Show BE THANKFUL FOR FOOD AND These Are the Foundations o othe of the State Says Bishop i. i Spalding MATERIAL THINGS FIRST FIRS ort Other Cr Seimons Pertinent to Thank e From oni Snit Salt Lake Lulu Pulpits Pulpit 1 I 4 fl The struggle for tor the material things thing I. I of f life is Ig the most important n clement In nur Our national life Is tho belle belief o of Bishop P. P S. S Spalding who the Thank Thanksgiving gl sermon at S St. St Marks Mark's cathedral thedral ye yesterday ter n Th The I Lf pr problem bl m of or the thc distribution o ot of commodities s I Is the thO mo most t pressing Ing 1 and till the principles o or of of tho c day a I socialism I the only solution acco according according ac ac- ac- ac co cording to In the tho hl bishop hop I. I The The services at tho the cathedral were wen In keepIng with the spirit of ot the tho d day dy y Tho rho mu music lc was s particularly wen welt ren dered deteL l fr Mrs W W. F. F Adams arid and Miss solos solo in the ref Tc D um Thc IhA offertory anthem was Lord Th Thy Glo Glory Fills 1118 tho Heavens l Earth Fa Is 18 with Thy Goodness tort Stored m Bishop hop Spalding wild Mill in hi part I ur want to read cad as aM an nIl Introduction to my sermon ermon this morning a part of off f F the Presidents President's setting apart this day Ia for public thanksgiving J i President OIt HOCH sa says s 's n never nover ver before In our history or 01 In n tho history of an any other nation ha has hag a people enjoyed Nl more abounding prosperity than is p r p our ours a pro prosperity so general that it f 1 should hould arouse In us is no spirit of reckless rcck- rcck loss less pride tind nd least IMst of all HII a n spirit of 4 i heedless q disregard of or our I r tlc ties but hut rather a 11 I 0 ol sense ense of or our r man many blessings and a re resolute pur pur- pose under Providence Pro not to for- for f felt elt them thorn by hy any In action of ot our own Material for Foundation t f Material well being indispensable thou though h It 11 1 Is 1 can n never P l' I h be he nn anything hut nul the foundation of true national 4 0 b greatness arni happiness If we build ft nothing upon this foundation th then n our I I- II I I. I I national life lire will b bo be as ns meaningless as a hou house where only the tho fO foundation has been ben laid our mate material Ji 1 well veil being must h b be built hullt a ft superstructure of individual and national na na- ft life lire lived Nl In accor accordance ance with the ft laws law ff ci the highest morality or cl else cie c our prosperity itself will in fn the long longrun longrun r run turn tuni out a a. cUr curse curso o Instead of a blessing We TC e should hould be 10 both hoth reverT reverently rever- rever ft T mU thankful for what we have havo rece received re- re yet t ce ed and eRl earnestly estly bent hent upon turning turn- turn ft lug ing it Into a means of grace and not of oC instruction II I- I I r venture to t think that this Is one of or tho the most startling utterances President l- l i dent Roosevelt has ever eve ma mno o There have b bc bern ou n for the th JUst fifty years two Il theories rie as to the tho foundation upon unon w Which thA state slat society t ane and individual character rests Thet Thel older thinkers that Ideas IdeaN were WI fundamental i CJ ti s a ago o Abraham had hael a n vision nf Or th tho unity of oC God Cod I Inspired by hy thai thul i vision JOIl as the ultimate force In his life lifo he left Jert Chal crossed lo ell miles of desert lesert to I Canaan Canian and founded lcd the H Hebrew brew nation upon f In a n spiritual God GolI h who was vas a God of l righteousness Moses Io s 's impelled el by a n. Conviction of duty and the awful supremacy of the tho moral law Ted led his p people Ople out of or Egyptian bondage and foun founded ed anew the thc Jewish nation Upon upon that thit moral law Jaw Martin Marlin Luther a Gorman monk becoming convinced ed that church and state rested on rotten foundations sounded the note of warning and antl new states stales 5 sprang up throughout hf u Europe opo with Ideas of or In In- liberty t as their foundations G George ash Washington inton Thomas J on tl awakened to 10 the Injustice with which American colonies were governed laid A as aK the foundation of a new ev nation the that all all all' allmen men inca are arc created create equal 11 and are endowed l I 1 hy their creator with the tho Inalienable rights to to lIf life Ilbert liberty and pur pursuit of happiness Abraham Lin Lincoln struck the shae shackles 1 from om three million slaves to make the nation square to tho those c foundations on That has lias bp boon been n in the past the prevail pre ing ng philosophy of or history New Philosophy Wins in But nut In tho the past Mt fifty years ars a new philosophy of or history has J ha been wInning its wn way In 1857 Bucklo Buckle pu published publish hI his hIM History of Civilization an nn attempt to tf prove IHO that climate and physical j 4 Characteristics of the sell noil determine fn intellectual and moral character In Karl Marx published 1 Capital an aT ni elaborate effort to show show- that the thc foundations of ot the tho state le rested ted not on oni i m moral ral and spiritual ideas but hut on food i supply I This reading ClIng of or If history is