Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-27
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mains to be seen.
There is no question but what one
! lesson to be drawn from these words is
that of contentment. Not only content
ment, but to be contented with what
! you have. Let us for once be practical
Reader, If you live in a one-story cot
tage be thankful that your wife thus
avoids the care of big house. You
avoid the servant girl question. Your
taxes are less, repairs, fuel and insur-
ance all are represented by small fig
ures. Be thankful If the reader lives
m big house-what blessing! Sure
ly your income justities it. You can
entertain your friends, have lots OF
company and still not have to have a
meeting of the ways and means COM
mittee. Give thanks. But perhaps you
live neither in a small nor large
house. You board. What blessing!
All the ills pertaining to small or large
housekeeping are thus avoided. Again
give thanks.
Then there is the question of health
Thank God you're alive. You're able
to attend to your work. to eat three
meals day and digest them. You can
go to bed at 10 p. M, sleep like log"
hate to get up in the morning when you
are called. and isn't this cause for
thankfulness?
Your children are we'll and strong.
Do you remember those anxious days
when they were under the doctors
care? Think over your feelings on those
long, weary days, when that boy or
girl of yours was lowering on the di-
viding line of life and death Are you
thankful today?
And this sums up all we have on
earth. Health, home comfort and FAM
lily. What about money? Will money
itself take the place of any of these
blessings?
Again, be comparatively thankful.
Look around and see how many of your
neighbors lack what you possess. Per
laps that home could be more COM
Portable, but how about those poor peo-
pie living in Happy Hollow. 1t may be
your wife is an invalid. But stop! Jones
wife has died since last Thanksgiving.
Aches and pains may be reminding you
old age is creeping on. Didn't some
che say Smith has had stroke of pa
ralysis and never will be we'll again?
Some one said Browns boy was going
to the devil. Remember this when your
boy acts out little of inherited mean
ness. II wasn't anything to worry
about. Thompson's boy is in the peni-
tertiary. And that young daughter of
yours actually is not as dignified and
quiet as her mother is. Worrying about
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suicide the other day? The old saying
is that comparisons are odorous. not
odious, as sometimes rendered. Truly
they are, and the odor is sweet when
they are made with thankful heart.
Once more, be thankful you live in
this day and age. Be thankful you live
in the United States and in Iowa. Read
the presidents and governors procla-
nations, not in perfanetory way, but
read them as words of exact meaning,
words of literal truth. No country is so
truly blest as these United States. No
state has more real cause for Thanks
giving than Iowa. No person in Iowa
is today hungry or cold excepting from
two causes-either misfortune or i'm
providence. We live in state where
the air and water are pure. Where food
and clothing and house covering are
easy to get. state wherein men and
women have high ideals and work them
out Where what is known as public
sentiment is on the right side of all
moral questions. Where women are
and children and old persons
have the care of the state. Where a
roor man is every whit as much re-
spected as the rich, this always provid-
ing the poor man respects himself.
Perhaps this last statement needs quail
ification. Where the poor man is fully
as much respected by the class whose
respect is desired and of Importance.
And we also live in country and state
where religious liberation is universal.
What more does men want? Here is
offered and received all that mind and
body needs or desires.
Finally, my brethren. we are forced
by the text to recognize the existence
of the brawling woman. AS she lives
in neither your house nor mine, neigh
Dor further remarks seem unnecessary.
Nevertheless, ii is not inappropriate in
a Thanksgiving sermon to thank God
that she lives In the other mans house.
We might add that we are profoundly
thankful.
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