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The Sacred Heart Journal, November 30, 1905, p. 1

Thanksgiving

Time on its rapid swing has again brought our national Thanksgiving Day close to hand, and the present month will close its career in thanksgiving and praise to "one who doeth all things well." The most unfortunate of us can find much to be thankful for if we make an honest endeavor. While in Russia, men, women and innocent children are brutally murdered upon the streets and in their own homes, we are at peace with each other and the world, and can worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience with no one to molest or make us afraid. Our lot has been cast in one of the best communities on the globe, among a big hearted, generous people, among school and church advantages. Let is all on Thanksgiving Day show our gratitude for the bounties of Providence, which have never failed and which grow richer as time passes on. The year just gone has been one which stirs the profoundest depths of Christian patriotism. It has been a year of wonderful growth and unexampled prosperity and health, content and happiness. It has been a year in which farms have been fruitful, business profitable and in which labor in all forms has been employed and generously rewarded. It is difficult to conceive conditions more gratifying than those which surround the citizens of this community.