"For our national sentiment of gratitude, like any other sentiment, is of little value unless translated into action, Genuine gratitude s never selfish. The truly grateful are not content to enjoy themselves while others, whom they might relieve, are suffering. If our oldest holiday stands for anything it is for the spirit of kindliness and ce-operation in national and international, a well as individual, life. Tk was that spirit which was man-infested by the Jewish Rabbi of Buffalo, N. ¥., who in 1916, succeeded in bringing about for that city a Community Thanksgiving Service in which Protestants, Catholics and Jews ce-operated with each other and with the civic officials.
"Our Thanksgiving Day as we have seen, sprang from various faiths. It is no longer sectarian. It is a product of ideas originating in different lands aid has outgrown sectionalism. It needs only to pass the bounds of narrow nationalist to become a day of humanity. And it is one of the most gratifying features of this happy occasion that its participants are of various nationalities.
"Finally, let us not forget the relation of this day, to our home life. That is a feature always much emphasized in New England where the observance of Thanksgiving Day arose."
A telegram received by the Chinese-American Bank announces the marriage of Miss Dorothy Quincey Reid, formerly of Peking, to Mr. James Augustus Thomas, the American Vice-President of that bank. The marriage, which took place in Washington, D.C., was announced by the Hon. and Mrs. Robert Lansing who are cousins of Miss Reid. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas will make their home, after February 1, in Peking. i
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.