The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-11-24

Boys and girls. tomorrow will be the
day set apart by the chief executive Of
our great nation, for the purpose Of re-
turning thanks to the All-wise Provi-
dence for the many blessings we have
enjoyed during the past year. We all
have many thugs to be thankful for
You, my boys and girls, should be
thankful that YOU have the strength
and vivacity Of youth. that your checks
are flushed with the rosy tint of youth.
while many Of your fellow creatures are
pining on beds of sickness. BE thank
ful that you have the privilege of at
tending good schools: that you have
kind parents to care for and feed you.
while thousands of children are home
less. We have clipped an article on
"Thanksgiving," which we think very
appropriate for our column this week.
Read it carefully aud ponder it we'll
THANKSGIVING.
From the time of its institution until
now IL has been n home festival, aud
one Of its best services to the citizens
Of our country has been to bring long
separated families together and the
children home. We do not overlook
its religious on political significance,
though its home aspect is the one that
is most inviting. The good old habit
Of assembling in places Of worship, to
render thanks for national and individ-
ual prosperity is none too rigidly main
tanned. We. as II people. are too much
like the pious old man who, in season Of
prosperity, said he ''hadn't much time
To be thankful. but when he had good
luck he was glad" We are generally
glad of good luck but the one day
taken out Of the many precious
days in which we are toiling for more
good luck" seems to many almost II
waste of time. Somebody has wittily
said that gratitude Is lively sense of
favors to come and 1t is true that the
desire for the continuance Of blessings
enters largely into our so called thanks.
To forget ourselves one-half hour in
some still twilight, and remember what.
as a nation. we have for which to be
grateful, would not only he "A revelation
but beginning Of regeneration to many
souls; for II would light little spark
OF loving gratitude to God: and that
spark. burning on and on, would become
in time fire, before which self and sin
must shrivel and waste and die. And
II this might be the result of thought
Of His goodness to all the nation as a
whole, how that spark will glow and
kindle II the thinker recalls what he
has to be thankful for in his own indi-
vidual circumstances and life. In
thought will throng around him the
dear ones who are with him still, spared
for another year. the sorrows that have
been averted: the unexpected joys that
came: the temptations resisted: the suf-
ferers he was able to help; the outward
prosperity, the inward peace. All. we
have, even the saddest OF us, enough,
II we only stop to think; enough to
make lis hide our faces in shame at our
i'll desert, and lift them in happy and
grateful trust to God We have enough
TO make the going back to the old home
or the welcoming the children to ours.
time OF sacred joy. The merry heart
that doeth good like medicine should
be ours this year around the family
table. II should be made a day of glad
renewal of old home affection, of tender
sympathy for those less fortunate than
we are. We should make it day of
thank Offering, giving out of our abun-
dance to at least one home where pow
erty and pain sit as guests at the feast.
The turkey and plum pudding will
taste better far to Every one around the
table who knows that some other family
has been made glad by gift OF the
same. So. buy the turkeys In pairs,
you who can buy them at all, and share
with some one who can not buy, and be
as thankful for the one you give away
as for the one you keep; for among all
our causes for thanksgiving, there is
none 50 great as that we have been able
to make others glad. AS the extent to
which we can do this is largely 10 our
own control, it is for us each to secure
our own Thanksgiving Joy.
Tramps Must Work.