The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-11-25
Rev. H. V .McCleary Deliv-
ers Able Sermon.
ATTENDANCE WAS LARGE
First Christian Church Was
Well Filled.
Rev. McCleary Was at His Best And
The Sermon Delivered Attracted
and Held the Closest Attention of
The Large Audience.

The union Thanksgiving service of
the churches of the city was held at
the First Christian church Thurs
lay evening with large attendance.
The sermon was delivered by Rev.
II. v. McCleary of the Wesley NJ. f.
church. McCleary dealt with affairs
in this country contrasting the cir
cumstances here with those in other
lands less fortunate. The sermon in
full is as follows;
Text THE Lord shall comfort Zion.
he will comfort all her waste places;
and he will make her wilderness like
the garden of the Lord: joy and glad
ness shall be Joined therein, thanks
giving, and the voice of melody. lisa.
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The long story of the ages bids us
listen to moltltudinous murmur OF
voices loud and voices low. Hear
ye not the voices singing down the
ages, echoing still the message though
the task be done? AS we listen first:
the voices seem few and faint then
there breaks upon our ear ''The roar
that lies on the other side of silence.
The voices are perpleXlng. Some are
sad. means of pain cries of anguish.
Then is heard too the passions of
prayer. and the songs of triumph. All
these crowd upon us until we realize
that on the other side Of the silence
of our ignorance and forgetfulnesS
myriad footballs of martyr past. The
myriad footballs of matyr past. the
moan Of the dying on a thousand
battlefields, the shout Of the victor
the dream of the poet the patient
endurance Of humanities heroes, the
world round this day. add to the rich
ness of our civilization and the possi-
billties of our intelligent christian
thanksgiving.
The romance of American history
finds its interest along with the rom
ances of the history of ell other ma
tions. In the spring of 1898 when
Columbus had landed at Palos in
Spain, and was Fastening to Barcel-
ona to relate his discovery to the
royal family there was great rejoic-
ing. In November Of 1921 Governor
Bradford detailed four men to go into
the forest and bring back game that
the colonists might have great din
ner and rejoice together George
called upon a new nation
to return thanksgiving to God for
his marvellous help in securing unto
them Independence. Abraham Lin
coin in 1865 called the nation to re-
ioice together and give thanks for
the preservation of the union and the
liberation of the slave. These events
so vitality interviewer into our history
and which are taught to our child
ren, however, become only part to
the library of great world events. The
Italian in American will never per-
NIT his children to be ignorant of the
deeds of the great Garibaldi. Peter,
the great, and Tolstol will be loved
and reversed i'm every Russian family.
Charlemagne, Napoleon the First, Ed
ward The Seventh, and Cromwell are
quite ideal lives to inspire the German,
the French and the English youth of
America
Our fair land. the domlcle for the
oppressed Of the earth, the liberty
loving home lovers, honest toilers of
the universe unites us with all great
events and all great names.
Thus we draw from the very end
Of the earth for material to build in
to manhood and patriotism. Com
merce has brought such an inter-
change that the products of all the
earth are to be found in our markets.
The past history serves TO show in
what direction the great pendulum of
events is swinging. The pace Is best
for action. What has been is ours.
All high deeds that make the heart to
culver, with a deep emotion as we
read are divine and go back to the
glyer; courage, high endurance, gem
erous-deed. come from Christ, and un-
to Christ returning find their accept
ance only there.
We may now ask whence the birth
Of the ideal liberty, of Christian dem
ocracy? Historians are wont to date
the origin OF pr0testWtsm,a at, the Re-
formation. Martin Lntherf found a