True Thanksgiving by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 46.

True Thanksgiving

By Editor

It is good to give thanks at all times. It is good to have a special season of giving thanks. Thursday, November 26, has been appointed by the President of the United States, and Governor Budd of California, and we presume by the governors of other states, and by the governor-general of Canada, as a day of special thanksgiving for the states and nations. Of course as far as the authorities can go is to make it a non-dies, a no-day in law, a holiday. Behind it as a day of thanksgiving to God is no religious authority. All the true thanksgiving in the day will be put there by the individuals who are themselves devoutly thankful, not for one day, but all the time. The quality of that thankfulness which is only for a single day may well be questioned. True thankfulness will be manifest in more than sitting down to a huge meal of roast turkey, plum pudding, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie; it will go out to others who are in need, to supply their necessities. Twice blessed is he who gives. Let this be the thanksgiving held by our readers.