In- In ieee il l' l revolutionary dill mil tue not not 1101 to Canaan for tor freedom to worship wor wor- worp 1 ship hip Co God but In f sent sent-ii of or IJ pas bettor lUr tures R for fOI his hh flocks Moses 1 noll not nol l c lead slaves out of or Egypt to teach them the moral law but ut tho the movement was t purely purel an economic It one was not f. f the ringing voice olce of Martin Luther t Justification ll by faith tho printing 4 t- t jiri f the open Bible DIble that made matIe modern Europe but It tt t was tho the Int increase in In- t r crease raso In tho the circulating medium brought into Europe from the tho new world It was not the moral protest n against t taxation without representation which created tim tho patriotism of or he het Jeroe t oc G but qu questions lonH of public land In In the tha w west i t. t It was not the tho high Idealism of Emancipation Proclamation nr tho the moral earnestness earnest earnest- l ness of oC Uncle Toms Tom's Cabin that freed the tho slaves cs but the protest of Qt f free tree bor 1 lin for food Surely Surel this IH Is a contrast And nd so so In the 1 fh t pl place plc co Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- giving la Day bids blUs us to be glad that glad that we vc have ha enough to eat and when w we say ray a thi that we do not God from world but we wo realise c his pre ence more moro than ever e because e O N everyone olae mus must feel that our natural blesSIngs gH we we owe to Him lUre Cant Can't Preach lo to Hungry I The Salvation Army long ago dis- dis that DU could riot not preach sue suc- suc- suc C to a l hungry man They give 11 0 him a cup of or coffee and a bl biscuit cull urn first finland and th then 1 he ho listens mote moro receptively cl But nUL It b by no means follows that every overy ninn man to whom hom th the the- Salvation Army Army Arm gives a 1 cup of coffee and a bun wl will vIiI h become otna a n. faithful Christian sun Still h I imore more 11 likely cly to he old notion that tha hun hunger cr and mh misery PO drove rove men inca to Go God lie Ift not nol tru true It itkes makes them angry an and sullen and sceptical Material prosperity Is If a foundation r tot for r religion and we must h be he thankful to God Goel that wo we are aro ln lI living in a time tim of won wonderful awakening A civic con con- Science leJ c m more rc exacting than in tho the past is demanding bettor government go aI a a. I seno enO of or commercial honesty honest keener t t than of or old old- oldIs Is banishing graft a mis mi- rollar enthusiasm more wonderful than hart the world has ever seen h before Core is s sending Gods God's mes messengers to the I. I of or the earth Time for RU study y is 15 thoughtful men nen to adjust the tho y of ie th tie the past t to the tho needs of or j ho he present t. t It is a good ool tI time m 0 to 11 live liven ve i n in n. n Wonderful things are being done clone more noro wonderful things s are Ire re on tho way and we wc shall see them So let Jet us KOfrom KO go from Gods God house to our OUI homes home and ando t to o our work with hearts full of or thank thank- s Tho gifts of God are arc bountiful S ful ul the day is soon coming when the iver Yer ahun abundance ance which is cursing tho the rich will vili be he taken awa away and th the tha pov- pov r q of or the poor relieved and men more nd more will vill understand what they r really ally need and recognize God a as the giver Iver of or it and as poverty and want with their deadening eff effect ct are rem v- v d ci the higher nobler side of or human Ufo ilfe will havo 0 a chance and men will willmore willi l aln more of or Gods God's truth and live by tl help of a fuller bestowal of or His trace race an and the tho time will come when the knowledge Imo of God will cover cO the l earth as os the waters vaters cover the tho sea soa eH AST SIDE I MEETING J Rev Hc S. S A A. A Ha orth Ha orth A Preaches nt at Liberty l Park M. M L l E. E Church v Tho The chul churches hes If f the thc East side held services In the Liberty Park M M. E. E church hurch and a large lug audience u was pres pres- ent nt All tho the r resident pastors took part In the Th Tho sermon was waR preached by tw Rev nc S S. S A. A Hayworth of or the East Side Sido Baptist church H He tool for Cor his text 1 Sam Hitherto oath hath the tho Lord Lore h f uS us The theme as aR developed by hy the speaker aker was God Go In American History The speaker elaborated at length on tho the thought 01 or of Gods God's providential hand in the colonisation cobol coloni atlon of or Ki sc hr t orical facts which po point nt- nt to the l divine l l c p providence Ho lie pointed out the tho there re rc re- re b element clement which dominated the motive motho o of tho the early ally settlers and which avo o to the thc early founders of or our naion nation nation na na- na- na t tion ion their ability to endure the dangers dangers dan dan- g gers rs and privations Incident to nation I making The speaker pl proceeded t to tc I pay a glowing tribute to the thc Puritans ThO They were cro making men than I i gold goltL The Spaniards Sp failed to t a dominating control because i of or their greed S for fOl profit and md their theli I- I failure to develop lh the moral side AC or el 11 l Ife fl Tho rho French lost t control f r the same