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Show 26 S6 Day's True Spirit Not Ourelves Alone, Is Thanksgiving Motto. 88 88 Crow fat along with me The best is yet to be. The last of lire for which the Erst was made; The ax is in his band, Assassination's planned. Stand pat, get fat, nor be afraid! Poor vaunt of life, indeed. Were Turk but made to feed On torn alone; to seek, to find and feast, When feasting ends to bowl Is this the end of fowl? Irks care the crop-full bird? No doubt we'll, soon -be fleeced ; Rejoice we are allowed ' To grow and er be proud. To grace the festal board, be' stuffed to burst, ' .'"-Be .'"-Be turned upon,Uie spit Till we have browned a bit, Then eaten up wltH e fell swoop, , that's - worst. So take and eat thy Turk, Save carcass that may lurk Amid the gravy's lure; pick clean th bones. Next day, pray est us cold. Then bash us. in mold. Soup comes at last, thanks be, to hush our moans! With Many Apologies to Browning. Like the turkey and the epicureans, we are pront to eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die. Me must have a particular day. appointed ap-pointed In which tb give thanks lest we forget. We take so much for granted, accept all the good things of life without stopping to count our many blessings, or to name them otie by bne, as w were admonished In Sunday school so long ago. We enjoy years "and year of health, forgetting what a wonderful gift It Is until Illness lays us" low. We accept our friends who 'strew uui path with roses and cheer our way with klndnej&'ontll one is gone, apd.we realize how much we might huye.been to.h.lm.We link we oyp our children, but' when they have all Ieft"flie nest, hw gladly would we haye them back that we might snow them bow much more we could prove our love.v .. - The editor of the Outlook, some years ago; expressed th true spirit of Thanksgiving so effectively that I quotehtm verbatim: "If the end 1 of society Is to jproduce the largest number-of free; human spirits, of generous human; hearts, of strong ' human hands, oi ptire' hunian homes,' of noble kuman, lives i If the liberation libera-tion of serfs, Jhe setting free of those In bopdagi. the scare and reverence rev-erence fr the Jman as a man, the open door to the boy and girl whose feet are eager jia 'climb, the breathing breath-ing of the breath of life through" a stagnant worlii.. means progress toward to-ward the ultimate goal, then let us reverently thank God that we were born In an age and In a country In which It Is our supreme good fortune for-tune not to be ministered nnto but . to minister." "If we are to return thanks," he !,goe on, to saji,?,'noi for ourselves s akme, but for' all- men ; not for work 'done, but. fir -noble chances, to work ; hot for "'a finished civlllza tlon, but for tbe greater civilization civiliza-tion that may be developed ; not for a .few choice spirits, but for lhe opportunity op-portunity for all men to lift themselves them-selves Into the light; not for things which makes for our own comfort, .bdt. for ithe . things which make for the healing 'the world; not for the life that has been lived, but for the boundless life that Is to be. thet) let ns thank God that be has giti- na. not Jthbtgs but chance of growth; not comfort but opportunity opportu-nity of service; not ease of spirit b.t the tolls of the unselfish life." , Ino'anapoils News. I |