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Monday, ' December 11, 1929
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.American Exchange National Bank
Building
Greensboro, N. C
C J. Justice
E. D. Broadhurst
Justice & Broadhurst,
LAWYERS.
Offices in Banner Building .
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Brooks, Hines & Smith,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law
Fifth Floor Dixie BWg.
Greensboro, X. C.
By RAY RHIL,
In The Jewish Daily News
(November, 26. 1922)
On Thursday. November 30, the
people of United States will celebrate
Thanksgiving day within the cozy
warmth of their homes. On that
day men and women of every creed
will participate in that Joyous fes
tival which dates back to the days
of the Pilgrims, a little more than
three hundred years ago. And now
the twentieth century man and wom
an will sit down to the feast of tUf-l-ov
and cranberry sauce just as the
little, band of PJLsrims dId !n thS
good old days of 1621.
Yet how few of the 110,000.000
nrflvlfiuala of the United States will
on that day be aware that although
the Pilgrims were the first to cele
brate Thanksgiving day In 161, u
was the Jew who preached the first
Thanksgiving day sermon in this
country in response to George wasn-
ington's proclamation In 1759. Tne
man who took that step was none
other than Greshom Mendes Seixas,
the fighting minister of the Revolu
tionary war. of whom the writer has
had occasion to refer to in previous
articles. Rev. Greshom Mendet
Seixas was minister of the Congre
gation Shearith Israel (Spanish and
Portuguese Synagogue) at the time
when the Revolutionary war broke
out. And fired by patriotic zeal he
left his pulpit to enter the battle
for democracy. But that was not all.
he also ureed the members of his
congregation to take up arms and
fieht for the goddess of liberty.
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So it was only natural because or,
his stand in the war that he should
have been the one to have delivered
the first Thanksgiving 'day sermon.
Destiny had indeed been kind. It had
chosen the right man for the honor.
A thread of justice after all does
shoot through every now and then
in the odd and impenetrable pat
tern that we call life.
But be that as it may, the sermon
of Dr. Seixas caused quite a sensa
tion In his time. Indeed this Thanks
giving sermon of his was such a SUC-
fcess that the worthy minister decid
ed to publish copies for the public
(at one shilling per. And on Decem
ber 23. 1789, there appeared this ad
vertisement of the sermon in The
Daily Gazette, a contemporary news
paper:
"This excellent discourse (to
which is annexed the order of serv
ice) the first of the kind ever
preached in England is highly de
serving the attention of every pious
reader whether Jew or Christian as
it breathes nothing but pure moral
ity and devotion. '
In order to appease the curious in
our midst as to the nature of the
service arranged by the congrega
tion for the Thanksgiving day of
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1789, here te the order of the serv
ice: -
"Order of Service for Thursday,
8th Kfslev 5550, 26 Nov., 1789 Be
ing the day appointed for public
Thanksgiving and prayer throughout
the United States of America.
'To begin with O come let us sing
unto the Lord the first three verses
of Psalm 95.
"To Sing O give thanks unto the
Lord, call upon His name (Psalm
105) as on Sabbath morning.
"Then the following Psalms The
Kazan wjll glng the first verse of J
each Psalm alone.
"Psalms 30-33."
After his inaugural Thanksgiving
day speech in 1789 the Rev. Seixas
faithfully delivered one annually
until the year of his death in 1816.
This, tto-wit. is a sample of the style
and type of sermon the 'Rev. Seixas
was -wont to deliver to the members'
of his worthy congregation on
Thanksgiving day:
"Let us now unite in prayer, and
with awful tremblings render praise
and thanksgiving to our God, the
God of Jsr&el, to whom all power
and mercy pertaineth join with me
in supplication and let us mentally
pray for each other we humbly be
seech thee Oh Lord! to look down
upon us from thine holy habitation
and grant us thy all-powerful pro
tection, shield us under the wings
of thy holy Providence, and preserve
us from evil; direct us in the pur
suits of life, and guard us from the
reproaches of Man Bless and pro
tect the President of the Unfon, with
the administrators of the general
government, in their respective de
partments the governor and rulers
of this state judges and counsel
lors and the magistrates of this
city impart to them an emanation
of thy divine wisdom that they
may know and judge distinctly be
tween that which would prove bene-
ficlal to the United States and that
which might be injurious let no
party schisms iii state affairs pre
vail, so as to destroy the principles
of the constitution, which is for the
security of persons and property,
and sworn to be observed by the ad
ministrators of government.
"I ay the Congress assembled, act
in unison with each other to pro
mote the welfare of all and may
they be able to deliberate and de
cide OTi all laws proposed for the
advantage of their constituents. "May
agriculture flourish and commerce
be prosperous, may the seminaries
of education be continued under the
direction of able teachers and pro
fessor that the succeeding gener
:tious may gain the knowledge of
freedom without licentiousness, and
the usefulness of power without
tyranny.
"May the people be convince"! of
the fidelity of their representatives.
'and mav no cause, of jealousy subsist
among the different states' of the
Union may the blessing of peace at
tend their Iarrd councils; and finally
may 'the earth be filled with knowl
edge as waters covereth the seas.
"So be it thy will and we will'say
Amen."
Can't you just hear the worship
pers exclaiming as they walked with
dignified strut out of the synagogue
on Mill -street . more than a century
ago: "Iteally. that was a good ser
mon -that our rabb( 3ye us this
morning
I hope that on Thursday you will
devour your Thanksgiving day din
ner with a greater relish because of
the role played by the Rev. Seixas in
the grand, old festival.
BANKS H. MEBANE
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PHYSClf IAN and SURGEON
Office 121 1-2 S. Elm Street
Greensboro, N. C.
Over O. Henry Drug Store
Office Phone 1466 Residence 3443
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CONYERS & FORDHAM,
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229 South Elm Street- Phones 9 and 10.
Near Greensboro National Bsiik
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FITTING GLASSES
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Examination Without "Drops."
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Office, Fifth Floor Banner Building
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113117 Dixie Building
Office Hours 2 to 5 and by Appoint
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Telephones 797 and 001
Dr.H. E. CASSTEVENS
DENTIST
Office Orer O. Henry Drug Store
121 H S. Elm Street
SPECIAL. ATTENTION GIVEN TO
OUT-OF-TOWN PATIENTS
Office Hours 9-12; 1-5
Dental X-Rays Made
Phones Office 14G0; Residence 877
HUGH C. WOLFE, M. D.
Practice Limited to Diseases and
Surgery of the
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT
Office Over O. Henry Drug Store
121 So. Elm SU formerly Farrls
Kluttz Drug Co.
Phones: Office 603; Res. 152S-W
Hours 9 to 12; 2 to 5
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WALL &: SMITH,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
."27 South Elm Street
Greensboro, X. C.
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over cxixrrs pharmacy
Phones: Office 29; Residence 22
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