dy and robust, with the old national love of athletic games and sports.
 ''We are apt to forget to-day the ideal of Thanksgiving. We seem to have resolved ourselves into mutual admiration society, and on every hand we hear loud boasting as to our mine raI wealth, agricultural resources, manufacturing industries and our mar - vellous history as a nation. But We did not build the mountains or dig out the lakes, or fold the bars of silver and