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Righ' Reverend Sees rem D.OLLD.,
Bishop of Washington
Text:
Psalms, 1:14,
come, Io our individual and corporate
life nothing Is more disheartening or
disappointing than ingratitude. It was
this that made King Lear ery out:
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth
It Is to have a thankless child 1”
Fallure to acknowledge gifts and
heart of the benefactor, but works to
the beneficiary, To be
thankful for favors big or little is a
mark of refinement and an evidence of
good breeding. We have often noted
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respond to a favor conferred are thosa
An ex.
is a
Primitive
Rite »**
HANKSGIVING is celebrated In
| memory of the day when the
friendly Narraganset Indians
saw the newcoming farmers of old
England In aeed, because their Euro
pean cereals failed to grow on the
sands of Cape Cod. These red men
gave the Pilgrims corn, beans,
squashes, wild turkeys, and wild
grapes; all considered sacred gifts of
the Great Spirit to the soil of Amer
lca, says Dr, Erl Bates, advisor in In-
dian extension at the New York state
college of agriculture,
However, he says, this was not the
first Thanksgiving. The rite was born
as early man sought out his relation
ship to his creator and wondered at
the mystery of the seasons. This be-
came associated with mystery and an
element of fear: and to explain this,
priests soon developed a ceremonial
History tells of Thanksgiving ten
thousand years ago in the Tigris-Eu-
phrates valley when the harvest was
gathered; In the valley of the Nile;
in Crete; In the beginnings of some
of the priestly rituals in Greece and
Rome; among the Hebrews; the
Red Men Gave the Pilgrims Corn,
Beans, Squashes, Turkeys,
Norsemen; In the Congo: and In Tas
mania as the seasonal waves threw
quantities of fish on thelr shores,
To a sifuple people like the North
Americen Indians, Thanksgiving was
personal and sincere, They felt the
Bpirit at each sunrise and each sun.
set, and each month the tribe, in com-
mon ceuncil, celebrated one of thelr
twelve Thanksgivings. In midwinter
they thanked the Great Spirit for
sending the snow to protect the seeds
and animals; later they gave thanks
for the sweet waters of the woodland,
or maple sap; In spring they held thelr
great Thanksgiving, for they were
Able to plant thelr food staple—Indian
maize; soon followed the ceremony
for the strawberries and, in order,
those for the beans and squashes, the
eorn harvest, for the wild apples and
grapes, and for the time when the hide
and flesh of the deer and bear was In
season. Doctor Bates shys the power
of the Bix Nations came through the
common bond of thelr religious cere
onials,
IAs the red man looks at the white
today, he says, the Great
bas given the white American
’ i
fifty times more than he ever gave
the red man, but the white American
has but one Thanksgiving a year, If
the red man with his limitations was
able to produce his great elvilization
with but nature's book and the sky as
his guide, what can the white man not
do with his Inheritance and the wis
of his ideals and experiences?
“Faith will’ move mountains in
America today as In days gone by, if
we place our feet on the sacred soll
The White American Has But One
Thanksgiving a Year,
of the red man and, unafraid, cele
brate the true American spirit of
Thanksgiving, To be a tolerant, neigh-
borly American, live the Thanksgiving
spirit of the red American In daily
thinking and living,” Doctor Bates
says,
Thanksgiving Chrysanthemum
Since it is the chrysanthemum sea-
son—this hardy flower defying the
frost—the chrysanthemum is the
Thanksgiving flower. That is quite
as it ‘should be, Thanksgiving Is a
hardy holiday as well as a hearty one.
It spans the whole distance between
the American of the Seventeenth cen
tury who held (in New England) all
sport an ungodly pastime, and the
American of the Twentieth century
who makes a god of sport. That
shows how truly and abidingly Amer.
ican a holiday is this one, which is
80 rarely privileged that the President
of the Republic has to pay it the trib.
ute of an annual official proclamation.
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Thanksgiving Pie
Chanksgiving
By Katherine Edelman
Fi THER of all,
Thy name we bless,
For all good things
That we possess.
For dreams and hopes
That fill the soul,
For struggling toward
Some shining goal;
For every linle
Joy that clings
Around life's simple
Homey things,
Father of all,
Our praise we send,
To Thee, our best
And truest Friend,
We bless Thee for
The kindly yield
Of stretching plain,
Of wood and field.
