The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-11-29
THANKSGIVING DAY.

THANKSGIVING DAN.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving day At
the call of our magistrates. all over
this great nation of ours the people
win gather in sanctuaires, and school
houses, convention halls and other
places where people oongregate and
spend an hour In Thanksgiving sery-
ices. This custom Is peculiar to the
American people. We stop in the rush
Of business and turn aside for one brief
hour to return thanks to the giver of
every good and perfect gift for mer-
cies and blessings innumerable. We
come to God because we are his crea-
lures, and we realize that he is in
finitely good and kind TO all his crea-
lures He has bestowed upon us the
gift of being, and all the blessings and
mercies that come to us as nation
and as individuals. At this time we
look up to Him with hearts filled with
thankfuness, and sometimes through
and remember his goodness and mercy
In the year past many things have
come to us that were not of our choos-
ing. We that have strayed away and
wandered far afield would like to come
back and try to look up into his face,
and In some feeble. halting way give
thanks for the blessings we have failed
to recognize when we received them.
At this time the heart grows tender,
and our hard natures are softened and
we long for the guidance of the Divine
hand leading us as it were by the hand
like little children through all the dark
and dangerous places with which life
is beset.
Away out toward the Pacific Coast
the train carries one along mountain
sides, and over dangerous passes,
through dark tunnels and over yawn-
ing abysses and by and by we come in
sight of the ocean lying out before us
with its changing wonders and its
limitless expanse, a picture of peace
the peace that passes all understand
ing. So it seems on these Thanksgiv-
ing days. After the hurry, and hustle,
and rush of busy life we pause for one
brief hour to remember and thank the
one from whom we receive every bless
ing. In the year agone there have
been dark days Loved ones may
have been taken. A father or mother
or mayhap little child has been given
4 up and we have been blinded by tears.
. But today whole nation turns its face
. toward God and we reach out and
i struggle up toward Him. aud find com
4 fort and happiness in the exercise 1t
is time for deep meditation When
We, like tired children who have wand
cred far atield during the toilsome day.
*retun TO give thanks and praise, It
is said that away down in the blue
Edepths of the ocean there is place of
Xahso'ute rest and quiet, place that is
mot affected by the storms that rage on
<the surface, So it should be on these
Thanksgiving days. We should be able
70 get away from the burdens and
cares of the tangled hank Of human
E existence and take an inventory of
ife, its manifold and changing scenes
II is good time for high resolves and
loble ambitions. 1t is said the English
ark never sings while sitting upon
he earth, but it is when he scars aloft
ar up in the sunlight that he breaks
he eternal stiffness Of the skies with
MS notes of gladness, and sings his
weest song. So let Thanksgiving day
'e to all of us a time or renewal Of
aith and a pledge Of better service
nd a better life,