The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 November 1968 — Page 9
Wednesday, November 27, 1968
The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana
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A day for giving thanks: When man is surrounded by more than enough . . .
The Giving of Thanks By FRANCES P. SMITH America’s first Thanksgiving Day stemmed from gratitude and began with prayer and sharing when the white man and the bronze-skinned Indian sat down to eat together. This was probably the first civil rights demonstration ever held in America. Here was a mere handful of cultivated white people in a strange land inhabited by “savages” who could have wiped them out overnight. Instead, the Indians were charitable and trusting toward a minority group who were as opposite of themselves as the two poles. They were willing to make room for the white man and live with him in peace. Adversity has a way of bringing people to a closer understanding of the true values of life, and one misfortune after another had kept the Pilgrims on their knees. That first severe winter in New England caught them totally unprepared. Hunger, cold and disease claimed half their number by springtime. The friendly Indians came to their
aid and taught them to grow corn in the clearings and to stalk wild turkeys for meat. After the harvest was gathered in the praying Pilgrims and their darkskinned brothers joined together in feasting and rejoicing. They offered thanks to the One whom they believed to be the Giver and Sustainer of Life. At that time the white man’s needs in a harsh and strange land were much greater than the red man’s whose land he had invaded. The later exploitation of the red man is sorry history, but in the beginning our Pilgrim fathers were grateful for the friendship of their "savage” benefactors. They began in a way that leads to peace. It is commonly felt by strangers to our shores that the greatest lack in America today is an attitude of gratitude — that the quantitative ingredients which characterized our forefathers have been reversed — where they had great faith in God the Father with little else, we now have great stores of material goods with little faith. It is altoghther possible that the
reality of a land of plenty, a land of opportunity, and a land of freedom in which we can worship as we please, could be taken too much for granted. We may tend to forget that the little band of Pilgrims who instituted a thanks-giving day in return for food to eat, for the opportunity to carve out a life built upon ideals which they held to be their inalienable right, and for freedom to worship according to the dictates of their conscience, put the emphasis upon the thanks — not the plenty. When man is surrounded by more than enough in creature comforts it’s easy to forget that he didn’t always have it so good. He often times becomes self-sufficient and feels less obligation to thank God for what took so little effort to come by. And yet, the reverent man, the observant and thinking man, turns as naturally to giving thanks to the One whom he believes provides for him as he does to eating. So it was that Governor William Bradford decreed that December 13, 1621, be set aside as a day of
feasting and prayer to show the gratitude of the colonists that they were still alive. The inborn need to express thanks for our care is shown by people in agriculturally oriented lands who have been holding harvest festivals for thousands of years. Whether Christian or pagan, man down through the ages found himself worshipping the One, or ones whom he thought were responsible for his plentiful harvest. Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godsey’s Lady’s Book, worked for thirty years to promote the idea of a national Thanksgiving Day in America. It was President Lincoln who finally issued a proclamation in 1863 to set aside the last Thursday of November "as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father.” But it was centuries before the time of Mrs. Hale and Mr. Lincoln that the devout expressed their overwhelming sense of gladness and thanksgiving in the 100th Psalm:
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