The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-25
DR. STUART PLEADS FOR THANKSGIVING OF SACRED SERVICE Character of Our Coming Thanksgiving" Topic of
 Splendid Sermon of
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''We are nearing the greatest Thanks giving Day that has ever been observed in the annals of history, and I doubt whether there will ever be such a mo- mentous one again. said pr. George R. Stuart, preaching from the subject "The Character of Our Coming Thanksgiv- ing" to a capacity audience at the First Methodist church yesterday morning.
 Clouds and sunshine, winter and summer, and joys and sorrows alter nate. The colonists of New England assembled in 1921 to weep and mourn over their troubles, but at the sugges- tion of a hardy old farmer among them they considered the blessings they had received instead of misfortune that had b efallen them the occasion was turned into thanksgiving service. So, there is always some good to be seen in ev- erything; if we look on the bright side instead of the dark we will find 1t. That should be the spirit of Thanksgiv- ing. We never see stars till night, though they are there all the time. Next Thanksgiving will be a world Thanksgiving. We now have all the things we have ever had to be thank full for plus world peace. Now, that the war is over, many can be thankful that their boys will soon be at home. Let us not forget those who will never return while we are giving thanks; we should thank God that they were will- ing to die for liberty. We should thank God for what He has done He has certainly been in the war To doubt that God has been in the war we would be nation of hypocrites and ingrates; we would be willing to set aside the prayers of our President and all of the people whom he asked to pray on speci- fled days.
 THE THREE IDS"
 "The three Ds--dread, death and drain tell hawt we have borne during the war. The mothers and fathers have borne the dread, as they anxiously watched for the casualty lists and lis tened for news from over there Thank God all of that Is overl Our deaths in the war have been comparatively small; if it had lasted two years longer they would have run up into millions instead of the thousands; we would have been in the same condition as Italy and other allied countries; our women would have had to work in many places that are now filled by men. We should thank God there are to be no more deaths from the war. The drain has been upon our resources, as well as our manhood. There are three Ts .also toll, ax-transformation.
 T have been picturing the negative side of the victory; now, let us take a look at the positive side: First, au tocracy and militarism are dead. Thank God for that! A new civilization won the war and that civilization will be introduced into Germany. Righteous ness and justice should exist every where.
 "This is a time to honor or debauch. Which shall we do? We never had a bright day that the devil didn't try to spoil it. The brewers would like to see sin triumph and many people would Thanksgiving of ours into an occasion for revelry; they are already issuipg their programmes.
 There Is a big tide of unthinking g in the world, people who just follow the crowd. Let one man m a crowd look up and you will see everybody else do the same thing. This gregarious in stinct is not always good for people. but sometimes Is very dangerous.
 GUIDE YOUNG PEOPLE
 "Young people need care; did you ever rear children? I have. and they wanted to go everywhere. We should show them where they should go and where they should go on all great oc- casions.
 -"Our celebration should be sacred; it should be tender. We should cele- brate with the highest value Our cele- brations should be free from cruelty. We didn't enter the war to kill but to bring justice; the killing was simply a means to an end. Let mercy, justice and love be at the front in our celebra- tions. We should celebrate out of the deepest gratitude.
 We are going to remake geography; did you ever think of it? I believe that God made the world and that we are sheep in His pasture. Think of the ores, lakes and rivers in our pasture. The world Is coming to democracy. Ours is already established.
 We have the privilege of serving the suffering nations; they look for our ships laden with food. The little na- tions are looking to Wilson for voice at the peace table and he has assured them that they will have it.
 "We ought to be grateful for the open door made by the war. The world wants the Bible. Thank God for the centenary movement