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Show This Thanksgiving Day This Thanksgiving day eclipses all. We have so much to be . thankful for! Vet we can but dimly s through the mists of joy f that gather in our eyes a few of the good things which arc. falling on our heads and on all the world" '. !The first Thanksgiving day. on the shores of New England in 1621 was celebrated by the Pilgrims in solemn fashion and prayer. Bountiful harvests had scattered famine shadows as sunlight drives i sway gloom after rain. j . That was a solemn Thanksgiving day, the first Celebrated after I the close the great civil conflict of the '60s. Our grandfathers ' and grandmothers bowed in , thankfulness for the freedom of, I 4,000,000 bondsmen, for the returning heroes of liberty, for the, J honor of the noble dead, 'for an undivided country. ! r r.. . we who gather ajij this Thanksgiving day have greater cause for thankfulness than has fallen to any generation since the Annuii-j ciation. I YYc sec a world with hackle broken and dungeons demolished. We see liberty proclaimed to all the peoples of the earth, j We see the Brotherhood of Man approaching "on the w:ingsi ol the morning." ! We sec the graves of the fallen ns of Liberty become the I landmarks of r-recdom, the holy shrines of the New Time. We see our favored land secure from famine and untouched by the torch, ridinr on the waves of world events to a greater lead-ership lead-ership of mankindto a purer, deeper prosperity than it has ever known, than its founders ever envisioned in their most exalted moments. i In our secure homes we'll gather with melodies in our hearts, with songs on ur lipv Never have we known such a Thanksgiving day as this. Never can we Know such another until the advent of endless Thanksgiving day. |