The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-26

ca or the Indian coasts. Your dessert
NAV include some marmalade from
Mexico, a blanc mango made from moss
picked on a sea shore, tapioca pud-
ding. of which the main part comes
from Africa or the southern states. In
one or more Of the buildings you will
have starch, and if 1t is of the best
kind it came from Bermuda; your rice
pudding came from South Carolina or
Louisiana. In all these pastries and
buildings you have sugar. You might
order it from the West Indies, Venez-
uela or Silesia, but probably from the
southern states, likewise the molasses.
The raisins from Spain, Malaga or
Smyrna. For drink we may have on
our table chocolate from tropical Amer
lea, coffee from Java, Brazil, Arabia;
tea from China.
Last and most numerous are the
fruits; our own soil gives US vast va
riety in their season. We may have
with the apple, figs from India and
about the Mediterranean; dates from
Persia or Africa; lines from the West
Indies; oranges from Florida and Mes
sina; bananas from all tropical lands.
With our own hickory, walnut and
chestnut are the almond from Spain,
Italy and the Levant; braziinuts from
Brazil and filberts from southern Eu-
rope.
| Now I ask you, with these facts in
mind, if a dinner has not much to tell
Of the dominion OF man? Is not the
earth, Its herds and fruits prepared for
his service? What do all these things
speak Of Him who made the earth as it
is, each cline yielding its own products,
and one the compliment of the other,
and all combining to give the greatest
happiness to Gods creature, man.
The second lesson is that Of the digni-
ty of man.
Why this contribution to a being
less in stature and much weaker in
brain than many animals. "All things
under his feet" Why? Because he is
something which enters into a larger
joy to truer life beyond the grave.
Every gem lying beneath the ocean,
every ore unquarried, all creation wait
ed for its Lord. From the first dawn Of
life up to the complete man, everything
is subservient to a moral end. Creation
contributes all her stores to him whose
complete blessedness is gained when he
knows, loves and enjoys God.
A third lesson is that of the necessity
of human cooperation. Lastly the gath
ering at the festive board presents a
glad view of life, which we are to hold
as most true to life, as God intends it.
Happy faces at the table This temper
of mind carried out into all the rela-
lions Of life makes the world beautiful
as to the healthy boy-every thing is
good. The second class misanthropes
and pessinists count the sick until they
say none are well; count dull days and
failures and frauds and make life mis-
cradle. :.ss,-
Third class; happy, not dreary. TAX
l. ing their experiences as part of d.
Q'ne education; such people happy in
consciousness that they are growing
! worthy OF themselves. It is the first
and last of which Thanksgiving dinner
is a reminder. The joy Of innocence
and the joy Of experience. Keep the
first as long as we can. Other days
come to most of us. Can we keep
Thanksgiving? Yes, He giveth songs
in the night Let us be glad in the
Lord. Gods end in life is not to make
man gay, but good, remembering all
things work together for good to them
who love God.