The Archive · 1905

The Thanksgiving Address

By Mr. T. R. Jernican

The following is the full text of Mr. Jornigan's Thanksgiving Day address at the Union Church Phis is the day that beautifies and ennobles the civilisation of our country. The President invites his countrymen to observe it in acknowledgment of the guidance of the Supreme Ruler, and there are eighty million loyal responses. But the Saxon has always feared God and loved liberty. In darkest hours he turns directly to the Cross' for light, and whenever his rights have boon interfered with he has known how to defend them About the period when Kublai Khan was establishing the Mongol dynasty at Peking, our ancestors had wrenched from the hands of a King the Charter which provided that no freeman shall he taken or imprisoned, unless by the law of the land. Later on they won the Petition of Right, which prohibited taxation with-

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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