Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-24
CITY REFLECTS
KINDLY spirit
OF HOLIDAY
Thanksgiving Is OBJ
served by Special
Union Services.
FEASTS FOR NEEDY
Pastors Add Word of
Caution to General
Rejoicing.

A day of thanksgiving and feast
ing was observed in Indianapolis.
Many of the churches held special
Thanksgiving services and in a mum
Der OF cases several churches joined
together. Nearly every business
house in the city was closed as were
all the public buildings.
Charitable organizations were busy
during the morning supplying the
needy with Thanksgiving dinners.
Automobiles carried baskets over
flowing with good things to the
homes of those in need of aid.
In the public institutions, including
the penal institutions, special Thanks
giving dinners were served. While tur-
key was absent from the menus in most
places, there was an abundance Of good
things
One OF the special events Of the day
was a dinner given by the Disabled Sol
diers League at Tomlinson Hall Mt noon
for needy ex-service men.
One of the largest Thanksgiving day
services was the joint service Of The FIVE
large downtown churches-Roberts Park
N. T.. Second Presbyterian. Central
Christian. First Baptist and Meridian
Street NJ. E. churches held at Roberts
Park NJ Z. Church.
t,,.T fvrF
tions Ly Miss Dorothy knight ofs the
Second Presbyterian Church. and vocal
numbers by the quartette of the same
CHURCH. were features Of the services.
The quartette Il composed OF Mr.. and
Mrs Arnold Spencer, Miss Eva Jenries
and Raymond Jackson.
Land Of Anlctlon" was the title Of
the sermon delivered by the Rev. Jean
s MiIner. pastor Of tho Second Presby-
terian Church He argued that the
greatness Of the American Nation is due
to the hardshtps and struggles Of our
people in the beginning and expressed a
fear that the life and cnse and plenty Of
today may sap the vitality Of the Nation,
weaken it's moral nature and cause it to
forget God.
In part he said
what was true Of the settling Of our
Eastern colonies from New England TO
southern Georgia was true In later years
Of the settling Of the Middle West and
the far West 1t was a harsh battle with
cruel elements and the great American
wilderness exacted its tragic toll. To
the pioneers of every epoch in the con
quering Of our continent. America pre-
sented the challenge of hardship and
suffering, a land Of affliction. Since
then the miracle of America has oc-
Cured
Hardship has made us great. Ease
threatens to sap our energies Plenty is
dangerous. A land Of afliction has
evolved great people; land of plenty
may drain their vitality, waste their
powers and destroy their great ideals.
Our greatness has been based upon old
fashioned virtues Of simplicity. honesty.
deep and abiding religious faith. The
old fashioned American home with the
old-fashioned American mother, whose
! hand rocked the cradle has> s>molded the
greatness Of our people
but today we are rich Ours is no
longer a land of affliction but land of
plenty. There Is danger In our great
wealth and ease. In the words Of our
second text, When thou shalt have eaten
and be full, then beware lest thou for
get God More than 30 per cent of the
American people have no connection with
any form or organized religion. More
than 27,000,000 normally Protestant chill
dren are growing up spiritual illiterates,
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