The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-12-03
Town Joins In
Thanksgiving
SPLENDID SERMON BY REV. E.
A. DeMILLER LITTLE
OLD TIME GOSPEL

All the outward evidence of
Thanksgiving were had in Grenada
on Thanksgiving Day. The stores
were closed practically for the en-
tire day and the citizenship of the
comm hnity-that is all that could
get into the bull ,irg-gath red at the
opera house that morning for
Thanksgiving services. 1t has been
the custom of the several churches
for years to hold. union Thanksgiving
services, and to alternate with the
different churches. This year the
service was due to go to the Episco-
pal church, but the Rector of that
church thinking perhaps the church
would not accommodate the crowd,
made arrangements with Mr. Tyson,
always ready to meet any proper de-
mand of the public, for the opera
house. 1t was pretty nearly filled.
After some splendid patriotic and
religious music, and the reading of
the Presidents Thanksgiving procla-
nation, Rev. E. A. DeMiller, Rector
of All Saints Episcopal church, de-
livered a very fOrceful sermon. He
took as his theme the ten lepers who
were healed by the Savior where but
one of the number followed the Saw
ious to show appreciation of what
had been done. Mr.. DeMiller sought
to bring the attention of his hearers
the lack of the spirit of thankfulness
of the age. He said that far more
concern was being given right here
in beautiful Grenada to the finan-
cial failures of people than to their
moral failures. He said that immor-
al things were taking place right an
der the noses of Grenada people, yet
little or practically nothing was be-
ing said or 6eSse aboue IL eveeg-
body seemed to De too busy count
ing business losses or failures. He
said that if it were known here that
any number of men had lost several
thousand in business, almost every
tongue would be expressing lament
about it, yet very few indeed seem
ed to be concerning themselves about
the moral losses which everybody
had reason to know existed here.
And he said what was true of Gre
NADIA is largely true of the whole
country. Mr.. DeMiller said that last
year and for the past two years,
money had fairly rolled into the cof-
fers of business men and that they
had spent it just about as readily,
and now, that a season of reverses ,
had set in, many were wearing long
faces and seemed disposed to lay
their financial distresses on the
Lord, when, he said, every reasoning
person ought to know that people
were but reaping what they sowed.
He said that people needed to think
more about by whom they were fed
and clothed day by day. That the
people needed more to cooperate
with the forces and agencies which
God had set up in the world TO pro-
pogate His gospel. The church and
it's forces were not sidelines or si!e-is
sues or side-matters, they were first,
he said, because it is written that sit
hath pleased God to save the world
by the foolishness of preaching"
and that there could be no preach
ing without preachers and that
preachers and churches and Gods
work went hand-in-hand So he
pleaded with his hearers not to act
the part of the nine lepers who were
healed and acted Us if they took the
matter for granted and made no
special effort to show their thankful
ness God, the speaker said, de-
mands and expects not only express
ions of thankfulness and gratitude
With the lips, but by acts and right
eouus living. He plead for an awak-
,ning in Grenada and throughout the
and to give God the service due Him.
fhe sermon was we'll received and
he minister most generously con-
,ratulated.
The collection taken was divided
!mong the several churches repre-
ented to be used for benevolent
and if the custom hereto
ore followed was followed in this in
tance, it went to the orphans under
he care of the several churches.