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THANK, , AN'S gratitude was the cause of the cus tom of setting apart one day of the year as a day of thanks giving and praise to ward the Giver of every good and perfect gift. The his tory of every nation of which records are preserved contains references to days of thanksgiving from the Hebrew Feast of Tabernacles, of which mention Is mcde in the Bible, through the Greek festival of Demeter. god of the harvest, the Roman feast of Ceralia. goddess of plenty, to the Saxon Harvest-Home and our own Thanksgiving, now universally observed as a national holiday. The history of Thanksgiving in America begins prior to the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth Rock in 1620. The first service of this character ever held in this country was celebrated on the.bleak Newfound land coast in 1578 by an lnglish -clergy man named Woitall. who was connect ed with the Frobisher exploring party. Frobisher brought the first colony to settle on those shores; and to the Rev. Mr. Wolfall. otherwise unkuown to fame, belongs the credit of the first evangelical sermon and the first cele bration of the communonu in North America. It was a service of grateful prayer and praise for their safe arrival and escape from the dangers of the deep. Of similar character was the next recorded Thanksgiving service. twenty nine years later, when the Popham col ony arrived at Sagadahoc, on the coast of Maine. in August of 1G07. and on the nineteenth of that month laid claim to the territory. infurled the English flag and observe-. the day as one of pra ze and thanksgiving. This was three mouths after the landing of the colonists -at Jamestown. in Virginia. The Popham colony not only held the frst thanksgiving service on territory now comprised within the United States. but also held the first popular election and chose the first officers to gov'rni an American eomnunity. Thirteen years later came the Pi grims. a(nchoring in 3assaetinsetts Bay on Saturday. December 9 (0. S.. They deferred landing until Monday, despite .their long sojourn on the sea. and we may weil believe that their last Sab bath service on shipboard was eloquent with gratitude and praises to "Him who hath the steerage of our course." During the cold and cruol winter that Followed almost one-half (if the little band were laid at rest on the bluff that bad frowned upon the Maytlower. their geaves being leveled that the Indians might not become aware of their di minishing number: Hopefully the remn nant toiled through the summer, gath ering a fair harvest. The old chronicler tells of indifferent barley and a failure in peas, offset to some extent by twen ty acres of good corn. But meat of deer and wild fowl was abundaut, the pestilence was stayed and they were comfortably housed for the winter. Therefore, on the'twenty-fourth of Oc tober Governor Bradford proclaimed a thanksgiving feast. Carrying their inuskets they marched in staid pro cession to the little meeting house, the Governor leading the way, with Elder Erewster reverently bearing the Bible on his right, and plain, matter-of-fact Miles Standish, the military chief of ..the colony, at his left-Law, supported by the church and the army. It was worthy of mentipn in the old annals that the elder's s'ermon was unusually .-hort, not quite two hours! What - would a nineteenth century congrega tion say to a discourse two flours n ~d then came the feast, at which -were displayed the fine napery and household treasures brought from Old England-those precious relics whose possession in these days is the patent of American birth and nobility. It was an al fresco dinner, in the mild Indian summer; and at this time and place the American turkey, since sacred to the day, made his first appearance as the piece de resistance of a Thanks giving dinner. And after the solemn service in the little church and the decorous feast. served with Puritan sedateness, the people returned to their homes, and 'the early darkness settled down upon the little settlement, from which was to grow so grand a nation. Suddenly the peaceful night was broken by the sentry's peremptory challenge, the rat tle of a drum, mingled with an Indian shout, and every man grabbed his trusty musket and rushed out, while the souls of the women and children quaked with fear. A .iundred sav ages poured down upon them-Massa soit's braves, but on pacific errand bent. They came to share the white man's feast and brought deer and other game as their contribution. So the Ores were lit again, and the good wvives baked and boiled for their un expected guests, who entertained them by performing their dances a.mid wild yells and menacing gestures. It was thought prudent to show the Ocee in traders that the infant colony was not withotut defense, so Captain Standish ordered out his soldiers. drilled the~m, anid tina ly en~d:d with a volicy from their muskets into the treetops and the discharge of the great cannon on the bit and the smaller one at the Gov ernor's door. The Iudians