The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-11-26
Four Services This Morning
and Four TO be Held
Tonight.
w. g. 7. q. Will Hold Rally
This Afternoon.
SERMONS PREACHED TODAY

Services were held this morning
at the First Presbyterian. Grace
Episcopal and First Baptist and
Christian Science churches. Tonight
services will be he'd at the German
Evangelical. German Lutheran, Cum.
berland Presbyterian and Fountain
Avenue Methodist churches. ThiA
afternoon the w. c. +. u. will hold
services at the First Baptist church.
DIR. Caves sermon.
At the First Presbyterian church
this morning the Rev. w. Y. Cave
took his text from the fourth verse
Of the 100 psalm.
Enter into His gates with thanks
giving and into His courts with
praise BE thankful unto Him and
bless His name ="
Dr. Cave said that the psalms are
constant memorials 10 us Ia be- thank
full 10 God for all things David
never failed 10 remember the divine
guidance IN the affairs OF men. Dr
Cave mentioned some of the things
for which this nation especially has
cause 10 be thankful. and declared
that the Bible cicary admon.shes us
to remember the hand OF Providence
In all things good
AZ Grace Church.
In his sermon at Grace Episcopal
church. DR.. ID. c. Wright said:
THE observance OF national day
Of Thanksgiving TO Almighty God r..
10 far as / am able to find out. pccu-
liar TO America.-no other nation
has a similar observance. II Is az
you know a heritage from the Puri-
tan settlers OF New Eng,anl. who
passed as one OF the very FIRST Of IN,
laws OF the new commonwealth. one
setting apart n day for public fasting
and prayer to Almighty God. and
next day for public thanksgiving
to Almighty God for the fruits Of the
ground and the other blessings OF
His providence. And rather strange
IL seems that this gracious festlya,
takes It's rise In the midst Of peo-
pie like these same Puritans who
from temperament. as we'll as from
the training of their history. Leaned
more TO the sterner things OF life.
the more austcre duties and require.
ments. We can easiiy conceive Of
them setting apart the day OF fast
inT and prayer. that seems compati.|
bic with the sternness Of the charac-
ter,-but a DAY OF thanksgivine
seems almost alien 10 their minds
And doubt not but that the sturdy
Puritan went about the duty of Civ
ing thanks with the same grim DO
termination, the same unrelenting
sense Of duty to be fulfilled. as was
the chief note In his whole lie ana
character. anything like the rejOic-
ing. the social gatherings and merry
makings OF the day with us. would
not have been tolerated for mo-
ment by him. But the fact Is tina,
In our observance of the day. we have
as much authority for the rejoicing
and merry-maki as We do for the
more solemn act of giving of thanks.
For there Is no doubt but that the
Puritan Thanksgiving day was mol.
eled, as were all their laws aud GUS
toms. largely on the Old Testament
rather than on the w.-and there
fore II must be that the authority on
which they acted was the establish
ment Of the Feast of Harvest OF
First Fruits. or Booths. as IL was
severaiiy called. let us then briefly
consider the origin OF the day and
the custom according TO the Cd
Testament. We read In the very first
code. OF laws promulgated by Moses,
that given in the book OF Exodus.
that among other festivals 10 he OBJ
served Immediately on the entrance
into the Land OF Promise was the
feast OF harvest. the first fruits of
thy labors, which thou hast sown In
the field As soon as the first cora
was ripe In the field they were to
gather the first sheaf of the same.
and carry Il to the tabernacle To be
presented as a thank Offering to
Almighty God And the week of the
feast was 10 be kept by the people in
n peculiar way,-they we're TO BULL
them every man booth or tent OF
green boughs and twigs, on the houss
top or In the court yard, and there
under the green covering the whole
family was to live for the seven days,
during which the feast was to be
kept. From this simple ceremony OF
living In booths, and offering to God
certain elaborate sacrifices on the
successive days OF the feast there
arose various customs which passed
into the character of laws. We read,
thus that on these days, in the later
times. the king was wont to stand in
a wooden pulpit, erected in the tenn
pie court of the women, and there
solemnly read to the people the law