The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-29
THANKSGIVING DAY.

There is an old and familiar stor
of jovial mariner who fell from
some part Of the ships rigging t.
the deck and broke his arm, where
upon he expressed thanks that i
was not his leg. Recovering from
the injury he fell again and broke
his leg, when in his cheerfulness h'
was thankful that it was not his
arm. The gratefulness of the un>
fortunate sailor furnishes grand
example to the race. Everybody
has something for which to be
thankful. AL have occasion for
charlottesville rich that they do
not want for warm clothing, COM
Portable homes and dinners to their
own tastes; the poor that they are
not poorer and more miserable; the
healthy for appetites and good diges-
tions; the sick that their disease is
not smallapox. or if it be smallpox,
that it is not yellow fever or Asiatic
cholera.
Sometimes when one looks about
him and sees how others have
prospered while his ventures have
been failures ;how heis broken down
in health and others are hale and
vigorous; how his wife and little
ones are cold and hungry, and the
wives and children of his neighbors
are warm, rosy-cheeked and we'll
fed; how, as compared with others,
he seems in everyway the most |
miserable, he wondersshow he can
be expected to be thankful. And |
yet, if he would throw a screen over |
the dark side of the picture and |
gaze only at the bright, he would |
discover much to call forth sincere
and heartfelt thanks. We cannot |
picture a person in 80 wretched a |
condition that he has nothing about |
him to excite gratefulness. He is
miserable beyond description |
who cannot be truly thank |
full one day in the year |
for blessings received from the
GiYer of all good gifts. A man with |
an utterly thankless heart should |
have no place among man. He be-
longs to another world than this.
Our Thanksgiving day festivities
are material as well as spirit |
ual; nor do we observe and cele- |
brate because of the civil proclama.
tions. If it were these guberna
torial suggestions or orders that in
duced the giving of thanks the act |
would be formal and spiritless. We |
perform the spiritual part of the
ceremony by humbly acknowledge
ing our obligations to the Almighty
for blessings received and mer-
cies shown; our material
thankfulness is shown by gathering
in family groups about well filled
boards, and testifying our grateful
ness in feasting and rejoicing. And
one can be no more pleasing in the
sight Of our Allwise Creator than
the other. Then while we are not
neglectfuI of our responsibilities to
the Author of Goodness, let us feel
that it is equally duty that we
owe to our natures and desires to
have good dinners, and eat them in
the happiest way possible. The
voice of hearty good cheer and the
laugh of wholesome merriment are
evidences of material thankfulness.
To Danish the dismal and melsn-
choly to the dreary and hidden gar,
ret, and express our gratefulness
and thanks with joy and gladness
are natural, and therefore proper.
Here in Utah we have grand and |
glorious occasion for thankfulness.
The year has been full of rich and |
bounteons blessings for the people |
who have prospered as never before.
Scourges and evils have passed us |
by. and heaven and earth have both |
been kind to the community. On |
every side are seen peace and
plenty, JOY and happiness. In every |
house there is occasion for thank"
fulness and rejoicing. Then In
every dwelling and in all hearts let
this Thanksgiving Day be observed
and celebrated in the manner that
the grateful, merry heart suggests
and the custom demands.
THERE is to be opened in Wash