The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-12-07
THE IHAUKSGIVING SERVICES
Presiding Elder Dobson Delivered an
Excellent Discourse in Sym
pathx With the Occasion.

Excellent Discourse in Sym
pathy With the Occasion.
An audience, the proportions OF
which were small in view Of the
Importance of the occasion, gathered
at the Baptist church Thanksgiving
Day to attend the divine services,
in accordance with the ploclamations
OF the president and governor.
The services were in charge of Rev.
Edker Burton, pastor OF the church,
and he was assisted by other pastors
of the city. Rev. III. s. Wilkinson
read the. proclamation OF President
Rooseveltand also a passage from
the scripture. DR.. Thomas Nichci-
son offered a fervenJ prayer for the
blessings that have been showered on
the people of this %state--and nation.
A collection was taken up for the
benefit of the Childrens' Home. OF
Sioux Falls. which amounted to
Sl2.3 SO. After the otfertory Mrs.
Ecker Burton sang a sacred solo, the
accompaniment of which was played
by Miss Butler.
The address of the morning was
delivered by Or. j h. Dobson, PRE-
siding elder of the Mitchell district,
who based his thoughts on the text:
sit is a good thing to give thanks
unto the Lord" The speaker gave
several reasons for the giving of
thanks. First, because of The recog-
milton of the fact that ''every good
gift aud every perfect boon is from
abose, coming down from the Father
OF lights, in whom is no variation
or shadow of turnlng.'' And again
because it brings together the citi-
zens in union services, and thus
promoting a larger citizenship and
Il more Christianlike fraternity, rele-
eating for the time being the scctar-
ian differences which have so long
estranged good people and filled the
world with contention. DR.. Dobson
reviewed the prosperity that has
come to this great country, and
touched upon the national life, with
a pleasing reference to the great
manhood Of President Roosevelt, and
other great men of the country who
marked their impress upon the
pages of history. In touching upon
the college men Mho stand in the
forefront of the battle Of today ne
referred to the local college and of
the magnificent success that has
come to it, and he congratulated the
citizens that it was a college stand
ing over on the hill rather than a
brewery, for from the former was
sent a product that would be a bene-
fit to humanity in the future. Touch
ing on local matters DR.. Dobson said
"There is a tremendous inconsistency
between enrolling humanity at one
end Of the town and degrading it at
} the other. A house divided again t
itself cannot stand. The Christian
) college and the saloon are as an
tagonistic to each other IS beaver
and he'll. No political ethics can
reconcile them, no craftsmanship
can adjust them, the shrewdest poll
ticins on earth cannot get them both
into the same platform unless,
foresooth, the one be asleep. The
war is coming. 1t is inevitable. II
is coming here i'm Mitchell. The
: saloon has filled our city in the last
few months with murder and thug
, ism, with drunkenness and de-
%tauchery, and it has rent us with
unseemly political strife, making
enemies Of men who ought to be
friends. 1t has drained from OUT
citizens tens. Of thousands d. dollars
that ought to go into the channels
, of legitimate trade, and, worst:.of all.
it has corrupted our young men, thus
poisoning the very sources OF our
political and social life. How long
Will Mitchell stand this sort OF
thing? Surely the day is coming
when Mitchell will see a great pop.
ular uprising in which she will
purge herself from her iniquity and
take her true place in religion, In
business and in the politics of the
Statn and marion