Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1914 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

SPREAD THANKSGIVING! By the Rev. J. H. JOWETT. I regard Thanksgiving day as one of the most gracious and heartening anniversaries in the American year. That a people should be called by their president to reckon the mercies and privileges received at the hands of God is to me a most hallowed and sanctifying ministry and most assuredly enriches and invigorates the national life. But Thanksgiving should not be confined to material bounty. It should extend its range and include the blessings found in the broadening day of knowledge and in the lifting of all forms of oppression from those who are bearing, a needless yoke. It should even go beyond the range of patriotism and become cosmopolitan as it contemplates the leaven of freedom and humanity which, is working in every part of the wojjd. Thanksgiving of this wide and ennobling kind would surely send a thankful people into the ways of unselfish and chivalrous service.