The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-11-20

The CHEEKY and beautiful Tkanks-
giving Festival.

giving FESTIVAL
To-day we may not roll out OF sight
and sound into the dark of forgotten
things every cause for sadness-the
tendrils OF sorrow may entwine them
selves too closely around the heart for
that-but none the less may we wheel
into the foreground, softened by the
warming sunshine of these closing au-
tumn days, every cause for rejoicing
and gratitude Thanksgiving is prom
inently the family day. On this day
OF oil others there will gather around
the table dear faces that make starlight
and sunlight In the heart, faces, II
may be the round and dimpled ones or
little children, faces serried with pa
thence, sweeter yet for the Impress
which Gods own sorrow has laid upon
them, faces blooming with youthful
loneliness, faces looking so kindly out
from their frames of silver hair-and
we need them all. Happy indeed that
family where the three generationsca
gather-the merry children, the happy
parents, the dearly loved, kindly grand
father and grandmother. But there In
touch OF strange incompleteness
II
are perfect, from whose sacred in
closure no one OF tender or venerable
years has been removed-from whence
no light has gone out
But we may not dwell upon our sense
| OF loss as we think of the loved one or
loved ones who have gone. IL Is our
right, our duty, our solemn joy-and
all great joys are serious-to think OF
them. And IL but sweet faith come TO
us with her ministrations, we shall
| think OF the lost ones, not as lost, but
| only as gone before us for n little
how little, how short IL will all seem
10 look back upon, when surceasc comes
10 all our sorrows as 81 has como
10 theirs. So let us take heed on this
Thanksgiving day; and II chair
around the Thanksgiving table is va
cant that was filed last year, IL you
yearn for
the touch OF a vanished hand
And the sound OF a voice that Is still.
surely you can bring to mind not only
a realizing sense OF the mercies that re-
main, but of the joyful meeting that
awaits you In that other land where
partings are all unknown.
There is that about Thanksgiving
day which separates IL from every other
day In the year. For not only is IL the
tribute of individual hearts 10 God, but
Il Is more In our home relations and
in those of the state and nation as well.
we 90 up as of old went the tribes, TO
pay our vows and render our thanks TO
the Father who has brought us so far
on our way. We seldom-and more
the pity-sit down and count the love
tokens we get from the skies. For the
beauty Of grove and field, for the blush
ing fruitage of the orchards, for the
, wealth OF the golden grains, for the
bursting fullness Of our gamers, for
I the peace regnant over discords, for
the strength, the courage and resource
? that financial reverse has not wasted or
/ broken, we lift up our hearts I'M the
I Thanksgiving Joy. For the manhood
r of the country that assumes and bears
) burdens without complaints, for It's
= pure and gracious womanhood, for the
light OF love and the assurance OF faith
In countless thousands OF happy homes
we lift up the voice In praise, while for
r. the churches whose spires climb one
above another TO lay their gilded
I fingers against the stainless blue, from
: whose belfries chimtng bells send forth
{ notes OF sweetness In the crowded city
Y and over hillside and valley marked
5 here and there by the belated dandelior
$ or the solitary goldenrod-for these
Q for all our mecies. we lift up the 1T,
n Deum Laudamus," on this day chan
i. the Gloria In Excelss."
o Thanksgiving and the Thanksgiving
- joyi--let them now and ever remain
= inseparable. On this day of all days
!. whether sitting In shadow or yet in th'
4 sunlight, we surely may say with tn
,. man OF God; although the fig tree
i shall not blossom, neither shall fruit
: be In the vines, the labor OF the DIV,
n shall fail, and the fields shall yield M
3 meat, the flock shall be cut Oft from TN,
fold, and there shall be no herd In TIL
@ stalls; yet / will rejoice in the Lord,
I will Joy in the God OF my salvation.
Q All hail, CHEEKY, beautiful, thrice wei
come festival, that gathers 20 itsel
q sheaves OF charming memories and fltl,
: puts It's own cap-sheaf on the haryeste'
4 riches OF the year; thrice welcom
y Thanksgiving dayl-Christinn Work.
III LEt pEtIt CIinGE CTIOMC