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U.S. Bounty Granted by God, Pastors Remind Nation on Thanksgiving Day
NEW YORK UH It's an old
American treasure. Fundamental
ly it hasn't changed a bit. Not
since that first Thanksgiving Day.
But sometimes you forget, and
on the special day of giving
thanks many will ask:
"What have we got to be es
pecially Ithankful for?"
Tha' question was asked of sev
eral ministers about the country,
and it is a 1 strange thing, they
all gave about the same answer.
They said:
"Opportunity."
A vague, rhetorical word, you
say. That can mean anything or
nothing. Besides, you can't eat it
or wear it or deposit it in a bank.
it s just a tancy word.
Rare Gift'
"But if you stop and consider,"
said Rev. Rodney Shaw of the
Oconomowoc. Wis., Methodist
Churrh "I think vou'H see that
opportunity is our rarest gift
This is more so now than ever
before
Neither he, nor the other min
isters, meant the "Horatio Alger"
kind of opportunity the storied
path from want to wealth but
a more profound, vital opportun
ity for each American and his
country.
It had its roots in the "oppor
tunity that fired the hearts of
the Pilgrims 300 years ago not
renown, luxury or an easy chair
but the hard, raw challenge
of work undone and the right to
do it
"Seldom do people think bow
tremendously unusual such an op
portunity was in the world, and
is at present." said Rev. Henry C.
Koch of Concordia (Evangelical
and Reformed) Church, Washing'
ton. D. C.
"It is not only the opportunity
to do, but to be something of your
own making, to grow, free to de
velop concepts and ideas, to build
an individual life." '.
Well, you say, you've heard that
before, that this is a free country.
That a man can do. or not do,
progress or slide backward, labor
or loaf. But it's old stuff, you say,
old as the Pilgrims. It's nice. But
why the flag waving? Why special
Thanksgiving?
"There's a deeply marvelous
reason," said Rev. Harry B. Tay
lor of Cleveland's Presbyterian
Church of the Covenant "It is
that our heritage has reflected
God's power of growth and pro
duced even greater, new oppor
tunities today."
Old at Pilgrims
In a way. it's like the Parable
of the talents, he said, in that
talents, well used, grow.
And so, despite our shortcom
ings, in so far as Americans have
used their opportunities in accord
I ance with God's order, he said.
so those opportunities have been
blessed and magnified.
"Opportunities do not stand still,
but grow or decline," said Msgr.
Aloysius C. Dineen of New York's
Roman Catholic Church of St.
Agnes.
"In a very unique way, our idea
of liberty for self and every
one else has been magnificent
ly blessed by Almighty God," he
said. "And this has brought lar
ger opportunities than before
for each individual and the whole
nation."
But wait, you say. just what
are these great, new prospects?
And you want it said slowly and
simple-like. Now first, about this
nation. You realize we've become
a strong, stable country, un
scourged by modern wars. And
that's fine. But what are the
bright, new national horizons?
'Moved Forward'
"We have moved forward," said
Rabbi Joseph Hager of New
York's Wan Street synagogue.
"until our opportunities extend to
all humanity. The oppressed of the
world look to us, and our freedom.
for guidance."
By its faith in the dignity of
each person, as founded in God's
law, the nation has risen to a
place of world leadership, the
Rev. Mr. Shaw said, with greater
opportunities than any generation
in the history of the world.
"As never before, with our re
sources, know-how and passionate
convictions of freedom, we are in
a position to go into the world to
help others shake off the shackles
of hunger, disease and chaos.
"For (the first time, the world
is sufficiently close-knit that there
is the chance to establish control
of arms of war, thereby ending
it, and to bring the world closer
to God's laws. That is our oppor
tunity." All right, you say, that's some
thing to appreciate. But what
about the individual guy? Every
body is always talking about how
we've become a healthy, prosper
ous people, loaded with TV sets
and electric potato mashers. And
you can appreciate that, up to a
point
But some people are sick, or!
poor or troubled. What are the
higa promises for us all?
"It is in learning, and we are
learning more and more about the
orderly cosmos in which we live,"
said Rev. Mr. Taylor.
Old Ills Righted
Gradually, slowly, old ills are
righted, hardships lessened. Med
icine finds new keys to nature.
Abundance spreads. Economic
wrongs are challenged. We hunt
truth, God's answers. We do not
always succeed. But we try. And
succeed some.
"As we discover and learn to
cooperate with God's sovereign
laws, so His blessings come," he
said.
And as in the past, said the
Rev. Mr. Koch, our system pro
vides the chance for improve
ment. "We may be far from our goals
under democracy," he said, "but
unlike static European govern
ments, our very Constitution had
written into it the intent and enor
mous possibilities for growth, for
the citizen and the nation."
But greater opportunities, the
ministers say, also bring greater
responsibility. The most precious
gifts are most easily shattered,
and carry in themselves a peril
ous power for good or evil.
'Have Global Job
lie nave a &iuuai juu uun,
said Monsignor Dineen. "We must
always recognize this is a God
given opportunity, to be used un
der his guidance."
"The very fact that we've been
riven great strength," said the
Rev. Mr. Shaw, "redoubles bur
obligation to use it constructively.
In developing our new opportuni
ties, we must not lose the spiritual
perception that gave them birth.
This, as the ministers see it,
is the vision of great opportunity,
and cause for gratitude. The Pil
grims had reason for Thanksgiv
ing too, but not so many, nor so
immense. They sewed only the
seed, and ours is the harvest
DUCKS DROWN
HARTFORD, Conn. (yP Forty
wild ducks in Keney Park ate
something and drowned. A State
Health Department expert said
the ducks were stricken by a form
of food poison which paralyzed
their neck muscles and caused
their limp heads to dip below the
water surface.
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