The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-11-22
Shirt MisrrllanlI.
THE DAY AND
IT'S LESSONS.

The divine that is IN man constant
ly seeks after the infinite. Hence
among all peoples there is an univer-
sal searching after God. AS are the
cult and the morals of the people So
their idealization of the preexistent.
All however, clothe Him with righteous
ness and confts IS Him to be the supreme
almonor of the universe. Gratitude
is neither dead nor asleep and as men
receive SO the wells of thankfulness
send forth bubbling waters whose
ripples make music of praise. Among
Christian nations, where conceptions
of the All-Good have ached greatest
perfectness, the sson of graft ude l.
most Frequently taught and most
universally practiced. Long anterior
to the birth of the Amer lean nation
the people were wont at the close of
the aftermath to SET apart a day in
which 10 consider the tender mercies,
the boundless love, The generous hand
of God, in order that h ir hearts might
swell and throb in responsive touch to
His benefcence. This practice, boru
amid the rocky nils nils Of New England
has been perpetuated annually by a
nation, which, above all peoples that
have been and are, has most cause to
be glad.
Here indeed do the rocks poar out
rivers of oil, the earth yields marve-
lous increase and only the sins and
hor t m ne of men an y
make possible want or suffering
where. Among this people is the
greatest personal liberty, broadest
Interpretation of theright, of theindivl-
dual highest aspirations after comforts
and luxuries and greatest general
faith in the promise and fulillment
of ii more exalted condition of univer-
sal happiness. With this people, as
with no other people. are greater di-
yersity of climate, more varied yields
of vegetation and a wider lange of en-
ployment for the masses than is found
anywhere else upon the globe. In this
country men have need to their COM
fort to employ less hours for labor and
many devote more time to enjoyment
and pleasure than fellow begins in
other lands.
Recalling these superior benefits
our people have cause indeed for
gratitude; not because they enjoy
privileges that would seem to be de-
MED 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
his blessings cannot fail of according
praise where praise belongs. Retrospect
ing the year and its results there are
suggestions that the barns are filled
to fairness with golden grain, the wheels
of industry whirl and whirr, the marts
of trade are active with hurrving feet
and the hope and promise of better
things are po'ent. Remembering his
divinity as well as his mortality: re-
calling the Providence that is over
all and giveth all, he who receives
should not fail of a grateful heart nor
selfishly measure his own gifts by
tiIoSC VI lllS
There are those who sorrow be-
cause from the be2innlng the laugh
ter of the joyful has rung out amid
the cry of hearts made desoIate: but
there is the universal promise Of com
fort to the mourner. At this season
of the year the once green leaves are
sered fallen upon the ground, betrod-
den 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 given assurance of
peace to spirits that may be troub ed.
The night comes, but the glad sun is
Oh 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 lift him
up out of the depths, and in the higher
life he sees and adores the beneGcent
God of all. 1t Is good thing to
remember mercies, to forget Affections
and to give thanks to the All Giver.
WILLIAM RpSSGR CUBBE.
Business Man-Are Won a GOOD