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Show Much More Than Material Are the Blessings for Which We Now Giye Thanks. r Ji; T IS' to be hoped that this LjAjRiJ Thanksgiving will not be a QSn pagan holiday, and that p those who do render thanks will do so not as a heathen ' philosopher, boasting that he Is not as other men, but in greater humility hu-mility because he has perhaps been more greatly blessed than others. Outside of the many material blessings bless-ings that have come to the American people during the past year, which are good in so much as they contribute to wholesome human happiness, there is reason for the people of this country upon this Thanksgiving day to be unusually un-usually thoughtful concerning their place in the world, and to remember how this eminence has been obtained. Who can look back and not see the band of Providence shaping 'the destiny des-tiny of America? This liberty which is the marvel and the hope of the world today was set up on these shores by Godfearing men the pioneers who inaugurated this very Thanksgiving holiday. It was for the love of the service of God that liberty was established estab-lished in "America, and it was this liberty! lib-erty! that has been the basis of our national na-tional greatness and which is to be the political salvation of the wprld. America cannot look back upon Its history without seeing God, and by taking thought cannot fail to acknowledge acknowl-edge its gratitude for all his benefits. With that stage of our development passed we are now permitted to enter upon that new era when America participates par-ticipates in abolishing tyranny and Injustice, In-justice, ever hateful to God, and to carry to the oppressed nations of th3 world those principles of liberty through which our own chief blessings .have come. This is the supreme service that one nation can render tcr another to safeguard safe-guard the liberties of its people. In this momentous time the burden of our Thanksgiving this year it seems should be that we are to be chief among the ministers In working out the Divine purpose to have all men Greek and Bnriane 'JBj1- |
