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Show J- ' -o P?Tf"v'v1 R HAVE ull heard remarks I'-AA'" 8'",ilar to t,le following: ? 7 "Well, I don't know what '' V-';V'I 1 liuve t0 thankful fori 1,1-1. -Jj jij 'llf!t think of the money ' we have lost, and then we had to give up our dear one. it just seems like our lot Is worse than anybody's any-body's !" One, on hearing such, feels like singing, sing-ing, "Look all around you, find some one in need, help somebody today." We thankless creatures! The only thing that occasions such a remark is the fact that we am all blessed with too much. We are all millionaires, if we would but lake into account our wonderful opportunities and the grand privileges wilh which God has endowed us. When one has a feeling that his Is a sorrowful plight, be' has only to look around to see many In worse circumstances. cir-cumstances. We are too prone to fount money h great nss.;t, and if we do not figure a large bank account on which to draw, or live in a mansion, like unto our neighbor, we are inclined to feel that our blessings are few. Money never made a home. A mansion man-sion oftimes shelters that which falls short of being n home. What Is a home? Home Is the abiding place of man, where contentment content-ment is, and love abounds. A place where children make you glad; where children play and. laughter resounds; where friends may come and take nwny some kindly thought to help each day. The one great thing for which we 'can all be thankful, and It reaches hovel and palace, and Is more pronounced pro-nounced than at any period since the days or our Pilgrim fathers is the great love being manifested by humanity. human-ity. We have all learned that we cannot can-not exist, one without the other. Water never rises above the source. The home is the source of civilization, and we hnve awakened to the fact that the humblest homo lie vilest hovel. mi & I "Home Is Where Contentment la, and Love Abounds." have a place in the great scheme of American civilization. Truly we are our brothers' keeper; we cannot live unto ourselves nor can we rise above the source the nucleus of civilization the home. All our great leaders have come to this realization. The ministers are advocating social and community service the government is backing it. The nation has failed to become christianized from wiihin the four walls of churches, and so on every ev-ery hand is a cry for social betterment better-ment a call for the best of our talents tal-ents to be used for the development of hoys and girls socially. Back to the home is the slogan, for unless our homes are perfected, our community bettered and our love for humanity strengthened, our mition cannot attain the highest standard. So for tliis great move we are thankful, thank-ful, and as we render our thrnks to God. let us pledge ourselves anew, realizing more fully our responsibilities responsibili-ties to our home, to our community and to God. OiiOSEieS o lcj. 1'.' .:;'. Western Neu.-pa,yr Lilian.) |