Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1885-12-03
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Thanks giving Day Itself a BIessing-Ho,
All May Find Cause for Thanl<fuinesS.

Thanks giving Day Itself Blessing-HOw
All May Find Cause for Thankfuiness.
Even the low ground of utility fur
nishes ample reason for the observance
of Thanksgiving Day. 1t breaks in upon
whatever of monotony there is in life
and gives rest to the mind and an up
ward glance. 1t is day for reunion of
families. 1t is time for recalling God $
goodness to nations and to individuals.
1t invites us to put away the sp TT of
complaint and fault-fnding. and to put
on the spirit of hope. rejoicing and deep
gratitude. Regarded in any one of
these aspects, Thanksgiving Day can
not fail to be a blessing to every body.
Thank God. then. for the very institu-
ton OF dav on which to rest and re-
jolce; to recount blessings confess de-
pendence and give thanks.
Our personal, as well rs our nation
al blessings are countless 1T we
would declare and speak of them, they
are more than can be numbered" AS
tenants at will we ENJOY marvellous
powers of mind and body. We have
for our home the great world, with its
free air and water and sunshine, its va
ried seasons. its abundant
fruits. its endless varieties of
the useful and the beautiful. We live
in country whose soil. climate, laws.
political ideas, educational facilities.
literature and religion conspire to Weld
happiness and success. These bless
ings are common to the poor rs well as
the rich; thev are inalienabe and uni
verSal. Thanksgiving Day is peculiarly
the farmers festiA al-''the feast of har-
vests He especially with his we'll
filled barns and comfortable home has
reason to be grateful. and should take
up the psalmist's HYMN of thanksgiv-
ing: Unto Thee. o God. do We give
thanks. Thou viSitest the earth and
waterest if. Thou blesseSt the SPRING
ing thereof. Thou crownest the year
with Thy goodness. The pastures are
clothed with tiockS: the valleys are COW
cred with corn: they shout for joy, they
also sing"
80 favOrS every year made new!
O gifts with rain ana sunshine sent!
The bounty overruu> our due.
TIE fullncSS >Iames our diSconteEt;
And let our affairs wreathed with flowers
And piled with fruits. awake again
ThanksgivIngS for the golden hours,
The early and the latter rain -
1t is not difficult for those who have
all the wear had health in their families
and prosperity in their business, to be
grateful when they gather loved ones
around their tables on Thanksgiving
Day. There is nothing II their circum-
stances to make them otherwise. How
about those less favored. who have lost
property. or in whose families there
have cen sickness and death? How
about those who are doomed to life
long and hopeless struggle with pow
erty, or with chronic and incurable dis
eases? Can all these poor. sick and
serrowing find reason for thanksgiving?
They NAV be thankful for the compen-
satiens which all find in the sorest trials
of life; for the helpful sympathy of
friends; and. if Christians, for tie eff
fectual consultations of Divine grace
and for the rich haryes. of spiritual
culture. strength and JOY which they
reap from the discipline of sanctitied
afflietion. If. therefore. they can not
give thanks for everything. they may
..in everything give thanks knowing
by experience that 'all things WORK
together for good to them that love
GOD. ~. ". CHRISTIAN AdU0cd1e.