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Volume 9 November 17, 1911. Number 46 
The Spirit of Thanksgiving 
Thanksgiving comes but once a 
year, and there is the error, for 
thanksgiving should be an attitude 
of mind, a constant grace of char- 
acter and a permanent not a transi- 
tory quality of life. Thanksgiving 
Day comes but once a year and it 
is well to idealize the spirit and des- 
ignate a day of the year to its 
honor. The Glorious Fourth of 
July comes only once in the cycle 
of a year but the blessings of liberty 
and the spirit of patriotism which it 
symbolizes is a year round bene- 
ficence. Thanksgiving likewise is 
but a symbol of a blessing which 
may be ours. through the year not 
for the day alone. Our Thanksgiv- 
ing season has, of course, its his- 
torical significance inasmuch as it 
perpetuates a custom inaugurated 
by the Plymouth colony in the days 
of Governor Bradford. What the 
Paschal lamb and all it symbolizes 
was to the Jew so is Thanksgiving 
to New England and to every citi- 
zen of our broad land who has bene- 
fited by our domestic opportunities 
and our free institutions. 
Thanksgiving is borne of the grat- 
itude which man has for the things 
which keep the animal in him alive 
and the rejoicing of a human spirit 
(even in a wilderness) in the bene- 
fits of freedom and the blessings re- 
sulting from the freedom of con- 
science in matters of religion. The 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
ATTORNEY AND 
COUNSELOR AT LAW 
SCHOOL AND UNION ST’S, MANCHESTER 
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spirit of Thanksgiving touches both 
sides of the life in man and it will 
be well if the feast of the day does 
not destroy the better things of the 
heart and mind and _ spirit. The 
day should recall the blessings of 
our life in its better vision as well 
as on the lower bestial side for man 
has been given dominion over all 
beneath, ‘‘created a little lower 
than angels.’’ It will be for us to 
listen and to hear the eall of the 
soul on this great day. 
The spirit of Thanksgiving is 
older than the custom which hag 
been handed down to us from our 
ancestors. They ordained the fes- 
tivities which we follow, willingly 
and gladly, to perpetuate their mem- 
ory, to rejoice over the fruits of the 
field and of labor and the blessings 
of home and the immeasurable bene- 
fits of our civilization which are ours 
to enjoy. The inauguration of that 
first Thanksgiving was inspired by 
the innate Spirit in man that bows 
in wonder and pauses in awe before 
the mysterious providences of Na- 
ture which so abundantly supply all 
his needs and which instinctively 
causes him to seek the Super-Nature 
in the hour of success or to seek 
thereby an escape from a dire or an 
impending calamity. This _ spirit 
sent the Pilgrims to their rough 
building they ealled the church. It 
was the same impulse that sent the 
ancient Jew into his temple with 
the first fruits of the increase of 
the flocks and of the field: that in- 
spired the City of Leyden to open 
its churches and give thanks on the 
anniversary, October 3, 1575, of the 
city’s deliverance from the seige. 
In the terrible days of the Revolu- 
tion congress was driven of the 
same spirit out of the wilderness of 
doubts and the call went out for 
days of Thanksgiving. During the 
nearer days of the war of 1861-1865, 
many such days were set apart by 
that majestic, sorrowful, beloved 
man of the people (and of God), 
Abraham Lincoln. And it was well 
that in 1864 the first national 
Thanksgiving Day as we now know 
it was made a national ‘‘Holy Day’’ 
by presidential proclamation. 
‘‘Let us give thanks,’’ the majes- 
tic rythm of the Hebrew ritual 
reads, ‘‘For His merey endureth 
forever.’’ And how man can give 
thanks! The Old Colonists found 
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the spirit in the face of a dreary 
past, in a dark and almost hopeless 
outlook, on a subborn, rigid land 
yet unsubdued, with infantile meth- 
ods to struggle with nature, with few 
comforts, and with creeds that were 
as harsh as the barren slopes and 
rough hills they subdued for a liy- 
ing. How much more ean the in- 
heritor of the blessings they pro- 
vided for give thanks. 
We give thanks for a vital creed 
that found a God of love to be be- 
loved and a human nature inspired 
from above. We can give thanks 
for the great institutions of the 
land, the home, the school, the 
church and the state. We can give 
thanks for the beneficence of man 
in their love one for another as seen 
in hospitals, charitable societies, or- 
phan homes, settlement houses, in- 
firmaries, associates of charity, so- 
cieties for the aid of children (even 
dumb animals as well) and for the 
innumerable associations for friend- 
ly aid. We ean give thanks for the 
mind of man that has solved in part 
the problems of nature and afford 
humanity the blessings and comforts 
that have come from the studies of 
sanitation, water purity, health 
conservation and preservation, fuel, 
clothing, good food and good hous- 
ing. We can give thanks for the 
progress of science, for the good of 
men in the knowledge of medicine 
and surgerv. We may give thanks 
for the developing social spirit 
among men, the evidence of brother- 
liness, kinship and friendly concern. 
We may give thanks for the bless- 
ings of liberty vouchsafe to us all 
by the nation, the best of all na- 
tions, which was made possible by 
our Pilgrim and Puritan forbears, 
instituted after the Revolution by 
our forefathers and preserved by 
the loyal men of 1861-65. Is there 
not much for Thanksgivings as 
families gather from the ends of the 
earth to meet about the festive and 
thankful board. The spirit is with 
us and fortunate the state whose 
citizens enshrine the true spirit of 
thanksgiving in their hearts. 
Ward Six and Beverly 
It has been difficult in the days 
which have gone by to maintain a 
vital and considerate interest in the 
civic welfare of Beverly Farms at 
Beverly City Hall. Situated on the 
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