Show ey aa k I 1 ooch alk fat aei aej M YO Y name knie of etiole names nae arc rc u the laru 0 aut dread dreal lord xing james bay rice occo GOP of f jt great fit france fc ireland king defender of atlie the faith ac 10 ap hlein under hilten fo y glorie or go and advance advancements mente of i ye y Chril Chri liin flun rith and honour of our king kin and nd countree Coun trie to gamt y ciril in y north crne by there pi lutu n ac pre presence rence of cop Cond and one of another i covenant combine our delves advill ivall ivl ll bod ady politic for our better ordering and nd prefer preservation and further furtherance arice of afy y ends al anday virtue hereof ner to and nd frima ruch jull and equall I 1 lanei or d i acts offices from time totite ai as hallbe be thought boft fe convenient for yo y good of fy yo colonie colbi c unto which we P romiee all due irid obedience mj all W fw IW fw W fw J have hercun dr our names at codd ye i s lord engl n 4 france ac irela n ya cich and of scotland ys fifty fou rah an do m t 6 2 0 3 1 1 1 21 1 1 N 1 at 11 1 1 orr sa ta T T U 7 A aj 4 M 0 W ij 6 ai x r 41 v fag is W W ay k v V 1 14 4 w r 0 1 C p m w n PL PIL gw 7 am m W ja 3 S V by ELMO SCOTT WATSON american knows that we owe our annual holiday of thanksgiving to the pilgrims that little band of self exiled who after two to months of deac weary journey across seemingly endless sens came cameal at last to the stern and rockbound rock bound coast of their future home homa geu cven after they hail had elied their gual goal safely their situation vua not one which would of dina rily be co isider od a couse cause for 4 gratitude their supply of food was alarmingly arm I 1 alow low winter lay heavy upon the land bea before re thern them and gave little hope of replenishing or t their lie larders lar deis and they were confronted with unknown dangers in this wilderness yet no sooner had they made their historic landi landing ligon on plymouth rock nock an on december 21 1620 than they celebrated the first thanksgiving ever observed lit in this country that celebration la Is described in the words of ll llam 11 bradford radford their first governor as aa follows being thus arrived in good harbor and brought safe ae to lo land they fell upon their knees kneas and blessed yo ye god of heaven who had fi brought rought them over ye vast sc furious fu r lous ocean and delivered them thern from all ye 78 perilea per 1 lea miseries aierle thereof again to set their feete fee to on ye firme and stable earth their proper elemente ele they had now no friends to welcome me the them m nr nor inns to entertains entert enter taini alne or refresh their eather beaten blodys no houses or enuch leps leer ownes 0 to too too seek for or suc coure it Is recorded in scripture as a bierce to ye apostle his company that the barbarians barb arlana showed thern them no smale kindness in refreshing thern them but these savage barbarians when they roetta mette with the them in were readier to 0 o fill their side aide full ull of arrows than otherwise neither could they ar a it were goo goe up to ye ve top of pisgah to vew from thin wilberne wil derne a more goodly to fed their hopes for w which aich wa way Y oever s they turned their eye save upa upward ard to ye h heavens e avens they could have little sola solace ce or c content on I 1 ant in respects of any outward objects they had much more cause for thanksgiving a year later and the result was another eel celebration e bra of a und kind which has survived in something of its orl original inal form for more than DO years and promises to continue for all time as one of the most distinctively american of 61 all our holl days that alia first winter had been a terrible one for the pilgrims huddled aboard tho the mayflower until late in march Alar bli sickness laid a heavy hand upon them ant and at one time nil all but six alic were viere 0 faering u from some ill or other by april they h had all established rude homes homec on shore the mayflower lind had left atilid and the they y started planting the indians instead of being ready to ill fill their side sida full of arrows proved friendly and helpful in planting and caring for r their crops of nf corn barley and yeas peas all through the summer they watched those crops with anxious care and ami whon when october came there was 11 I 1 bountiful harvest barvest says governor Clo vernor bradford they began now to gather in ye email harvest th they ey had and to td fit up their houses and dwell dwellings irr gr a against anter being all well recovered in n health a and nd strength and had all things in good plen plentie tle f for or as some were employed in affairs abroad others were exercised in n fabing about codd bass ba bother other elih of which they tooke looks good store of which overy family had their portion all ye somer ther wre no wants wante and nd now begane to come oleina in a store 0 of foule as winter approached pro pron ached ebed ol of which this place did abounds when they came first but afterwards decreased by decrees and of these they tooke many bemid o venison