The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-11-25
SERMONETTE.
BY r. ASHLEY CAKE.
THANKSGIVING.

abundant reason to give thanks.
Consider how great things He
hath done for you."-1 Saml. 1924
Again Thanksgiving, with. it's
home gatherings and hallowed
memories is with us. Truly with
our consideration of rich blessings,
together with our precious memoir
les and fond recollections,w we should
enter Our Fathers gates with
thanksgiving, and into His courts
with praise" We should Serve
Him with gladness and come before
His presence with singing"
The catalog of blessings for
when we should give thanks are
more than We can number. Jesus
in Whom we have our plenteous
redemption, the unspeakable gift,
is the greatest of all blessings, for
through Him all other blessings be-
come ours. He made all things,
and without Him was nothing made
that is made 1t is His grace that
makes us whole, and his loving
kindness that crowns our days.
The beautiful world with all it's
physical relations, the beautiful
pictures we see, and are new every
morning and evening, painted in
such gorgeous colors in the heav-
ems, and reflected on land and sea,
the changing seasons, springtime
with the earth breaking forth into
renewed life, glorious summertime
with the impenatrable mysteries of
growth; buds and blossoms STEP
ping into ruddy Autumn, where the
tolls of Spring and Summer reach
their contamination, with trees loa-
ded with fruit in beautiful ecolors,
together with the vineyards and
harvests of grain and fields of corn,
even the cold frosty mornings of
winter fill our hearts with joyful
emotions. All these striking scenes
are manifestations of Our Fathers
kind remembrance of the children
of men. Indeed, our Thanksgiving
season is fragrant with precious
memories.
1T is good to make mention of
His loving kindness every morning
and His faithfulness every night"
AS fathers and mothers, grand
fathers and grandmothers, with
their children and grandchildren
gong out and coming in holding
their hands for welcome, let us give
the welcome, and bid the rising
generation to come in and kneel
with us at the family altar and give
thanks unto Him from Whom all
blessings f1ow
All over the land where Gods
light is shining and His mercy is
brooding let Thanksgiving songs of
praise fill the air.
Our efforts to recall every bless
ing would be like trying to fathom
the bottomless and reaching the
insurmountable.
The earth is full of the good
ness of the Lord" In spite Of all
the fool prophecies, who would like
to take the world into their own
hands? God fulfills his Word
seed-time and harvest, summer and
winter, heat and cold, day and
night remain and shall continue
until time shall be no more.
Let us not forget to thank Him
for our blessed hope, that at the
end OF life's journey there is to be
a glad reunion with our loved ones
gone. We miss. them from our ia
bles, and in our festivities, but Je-
sus says that when He comes again
He will bring them with Him and
we are assured that we shall see
their faces, clasp their hands. and
hear their voices.
I'VE shall see face to face. and
know as We are known" and with
them live in mansions that fire can
not burn, nor thieves break into
and steal.
We shall live in mansions prepar-
ed for all who believe in the eff
cacy of the atonement and are faith
full unto death. Consider how great
things the Lord hath done for you.
Thanksgiving, 1927.