were prop~er ty im pre ssed and beg'ged the great Cap tanntto make it thuin der again. Ths the tirst T.Ihank-"g'ie'n of the '~gim Fathers wvas a stramc blend ing of ..'dlyI pimSiI and sava "e dantes, th ra*.me oflre:':is and indian war inl N''vembe~r the.s..p....ietne nr wereredued t on scan.T mel i for bread. Governor Winthrop called the men together, and after much de liberation a hunting expedition, though full of peril and toil, was determined upon. It was February; the snow was deep; the Indians. though not openly hostile, were not averse to reducing the number of the white invaders, and they could Illy spare any of their num-: ber. They decided to observe a day of fasting and prayer on the morrow, then venture into the' pathless forest in search of game. But in the morn ing, when they went out, there lay UpoD the cold blue waters of th.e bay the white wings of the long-expected ship. The starving people rushed down to the beach, tears In every eye, hope and gratitude in every heart. Their fasting was once again turned into feasting. their supplications Into thanksgivings; and with one accord they assembled at the church. It is recorded that the minister read the one hundred and third Psalm-"B!ess the Lord, oh, my soul, and forget not all His benefits!" voicing the thanks of a grateful people who found the ways of Providence. so mysterious to our blind eyes. -a very present help in time of trouble." For again and again. as we read these old chronicles, we are force . acknowledge the fre quent intervention of a Supreme Being who seemed to hold the little con munity in the hollow of His hand, in As Yellos - By Mary1 heres apumpinfluted, golden, hirtte o'r wthcustoms olden Out of bygone days. -Cinderella's ancient glory; Sung, in song and told in story, Suits its yellow blaze. Ta~bls at the first Thanltsoiving, When colonial dames were living, Shewed its p~olden cheer. Still it smiles.a fiendly ,greeting At the happ'y family meeting On the feast-day dear. terposing His grace an~d mercy between them and their ever present perils, as if they were indeed His chosen few Again atnd again they were In direct extremity, in danger of utter exter mination by famine or massacre, when help came unexpectedly through what seems more than chance happenings eeen to sceptics, and which the reei pents gratefully acknowledged as haven-sent relief. In Colonial timecs it still remained the custom to observe special days of thanksgivig- Under our present gov ernment, a day of thanksgiving was! appointed by President Washington at te request of- Congress, the occas~on being the adoption of the Constitution o the United States. At the close of the War of 1S12. President Madison, aso at the request of Congress. an nunced a day of thantksgiving for :he return of peace. Since the war it has become an es tablished custom that the las;t Thurs day in November shall be observed as a 'general Thaniksgiving Day thr-ough ot the federation of States.--Marble head Messnlger. An Old-Tim e Thanksgivin,.. Patience DeliveranCe llopefuil Ann, A gra little prim little Puritan. \\lo ived in t he vears that are far away. S down to her dinner Thanksgvmg day Tuker and goose. and a pumpkin pie, -\ tte rost p i wii a chestnuit eye. pddia and appie. and good brown -- :eelvery huingry,' Denverance said. --AN -UP rO-DATE mMENm Oyster (Blue Points) cocktail. Thm brown bread. Olives. Salted almonds. Bouillon with whipped cream. Bread sticks. Radishes Roast turkey, chestnut stuffing, giblet gravy. Cranberry frappe. Mashed potatoes. Glazed sweet potatoes. Hubbard squash. Fringed celery. Lemon girger sorbet. Baked quail, hominy, cauliflower. Lettuce salad. Cheese straws. Pumpkin pie, mince pie, apple.pie. Preserved ginger, cheese, raisins. 'Nuts. Nesselrode pudding. Fruits. Coffee. Thanksgiving Day Entertainment. Thanksgiving Day orings with it worries for the housewife as to how to make the dinner a succesd. Friends from out of town are invited, and ev erything should pass off satisfactorily. It is none too soon to be planning table decorations, especially if the clever brains and fingers do not want a wild rush at the last minute. From the very best linen down to the-place cards and centre decorations, all must be inspected and provided. To the woman who has deft fingers with the paint brush. all sorts of possi bilities loom forth for original work, while the shops are replete with novel ties. Place cards can be had in the shape of miniature pigs. Others are turkeys and geese. Some of these are hand-painted and are very effective. To cause some amusement It is an excellent idea to take the initial of each person's name. and with these as . as Gold .Knolton Cristmas rooms are gay with holly, Cbristmacs sees the merry folly .Of the mistltoes Easter hiles, pure and stca.tty In thc springfime bloom sedately, When soft breezes blow. utumn dressed the woods in splendor But their colors, rich an~d tender, All have passed a.way. .Now the pump~'~n, rip'e and melloi, -jeeps a tint of Autumn's yellow Fo hanksiving, Day. initial