Show J g thanksgiving 1 g let leit us be thankful that we live that we live in times of peace and prosperity let us be thankful that we teve have homes with husbands and children to love and to love us let us be for work strength and d to do our work gladly let ilet us cultivate a spirit of gen veness ti aness of graciousness of cd beight ness and gladness and a d wisdom that iril wila make all about us ali thank ful that we are alive 0 0 0 to the early Purit puritan lan Chri christmas smelt to heaven of id idolatry olAry so when his bis own awn festival thanksgiving became sin annual nual it took on many of the ithe features of the english christmas it was a day devoted to family reunion to feaski n q and to giving of presents such budh meats as a s baron of beef bears head olad plum iud dudding ding were excluded and turkey indian pudding and pumpkin pie were eaten instead it is fortunate the world can not discern the hidden beings of the ihei healdt there Tilie ae we can store our grief grid to ponder averit over ait in in our leisure and give to the world only the smile a beneficent providence may impart to our souls and chait will ivill streng us to sing eing a I 1 dmn of thanksgiving while sorrow may reign yet may pewee peace and hope and oon trust surround eve every ry reader of this heaven bless you au all this thanksgiving 6 day A thankful spirit enables us to boneet our trials manfully it lifts ailts us alove above the sunlight of cheet cheer slake make someone thankful and it will be ato ata act you will be thankful for in spite of af many evils there has been so much of true sympathy of genuine benevolence of a cordial spirit of brotherly love and friendship we can keep our thanksgiving in the spirit of the admonition be ye thankful 9 0 0 9 0 this is the harvest time for thanks s sure have been trials calamities in some places homes destroyed losses and sorrows but taking the itlie country aver over our blessings blessing gs have been malay and far outnumbered the dark aballi thin things gs of life 0 of all the national holidays none is more universally or more joyously celebrated thata that of thanksgiving day though of new en england aland origin und for many years confined almost exclusively clu to that section it has haa slowly but surely extended expended itself ill cal over our great country 19 0 0 let us be thankful that liow ever difficult and full of uon life may be we are gi given ven widd wisdom am that suffices for daily living no port part of mans wisdom is so strengthen ened by 1 choice as the conscience coneie nce it is ithe still brill small voice that we must listen for and the oftener we hear it and obey uhe the clearer and fuller faller is Vs is one to elways always look at lifes somber side is the hopeful view is what buoys us up and a nd causes gratefulness to spring earing up in the ithe heart end and f fill ill tho the wal wih 1 i affet A faco the battle of g in 1863 president Preside nf lincoln reef beewi mended the people to set apart the ath day ot of aug august list to be observed as a day of national nai nal ional lonal praise e and cravor io almighty owl ool oo l inthe following yoa year the pr prisident adert issued an and llie pres dennial dent ial pol amatin n iris hiis been an annual fixture ever miniee J ilise ili se wr ma e iv avs q pre tle easiest and sire hire afen ofen of singularly for bortt ul of n to the sure sur e of alss ings thanksgiving day was not instituted by people surrounded by comforts C end anil luxuries lin aries but who gurnei their hearts to god in ethe midst of hardships hardd hips of which their warvely comprehend ae meaning r the estable esta bli hinant hi nent of a day of thanksgiving in the late laite autumn after the ing ingar of the fruits was s made ade by the early sobi lers 01 ol now Engli atod in imitation of the feast of held by t the ale jewish nation it was a wise ase mid pious act land its ad aaion by y most of the states add d at ait inath by tilie the general government of this broad land is an avd I 1 elice of the diffusion of those allo e religious ous sentiments which ira the found djon of af the settlement of this country 1 0 0 As you have been blest let leit it your thanksgiving blessing to ito of Biers fiers ot to manifest the hie goodness of your licini t to lo y our friends send them ilicin dilis paper for ons one year |