Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 28, 1873, Page 2

. = THANKS GIVEN. Yestorday Very Genor- ally Observed as a Holiday. The Man of Business Cries a Truce to His Cares. The Laborer Takes a Res- pite from His Toil. Thenkful People Throng the Places of ‘Worship, The Day One of Unwonted Happiness in Thou- sands of Homes, Congregations Thrilled With Stirring Sermons, Everywhere Through the Land Songs of Joy and Praise Ascend, CHICAGO. Yeaterdny waa o vory unusual “ Thankagiving Day." It was on unusual doy in any sonso of the word, The ground was robed in festive ap- parel, and tho sky had donned its holiday attire of blue and white, It was, meleorologically con- sidered, an uousual day. Caroful honsokeepors woro sitting at their opon windows, watching too sloighs passing flootly by, The air was still and balmy, and the snow sufliciently well packed and solil to withetand tho ardent Invitationa of the sun to yield, Nothingcould kave boon more Eatisfactory to tho noxt goneration, Slating on tho sdowalk was oxcellont; skatisg in tho middle of tho strost unueually good. Tho 'bugea woro running with open win- dows, while the boys wero amusing themselves by attaching their sleds to tho stopa of tho samo, Buch su unusual state of uffairs wus wortuy of note, as boing quite plionomenal, It was in delightful contrast with tbe lnst oational Loliday, especially so to the samo coming genoration, who will over recollect with foelings of the utmoet indignation the at- mospherio humidity which caused their fire- crackers to expiro with on ignoble fizz, and their rockets aud Roman candles to foebly glimmer in protest, and then obstinately rojoct sny furthor invitations to shine with their expeoted briilian- cv. In short, there was just enough snow to pleaso tho boys and girls,—~just;enough to rendor sleighing possible, and not enough to interfero with street-travel or mar the enjoy- ment of the day to thoso who took tho opportunity of visiting thelr rolatives rosiding in distant portions of the city. Nothing could have beon more enjoyable than the weathor, Tho impoounious houskespor, with just ono scuttlo of coal in his cellar, and no prospect of securing anothor, chose the occasion Lo givo thaoks for the brightnoss and goniality of tho day; tho sordid wretch upou whose poeik- ot the appes! for nid had nover had offect, gavo thanky that there was ono less oxcuso for giving; the poor wrolch whoso salary, barely large enough to support him shen at full:tide, had beon cut down to panie lovel, that his watchful frieads had givon Lim ono good meal whosa be-, neficent remembranco would cheer him tull tho stringoncy of the times should re- Inx ; tho clerk and the workman gave thanks for ono additional Bunday; and the ministor, imbued with a foeling of solf-satisfaction, gavo thanks that, with all tho advantages of Bunday, Thanksgiving Day only required of him obo ser- mon, Tho business portion of the city pre- sented an appearanco of screnity which sug- gested the Day of Rest of the coming municipal administration, the only wholesalo and retail plncos of Lus'ness open to public patronage be- ing tho saloovs, Tho churches in which sorvices wore announced wore dovoutly thronged, and the words of the preacher listenod to with an rttention quite unusual, Surely no Thanksgiv- ing Day could have been more gratoful to the city, or more devoutly observed, NEW ENGLAND CHURCII. nt Address Detiver 00w by the Kev, L. Eloqu Lor Tavu ‘I'he completed portion of the Now England Clurch was crowded st Thanksgiving services yestordny furenoon, - Lrof. Swing read the Serigtures und led iu prayer, and the pastor, tho Roy. L, L' Chawmborluin, detivered tho following addiens, which was listened o with ovidont pleasuro by un audionce composed, almost ox- clusivoly, of the descondunts of thoso nmong whom the Thunisgiviog fostival originated ; ‘THE BEIMO We are gathered this morning, good friends, to cele ebraie n natioudl fawival, Tu accordanco with catabm lehua tengey tun Gulof Magintrate und tho vespsctive Guvernors uf the Rapublio bave fuvited the people to obiervo ilie dlay ne u duy of soctal and_publie. thanks- iving, Iu varlows ways, und in varying degrees of Baurifaons, vitizens i ull thovo United Statos-aro. tor ay re<poriding o tho aummons, At this very hone, in thousanls of churchor, worshipors huvo gutlicred u wo are guthered hero, Tiosweel-toned Lotls of tho North, aud the South, wnd the Enst, sud tho West Lave sounded 1ho cull ; snd dwebera'ou tha mountuing and dhio pluity, Ly 119 Lvkes and Lo Guif, uud wlong (s sbures of eillior o:ean bave goue uyi to tha hotise of God ta rendsr thelr prafse. In lialf n seors of Tuniguages, prononncod by lipa ouce forelgn bat tiow of 414 + 0 TNCL COULLTY, tue nutional thxuks aro ute With o1 1 nuids und hymus of joy the great e, and rovavont, wi | gin; ko noensu whithoweat up of o.d from Lsracl's alinr Wiien e ark siil Lo omple wors ou the racrad Ho, ton, In teus of (homauds of bonies, ¥ o ceugth snd Urescts of the la, there fs unwontod Lappiuess, To-day tho man of I faews eres u trne to Wis cuies, il thu lacorer tukes rvewpdte from his toil, * The rich find yleure I tio ronsclousuess of thefr woalth, und even the poor,. witl Lrave smyrov d nce; push wun uside, bt for ona doy at locst (ko Loo muy Lo fice 10> tho wtoy of wehomor gucely, Aroind many huarth ther wre 1he reunions of Azittero houseuo.ds, siii -ho uk canlidng of congenal frionus, und tho gquict bil-s Wit b o from uam oo Jovo, ‘Tue uged gratdsire widl il Bitusclf surronuded ouce more Uy Hioke who Vet 148 e and LooF Ltk shiv Low, fud Lo littie 1 know by 1ho new tos i tus provaling \i .t hiotnde e timo for Ita merrlost glee, st bor 84, however, for ew.n f fhe e of Bt iz Le) s earvow wokened, | podr, u iow Krews @ 1 by tus cnlig of s fental iy, L vt oluws, whon I vig subdst, twero wiil Le uebli 1 X esterdny Chuamber- Ve which no warmth of earth can drive away, for thos wiun Iook from the whidowa il kuor that Uy abiess hve gona to the “land thot d8 very far off. Aud athur homea thore uroy no dowbt, witero want and phiyaical ewfTerlug hold wll the nccoass of iife, and will ol grant the duotiied ouos even dny's rofoase, Tt Is moro than porstblo that u envy which ean hnedly o woudered ‘ot, wnd bitiornces which it 8 but himan 'to uateriain, bero and thora spring up ol thought of comforts which are, “theough wore tecessily, unsharad. Lel s, therdfore, with s toulernoss fusyired by onf o alinndant Lloasings, samombor the mouraing, and Ute vl uid thy dinireased, Lot un pray tint tie comforling geace of God muy be round aboul them, o thnt through Lumay batids Ohrial-liko lovo moy miidater to (liolr nees, R, to-dny—olbsit fliore nré oxcoptions, of sorraw too aad and indifforence too irrovorsut—a mighty na- Hon lita up ila thanks to God ! Aud aoniobow, o (o cousclonaieen of that groat fact comes ovor mo, X am moved to tho tocoilortion of o distunt, dny wiien, In fecbloncen anid perfl, thls swmo nation began ta lifo, o me 1t 8 plensliig, ovew at an hour liko thir, to turn womowhit from presout glarien and dwell with onth- sinem on tho period of pruridontii beglznings, Nor o1 feor that {n ylelding (o such a feoling 1 sall bo wilhiuut your sympathy for1 tukothu fmpulse to bo ono Wikcl Js sinctipned by Gur common, nuturo, _Buroly trite gratitudo looke Lickward ne woll ns upward, and finelligont Joy trkos couneol of mamory uo loss thau of Nioyio. 