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Show A Prayer I Tk&nksgiving 5 'By LEWIS ALLEN J THAT we can see round about J us the faces of friends: the de- 0 t serving, that we may help them; the t i oeedy, that we may render aid; and t ' little children, that we may rejoice: J THAT we can huir the kind J words of loving friends, the 0 J sweet songs in church and home, the 0 prayers of devout people, end the 0 ' crooning of a Mother's lullaby: ' THAT we can feel loving hands A in ours, trusting hands of little t t children, comforting hands upon our J 1 throbbing brow; that we can feel the $ ' warm embrace of the old folks who ' l reoeive us at the homestead, or of J ; i our own who, dwelling apart from 0 J us, have come back this day: J THAT we can taste the savory J good things, which, by God's 0 I t bounty, are this day set before us i through the miracle of Nature, 0 J which is God: J THAT we can speak to give sin- J cere thanks to him who, in his ' 0 great goodness, has permitted us to a meet once more on this day of 0 J Thanksgiving; that we can speak ' 0 hope and encouragement to our J ' loved ones; words of comfort to the 0 t suffering and the discouraged and ' 0 the lowly, words of hope and cheer 1 and promise to those who have J fallen by the way: J THAT we can pray with a knowl- edge that the prayers of the sin- 0 0 cere are answered, that he to whom a 0 we offer our prayers is full of loving 0 ' kindness and pity and forgiveness, ' 0 and that his help is assured: J TRULY, all these things are 0 God's gifts, and without them ' 0 there could be no Thanksgiving. 0 ' Teach us to appreciate them for ' 0 thine own Glory. AMEN 1 J |