The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-28
Weather Conditions Favor OBJ
servance of Thanksgiving.
Had Many OppOrtun-
tiles to Spend Day.
THE union CHURCH SERVICES
Generous Provision for Poor of
the City.
Soccer Game at Topeka and
Football at Manhattan.

Thanksgiving day dawned clear. The
day has been almost an ideal one for
turkey time.
| Hundreds of Topekans have been
/ on pleasure bent. There have been
numerous hunting parties, and scores
| of citizens have spent the day on eX-
cursions to adjoining towns. The Soc
| Ger football game this afternoon has
proven a popular attraction, and a
considerable delegation went to Man
haitian for the Washburn-Aggie strug-
gle.
Many Topekans showed their appre-
citation of the advantages they have
enjoyed in the past year by worship
ing at union church services this
morning.
The poor of the city were not neg
lected. Through the Provident asso-
citation and church organizations prob
ably as many as fifty families were
provided with good things to eat. Mrs.
Della Sare, the police matron. had a
hand too, in the distribution of food.
Three hundred and twenty-five chick
ems were provided for the patients at
the state hospital. Arthur Capper
entertained the local newsboys at
turkey dinner.
However, the needy in Topeka were
not so numerous as is often the case
at this time of year. There have been
few persons out of employment this
fall.
A union service for the down town
church members was held at the First
Baptist church this morning DR., Ar
thur s. Henderson officiating. Re
Iigion and the Republic" was dis
cuSsed.
Religion Largest Factor.
Religion has been the largest factor
in our national development" said Dr.
Henderson. The religious element en-
ters into the founding Of nearly all
I7a inns a
Puritans in New England, the Quakers
in Pennsylvania, the Catholics in Mary
land the Dutch in New Amsterdam
the Swedish Lutherans in New Jersey
the HuguenotS in the CaronnaS, the
Congregationalists in the state of Ohio
Thus the molding of our nation was
given into the hands of Christian men.
''At the close of the revolution be-
gan the. settlement of the west with |
such men as Manassah Cutler and Ru- |
fus Putnam, Joseph Ward and Henry |
Clay simmons The leeds of these men |
make a new Acts of the Apostles and |
are continuation of the eleventh |
chaper of Hebrews.
Fifty years have converted the CEN |
trail west into a populous and rich ,
Our population is 25 !
times greater than at the close of |
the revolution, and our possibilities
of population we have hardly consid- |
cred Let us compare our extent of
territory with some Of the historical |
lands of the world. Palestine is as big |
as New Hampshire. Greece is the size
of Maine. All Great Britain would go |
into the state Of Montana and still |
leave room for Holland and Belgium.
Kansas alone raises enough wheat tc
feed the entire world three times a
day for three weeks.
"Our national spaces are rapidly fill
ing with immigrants from southwest |
ern Europe; these people must be made !
American and Christian if they are to
be assimilated into our national life. |
To solve this problem we must employ
every force and especially bring to bear +
upon every part of our complex life.
the great principles of the life of
Christ
The Rev. w. M. Jackson spoke at the
W Westminster Presbyterian church. The
Rev. John Zimmerman preached at the
North Topeka Conversational church. Ser
vices We're held at Grace Cathedral at 9
2'clocIl this morning. and at the East
Side NJ. +. church at 1880.
Evening Programs.
Two special Thanksgiving programs
nave been arranged for tonight, one at
he Swedish Baptist church and the 9th
er at the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran
church at Fourth and Tyler streets Fol-
owing is the program for the former ser
Song service, c. c. sholander. leader.
Scripture reading and prayer by the
pastor.
Historic address" Early BaptiSts in
Sweden and Their Persecution''-
......................Re Rev. Alfred Sjolander |
Selection ........-...............M Male Chorus
Address-"Religiou Liberty and Other
Marked Blessings We Now Enjoy
.-....-.........-...----.-- G. Carlson
General Thanksgiving by the people.
Song by the choir.
offerings forwarded
q free n
The annual Thanksgiving concert given
" the church chorus and Junior Bible
lass of the Swedish Evangelical Luther
IN church will be in the form of a rem
lition of 1.-The Beatitudes," a contata by
Ashford. There has been much prelim-
nary training and unusually good con-
.ert is anticina ted