Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-25
RECORD ATTENDANCE
At M'CABE Church
THANKSGIVING SERVICES By ALL
CHURCHES OF THE
CITY.
Strong Sermon and Good Singing
Mark Union Services at Methodist
Church Last Evening.

There was large audience, said
| to be the largest in the past five
years, assembled in the McCabe Meth
odist church last night to unite in the
! Thanksgiving services as held by the
Protestant churches of the city. Diff
| ferent pastors aided in the services
and the singing was we'll rendered and
the congregation was strong in tha
song service.
Rev. Harris read the proclamation
of the president of the United States,
/ Rev. Newcomb. that of the governor
Of the state, the audience sang Amer
lea as if the members were thankful
they were Americans and that they
thanked the All Wise ruler therefor.
The scriptual lesson was read by
Rev. Bender of the Bismarck hospital.
The collection, a liberal one, was for
the benefit of the children's homo
of the state. but located at Fargo.
The sermon was delivred by DR.
Shute and was discourse of unusual
ability and eloqucnce. The fearless
ness of the utteranccS was some
thing remarkable. The text was tax
en- from Nehemiah S-12, and was de-
scriptivr of one of the first Thanks
giving fcasts on record.
Why We Give Thanks.
Because it is duty TO thank the
giver of all good things for his bless
ings and a pleasure to render him
homage in this manner. 1t is a wise
consideration that leads the children
of men to realize that they owe an
obligation to the bounteou giver Of
all good and that man alone is able
to return thanks for these blessings.
Thanksgiving in the right spirit is a
means Of development Of our higher
natures and leads to a more spiritual
life.
The speaker said in addition to the
foregoing that we should be thank
full for personal blessings. such as
health and strength and preserved
family circles and all other kindred
blessings. such as business prosperity
and all such things as go to make
prosperous this community and COM
monwealth.
NobIer Thinge to be Thankful For.
That personal blessings were de-
sirable for all, but that there were
higher things than personal that
should and must be considered before
man could reach the point for true
thankfulness. That these blessings
came from outside of ourselves and
extended beyond our own personality
and spoke of the great donations of
men in the past year of money and
+;,,o ,,d rroot ;pf1,,opoo of ohlo u,o-l-
ers. That when all merchants and
manufacturers made the advance
ments that few had made the past
year that labor troubles would be a
thing of the past and that the stand
taken by the great labor leaders
would soon make great strides to-
ward the abolition of the liquor traf
fic and the better understanding of
the laboring man towards his duty to
his employer that soon labor and cap
ital wc, ID meet on the only basis. !!
where both were right and thereby
adjust their differences and prevent !
anarchy from destroying our gove~2-
l1crt and having a government that !,
wae true to God and worth being !
thankful.
% Thanks for the advances in the
sciences and archaeology That great i
strides had been made in the scien- !,
tific world and that it was no longer
the case that science and religion had !
to be reconciled but that science was
learning many things from revelation
and religion, was Tearing many scien-
tific truths that tended to unite in
stead of divide the two.
That the late researches in archeol
ogy had done more to prove the his
torical truths of the Bible in the past |
few years than all other things put |
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