1t 18 on rocord that tho Greok of the days of Ferlclon treasured with pious caro tho traditfons of tho carlicst agoy, and wo know that Lomer's imuorial oplo which tho wandoriug minstrela sung from Mata van lo tho Thruolan bounds was uil of events Which trapepired while ‘Timo was voung, Dyven Athonian hnughtinesa prosorved tho romombranico of primitiva dnys, and was fond of measuring o fator genndour from thosturting polnt of early simplleity, Ho, tan, 10 _conguoring ltomun was wont somotinios o' putav, that bo might contrant tho splondor of tho Empiro with tho poverty of tho Trojan colony, With proud bumiity Lo would turn, In_ thought, from the ninces awd tovupieaof tho s to o wickor it of Ronulus und tho tatelicd raf of tho Capitol, * Who would think," writes exaltsut Ovid, recaliing the timo when cattle fowed In the Foram, sid wolves infested the Sacr Hllin, *svho would thiu: thnt mich o Bliplo 210 ey iold 0 wido a plco fa tho concorus o dss- ny " But, my licarers, Ligher occaslon than belonged to cltlier Grock or Romnn iavo you and I to Le mindtul of tho early days, For, on tho ono binnd, we stand al- roudy on thie helghts of's national atfatument whicl in tho best seuso must bo doomed to oxeced Lholr glory, and on thio othior hand wo look to sn_origit moro his- toricaily provideutial and far moro graud. I fay moro grund, and set could aughit bo_more humblo? ~ When Gnrialiun civilzation Grst cropt, wloog our couste would it not huvo takion oyes suolntod with more thu Dulpbic or Sibyllino provision to Lovo discornod the ponsibility of whit wo sos to-dny ? Ia there ony otlier 11980, In elther bistory or romutico, liko that fu which I rocorded the progross of our growtl from coloulal weakness to the dominion of & coutiucnt? May any otlier people, think you, find gratitude yurer or moro devaut i i tle why by \whicl (o Lord bos lod em If tho time allowed Y should ke o speak of tha sov- oral colontal beginniugs whoso resultunxe factors i our prescat life; but (rom tunt £ aun, of course, forbiddsn, 1asy not, fhdeod, do more than’ dwell for moment on aio of ‘oven tho threo Lerolo sources from which thio nstion took its ueo, Aud in tuls prosencoand oi {luls In-some-gonso anniversary duy, will tt be deemed fuvidious if T scloct for this singlo'ono tho littic band which two conturies and bnlf ngo kopt, at Plymouth, tho firat “ Thanksglving * of tlfs Westorn world? 1 coufess to iho feoling that i cver tho pathos of migration reaclicd fts hofght, It was when at an cur: Iy dawn toward tho closo of aitumn, 16:0, tho Ms lower caught sight of Capo Col'a white and bleak nnd Darren snds. As Xeco bor forging ber way on that bleak morniig through elioals and breskors, coking i valu for aucaorage, I can only think of the lone dove which oneo flew to find_a vew, resnrgeut world, and wwus drlyen Lnck wilhout so miich as o rosting-placa for ler foot, 5ixty-four daya on the stormy Atlautic ; d:licaty women uud teuder childron wulting wearily fur a Lioms on greon and fortilo, though unknown, uhiores ; and then, at firat, not permiited 50 much ns 0 luud on evon thiat dicary wasto. But, inatead, battiinga with further winds ond tides, and fhou, on ortaln cold Docember noon moored it tho open road- d of future Provincelown, at tho oxtremily of tho southern capo of Massachusctts Bay. In all ouly ong Lundred and two soulal 1t is not casy to put oncself at evon tho Intelloctua) etandpoint of peoploof othor timen aud ottier purroundiugs : and till moro difficultls it to enter into the actual fuelings which filed thelr broasts, Yet, a6 you look back to-duy at thoso who wero guthier- od on that wind-swept deck, conslder, I pray you, that thoy were simpio, verltablo men and {omen like your- selves, For not soldom fa it that to thoso who have plaged distiuguished parts in tue world's dra- ms, we do ostontiul injustice by ldoallzing them Into the principlos’ or _passlons whoss ouds thoy wrouglht, Wo almoét regard them as the porsonificatiun of more thoughts or emotious, und therefor insensible to commoi pains, s aro th mystic duvolves of the Ewt whose bodies, thoy toll us, muy burn or atarve whilo tho spirit keeps its trance, Thay scom 0 ua to Uo bt passive Instruments on which the o'ermastering breath of God hus played, or impecsonal forces which lio has burled from his own restiticss haud, Nob suich, howovor, 18 tho truth ro- specting these of Pllgrim momory, Fortunatoly they come Lofore s from out no ubknown past, aud sround overy atop of thoir cxpuritiice thoro s for us tho light of sdber, cortaln fact, It was, we kuow, among tho hills and valos of Eoglnd ' that thoy’ bud thelr birtb-placo snd Lo, ~ Over them wero gontlo skies, aud benoath them tho fairest of lands, Around them was a civilization auchored In tho stabihity of almost fm- ‘meworial age, aud precious with the"wealth of grand associations, 'Ta most of thom foll tho inheritance of personal poverty, yot they folt to the full the local at- tachments and {8 hearty logalty which such o lifo fu- epiros, Thore, too, woro tholr kindred und thelr friends, *‘Thord werd the graves of the loved and tho 1nonumonts of tho rovered, Sumo of them had par- tieipated In the natlon’s siruggles, and s their fight- ing liad always been for mother-land, their fealty liad thoreby grown thio strongor, oven as tho most elorme tost ailur loves the ocean best, Yot grudunlly there cama to them the conviction that nob in Muglsud cowld they epjoy tho high- cst blessinga for which they ‘hnd fouglt and hoped, Thero was tho fact, growlug every doy more ovident, that In tho land of thelr love they wero 10t 10 bo frea to worship Gad 1n tho way thoy doemed best, Thoy snw tho authority which thoy had belped muiitain tarnod sgainet thew, and tho throne which thioy had upheld piedged to tho dental of their prayor, Of thoso _roalitics, thorefore, tley lalked o one ouotler, Thoy urgld tiele cate iy potiion and ro- monstranco, They looked to God for guidance, And tinatly when thele Wrongs wero without hopo of ro- dress, they said, “ Wo will go. ‘Though it Lo lke tho rouding of lifo, and tho broaking of tho heart ltself Into bioeding {ragments, wo will eck nuotucr home. Wa will fuco tho perils of tho ocean, sud Lho lonolincss of a strango land, and tho dungeis of Iudian hate, that thus wo muy be fres in our radglous Ufe." To' that tremondous decislon they camo ono by one, Ope by ono thiey moved to the carrylng out of (heir purposc, One by on they took Bual farowell of what had beon, und wus, 50 dear, Pluin men with affcetions und fonducahes liko ours, and tender-heariod women to \wom the loves of earth were next to faith fu God, A few sear lowiy souls not awapt by thoughtless manii, nor bilnded by Infoctious zoal, bt swayed by conskd- orate couscicutions conviction, and fuspired by trast- ful hope. Buch, thon, ate they who aftor an _ocenn voyege have aucliored {n the raadatead by the barron capol And tue bitter D scember winds romind them that {hoy have not an bour to loss, The darl waters aud tho 3iowy eks doclare thut uless thoy” huuten lie deadly winter will Lo o them befure they bave con- structed the rudest ehelter, Altogother maticr-of-fact, yet touching to tho vorgo of tears, {8 tho tocord of what thoso wanderora wrought and suflered, Embarkiug at ouco {u un open boat, the surdieat of iho men explored tho unknown coast. Tho freezing sicet blinded thelr sight and chilicd their Hmbs, or was §t nutil they had soarched all tho fnterveuing shore, that st Piymonth they found tho _commodions harbor and running strosms ond arablo lsnd which they thought would warrant o per- mancut abode, Then slowly und with labor thoy Leat tholr way back to their anxlous comrudes ; waited then for fuvoring winids, uutli uttar Curtter dujs of loil and bardships they fually moored tho vessel in_tho now- found haven,~ 'Then with thieir own hnnds they bogan tobuitd ther home, But, ams, there was fick of bosts, sud precious’ timo lost going 1o mnd feom tho ship, i uck "of stono and mortwr and ihateh, Thero was lack of falr weathor and wholesome food, And s0on thero was Inck of health aud strength, When New Year's camo tix of the little compauy wers d and tho record goes on: “Efght fn Juniiury, seventeen i Fobruary, tuirteen In March,” So thut, ' in littlo moro {hun fonr short months, one-half the number, includ- ing their choson and _trustad leader, bad pasecd to their vest, Tho six or soven who wero not themaelves Delpless, buried the doad by night, snd built no 1nounds’ to mark Lo apots, lest perchanco the savngo should count tho graves and know how few weru thio Jiving that remoiucd, ~And yet, despite the suiferings Dy cold und famino; despite’tho labors und the por= i; despito tho sickuess ond the deaths; ond despito the gloom of tho future, moro p~ paling tin even “the durkest yusi; whon, on April 5, the Ayflower saflod for Englund, sho'took nat uack a fugle ona of the Pligrim band, ‘Theve ws not a hesee thut quailed, Thero was not ons wmong thom all who did tot chooso to ubide the 1ndus of his