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THANKSGIVING DAY IS A GREAT . AMERICAN TRADITION
Thanksgiving Day is peculiarly our own. Its was bom on our soil when in 1621 the Puritans of Massachusetts set apart a Day of Thanksgiving. ^
This handful of stalwart souls had come through great tribulation to spiritual peace. Be hind them was a winter of bitter hardship. They had endured cold and hunger and -sickness. Their faith never faltered, though they buried their dead in the darkness of night lest the enemy lurking in the shadowed forest learn of their weakened numbers and fall upon them to destroy them. Now they gaatherVd a harvest and made tight their homes, and their hearts were filled with gratitude for God’s goodness. So it was that the first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated, and a great American tradition was set to become deep-rooted in the minds and hearts of countless generations. ; No man lives for himself alone. Divine law decrees that each life shall touch the next on down through the ages, . so that the gtood men do is'compounded and the evil reduced to nothingness. If there was harshness in the Pilgrimsway of life, there were also spiritual strength and beauty, and these have come down to us. If selfishness and narrowness limited the spirits of the Founders, their vision ana their love of liberty were unlimited, and these also have come to be our own. If in the hearts and minds of our leaders there has been ambition for place and power, there was also faith in our country’s future, love for its institutions, respect for its standards. These too, have come down to us. Through the years this rich inheritance of courage, faitn and power has been ours. This compound of good has enriched and%eautified our lives. . .
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