San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-11-25

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thanks which we ought to be glad to
make II only with pulse and water.
Those who have grown to have this
feeling about the day speak of it as a
day of gormandizing, reproaeh it with
the manner Of its observation, connect
It's existence in their minds with re-
sponsibility for gluttony, and are in
danger of losing ali lofty or sacred as
ISOLATION with it. As a day of real
thanks to source of all beauty and
joy and life they do not give
it any peculiar regard. They call it
Thanksgiving day because that is its
name, always has been and always
will be. They do not fail to observe it,
because they are conservative and
want 70 break in on no established
order of things They sometimes go
to hear u sermon in which thanks are
apt to figure but little, and politics are
apt to figure good deal; but on the
whole. they think Of it as 4 remarka-
bly, good dinner day.
Yet in the relations Of everyday life
with one another. if from any hand
one received such i blessing as life, as
love, as freedom from want. as friends,
as family, as the roof that shelters. the
food that loads the table, to say moth
ing of more personal gifts or of the
minor myriad of blessings, it would be
matter of the most glaring incivility
if any due rendering of thanks were
omitted, and Of ingratitude if one even
desired to evade acknowledgement.
The person who has been entertained
over night in duh country house sends
note of thanks to the host or hostess
afterward; the beggar on the street, to
whom a half-dime has been tossed,
utters a modest word or makes a gest-
ure of obligation, but those who enter
into nonea OF the interior reality of
Thanksgiving day, who keep it as
matter Of form and because others do,
and because it makes one more holi-
day, and who in return for sunlight,
sleep, waking joy, all the innumerable
pleasures of existence, for the early
and the latter rain. harvest. health,
happiness. see no occasion for
season of special thanl1-offer-
ing, and In observing the
day observe it rather in a Chinese con-
memoration of the ancestors who ap-
pointed It than from the force OF an
irresistible motion Of gratitude in their
own hearts, those people are less civil
than the chance guest, less decent than
the sidewalk beggar, and are really
almost as much to be pitied as if they
had nothing at all to be thankful for
Yet the idea of the day is something
so beautiful, that it Is 4 shame
the day itself should not always
and everywhere be kept with
such warmth and freshness of feeling
as it would be if it were but Just newly
instituted every year. 1t is a day that
Christian and jew and Gentle, Mo
hammedan and heather, may observe
With tenderness; for each and all OF
these have one great benignant source
of blessing beyond the world of the
senses, from whom they recognize that
they receive all, to whom they know
isdue worship which includes thanks.
And how beautiful might be the offer
ing Of this worship and these thanks
when compared with the offerings
of old; not smoke OF sacrifice or drip
ping affairs or curling incense, but the
viewless joyous uplifting of the hearts
rapture, of spirit seeking spirit
And with those, and they are still a
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the day, the return TO the home and
hearth Of the family-the patriarch
hearth from which the new families
have gone QUITS like the going up OF
the tribes to be numbered at their
great city. All over the land what
glad confusion they make, what jour
neying, what hurrying eastward and
westward, TO the North, to the South,
From the Pacific shores the trains are
fastening, laden with travellers, sons
and daughters coming back to the old
home; from the Atlantic they go, carry
ing the older people to see the new
homes that the younger ones have
made; from North and South on the
crossing and interlaeing lines, brothers
and sisters and friends hasten to each
others houses this one season in the |
year, perhaps this one year out of
many mothers are speeding back, if |
they have been away, and fathers,
whose errands have taken them into |
Instant regions, make all haste to e at |
home again. What a wonderful human |
network is II Tins stretched ,o,-a, tto