Show thanksgiving DAY what IN lathe the proper method of ob serving erving thanksgiving day if the majority of the prom press are to be received as 6 a criterion the answer to la plain fiting elating turkey in particular and gor mand izing in general while making of efte th occasion one of hilarity and free aiom from restraint when the newspapers lial era are unanimous oo on any subject vr or nearly eo they are very apt to be fight but luckily we advisedly do not agree agre on the one spoken of the NEWS emphatically emphatic lly dissents dissen tB from botn the majority and holds hold the plan of recognition above outlined as exactly the be reverse of what should be the case the day Is singled out from the calendar by executive authority as one to be devoted to praise and thanks to the olver of all good for his mercies and blessings public assemblages of a strictly tri otly religious character are sometimes hold held before the eating begins and the food should always be blessed before it is partaken partaker par taken of there is no necessity for a display of puritanism or but hilarity of the bolst boisterous erous kind and the drinking arii king rf li liquor Lv the doing of anything in fact except in moderation mode ratio hould be strictly e frowned down this thia is the proper mole mo e it is not expected that everybody will observe the plan if indeed more than a very few outside of those who render thanks and experience grateful feelings every day of their live shall dok the latter day saints a as si a r d will follow their unvarying custom fornof of expressing their gratitude for bles blessings pings conferred orally and with so much of ceremony as the circumstances require or admit of aney may not invariably adopt the recommendations maie to assemble in their places of worship and make public ac knowledg ment of the common fathers goodness to his children but they will be nonetheless none the lees sincere in praising his name and enjoining upon their families to feel as well as an express thankfulness and praise tha th custom has comedown come down to us directly from the puritan fathers who settled fettled new england though history shows that it wasa practice in the land from whence they came old 0 ld england a long time before they left there the day was invariably observed by them in the manner we have herein advocated and that they had cause for thanks as well as supplications ions at all times we all know full well that we have ho bo much mire cause than they la 1 apparent to us on every hand then I 1 let not the grand object be overlooked feasting and merrymaking merry making should not be the main where engaged in they should be in moderation and figure merely as incidents of the day |