outward lot rathor than tuke the comfort whicls mbst Lo purchased by disobeylg the volc within, Tiho wnrvivors, loft thiencoforth doubly ulone, cut off ntterly from tho eivlized world, continued b thele task, and wated for tho spring, Gb, it scom even now Iike the burst of vialblo sunsliine, und tho uctuul Mel- ody of musicy when in tho dally ‘wrrative thy. Words o found,—" Weathor fulr wnd mild ;" und again, Tho bizdw nre singiug in tho woods,"' Tho Indians co showed kiuducks, and, by the tune of early kum- ilio s:tlers lud plunted barloy, und peis, aud aud bad learned successfully o' tish nnd liun s-uileby oulumu came, bub mat until s wollings had beca bullt, and not until, tuough dle peas hmd 'fulled, the * barley lind proved “iudifferont gnod,” an ters bud been 43 e fucrcame O Indian cort, e 1 was (bt tho Governor of (o coluny disputchied_svoctl hunters to bring in_abundant gamo, snd proclatined o geuvrnl feast ond thaniiegiving for the morelcs which bid boon vourhufed, Sathoy feusted nud guve thauks, though wo inay woll bellov" thist sadness camo tctinies, Lotk at memory of tha past and nt thought of the futuro, Lees than u yeor, and only fifty-ouo survivors out of & Bundred mid (w01 s winy graves of the dead s faces of tho ilving! Ved thoy gave hanks, Such, frionds, 18 the initiul chaptcr i tho listory of vise wo liold to~day, Itisuot my purpose, 10 trac tuo_rocord” furthier, for I 'know that atr commomorution outrescliis tho suggestion gava ltvise, Ttwould bo fdle, fudeed, to aig- pouo thut tho natfon which novw shes the destinics of the Now World, nnd numbern ulnost nu many millonn us thore wore unity nt that fret “Tiunk glving," should keop no otacr miamorics than thoso whicls colicern tho Blyflosor and Plymouth Rovk, ¥ur be ft from mo ta dispavage tho elow mtn whiell from any sourco hve arlson to bnld our une thoal etrengil’und angmient our osvential wortli, Far b iy from me, fudced, ot o rojoico that i soimy thivgsu. Jowtthe eifldien have consiructod botter thun the fathors, T give wost bearly thunky thut Targer toleration, and u_gentlor culturo, snd o still wweeler faftl, Nuve found thelr way duto mndern thouglit and conduct, Yot Tabould bo untrio o my Justhint of Justice 10 man, and my porcoption of fiie dobiednoes ta o, If T dfd not slan, eh (luo 0. c.siun, wpoak my sens of What Lelougs, ut'lhs bands of ua T'HE CHICAGO DAILLY — e —————— al), to thons who planotd New England and gaye her cofly -fuflienca fo tho muntion’s Iife, " Unloss T 'lave misrend our histors, wo could bettor have spored nny othor forco than that whiek grew from the colony eatablished in such nelf-donying faith, I mieinterprot our presont condi- Ton 1t 1) b not n fact thnt what would flo. moro tiwn aught elso to bonefit tho ontira syatom, (rom tho indi- Yidual 1ip ta tho nation e n corporato thole, sould be tho ravival of thoro distinotiva clomenta which mado our Puriton and Tligrim ancestors what they wero, Thint fear anq roveranco of God i that regard for con nelenca n macred from farcoful interference, and as the binding lnw thut sublime readincas to pay the price of civil and religlous freodont; thnt sovorlty of Botl—for tho sovere, {n tLio doep acnce, Ia tho vory fruo —that soverity of soul which lated shams and les; in Bliort, thut atfength of moral conviction which mndo tho 'whols life take bnpo under fts august coutrol, Alrendy wo posecas 6 falr dogroo of Mbcrality, and_ philanthropy, and *awoet rons- onnblonesn ' wo bavo n love of the comfortable, and un admiration of the practical, nnd an csteom of tho chioerful, and n aympatby with progress,” Wo aro cuming to understand art, and o appreclato travol, and to nequire oulturs, Whnt wo most need, accords ingly, in a roinforcement of the moral, roligious side, Wo need tho nerve aud tonie might wiiich thero ia in Lioly purpores. We nead, and miat Love, tho vital power which thoro Is iu ' all-pervading, ali-directing sienao of right, . This {n uationn) dny, and yon will, thorefore, the more readtly pardon me if 1 puggea: cortain considern tions which are syggaiod by listory at large. Wo lovo our country, Tho bumbiest of us tako prido in hor growlland rofoice fu hor ndvancement, Wo can- not refratn from fonu anticipations of swhat sho iy des- tined tn uttnin. But, my friends, thoro have boon nations bofore ours, ‘sud we have only to ook VLack to sco that ong jmmutablo " Jaw has rolgned throughont tholr existenco, Tho Inw i o phfin “that bo may run who roadeth it," to-wit: that 80 long ns thera bins been simplicity and probity, there lian boen health and & foundly auginentls powor, tlint when luxtiey and on easy-going refinemen Bave provailed, thoro bus beon a check of vital fucrease; and that when Tuxury has brought its natural fruit of suplooncss, and eultured indittereuce has graduated into {mmorality, tion the nation has rapidly dectined, Thg law da that tho austero—that is,thostrictly futolloc: tual and moral—clements hiava booh tho hoart and soul of ull that bnn ondured, For example, on evers pago of Persin and Egyptian history, that truth s written nu with a pen of from, With thom, even in the dawn of time, the cycle begnn, Intelligenco and veracity produced n(rcngm, ond sirengty dominion, it dominion tichics, and richos. voltptbousnoan, and Voluptuonsness corfuption, and corruption death. The aame {8 seen {u Greeco, With her, aleo, the liero- {o age, tn whichi it is munifeat that tuo fonndations of laer power wora lald, wis b £g3 of comparalivy striet- ness and integrity, And, afterward, tho vigor which currled hor to hor most. briliisnt deels and postponed thio final diseolution was a wigor drawa from thoso primiliva suurcos, Itwas Sparta and tho Btofes, it \as Lycurgna and Sofon, that stoad as the living tree, albelt 1n {te sholter thers grow sucl growths of sensu- ous art and elfominate culture that at last thoy over- Inid nnd dragged it down, Aud what was it, shall wo iy, that (irough a0 many conturies, supporicd Ramo in’ bor contlictsa without nnd within? Une quostfonably dt was tho Sabiuo olo- wment, It wna that eloment which bhad its original homo among the mountainy, and was puri- fied by privations and hardehips until it became * as eound and sweot as the chestnuta of the Appenines gn whish it fed.” Romu'stru grandane and propor historlc ranown Is scen, not In tho nge of Leo X, but in tlie ages which antedato tho victory over Carthage, To modarn natiounl 1ife, If we oxamino intelligently and lioucstly, we can soo the workings of tha same law, Wo must, indeed, be blinded by somsstrong dolu- ston, If wo thfik thal wo are not amennblo to 1t 1n all ita urgency, Nover was Roma or Niitovel moro oxposcd to the dangers of a luxurious civitization than nre we to-dny, In theconssquent tremendous drift theremust somowhero bo o warpaud nnchor, Emotion and sentimont and tender imaginative hopsfulness will not sufiieo, Thore must bo something of tho rimple and storn and grand,—the rectitudo that cannot bo swerv- ed, tho undefiled roligion which takes Lold on life, Tusre must bo tho strong musclo snd the hord nerve of thoao who aro set sgalnst all that s low and falso, As patriots, ns woll an Chriatisns, we must bo assured that only * thoy who have elcan hands and a purc heart, nnd bave not lifted up thelr souls unto vauity, stinl] ascend into tho hill of the Lord and stand in s boly place 1" And, my friends, whero ehall tho matlon lonk for tlicde clemonta of hor safety, if not to uato ‘whom havo descended the memory of Puritan and Pil- grim 7 Whence sball ber rescue come if not from us who havo the advantages of educatiou, sud kuow the Inw by which God rules? Whero shisll bo hor Lopo, If not, to somo extent at least, [n ua_who hava beon bred Protestants, aud profess the faith of Jeaus Curlst? One occasfon for our Thankagiving to-duy i in the iudleations which thero are that our natiou's doom Tias not et boen pronouncad, Our Republlc is belng trled in the furnaco of fempiation, yet thero are sigus that her uprightnoss has not boen fatally fnvaded, Deap down in the popular heart there 1a still o sympa~ thy with whatls noble,and fn tho public conscionce thero still ia roprobution for what {8 baso, ‘Though thers sro legislatara who seck thelr own