Show Thanks God for I I and for True Americans Their T Spirit Sp Should Be Reflected m in School System Says Dr Buxton thank God od for you pu public jc voi voice I t c y AmAri 6 L s t or oi oit orten t ten tn f freb fre political politic parties and scorns those thoss American un-American aliens that gag with I brutal sarcasm social ostracism an opposing opposing op opI op- op I posing though hone honest t vote I thank God that true trus allows t two o ara or ar ora ora a hundred bundred r religious cults ever struggling gling Jin constantly approaching but hO how however how how- ever over near never reaching ultimate religious religious reli reU- ious statement the statement the genuine enuine brand of Americanism that scorns as un Amen can despotic anti sarcasm or civic ostracism ostracism os os- os- os that places on the rack of a anew anew anew new and subtle social ocial inquisition another's another's another's ers er's religious ons faith Thanksgiving vin to God that with all tb tho honest bonest differences difference of civic views fought out at ballot or in con congress ess or worked out in executive office we c are at last reaching tho shelter of courts that know no varying bias but know only one oath to administer law just as tho the sovereign nation makes itI itI itI it I thank God in public thanksgiving in today that while whilo voters oters are free to shout or think as they choose the tho peculiar planks of any platform the creed of any church cannot be brought by the dominant victors through the tho door of the HUe litle red schoolhouse to taint tb tho freedom of the public schools that while varying theories are incorporated by varying thinkers into our laws lats only one standard is allowed iu in bur child I training the the standard of free search carch for fot truth Let no un Americanism lay Jay unholy hands of sectarian or partisan graft upon tho American school Let Tammany ti tiger er growl to grown men let the Republican elephant trumpet trumpet trum trum- pet or the tho Democratic donkey bray ImlY to the theoter oter voters voter's musical delight but x our ur is not a i Noah Noah's I r ark for an any b beasts 9 I I give our final thanks thank today that this is IS becoming a Christian commonwealth common cornmon- wealth and nd that our halls of justice our seminaries of learning and b bur our r hospitals of charity charit- find their highest supplement of safety in the ch churches of the tho that never r. r aso ase to send forth dauntless dauntless dauntless daunt daunt- less crusaders to guard the sepulcher of our risen Lord from froni the tho desecration of oC infidel oar Those These were th the concluding words of Continued on pago page Z o. o THANK GOD Continued from pa page e 1 the tho Thanksgiving in s sermon by Re Rev Dr Albert Buxton Button at the First Methodist church this mornin morning The services sen were rero joined b by many worshipers from front the Central Christian First Presbyterian tori n Iliff Methodist 1St and East Side Baptist churches which joined in the union meeting Dr Buxton's sermon in part follows Day of Gladness This of all the year clr is a n day aa of gladness From the tho headlong hurr hurry of oC pressing care we pause for thA restful leisure of a n. glad breath for breath for the quiet consciousness that we are glad lad Wo We 0 deepen that gladness ladne S 'S by bj- its simple recognition In tho the mere mero mindfulness mindfulness mind mind- that we are arc happy happ our hap happi happiness pi ness finds generous increase With far each ah head that we devoutly count in telling our rosary of blessings we wo mount from joy to higher joy Whilo we number the gifts the tho reminiscent heads slip fast through challenging fin fingers ers until despairing to tell the tho whole tall tally we drop the bewildering score Our Our tables S are arc full for the feast and no skeleton is there W We a ready chair for each cach faster anti and then still another another another an an- other and love comes to take her seat scat chief guest at nt our board Sommer with its warm breath of harvest har has lingered jn ered like liko a reluctant lover loath to hid bid a last adieu and the elastic step of first of-first first frost announces winter winter win win- ter tel with its prophecy of rest But ours is a hi higher deli delight ht than tho the gratification of senses or oven on the tho complacency of safety Wo We rejoice that we wo are arc men th that t the tho glory of f hill and field and sky are not alone servants of our too appreciative ap ap ap- senses but also and more truly ministers minister to our that our souls o widest plain out out- measure loftiest mountain and climb beyond be yond tho the highest sky ky into the recognition that tion-that tion that over th the stars there is i's rest I Glad and Thankful Glad 5 Wad as we wo are arc today our emotion i is not alone gladness oven gladness even of purest source Ours is b not a self poised io joy We are not content to bo ho glad within ourselves but our gladness bursts th the bounds bound of self and streams in a mighty min current of recognition toward our God who has made us to rejoice We Yo arc aro more than glad we lad we are arc thankful O to 0 J give 6 thanks unto Jehovah for ho is good for his mercy forever This then is Thanksgiving int dahut day da- hut but not for our private calendar By official proclamation our governor has bas called all Utah from its homes home to its sacred halls the president has hal summoned sum sum- summoned mooed all the citizens of these United States StateR into their temples of praise praie o and the hallowed allowed custom of ni nigh h onto three e centuries has bidden a never nc alien offspring offspring offspring off off- I spring thou though h exile from American soil on this holiday and holy hob daY dav of their nation to m make mako ke tho those e still till loyal loya American hearts temples of gratitude tudo for our common weal and our common common- wealth This is more moro than a 1 thanksgiving thanksgiving thanks thanks- gi giving day more day