Show 0 4 1611 V AD ap A I 1 DAY P jc liat aliat cicat 3 lay in iu yew new angland L n ga a n d TV whir it i e li II witnessed I 1 t the h c genesis of thanksgiving a afforded f no possible augury of that hat anniversary niver sary in latest times limes A mere handful of people hut but a little more than ICO the children and women momen included with the men mere gathered upon a rocky ihorn with a wide a ii d storm driven sea separating them from their former home and illa a savage and as yd unknown people upon their north youth south and vast est the early snowfall ave assurance of a long and severe winter and the winds soughed dismally through the tree branches yet these puritans I 1 v ci cie e a pious as well is as brave people who ho were grateful to go god tor for their afe landing after a longano boisterous vo age and tbt the ii were ere especially pleased liat bat though the country was mab bleak and bare their industry should cowert the forests into fertile fields which each le for ning bear ac ar would mould yield rich har lass of golden gram grain before all however they were grateful that in this new world they co could xa III god as they pleased without lit fear of social proscription stripes stocks or the he thanksgiving day clay aas as born distinct cly of a cons consuming I 1 love ov e for civil as mell w oil as religious liberty they err who claim that as a nation we 10 lo do not recognize cod od and ilia his control hug power oler men collectively as ar a as individually upon on our coins are engraved the words ingoe aj TU I 1 id g reci decres e the e blessings 5 we receive at his hands bands as well ns as our om duty of confessing our obligations to him nothing athing could be more appi appropriately opria tely expressed than ihan these proclamations each in its turn 1 I 1 our fathers thus set the fashion of mem orating the duty and obligation t iou resting upon men but they could not possible grasp tile the thought how bow in blessing lie he could bless bes them and in ill multiplying ile he would multiply thern them they and the hie little colona colon down in virginia until within three centuries there alere should spring from them the foremost nation upon the face of the earth t f the net deuly ly arrived pilgrims grims could find occasion for fortitude assuredly their with all other americans do so with fervent hearts moved of T ju i because of the infinitely superior N M aich rest resit upon them they an thank god that this is a nation of wace peace not cot given oer to war that we re a united people filled with a pur nse to lo make the nation yet more ft glo glo ious and that the file earth yields every fuere of 0 its richness for the misterio aiice nce if the file people they can thank him be vause ause the wheels of the factories are that the marts of trade ire crowded for the jealousy with ilicich chich our schools are guarded and for moral influx influences dees that are cpr v here extending they can bless liui for homes that are happy and that beir lit ir in dwellers have none to molest or biake them afraid for advance in ill art 11 music and all the material things in i IT he orld beautiful one should ind find nibe for thanksgiving because culli tion of these beatitudes means adaner in moral and intellectual growth larrr has been deliverance from the that stalked at noonday and roil the llie storms that ahat inake desolate the habitations of nini man nu no great bernai ri I 1 to 0 IM I 1 ell reed re ed I 1 he poor W 41 1 0 kf at are not oppressed pressed and the fatherless and the widow have found friends lien ill do the rouged gouged rou ged of all nations rint ions firl a secure habitation anil and our country ishou ored by all the countries kacl elch person per son can find cause for gratitude g for personal blessings blessing and all may unite jn in pricing thanks thank in this great roat national holiday bo liday a peculiar institution of this great people WILLIAM ROSSER CODDE |