selfishi onds; and Judges who ara venal; and officlals who_plunder ; and writers who are (rresponsible; ond business mon who are unprincipled; and ' laborors who _aro dishionct ; though soclety Is proyed upon by extrava- gance, nnd fasbion, sud frivolty : thero is, nevorthe— less, n coro and kernol which still ia sound, Notyet i it o vain to uppesl to tho scnse of right, Now and then the . popular . vofes s ' heard robuking . wrong, Tioso highest in powor oro occsloually remindod that toro isa rightous tribunal by waleh ovon they can bo tried, and +the. chlefs In carruption are taught that prisons.are made for the gullty, In thotroubies of financial embarrass- mont, thero 16 still a readiness ta learn tho necessity of hubitiial frugality ; and in times of provocation to war, to romember Liat, if possiblc, tho csuso of humanily slinnld be uplield by humune means, ‘Theteforo wo need not feol that wo shall bs unaccoms panled in our etforts to hold the couutry to its trusst sima, Whon wo auraclyos shill daro to love and to live tho simplest, most Loly, most heroie Iivos of whiich we are copablo wo shall find that thers aro others ready to strile hands with ue in the nobla tnek, I be- Tievo that, even in the most unpromising hour, thoro are more persons than we suppoyo who fu spirit rebet ugainst tho prevatiiug ovil, Good example, a8 el as bad, Is contaglous, ~Ouo piuro goul ke courago from suother, As thelr numbers multiply thoy cateh fira with & common high fdea, and with & common right- eous fndignation, until finally the community and the nution regaln tholr hesith by bursting futo open wat- faro withy what is wrong. Lat us, then, return to our homes to enjoy the cheer which awaits us, thankful for every comfort, nnd for cvery hope; nand the ‘more 80 at recolicction of the prico ut which their foundutions wers laid, Let us remomber (ho first 4 Thnulsgiviig,” wnd_ rotolve that, oo Jovars of ous conntry, us well a8 followors of Christ, wo will emulato the Pilgrims’ simplicily and endurance, and dauntless Bdelity to conviction even while we add thoreto tho gruces of tendoruesa and tolerant love, To e, the Plymouth of the Pilgrims is a sacred spot, A maid thie Bishop of Orleans, spoaking of the tomb of Lumoriclere’s young soldiers, who perished Lefore his eyes ln his fast battlo, * I will go thore to cnst o look tu howven, and ask for tho triumph of purlty and bonor oun the earth, Iwill go thers to rajee my hicart from its doubt, and strenzthen my soul amid its fatigues, I will go there to losrn of thom liow to proservo {n_my lifo (h fiame of zeal for tlio Church and tho lnnd, snd to devoto myaslf to tho cauno of truth and Juatico, to my last sigh and my last words,” — SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. Union flectiag of West Sido Bnptists ==Address by the Reve As Eo Gravess. Family Mostimg. Tho majority of tho Bsptist congrogations of the West Sido mot yesterday morning for union sorvices at the Second Chburch, on the corner of Morgan and Monroo stroots. Eithor bocause poople get up late Thauksgiving morning, or on nccount of a temporary scaraity of Baptists, the attendance was not vory large. Thero woro empty pows, a gight which saddens tho soul of n pastor as empty scats do o thoatricul manager, Tho services woro proluded by musical exor- cises on tho organ, Prayer was offerod by the Rov. Mr. Eberboardt, and finally, aftor moro prayers and many hymus, tho Ilov. Mr. Good- spood said that they had induced Mr, Graves, tho Lvangelist, to pronch their sormon for them, and ho had consonted. But Br, G. was not a man whe bolieved in forms and coromonics ; ho wanted the entire congregation to take part in the ‘sorvices, and had thoroforo insiatod that when'ho had finished his sormon-the other paa- tors present should mako o fow thaukful re- marks, and thon the Deans, tho church mom- bors, and the mombors of othorehurches, should lirt up thelr voicon, and In briof nnd polutedson- tencey expross tholr gratitudonnd thanks, THE NEV. A, ¥, OBRAVES, callod the Evangehst, which being interprotod signifloth tha bringer of good tidings, then apole, o #aid he hnd alwo askod the pastor of tho ohureh to ask sll tho pooplo to sing ** All il tho power of Jesus' name,” Bupposing thoy #ald thoy did not know how to slinpa Ben- tencos, ono might got wup and (hank God for his convorsion, nnother for his sufferings, oto, Ilo road from the Dook of Chroniclos to show that King David had beon in tho habic of exprossing his thanks in brief Lut distinct sentences. The Juwa did not fool roligion to bo a drudgoery. They had willlng and rojolelng hoarte, and ‘woro not nshamed to confoss thanks, Tho Church of Christ wns much like building n house. Ono workman after anothor toiled at it, but neither carpentor nor muson could olnim tho entire crodit. CGod gava tho iton and the strength of the workers, All {hingé eame fiom God. Bo thora should bo no Joulousy umong the churches, for thors was uo roason for any for they would go to honven shouting * grace unto it," ‘I'hat was tho groat ond. Al they had amo from God only., Oh for willing hourts of WLankegiving that morning | Thoen she hvan, ** Allhuil tho powor of Jos: namo " wus given out und sung by the cong gation, Mr, Graves, resuming, said : It was Iu faot that of slf dava Thanksgiving was o family onc—n day of rounion—and ho liked it, Why wer” buve it n churoh yolutlons ]i}l,uo droppings, * quickenings, RIBUNE: FRIDAY, NOV — e IBER 28, 1873, too? Mo wanted a litile family meeting in ohurol, not to nit atifily, but to speak out, Many, when thoy loft tho church, oxpocted to g to n dinnor. Why could not oy boglin the fonst in tho sanotuaty. Ifo hoped that in the gallory nnd on the floor thoy would fool & senso of procioun nearnces to Josus, and would bo oncouragad to arise and sponk n slugle sontonco, whiols waa all thoro was timo for. I'he Bynugellat prayed for a fow minutes, ank- ing an impnrtial blessing an thoso in tho gallery aud on tho floor, and thon raid his toxt wuy in tho mti;auvenlh veorse of tho thirteonth chaptor of tho Firast Ipistle Lo the Corinthinns. he Apostlo bogan by doclaring tho Gospol ho had vreachod, and i which thoy stood ; then ho Rotliered up tho oxperionces common fo thoso who helleyed in Jesus, but chiofly of tho rosur- roation, the kingdom of tho fuith. A b'essod oxperionce of Josus begot = true principlo of thankegiving in the honrt. A wn who know not Jeaus conld not know gratimudo, But whon a human goul know {t waa linkod to hieavon by the Llood of Josus, but that could ronder thanls tully—for Amorioan liborties, potatoes, wheat, raflways, mtoamboals, ond evorything olso. When at Mondville, ho had applied at the rail- vond ofiico for n blf-faro railway pass, and tho man ha applicd to told bim Lo cught to have a froo pnas on all theronds, for ho folt that ovau- g;sllzntmn should go flrst and civilization follow, ut unfortunatoly it was agnlnat thoir rules to accammodato him. A man wiio did nob Ds- liove fn God bimsclf, might thank hoaven if ho had o Christian wifo, or “ovon lived within the sound of church bolla. The eslvation of tho world lay in tho cloausing power of Jesus, which filled tholr hoarts with such a Henso of grati- tude, Clrist wos the deliverer, and took all out” of bondogo. Paul wos arcost- ed and apponled to Ilome, aud, whilo on liy way thore, tho church learned of his imprison- ment and sont dolegaten to condole with him, Thoy mot him, and it was sald Paul thanked God ard took cournge. 