New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-25
THANKSGIVING.

There is time for all things. time to
laugh, time to sing and time to pray.
One day in seven has been set apart as the
Lords day; that we are commanded to re-
member and keep holy, The command
has little effect on the New Orleans public.
The retail whisky business is more pros
porous here on Sundays than on other
days; shooting parkstre better patronized
and on Sunday nights the theatres are full
though they may have been poorly attend
ed during the week. Sunday has become
here more day Of pleasure than day OF
rest and Of prayer.
This manner Of spending the Sabbath
is an error. The Connecticut blue laws,
which forced people. to church were also
wrong. All good acts should be volun-
tarily performed. Good deeds should
spring from willing hearts. There is
growing habi: among men to regard reli-
gious things guy 1t is sad mistake
to allow children to grow up believing
they can do without God. The civiliza-
ton of the enlightened portions of this
world is due to the effects of the Christian
religion. We enjoy blessings, comforts
and happiness unknown to heather
lands. While all material things change,
but are not lost, and exist in some other
form, We can not believe human soul
will perish. In the minds of all men not
thoroughly depraved there is belief and
hope that something Of their being will
live hereafter. The thought makes men
better If child can be thankful to it's
father for all of the good things it receives,
it becomes fathers and mothers of children
to be thankful for the things they them
selves are permitted to enjoy.
This day has been appointed by the
President of the United States as day
for thanksgiving and praise throughout
the Union. The President has recon-
mended tina. all good people abstain from
their usual avocations and take occasion
for the humble expression Of our thanks
to Almighty God for the ceaseless and dis
benefits bestowed upon us as
nation, and for His mercies and protection
during the closing year. The Governor
of Louisiana. joins in such recommenda.
ton. The New Orleans REPUBLICAN can
but add its influence and example toward
the proper observance of the occasion;
and to allow our employees unrestricted re-
ligious liberty, they will not be required
to work this day, and no paper will be
issued from our Office tomorrow morning.
There are many things to be thankful
for on this twenty-ifth day of November.
Most of the ills men have are of their own
from heaven we get only bless
ings. Those who live must be thankful;
those who live we'll must be doubly so.
Nature has been kind to US and to Louis
lana; pestilence has avoided US, and crops
have been abundant about us wherever
industry has titled the soil. We can be
thankful that we are, and that there is SO
much held for US in the future. And we can
give praise to the good giver of all good
gifts. We all hope for good dinners to-
day. 1t is beautiful custom, this max
ing feasts mingle with thanks, and max
ing praise glad. There is a consistency
in eating heartily and being heartily
thankful. 1t is New England custom to
attend church and afterward feast liber-
ally on thanksgiving days, and the intelli-
gent Christianity of New England has in
it something worthy to emulate. The Pres.
ident and the Governor have issued their
proclamations in accordance with time
honored custom; and real thanksgiving
and praise to power above earthly rulers
should be always an annual custom OBJ
served among Christian people. If there
are heathenish persons in our midst who
have never been thankful for blessings re-
ceived, let them begin this day with bit
of gratitude to something superior to SELF