Show DR BUXTON PREACHES SERMON IN ILIFF lUFF METHODIST CHURCH The Rev Re Albert Buxton of the Cen Christian church delivered the Thanksgiving day sermon at Meth Methodist Methodist odist church yesterday morning The church was crowded Dr Burton Buxton spoke at length and dealt to a great extent on I the more modern Idea of the day He said he was most thankful that the vie vic Ic tors tom of the political parties had bad not carried their spoils into the public schools He lIe also said he thanked God today todar that this great commonwealth was becoming a more Christian nation He spoke In part as IS s follows This of all the year is a day of glad ness From the th headlong hurry of ot press Ing care we pause for the restful leisure ot of a glad breath for the tile quiet conscious ness that we are glad gladYe We Ye deepen that gladness by b its 1115 sim pie recognition In the mere mindfulness that we are happy our happiness finds generous increase With each head that we devoutly count in telling our rosary rosar of blessings we mount from rom Joy jO to higher Joy While we number the gifts the rem heads slip fast through ing fingers until despairing to tell the whole tally we drop the bewildering score Our tables are arc full for the feast and no skeleton Is ls there We Ve place a ready chair for each faster taster and then still an other and love comes to take her seat chief guest at our board loard This then shall be the fitting theme of the day da The girt gift of America to Amer leans But what is America and what are Americans America is more than a country or a continent or a hemisphere more than a mere map and an American Is more than a mere dweller on that map In the unfolding plan ulan Or df AmI 1 f a second promised laud land a and dA Americans n ric are a a peculiar people prepared of old to en ter t ei and occupy that land of promise America cannot be defined without Amer l eans nor Ameri Americans ans without America They The are counterparts complements and each ach e was made for the other from the foundation f of the world Without the thought of if Americans God never neer made the western continent and without the thought hought t of or America God never neer ordained that hat t an American should be born America is Js opportunity and an Amer ican can l Is he who grasps at opportunity and finds f that he has linked his hand In that of a spelled In every letter etter l with capitals opportunity with a halo on Its brow bro and diffusing a divine halo Again America is a stage built only for forone one drama and anc an that the last play pIa of ot humanity and Americans are the last perfected actors drilled for that drama And what a land God has prepared for his chosen It Is a i blending of all cli mates of all soils of all contours It has sandy soil and alluvial soil soli and rock bal lasted asted l soil each for its own favorite pro cotton for wheat for the vine It has Ims the robust vigor of or the colder north and the luxurious breezes of ot the sunny sunn s south If one sea made Greece an other Italy and another England America has all seas to make her ultimate queen or o commerce Her inland seas are them selves elves s five Inland oceans and one river alone gives to steamers a longer course than han t the transatlantic cruise |