8o soon ne he saw them his heart bont with joy, There was no power liko thint of Christinu” intercoursc, Doubtlass tho Doncon stopped up to Paul and said: * Brothor Paul, how do you do? Glad to seo you. Tho church sent us out to see how you Wero gotting along. Lot mo mako you nc- uaintod with Brother 8o-nnd-s0." "Up in voka, whon ho was about to leavo, & man had offored him & §6 bill and said: * Brothor Graves, I iavo got n howke nud lot, nud that is nil I have inthe world, 1 want to premout you this. I hod rather Lave lost every ponny that I have than to bhave missed ~this setles of blessed meatings, and sitting at the fect of Jesun, ~Eloven yoars T have walked in durknoss, and tn thess mootings T have had such sweot viows of Christ my soul” Lns been luxwi- ated, aud I belive I hall never go down below again a8 I lavo beon, Iam going to walk with my eyo on the Cross," Mr, Gravesreplied: “ My dear brother, 1 beliove thore is no friendship in this world like that that s found at tho foet of Jesus." Ilo was overwholmed a8 ho thought of tho bleseodness hie had with God's poople, T'he could thank God for n yoar of grace in the soui, not empty Chrlstianity, dovoid of living faith in the roul, but genuine faith. Many could thank God for n year of grace in thoir own souls, bathing in an ocean of love constantly with Jesus. They could thunk for abundant harvents of God's goodness. Some might bave been pinchod, but the majority had beou ondowed with blensings in food and clothes, They must thank God for signs of a national re- vival of religion in God's Isracl. 1io Liad no- ticed it, for ho was living In o blazo of revivaly in the clrchos, God know how to show bis own Israul from timo to time o did not for- snke them. Whon mon and women got into & sort of ratism, God had beon showing tho ngos that He kuow how to turn thoatres into snoc- tuaries, to Lroak down bnaks, to make men poce t0 take away husbands sud cluldeen, to real the stubborn hoarts, to malie ministers broak down In tears in their eermons, and to send his vanguard to stir np His Israol. Thero was o ministor who was gioatly distresred about lils congregation, which was very dull aud sluggish, 5o he aroso nt 4 ovory morning, and went out undor n trea and prayed to God. God found him, but no man found him. Bix mouths nssed, and thore was in his congregation the and rovivings. -and-by the Elders siid: * Pastor, what docs this meau ? . We have not had any oxtra moet- ings, wo have hot liad dny unudual etir, but hore aro droppings, and hore ite unusual movements of the é’plrlt of God." Tho pastor did -not tell tho secrot. The work wont on, until Christians wero pricked in the heart, and sinaors wore prlul(esr in_ tho henrt. God's powor was moving, .And - flth “tho pastor told tho secrot, ‘“Whilo you have boon sleoping over sinnors going down “to i,, and you, wives, right by your husbands, have not Dind'a Leur v shed for months, I bove boon dis- tressod over you," Ho had Lieard ministers who loved their pople, pray 4o be séat:tohell, if that would saye thoir congregations, Itwonld bo no surpriae to him if befors April.God rolled atide of salvation over the Amoricancontinent, They wero waking .up at the East,. Ho bad noticed ous here, the quickneis of tho spwit. Ile thanked God tor tho fluancial:panic. “Sorge of thom wera writhing, but God had put a blessing init. Ilo.thauked God'for the blessing of days of fasting, :humiliation; and. prayer. He had Dnd mony such blossed days. ‘-1t - hod beon- hia custom to take no food.for twenty-four -hours, and pray deep down on his face, - Last - year ho lind boon blessed theroin, and the fruits " thoreof: had bacn specially joyfal, He .was-slso ; thank-. ful for family blessings and family prayore: His fathor prayod with rhis famiiy.' Hie * son wonl down to Buston, and from 17 to 21 went astray In gambling, drinking, nud _sin, but the family prayors lad saved fi:(m. Thoy must be thoukful for tuo oxperimental lovo of Josus in the soul. Ifo. was thaukful for that above all things. o agreod with Napoloon's re- murlk at St, Holona, that Josus Lad ' conquored worlds with love. flo thunked God for Sunday- gchoul blessings, Llow tho land was fraught with them, Brother Lyman Jowett had taught bim in tbe infaut days at Worcostor, when ho was 8 yenrs old, and ho thanked God for Bun- duy-schools. Thoy might thank God for afllic- tions also. Ho would nut desira to liva with- out silictions. lie wanted God to put lim down ovory now and then, 8o he could sco Josus through the clouds, Ho know o young man_who rejoicad that lie bad lost his arm, for if o had not, ho would have lost his soul, God had takon his flrst wifo and he had not mourned; Lo was a botter mau for it, nearor to Josus, Finally, ho was thankful abova all things for the precious and cloansing, blossed blood of Clrist. Ho thauked Gud for that glilenliuua blood. Might thoy all draw nearer to rist. . The bhymn, “Ob, for s thousand tongues,” WO BUg. THE FAMILY MEETING. When the family meoting bopan, Mr. Good- gpecd introducod tho Rov, Mr. Eborhardt, of tha ‘fomplo Church, who said his heurt overflowed with giatitudo for that graco which saved great ginuors. Ho way o miraclo of graco. Another clergyman thunked God for allho waa eallod on to bour, or do, or suffer in the servico of Christ. Dr, Goodspeed was ospeclally thanktul hio was nfiauciumd witls Christians, oud was laved by them. A young man walked up to the communion tablo, and, stauding thoro with . stove-pipo hat stuck on his hond, romarked : Ladios and Gontlomen ; Thero is no ono, I bo- Hove, 8o happy in this church oy I am just now, You oan see it. Icau hurdly control mysolf, I have como up here without a word hardly in my Lioad to toll you, ~DBut this is the first time T wag evor in this clhuch, My memory of this church beging & couploof days ago. X woke up and I heard thoe church-bolls ringing Sunday, I bve heard ehurch-bolls ring, many, many times, heard fire-bells ring, and folt Iuspired some: what, but nover thought much of it. But this partioular cconsion, I shall novor for‘,;ot it. I sounded to ma ns 1f you hud all loft this world, overy mother's son of_yvou, aud I wus loft alone, and was callod to go, L 'kuow not whither, The Evangelist—lIavo you got anything you want to thauk God for with us, my friond # ‘I'ho young mau—L thauk God as much as any f vou. Plio Byangellst—Now wo will give theso other brothren & c¢hanco and you shalt havo a chanco by-nud-bya, Bovoral persons then expressod their grati- ude. *Whon I have scen appeals mado on the Gos- pel aud tho apparsnt riumpliane tove of somo of the l)n]{)om when thoy suoko of tho assanlts on Christinmty, I Luve pralsed God for this promiso of Gud's work against which holl cnu- not provall,' +1 praio God for tho last ton yoars of my lifo thae tave beon oust with ohration paoplo, and for all tha chirfstian influonoes uround us," 1 thank God that He #o loved the world that Ho gave his only bogotton Son." "li thanit God tor tho sympathy of tho church," + I thank God for the hopo of sternal life throngh Jesus, which comforts me through life." "1 shank God for wy trials wud miy happy The Evangoliat—IHns God got any witnecsos in the baok part of the churcli? Go on brethren. ur ‘thuuk God that Iis lovo is not liunted by aurs," “ I thank God for tha sorrows and afflictions of tho laat year, and that I havo been brought to give my heart to God,” Boug—~" The Rook of Ages. *¢ I thauk Ged for the yift of ealvation through onr Lord Jesus Chrint,” 41 pralee Ged trom Hiw spirit within my soul, that hos givon mo atrongth torosist tomptation." 44T thank God that Ho line onlightened my une dorstanding,” A Lud{—-l would thank God for the powor of spooch, to toll others of what Jesus hns dons for mo, A Lady—I thaonk God for the privilege of worling for ITim, and for the privilego of going from lhiouse to houso, to toll to all around, the %ny of tho Christiau, and what Josus has dono or ma, * 1 thank God Ho hns cast my lot in a Jand of gospol privilege.” 