| Show A Thought for Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING DAY IS A DAY for appreciation and as well as of feasting and In the of modern living we take too little time to be thankful for the blessings of life in America for the privilege of living in a progressive and bountiful land for the security we enjoy against civil and military abuses of and the ravages of The things for which we should be thankful arc but the time we devote to thanking God for His bounty and protection may be all POSSIBLY MANY OF think of giving Day as just another holiday which we may devote to the pleasures we brushing aside the real reason for the proclamation of this day as a time for appreciation of God's gifts to Few of us stop to our own or just how well we are sharing these blessings with BESET BY hardships and were the first in America to feel that a day of was and today the need for dependence upon a higher power than our own to meet the problems of a disturbed world makes a period of thanksgiving of special IT WAS NOT PRESIDENT Abraham Lincoln issued a formal proclamation on October that Thanksgiving Day became an officially recognized national The old New England already popular was adopted whole-heartedly by states in the Union which had been discouraged by unfavorable trends of the Civil IN THE BEST FEO nation in the world a world where half of the people go to bed hungry each night we again look forward to Thanksgiving Day in a period of troubled On that in the midst of festivities and family millions of Americans will again bow their heads over heavily laden tables to give thanks to the Giver of all even life to re-focus their and renew a philosophy which is the only road to peace and happiness for both people and US REMEMBER TO BE THANKFUL as we O Lord |
