The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-11-24
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER "a, 1892.
y3E THANKFUL

blessings or the year received DV all
with gladness. and by the good with
gratitude, are to-day to receive special
recognition from the entire Nation.
This is New England custom, and
wherever New Englanders have gone
they have carried with them the fond
est recoIlections oil Thanksgiving Day.
especially its devout services, its fam
lily gatherings, and its distribution OF
bounty to the poor. This custom con-
tinued to spread from State to State
until during our civil war in 1858.
President Lincoln, whom the Nation
loves to honor, appointed the last
Thursday of November as day OF
thanksgiving and prayer. Since that
time every President has appointed
the last Thursday in November as
national day of Thanksgiving. Follow
ing this custom President Harrison
has set apart Thursday, Nov. 24th, as
day, of thanksgiving and praise for
the many mercies we have received as
a Nation from the God of all Provl-
dence. These indeed are too many to
be mentioned. Indeed, as individuals,
we all have every occasion for thank
fitness. There are some very good
people who are prone to look upon
the dark side OF things, they walk in
the valley of the shadow of death all
their days. They get SO tired OF the
world that they wish they were dead.
They keep up such a continual groan-
ing that their neighbors wish they
were dead too. But the best people
are those who have courage to live
and grace to die; those who count it
all joy; those who can smile at Satan's
rage, and face a frowning world.
There is always a dark side as we'll
as bright side to life. If we con-
stantly look at the dark side we will
lose sight of the bright side. We may
even forget that there is any dark side.
We are never in SO sad condition
but that our causes of thank fulness
are not so many and SO great as to till
. our thoughts we simply open our
minds to consider them. In this way
we can have Thanksgiving Day at
any time of year. Milton well said
'The north wind did not always sleep
and allow the dusky clouds to DER
spread Heavens cheerful face" The
night is followed by day, there are
more bright days than cloudy ones.
Our lows are more than our sorrows
Let us not go through this world of
sunshine and beauty with the win
dows of our souls SO closely shut that
no beam of JOY can look within.
Let us be joyful For the joy of the
Lord is your strength" a merry
heart doeth good like medicine.
>Sterne says Il am persuaded that ev-
ery time q man smiles-but must
move when he laughs it adds some
thing to this fragment oflife." Laugh
ter is good for body and soul. 1t is a
winsome habit. The one whose count
enance beams with smiles always
finds a hearty welcome. It is one Of
the arrangements of Providence fol
lighting up the darkness of life and
filling the world with happiness
"Then is not he the wisest man who
ribs his brow of wrinkles,
Who bears his load with merry heart
and lightens it by half;
Whose pleasant tones ring in the ear
as mirthful music tinkles,
And whose words are true and telling
though they echo in laugh?"
Be good. honest, kind, brave, gen
erous, faithful, earnest. Industrious
patient and everything else that yor
should be; but do not forget to bt
cheerful. That will make you Joy ane
a help in the world. Let us one ant
all join in singing,
"This world is very lovely. O my God
| thank thee that live"
l.. L. HANscoME.
Joshua 23:l4. Not one good thins
hath failed of all the good thing
which the Lord your God spoke con
corning you
This is one of the last things whicl
Joshua, one hundred and ten year
old, said before he died; not one thin.
hath failed. He appeals ia the who'll
camp of Israel in which there wer
men older than he was. What hav
they to say? Not one thing hat
failed. There are men in every tow
Il.