Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-11-26
RENDER THANKS UNTO GOD.

To. morrow, November 2Tth, is set
apart, in accordance with q time honored
custom, as a day of thanksgiving. 1t is
meet and proper that this one day of the
year should be generally and religiously
observed by the people of this country
in obedience to the proclamation of our
Chief Executive. OF all the nations of
earth none has so much to be thankful
for as these United States. The God of
Nations has dealt most generously with
us, and what more fitting than that tho
whole nation bow as one man and render
thanks and praise to the Givor of all good.
Our Nation, our State, our county, our
town, our citizens as individuals-all
have much for which to Sbe profoundly
thankful. Let each one decide for him
self that Thursday shall be a day of rest,
thankfulness and praise. We may feel
that in some respects we have little for
which to be thankful, but to him who
looks back thoughtfully over the events
of the past year, there must come the
conviction that whatever his misfortunes,
his trials and hardships, his losses, his
disappointments, the good things of life
have been far greater than all these, and
the best we can do is to be thankful
Speaking of the coming Thanksgiving
Day, the Rev. Sam 2. Jones, writing in
the Atlanta journal from tho West, emu
merates, in a style peculiar to himself,
some of the things he has to be thankful
for, and in closing makes a point in re-
gard to the observance of Christmas in
the Southern States that is applicable in
some instances to the observance of
Thanksgiving. He says:
''I wind up my tour next week at Pc
oria and Mendoza, H., and come home
first Thanksgiving day Ive spont at
home in ten years. l shall have
thanks to render unto the Lord then as
do at all times. l am so glad | am alive {;
SO glad the devil amt got me; so glad
Pve been sober thirty years; so glad Pam
not a whiskey soaked Democrat or Re-
publican; so glad that was never a Pop,
or free silver loon; so glad that nothing
has happened to me but what is common
TO man; so glad that my wife has such
good husband and me better wife J.;
glad I've got the best saddle horse in
Georgia, and that he is as good in har-
ness as ever tightened a trace.
Sul SoTTy lOI d uldll WHO uOI al
thousand things to be thankful for to
where he has Que to kick and growl
about | hope America will have the
greatest Thanksgiving day in her his
tory.
"Let everybody get up the morning of
the 9th, wash their faces, put on their
best bib and tucker, and go out to the
church and hear good Thanksgiving
sermon; come home and eat turkey and
spend the afternoon with loved ones, re-
counting the blessings and merces of
The past year, and my word for it, you
will be better man for tho next twelve
months. This ''going the pace that
kills." without time to think of Cod s
goodness and mercy to us all, is degrad-
ing and running the world.
yankee Doodle always makes more
over Thanksgiving day and July 4th
than we Southerners do; but we win it
back on Christmas. In crowds and
crackers, drunks and deviltry, an old
fashioned Irish wake and a Southern
Christmas day are much alike, and
could never understand or explain them. "