And be our portion
Great or small,
We love and thank you
For iz all,
{CL 1933, Western Newspaper Union
chinery of life. Like the gift of mercy,
“it blesses him who gives and him who
takes.” To remember daily the gifts
that God bestows Hpon us serves to
mike conscious of the real
values of life. The mere expression in
prayer of gratitude deepens In us not
only our sense of upon
God, but gives us a finer sense of our
own piace of usefulness in the scheme
of life,
When a nation 1s called. as we are,
to recogniz 3
serves to emphasize our solidarity and
the richness of our common her tage,
and at the same time brings vividly
before us our common dependence upon
him who is the giver of good
and pesfect gift. It was the Roman
Emperor Constantine who sald to the
sculptor who was carving his figure,
“1 wish you to carve the figure kneel.
ing, In the prayer, for it
was from that posture | rose to great
ness” As Individuals or as a people
UE more
dependence
thanksgiving, it
every
attitude of
of Prayer,
of our corporate life and our Intimate
a 7h
Season,
of 7A) I
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A ALY
XCEPT the Fourth of July
E Thanksgiving 1s the most dis
tinctively American of all our |
national holidays. It has not always
been held so late in the year, nor has
it eiways been held everywhere at the
Same time. Originating In New Eng- |
land, it was not observed throughout
the country until after the Civil war,
when the Presidents, as well as the
governors of states, began to Issue
Thanksgiving proclamations. Thus it
has become a symbol of national unity, |
The custom of celebrating a Thanks. |
giving day did not originate with the
Pligrims, though they introduced It
into this country. For seven days
when the harvest was over the He |
brews of the Old Testament held thelr
Feast of Tabernacles, a sort of camp. |
of wandering in the wilderness. In i
October the Greeks celebrated at |
Athens their “Thesmophoria,” in hon. i
or of Demeter, the goddess of agricul. |
ture. It was a fesiivai that began with
religious rites performed by married
women only, and that ended with a
general banquet and dancing. On Oc-
tober 4 the Romans kept a similar fes-
tival that they called “Cerealla” in
honor of Ceres, thelr goddess of the
barvest. Indeed there is In almost
every European nation a tradition of
a feast to mark the end of the garner
ing of the crops. In Old England it
was called “Harvest Home” and came
down from the Saxon period; In Seot-
land It was “Kern"—a
4 special Sunday Is designated
we commonly receive, Thus,
bound
Ing brings us closer together in a great
fellowship than a spirit of thankful.
ness. When we are over-self-confident
when, In
God,
ship and the evidence of deepened af.
fection, America on this Thanksgiv.
Ing day must acknowledge with gratl.
tude another year of unprecedented
blessings, Widely scattered as our
peoples are, diverse as are thelr in.
terests, they are the sharers of 2 com.
mon bounty. Surely at such a time
and ander such conditions It Is fit.
ting that we should unite to “offer
unto God thanksgiving.” The very act
of corporate thankfulness : tends to
brenk down that which all too fre
quently divides us. into groups and
classes; It effaces distinctions and
makes of the nation itself one great
fam Thus the spirit of thankful
ness mes Indispensable to our
security, our peace and prosperity, We
may worship at different altars, we
may express our devotions In ways
familiar to us, we may have fellow
ships that have grown dear and help-
ful to ua, but on our national Thanks
giving day we bow a# one people be
fore the “Giver of every good and per
fect gift" and with humility recognize
his bounty and our common dependence
HE NEEDED WATER
Small Erie wanted to go to the
swimming baths with the bigger
boys, hut his teacher thought it
wouldn't be gafe,
“But I'm a good swimmer, sir,” he
pleaded,
“Can you swim a length? asked
the teacher.
The boy did not seem to grasp his
meaning, so to make It clear the
teacher sald, “Can you swim from
your desk to the door?
“Oh, no, sir,” Eric replied, “there's
no water there,”—London Tit-Bits,
Modern Youth
Teacher—Cuthbert, you have been
very naughty today and | am going
to keep you after school half an hour
every day this week,
Cuthbert—Well, teacher, 1 don't |
care on my own account, but ain't |
you afraid that will talk
about us?
Knew the Stock
“You advertised for a cigar clerk?”
“Yes, 1 want an experienced man
Do you know the ropes?” |
3
3
people
WIFELY FORETHOUGHT
Carole—Douglas, dear, | wish you
would see a doctor before our weds
ding.
Douglas—Why should 17 I am pee.
fectly well except for a little dyspep-
sia,
Carole—That's Just it. | want a
certificate from a doctor showing that
your dyspepsia antedated our mar
riage,
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Identified
The teacher was explaining the
difference between the stately rose
and the modest violet,
“You see, children” she sald, “a
beautiful, well dressed woman walks
along the street, but she is proud and
does not greet anybody-that is the
rose. But behind her comes a small
creature with bowed head.”
“Yes, miss, 1 know,” Tommy inter.
rupted, “that's her husband. ”—Stray
Stories,
Sr ————————————
Nonsupport
“You say that your husband
do2sn’t buy you any clothes?”
“No, fudge. If my tongue were
coated it would have to be at my own
expense.”
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Previous Engagement
“Do you know my husband is a
riddle to me”
“Yes, 1 know, 1 once gave him up
mysell.” — Vancouver Province.
Looking for Bargain
your wife
“I've never
think so.”
“Ig
man?”
changeable, old
tried, but
Tit-Bits M
zine,
Sometimes It Shrinks
There are several sorts of money, |
Lafayette Jour |
nal and Courler, i
fe be smart money,
Been Through the Mill
one leg
orthopedists
men out of ten have
the other.
declare The other four are sym-
metrical, having had both legs pulled,
Now! A
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Note that BEFORE
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What it does in this
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