Show CAUSES FOR season sea on is a time for all to remember the blessings Bles of the year HAT does thanksgiving mean menn w to you I 1 does it mean only a day 0 of special feasting doea does it bring to you only the pleasure of rich foods and elaborate meals or do you remember in the i midst of feasting that it Is a day for ae e should all take the time from hlf day filled with pleasures to look back over the past year akril remember all the blessI blessings aLs for which wo me have to be thankful fo 10 how flow much borrow and trouble may have to come to ua us in 10 the past 12 months there have ten t en many blessings as well it if we will stop to consider conald cr them perhaps at the line time of trouble m we a N were ere blinded to the blessings but now it if we me look back m with ith clearer judgment m we e con can see that they were ere there alt all the time sometimes times blessings in disguise but bless ings cone none the les we can surely afford to spare from this whole hole day of pleasure a couple of hours fur for silent retrospection betro retro lection and ap let us each slip away anay from tho the crowd for just a small part of the day and give ourselves up to a mental review of the past sear with a special eye to the benefits we ile have received it will come as a surprise to many to see how many the blessings tune hale been and how comparatively few the misfortunes there la Is first of all health those who nho have sound health never stop to le grui ful for it it seems so much a part of hero them and yet were these he healthy a athy 0 ones 0 e 8 laid on a 81 sick c k be bed d for months at a time they would boon soon realize how much of a blessing health really Is the chronic invalids Instill ds in III their beds and chairs a appreciate t to 0 the full the blessings of good goo d health let I 1 et those of os ns then who are well and strong be thankful for our health then there Is love those of us who ho have little the devoted love of a mother or father of a sister or brother of a chilli or a husband will is ill do well to send up an extra of fop lot the blessing ot of this love only too often the only ones who appreciate the ful blessing of love are those who have hae lost all earthly ties it if the family circle about the festive board Is unbroken a Is not that a reason reagon for full rejoicing when so 80 many fathers husbands brothers and I ons ions are falling on every side in europe a inhuman war mar we me should give thanks with all our hearts that our own oun dear go unharmed so each of w will find it if A we e search our on r minds that we me have many man y blessings to be thankful for it Is only the harde hardened ried heart which feels no gratitude and we should all fill our minds with mith love and on thanksgiving day of the great pent good we me have received in the past and the hope to bf b more worthy ot of it in the future |