Thanksgiving Thoughts and Editorial Notes
By Editor
Our article in the series on the "Great Plan of Salvation" is of necessity and regret carried over till next week. Do not fail to read the report and review of the "New York State Sabbath Association Meeting" in our Outlook Department. The article on "A College Conflagration," printed elsewhere, may suggest some principles with which many of our readers will not agree, but it expresses much good Christian common-sense which is worthy of consideration. If any one asks us what college this is, let us anticipate the question and say, We do not know; we do not care to know. The lesson is drawn not to condemn a certain institution, but to bring home to all practical lessons. This number reaches our readers before Thanksgiving, and tho our issue of last week was our Thanksgiving Number, this has also its thanksgiving flavor. The Thanksgiving poem, by Miss Bolton, reached us just too late for our last issue; and two or three other poems also call our thoughts to the day. And yet, dear friends, every day ought to be a day of thanksgiving to God on the part of His ever-receiving children. "In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." It is sad to report the death of Congressman Rockwood Hoar, the first of this month at his home in Massachusetts. His death really means the extinction of the Hoar family, of which Senator Hoar and Judge Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar were shining lights. Judge Hoar had two sons, both of whom are now dead, and Congressman Rockwood Hoar was the only child of the late Senator Hoar. He was an eminent lawyer, a true statesman, with a fine old-fashioned sense of liberty for all. The country has too few like him to be able to spare him. The Exhaustless Life.—We do not find it in this world. Even the very rocks themselves die and disintegrate. We are reminded of this by a little item of news from the Louvre, Paris. A pearl necklace is there belonging to the Thiers family. That necklace was once worth $1,250,000. In a few years we are told it will be utterly worthless, because the pearls are dying. Some time God's people will reach that land in which the gates of the capital city are solid pearls, but they will be pearls which will endure forever, fed forever from the exhaustless life. Railroad Accidents for the Year.—The Interstate Commerce Commission in a recent accident bulletin give an account of the casualties of the year ending June 30, 1906, as compared with the year previous. In the number of employees killed there was an increase of 546, and in the number injured an increase of 10,098. 119 less passengers were killed than in the year previous, and 1,145 more injured. In the three months previous to June 30, there were 3,103 collisions and derailments, of which 173 collisions and 153 derailments affected passenger trains. Damage to cars, engines, and roadway in these accidents amounts to $12,373,924. A fearful flood swept through Seattle and surrounding towns the 14th inst., the greatest known for half a century. The Chinook winds have melted the snow in the mountains. Four lives have been lost, hundreds of families driven from home, and Seattle isolated by water. All railway traffic is suspended. Uncle Sam Gives Warning.—A bulletin issued by the Post-Office Department warns against carelessness in sending money through mails. It gives as an instance of this a letter which was returned to the dead-letter office, which had been addressed to a missionary in Africa. His name was given, but no post-office address. The letter had been through various post-offices in Africa as well as Europe, and then returned to the United States. It contained $400. We hope that our readers will take notice in sending money to this office. If there is any great amount, it should be registered; better still, purchase bank draft, express order, or post-office money order. Care should be taken in writing names and post-office correctly. It is also always safe to place a return address on the envelope.