The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-27
RomAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.

Warren, Rosenberg ana Ewing.
Organist-Mr. A. B. Ingalls,.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL
The Thanksgiving Day services a
the Roman Catholic cathedral yeste.
day were held at 'clock and wer
well attended. The services consiste,
of high mass with special music. Tier
was no sermon.
Father Victor was the celeb-ant
Father Ulrich, who has returned re
Gently from Germany, was the direct
or of the music. The special music
included in the services was sung will
great effectiveness by a double quar-
tet consisting of Father Valentin
Father Francis, Father Justin, Father
John, Father Sebastian, Father Ulrici
4 and Brother Sylvanus. The remainder
! Of the music was sung by the mixed
choir of the cathedral.
AT ST. ANDREWS CATHEDRAL.
Thanksgiving services were held al
! st. Andrews Cathedral at IL O'Clock
yesterday forenoon, which were partici-
pated in by the Rector of st. Clement g.
and the Rector of st. Elizabeth 3 and
the congregations of these parishes.
There was a very good attendance. The
| hymns were all of patriotic quality
and included "America. " The Anthem
was Green 8 "Praise the Lord, o My
Soul"
Bishop RESEARCHES Sermon.
The sermon was preached by Bishop
Restarick His text was part Of the
first appointed lesson for the day, Deut.
So and 8. "And thou shalt remember
all the way which the Lord thy God
led thee these forty years that he
might make thee know that man doth
not live by bread alone, but by every
word that proceedeth out of the mouth
of the Lord doth man live"
We often look upon Thanksgiving
Day as a personal or family matter, but
this is not the view intended by the
customary proclamation of the Presi-
dent calling for its observance. 1t Is
a national day, a day when national
matters should be considered.
Individual Thanksgiving.
We may well as individuals give
thanks unto Almighty God for the bless
ings of the year. When an hour OF
trouble or sorrow comes we are apt to
forget the many hours of pleasure and
happiness which have been ours. It is
a good day to count up our mercies. 1t
is a good day to call to remembrance
our many blessings. Very many of us
are complainers. When man meets a.
loss he forgets the many years in which
he made a fair gain, A dry year leads
many to pray for rain, although they
did not think of giving thanks when
they were enjoying prosperous years.
AS inhabitants of these favored Is
lands we have abundant cause to be
thankful to Almighty God, the source
and giver of all things. Crops have
been large and prices good. But how
many of all who are blessed ever think
of giving thanks to God? Very often
our children so naturally expect US to
care for them and provide for them
that it does not enter their minds to be
thankful for what we do for them.
Sometimes the more parents do, the less
gratitude do children appear to have.
So we too often receive the bounty of
our Heavenly Father and never con
slider that we should have thankful
hearts.
None Need Lack.
When we in Hawaii read of the I'M
employed elsewhere and of the strenu
Gus efforts necessary to keep people
from starving in many of the large cen
tiers of population, then we may well
thank God that here no man or woman
with any degree of health or strength
need lack employment or 60 hungry nor
will any suffer with the cold because of
lack of clothing and fuel. There is no
desperate poverty such as exists else
where, and such distress as may arise
finds in deserving and undeserving cases
aid and succor.
But the day leads us to a wider
vision than that of the individual or
of the place in which we live. 1t is
National Day. 1t has its origin back in
the old national festivals of the Jews
and the harvest festivals in England.
There were thanksgiving days from time
to time at jamestown for mercies re-
ceived. In New England, in 1921, har-
vest festival was held and in years to
come was often repeated. In fact the
American conception of Thanksgiving
CdF tdiuC HUN new NiCAC biiC
Puritans having abolished Christmas as
Popish made Thanksgiving Day the
great annual family festival and time
for reunion. But any one who is in
New England at Christmas time now
knows how completely the great day of
the Church has won its way back and
how il overshadows Thanksgiving Day.
The old paths are trodden again by the
sons and daughters of those who scOrn-
ed and rejected them. The old ways
of the Church ALWAYS win in the end
because they have the warrant of their
fitness and usefulness in human expert
ence, besides having for their warrant
the guidance of the Holy Spirit prom
Used to the Church.
History of Thanksgiving.
1t was at the time of the Revolution
that Congress recommended thanksgiv-
ing days on several special occasions
These were the first national thanks
givings. Washington the Churchman in
1889 and Madison the Churchman in !
1918, both appointed days of national
thanksgiving. But it is only since 1868 |
that the Presidents of the United States
have year by year appointed the last
Thursday of November as Thanksgiving !