The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-05
Large Crowd Attends the Annual
THANKSGIVING Service Held At
Park Avenue M. e. Church
Thursday Morning

crowd of people present. The service
was one of the best ever held in Ke-
nosha in celebration of the annual
holiday of thanks and members from
all churches united in doings honor to
the day. Special music was fur
nished by the choir of the church. but
the feature of the service was the adj
dress of Mr. Farri1l. He said in part:
| thanksgiving is our nations holi-
day. A peculiar holiday peculiarly
observed. It is a day of retrospect
and of prospect. Standing between
these two it is day for counseling, a
day for meditation and for prayer. At
the same time by right it is festival
DAY.
"This Thanksgiving the American
people should be thankful for the man
who is it's chief executive; thankful
because, being the true man he is, no
clique, no party, no politician is presi.
dent; in name and in fact he fills that
Office"
The speaker noted some of the con-
ditions which he had learned from an
intimate acquaintance with a high
off cial in Washington that surround
ed the president and had tested him
severely and proved him worthy.
"The people should be thankful the
president is so fifty young mans
president, shining example of
Christian craftsmanship and of moral
worth.
"We should be thankful for his
critics and the favorable light in
which they by contrast place him.
"We should be thankful for his
critics and their criticisms because of
the revelations they have unconscious
1y made to the American people,
opening their eyes to those critics
real and untrustworthy character in
large number of instances.
"The,day is one of special gratitude
we are passing; condition unlike
anything the nation has ever expert
enced before. It furnished a cause
for gratitude because it is an object
lesson, the learning Of which will be
for the largest measure of benefit to
the republic for the long future.
Among the other reasons for the pres
ent troub1ous conditions soon to pass,
we must not overlook this one, the de-
parture from the eternal principles of
simple truth, simple justice, simple
virtue, on the part of so many in ex-
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in the business and social world. -
Here thesspeaker paid tribute 70 the
noble men in the various relations of
life, who had recognized in their re-
lationships and business deals with
their fellow men, these fundamental
and vital principles, and for these
men, who are by no means few, we
should be truly thankful. We should
be thankful for what these who are as
princes among men. these soulful cor
porations have done for the welfare of
communities and of the whole land"
Here the speaker made plea for
the purifying of the political, moral
and social conditions of the city of
Kenosha, calling upon the truly rep
resentative men, the right minded
and useful men to come to the front
to aid in making the city realize the
splendid possibilities which are it's
possession priceless, but which are far
from being realized today. If such a
move could be started this very day it
would mark it day to be remember
! for long years to come with thanks
giving and praise,
1.-THE day." be said, ''calls for
gratitude because of the wave of
temperance sweeping over the land.
Fanatics, unreasoning and unreason-
able radicals have hurt the cause, all
unintentionally to be sure, out none
the less surely in past days. The
present movement calls for special
gratitude because it is on a sound,
substantial basis of reason, common
upon the basis of the just deal for
all.
"The citizens of America have
reason to give God thanks this ami.
versary because of the change in the
attitude of the Christian church
which is throwing aside certain mar
rownesses and whatever of bigotry
may have been c1inging to it. That it
is coming down from out the clouds
of theory, speculation and theological
dogma to walk the earth where men
need it, and to minister in spirit of
loving service to the crying needs of
humanity. The church of the coming
days is to be no less pious but infinite
ly more practical. The church is not
in local body, not in denomina-
tion, not "a any ecclesiastical HER
archy, but in the shop, the store. the
factory, the school, the home, in the
hearts of men and women who are
embodying the principles of the
| Christ. and in their personal nr;va+a