Each Day A Thanksgiving

1912

Thanksgiving even for the supreme spiritual gift does not find its source in a sense of what we hold as our own, but far more in the knowledge that we who are so easily bewildered by empty and alluring aims are held, if we are willing, by the risen, living Lord, in balanced sanity and service through his indwelling. Not what we have in our keeping, or have not, but the blessed fact that Christ has us in full eternal keeping, quickens us to proclaim each new day a day of thanksgiving, in abiding confidence and joy. — The Sunday School Times.


It Is Easy To Be Thankful

For One Thing You Can Be Thankful You Are Not a Turkey

Thanksgiving Day is the day when every one says he is thankful, and wants to eat turkey to prove it. If you haven't anything else to be thankful for, you can be thankful you are not a turkey.

Thanksgiving Day was first observed by the Pilgrims, who were thankful that they had five grains of corn apiece. In these extravagant times a man wouldn't be thankful if he had ten grains of corn — which shows conclusively that we are too prosperous. The trusts are doing a noble work in remedying this evil condition.

People have various unreasonable reasons for being thankful on Thanksgiving Day. Some men are thankful they took a wife, and some are thankful they didn't take two. Bachelor maids are thankful they are not "horrid bachelors," and a married woman is always thankful that her husband has a good wife. It is easy to be thankful if you go about it right.

But the thing people are most thankful for is their money — even though they came by it honestly. The more a man has, the more thankful he is that it isn't less; and the less a man has, the less likely he is to be thankful because it isn't more. Be thankful, therefore, that you haven't too much to be thankful for. Turkey tastes all the better for coming but once a year. — Lippincott's.