A Bloodless Dinner

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 3, 1901

A Bloodless Dinner.

The Sanitarium did the handsome thing for the people in this vicinity on Thanksgiving day. Taking the church list, invitations were sent out which brought in about eleven hundred guests, who sat down to tables in the gymnasium, and also occupied the regular dining hall and other vacant spaces. At the conclusion of the exercises on the evening of Thanksgiving, word was sent down that if any were too aged or too feeble to attend, carriages would be sent to bring them to the dinner, and return them afterward. Many availed themselves of this offer, and so the occasion was furnished with guests, in whose countenances thanksgiving and good cheer might be read. A pleasing feature of the occasion was one plump, live turkey secured upon the rostrum, to which a label was fastened, saying that he was thankful that his life was spared. Thus the day passed off very pleasantly, and, so far as we know, to the satisfaction of all.