Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-12-01
SELF-EXPRESSION AND COM
MUNICATION

SELF-EXPRESSION AND COM
MUNICATION
This week the Editorial Staff
for the Broadcast offers to the public
a few lines of self expression and com
munication by the following pupils:
Cordelia Price and Alice Powell. In
view of the fact that Thanksgiving
will be celebrated in many states on
November 80, the Staff feels that the
thoughts that follow are timely Tor
publication.
WHENEVER 1T is
Each year, the same days been as
signed
For everyone to pray.
The prayers were of gratitude
The day, Thanksgiving Day.
I think the day was Thursday-and
The month-perhaps November.
It always comes without my aid
So why should remember?
But 10! the situations changed
With F. D. r. in sway,
He said: "My friends, I'm giving you
A new Thanksgiving Day."
Some say Thanksgiving is this week;
While others say tits not.
If could only find the truth
I'd thank God lot.
Alice Powell
THANKSGIvING-1939
Christianity is the gretest influence
in life. Without it, the world of yes
terday, today, and tomorrow would
be incomplete. Surely man could not
live and prosper without God to
worship and work for. Even in the
very earliest days of primitiveness, the
caveman had a religion. True, the
first man bowed down to nature, and
even today there are hundreds of
heathens who have religion no more
Christian-like than this. However, the
Christians who worship God, the one
and only Lord, know and realize just
how important and vital Christianity
really is.
And yet, many of us are inclined to
be unappreciative for our opportuni-
ties of worshipping God. AS Thanks
giving draws near, we should bear in
mind the significance of the season
and realize how important it is. Was
it not established as a direct result
of religious tolerance? Our Puritan
forefathers felt it appropriate and
necessary to praise God for his good
ness and mercies.
During the coming holiday season,
as we thank God for Christianity, we
look back many years and think of
the beginning of this great religion.
How did it gain its prominence in the
world of today?
In the first place, when the Romans,
under julius Caesar, invaded England
in 81 B. c., they Immediately estab-
lished their own customs, law, COM
merce, and culture. Then, many years
later, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
from the north overran the Roman
rule in England, annihiiating many
Roman customs. However, one major
influence which existed among the Ro-
mans remained unmolested-C Christian
ity. This great cause was even to dis
seminate the gospel of Christ. The
outstanding factor in promoting
Christianity about this time was the
diligence and willing, ability of the
monks. One prominent Anglo-Saxon
monk was John Wyclif who, in 1880,
produced a translation of the Bible
in English, which was, of course, q
wonderful accomplishment. William
Longland, another monk, become in
fluential among the common people
after writing long fanciful poem in
which he criticized the methods of the
Catholic Church. These monks, and
others, had great deal to do with
the advancement of Christianity on
early England. %
The great period in English history
known as the Renaissance (which had
been begun by Wyclif andt Loneland,