flame r reason m on The events event which led to English h domination were vcr upon Uon AI Also o. o the great grean bless bless- In log ng to America in lh the fact that thiat Euro Euro- penns and Christians Ret settled lcd on our oui I- I shores rather mthr than Hios from flom Mn rn llo tr Enlarging upon these these- fact fads lb the th C sp speaker salt Maid in In part This ThI religious Impression early stamped upon upon- our countr country became the guarantee of our civil and national liberty Our constitutional f form rm of or government go lied had Its rise In tho lie of at co compart ipat t drawn drawz up on the Mayflower The fundamental fun fun- dam principles of or our constitution como comb out of or th the DIble So declared Edward Everett We Vl ought to be bo I thankful for the Christian colonization for tor or with that came the opening of a anew new world of or undreamed possibilities Jo America was wan discovered ered co In tho the lIp n not I ot oi time lime Europe Europ was overcrowded o Humanity and antI groaning un un- tier der oppressive ecclesiastical and mili tar tary despotism was tn er for a n. new home Ju Just t th thou then n God opened a a. new c camping ground for the hosts of men I stoking king religious fr freedom America L presented a marvelous fiel field for tho the I operation of or the Inventive In forces forces which had begun to take such a a wonderful I hold upon open the mind of or man I ha had announced a new theory of or the universe universe- The rhe theol theory of or scientific knowledge lla had been been- compacted and i expressed b by Bacon 8 Timos W were IC ripe rIp Cpr the discovery er an and colonization of ot r America Tho 4 Puritans had developed th the hardihood hm for foi the tho hardships of or It colonial life Thc They had been tempered tem tam in the tho tires fire of of religious perse pere persecution cution were Ver nt to 10 0 d danger ng r. r As t the c ca eagle le scatter her hel nc nest t over ver the thI crags that aim lw ma may teach tach her young oung to shift shirt for or th themselves n so God Gol seems seem Is to have allowed the homestead of or the thi r Puritans to lo be broken en up in order that thai they night might for ter themselves s a a. nev and better elter homo home In America The me speaker then proceeded to show how the colonies passed from tho con control tr trot l of or the Fr French and how England Englan u i became the controlling power But t L It was not the tho will of God that li foreign power should make ency of the colonies They were driy driven en er to revolt The Thc d declaration of in independence In- In dependence was Wag signed and antl it seemed eeme like signing their own death warrant arrant In vi view ow of or inevitable war with the moth country strong trong and powerful Hut But through h the thc providential loi of or events J victory over ever England wn ras achieved and the colonies became free reo an and Independent Birth of or Constitution They were bound t together geth r b by a rope ope of or sand known as tho the articles of or confederation A con constitutional con- con wn was called Whilst in a a. tu tumult tumult Ui- Ui Franklin Flanklin called the rue convention io o prayer to the Go God of or nations and the they proceeded to finish their task which resulted In our pr present sent constitution the the gl greatest test political document document docu docu- ment merit which ever Cl came from Crom mortal man according to Gla Gladstone stone After th the adoption o of th tho constitution prosperity prosperity pros pros- smiled upon the nation H But Bitt t alas ala tho the germs of disease e had been Implanted within her con constitution CIa Gradually that pOi poisonous onous ulcer called slavery cr spread throughout the thc nation assuming F s such uch proportions that the dismemberment of or the nation seemed Imminent nl But Hut tho the old sturdy Murdy Puritan blood of New Cw England was wa stron strong enough lo to throw off the disease God sent a little Swede wede to Q America merica n m named Ericsson who Invented that little wa wasp p collect called the thc Monitor which disabled the tho Merrimac I and saved the nation Freedom was aH established h tl So Ro great bIf became our OUI partiality for ci freedom that w wo took look up arms in b behalf of or Cuba That war made U us a a. world power and am I I through th tho the acquisition of the tho Philippines Philip Philip- 1 pines wo we ar are charged with wilh the grave I rt responsibility of or civilizing the o Orient t. t TIll Tho power powel which God has ha given Iv n us must not he bo used for or aggrandizement f hut but for or civilizing the Inferior races of or the Orient W Wo must taku lake up the white mans man's burden hurden bravely l and un- un n- n and antl add lIl to the worlds world's 1 ess our 11 contribution which is tho the thoI JJ tl t privilege an any nation has over I had hall THREE fo DISTINCT cr CLASSES Rev n I D. D A. A Brown Drown Speaks aks o of nt Various ance Ob of hin Three distinct classes t of people In this country ma may in bo O noted for the wa way the they regard regal Thank day clay said raid th the tho Rev D D. A- A ABrown Brown at the union meeting of or the thc West e t Side Ide churches churche held belt In the Westminster Pr Presbyterian |