letters write a phrase descrip tie of the person wl- is to occupy that pla1Ce. Thus, if aman's initials are E. M.. an.d his hobby is well known to his hostess, he might find a card on which is written "'Everlasting Music." A gir's initials may be. for instance, A. L. F.. and, amid much laughter, Ishe might he forced to accept a phrase marked, "Arrant Little Flirt,"~ and so on all around the table until each per son finds, or is assisted in finding, his o r her place. A good way of initial treatment is to write verse-s. each line to begin with one initial of the victim's name. A pretty idea is for etch guest to write a Thanksgivinlg sertiment, or a cas for thainkfulness, on a slip of paper. These are collected in a bowl and drawn forth andi read one at a time, while everyone tries to discover the author. As a centrepiece for the table, a large baskrt og chrysanthemumlfls is ef feete. yellow and red are the colors for the decorations. I ThanksgiVIng. Twelve months are sped--we look behind And call God's goodness fresh to mind, His care was felt through storm and shine; With grateful hearts wt: seek His shrine, And humbly kneeling there we say Our orisons3 Thanksgiving day: "For desolation's track untrod. Our thanks arc Thine, Almighty God. 'or eaons fruitful, gifts of love Fokor ,br newe:i, for grace above Ou poor dlesert, thanks unto Thee. T hrogh sorrow. dleath and misery Xh~e our lot-or good or ill ihoa been our source of comi'ort still. T hou' awe have known the ebastenir: rod, Thv mercie h:ve been sure. 0 God. - r day0 tonm. help us to be con iriued aboutIThy ministry . . 'ice-rong" i- wrong and 'ri:3:;h T 1 v arnth we ncd, we nee rhy m'ight. iie~p as m wa i b h ve '; .:t - lh n- o i2'omIh ante. Trade Supersticons. Drsmkr wil' not ilt with black: ppns and re;.:ard it asnuckyv to tack with greenl cotton. Milliners regrard as of hap~lpy ainiury the drop of blood f flling on a hat from a pricked fin-1 ge.-Nots and Queries. I e .44U Drainage Necesary. MANY town boards and highway commissioners are making a mistake in Nal purchasing stone crushers, under the impression that (rUSneu stone given by the residents along the road. if placed upon the crown of the roal. will make a dry. hard roadway without any further work. Nothing could be more false. and in many par:s of the State each town is learning the fact that it has thrown awny its money in the pur chase of a stone crusher and that it has thrown away the material which it has received from the residents in the hopes of getting a good road. and that this material, once used, can never be obtained again, and similar material may have to be .bought at great expense from outside of tha town when the next stone is wanted. The secret of road construction is arainage. In the State of New York. on a three-rod road, there falls an nually on a mile of highway fifty-three tons of water, and this is the great est enemy that the highway com missioner has to contend with. Horses' hoofs, narrow 'ires or heavy loads do not conimenee to make the impression upon a roadway that this immnense volume of water does. The road sur face is a roof, throwing the water on either side to the ditches. If this sur face is properly crowned (not too high,. or ruts will be created), say on a sixteen-foot road, if the crown in the centre is eight inches higher than the sides. so that the water runs promptly to the ditches. the road will he good in all seasons. Crushed stone thrown upon the surface of a road and no provision made for drainage and ditches, simply goes out of sight in the mud, and the mud comes to i1'.d surface, and in a few years you would never know that any work had been done on that road. The crushed stone is not worn out. but has sunk below the surface of the road. Manv a highway commissioner and tax plyer speaks in wonder of a mudhole in front of his house, into which -ear after year i:- has put stone. earth and rubbish to till it up1. and which have constantly gone out of sight. If this 1mudhole had a ditch made from its bottom to the side of the road, so that the water could run into the main ditch and it wais then i-ilhld, it would stay filled and cause no further trou ble.-RIder and Driver. Mending Our Ways. One would sur:ni1-e from Mr. Eld ridge's listing of the geological wealth of this country that nowhere should there be better roads, considering the material that ne ture has given us. Here is an excerpt from a paragraph on this subject: In New England where industrial progress has made hard roads a neces sity, trap rock, the most suited to heavy travel, exists in abundance. This rock is round in the'Middle and Lake States, aind in smaller quantities in regions farther south and far up on the Pacilie coast. Granite. lime stone, quartz and sandstone are abund a-t in many parts of the country, as are two materials but lately assum ing great importance in road building, viz., ehertz and novoculties. Natuis. has not only piled up great rocky masses of inexhaustible road building material in favored regions, but has