Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-11-27
Thanksgiving

To day will ascend from millions o ( human hearts
in all the length and breadth Of this fair land the
chorus Of praise, and the incense of grateful thanks
giving to the Gver of all Good, for the bountful
dispensations Of his love and mercy, which have
crowned their lives during another year. A fruitful
harvest has been garnered in safety; the hardy sons
OF toll upon land and upon ocean, have reaped the re.
wards OF industry in peace, aud are enabled at this
Indictment season, to surround themselves with the
means of comfort and enjoyment. No pesence
walketh in darkness among us, the dismal shrieks
OF war have died away in the distance, and gaunt
famine stalks no longer over the earth
As nation, and as individuals, we have great
cause for thankfuness, and well does ii become us,
proessed followers of our Great Master and Exem-
plar, who at all times acknowledged his dependence
upon the Father, to acknowledge our dependence
also, if not at all times, least at some stated
season like the present, upon Benignant and On
nipotent Creator.
In this season Of festive and social eniovments,
while we participate in the rich gifts of Heavens
bounty, while the precious memories of the past
throng in our memories, as we assemble in our own
homes around our own fresides, or in the homes and
hresdes OF those we love, it seems to US peculiarly
appropriate, TO dvest ourselves of all other feel
in regard to our fellow men than those of kindness
and charity, and to suffer no alloy OF passion, Of
hatred, unkindness, to minge with our aspirations
of gratitude and praise.
Let US remember to day, that it was part NJ the
benifcent plan Of Infinite wisdom, to cause men to
diter, one from another, and that God, and moi VS.
is the Judge of the motpes which actuate the conduct
Of our brother men,.
Let us remember that faithful discharge Of our
duties according the dictates of our consciousness
the light of our knowledge, and the measure Of our
capacity, is an obligation which we ought mol 10
evade and, from the multiplicity If our blessings
we turn our eyes 10 survey the condition of less
favored mortas, let resolve anew, to do our part
in Fastening that better day, when all the institutions
and customs which do not recognise the image of
God and a brother, in every human form, shall be
abolished forever. Let us remember. while we
thank God to day for the blessings of free lnstitu-
lions, the condition Of the millions Of our fellow
men within our borders who have no hope that
themselves or their posterty will rise above the
abject condition Of beasts under which they now
suffer and pine, and pray for his blessing upon all
righteous efforts made in their behalf
Let us remember, while we tender our thanksgiv-
ings for the health which and ours enjoy, those
OF our friends who pining upon beds of sickness
and have wearisome days and nights assigned them.
and strive to alleviate their distress by our words of
sympathy and acts of kindness.
Let us remember, those Of US into whose homes
death has entered and taken thence the objects of
our warmest affections, that this world is not our
home, and that across the dark valley which sepa.
arates them from all the living. there is brighter
and better Iand shall we feel new cause for
thanksgiving, that our ways are not as Gods ways,
and that we are in the hands Of Him who docth all
things well.
Finally, let US all remember tho poor, whom we
have always with us" and add to the zest Of our
enjoyment, and the happiness Of our homes, by dis
trlbutng something from our own basket and our
own store to increase the happiness and joy Of
others then shall il be we'll for us that we have lived
to see the dawning Of this day, and thus may we
make II an occasion Of permanent and substantial
good.