Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-29

Thanksgiving.
To-day, throughout the length ant
breadth of the United States from III,
frosted pine lands of Maine to the lux.
urious everglades and the blooming
orange groves of Florida rom Cape
Cod to the Golden Gate more than
nifty millions of people will unite in
grateful acknowledgement to the bene
ficent author of our common good ior
the individual qualification and the
national prosperity that have attended
us through the year that is closing. AS
II people, we have much to be thank
iul for. While iruitiou OF our individ-
uRl hopes may not have been the re-
ward of all, as II people no nation on
earth has been SO signally and gener-
ously blessed by the stability of peace,
the manifold returns for the
husbandman's labor, the aug
mentation of national wealth, the
constant progress of arts, science and
Christian-like thought, the steady de
velopment of the truths of II correct
system of political economy and popu-
lar government, and the universal
growth Of Il feeling of good-fel!ow-
ship that leads to closer relation
among the antagonislic elements of Il
people OF so widespread and tlissinlilar
interests. Sectional discussions are
healing; distrust and jealousy are Civ
ing away and more cordial feeling
Is taking the place OF the rancor that
civil war engendered between the
North and the South For all this
and these are the thanks OF their hcne-
iiciaries due to the power that gave
them ana withheld woeand wretchcd-
ness. II is by thinking on
what has bclalleu mankind in other
countries that we can more fully real
iIe and feel the danger that we have
escaped. The now.impending war
between France and China, with its
accompanying horrors OF death and
suffering to thousands, intensified by
the ieroci'" of q semi-barbGrous peopIe
of widowhood aud orphanhopd to
helpless families-of heavier burdens
OF taxation for industry, stagnant COM
merce and disturbed finances; the
reign of ab5olutism and nihili,m in
Russia, between the opposing forces of
which security and peace are un.
known to the people; the poverty and
famine of Ireland and the terror in
spired 10y government oppression. or
gained assassination, dynamite plots
and Feniau agitations--all these we
are free from an / secure against. WE
have escaped the awful earthquake
calamities that carried death to more I
than ono hundred thousand human /
beings IN Java, and the volcanic con- /
that overwhelmed the island /
oi isehin and wrought death tn thou-
sands and min To thousands more We
have avoided the fearful Residence of
yellow fever that desolated the cities
VI MeNlco. The weight Of Gods hand
mas been light upon Us.
Inc pessinist who cannot see in the
history ofour people anything TO be
thankful for, is 10 be pitied. His hear
sapnot feel the revivng ioy of graft
ude and thankiuluess. No him. fine
loundaht yield the earth Is mean
ngless; and he cannot perceive the
land OF Providence TINT has led us ,
trough the dangers, unscathed and /.
eeure But to him who feels his own :
lnworthiness and his weakness. tbe
mercy Of God is displayed in every !,
Blessing Of the year, and with thanks
'Ving and praise he will acknowledge
o-day The bcneiicencc of the mower /
nat has vouohsafed these blessings !
When gratitude o'eriiows the sweIlt,y u
heart, i
hd breathes IN cree and uncorrurtad nroi.o =
OF benefits received; proplllous heaven "
axes such acknowledgment as ltaernu, in. ~
ecnsc, ~
hd doubles all It's blessings"