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Show THANKSGIVING From tho time of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, Americans have been accustomed to set aside one day in the year wherein to review the past year and take stock of the dealings of Providence with us as a people. What was at first the spontaneous expression of grateful hearts soon became be-came a custom, and as tho years sped this custom became fixed, until today It assumes the sacredness of a permanent Institution. This season is again with us. The fruits of the broad acres of our fair domain have been garnered In. s The warehouses and granaries are fairly bursting with their contents and prosperity sets a guest at almost every fireside. Our President and the governors' of the various states have designated the day on which the people shall express to a bountiful Creator their gratitude for these blessings. And to the many positive am material blessings which have been ours, there Is added on this occasion the especial blessing that we as a people have escaped the madness that has fallen as a blight 'Upon our neighbors and kinsmen ncross the waters. The magnitude of that we cannot at this time begin to estimate. es-timate. Rut while we have these palpable blessings for which to be thankful, we have other things for which to express our giatltude, and these antedate and underlie our present hnpplness and prosperity, our peace and safely. We have to be thankful that back In the days when our nation was being born, a land of heroes, than whom the world has never produced greater, great-er, had Impressed upon their hearts to lay the foundations of that nation upon the only possible true and last-lng last-lng base the Fatherhood of an omnipotent om-nipotent God and the brotherhood of man. And we have to be thankful that all the years slnco that time there have been heroic bouIb who have never ceased to call to us with clarion voice to watch and preserve the old landmarks, to plant our feet upon the everlus'.lng rock and stand firm. And over and above all else, wo have to be thnukful that a merciful God has so moulded the hearts and lives of the people of thlB nation that we are enabled to look above and , beyond self and see for ourselves the great principles of eternal truth and Justlco that must ultimately rule the whole earth; that we are enabled to grasp the truth that an Injury to ourselves, and that a kindness to our fellows calls down a benediction "Up-on "Up-on our own heads. j So that the one supreme blessing j for which we should nt this season return thanks, Is the fnct that our God has enabled us as a people to know and do the RIGHT. And let our prayer be, that It may ever be thus with this people. (id |