Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1916 — REAL CAUSES FOR GRATITUDE [ARTICLE]

REAL CAUSES FOR GRATITUDE

Thankfulness for the Vaster Blessings of Life Bhouid Be the Duty of AIL To give thanks for the more particular benefits, valuable in a small way in our own lives, would seem to me dispensable, and of proportionately little value; but to show gratitude and appreciation for the vaster blessings with which the life of each one of us Is enriched, this. It would seem to me, la indispensable. We are usually down on our knees, thankful if some project of our own succeeds, if something we desire for ourselves or for our friends comes to pass; but high noons and sunsets.

stars and great rivers, cities glittering In the night, plains and valleys silent under the moon, dawn across the sea, the mantle of the storm and fringes ot the rain, and a world made new each day, and that large companionship of joy and sorrow and hope shared with men and women whose lives merely brush ours In passing, and in whoso faces we may perhaps not look again— l for these, these royal gifts, what grab* ltude of high and noble living do wa offer?—From the Delineator.