The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-29


received, freely give said the Master
Let US try to lift others into the sun
shine of Thanksgiving Day.
We are ever ready to ask for the
things we want, but when our prayer
is answered, the request granted, we
too often forget the Giver. Ten men
went TO the Christ with their trouble;
their request granted. they all were
healed, but one only returned to give
thanks. Two angels We're sent out
from heaven as the story goes, each
with a basket, to bring back the
prayers of thanksgiving of those on
earth. The angel of thanksgiving
started with a large hamper, the coll
lector of petitions with a small bas-
ket; but when they returned, each was
in trouble. The petitions overlooked
the basket and filled a sack as well.
while the angel of Thanksgiving only
had three in his hamper"
This is the time to go home, they say
on the mainland. But what of those
iof .us who have no homes to go to?
You have a friend who. like yourself
perhaps, has no home. This is the day
to see him. Take him an apple or an
orange, and talk over the good things
that have come to you in the year.
You will find something good.
friend of mine once said to me
he would rather be poor in Hawaii
than fat in any other land on earth.
Expect to find something good in the
years record and you will find ii.
Your expectation will be fulfilled.
Never was it truer than 1t is today.
that they who seek will find. Seek a
promise from God end you will find it.
There hath never failed one word of
all His good promises. Seek now and
you viii not wait till another Thanks
giving season comes around to find
that the life that is within you is full
of expressions of Gods goodness.
Let us carry with US the spirit Of
Thanksgiving Day through the year,
and not save up our gratitude for ex-
Ttression on one day, about the last Of
November. The act of a mighty ma
ton like ours. in setting apart day
in the year for public recognition Of
Divine favors, when the people are
requested to unitedly praise God for
mark of His goJd favor to the whole
people. is indeed sublime. 1t is an irr%
SEPARATION Of God. Let US not, how
ever, forget the little things Of our lot.
Life is full of little things from God,
that come every day-so countless and
SO free that we fail to take note. of
the gifts or the Giver. I move yon
that we fill our cup of gratitude today
with the wine of gladness, with an
overflow that shall not cease from one
festive season to another.
40 favors every year made new!
o gifts with rain and sunshine sent!
The bounty overruns our due,
The fuliness -shames our discomfort"
/ have another reason for the exer~
else of the grateful heart today. Per-
hans YOU will think it inappropriate
to the occasion, but I venture 1t.
Thank God that He is in the world or
men and in your individual world.
Every man has his world in which he
lives and moves. Yours may be smaller
than YOU would have it and full OF
difficulties You are ready to give up.
You have been worsted in the struggle
and Won are down. Perhaps youl
neighbor did you up and then threw
YOU overheard Or you may have gone
down under the reactionary forces OF
your own nisdeeds. Any way, what
ever the cause, you are the under man.
Now. God is right there where you
are. And He is there, in your world,
not to appear against you, but for
YOU. If you have lost yourself, He will
bring you back to yourself and once
more to Himself He extends the
helping hand to you, that you may
take hold of it and be lifted up and
get on your feet again. submit the
proposition that this also is matter
for thanksgiving: that we can not
get away from the love of God, or be-
yond the reach of His helpful hand.
We find matter for congratulatlon
and praise in the present status of
Hawaii nei. Hawaii the land of our
first love to those of us who were born
under her blue skies; adopted home OF
many. Hawaii Youngest and small
est of United States Territories, but
fairest of all the islands that gem the
Pacific Sea, Unmatched in beauty Oh
climates. Home of the lima and MALE,
of the kukui, hala and lehue! we
have good reason to be proud or our
lot and to render our tribute OF thanks-
giving to the Most High that our for
tune has been cast here. Eighty-seVen
years ago this land was comparative"
Iy unknown to the world. A htlle
band of men and women landed mere
by permission in 1920. They feoueeo
the native tongue to written IAN
guage and commenced to teach the ma
rive race the principles of the Chris
tian religion Twenty-Five years later
John Quincy Adams. then chairman
of the Committee of Foreign Relations
of the House of Representatives. in
renort which he made TO that body
touching the condiGon of the Hawai-
ian Islands. said: They are under
one balanced government: rallied 10
the fold of civilization by written
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