enlson besides they had aboyte a peck of meale it to a person pr or now since harvest indian corn to right proportion which made many afterwards wards writs write so largely darrely of their plentie cef hear to the their t r f fiends in angland tin gland which were not r falner ned but were true reports now indeed did the pilgrims there were only K W of them now flow hardship dundei undernourishment nourish had taken their toll during the winter and spring and at of the original compard were burled buried on the till hill overlooking their place have cause for gratitude gor arnor bradford procia proclaimed lined it three flay day cele celebrity brit tion of thanksgiving nm furthermore in appreciation of the indians friendly ald aid it was derided to invite chief ablass eisolt and his tribesmen nd ward winslow one of the participants tell tellson sot of the celebration us as follows our harvest belne being gotten in our governour sent bent couro 0 o ure men inen on fowling fow linw we might titter after sa a rn anora are spec tall manner rejoyce together at afterpe aft atrue erwe toad a gathered sal hered the fruit of our labaura the they foure fourd t X MY 4 1 V 54 A ah 0 la in ofie one day killed as an iauch fowls fowle as an with a little help beside tie alde served the con company pany almost a we geelt k at which time amongst other recreations we exercised ed our armes many of the indians indiana coming amongst us and amongst the rest their greatest erea test xing mas alan with some borne ninety men whom tori for three day we entertained and feasted and they went out and killed live deere which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governour Cover nour and upon the captain standish and others it Is from that historic feast SOS years ago that our annual observance of a thanksgiving day may he be traced and although some of its original significance tany may have beep lost by americans of the present day it Is one of our heritages from the Ill pilgrims grims dut but an annual feast cast day aal another holiday from our everyday every day tasks Is in a reality the denst of the reasons why we should hold peplin ho pilgrims in grateful remembrance D before they soft left angland nn gland to sek a honne home first firs in lealland and add later jn in america these pilgrims I 1 had find veen been known as separatists that Is people who believed that the church end state should be separated ko 0 o they brought to 0 o the new nev world the germ of the idea of religious freedom and their idea of the separation of church and became one of the cardinal of the new nation when it was founded years later inter but as a distinguished lnell dignan sir arthur 0 shipley pley vice chancellor of cambridge university E I 1 ty writing of these people during tho tl 1111 grim tercentenary lit in 1920 lins has observed too much stress must not lie ie bald na is the clergy are apt to lay tt it on the purely religious principles which impelled our to their great break with vath their life in the old world still the fact that they came not entirely for gain played a large in their success sneer is na aa c colonizers not only had they the ole high spirit of enterprise but they fad iad the sober constant ity of enduring industry to be a successful colonist one must not only have the lighthearted light hearted adventurous spirit of drake and Ral raleigh elgh but a deep and abiding seriousness of 0 purpose this the pilgrims had and in spite ot of persecution and affliction their stern brn qualities enabled them to endure to the end and if they were intolerant they were less so than successors ces sors gors the they supplied that element mentin in new england which la Is expressed by the Ung englishman lishman who lina fins described the new eng ladder as the least east wind made flesh in order to be able to come to if a land where they could have the religious freedom which they desired they entered into a financial agreement with the merchant adventurers of london wherein the merchants furnished the espital and the pilgrims furnished the service under the terms of the agreement which was to last seven years no lands or goods should be divided in order that the investors might receive a profit thus they mortgaged niort gaRed their future for seven yeara but scarcely lind had they reached their new homes then than the typically T respect for law find order manifested itself and the political motive was added to the religious on no vember member 11 1620 they drew up tip the now famous mayflower compact which ans siant d by the 41 men of the colony it was thought good that there should be nn an association aSSo clation and agreement writes glovernor io lo vernor bradford that we should corn com bine together in one body end and to submit to such government gan anti anil go governor vornor as aa we should dby by common consent agree to ranke make and choo choose find set our lands hands to this that follows word for word brief asis as Is this historic document it contained the root out of which sprang the he con can ution ot of the united states 4 h u |