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Show LESSONS TAUGHT Bf WIVING Bishop Scanlan Preached m This Subject at St. Man's. Thanksgiving services at St. Mary's cathedral w re largely attended yesterday. yester-day. ESarly inu.ss was celebrated at 7:10 a. in. by Father Kiely, nnd at 9 o'cloek mass was again celebrated anil Bishop Scanlan delivered an olouent discourse on tho lessons of Thankstri vlng. At both Services beautiful music was rendered by the St. Cecilia choir. Reasons for Thankfulness. In the course of his sermon Bishop Scanlan encouraged his hearers to have, gnat faith In (iod, pointing out that the President s proclamation of thanks- giving Implied thai ibis is a Christian OOUntry, as It would be nbsurd to call upon atheists to give thanks to Cod There wre great reasons, both national and Individual, why we should give thanks In Almlk'htv ;oil In support of the assertion he Instanced the gnat prosperity that those prevent enjoyed, their health and their success In bnsl-m bnsl-m and the way to give thanks was to live good, holy lives and keep the commandments com-mandments of God. and not to Imitate the Pharisee In the tempi-, but rather t;ik. .in their pattern the publican, who eame In anil prostrated himself In the temple not deeming himself worthy to look up to heaven, and struck his breast saving. "Ood be merciful to me, a sinner." His thanks was accepted by God while that of the Pharisee was ro-jet ro-jet t .1 Give Thanks for Blessings Received. ! or a continuance of blessings and favors we should give thunks for the blessings and favors received. In elucidation eluci-dation of this thought nishop Scanlan cited the ,;ise of the ten lepers coming to our Lord and asking him to aid or to cure them, and He Said; "(Jo nn.l show yourselves to the priests." They Immediate! obeyed and were on their way to Jerusalem to show themselves to the priests when they wer-- all cured, but "in of them came buck to giv, Him thanks and the Lord sub): "Were there not ten cured, where are the nine? s then- no one to give thanks but the Samaritan?" This showed that for fuvortt He grants us He expects us to give thanks. Lend Pure and Godly Lives. In conclusion the bishop pointed out that the proper way to give thanks Is through humility ami the leading of pur.-. i ;,f, .,1 Ing i v. and by being k I citizens, ..drying the laws of the land; and to show ourselves not by our words but by our actions that wo are living out the laws of Qod and of our country, that Is the- rvul way to cHo-biute cHo-biute Thanksgiving |