San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-28

out of these we extract whatever Of
sweet there is in them, living on these
crumbs of comfort until the long weari-
ness is past and then filling up on the
fatted calves and turkeys and stuffing
with which we recompense ourselves
for the suffering that we could not
avoid. There is no virtue in a sad
countenance. Ii is better to give
thanks than to curse the other fellow.
1t is more conductive to good digestion
to be generous minded thar to be en-
vious. Better pity the pessimist than
to pillory and pelt him.
Our annual Thanksgiving day" is
expressly set apart that we may re-
member our good things and forget
that there is evil in the world. 1t is
ours in which to clothe ourselves in
garments of gladness from its mathis
to it's vespers and make of it all one
grand, sweet song. 1t is one day quar-
ried out of the hard granite of strug-
Cling life and set in a sunny niche that
all of it's hours might be flooded with
gladness and every memory of it bring
back blessing as it is recalled. 1t
is day devoted to Home" and this
is heaven How full the music swells,
How true the numbers ring that de-
clare there is no place like home. But
if home that should be home is hell,
how dark is that hell. So if the heart
and nature that should be sweet is Bit
ter, how great is that bitterness.
Therefore in giving thanks once more
for all of good that has thronged the
pathway of the year now closed since,
in accord with the state and national
proclamations, you assembled TO
give glad thanksgiving, remember to
give thanks that you have been pres
erved from malice, and envy, and evil
speaking, and bitterness from that lit
tleness that makes its home in
wormy shell and only energies from
its maggot hole to gossip it's complain
ings abroad. Give thanks for a broad
mind. Rejoice in charity
thinks no evil. Give thanks that you
were born in a free land, live freely,
think openly and purely and have no
with mean things. Our
season is especially set
apart for these things.
Also remember that the days of your |
,eace Giving thanks for the liberty |
hat you enjoy as your birthright, and |
he dearer liberty of a clean, large |
mind do not forget that war has not |
,ast a shadow upon an acre of this |
air land, alb this year. That America |
las been not only at peace, but that
Ter open hand has supplied the mill
ions of other lands with bread; that
10 great destroyer has set his foot up
m this soil, albeit the pestilence that
at monday has lifted its hor-
id front along our Southern borders;
hat compared with former visitations
he scourge has been comparatively
light and that even now the cloud of
is presence is passing away. Think
N these things and give thanks in your
hearts.
Be not unmindful of that security of
home that is so pre-eminently ours.
IF that awful grinding out of human
life in the mills of gaunt famine, just
across the strait from our Southern
border and from deliverance there
from we do give thanks in our
hearts. For the schools and educa-
.ional institutions of this land give
thanks; for the plenty that crowns
your daily table; for the opening of
the doors of greater opportunity to all
classes of the people; for the resuming
Iabors in a thousand temples of toll.
where the black incense rolls and the
molten fires glow upon these affairs of
our home prosperity: for a city I'M
touch by the frosts of any prescription;
for laws so equal; for courts so equit-
able: for privileges of thought and
speech so full, for all give thanks.