The Cairo bulletin., 1911-11-28

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t1PhSI()R R,iSSTU1j in life are to a
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tent whit VIZ make them Bible stf
dents should he philosophers every
one Of thrfl Why; Bcrah' fhe Wis
dOm ti0m Gbore TX M nobifsf sfrnrr and
tcs, instruction AS 81 Pau declares
It tends to promote the spirit OF II
sound mind~anl Sonnd mal is nee
essarily u philosophical on" Muraur-
ers and "mpiAiHcrs are not ph!oS0
pliers but the reverse \ sound mind
tells MS to take things as they are. to
make the best at them rather than tu
quarrel over them and find fant with
Divine providence and make ourselves
and everybody else IN our envirohiusHt
miserable,
True Christian people in every lani
and under all conditions have found
plenty of cause for tbankfulneSS even
though they have had their share, or
more. Of life's difficulties Nor was this
thaukfulness because they had master.
ed the Divine philosophy and Under
stood the rhp and the rheretore of The
present reign Of sin and death They
ACCEPTED their portion of life's Joys and
sorrows by faith. believing that their
portion was measured TO them by the
Lord and ihat fun obedience aud sub
mission, with cheerfulneSs, was their
duty. ~
Excuses For Urtharkfulness
We are ready 10 coueede that tho
world. awakening from the sleepy su,
perStiti0ns Of the past can readily
find many excuses for declining 10 be
thankful. If we mention some OF
these 1t will not be by way of endors-
ing them. rather to show the uuthank.
full masses that we recognize their
viewpoint but DO not agree with IT,
We would point them to the better
course of thankfuIness and proportion
ate happiness. To their complaint
that thcs have fewer and smaller
blessings t,.ac their more wealthy
neIghbors. we rcEhnd them that the
poor of this favored land habitually
waste more than would make very
thankful some of the poor of other
lands
We remind that under Divine bless
ing upon the soil and the Divine bless.
ing upon human skill conveniences
and comforts have multiplied about rs
so that the common people" of our
land have home comforts and con
venienees and educational facilities
and parks and libraries. well paved
and lighted streets and cheap trans.
p0rtation such as were not dreamed
of in our grandfnthers' days. nor en-
loved even by the rich. Let us not
greedily ask more along these lines
until we have fully appreciated pres
ent privileges and blessings and re
turned thanks therefor
But" says one. 'our forefathers
were superstitiously thankful. ana we
must avoid that. they gave thanks
to God for the sunshine and the rain
We have learned that these are proyi
sons of nature and we thank nobody
for them Our forefathers thanked
God for escape from feudal slavery
bur we see that they should have re-
belpd against feudalism and bought
their freedom with their own courage,
"Our forefathers thanked God. If
they were sick. that they did not die
and 20 to eternal torture. We are com
Ing to the rationalistic idea that they
should have thanked their physician
for recovery from sickness and should
not have believed In nm everlasting FIJI.
ture of torture. because so far MS we
can see that teaching Is all humhug,
Intelligent people of the world have
no more knowledge than ourselves re
speeding a future We agree with
the college professors that our race IL
progressing by an evolutionary law OF
nature and that God has nothing 10 do
with It. and thnt there is no future
iiiN W. We nNFpt W 'hf. TViNt Ni'A W.
In the future. will be represented on u
higher plane of living. by our evouted
children You will perceive. therefore,
why we consider Thanksgiving Day \
piece Of medieval superstition"
Replies to the untbankfuf.
Our reply to this reasoning must be
along two lines; first. philosophical
second. analytical
On Are not these increasingly large
numbers of pantheistic and athelstic
evolutionists unpbilosophical They nd.
NIT that they have blessings far he.
yond anything known to their fore.
fathers. AMI they admit that their IN
happiness has increased In proportion
as these blessings and reasonings re.
speeding them have been received
Would not true philosophy tell them
that II happiness is their aim and de.
sire, their loss Of happiness Is not due
to the Increased blessings. but to the
Improper and unthankful manner IN
which they have received tbemi
Wouid NOT nhiloaonhv alone anart