The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24

1t Is strange but true that the various
joyous festivals which we celebrate are
always new.
Every year they return and bring
with them the same enthusiasm with
which we greet the ever recurring mira
Gle of Spring.
Each May is as wonderful and as
beautiful as IL we had never seen one
before
Christmas comes back with the plan
ming of gifts. the delightful surprises and
the holy joy that it has always brought.
Thanksgiving finds us once more ready
for the happiness that belongs to 1t.
1t speaks we'll for human nature that
we are waiting and willing to observe
this feast when the government issues
the suggestion that we do so.
There is much talk about mans will
lingness to accept all and be thankful for
nothing but surely the fact that Thanks
giving Day is celebrated each year is
proof that we do sometimes pause to
enumerate our blessings
Not so often we might. but there
is one day In the year in which some of
us do enioln ourselves to forget not all
His benefits"
Thanksgiving is one of the few festivals
that enforce upon as no giving of pres
ents or paying of obligations.
Christmas, New Year. birthdays, all re-
mind us that we should give to others,
but on next Thursday whatever gifts We
hestow are purely volnntaryAmerely be-
cause out of the fullness of our own
lives and manifold blessings we DESIRE
to help some one else to be thankful too,
1t is a blessed relief to turn ones
thoughts from the sordid world of greed
and gain to the great, sweet beautiful
souls who live in obscurty doing the
best they know how in their environment
lighting the little space in which they
live by the flame of faith and planting
the flowers of peace. patience and cheer
fulness in their small gardens. where the
fruits of their efforts may be daily seem
II only one takes the trouble to look in.
Into such an environment ! CHANGED to
drop a few days ago when | sought the
opportunity to learn something of how
Thanksgiving is spent at St Nincents
hospital.
Sister Chrysostom. who is known and
beloved of all Birmingham for her ex
eelent stewardship of the hospital was
kind enough to tell me something Of the
observance Of the day-there,
1t occurred to me after moments
chat with her that Il you happened to
be a bit dissatisfied or morbid or unhap-
py, and you think you haven't got what's
coming to you in life. and that when
Thanksgiving comes around you have
nothing to be thankful for. Id recommend
an hours chat with this sweet gentle
woman, whose self-denial and self-sacri-
flee I'm the service of humanity during
many long and momentous years. have
not sileneed the joy-note that still domi-
mates the key in which her life was orig
inally written. but instead has enhanced
1t tenfold by her thanlSfulness and graft
ftude of what she and her eo-workers
have accomplished for the good of hn-
manity.
The good Sisters of Charity, with the
cooperation of the kind hearted citizens
of birmingham, have made it possible for
the sick and poor, the lame and the halt
TO be cared for properly by the establish
rnent of such an excellent hospital as St
Nincent's, maintaining ii up to the high
est possible standard.
r say to them and all those connects
with the work that the Recording Angel
in the Final DAY win turn back the
pages of his Shining Book and write OPP
posite their names a word that will en-
title them TO an Everlasting Peace, when
"Eternity's grave Serge thunders a-near
'In the pamphlet" Sister Chrysostom
told me-. that We have sent out this
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