Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-24
CITY REFLECTS
KINDLY SPIRIT
OF HOLIDAY
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attend no Sunday schools, receive no re
/ ligious instruction at home.
rs American home life and the control
of children by their parents loose and
lax: Two significant customs have re-
Gently entered our higher social circles
indeed, what we call our respectable cir
Giles, first excessive sensuality OF move
ment and Of suggestive rhythm in mod
ern dancing. and second the custom of
public smoking by women. Both Of these
tendencies have come from the very low
est stratas of society. Nfllady Of the
upper 400 and all Of her beautiful and
attractive daughters have Of late been
taking lessons from their fallen sister of
the slums. She has taught them how to
smoke and how to dance. The under
world has Of late set the pace and pro
vided the accepted standard of what is
correct. A land of hardship made us
great. Is the lard of plenty Forgetting
God?
Contrast the America of our forefathers
with the America of today, the rigors Of
a New England winter of the early II
century with a steam heated luXuriously
appointed apartment Of today. l can
fancy the embodied spirit Of our fathers
rising today viewing their children and
their beloved America saying in the
words of our first text God hath caused
me to be fruitful in the land Of my af-
Fiction" but with q panied look plead
ing with his children living in a land of
plenty in the words Of our second text
when thou shalt have eaten and be full
beware lest thou forget God
The Rev. ]. A. Henderson, pastor Of the
First United Presbyterian Church was
the speaker at the union services at the
Broadway Church. His theme was The
Exalted Nation" Thanksgiving, he said,
is a very appropriate occasion to inquire
into the standing of the nation before
God. Righteousness in fundamental law,
in statutory law and in the administra-
ton of the law is the basis for the
exaltatiOn of the nation. he said.
In order that the nation may be kept
up to this exalted standard 1t is necessary
that the nations moral code be taught in
the public schools and that the Christian
citizenship insist upon its practice in
practical politics and governmental ad-
ministration, the Rev. Henderson de-
clared. The products Of such application
Of righteousness, he said, will be the
lifting of the nation from corruption and
crime and to the honorable distinction
of the country among the nations of the
world and to the favor of Almighty God
The services at the Broadway Meth
Odist Church were participated in by the
First United Presbyterian, the MOravian
Episcopal and the Sutherland Presby-
terrain Churches. Mrs. Margaret White,
Miss Dorothy GoshelI, c. NJ c. Hogue
and Paul Cochley. forming the quartet
OF the Broadway Methodist Church. sang.
They were accompanied by Mrs. Mary
Willhite. Ralph Whitaker played several
cornet solos.
The Rev. George Savary of the First
Congregational Church, delivered the
Thanksgiving day sermon at a union
service of nine churches at the Fourth
Presbyterian Church. There was special
music Members of the First Presby-
terrain, First Friends, Memorial Presby-
terrain, First United Presbyterian, Col
lege Avenue Baptist, Third Christian,