p. 15 | Thanksgiving the Year Round

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 18, 1915

Thanksgiving the Year Round

A Thank Offering Box

A WOMAN who has an almost old-fashioned faith in Providence keeps what she calls her “thank offering box.” Into this goes through the year, from one Thanksgiving to the middle of the following November, a sum of money for every accident escaped, calamity averted, or special joy.

These offerings are not confined to her own escapes; but each time some member of her family bobs up from some threatened woe, into the box goes the money offering of thanks.

Not the same amount is given each time, and rarely large sums, for the woman is not rich; but a nice little sum is realized.

This is devoted to giving some one a happy Thanksgiving Day. It does not always go into the regular channels. As the woman says, the poor and hospitals are well cared for in holiday seasons. Sometimes a homesick girl in a strange city is given car fare home for the Thanksgiving gathering she would otherwise miss. Again, a doctor’s bill that had worried a young stenographer who had her mother to support was quietly paid.

In speaking of her pretty custom the owner of the thank offering box said, “Never did I know what thankfulness really meant until I started my box and saw the joy my thankfulness brings to others.”

Such a box, besides cultivating one’s bump of gratitude and making others equally grateful, cannot but afford great pleasure and interest in the spending. It is a gracious thought one more woman could profitably put into practice.—Selected.