1 feol it f8 n trmo nvlng, and worthy ot all accoptation, that Christ Josus came Into the world to seyo slunora.” Bing—'' And did my Bavior blced.” “ Lust Sandny I aw_my_whole SBunday-school on its knees, overy cuild suoking Jesus, and above twonty convarted." '*I thank God that in the Bl%‘lfll chaptor of Nehomiali tho prophot aava, *And the joy of the Lord sball be your strongth,'" ‘'1 thank Jesus I was baptized. I nover shall forgot it." 1 thank God for justification,” ‘1 thank God for the Clireh of God. I thank Qod for this Sucond Ohuroh, and that He hay caet my lot with this people, and my family have boon bora into the Kingdom." The Evangolist—Wall you may thank God, Y thunk God for temporal and apiritun] bless- Inga, and in the Enrunl restoration of my wife to honith, and for the promisod religlous awakening and rovival,” Bong—**'Ilora is & fountain,” ;‘5( hauk God 1 am clothod and in my right gt 1 thank God for tho Bible and its procions promiscs,” ‘*T thank God that I found Jesus Just aftor I camo to tins conntry.” T want to spesk of tho power of the name of Josna, Lot us rely on it ?” Aftor many moro oxpressions of thanlts, andn o?uclllllding prayor and bhymn, tho servicos closed, ol —_—— GRACE M. E. CHURCH, Interesting Excrciscs Yesterdny Foros noon—Sermon by tha IRove O E, Eole ton. The Rav. 0. E. Folton conducted the exorcisos in Graco Mothodist Eplecopsl Church, at the corner of Lo Sallo and White streots, yostorday forenoon. While the congregation was gather- ing, Mrs. Whipple playod soveral tuncs on tho orgon, ‘I'bo oxorclaos were opened by singing the liymno of which the following s tho conoluding stanza: Great God, our guardian, guide, and friend O wtdll thy shelt'ring arm sxtond ; Preservod by thee for nges pust, For ages lot thy kingdorn lust, An cloquont and impressive prayer was made, A chant was renderod in fino stylo by the choir, and tho sixty-sevouth pualm was read by pastor and congrogation, B Then was sung a'kymn oxprossivo of God'n presence with his peaple, begiuning : Whien Isracl of ths Lord baloved Ont from tho land of bondugo came, Tor Father's Gad befora Lier noved An awful guide, in smoke aud flame, TIE SERMON. Mr. Folton tool for Lis toxt, *Ronder thore- foro unto Crosor tho things that are Ciosar's, and uato God tho things that aro God's.” Ho said they were nssombled by the joint exccutive au- thority of the Prosident of thio United States and of the Govornor of the Stato fn a Thankegiviug mooting. Ho wished to sy eomething nbout our relations to God and to civil governmont. They might find subject for contemplation in cuumorating the bleesings they had recsived dur- ing the year, but those matters wero bofore thom ovory day, and, ho hoped, were never forgotton, Qod démanded our suprome love, our faitaful obedience to all his roquirements, whothar of omigsion or commission, and our constant grati- tude. Wo wora bound to honor the Government under which wa lived, to faithfully obev the Inws, unless thoy comoe iu conflict with an onlightened ‘contclenco; aud lastly, se woro bound to support tho Governmoni, phyéionlly-if noccssary to de- fend aud maintain it, and- financially by paying toxes, Theso wero the roquiromonts of tho Goapol towards God and govornmont, and mon wore better and happier for obeying thiom. The- gonius of the Gospol nnd ef government wero never in antagonism when porfectly undorstood, and when government was in tho interest of the wholo Yeap]n and not of party or faction, The divine iden of government was self-government, Clyil governmont was but the symbol of moral government in the henrt of man. Anything that tonded to promoto Eelf-govornment should bo hailed with joy. Mon_should be individualized in their aims and charactory - Evouts had lopponed during the year which bore on the seli-govermmont of man. The convulsion in tho Church of Rome, on account of hor temporal power 1 Italy and hor forced abandonment of po- liticl wire-working In Gormany, showed that she was'losing political inftuence, Thoe Old Catholio movomont showad progress, a8 it _con- templatod instruction in the Biblo, the abolition of forced confessions, of tho celibacy of the priosthood, of tho appointmont of Bishops by the Popo, and in many othor ways it encournsed individual thought annd opinion. Tho Fico Clurch movemont in Italy was nnother move- ment that tended to crush tho aggrogate of nowor which heratofore had suppressed privato Jadsment. Tlo rogardod tho migvomont in this country inauguratod by Bishop Cummins as an~ otherimportant ovent inthesamedirection. Tha disoussion of religious matters Ly Arnold,Spencer, Huxloy, Tyndall, und others brought out religions subjects in o clearer light and made them tuke o stronger hold upon Christinn hearts, Io was glad to see tho growing hinrmony between sciouco and Christianity, In Moxico sevaral chauges liad transpired, so that thero was religious froe~ dom, The Presbyterinn Church bow at tho samo altar a8 beforo “the war. Eplecopalians from North and South mot in the samo Conventions, The Northern and Southern Methodists wero united as one groat Churcl, and Christisnity in this conniry was strongor than ever. From Italy = to Moxico, from Genova to New York, the aipoct '?f tho religious world was favorable to individunl frecdom. oliticnlly, there wero changes aftecting soll- govornment. Back-puy had been rebukod by tho oleotions, which ho rogorded as tho coming forth of tho individualism of tho country to re- Dbute the corruption of Y\l\xhu mon. ‘Thoro was a tendoney to independenco of party, and if American citizens would act on their privato Judgments indopondont of tho bugle-call of any man or party, the country would aceupya highor moral plano, * Thore wus mora_indepeudont po- litical thought now thau ever hefore. Looking ucross tho Atlantic, thero was a growth of iudi- vidual opinion in France, and France would yet Lave a republican governimont pure aud simple. Ttaly bad s Liboral party, working slowly. 8o had Germany, and in_overy country therc wia s growiug foeling of libornlity avd indopoudenco, It lookod g if thoro mighit bo war with Spain on the Cuban quostion, 1fo belioved Cuba nat- urally belonged to the United Btatos; it was on outpost, and whothor war was deciared now or not, the destiny of tho islind was inovituble, Whethor by war _or conceskion Cubs would bo acquirad by the United Stazes, o did not lika war, but if it wero necessary, the couutry would not shirink from it. On the wholo the evonts of tho year had rajsed mon to n higher plateau, and hnd thrown them noaver to tho Divine idoa of government, ‘I'noro was no doubt that the world was approachiug the time when man wonld “ rendor unto God the things that 's and unto Cwear tho things that are 2y country, *tia of thee, wag sung by tho congrogation, and the interest- ing sorvices wero at an ond, . it CHRIST OHURCH. Rov, Dr, Chency Procinims Ills With- drawal frem the ¢ Organization which Cluims the Namo of Protess tunt Episcopal Church.? Ohriut Eplscopal Ghurch was numerously at- tonded by ‘Lhanksgiving worshipers, 'U'he church was uniquely decoratou with shocks of wheat on tho stom, corn in the oer, wild grasses und vego- tnblos, symbolical of the sbundance of tho barvost, ‘Tho Rector, the Rev. COlnrles Ed- wurd Ohonoy, dellverod o dlscourse from tho 107th pualm, 8thverse: ‘O, that men would thoroforo prulso gooduess, and doclaro the won- deré (hat IIo dooth for the childrou of men," After an appropriuto proface, Mil. OHENEY BAID} “The occaslon which ealls us together this morning in the houso of God Is ona of peculinr mtorest, aud attouded by mang happy sssocia- tions, Wo como to rafuo hero at tho closo of anothor year of God's moroies, in Providence and grace, astono that shall leatify how deeply aud fully wo renhzo the truth, *Iitherto has the TLord helped wus” As you ontor from its sonthorn border the great wildornoss of tho Adirondack ohaln, your path- way is ono which steadlly, paintully tonda up- ward from tho valloyof tho Mobaywk, ITill boyond bill, mountain rising above mountaln, nre tho fonluros that oharacterizo the diffoult road to be puraued. But at last you reach an olovation from which you can look bmok over the toll alrendy nccomplished, and Boo oach atop of tho Journoy nlready taken, Evon thus to-dny, do wo atand upon & mountain top, and look baolk over tho toilsomo travel of o year, Reviow, 01 Christinn pilgrim, the rond you have traveled since the last Thanksglving Day, and count nup the morcies ‘which have crowned the now closing yonr,” DMr. Ohonoy thon roferrod to tho mproles wo have recolved as a nntion, and in tho courso of his romarks, sald : “#Truo: wo aro bogluniug to fool tho neccanary contracting of tho colls of dobt which the war wound around the nation, Truo it is, that tho timos mako men cautlons and thoughtful about tho future. Dut is it not equally truo, that wo aro reslly in a moro hoalthful stato of tho na- tionnl mind, than when wild oxtravagance ran riot In our gront commorcial citios, aud mon left the plow idlo In ils furrow, to liston to tho temptations of spoculative trado begotton by an inflated curroncy ? If monoy fs searce, and om- ploymont dificult to obtain, tho Providonco of God countorbalances thom with unqaestionnble blessings.” In roferring to tho roligious bless- ings of tho Iand, Mr. Chenoy eaid: * Nover wora tho religlous natlvitics of tho Church of Christ moro ofiiciontly organized, moro zealously at work. Missionary eal has not tlagged. Mora than ovor bofore do laborora in the Lord's vino- yord seom to comprehond the truth that it is among the youug thnt our most Lopofil and best-rowarded work is to bo found. Hora and moro aro tho churches of the Roformation draw- ingnenr to each othor, How grand and beautiful n displny of Christian folluwelip In umty of apitit yas o gathoring in tha clty of Now York of the Evnn{m fonl Allinnco, Our own beloved Church would scom, at Lho firat glanco, to pro- sent a picture ouly 'of gloomicst shndow, Hor lnat Gonoial Couveution scomed to Le sub- serviont Instrument of the Romanizing party. Many yoors ago, in a Thanksgiving sermon whicl: X rend ovar this morning, T alludod to the dopressod condition of the Gospel iu the Protes- tant Episcopal Church. Notn prophot or the gon of o prophot, I yob ventured o prediotion. 