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Show 0LESS1N0S MORE MATERIAL In other limes a Thanksgiving edl-torlnl edl-torlnl was n inotVy of statistics and bonstfulni i. had grown so many I'lltllon bii-hcls of grain; our cattlo on the (liousnnd bills had Increased so iiiah.x hundredfold ; our clcarlng-liotif c statistics hat never been surpassed, our per inplln T7enlth was the greatest great-est In the vnr'n; Indeed, our thankfulness thank-fulness was lost In the glorification or Hie gift. Wo 'e like the people of whom Ibo Pro" hot Ilnlmkkuk spnke. who had cnugl him h llsli In their nels nnd gnllicixt them In tbelr drags, "therefore they, srrlfleo unto their net, nnd burn In else unto their drug: because by thei heir portion Is 'fill, f nd their inent t 'enleous." Of grntl-ludc grntl-ludc In n Glvci nt tbnnkful recognition recogni-tion of forces v deb we did not ere-nle, ere-nle, hut wlthotr whose co-operutlon we should hnve I een ns nothing, there wns less than ouht to hnve been. All this wns due, of course, not so much to human ingratitude ns to bii-mnn bii-mnn thoughtlessness. To Thank Is to Think. The farther back we think, the farther back we thnnk. If our thought censes with our own contribution contribu-tion to our welfare, our thanks cense with ourselves. If our appraisal stops with our material Increase, our Ihnnks become material nnd Insensibly change Into boasting. We sacrifice unto our great Industries and burn Incense In-cense unto our skill, nnd thero our homage rests. Hut In this Thanksgiving dny wo hnve such Incentive to thought as the world has never seen before, nnd the blessings which challenge us nro such ns do not lend themselves to inntcrlal npprnlsal. The chief blessings of the day nro spiritual; their very numes put them n world apart from the things which nre quoted on he mnr-Let mnr-Let or measured In the scales of physical phy-sical worth. Justice, Itlgbteottsness and Peace, these nro the exalted values val-ues In which we feel our true riches lo be, and for these tlio entlro race of men, whether they keep Thanksgiving Thanksgiv-ing today or not, nro most devoutly tbnnkful. Ixchnnge. |