broken up and prepared rock in other regions. By the operationl of the great law of com~pensation. vast areas of rich low land, destitute in themselves of native rock. are provided wvith pre pared material in thc fo':m of gravel, which has been carried (downl froam the rocky region by glaial and water ac ion. The sea has been very kind to us and yieldled up vast qjuantities of shell which are converted into beauti ful and valuable roadls. Thie vege table and uninal kingdom have con iributed their quota. The fauna and1( flora of bygone ages were changed by beneficent processes of nature into formations wvhich have ylded up) in some parts of the Umited States, nota bly California. oil, which, when spread upon a road, makes a smooth. dust less waterp~roof covering.-Mauirice 0. Eldridge, in "Mending Our Ways," Out ing Magazine. State Highway Improvement. State Engineer and Surveyor Van Alstyne, in a circular letter, calls at tention to the fact that recent amend ments to the highway law impose upon his department the responsibility of furnishing di rect ions for the guidance of town otficials in the expenditure of money, raised in towns and furnished by the State for highway purposes in money system towns. wvhich in the ag grate oun~l~ts to $43.549.709 for 1903. The depiartmnerit is also required by the Higbir-Armstrong Good Itoads act to ompile statistics, colleet intforma tion, co-operate and assh-t all town and contyft oth('iais, and at all times aid in the promotion of hightway improve nent throughmit the State. Appre elting the fact tha~mt the several good roads'laws are n~ot fully understood by town ofijials. and in order to aid them in thei: work and1( to assist tile Stite engineer in time p)erformn3 ~ce of his duties, it has been deemed advis tlie to outlire liie application of these various la1ws and the position whlichi the dparim:nt is obliged to take. and a buietin ha:~s been issued on this mat P'roof if EdAiI-on' tMatUdr' Thiomais A.1 Edisoni was i.im seven t ,ei yrarr- old w i lie miade his tirst e'nab them= *'P to apposetecm ...m, sety in all kinds of weatimr. THE q@ULP'f. AN ELQQUENT SUNDAY SERMON B'( THE REV. J.OHN DOUCLAS ADAM. .;ubject: Moral Lameness. Brooklyn. N. Y.-The Rev. .Tohn Douglas Adam. the pastor of the Re formed Church on the Heights. preached Sunday on "Moral Lame ness." from the text: Acts iii:f: 'Then Peter said. Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I unto thee: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.' He said: Our text introduces us to a lame man who lay day by day at the gate of the temple in Jerusalem. begging for sufficient money to keep him in life. This is a very common scene in the New Testament, where we are constantly meeting the lame, the halt. the blind and the lepers, and there Is no wonder. for we must bear in mind those were the days when there were no hospitals. no scientific medical schools. no homes for incurables, nor any societies of aid. Since that day CGhristliBity,-withOut boastfulness, has had a magnificent share in the crea tion of those centres of relief. We see no such spectacle on our streets as did the Syrian of old upon his. Our Chris tian sentiment and Ghristian love have provided the hospital. and our lame men are sent there. And not only the hospital. but we have to-day enlight ened scientific effort, societies of char ity and helpfulness on all hands; and because the modern method of dealing with sickness is not the same as that of the apostles. never think that it is not Christian. for the same Christian spirit plays about the treatment of physical ills to-day. We have to be delivered, it seems to me. from the idea that God is only in the extraor dinary. That He is only In the large. It seems to be hard upon our reason to comprehend. God is as much in the ordinary as in the miracle. It is the same God, and God is as much in the hospital, in His spirit, and in the modern methods of curing sick ness. God is there just as truly as He was in the days of old. So Christian itv has in a large measure solved the question of the physically lame man. I am not going to speak this morn ing of him. We have practically dis posed of him. I shall talk of the morally lame man. and when I speak of him let us understand each other. The morally lame mar. may be physi clly equipped with the physique of a triumphant athlete. He may pay every debt. The morally lame man is the man who is lame in his will. and he knows it. His will does not work with health toward his duty. Ie is lame in his conscience: if is de fective. He is lame in his affections. His emotions in the higher reaches are lame. His imagination does not bound toward its goal. for the goal of the imagination is God and the infinite. The morally lame man falls down be fore his own self-respect in the develop ment of his character. He fails in his own conception of duty and in his relations as a son, or husband. or f.riend. and in his relationship to town and country. He is not a factor in the moral progress of tliose about him or the