Norwich bulletin., 1920-11-26
THANKSGIVING SERMON ON

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 In his sermon upon The Pilgrim Fa-I thers at the Thanksgiving day service at Park Congregational church at II O. clock Thursday morning, Rev Dr. Sam uel H. Howe declared that the Pilgrims gave the nation a conscience and a tyne of citizenry that dug the grooves in which the best life of this nation has moved for 300 years. It is our business not to bank on our past or to parade these inherited Assets but to 50 forth and shrpass them.
 The special music of the service Was the new harvest anthem, Lo Summer Comes Again (Stainer) which was ad- mlrably rendered by the quartette
 Dr. Howe's sermon was from the text Hebrews IFS: He went out not knowing whither he went, and he spoke in part as follows:
 He goes furtherest who does not know whither he goes, Oliver Cromwell said. A familiar fact. Abraham was the pri- nal adventurer. Paul started for Da- mascus to persecute Christians He and- ed his career at the heart of the empire on Christ's errands
 Columbus started for India and dis covered new world instead of an old one Henry Martyr and William Carey went out for one cause and broke into the pagan world for ten thousand proaa- gators of the Christian Gospel who fol- lowed
 Livingstone went out to Africa not knowing whither he went but opened the black heart of Africa for missions and commerce and civilization.
 Abraham came out of an old and effete civilization soon to be buried under the sands of the old Mesopotamia not know ing but looking for a city of God and ended " st which has been widening to the present day. He dreamed a fair Utopia which | he never saw, but he was a visioned man; he looked over the heads of the l long centuries and saw a new heaver l and new earth. He dealt with ana | trafficked with ideals which he would never realize but he saw them supple | mented by greater efas and wider king | doms he did not dream. Abraham saw my day and rejoiced and in glimpsin, | that day he must have seen what lay be hind it the city. of God in which would | be gathered the snoils and riches of al | time. And his modern copyist went ou not for gold but to find God and with God he founded a nation.
 |! ]. The Pilgrim like his ancient proto type was an idealist. He took the bi ventures. He was not afraid of big task and hard ones. He was heroic figur silhouetted against the dawn. A chil : of the dawn who carried the future il his eye who never caught up with hi
 horizon because he began with God an . continued with God In the name ( God, Amen" he wrote at the head of hi compact. A great outstanding model fc
 us.
 , We want to start from. God and cate
 the pace of God. A man or nation tha
 begins with God will go far and nc know failures. ?. He was an individua
 ist in the best sense and this made hil
 a great believer. He believed in u
 reign of God, the sovereignty of God. Il
 believed in great predestnated care,
 for son and daughter of the Lord Al mighty. He believed he was a chose man to bring in Gods Kingdom upon u
 world. He was a Believer to the finge tips who believed the great Christia
 positiyes of older ages. To the Pilgri
 the world was not running at sixes an
 sevens but on schedule time The cloc
 of eternity struck the great hours of hi.
 tory. Things were not caught in tf
 drift of -haphazard and borne to certai
 issues. ,Icarus could not drive the chariC
 of the sun at his own sweet will. Thing
 were ordered for good men and wome
 by fixed programs. Worldly men coul
 follow their own sweet will as fire
 lances and end at the abyss as they, al
 ways do, but the loyal man had definit
 charts and this faith in his calling | salvation and service made the Pilgril a man of rock. He could set his fac
 against municipalities and powers H could face the hard facts of life and COT quer them with creed whose leaves ru.
 tied with the winds, of eternity :
 creedless man of which our modern me
 boast would have been helpless in tha , age as he is in ours facing as we are tn new chaos and the worlds wide orgy anarchy and ruin. In the strength of h
 great faith he fought the wild beasts (