Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-11-28
Thanksgiving Porridge.
REFLECTIONS.


The divine that is in man constant
ly seeks after the infinite Hence
among all peoples there Is an uni
versal searching after God. As are the
cult and the morals of the people, so
their idealizing of the preexistent. All,
however, olothe Him with righteous
ness and confess Him to be the SUI
preme almoner of the universe. Graft
tude is neither dead nor asleep, and
as men receive so the wells of thank
fulness send forth bubbling waters
whose ripples make music of praise.
Among christian nations, where con-
ceptions of tae All-Good have reached
greatest perfectness, the lesson OF
gratitude is most frequently taught
and most universally practiced. Long
anterior TO the birth of the American
nation the people were went at the
close of the aftermath to set apart a
day in which to consider the tender
mercies, the boundless love, the gen.
erous hand of God, in order that their
hearts might swell and throb in re-
sponsive touch to His beneticence.
This practice, born amid the rocky
hills of New England, has been per-
petuated annually by nation, which,
above all peoples that have been and
are, has most cause to be glad.
Here indeed do the rocks pour out
rivers Of oil, the earth yields marvel
Gus increase and only the sins and
shortcomings of men make possible
want or suffering anywhere. Among
this people is the greatest personal
liberty. Broadcast Interpretation of the
rights of the individual, highest as
piIations after comforts and luxuries
and greatest general faith in the
promise and fulfillment of more ex-
allied condition of universal happiness.
With this people, as with no other
people, are greater diversity of eli
mate, more varied yields of vegetation
and a wider range of employment for
the masses than is found anywhere
else upon the globe. In this country
men have need to their comfort to
employ less hours for labor and may
dev,te more time to enjoyment and
pleasure than their beings in
other lands.
Recalling these superior benefits our
people have cause indeed for
gratitude; not because they enjoy
privileges that would seem to be
denied others but for the reason
that their lines are cast in
pleasant places. The grateful heart
is best capable of approaching. and he
who remembers Ais blessings cannot
fail of according praise whore praise
belongs, Rstrospeclng the year aud
its results there are suggestions that
the barns are tlled 10 iatness With
golden grain, the wheels OF industry
whirl and whirr, the marts OF trade
are active with hurrying feet ana the
hope and promise OF better things are
potent Remembering his divinity Us
well as his mortality, recalling the
Providence that Is over all anu giveth
all, he who receives should not fail OF
a grateful heart nor sel1shly measure
his own gifts by those Of his neighbor.
There are those who sorrow, because
from the beginning the laughter Of the
joyful has rung out amid the cry of
hearts made desolate; but there is the
universal promise OF comfort to the
mourner At this season OF the year
the once green leaves are sered, fallen
upon the ground, betrodden under foot
of man; but the naked trees, through
which the chilly blast of the west
wind now means, shall, with the
warming days OF spring, put on new
beauty and freshness, SO the days
that are to be give assurance Of peace
to spirits that may be troubled The
night comes, but the glad sun is on its
course and its rays will spread life
and light upon all. The mortality of
man confirms suffering at intervals,
but the divine that is In him lifts him
up out of the depths and in the higher
life he sees and adores the benefcent
God of all. II is a good thing to re-
member mercies, to forget Affections
and TO give thanks to the All-Giver.
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