more than tItS tItS' Thanksgiving ing InS day of all the tho year It is the Thanksgiving da day da- of greater s America America- an realm wide as tho the limits of faithful and grateful an and reminiscent remi reminiscent remi Americanism Thanksgiving Theme This then shall b be the fitting theme of the day The gift ift of America to Americans B But lt what w at is America and what arc aro Americans T i I America is more than a country or ora ora ora a continent or a hemisphere more hemisphere more more than a mere map and map and an American is ismore ismore ismore more than a mere dweller on that map In Ia the unfolding plan of providence America is a second promised land and Americans are a I. I peculiar people prepared pro pre pared of old to enter and occupy that land lana of ot promise America cannot be bo defined without Americans nor Americans Amen Ameri cans without America They are counterparts and counterparts complements and each was as made for the other from the foundation foun dation of the world Without th the thA thou thought ht of Americans God ne never er made mado the western continent and without tho the thought of America merica God never nover ordained that an American should be born America is opportunity and an American is is he who rasps grasps rasps at opportunity opportunity and finds that he e has linked his hand in that of a god opportunity god opportunity spelled in every letter with capitals opportunity with a a. halo balo on its brow browand browand browand and diffusing n a divine diviDe halo balo Again AZin America is a stage built only for ono one drama and that the last play of humanity and Americans are thelast the tho last perfected actors drilled for lor that drama And what a land God ba has prepared for his cho chosen n It If is a blending of all climates of all ril ilp of all contours I It has hns sandy Andy soil and i nd alluvial soil and rock ballasted d f soil oil each cach for its own on favorite favorito for for cotton for wheat for the tho vine inc It Ii has the thc robust i vigor or of the colder north and the tho luxurious 11 breezes of the tho sunny south louth If one sea lea made Greece another Italy and another r En England America hat has all nIl seas to make her ultimate queen of commerce Her HerI inland seas arc are themselves five fi inland I oceans and one river alone gives s to steamers a n longer course than the transatlantic trans atlantic cruise What Is an American This leads me tp tt define 1 an u Ameri Amen can My y first definition is thi th The American is a hero that hears the tho voice of God and dares to become God Gods God's s fellow tellow fel tel low worker in in transforming the earth lie Ho Jo hears the call of God to an Rn inaccessible mac inac cc land of oC promise ie 5 swims oceans ocean climbs mountains and fights savages to subdue that land l Let Let mo mc moe give e a second more daring darin definition The American is he that with ith faith in in God and faith in him himself elf dares the impo impossible Had Hercules sou sought bt the western world word for hi his labors la In- bors bore he would have hac been the first American But the world waited for Columbus Columbu Columbus was an American a and d such an American Ho wron wrought ht with Go God dared the impo impossible ibe add won Later tho the band bandor over o same sea a of or spiritually native Americans entered en en- into th their ir own In a leaky boat without sailors upon a wintry sea sea on onn ona n a hostile shore without soldiers the pil pilgrims rims dared death to enter as native nativo born horn into their birthright ht Gods God's voice oice was wag ever ahead and aDd a tireless courage within Later behold the thc first real American Ameri Amen can army gathered beneath the Cambridge Cambridge Cam Cam- bridge bride elms ems to receive reci the first trul truly American commander Washington taught on only 1 in forest skirmish with a n band of a few fe thousand farmers a against a titled and war scarred general general gen gen- eral with a million trained soldiers at athis athis his call or purchase I Then Lincoln with a country divided di divided die di- vided in sentiment and war laid hold with one hand on tho the very ery throne of God and with the other shook fear into foe and faith into friendship until un tin- til he be too with God wrought ht the thc impossible im impossible un- un possible ani anti and mado made an united nation of f each beach others other's I two halves sought ht lives li O. O Lincoln Lincoln Thou homel homely typical American thou art true truest t of all Americans of or Today I have o Ia named Americans of oC the past But Bitt they have ha a n million fellows And their triumph has not been alone in battle conquest Uncounted d heroes have worked with God to transform theland theland the theland land of promise into a paradise of plenty Whitney taught us to despoil the cotton seed of its hugged close ced fiber for the looms of the world worl Howe tipped the tho rapid shaft with the tho cambric needle Franklin robbed the air of its lightning and Edison yoked a R slender wire and tamed it to a mellow h light ht Carnegie arne ic reached his hand deep under r thC tbs crust and und clutched the dirty ore and squeezed it into tempered steel steel Rockefeller pierced the soil with hil long fingers finters and tho the wells ells spouted oil Tho The Wright brothers leaped free leaped d free from earth launched their airships in the blue sky k and flapped ed the happy happ wings of aviating a freedom C These c too arc Americans American What thanks must we raise to God for an America worthy of the these o heroes and for heroes worthy of such uch au America And And we are thankful Jul that th the American spirit i is not dead but quickens quick quick- ens with ith new life at t each problem The clear prophet sees a land still in its infancy and ha has a vision ision of an 1111 ultimately s sublime blime nation refined ye- ye re redeemed e. e deemed a transformed a new America like the new Jerusalem coming out of heaven from God |