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Show LET 'USEB Vl-IANKPUL . :-v. vv, Time is turning back the paj.es of memory at this season, and once more we are brought into an atmosphere such a: surrounded our Pilgrim fathers v.'hen they saw the wiseness o returning to a Kindly Providence their manifold thanks for th blessings that had been showered upon them. As they came through storm and stress, even so have man; of our own people passed through trying times within the yex. now drawing to a close. But jr.st as they were safely landc and the riches of the land laid out before them, for their benefi if they would but labor and bring forth crops, even so we fit ourselves surrounded by opportunities behind which are hiud'. i rich blessings if we will but stri re for them. We speak for all Amercia in general, and for the people r. Millard in particular, when we a.jsert that is living today nor; but who can lay some honest claim to happiness at some tim during the year. And so long as there remains even one ray c happiness, there remains one thing to be thankful for. Sorrow have come to many of us, just as sorrows will como to others ! the years ahead. But always they were tempered with sunshine or with a promise that keeps us looking happily ahead. As ; whole no nation has been more blessed, no people have live their lives more unselfishly and, by reason of so living, mor happily. We have been blessed as a nation and as a peopU We nave harvested well, and no dark shadow of disease, or epi demic has hovered above our homes. We have grown strongo: ai our love of our friends and cur neighbors, we have passed each of us, another milestone of a road rich with experience. The season of Thanksgiving ia here, and each and ever; heart must upon reflection feel that surely there has bet , much within the year for which to be thankful. We have hie. to glimpse the dark picture of pioneer days, we have but to lent: an ear to the cries which come from across the seas to assure us that as a people we have been blessed far beyond our owi. feeble ability to repay. Our water supply has been unfailing a condition that many communities can not say. In that alone is cause for thanks. Mindful of the One who has made these blessings possible |