Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-26
ANER|CAn|5M IS
THEME Of sermon.
Rev. Albert Buxton Holds Thanks
giving Service at First
Nj. E. Church.
PEOPLE GLAD TOWARD GOD.
Americans of Past, Who Have Million
Fellows, Have Triumphed i'll
Land OF Promise.

Rev. Albert Buxton, Phi, D., deliver
al the Thanksgiving sermon at the
Jynion services held at the First M. q.
church Following is the full text Of
his remarks:
This, Of all the year. is a day of
Sadness. From the headlong hurry of
messing care, we pause for the restful
leisure Of d glad breath-for the quiet
consciousness that we are glad. We
deepen that gladness by it's simple rec
IGNITION. In the mere mindfulness
that we are happy. our happiness finds
generous increase. With each bead that
we deyoutly count in telling our rosary
of blessings, ave mount from JOY TO
higher toy While we number the gifts,
the reminiscent beads slip fast through
challenging fingers until, despairing
to tell the whole tally, we drop the
beWildering score. it5
Our tables are full for the feast and
no skeletoni is there. We place a ready
chair for each feaster, and then stlli
another, and love comes to take her
seat, chief guest at our board. Wifely
Virtue and childish glee and grace to
the fireside, and those hresldes, secure
from foe, and radiant with friends. per-
feet the felicity of our domestic peace:
Health and love lock hands to guard
our gateway, and faith. with fairy
wand, transforms the humblcst homes
into palaces of unsung splendor.
Summer, with its warm breath OF
harvest has fingered like &. reluctant
lover, loatf to bid n last adieu, and
the elastic stop Of first frost ANNOUNCES
winter. with its prophecy of rest. We
have reluctantly closed our rebelllOus
windows, and through them the mem
Dry OF autumn's glory still salute our li
eyes. We are slow to bar our portals
close, for we welcome the mountain
ozone, even yet bearing faint trace
Of perfume for our nostrils, and laden
with an electric inVigoration for each
quickened breath that distends the
lungs with the buoyancy of @ new
born babe.
But ours is a higher delight than the
qualification of the senses, or even the
complacency of safety. We rejoice that
we are men; that the glory Of hill and
field and sky are not alone servants of
our too appreciative senses, but also,
and more truly, ministers to our up
building; at our souls Ger leap
lain and climb beyond the highest sky,
into the recognition that "over the
stars there is rest"
GLAD TOWARD GOD.
Glad as we are today, our emotion
Is not alone gladness-TcVen OF purest
source. Ours Is not q self poised JOY.
We are not content to be glad wlth,n
ourselves, but our gladness bursts the
bounds of self and streams in a mighty
current of recognition toward our God,
who has made us to rejoice. we are
more than glad--We are thankful lie
who holds the years In Ills hands has
made the whole past year for us one
continued gife, and hung it high upon
lac a trpel.
eager children we pause today, to view
the precious glitter Our Maker look
ed on that which He has made, ana
"saw that 1t was good Then he tuned
our ears to hear, FURNISHED our eyes s
TO see, and taught our hearts to know.
not the gifts alone, but the Givcr as
we'll. 20 give thanks unto Jehovah, for
He is good; for His mercy endureth
forever"
This, then,i is Thanksgiving day;--but
not for our private calendar. BY Of
fetal proclamation, our governor has
called all Utah from it's homes to it's
sacred halls; the president has sum
moned all the citizens of these United
States into their temples of praise and
the hallowed custom of nigh three CEN
turtles has hidden q never alien on
spring though exile from American soil,
on this holiday and holy day of their
nation, to make those still loyal Amer
lean hearts temples of gratitude for our
common veal and our commonwealth.
This Is more than thanksgiving day
more than the Thanksgiving day of all
the year. 1t Is the THANKSGIVING day
of greater America--an unsurveyed
realm wide as the limits of faithful,
and grateful and reminiscent Ameri-
canism.
This, then shall be the fit theme Of
the day; The gift of America to Am
orleans.
But what is America, and what are
Americans?
AMERICA PROMISED LAND.
America is more than q country. or
continent or a hemisphere-more than
mere map-and an American is more