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        EDITORIAL
    THINKING AND THANKING

   To give thanks means to think.
The two words are related.  A
thinking man will be a thankful
man.  A thinking man reasons
and finds himself justified to give
thanks for what he has and what
he is privileged to enjoy.
   The stout hearted Pilgrims
who landed at Plymouth, Mass.,
in the fall of 162 found sufficient
reason to give thanks even after
one half of their numbers laid
buried beneath the sod and their
only food was shell fish and water.
Even at this reduced fare Elder 
Brewster raised his voice and gave
thanks cherefully that they were
"permitted to suck of the abundance
os the seas and of the treasures
hid in the sands."
   And now after three hundred
and two years our republic has
grown to a marvellously powerful
nation, with all the resources
and wealth that we need, daily
growing bigger and bigger, with
other nations begging for help,
and yet our country is seething
with discontenct and reeking with
the stench of selfish intrests.
There are strikes, boycotts,
crimes, murders, thefts, and all
the base intterests to which man
is guilty.
   We need a revival of sober
thinking and simple living.  We
need to go back to the spirit of
the Pilgrims and out of the travail
of our souls give thanks to God
for His mercy and love.

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