THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
THANKSGIVING SERMON.
(Continue**! from First Pajfe.)
has a national basis for the great
est continuous empire ever es
tablished by man,’’andthis “na
tural basis” lies in the temperate
zone, with a congenial climate,
rich productive soil, yielding
abundantly all the necessaries of
life.
The wealth of our country at
the beginning of the 20th cen
tury, according to the estimate
made by Special Agent Upton,
was one hundred b llion dollars
in round numbers. And our
country is equally marvelous in
extent. Mr. Stron • in his work
says: “Take five of the first
class powers of Europe, Great
Britain and Ireland, France,
Germany, Austria and Italy,
then add Spain, Portugal, Switz
erland, Denmark and Greece.
Let some greater than Napoleon
weld them into one mighty em
pire, and you could lay it all
down in the United States weBt
of the Hudson river, once, and
again, and again,—three times.”
And our’s is a land of magnifi
cent distances. A steamboat
may pass up the Mississippi and
, Missouri rivers from the Gulf,
:),900 miles, a distance equal to
t hat between New York City and
0 mstantinople. Take one state,
Texas; you go over the Texas &
. Pacific R. R., from Texarkana to
Elpaso (867 miles), and you
travel a distance equal to the
tourist who leaves London, cross
es the Channel, passes on
hrough Belgium, Germany,
Switzerland and then to Florence,
taly.
A great and marvelous coun
t -y indeed. With the best form
vf government on earth, “A
government of the people, by the
people, for the people.”
Let us today thank God for it,
r amembermg that its greatness
i 1 wealth, etc., together with its
civil, political and religious free
dom, pledges us to greater ef
forts in relieving suffering hu
manity and advancing the mate
rial and spiritual interests of
mankind at home and abroad.
IV. And God has blessed us
abundantly during the year past.
And while we cannot recount
ail the blessings if we would, it
is our desire to acknowledge
them with truly thankful hearts.
There have been no failures
w orth mentioning in our land. If
there happens to be a shortage
anywhere it is easily supplied
from the abundance in another
section of the country. Truly
we can say today that God has
llossed us in “basket and in
store”. And again. “Blessed be
the Lord who daily loadeth us
with his benefits, even the God
of our salvation.”
While there have been strikes
a id some local disturbances,
there has been no war in our
land, and we have enjoyed na
ti mal peace and prosperity, with
freedom from famine and pesti
le ce.
We are thankful, too, that
while'there have been wars and
rumors of wars,almost incredible
suffering and terrible slaughter
of men and bloodshed in the
Orient, we have been saved in
the providence of God from in
ternational entanglements and
arc at peace with all nations.
And last, but by no means
lea .t, we are thankful for the
su stantial progress that has
be< n made in all the various
lir s of church work and Chris
tian activity. And I aim to
incmde temperance, and all re
form movements and benevolent
works, because they are Chris
tian in fact. So far as I know
the various churches of our coun
try have made encouraging
p * ress, both in the home and
t foreign field. And there has
been, in some sections at least,
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a growing tendency to more
unity, fraternity and fellowship
among the people of God, with a
| tense desire to know the will of
1 Christ and to do it only. Church
schools and colleges have enjoy
ed a year of growth and prosper
I ity and look forward to enlarge
ment and greater usefulness in
1 Christian education in the years
; to come.
But let us remember that our
obligations are commensurate
with the blessings, spiritual and
material, which God has bestow
ed upon us as a Christian nation.
If God has guided this nation
j through all the crisis which it
j has passed and made it the great
I world power that it is today, it
is for a wise and noble purpose.
He surely intends that our power
and influence shall be used for
the welfare of humanity—the
oppressed and downtrodden of
the whole world. Our nation is
one of destiny.
If God has blessed our church
es with an increased membership
and added wealth is it not that
they may enter the open doors
and carry the bread and the wa
ter of life to the starving and
perishing of every land?
May God help us to be thank
ful, not only for the material
and spiritual blessings of the
year, but also for the greater op
portunities they afford us of do
ing good.
Is it not true that God has
dealt with our nation as with no
other? And if he is making of
it a great and mighty world pow
er, what is it for? And the in
creased wealth of our churches,
dominated by the Anglo-Saxon
people—what does all this mean?
Does it mean anything that
during the past year American
churches became more intensely
interested in world-wide mis
sionary endeavor?
This all means that God is
here preparing a people and a
nation destined to dominate the
world with, not commercialism
and greed, but the religion of
Jesus Christ. Let us thank God
today for these enlarged oppor
tunities with our vastly increas
ing responsibilities. And let us
determine here and now, in this
service, to prove ourselves
I urnrfrViv of flip crrpnf nnrl imnnrt
ant work committed to us, and
to hasten the time when “the
kingdoms of this world are be
come the kingdom; of our Lord,
and of his Christ, and he shall
reign for ever and ever.” (Rev.
11:15.)
THE BABY VOTE.
Jas. Edward Wilmans. 673
Ernest Theodore Phillips. 576
Edwin Johnson. 527
Wm. Wallace Dutton. 505
Charles Jones Brandenburg 497
Dorothy Stephens. 375
Jeannette Henry. 257
Thelma Smart 25
The standing in the contest is
unchanged today, although a
number of ballots were cast in
the race since Friday, but the
count will appear in full in Mon
day’s paper.
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INDEPENDENT’S
BABY CONTEST.
| Here is the proposition and the
i rules governing the contest:
j There is a handsome $25.00
solid gold locket with diamond
setting and solid gold chain, on
I display at the Palace Jewelry
j store, to be given away Decem
j ber 24th, 1904, to the baby boy
j or girl under two years of age,
| who wins the highest number of
i votes as the prettiest and sweet
est baby. Now the baby that is
! not pretty is surely sweet, and
j if the wee tot be a little cross at
times, beauty must offset this
badness. Fond parents at least
are expected to think their ba
bies are both sweet and beauti
ful, and so they do. But to set
tle once for all the claims of the
under two, and put at rest this
rivalry of mothers and fathers,
the Independent has inaugurated
a contest that is to be determined
by that cherished right, popular
ballot, and in accordance with
the following rules:
BABY PRIZE CONTEST RULES.
First—No baby that has reach
ed the age of two years Nov. 1,
1904, is eligible to this contest,
nor shall any employe or party
connected with this paper be eli
| gible to vote.
! Second—Every issue of the
j Daily and Weekly Independent
! from November 1 to December
24, will contain a ballot entitling
the holder to one vote in this
contest. For every dollar’s worth
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and counted. The daily issue of
that afternoon will contain the
total of the several candidates
and the public will thus be kept
informed of the voting each day.
Fourth—A committee of three
good business men will be select-!
ed to canvass the ballots the,
morning of Dec. 24 and announce;
the winner. All ballots must be'
deposited at this office by 11 a.
m., Dec. 24, 1904.
Read the rules carefully.
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