Show THANKS GIVEN 5 5 Continued from page 1 1 we need the Pilgrim and his principles While we lift the head in praise for tor Gods God's goodness we ned to bow it in shame for our of ot the past I two years We Ve need the Pilgrim to bring us a a. revival of ot moral Ideals Ideas and anden en enthusiasms th Poland is as hungry hung as Belgium was as the Turks are still killing the Armenians Armenians Ar Ar- Armenians the weak nations are still asking for our help hep Europe still needs a league of nations But cynicism has overspread our land and we care less than we did two years ago We Ve need ne' ne new prophets to recharge our our batteries of moral mora energy and to remind us that we still are a chosen people with faith enough to care for ourselves and to to b be the bearers I of a message to the whole world Let our thanksgiving this day challenge us to return at once to the principles and the faith of ot our Pilgrim Pil- Pil Pilgrim Pilgrim Pil Pil- grim forbears and resume our place as moral leaders of mankind Only thus have we a right to calim Gods God's continued favor tavor PASTOR BROWNS BROWN'S SERMON The sermon delivered by the Rev Rey C. C C V V. V Brown at the Rio Grande Baptist church follows Many and interesting are the stories that come down to us from rom the early settlers of America regarding the origin origin in of Thanksgiving day as a national I custom John Davenports Davenport's part was to suggest that instead of ot devoting their thelt I annual public meetings to speaking of I their obstacles and hardships they should be given over to I Then there is the story of the long summer drouth lasting from I May to July which Cotton Mather describes describes de de- describes de- de scribes in his Magnolia MagnoTta The day for prayer is set asAde and before the people people peo peo- pIe reach their homes from the prayer service such easie casie gentle and yet plentiful plen plen- plentiful showers as revived a great part of their decayed corn for tor a comfortable harvest fell The thought once im implanted implanted implanted im- im planted the idea grew until today Thanksgiving is one or of the mo most t universally universally uni uni- observed of all the holidays Too frequently however does the lay mean feasting and for speakers at Thanksgiving Thanksgiving- services an an occasion to aunch cut into questionable political Thanksgiving day should be he culmination of days of gratl- gratl ude rather than one day of ot grau ng and 1164 nf of Ine ing I I I I r The text implies s that there is to be ormed d the habit of thanksgiving For 10 lo 10 one could be giving thanks always or or all things things' without the habit becom- becom ng very firmly fixed Since our lives livE's ire lre bun bundles es of ot habits habits' It Jt Is Int interest interest- rest rest- ng to know what this particular habit do for one First of all it would Joint that God I is the e great source of ot ill III things that He is indeed the Giver If t f every good and perfect gift gUt It would that the man who hays he has nip ny his brain and muscles to thank for 11 that he possesses Is in error Like Like- vise th the individual who regards reg-ards nature I grinding out to man his lot Jot in life lite be brought to realize that there t a great s source back of and a areat arest I reat rest force working through nature Further the thanksgiving iving habit I lakes lakes' an n instead of a pessi- pessi list The Th habit urges u one to look for fore fore e e bright ht cht cheerful true and I. I I il in tn be found in circumstances sur- sur surI I lundin one and in people with whom e mingles I We see the thins things we t look for The Thertist I mist asked for tor pins to be placed on I Is Id picture where faults had been de- de ted by critic critics Th The picture was soon ill III of pins Repainting ti the work h he en exact cony this time time- rl re r I 1 that pins he hI placed where Int of ot merit w we eee e observed r ed Again ie picture was filled with Ith pins pin Po o oay I av ay w WP WI e find the good oot or tIe the bid l in life we WP look for th tho on of the other The ank habit bids us look for th the tho od This Thin habit in turn produces a re region rp- rp ion don that is characterized by hy a a smile becomes P religion lon of good cheer of the kind that tha t morbid morbid- ss and is for tor good body as well as ul 11 The truest th tn is that expresses itself in daily living ere ere T I to rf rp e a rift from a friend id d treat af th the thA gift with contempt c hower how- how er or much muc-h I may have expressed de to ta him for the gift my thanks mid Auld be regarded l as aR insincere re- re Like Like- pe cc e may the test or tie sincerity o of r gratitude expressed toda today and and in ins in's s 's thank service be hI found in inn inc c n of Life fp that W-p W live In the tho days davs avs follow Sine SIT 05 e q ving Is 11 best pressed In helpful dally daily living I I I I I |