You may remember the story the first Thanksgiving Day. The Puritan fathers who had experienced great privations and hardships met together to consider the advisability Jof proclaiming a solemn fast. They seemed to think that in some way God must be-angry with them and that it was their duty to humiliate themselves before him. One old colonist arose and said that he would Tike to propose that instead of a day of humiliation and fasting, they should proclaim a day of general thanksgiving. He said, "We have! dwelt long enough upon our privat tions and hardships and we should think more of our blessings and of how God is dealing with children, as those are of more value to Him than any other of His ere tures." This is said to be the origin of the American Day of Thanksgiving.
The very fact that we can thank God for His mercies enables us to realize our value in His sight, So then on this harvest festival
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