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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 7, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 23.

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THANKSGIVING DAY.

By C. W. S.

Appropriate services were held at the church at half past ten o’clock, Thanksgiving day. Eld. U. Smith gave a short, but very cheering, discourse, dwelling upon Bible reasons for being thankful and pointing out many instances of giving thanks as recorded in the Scriptures. He showed very clearly that the Bible exhorts us in all things to give thanks; that we should be thankful in affliction, even,—thankful that it is no worse with us than it is.
Remarks were made by others, Prof. Bell adding a cheering testimony to the goodness of God. The remarks were interspersed with the singing of select hymns and anthems by the choir. The feeling of true thanks-giving to the Author of all good and the Giver of all our comforts and glorious privileges was clearly manifest in the services of the meeting; and all went away feeling that it had been a profitable meeting.
How appropriate it seems that we, poor, dependent creatures that we are, should render heartfelt thanks and unfeigned gratitude to Him on whom we depend!
In the evening, by request of Dr. J. H. Kellogg, who with all his cares is ever mindful of the wants, the enjoyments, and the proper good cheer, of the patients, several of the singers of this place gave a short and lively little concert at the Health Institute. The audience showed its appreciation of the effort by a rising vote of thanks.
We remember several very happy Thanksgiving days that were passed with the loving home circle; and, although on this last occasion, thoughts of such scenes and of the broken circle would come into our mind, yet we never passed a Thanksgiving day more profitably and more pleasantly than we did this of 1876. And while we looked back to scenes of the past, we thought also of the future; and our prayer went forth that those same loved ones, with all that love the Lord and keep his commandments, might assemble at the great Thanksgiving, even the marriage supper of the Lamb. C. W. S.