community. He contributes nothing, but rather takes away. This lame man in the story lay begging. There are physical and moral, beg gars. but the worst pauperism is moral pauperism. The man who lacks sufficient force to pilot himself through life and- never creates optimism and moral stamina out of his own life would, if the world were to surrender its moral power, commit suicide. If you notice, the chief contributors to this man's sustenance were the people on the way to the temple. They gave to him sufficient to keep him alive and then passed on to worship. And I think they are still the chief contrib utors to the sustenance of the morally lame man. This poor fellow may have laughed in bis sleeve at the religious devotees as they passed on, and the true, earnest men and women are the. people- who are supporting .morally those who sometimes even sneer at their moral earnestness. It is those who are maintaining the rest of the community. Man lives not by bread alone, but, as he is sustained physi aily through the industry of those who produce bread and the necessities of physical life, and without which there wvould be physical famine, so we live .by moral bread and we are much more dependent on that in the .last analysis of life than on the physical, for a nation like this lives upon ideas and love more than on any material thin. Take these away and ali our boated material progress falls like a house of cards, as did the glorious ma terial wealth of Rome because there was not behind it the manhood to sus tain it. Our wvorld lives through the industry of the truest men and women in it in the moral sphere. and if there is no love being generated by unsel fish hearts and no faith by pure minds and no moral inspiration by brave souls, a nation is doomed. There are those who not only do not contribute moral strength. but there are those who take away the moral bread baked y the labor of good men in the fiery furnace of trial, and throw it away ind sneer at every pure and divine thing. They are the infamous de sroyers of that which is the pillar of Our problem to-day is the lame man. It is a patriotic, economic and relig ious one, than which there is none miore practical. The problem before the church is to set the lame man on his feet so that he can make his owvn way in things of the heart and become ontributor to the moral health of the world. Let us observe how Peter and .Tohn faced the problem. First. hy faced it squarely. They did not dodge it. They v-.ere not too anxious bout getting to the temple. .While w orhi> has its suipremte place mi the rliios life of every man, there is smething else. They did not criticise the poor fellow: they helped him. And or question is how they helped him? hey did not give him money. They hd wtne. and they did not feel the pessure of the limitation either: they felt they could solve the problemu w~thot it. The silver and gold in the .* sinr a:' re not good andi con - '~roundlin:g. conZgenial wor-k and c ::ce a.l ic' and ideals. The Chris 1a (Church does not standl merely for ,d~i~om~h3 h'el and the gospel of moorally equipped to face this problem: hey d'id not then posses:: God nor did Go (poess them. Thoy were~ Cr-om pios of Chri.1 but they dlid not psssI~i snirit. But now they were wh i pos-ie by the Sirit of God, :i ;:ws h i :tse ward the an n nee help the lae man11 until we not ol 1ossess Cod but are .oter element in the solution of the problem was that the tw.> were in perfect accord. Six oniths before Pter had forsakeni Christ. while .John alone ran the gantlet in the terrific blast of passion in the city of hate, but Peter never again shirked his duty. John had been ambitious for the supreme plade among the ipos ties, but now, he had grown in grace and lost the passion for prominence. Friends, the same conditions are neces sary to-day In solving the problem of the morally lame on the part of the Church of God as were manifested on that day. The love of prominence must go, whether it be of individual or church, or denomination. Passion must cease. One of the reasons why the church of God is not omnipotent is because there is still this lust for prominence on the part of Individuals. churches and denominations, and instead of self abandon we are absolutely too self conscious, every one of us. Again they solved it in giving the power of Christ to the man: "In the name of Jesus Christ rise up and walk.". The communication of ideals will never save men from moral lameness. Ideals must live in personality. That is the difference between Christianity and everything else. It is the communica tion of power. the touch of God-the touch of divine power in the heart. Let us feel it this morning. "In the name of Jesus of Nazareth. rise up and walk." Let it touch upon your weakness. It is here. Let it do for you and me what it did for that lame man. It breaks the power of cancelled sin, And sets the prisoner free. That is what Peter and John did. Think of it! There was the lame man; there was the critical public; there was- the . mem6ry