The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-24
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER q, ls0i.
1mANKsaIVTNa rmnrnnrs.

The public do not require to be haranpucd
into being grateful at such a time AZ this.
They require no Mrs. Pardlgglc to take them
into custody and straght-jacket them into
state of thanktulness. They have received
from God exhaustless treasures, each of which
has tongue to speak for itself and laud its
own worth. Our national advantages point
themselves out 50 clearly TO even the most
unreaecting, that the religious observances Of
Thanksgiving day are felt to be the natural
exponent of the peoples heart.
We have no need to work ourselves up on
the subject, no inducemnnt to ieign pros
perity which we do not possess, and to render
our thanks hypocritical also. The actions Of
our armies in the field, the good service Of
those private workers who toll at home for
the weIl-being of the soldiers, and the una
pimity of feeling prevailing between these
two vast divisions, are sufficient causes for
good fortune, even without taking into con-
sideration all those immense valuable reser-
voiry Of strength which it seems impossible to
drain. We have been lectured for our national
sins, and we have been told that the nation
is being punished for them.
This may be so. But it is good to turn
our thoughts away from our sins som3tmos.
Il Is to take one-sided view of ones self to
reflect wholly upon ones shortcomings. We
have some natural good in us. The circum-
stances under which the first cOlonists made a
home for themselves argue this, and the con-
stitutiOn of human nature asserts it. Let us
then take a more cheering view Of ourselves.
Aperpetual shadow should not intrude into
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have something to smile at as well as to weep
over. We cannot be forever mourning over
our sins. The sackcloth win wear out, and
the ashes will be dlssipated by the gales ol
time. five do not, then, give thanks attired
In purple-and-flne-linen robes of rejoicing, let
Us at least anoint our hands, and go with a
decent countenance to the sanctuary. If ever
a nation has met with retributiOn, we have
met with it if ever great people could work
out their own atonement and salvation, We
are doing it.
When we speak of our prosperity at homt
and in the field we do not forget the mutilateC
scenes of war, nor the dreadful anguish o
thousands of households. But we compar
these Affections with the grand principle
they are evolving, and the ultimate good the
will establish. If through Sorrows nigh
and dangers path" only the individual ca
hope to enter aworld Of happiness, the sam
discipline is necessary for a nation. And no1
that so much of that discipline is over let u
not brood too constantly over our sins, bl
take heart of grace for the good that yet
in u.s.
What thousands on thousands Of Thank
riyinU tabIas 10 x,r;1 no r,r apa1 hv n
result of the electionl How many plain dish
will be sauced with the conviction that ABR
HAM LINCOLN is to be the next President
the United States How many rich meIo1i
will have its indigestibility corrected by I
same thought That remembrance itself
the good digestion that waits on appetite, a.
the knowledge that the premium on gold do
not after all affect the price of provisions
much as might be anticipated, is the heal
that waits on both.
Let grumbling, then, be banished from Il
board; slet Complainings be ignominious
sent away from the table. Let sweet chari
tincture the atmosphere of society with
neutral tint. For all the plums in the pu
ding-and may they be the reverse of ange
Vsits-let there be bright smiles and geni
jokes. We can take an example from h
soldiers in this. They never murmur
giving thanks. With them gratitude is n
an affecting sense of future fayors. Tn,
never 5waddle curse up in smile. Thr
work the hardest for all they get, and they {
not grumble so very much even when they {
unreWarded.
Some people give thanks as they give aims
they never give them at AL, or are rs lor
before paying them as they are in paying the
debts. Some, again, go to work at them
though they were driving a bargain, and a
bent on having the best oft, and Others are
tboughtlessly tree with them as with so nut
borrowed money. How many take qui
and sober view of themselves, society, t
nation, and reckoning up the sum-total, gi
With humility from the overaowings Of hon
hearts?
In some of their aspects our ThanSsgivi
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