Arizona republican., 1910-11-25

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 g. The spirit of thanksgiving is the spirit of good cheer.
 There was once a man of whom the dwellers in the same house said that he always came down to break fast looking as if he jus inherited a fortune Every night he slept away care and renewed his youth. So he never lost the charm of childhood sunny face and a happy spirit "A silver stream
 Breaking with laughter from the lake
 divine
 Whence all things flow"
 The spirit of thanksgiving is in carnate sunshine. It paints the cheek with the blush of the peach. It en- riches a smile with something more than the beauty of the rose. It was the spirit of thanksgiving which in spired the new Blessed are the cheer makers. for they shall be called the sons of the morning"
 Henry Drummond and Robert Louis Stevenson made their sick room a place of good cheer to all who re- sorted thither. Friends who went in to bestow comfort went out radiant with a new illumination.
 Not until the day of sunshine the laughter of a little child, the cheery greeting of a friend, a page out Of a new book, or any one of the com paratively trifling experiences which befell you between sunrise and sunset can make you deeply and unfeignedly happy" Can you be truly thankful for existence or any of the myriad blessings. great or small, which eX- istence has to offer.
 I. The spirit of thanksgiving is the spirit of generosity
 Tyndale. early in the sixteenth cen tury. felt the rapid pulse of thanks jty.
 If God spares my life" said. he, T will make it possible for any plowboy in England to read the Bible in his own tongue" About century ago. Samuel J. Mills, the American pioneer of the modern mis- sionary movement. touched by the same impulse. wrote in his diary. No young man ought to think of living without trying to make his in fluencefelt around the globe" Fran ces Willard, filled with the joyous sense of being and the spirit of true thanksgiving. poured forth her life in the joyous sense of being and the generous endeavor for womankind and for all womankind until she had girdled the world with the white symbol of purity. sObriety and peace.
 nnIx h.a Hf become great with generosity: and only the generous soul is found in the house of praise. The man whose motto is. Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost" never attended thanksgiving ser vice. Some people are thankful like the man who
 Always likes the summer. if the
 fruit drops from the limb; Likes winter fire-if they split the
 wood for him"
 Some are like the fellow who says:
 He is like the lilies
 Doesn't toll or spin:
 only when it's rainin'
 Will you see him runnin in"
 The spirit of thanksgiving lives. not to get the best of the world, but to do its best for the world.
 ,. The spirit of thanksgiving is the spirit of peace and good will. Thank God we are living in The bridal time of law and love,
 The gladness of the worlds release. When, war sick. at the feet of Peace The hawk shall nestle with the
 dove,"
 There is a growing world con sciousness Of moral responsibility for universal peace and brotherhood There is a rapidly developing con sciousness of the crime and waste of intemperance and violence. The most happy of all signs today is the world consciousness that the Christ life is the great world-type of man. hood. It has come into the con- and empire building are essentially spiritual. They are the expression of the spiritual life of the nations The optimism of peace and good will becomse the breath of the world. America is great today by the great ness of her demand for peace. and her love of peace and good will is the fruit of her glad and abounding spirit of thanksgiving. A great ma tional thanksgiving proclamation has crowned every great national epoch. The deepest thing in the American is God. the heavenly Father. When the hand of President Roosevelt, great and popular as he was, erased from the dollar the sa- cred motto. In God We Trust" the American people arose and com manded with unmistakable emphasis. Put it back"
 It is the American consciousness of the Fatherhood of God and the of Christ that lies at the foundation of American great ness. prosperity and power The Bishop of Hereford. who visited this country in 1904 to attend the inter- national peace conference in Boston. said that the United States is "the greatest and most influential peace society in the world"
 So let us continue to express and cultivate the spirit of thanksgiving Let us speak kindly and hopefully of the world and of all the nations of the world. It is the spirit of thanks giving spirit of optimism, spirit of altruism, that is redeemng the world from waste and war.
 It was Phillips Brooks who said: Never despair of the world over which God reigns."
 Was it not Browning. before Brooks who said: God is in his heaven-alrs we'll with theworld."
 He was not a preacher or a poet, but a poor. hard-working man. Yet every night when he came home to dinner he would remark with smile ssrrhn unrldc a ureat pn isn,f