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Show ROOSEVELT'S PROCLAMATION Rev Perkins Spoke Principally of Details De-tails of Document. Thanksgiving day services at St. Paul's Episcopal church BervlOS of holv communion at 10 a. in with appropriate hymnn and offering of-fering for charity and address by Rev Charles E Perkins, rector, constituted the calebratl. n for this parish The harvest hymns and tho National anthem were sung with a heartiness thai revealed the spirit of thanksgiving urn. ng the people. The rector ipoki prln Clpally Of the details of the President's proclamation, proc-lamation, a follows Mr Perkins's Address. "Oratltuile Is a significant characteristic of the Inst five psalms whatever he the nge of their composition. Each one begins with the appropriate thanksgiving phrase: Prslso ys t.'.e Jxjrd." In assembling hc?0 to.Jnv wo aro In -c-or.l With the church and with the proclamstlon of the President of the L'nlted State, for both bid us hold an annual day of thanksrlvlng If for any reason the President should fall to Issue such a proclamation, still th's church rould heed the thanksgiving call, for she has provided for her chlldten such a service Heroic Utterance "I take great pleasure In reading to you the 1 1 ociamatlon of the President. It Is a manly and heroic uttr-rance It contains no theolou-hal theolou-hal technicalities of any school or party but Is couched In broad and comprehensive terms SO that It may fairly he present I to verr rerson of this vast Republic whatever his religious re-ligious bias or conviction may be. Reason for Thankfulness If In Ihe Jjyi of a rugged nf and scant mean! cur sturdv forefathers found reason to be thankful, surely w 3 of today, with our luxuries nnl boundless resources, have every reason to be thankful. We may well atop and auk ourselves: the question: 'Are we as gmtefUl to Him from whom nil hslngs flow as were those who Instituted this day? Have but to Look at Blessings. "Wo have but to look at our blessings to see that thev derv thanks on our part The r-i mi of sccl-tlme and harvest and the ntundanco of tho crops afford enough and to pare for every sbls-bcdled man- and the crverflowlng cup has relieved the necesslt Ier. of many who have been Incapacitated through ng or disease Material blessings crown the efforts of the merchant and Inadequate meons nl conveyance Of commerce Is the complaint todav. where hnlf score of years ago rle-preselon rle-preselon and stagnation prevailed. Hold Enviable Position. "Internationally we have held an env lable position po-sition during the year that Is about to close. .".o only are We at peace with tho world, but would have all the world be at peace with Itself and with us While the President held out the olive branch to older pecplea and bade them be at peace with each other, yet he Is still a man of war. and tells ua that we hav e a war to wage, a personal waa fare if v.. N pl.su, e-aeh one flghllng his lower self and rising thereon 'as stepping atones to higher things.' Wisdom in His Message. '"I"anluis9 of life, honor and wisdom In his message are not hastily chosen words, but fiaught with fullest meaning. Words are these that cmbraco one's duty to himself, to his fellows and to his Qod. They make the rri.n whoso occupation compels his clothes to be soiled am his hands to bv dlit.v, hold hn hi id U high as anybody on earth, when he knows that his money Is ckan Publicity Is the cry of the day. and our live, to be of v. rtli In -.- ought to be nn OPCIl book before i people Recent Investigations only reveal the fact that right must prevail. Should Be Worthy Sons. That we should be worthy eons of those who f. ini'.l ard of those who have maintained 'M Government Ih no neon appeal In th tlm of the Christ some thought they ha1 done ntlj had thej lived In the time of their fathers H assured them that thev vvore de. genorate Today. I say. If we prove r irrai. ful for the blessings vvhbh we enjoy as our f... . f.i i h. r . proved In tlo ilnv of small things, we shall bo worthy sons of them and of our Father which is in ip-aw-n 1 |