of. their own past failures, and there was the power of Christ. It conquered them all, and the man arose, and stood up. Not only did he stand, but the solution of this problem included every other. He can earn his own living now, and needs not assistance. Every problem of life is bound up In the problem of the lame man being straightened and strengthened. It is smooth sail ing after that. Lastly, the man be came a benefactor and praised God. He inspired the faith of men. Before, his very presence created pessimism; now it was faith and praise. The at mosphere of the man became a factor and an asset in the progress of the world. We are either contributors to or exhausters of the moral life of the world. Which is it? My subject gathers round these two points: First, the lame man, and-, second, the men who through the instrumenfality of Jesus Christ cured him. We as Christians stand in the apostle's place. Let us, under Christ, cure the lame, and if we stand in the lame man's place Christ - will make us whole. May we, like Peter and John. help the lame man to praise his God and inspire our fellow men for Christ's sake! The Ucward Looh. "It is of no use to tell me to look forward;" said one in great trouble. the other day, to a friend. "The worst of my trouble. I know lies ahead. To look back upon the past. before this shadow came, simply adds to my ag ony. I can only sit in the darkness, and shut my eyes to everything, and bear as best I may." "There is always one way, left." said the friend. gently. "When we cannot look forward or backward we can look upward. I have been in every whit as hard a place as you. and I sat a long while in the darkness before finding the way out. Try the upward look it is meant for just such sorrows as this, which seem to shut in the soul inexorably. If we look up, we neve look in vain." "Time alone can hielp such sorrows as yours." said a woman who called herself a Christian, to a bereaved friend lately. There was no upward look suggested there. A heathen. could have said as much. Time only can dufl the edge of pain; the uliward look robs suffering of its sting surely and last ingly. It is always possible to lift our eyes to the sky; and though at first perhaps, we see only the clouds, we shall find it true before long that "Over all our tears God's rainbow bends." God's Way of Escape. The steamer plied its way among the Thousand Islands. Often its ourse was toward a rocky height or a wooded shore. Surely unless the en gines were speedily reversed the ves sel would he wrecked. One turn of the pilot's wheel, and before us spread te glory of thle inland sea, and unim peded was the channel to -it. With ot before or atiter-the temptation or trial He provides a way of escape. Pacifi Baptist. Power or Ezample. No man is so insigniticant as to be sure his example can do no hurt. Ev ery one of us is wvatched unconsciouslY by some pair of eyes, and no action goes absolutely unnoticed, though we may tink so. To set some kind of an eample is the doom-and the privilege -of every human being. Live New Life Now. To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it -this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one y to another, until he is starved nd 'troyed.-Tillotsonl. No Lack of Revelation. For the man to whom our natural in teigence is equal to tihe soul's neces sity for tinding God there is no lack ofrevelation. The universe is full of vilo5 and of voices.-John White Cadwick. __ _ _ _ _ A Kind Act. If we embrace every opportunlity to d a kind act and be always ready, wling and anxzious to, irnd a hand to those in tr'ouble' or sorrow, we will suely receive much kindness in re An Organ 7C0 Years Old. WViliamx C. Carl brcught back with hi from Japan a pipe crgan of ant .se a ch he halieves will provc a rev'elation tc modern instru ment buile's. The organ is seven hndred years old, but, notwithstand ing this fact. emho:ies5 practically all 1w iproveents which present day buildrs regardl as new. The pipes - m- lxtmbco. and the instrument is n a gaod state Of preserVatLon. I ?i.Car also brought home a large colee iol of Japanese music ar ragged in modern notation. Previous .' y' 'cas ago, he says, all -the naie ui was handed dowa from onteeati Uon 1o another' in charac .1bu.''nce( the esta) iisihmen~t or dn acadey at Tomo a great impetus has been give to all claIssrs cf music, 1ndmor than six hlundred1 students y~r neem'ance at that inititutiont ,v hwu Mr. Carli visited it.-Seattle T':e cut-:mt of lif ing the nlat dates EPWORHA L[UI OESNS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26. God's Wonderful Works.-Psa. 40. 