The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-11-20
Thanksgiving Day.

November 2OLn, llankSSlNlHS Ddyi
IL a day set apart by our President
for religious services to acknowledge
the goodness of God On that day
we will gather in our temples, our
homes, or wherever we may be, TO
render thanks to our Heavenly Father
for the many blessings bestowed upon
us. 1t is, a day instrumental in the
communication of human and divine
love. 1t helps me to realize that the
fulfillment OF the past Is the best Sc
curity for the future, for on that day
way down deep in our hearts we will
be truly thankful we have lived right
in the sight OF God we realize that
it is our own past which has made us
what we are, and that, Good actions
ennoble us and we are the sons Of our
own deeds" Each Thanksgiving Day
presses into us a deeper moral print;
the lives we have led have left us
such as we are today. On that day
we bow our heads in reverence and
submission we will be mighty of heart,
mighty OF mind, magnanimOus, thereby
proving ourselves to be great in this
life.
We should be thankful we live in
a christian country and can worship
our Heavenly Father according to the
dictates OF our conscience, for relig-
ious freedom is great privilege. Al
50 thankful that our country is bless
ed with % bounte5ns a supply of
foCdstuffs which is sufficient to serve
our needs and still permit large ex-
ports.
Despite the fact that we are suf-
fering from business depression, due
to war and other contributOry causes,
we should console ourselves that it is
not worse. 1t is true that business is
dull in some sections but reaction is
bound to come soon and this reaction
will furnish opportunities such as we
have never had.
Last but not least, we are at peace
with the universe and every true
American should be thankful to our
President and the Cabinet, as we'll as
those who favored his policy, that we
are not reeking in blood. Think OF
blood soaked battle fields; then think
of fields OF grain and t1owers-which
course would you choose? He remem-
bered, That our interest is in con-
cord, not conflict, and that our real
eminence rest ia the victories OF
peace, not those OF war" BY his
policy we do not have battlefield, fam
lily ties brokens wounded and dying
but We do have our young manhood
with us who will grow into useful
and peaceful citizens. Instead OF
warfare which is destructive work
they will engage in commercial work,
which il productive business, which
course will insure to coming genera
tions prosperity and peace So dear
friends, Thursday, November 26th, let
Us give thanks to God, that our Presi-
dents policy IL, Peaceful watching
and waiting" Its logic Is unanswer-
able, its import most significant.
Just now, most all the nations of
the world are fast approaching the
most terrible crisis OF their national
existence. In great time of unpar-
allied trouble, which is even now i'm
ininent, they are about to reap what
they have sown- They have sown to
the wind the seeds OF selfishness and
now they are about to reap the whirl-
wind of terror and the destruction of
all law and order and of national and
social organization. They have pour
ed the sweet milk OF concord into
hell, thereby creating war.
May the love of humanity warm
your hearts, remembering, sympathy
A. the charm OF human life" Human
thought is the process by which
human ends are conserved.
Let us pray that our Heavenly
Father may assuage the anguish or
the bereavement which has come to
the nations at war and leave them
only the cherished memory of the
loved and lost and the solemn pride
that must b. theirs to lay 70 costly
sacrifice upon the altar on war.
GITHA P. MILLER.