The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-25


CHAST1cLSER, Thanksgiving Story Of the Pea
body Family. Second edition.
"In 1929" ssys Gotten Mather, Ca terrible
drought threatened the ruin Of the summer hus-
bandry [of the Pilgrim Fathers. From absut the
middle of May to the middle Of July IN extreme
hot san beat upon their fields without any rain 20
that all the began to wither and langsish, and
some Of it was irrseoverab1 parehsd up In this
distress they set apart day for fasting and prayer
to deprecats the calamity that might bring them 10
fasting through famine-in the nerning Of which
day there was no sign Of any rain-but, before the
evening, the sky was overcast with clouds, which
went not away without sash easy, gentle, and yst
plentiful showers, ~ revived great part of their
dscayed corn for . comfortable harvest The
harvest which Ged thus gave to this pious people,
caused them to sst apart another day for solemn
Thanksgiving to the glorious Hearer Of Prayers"
What sublime, and yet what life like picture,
does the simple language Of the annalst present.
We can see the stern faces Of the Pilgrins-who
but two years before had landed, woe begone, and
well nigh despairipg, On the rock at Plynouth-
new uplift to heaven, and illuninsd with fsrvsnt
piety. Their wives, their children, surround them
and all bend the knee stogether to present hearty
thank Offering to Gsd for the signal mercy he had
quaint historian, "took nstiss Of the answer from
heaven, and exclaimed that the s.rangers' God va1
indeed great God" There stands ths cenesie..
tiess Winslow, whose noble heart could not consent
TO smother Gsd's favsY and accsptation," by al
lowing his msrsiss to pass unnotiosd, or askuov.
Lodging them BY , private Thanksgiving; here,
the pious Elder Brewster. whose fervent prayers
had SO often nsvsd their souls; there Governor
duct had many time rsicued his little cosny from
despair The men Whole voices were raised to hsa.
ven were enduring nissriss suoh as have fallen to
the lot OF few Of their race They had suffered cold
GUS attacks from the Indians; they mad lsft land
where no bodily csnfsrts at all events were want
ing them, to inhabit . wilderness; they had 70.
nounced all the Blessings Of civilization, to doom
for bare sussistencs-ths smallest boon that God
grants to his crsatures-thAt they met, Gin the
meeting house IN the timherfort, upon the hi'' to
return thanks But who shall say that their graft
than that Of the thousands who have since met 10,
getner to sffer hymn Of Thanksgiving for koun
ties unexampled
Two hundred and txsn.ynins years hav. elapsed
Ihanksg'yiDg. The world is altered, and Mons
minds have changed with IL. KisRdons have ton
pied over new States have sprung out Of the denths
81 the forest and mighty nation has been born Of
the seed OF tie very men who then raised THAR
voices in glad sckro wledgment for the providcptia
shower Of rain. The bleak coast on which thew
stood is now the happy abode Of Thousands of pros
porous citizens The waves which then dashed idly
against the shore, now bear on their bosom thon.
sands Of treighted ships. The forests, uhoee gloom
would have appalled, lees stout hearts than theirs
have disappeared, and thriving cities, busy facto.
res, cheerful villages, stand their ruins The
current OF mems thoughts flows in very different
charBeis from those TO which IL was then sc.us-
toned Time has nearly effsced the family likeness
between the English Rounohsad and the modern
New En2lander; very few featsros in the latter be.
fwn~w - -. Z
spo whose type was Oliver Cromwell. nsns
mere sho there, some stray vssge OF tho intoerans
laws rhicd we're the 6rst fruits OF ne liberty ard
Ioscdtd hrmnoss OF character not fnr remote ritn
Cp-t,tT J; y. IKE s-ai.i-n, w. rrinaBa ps tLat
parry )eft their homie