1t wna substavtinlly that tho timo would como when wo might bo driven from o churoh which bad coased to bo o Proleslant —but cmrying with us tho Episcopato—n revised liturgy, and tho great truths embodied in articles and croods, ‘If wo -go,’ I said, ¢ thouglh with n high hand, tho Pharnohs of doc- trine oxpel us from tho land in which wo have sorved thom 8o long—it will bo an_exodus liko that of old time—~nid we aliall go_ forth spoiling tho Bgyptiuns.’ God Lo pratsod, that prediction 18 bemng verlfiod to-day. Lotters from Now York aro full of ovidenco that God's bles¢ing is upon the movemont which our boloved Bishop Cummins has fanugurated. If ho has with- drawn from tho control of the nauthority of tho Lody which now claim to bo the Protestant Ipis- copi! Chureh, none tho less aro Lie, and thoso who act with him, tho trus Protestant Episco- palisns, You call that corm, which, dry and dead-and frost-bitton, stands gaunt and cheov- less in tho wintry ficlds. Soitis. DButthio truo corn is the goldon ear which you take from the dead husi, ~ Lsolomnly chargo it upon the or- genization which claimg the name, aud es- cowlly in tho State of Illinois, that it s no ongor” the Drotostant Lpiscopal Church. It has abjured the namo, In this Diocuse, by a solemu vote of the Convention, the name * ro- testant Bpiscopal Chureh' was stricken from tho journal. It has luat the charactor tho namo importa, Tho Protostant Episcopa! Church in the United Mtutes of America 18 that wuich, noxt weok, Wwill meot togothor in Ctho ity of Now York, To-day the giaddost songs wo sing should bo in gratitudo for thia crowning mercy, that at Inst wo aro to liavo our Church as our fathors found it, our Penyor-Book as our fathors used it, and our Episcoputo as our firsy fathers of the Church ip this country desirs it. To God Do all -the glory. Our own' purish has had its oouliar morcies, Wo bave, had groat. prospor- cv. Looking over my old visiting list Lo other day, and malking out a new one, I was led tosum ugl the number of familica that havo lalt us which, I bave reason to boliove, have deserted bgecanso jof our. ecélesinatical . posivion: They number oxactly sixtcen in nenrly five yoaisof Kursncufion and ropronch,” losec -liis romarks by ref errlufi at length to the indi- vidual metcies received by his poopla. Mr. Chenoy loft for Now York last ovening to attend tho Conforonco of Lpiucopalians who aro gr‘)’pout':d to tho ritualistic teudoncios of tho uroh, —_— ‘WABASH AVENUE M. E. CHURCH. Union Meceting o South Side Mcthod« iBti—Sermon by tho Rov. Dre Thome as, of the First Charch, Tho Rov. Dr. Thomas, of the First Church preached in tho Wabash "Avenuo Mothodist Church. Tle took as his toxt: * Plenso the Lord, O Jerusslom ; praiso thy God, O Zion,"— Psalm 147; 12th, 13th, 14th, and 16th verses, aud said thoy lad mot in accordanco with tho proclamations of the President and of tho Governor. These proclamations rested partly upon & time-honored custom, and upon beliof of tho oxistonco of a personal God. No doctrino stood out more prominontly than this ono. This personal God was above, Naturo ; hie controlled hor and tho works of creation, and eubordinates hor elements to His purposos, If the doctrino which passed for philosoplical re- liglon—that thero is but questionnbly any God at all,—was true, no life wad moro useless or moro sonseless than tho one wo are now leading. Ho imagined thag it would boa long while boforo tho foith of ages, tho hopo and trust of the human lieart, was much disturbed by such & light and Lieartless philosoply. Wao should be thankful for our national socu- rity. God hnd strengthened the bars of our gates, ‘Two causes had contributed mainly in tho past to the overtbrow of nations—foreign in- vasion and homo dissension.. We wore securo from both—from the first on account of our gaographical position; from the eccond owing to tho form of our Government nnd the charactor of our populution. Tho groat problom in all civilizod nations, iu foundlug Governmonts, had bacn to eccure strongth to tho Government and at tho samo time liberty to the peoplo. In des- potio Governmonts tho liborty of the peoplo was subordinated to tho strongth of tho gov- ornmont., Our Govornment was established after conturios of oxporimonts in Europo, and camo in ag the lnst result of human wisdom. Wo have solved the problem as noarly as it can bo solved, Our Government rules over a torvitory largor than fifteen of tho Europoan Governmouts, and much moro economically, Tho States aro ns froons if they woro indopendent,—thoe pooplo aro freo,—yob wa have the consolidated strongth of ona man a8 & untion, Our pooplo woro not slaves, but freomen. They were not hora be- causo thoy had been eaptured in war, but were horo bocause thoy wanted to come. Our tor- ritory, wilh tho oxcoption of Toxns, was not noquired by conquest, but by purchase or tronty § lionce there are no subdued provinces waiting for an opportunity to riso and rogain tho freodom they lost in Dbattles of othor yonrs, Our people aro doing woll, and whonavor mon are doing well they ore disposcd to penco, and to love the couutry and the flag that enables thom to do woll. Nino out of ten of tho forelgners hore have what thoy could not lave in tho Old World—a home; they ownn house and lot, and aro accumnlating property. ‘Il unly clement which our fathers looked upon ns dongorous—sluvery—hng Loon crushed out, Another dunger was the unifyiug and harmoniz- ing of adverso olemonta of citizouship, In this - io snw tho grandost possibilities of gnod, and thio greatest possibilitios of dangor. Kducntion was tho remedy—such oducation as will make mon tolerant of the opinions of othors, Tho old rulo—oducato the links und lot tho pooplo tuko care of thomselves—had Loen rovorsod in this country. L'he peoplo rulobioro, and form the foun= dntion”. £ the Governmont, the brighteat minds find beon oxercised on the problom how to odu- cnto tho rulevs,—onr prosent sohool systom was tho solution. ' Timo, howaver, was _roquirad to Lurmorizo the massos. Wo should be pationt. 