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Show THANKSGIVING SERMONS. j Thanksgiving day and week as usual, j brought forth the annual collection of I stereotyped sermons delivered from the i various pulpits of the country, j There were the familiar advices of young politicians: prophecies concern- j ing the effects of the recent Spanish j war upon the future history; adnioni- j tions to congress and general enlarged opinions on municipal and state affairs, j Congregations, as a rule, hear too much of the foregoing and too little of the real obligations and virtues of family fam-ily life and its sanctions. The one great evil that cancer in American social and moral life divorce, is treated to I tne chanty -.f silence. If the clerical statesmen who occupy pulpits in the Protestant churches in the land would devote some of their time to the evils and dangers that are threatening the family from within and leave politics to the politicians they might accomplish some little good. They .might treat, after af-ter divorce, of parental discipline,which is on the wane, and home training, ai I old-fashioned accessory to education, which, owing to social duties,, 5s fast becoming obsolete in America. But I then, there are so many things that I miht be treated in the Protestant pul pit which are crowded out by current sensational affairs, that an enumeration enumera-tion of them would lead to the conclusion conclu-sion that religious subjects are of small importance in the average non-Catholic church. |
