The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-11-29

WlNNEMUCCA, NEVADA.
Text-James lit: Every good gift
and every perfect gift is from above.
and cometh from the Father of lights
With whom is no variableness, neither
shadow of turning"
All over America, from the Great
village and hamlet, church bells are
ringing this morning; factories. mills
and workshops are at rest, and the
busy toilers of yesterday are, by force
of time-honored custom no less than
by executive proclamation, laying
aside the implements of commerce
and trade, and engaging, each in his
chosen way. in the festivities of this
Thanksgiving day. Some will make
this day an occasion for drunkenness
and ''riotous eating of flesh; others
VIII gather once more under the pa
ternal roof, around the old family
board; many will observe the letter of
the day and throng the houses of
worship, drawn hither by this, that or
the other attraction; while still 9TH
ers. observing both letter and spirit,
are devoutly grateful, and can truly
say:
ITO thee, o God, we lift our eyes,
To Thee our grateful voices raise;
And, kneeling at Thy gracious throne,
Devoutly join in hymns or praise"
This is a national day; a day pecul-
iarly American. God has wonderfully
blessed his children everywhere and
at all times, and yet, like the cleansed
iepers the nine have gone their way
forgetting the source of their cleans
ing. How seldom have nations recog-
nized Him from whom all blessings
fowl The Hebrew children remem-
bered Him first in the feast of Taber-
uacles. England remembered Him
when delivered from the "Invin-
chile Armada" and but few times
since.
The old Puritans of the Massachu
setts Bay Colony found occasion to
remember Him, though rudely domi-
ciled upon that stern and rock bound
coast"
The first American Congress, in de-
claring themselves free and independ-
ent States relied" on the protection
of Divine Providence, and when
crowned with success did not forget
to call upon the nation to thank that
Divine Providence. Those early faith
ers who wrought so wisely and so well
under Divine guidance" deemed it
proper to place their motto upon the
very coins we use, lest we forget, lest
we forget"
In 1863, when the American repub-
lie was being cemented together by
the blood of brother arrayed against
brother. and it began to be evident
that American institutions were not to
perish from the EARTH" we again re-
membered the Author of every good
gift and every perfect gift by day
of national thanksgiving. From that
day to this no President of these
! United States has dared ignore the
| precedent and the celebration seems
to have become fixed. We review
with pride the history of our land, it's
marvellous growth, its wonderful
achievements. political, industrial,
commercial and intellectual; but as
We recall the Giver we are humble
and thankful; not as the Pharisee.
thankful that We are mot as other
men are" neither as other nations.
| We depore the vain idea (some-
times apparently of an Anglo Saxon
God. The Hebrew had me reason
for believing himself hosen one;
but under the gospel dispensation
there is neither Jew nor Greek"
neither bond nor free-for all We are
all one in Christ Jesus" In consid-
ering the history of America we can
neither eliminate nor ignore the part
enacted by the Christian religion.
Christian enthusiasm discovered
America and gave to the world its
'Grandest lesosn; on, and on!'
Christian zeal pushed its way
through the savage wilderness in ex-
ploration and mapped out the high
ways over which the future millions
We're to march in the westward
course of empire" Christian devo-
tfon peopled America with the most
heroic souls of all Europe-Puritan
and Huguenot-who, because OF the
unchristian bigotry and intolerance of
zeal which was not according to