New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-25

wboIceome pain, who has brought HIN noblcr
thoughts, lifted him to purer motives and
simpler and slnccrcr hopes in ~, past year.
So Thanksgiving Day viii alvey be helpful
and holy anniversary, if it Is likely 80 he n
selfish one; and every man. viii keep il in the
best WY he knows w singing hymns. or
giving to his poorer netyhbor. or eating turkey
and plum pudding.
But what if we make II the day after
Thanksgiving also .rly day. in which we
may turn from Go.,'s GOOD works and wGys
to the exceedingly Doubtful ones of man, ard
see II mo 'hem, also, there cannot be III
fuSea SJme of That Divine spirit of health
3D". cure Here is modern Mary. for in
stance, who has, it wOuld seem, always been
beloved Of the Lord. From the day when she
was offered to Lin, babe III pure white
robes. until now, size has been fenc ii and
guarded by ease, and culture, and religion.
Churches, Sunday schools. refined and pure
society and books, have perpctually kept the
atmosphere about her 80 clean, that, Ike Chris
tan, she can detect in it already the airs which
blow from the hills of Beulah. Was Thanks
giving Day meant for such "a sheg Not
sCuare from her lives her brother, according to
Gods way OF counting kinship. Born in
cellar, the product of generations OF vice and
dirt, inheTiting, very likely, prOpenstics to
drink, to steal, and to murder Born, too,
with the Arab-like conviction that the world
has wr0ngcd him by this very misbap of birth,
and that he il simply sci against Ii face to
face to give and take the toughest blows be
can. What does society do for such II man
How is he brought over ont of the department
of beasts 10 stand among trne human beings,
warmed andfed in soul and body, rgiven chance
of eternal lie1 Utmost cases, society does moth
ing to help him. What it does to help itself
we all know; it waits until he has slipped
easily down the steep Hill of crime, from
which he never was removed and reached the
bottom. He commits a murder. and Christian
society seizes him by the throat and retaliates
by another as bloody and fierce. His was
done most likely in the heat OF rage in secret;
Ours ia cool, lcgalizcd, open to the public with
all its brutalizing and horrible details. The
soul of the poor wretch that found so little
light or welcome in this world We thrust out
! into the darker unknown, where, ~ most of
us believe, there waits for him only
eternal death. If there is in truth ono second
"chance for him for evcr,' is it not worth
our while to consider little befor" We deprive
him of this1 We should be glad if we could
believe that on next Thanks giving Day there
would come from every prison a rejoicing cry
like that of the poor boy Cary's-"God and
"man have given me time 20 repent
There was always horrible anomaly in the
sight of a STAKEHOLDER knecing ut the table of
the Lord the cup given in remembrance OF
! Him in one hand and the lash in the other
but Christian society thanking God aud
throttling its victims in one breath is II more
terrible picture We commend Cary's letter as
a text which needs no sermon for the day after
THANKSGIVING "Shall the dust arise and praise
"GOdH In the grave who shall give Him
thanks ~