The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-11-19
A LAYMAN'S THANKSGIVING .
BY "NEMO."


We thank Thee, who art Power un-
measured, that, though persisted and
forgotten generations have sought to
know Thee as Thou art, yet both Thy
form and Thy dwelling-place remain as
ever unknown and undescribed. Thus
gratefully do we see that each genera
ton, clamoring for life and feeling after
light is prompted anew to reverential
seeking, because Thou art still hidden
among countless things that proclaim
Thy handiwork and hint at Thy mighty
power. Aud we thank Thee that the
secret of the Almighty is east known
by the froward who seek Thee fippant-
ly, not being impelled by their souls
hunger.
But Thou who tillest endless space,
And art by highest hosts adored,
Leave us some fight, Thvself to trace,
Lest we should lose Thee, Lord.
So
Thou fryer of men, from the depths
of hearts distressed, we thank Thee for
sorrows. Though smitten and disap-
appointed in hopes that seem purest, we
vet can raise a quavering note of praise
to Thee, who seest the precious metal
within where no human eye can trace
it, and who increasest Affections that
no dross may remain. In suffering we
progress, and in feeling sorrow we
learn sympathy. We thank Thee that
we are deemed worthy of kinship with
Thy greatest ones, molders of thought
and saviors of nations, who have ever
been led upward to usefulness through
great tribulatiOn.
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Thou Judge of peoples, whose vast
hand is Tut lightly buTdened with our
teeming millions, we thank Thee for
our nation, restless, impulsive, hopeful.
For its faith in itself as set apart and
destined for great testings in self
government; for its development, re-
mote from threatened neighbors, so
that backward steps can be blamed
only upon ourselves; for the national
spirit firmly holding to the belief that
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face of our federated life, there still
moves forward a mighty, unruffied
current sweeping toward ultimate
national glory and righteousness: for
these with loud voice we thank Thee.
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For our human nature that is never
content with things attained, but must
ever forward to new fields of action;
for our enquiring minds in an enquiring
age; for the progress of intellect
until we weigh the stars and trace
them in their wondrous courses
until we wrench secrets from nature,
hidden through all the ages; for the
conquest of earth by diminutive man,
so that the rocks are rent and rivers
turned to suit our needs as monarchs of
matter; for the material records of our
racial progress; for all these things we
thank Thee, Thou giver of dominion.
For the growing understanding of
heredity, that makes ga little child"
now lead us into new educational fields;
for the union of men and women on in.
creasingly equal terms in the thought
of 'these"later days, directing us by
gentler paths into more peaceful life
than when men uncurbed ravaged the
world; for these we thank Thee. For
our enforced sojourning here, and the
conviction that life's experience must
not perish at death; for being a little
lower than the angels in that we can
grow in grace and fight the good fight.
we thank Thee, Thou God of battles.
Lord of life and of death, of earth and
of heaven, of never-ending ages and of
our own little tleeting moment,
WE THANK THEE THAT WE AREu
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guaranteed to cure. A. B. RAINS.