Show days true spirit not ourselves alone Is thanksgiving motto m grow fat along with me the best is yet to be the last of life for which the first was m made ade the T he ax is in his hand assassinations planned stand pat get fat nor be afraid I 1 poor vaunt of life indeed were turk but made to feed on corn com alone to seek to find and feast when feasting ends to howl Is this the end of fowl irks care the crop full bird no doubt well soon be fleeced so take and eat thy turk save carcass that may lurk amid the glavys lure pick clean the bones next day pray eat us cold then hash us in a mold soup comes at last thanks be to hush out our moans I 1 with many apologies to browning like the turkey and the epicureans epicure ans we are prone to eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may die we must have llave a particular day appointed in which to give thanks test we torget 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 one by one as we were admonished in sunday school we enjoy years and years ot of health forgetting what a wonderful gift it Is until illness lays us low we accept our friends who strew our path with roses and cheer our way with kindness until one Is gone and we realize how bow much more we might have been to him we think we love our children but when they have nit all left the nest how gladly would we have them back that we might show them how much more we could prove our love the editor of the outlook some years ago expressed the true spirit ot of thanksgiving so effectively that I 1 quote him verbatim if the end cud of society Is to produce the largest number of free human spirits of generous human hearts of strong human hands handa of pure human homes of noble human lives if the liberation of serfs the setting free of those in bondage the care and reverence tor for the nian man as a man the open door to the boy and girl whose feet are eager to climb the breathing of the breath of life through a stagnant world means progress toward the ultimate goal then let us reverently thank god cod that we were born in an age and in it a country in which it is s our supreme good fortune not to be ministered unto but to minister if we are to return thanks he goes on to say not for ourselves alone but for till all men not for work done but for noble chances to work not for a finished civilization but for the greater civilization that may be developed ve loped not for a few choice spirits but for the opportunity for all men to lift themselves into the light not for or things which make for our own comfort hut but for the things which make for the healing of the world not for the life that has haa been lived but for the boundless life that Is to be then let us thank god cod that he has given us not things but chance of growth not comfort but opportunity of beryl service ce not ease of spirit but the tolls ot of the unselfish life indianapolis news |