The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-11-26
affairs.
Harvests.

We as nation rejoice today. and
| give thanks to God for the most abund.
ant harvests the land has ever pro-
duced. Not only have we grain and
fruit with which to feed our growing
population OF more than one hundred
millions, but we have much with
which to supply the deficit in the
| lands across the seas. To God should
we give thanks, not alone because this
will enrich our husbandmen and
strengthen our resources, but because
1t enables us to alleviate the distress
OF those war stricken and starving ma
tons abroad
| We should thank God today that dur
ing the past year no great pestilance
| has stalked through this favored land.
and no widespread destruction nor
conflagration has come upon us.
a ouickened Public Conscience.
/ The man who reads and thinks
who is in touch with the signs of the
times can not fail to notice the gen
eraI quickening and toning up of the
public conscience throughout this ma
ton. In our national and local politi-
cal life we are demanding clean. de-
! cent men In places of trust and honor.
In the business world there is every
where the insistent demand for
square deal for every man In the in
dustrial world there is an earnest rest
lessness that will not be without its
fruits. but that after the troublesome
clouds of suspicion and dtstrust have
been driven away. will bring about
| better state of affairs, and that by and
by, with Gods help, will bring togeth
Ell as mutual helpers the one or the
other, the too long divergent forces
known as Capital and Labor. For all
this we give thanks to God this day.
! Reforms.
\ Never before in single year has
there been such a determined fight
against segregated social evil as in
this present year OF our Lord 1914.
And while there is much OF rottenness
iii the great cities and even in the
smaller ones, yet real progress in this
particular line OF reform has been
made and there is every evidence that
Il brighter and better day is Just ahead.
And what shall say with reference
TO this great onward sweeping and
constantly rising tide of Temperance
Reform? July the first marked the be-
ginning of better day in this our be-
loved mountain state Of West Wiz.
ginIa while five others OF our sister
states, by vote OF the citizens, have
throttled this devilfsh demon RUM
and hurled 1t from their borders. Vir-
ginia. Washington, Arizona, Oregon
and Colorado have Joined the ranks of
prohibitions And while we deplore the
decision, secured by corrupt ballot.
Iir California and Ohio, with fourteen
of the state OF the union now under
legal prohibition, and with much of
the territory OF many of the other
states under some form of prohibition
and, thank God, with a now united fed
Grafton of all the forces opposed to the
legalized liquor traffic we move stead
lily and surely toward the goc1-"A
stainless flag and a saloonless land"
heer on the American continent with
in this present decade.
Spiritual Victories.
4 Time would fail me were to begin
lite enumerate the great spiritual VIC
tories, which, like great prairie fire
have swept all over the country dur
ing the past year. Men like Billy"
Sunday, who, in this Pittsburgh cam.
paign won $4,000 from the paths of
sin, Gypsy Smith, Alexander, Chap
man. Lyon Hamilton, Bromley. Hart,
and hundreds of others have united the
forces and with organized effort have
shelled the enemy in the strongholds
of wickedness-the cities OF America.
THE CLAIM Of the Lord have been
many!"
Denominatlonal lines are becoming
loss and less distinct-rabtd Church
entity" is giving way to rigorous Chris
tianity-Sectional strife is rapidly dy-
ing out-Oh the reasons for thanksgiv-
ing are beyond enumeration.
Then let us adore and give Him his