Show SERVICE IS HELD IN THE TABERNACLE Organ Recital Vocal Solos and Address Make up Program ADDRESS ADDRES BY MATT THOMAS SETS FORTH REASONS FOR SPIRIT OF DAY Especially appropriate to Thanksgiving lug fug day was the service held yesterday at the tabernacle the exercises start lug shortly after atter noon and lasting about ju in n hour There was an organ recital made up of several choice numbers given tn en 11 by Professor sor J J McClellan organ organist t two solos by Mrs Lizzie Thomas Edward and a brief address on the irit of ot the day by Thom ThomIs fI Is The order of at the exercises was as Organ selections from Lohengrin Wagner Vagner Prayer Benjamin Goddard organ selections Communion in m u G t batiste 1 I Need Thee Evry Hour Solo Kolo Angels Ever Bright and Fair Pair Handel Lizzie Thomas Edward Address Thomas Solo Beyond the Gates Gatos of Paradise Mrs I Lizzie Thomas Edward Organ Pilgrims Chorus From Tan hauser Wagner My friends it is a long cry from to today today today day to the first Thanksgiving day in 1621 16 I said Mr Thomas in opening his address but It does not need the eye f the seer or r a mind touched with wah di divine divine vine ine power to show shoY what we have to be thankful for tor As a nation we have havet i t ause to be thankful We have haire been r during the year and we Lave been at peace with others The world orld as a whole has been at peace dur during during ing mg most of ot the year and has been heen pro progressing progressing gressing as fast perhaps as has been been possible Spirit of Peace The speaker said the spirit of ot peace is p the world today toda Is entering into r to the cabinets of ot the nations and into the minds of the great men of ot the day lay He said the American nation is isa Isa Isa a quiring the spirit of adjusting its difficulties d among its own individuals with other nations matters of great moment n having been adjusted by b arbi arbitration arbitration arbitration He said that It is necessary only to look at the last few tew pages of the history of the nation to see how it has his grown in this respect Mr Ir Thomas said the nation has cause ti to to bo bl thankful for the provision made In the constitution by its founders that the IK nation should not Interfere with the tit exercise e of religious liberty by any Individual He said this provision led to tot tobe t tae be ie statement on the part of some that t th the refusal of the government to take ny fly part In any religion rell lon might be looked upon as Irreverence He said that the pint which underlies this was not ir irreverence reverence however but perfect free freedom freedom dom Today men worship how when T id d where they wish The country pro prot t its the Individual in this right so song ng as he does not interfere with the ther r rights of others Today the speaker rid lid this nation is regarded not as one of c of f irreverence but as one the name of v v huh is established throughout the then n virld orld as a Christian nation He H said there are few in the land who wh o i not believe that there is a God who the th land and for this there i iau Is s IU au luf I to be thankful There is cause f fr i r thanks for free speech for the right Z given gin n to individuals to gather and ex r r 19 ss opinion and the She he right to petition ill these making for the freedom of man Right of Free Press Pren The rhe nation also has the right of ot free tree Tn Mr Thomas said and It speaks speak s gT for the intelligence of ot the people it can be said that rarely is this right abused The nation he point pointed ed out also Riso has cause to be thankful fo for r fh growth of education the spirit of ot oft o ot e t lw duration having advanced among the th residents of ot the land to a great extent education has been established established nevermore to be taken away awa y from the people The world Mr Thom Thorn Thomas is HI said has Just been shocked by the thed d death nth ath of a man who seemed to stand for educational development and ad adan an All AU the power and glory of till tho nation he said faid fades Into insignificance cance when compared with what the nation Is s doing to advance the poorest of f the citizens in an educational way Wt We V have not the spirit of ot Spain nor tho the clouds of Russia and this nation Is Rr wing upward to a place above other nations a place which it deserves i There is nothing that should make I ItI vt u more thankful said Mr Ir Thomas than bur our own advance While there may bo be spots of ot weakness in our turf ure we believe that we are better and amI greater r than ever before It is well that the chief executive of oP the nation should hould set aside a day on which thanks nay be returned to God that this na ha nation nation tion may not become an irreverent one and it is Iff it this is practice of ot returning thanks for the goodness shown to the ration nation that makes makes this a nation of ot thanksgiving people Flu Tit he speaker said we have cause ause I all to be thankful l for the mission f Jesus Christ and for what It ht has Ilona to promote the spirit of brother tOad among men He said we should be thankful that God lives and hears our prayers and that as a nation we weare weare weare are advancing and he said his prayer was that this spirit of thankfulness s might permeate the individuals of the t theland e eland land more during the coming year than ever before |