The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-01
FITTING TOPAUSEONCEA YEAR
We Forget to Thank God
For Our Every Day
Blessings.
should bc Thankful For success Of
Great Reform Movcmcnts-Faint
Hearted Think it {. Meeting De-
feat Because OF Few Rcverscs.

dlltuucu lnt lHdukSgNlng Union
services held at Calvary Evangelical
church. Thursday evening. Excellent
music was furnished by the church
choir, and Rev. j. w. Miles. of tho
United Brethren church. delivered the
following address Enter into His
courts with praise give thanks unto
Him. and bless His name" These
words found in the fourth verse Of
the Tooth Psalm. We're used as the
foundation for the sermon This is
one OF the great national. or royaI
psalms" said Rev Miles And it
expresses national praise for national
blessings Luther would have inn
mortalized his name. df he had done
no more than have written the ma
icstic air and harmony To which w,
are accustomed 10 sing this psalm.
and which. when the mind Is in
truly worshipful frame seems to bring
heaven down to eJrtn. and to raise
earth to heaven. giving us auticipa.
tions OF pure and sublime delight Of
that noble and general assembly OF
which saints and angels shall forever
celebrate the praise of God.
ut Is indeed htting that We should
pause as a nation, once a year. long
enough to thank God for the manifold
blessings which lie has poured out
upon MS. Since 1863 the presidents
have issued an annual proclamation
of Thanksgiving.
The earth has yielded her har-
vests, the fountains and springs still
send out their sparkling waters, the
earth has produced her bounteous
supply Of mineral wealth. the forests
have contributed their share. COM
mcrcial activity has been great, no
great calamity has come TO over
shadow us as a nation. pestllcucc has
been unknown, and the only thing
that has kept our ninety millions OF
people from being absolutely happy
ana contented, IS sin. Thanksgiving
day expresses the fact that we, as %
nation, recognize God as the giver of
all good gifts. And yet mi ny of our
people are most unthankful crea-
lures"
Rev. Miles mentioned as some
hindrances to complete thankfulness.
our cnviousness ot others, our ten
dency to look on the dark side of
life ana our habit of taking the bless
lngs of life as s.alply Il matter Of
course.
I'VE forget 10 thank God for every
day blessings" he said. Every indi-
vidual should have a thankful spirit.
We should romCmber that We are pill
grims ON a journey ana We cannot
always expect TO have the comforts
OF home. Health, sickness, Joy ana
sorrow are ever strangely ntcrwoveh
In the story of human life But. if
we can behold Gods plan that lie
Is working out I'm us we will learn TO
believe His word that ALI things work
together for good 10 them that love
the Lord
we should thank God for the sue
cess OF our moral reform movements.
We are living u an age of great de-
velopment, In the various reform
movements such as social purity aud
In. the temperance reform. There
never has been so much agitation on
these questions as there Is at the
present time" Here Rev Miles
spoke of the rraat wave Of temper
nce reform which Is sweeping the
country. Many people think that this
reform Is meeting with defeat simply
because Of few battles lost, but this
Is not true. All over the country,
union evangelistir services are being
held, ana thousands of people are
being trained for the fight "lt is on
the up-grades that our wheels stick
said the speaker He repeated "a few
lines which illustrate this point
1T appears that locomotives