Show GOD IN THE PROCLAMATION lev C E Perkins Calls Attention to At St Pauls Episcopal church Ret Chrles E Perkins commented the fact that Roosevelt cUd not use th God in his The omission of this word he spanker I consider for the matlon Is to tho whole American and must be acceptable to everyone It uses the words Most High GIver of and Almighty but the weal God is omitted except In the date line at the bottom where the legal sion In the year of our Lord appears The general proclamation leaves it flO for 11 people living In America to gather together at their or In heusen of worship and render their In a fitting manner Perkins then sketched the pro rees of America poLing the great growth in the last decade and pointing out how prosperous is the future immediately bc fore the The president Is a man of war ha declared and It Is hard for him to gut entirely away from his natural liens after speaking of the freedom of American institutions from war without he of the passions of men are the loon with which we ever be at war The president sets an admirable ox ample of the kind of life his people should lead Commenting on the fact that so few people now devote Thanksgiving day to the giving of spiritual thanks the speak speake e remarked on the empty benches in the church aul expressed the hope that those not there were at home thanks around the family fireside This he said they will be turkey and stuffing themselves with the good things wherewith the turkey is stuffed And In this connection let us remember that we should not forget in inthe the midst of the feast to render thanks tr the past and pray for the future the sermon th St day service was conducted and an offer lug of charity for the poor collected |