Giving Thanks for the Poor

The first Thanksgiving Day and its successive observances have been both a source of delight and sorrow to many people. It seems, however, that we have been left mostly with delight. Thanksgiving has been turned into revelry, prayer into pride. It has become a day of feasting and football games with church services sandwiched in between. If we stop and reflect, however, upon that first Thanksgiving Day, one is left with a very sobering thought. These people, the Pilgrims, were poor,...