The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-11-29
EVERYBODY
THANKFUL,
Thanksgiving Day Very Gen
cally Observed BY Citi-
izens Of MorriStowrl.
RELIGIOUS SEvIcES PROMINENT

enjoyed. Many family reunions were
held while considerable number went
sut Of town for the day. Business was
suspended and it was indeed a home
day.
The religious element preponderated
as the congregations Of all the church
es united in services. The Church Of
bhe Redeemer united with ST. Peters
Church, Rev. Barrett p Tyler preach
ing the sermon and a fine musical pro-
gram was rendered. Masses were said
ia the two Catholic churches The A.
a. u. and Calvary Baptist churches
united in service.
There was a good attendance at the
nnion thanksgiving services at the
Methodist church. The music, was
by the vested choir of the church with
q. Aug. Muir at the organ. The offer
sorry solo, by Miss Helen Hoffman, was
of unusual excellence.
Rev. William r. Bennett, of the
First Presbyterian church, read the.
Presidents Thanksgiving procIamar
tion and offered prayer, while DR..
Urmy of the NJ e. church read the
Scriptures.
The sermon was by the Rev. William
w. Barker. of the First Baptist
church. The reverend gentleman took
for his theme :s The Heart OF
Thanksgiving. A summary Of the
sermon follows =:
This is a glorious day in our coun-
try, for we as nation are grateful to-
God and thus we meet in our churches
to worship Him and give Him praise
What an impressive sight, nation
giving thanks have read our Presi-
dent's proclamation with much pleas
ure. We have good President; and
/ he touches the keynote Of thanksgiv-
ing when he enjolns us to return
heartfelt thanks to Him for all His
goodness and loving Kindness. = This
therefore beautiful American day,
and only unamerican, religions will
not harmonic with Gods people in
the thought and celebration of it. Be,
ing desirous of helping you in your
thanksgiving, | will use three texts
with ascending purpose Of praise O
give thanks unto Jehovah" What
shall / render unto Jehovah for all His
benefits towards me ~ Thanks be
to God for His unspeakable gift.
And my topic shall be, 1.-THE Heart
of Thanksgiving
At the beginning of the year we said
to each other, & A happy new year to
yea.'' And this has been happy
one, for all things have worked to
gether for good to Us that love God, =
and again has the Psalm been made
trae wherein it says, Z Thou crownest
the year with Thy goodness"
1. a NATIoN's THANKS What a
glorious land we live in. It's history.
is wonderful its men have been great;
its government pattern for the whole
world. This is a free land in that we
have never been cursed as have been,
and are, so many nations Of the earth
by union of church and state. Por-
tugal, Spain, France and Italy are
looking to us and copying us, throwing
eff the CALLING yoke that has hound
them and coming out into freedom.
Here we have a school system which
fer enlightmenta and morality leads
the world. / am pround of the COM
ing Americans l see going along our
streets with bo0ksunder their arms
We just conclude another year of
national life. The harvest has been
marvellous. More than nine billion
dollars worth of wealth has been taken
from the soil and air thisyear There
is prosperity and health on every hand,
as home and in our possessions beyond
bke seas. And we are helpfully at
peace with the rest of the world, play
ing worthy part in the policy OF
governing the world in conjunction
with other great nations. And ] es-
teem the settlement of the Newfound-
land Fisheries dispute, so amicable, SO
harmonious, as one of the greatest in
ternational blessings of this year.
Thus The greatest law suit in the
world up to the present time,n as it
has been called, is settled.
Let US come to Morristown and re-
count our blessings. This is a beauti-
full town and there are many loving
hearts here. We have peaceful homes
and there is a good fellowship among
us delightful to behold. We have had
no great disaster, no terrible epidemic,
and there has been improvement in
many directions. Our Memorial hos
pital is worthy of our town. Two days
ago beloved minister from a neigh
boring town called upon me and told
me that he spent three weeks within
its hospitable walls and found his ex-
perience the most helpful In many
ways ia his life, the loving attention
paid him, the medical attendance and
all, moved his heart and made him
grateful for such a noble place. Then
here are our churches and their happy
relationship, SO we'll attested by this
ilniOn service. Truly there is a golden