1t we caunot Lring our Clerman, Irish, aud col- ored follow-citizons to (hink und nct ns we do, wo got vut of patience, 'Lheso pooplo have beon travoling on co/tuin linow, and it is not casy ta loayo thom, God will wori tho ahango nocdod and makousone penplu,—will bring out the high est aud bost civi](muiou tho world has aver rosn, Wo ought to bo thankful thut we livein sueh land nud snch an ago,—that wouro not on tho vergo of a voleano, or on tho wtormy l Bon M, Chonoy closed” of trouble, ~Wo aro wondortully prosparons ; Incaloulablo woslth Is befora us, Ton aro atartlod by o panle, yet, when wo think, tho country 18 full of grain and of meat, our fore aata are full of timber, and our monoy just oq rund ns it ovor was, Tho panio of '67 wns fol- lowad by yonra of plonty; so tho prosont diffloulty will be. "Bacauso s fow men go down wo should not mourn ; {t s tha well-boing of the peopla thot wo should bo grateful for, ~ We hava rocure ity, tomporal prospority, and also ponco. Noth- Ing had surprlsed him more than tho want of considoration and thoughtfulnees In reforenca ta tho Virginlus controversy, Suppose our fla, had boon ipmulted (ho dld mot think had, o it should not Ymtuch Mibuaterlng oxpoditions), why not appeal to arbitrators? War should not bo resorted to. If it is, boforo evary honorablo moana for arbitration has been ox- linnsted, wo do it at the paril of sotting back the noble tunllnF which is coming up to peacofully sottlo questions with ronson, and mot with tho sword, lealthior fecling was, howovor, spriging up ; despito the clanior of tho secular press for war, the sobor thoughit of {ho nation wns_boginning to eponk through tho religious Jourmals for peace. Wo woro also prosperous roligiously, Nover wora roligious aotlvi- tios mo proat ns now; nover woro g0 muny children gathored into tho Bun-® day-gchools, so many ohmroh debts pald, so many nnnmuthmuclwru in the fiold, 8o many col loged oudowed as now, DBy these means tho- commauds of Gtod werogont fortl, and o kindlior fooling crented nmong nations, Tha suh is up, o tho day is coming whon God shaliralo all auds, e GRAOE EPISCOPAL OHURCH. Eloquont Discourse by the Itector, the Rev. Clinton Locke, £.Di—R'lo Groate ness of Chicago. Vory intoresting thankegiving sorvicos woro lheld yeoterday morning at 11 o'clock, ot Gzaco Episcopal Church, on\Wabash avenuo. T'ho church was beautifully decorated wilh stals of corn, sheaves of wheat, urng fllled with grapoa and fruits, aed boeautiful flowors, Aftor the singing of soma choico music by the excollont quartatto, aud prayor, tho Rov. Dr. Clinton Locko dolivored & mostoloquent thanksgiving scrmon. 1le took for bLis text tho 21st Chiapter, Acts Apostlos, 29th vorso : “‘A cilizon of no mean city.” Tho eloquent speakor after sunouncing the toxt, comnenced Dy saying that snow was covoring tho esrth, tho verduro of tho prairies had passed, tho glory of tho treos was gone, the year Is dying, snd wo begin to gathior the fruits of our labor. Tho abundance of the flelds has beon gathored by tho husbaodmen, and everywhore thero was plenty of all, aud peaco and prospority must soon bogln s wonted reign, and overy voice would excleim back that all this gooduess came from God. From God camo ths fortitudo which nerved the first sottlor to till the soil until it yieldod rich horvests, no matter Low closcly pressed by Iudians, and Low dark the prospects wero. TFrom I[fim camo our honlth, our weslth, and overything wo enjoy, and to-day wo wore gathered to givo 1lim thanks and proclaim His glory, This day our forofathers kept, no mattor Low dark their prospects, and this day would continuo to bo celobrated. ‘Woo to the Governor or Prosident who would omit o sot apart this dey as a day of rojolcing oad thanksgiving, Momphis has causo to glvo thanks, becauso it has been delivered from o terriblo scourge, and othor citics havo oauso to give thanks for difforont reasons, but moro then all havo wo in this city cause for rojoicing and thauksgiving, for tho incrensed prospority and woalth we wore to-day enjoying. Wo are citizons of no moan cily, Tho stur of cmpiro shines with resplendent glory on this capital of tho Great West, nnd, traly, wo aro citizens of po meau city. Many of the old cities hnd shone with equal splondor, but. it was tho splondor -of decay’ anX'of - ago. - Wd' oxcel them all beeause oura is the'leauty of' :yonth and of heaith. Our avenues-.are broad and piry, whilo thoir strects wore narrow and damp. Evén Paris could not show-up auch mog- nificont buildings as” wora gracing” our sfreats.. Woalth, lborality, and energy lad mado tho fugst and moat gorgeous cliy in.n fow yoars, God in His graco had made us citizens ofa’ this wag most splendid place. : A, fow yenrs +obt s small’ bawlot,'and now' € is the most' imnrvelous.. . city. -.in tho world. .- We* oursolves di not appreciats * the greatness of our commorce. From tho far-stretehed praivios of Iowa, from the greon Liils of Wisconsio, from tho plains of Texns,. and from the golden shores of California, do boavily-londed cars bring us tho heavisst and wonlth of all thoge States, Many croakors bad . prophesiedour downfall, still ovory yoar syay add- ing to our groatness and prosporisy, becanso onr pooplo wero young. enorgetic, ahd_vigorous. A fow yoars' residenco in this city insplred » man wilh a vigor, oncrgy, and entorptise which noth~ ing could embarruss, We had dificultics to ovorcome 83 fow citios had. Wo lhad to clear our water aud raiso the city out of n morass. Thon wo .should thenk God for the Iliberality of “tlunking by our people. No community was more willing to_overlook diffcroncos of opinion, and whilo this freodom ofton loads to differences and mig- underatanding, still wo pass thom by, for frecly wo give and freely wo take, Wo have to thank God for & Inrgo, magnificont, and prosperous city, and a noble-minded, uueelfish people. DBut Touie was also grent aud prosperous, aud it foll 3 Venice shouo with aplondor, and was full of onergy, and sank boneath tho vico and cor- ruption of lher ecitizovs; Yarls was groat aud liveral, but still is crumbling to pieces on sccount of its ungodliness. Donuty and splendor wore oxcellont materials for o grezt city ; but, for ondurance, somothing moroe was wantod, ‘There must also bo holincss, ‘Ihero- forn, lot us thank God for His holy Church in our midst, A citizon of such a_cityis vorily a citizen of mo meun city, It i8 not enom gy and boldness alono that are wanted ; thoro must also bo honesty and liborality, It 'is not onough to have large school-houses and chuxches ; tho secds of manhood and the love of God must also ULe ougondorod thore. Marblo polacos ond immonso storo- housos bursting with rich harvesta aro not onough; ~ thoy must mlso ocon- tain harvests of religion. Vain and uncortain a8 oll buman prophosios woro, ours is undoubts edly o splendid future. 'The timo will soon como when the city will bo engirdled by Lraad boule- vorde, and marble walls will keop™ out tempests. Judging from what we have dono, what can wo not expect from our successors? Ho hoped thoy would follow in tho foolpuths of the proa- ent gonoration, and continue this a city of entor- prige, houosty, and virtue. Thon, indeed, would \én&m citizons of no mean city, but a city of od. THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Union Services Yesterday Foronoon— Sermon by the fZove Us B Gulick, of the American Beformed Church, TFrom time immemorial, almoat, it has been the custom of the First Congrogationaland Third Preabyterlan Churches, on the West Side, to unite in the obuervanco of Thanksgiving, Yestorday was uo oxcoption, save to on- largo the scope of uulon by adding tho Adn Street Mothodist and Amorican Roformed nnd Jofforson Parle Prosbyterian Ohurches. At the appointed hour n largo cougrogation from tho four Socleties conveued in the Third Prosby- torian Clurch. The eorvices oponed with the Te Deum by tho choiv. Dr. Kittradge, of tho Phird Prosbyterian Churel, involied tho bleasing, ‘fhe Rov. Dr. Goodwin, of the First Congroga- tional Chureh, read the Boripturcs, and Dr, Dandy, of tho Ads Btreot Bethodiss Church, offored the prayer, attar which au eloguout and able disconrso was prenched by the Rov. U, D, Gulick, pastor of tho American Roformed and Jeftorson Parle Prosbyterian Church, from the toxt, It is a good thing to glvo thanks unto tho Lord," Pealm 93: 1. Mr, Guliok anid that it haa become an {m- portant featuro in our American history that thia dny was sob apart for this sacrod purpose, Liko tho Tsraclites of old, the poople camoe togothor to offor up the first fruits in thanksgiving to God. Bomo of the roasons why it {s good to give thanks, a 1. That it Is a publie recognition of tho fact that tho Lord roigns,—a groat poople bows in humblo recognition before the “Lhrono of Graco aud _declares that it Is good to grivo thanks unto the Lord. Aftor touching upon tho trinls ynd (roubles of tho past year which havo visited the country us largo, and il hearths stones of so many in particuiar, the roveroud geutloman proceoded to show what lurgo reason :unhcouuuy ag o wholo bud for profound grati- do, “2. Our national grontnoss, If it was an houor ifth Page.) (Continucd on, the