Thanksgiving Day by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 17, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 45.

Thanksgiving Day

By Editor

THURSDAY of this week is the day set apart by our nation for thanksgiving and prayer; and if ever there was a year in our history when we had innumerable blessings for which to be thankful, that year is the present one. We not only have bountiful crops in every section of the country, but our great nation is in peace, while nearly all the rest of the world is plunged in war.

Though we may be exceedingly sad because of the work of destruction that is devastating so large a part of the world, yet it is also perfectly proper for us to be most truly thankful that this nation has been saved from it, and that instead of joining the rest of the world in destruction and in producing misery and suffering, we can devote ourselves to relieving these distresses, and feeding the hungry millions that Europe's war is leaving as a part of its wreckage.