Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-12-02

-l man experience as FAR
49, as you've gone. YOU viii
answer: "The best way
to spell THANKSGIVING is Thanks
Living"
josh Billings says: Many people
use their religion about as they would
q life-preserver, putting it on only IN
time of danger, and they generally
wrong side before
Part of our religion is supposed to
he cherishing spirit OF thankful
ness. The president of the United
States calls on us annually to give
thanks. A thousand other voices call
US daily to the same experience
Do we respond?
Some do, after the style of a certain
expression too common among a
class of young people. Hand a girl
en- the car the handkerchief she has
dropped, and she answers: Thanks.
awfully." Give a waiter tip. and
he responds: Thanks, awfully" Show
another the way TO some Office which
he is looking for. and he touches mis-
hat, saying: Thanks. awfully." Now,
isn't that absurd? Certainly it is I'M
refined, undignified and utterly map
propTlate slang.
Yet to me it expresses too force
fully the manner OF much professedly
Christian thought. For example: A
man thinks growl, because his baby
has had the whooping cough. though
he's nearly we'll Why does he not give
thanks because the baby lived His
neighbor's died
'Rained for four days steady" says
another man. How about the IL days
of continuous sunshine and balmy air
preceding9 We'll, he says. II for
got that. suppose / ought to he
thankful" Now isn't that Thanks,
awfuily?"
I'm getting so gray I'm startled, .
says some Beau Brummel Way
aren't you thankful you've got hair
enough to turn gray? Your partne~
is bald as a auart-eup.
Be thankful, but live 1t. The nation
is learning this duty fast. Neighbor-
hood is no longer a geographical term
but means human need and ability to
help
Christ for the world we sing is IN
the hymn book But so is the next
line. "The world to Christ we bring"
Here's some more:
The poor and those that mourn,
The weak and overborne.
Sinsick and sorrow worn,
WHOM Christ can heal"
But He viii be pretty apt to do it
through your word, your touch, your
poke tbook-yourself.
Poor little waif, !" was said TO a little
ragamuffin by a tender-heartcd WON
an. why doesn't God tell somebody
about your needs?" ''He did, SAID the
child, pitifully, but Somebody forgot
about It,"
To forget-that is "Thanks-aw-
fully II the nation is grateful to-day,
it means her citizens are. We've
had the sword, our across-the-sea-
neighbors have had il long enough.
But see. The sabre that cleft foe
mans skull set wide open the door of
human responsibility before the eyes
of Christian men and women
Thankful were we for our own
peace. But Thanksgiving means ma
tional and individual Thanks Livingl
So, awhile ago, with a sublime altru-
ism, a wealthy nation of IS 600 900 laid
Itself al the feet of enslaved Cuba and
said: Here are we! Our best youth,
our ablest generals, our guns, our mu-
milton and fortunes. to set you free"
1t cost blood, even a quarter of a nil
lion men; it cost treasure; but in 100
days the foe was conquered. and 12,-
100000 people set free.
Are we thankful for the still more
recent treaty Of peace? Yesl But
we are not worthy to stand as Amer
lean citizens if we do not prove our
gratitude By meeting the tax assessor
honoraby the iaboring man fSirly, the
capitalist as fairly AID the needy as
generously. ts
Let lis so to autumn's shrine and lay
there our garland of THANKSGIVING.
Yurple. and crimson, and gold Leave
Iit there. thankfully, holly
Then let Us go 70 put crimson glorles
and new tints of happiness ia POOR,
starved, helpless lives Maybe some
body Is hungry for CLINT OF Sadness
n your Office Maybe in your home.
Look about If the people DO thus W
you and are the people the natioa
viii, and the earth will laugh out in
her Sadness to hail true Thanks
giyins day
a Thanksgiving Thought
There is something lacking IN the