1-11. Thanksgiving Service. It is eminently -proper- that''once a year the entire nation publicly ac -knowledge its obligation-to thank God and praise him for personi.l and pub lic blessings. "Think" and "thank" are closely related In bth'bnguage and morals. Counting our blessings will logically lead to thankfulness. Consider at this service: . Thanksgiving is as old as the race. A' special time- set apart to publicly give thanks is nearry - as old. The Jewish nation had its feast which was a close type and forerunner of our annual Thanksgiving. The Pilgrim Fathers instituted the custom here. During the days cf the civil it became a national custom. It * the universal "'home day" of scattered families. It has Its origin in th'e nat ural gratitude which one feels who thinks of the wonderful works of God. It is the proper and appropriate. ser vice of a rational creature In view of the mercies of his Creator and Pro vider. It has a special significance to the Christian in view of his per sonal salvation. Reasons for Thanksgiving. These are-numerous and-tomost people ob vious. We are dependent -on God for our daily bread. Thei prosperity of the year and the bountiful crops of the fields lead to thankfulness.. The joys of life, health, friends, and fam ily lead to gratitude. The spiritual blessings of the year have - been numerous. To some who read these lines the salvation of children and loved ones during the year are causes of thanks. The revival that has visit ed your church and League, the 'uplift that has come to you and yours, is a special cause of gratitude. To each, and to all Thanksgiving comes with; some special reason for joy and glad ness. Write out a list of. personal blessings this year, and you wil b'e surprised at the number of theta. Expression of Thanksgiving. This should be both with voice and 'life. David opened his mouth and gave praise to God. So ought we to do. In. the League'service and in the church prayer meeting let us . this week praise God in song, in testimony, -and n prayers of praise. Then let us live a thankful life as well is talk thanks giving. Show mercy and help to..some needy family. Give a special offer-ing to some worthy cause. Express in every possible way the gratitude of your heart for "God's wonderful orks." It is well to feel thankful' it is better. to express our thanks2 re juently and cogqstntly. CHTISIJAN [1091H E NOVEMBER T-WENTY-SIXTid God's Wonderful Works.-MP4,0-11. (Thanksgiving Service.) Our' trust in God Is not complete until we cayse others to ti-ust; nor our praise until we cause others to praise. he does not trust In what is .not trustworthy, and does trust in Him who is worthy of confidene Our blessings from God .cannot be numbered, but God likes to have us try to number them, and the enum eration does us good. God evideni.:. delisets to serve His children; shall not His children de light to serve their God? Suggestions. Nothing that God . does for us : but Is wonderful and the more we under stand it, the more wonderful it seems. It it a man's duty to learn all he can about God's creation, because thus, he learns more about God. The worshipping spirit sees God everywhere, and adores the Almighty in the gift of a slice of bread as if it were a golden crown. No thoughts of praise are long without words of praise. - Good Books., Our societies have a mission li the m'atter of reading. In what better way can we influence'- lives than' by setting our members to reading good books? Where a public library is accessible, appoint a library committee whose members will each week speak in. the society about some noble book to be found in the library. Set up a bulletin board, on which the good-literature committee will post notices of the brightest ' books and magazine articles accessible to the Endeavorers. Where there is no library, organize a book club or society library. . You could make no better beginning than with noble biographies of Christian heroes. Get the members of the society to agree to read an average of half an hour a day, and offer a. prize for .the best list of books so read in the course of a year. Call at some social for lists'- of books read during the year. each En doavorer to make out the list from memory. Appoint a committee to judge whi'h M"~est. They Met a .Bear. Ernest Orsborn and Bud Arnold, of Comptche, report one of the closest calls of the season in a bear-fight. For some timea large bear has been. bothering their stock, and they had made several ineffectual attempts to find Bruin, but could not locate him. This week they started out and got the track on Big River, near the Horse opening. While they were waiting for the hounds and sitting comfortably on a log, something appeared behind them and knocked Orsborn's 'gun outi of his hand. Befcre he had recovergd from his surprise he was engaged inl a hand-to-hand encounter with the. ear, which had doubled on the dogs and come back on the hunters. One blow of the bears paw broke the gun in two and bent the barrel. The fight was so fierce that Arnold had to wait several minutes before-he dared to risk a shot, for fear of k-ill n his companion. Orshorn finally begged him to shoot anyway, as he said he would rather be shot than killed by a bear. Fortunlately Arnold was able to hit the bear, the bullet just glazing Orsborn's arm, and the combatants rolled over on the ground. T he bear was one of the biggest ever killed in -that section-San Francisco Cronile. - --