Evening star., 1938-11-20
Ministers to Speak
On Significance
Of Season


fortune, 1t is fitting that we offer
prayers for unfortunate people in
other lands who are in dire distress
at this our Thanksgiving season."
Help for Needy.
Charity groups throughout the
city. meanwhile, were proceeding
with plans to furnish Thanksgiving
dinners to several hundred needy
men at downtown missions and to
furnish dinner baskets and sacks to
poor families.
Civic and patriotic organizations
and schools also will take part in the
annual Thanksgiving observance
here.
A number of churches will hold
special services Thanksgiving, in ad-
dition to sermons by their ministers
today.
Referring to the unfortunates ir
other lands, President Roosevelt said
in his proclamation:
Let US remember them in our
families and our churches when,
on the day appointed, we offer our
thanks to Almighty God. May We
by our way of living merit the con-
tinuance of His goodness
Roosevelt Proclamation.
The President opened the procla-
nation by making Thanksgiving a
legal holiday and continued:
Our fathers set aside such a day
as they hewed a Nation from the
prlmeval forest. The observance was
consecrated when George Washing
ton issued a Thanksgiving procla-
nation in the first year of his pres
idency. Abraham Lincoln set aside
a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise
to our benefcent Father who dwell
eth in the heavens
Thus from our earliest recorded
history, Americans have thanked
God for their blessings. In our
deepest natures, in our very souls,
We, like all mankind since the
earliest origin of mankind, turn to
God in time of trouble and in time
of happiness. In God We Trust
For the blessings which have
been ours during the present year
we have ample cause to be thank
full.
Our lands have yielded goodly
harvest and the toiler in shop anu
mill receives more just return for
his labor.
I'VE have cherished and pre-
served our democracy.
I'VE have lived in peace and un-
derstanding with our neighbors and
have seen the world escape the i'm
pending disaster of general war
At today's Thanksgiving service
in the Rhode Island Avenue M. P.
Church, the Thanksgiving Offering
will be applied to liquidation OF
the denominations debt before it
enters the Methodist Union.
Bishop Freeman to Speak.
The Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, will preach
the Thanksgiving Day sermon at II
am. Thursday at Washington
Cathedral There will be special
festival music by the Cathedral
choir.
Six suburban churches will join
in union services Thursday at 7
am. in the Lutheran Church at
East Riverdale, Md. The Rev. E.
c. Tull, pastor of the East River
dale congregation. will preach.
One hundred needy men from
the lines of those seeking shelter
at the Central Union Mission will
be selected Tuesday night as guests
at the annual Thanksgiving dinner
given by Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Jen-
ner, local restaurant operators.
The selection will be made by
Jean Bennett. superintendent OF
the mission. Those who are chosen
will receive the best meal Mr.. anG
Mrs. Jenner can assemble.
Meanwhile, other needy will re-
ceive the usual noon-time dinner
given every hungry man who ap-
plies on Thanksgiving at the mis-
sion. During the dinner program
will be broadcast by Radio Station
VOL, consisting of musical num-
bers by the Mission Glee Club.
impromptu interviews with some
of the missions dinner guests and
brief talks.
Preparations are being made to
serve 600 guests.
Dinner for Children.
A Thanksgiving dinner for chill
dren will be at the missions Chill
dren's Emergency Home.
"All who come" to the Gospel
Mission, 214 John Marshall place
NV, between noon and pm.
Thursday will be served a Thanks
giving dinner, Supt. Harvey Prem
tice announced. More than 400
homeless men are expected to dine
at the mission, while poor families
who call there for food each week
day will be cared for as well. There
will be q religious program In con-
nection with the dinner.
The sixth annual strangers
dinner" founded here six years
ago by DR.. Grace A. Thompson.
when her family was out of the
city, will be held again at the
Shoreham Hotel on Thanksgiving
Day. The dinner will be preceded
by a brief get-acquainted reception
in the Garbo room.
DR.. Thompson's first dinner, .
Dutch treat" affair, brought to-
gether strangers without friends in
Washington on Thanksgiving and
local citizens who were alone. 1t
proved a success and has become
an annual occasion.
Arrangements are in charge OF
Dr.. Thompson. assisted By Miss
Mary Aellinger.