The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-12-03
The Rev. S. F. 0immock Pays
High Tribute to the Nation in
Thanksgiving Service
5LORIES or CHRISTIAN NATION
Did Fashioned Thanksgiving Day Ser
vice at the Henry M. Simmons
Church Thursday With Many
CHURCHES Taking Part

Speaking ON the text, {" / am a native
IF no mean country the Rev. S. F.
chinook, pastor Of the First Baptist
church delivered an old-fashioned
Thanksgiving sermon at the Union ser
vice of the Protestant churches of the
city held at the Henry M Simmons
church on Thursday morning. The
service was one of the most successful
and most largely attended held in the
city in several years and many of the
ministers of leading churches of the
city took part in the services. A
SPECIAL program of Thanksgiving music
was rendered by the choir Of the church
which added greatly to the success of
the service.
In his sermon Mr.. Dimmock declared
that the present age was an age Of
innovations and that one of the inno-
vations that had come with recent
years was a union of the churches in
the great work of making the world
better. He paid tribute to the nation
and declared that America was the one
country which took the people of every
nation and made Americans of them.
He declared that Americans might go
to other lands, but that they never lost
their identify but that in the United
States every man regardless of the
place Of his birth soon became simply
an American.
He said that the privileges in shar-
ing in citizenship had placed upon the
people of the United States the obi
cation Of settling the great problems
of the world and that while every indi-
vidual citizen was indebted to the ma
tion, the nation was even so indebted
to every one Of it's citizens. He de-
clared with Emerson that F'Opportuni-
ty was only another name for Ameri-
O." and that the world was now look
ing to the United States to take up the
great questions of all the nations and
settle them rightly. He found in the
people of the United States a great
union of piety and patriotism and de-
clared that it was the greatest glory
of the nation, that it was a Christian
nation. ''Would to Cod" said the
speaker, that we could say that our
love for God was as great as our love
for the land of our birth or our adop-
ton If we would only love God with
the fervor we love our country, all the
great questions of today would be set
tied. I want to say with the late
Frances Willard, Nothing but the
golden rule of Christ can bring the
golden days of men ,"
Continuing he said, "America may
not be ideal and not what it might
be but is nation Of intelligence, Of a
long suffering people who when arous-
ed are swift to demand the right, the
land of the open Bible, the nation of
schools and libraries; in a measure a
Christian nation One that is lighted
by the gospel torch OF civilization
which is bringing it up to the highest
point of Christian civilization. -
MIR. Dimmock declared that with the
natural resources of the United States
there should never be a pauper in the
country and he said that the coming Of
the real Christian era in the United
States would prove the panacea for
poverty.
In conclusion the speaker declared
that he was not much in favor Of a
single day being set aside for Thanks
giving, but that he believed that every
day should be a day of thanks to God
for the great blessings which he had
bestowed upon the nation He de-
clared that the United States owned
it's greatness to the Christian home, the
Christian schools and the great number
of God-fearing men who were taking
hold of the reins of government"
Other ministers who took part in the
service were the Rev Marion Murdoch,
the Rev. Florence Buck of the Henry
M. Simmons church, the Rev w. W.
Stevens of Park avenue M. 3. church,
the Rev. Edgar T. Farrill Of the First
Congregational church and the Rev A.
n. Marlatt of Connersville, Ind.