The Washington times., 1909-11-25
Throughout City Faithful
WorShipers Bow In
Earnest Reflection.
MANY ATTEND
CHURCH SERVICES
Citizens of All Glasses Give I'm
pressive Testimonial of Glad
ness-Nation Observes.
By THEODORE H. TILLER.

The Capital OF the greatest, most
bountifuIly blessed nation on earth bows
at the common shrine OF thankfulness
today.
This is a day set aSart for no par
ticular class Or creed PIutocrat and
pauper, President and humblest subject
men ana syOmen who toll and those who
live Ifves sf ease. each and every one
has some reason to be glad
That is Why. from almost every church
In Washington there ascends today
songs and prayers of praise and out
spoken appreciation of the manifold
blessings OF another year. Atheist and
believer alike cannot fail to realize this
twenty-ffth Of November, 1909, that
some power greater than that Of earth
Z ly things has brought all this about.
As the day is celebrated in Washing
ton, the Capital, so throughout the ma
ton. In every hamlet where the procla-
nations Of President and governors
have been read, there is found a band
of faithful worshipers who spend the
day in thanksgiving and praperful re-
hection.
Elaborate Services.
Elaborate services mark the dav in
many OF the Washington churches. At
ST. Patricks Church the President of
the United States, Cardinal Gibbons.
and the representatives or the South
american republics, all met under many
flags to give thanks to one source of
lifs. its blessings. and its peace.
Dotted here and there over the city
we're similar congregations. .except ber-
haps in magnitude. who observed in
their own sincere way Thanksgiving
Day and its meaning. Still others. the
shut-ins. through affliction or through
temporary force Of circumstance, sat
about cheerful hresides and reveren-
tally remembered the big and little
Things of the year for which some word
Of thanks was due.
and the poor wete not forgotten
Eetn they who are wont TO look upon
the darker side were made to feel that
the day was not wholly void Of senti-
ment The Salvation armies. the church
societies. and the individual man who
goes about doing good without making
his identity known, giaddened many a
sad heart and fed many an hungry one
today.
Follow Worthy Precept
The American people are a people ac-
eustomed 20 follow worthy precept Il
has been near 300 years since first there
ascended from the then new-found
land. a prayer of praise. This was
when little band Of Pilgrim Fathers,
rejoicing in the freedom from religious
persecution. grateful in the safe deIiv-
cry from the terrors OF the sea, knelt
upon a New England coast, uncovered
their heads and with one voice said:
we are thankful this day for these
things"
That is the spirit that has been
handed down 70 Americans through
ali the years that have followed.
In time Of war or peace, pros
perIty or 1auiC, there has ever been
one day set apart in each year upon
which those OF high and low degree
might inventory the things that are and
find Ia them something for which a
voice Of praise might be raised.
Like Sabbath Day.
And thus e. Is that the streets have a
sahbsth-like appearance today: that the
churches have claimed the men OF busi-
ness: that the toiler has ceased his Ia
bors that the wheels Of industry are
(Coutfu1lad on Fourth PauaN