Thankful in Conduct

It is once again November. The month, at the end of which, we will celebrate the national holiday known as Thanksgiving Day. The first Thanksgiving Day celebrated on this continent was December 4, 1619. This totally religious observance, which involved no feasting, was carried out by 39 English settlers who had written in their charter that their day of arrival be celebrated yearly as a day of thanksgiving to God. On July 30, 1623, by decree of Gov. Bradford of the Plymouth colonists, a...