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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1980 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. C 7 mm uJodm? p,otP?u,rrl ! Pleased to head her Sunday column with a Thanksgiving sermon written by Louis Cassels, award- winning uimea rress international writer on religious topics Mr. Cassels wrote: The commercialization of Christmas is often deplored, and rightly so. ' But there is another religious holiday that has been de- Brauea even worse man Christmas. It is the holiday that Americans will celebrate with tur- aey uimiers ana tooioatl games next Thursday. By force Of habit. We Still call it "Thankeoiirinff r!v The name stirs dim memories of a bygone era when Amer icans thought that God had something to do with the incred- iDie material oiessings that have been bestowed upon this land and its people. That belief led our ancestors to set aside a special day; at the end of the harvest season each fall, for everyone to join In lifting thankful hearts to God. The tradition has been embalmed in law, so the President 01 tne united btates continues to issue each vear a nroclama. tion declaring a national holiday for "thanks giving" on the luunn inursaay in November. The churches also try to maintain the national nretense that Thanksgiving is a day of worship. They will conduct spe cial services next xnursday, as they do every year. But they Know in aavance tnat these services will be verv uoorlv at tended. People just can't bother to go to church when there's so much cooking, eating and football-watching to be done. A purely rational creature, transported here from another planet, might find it very difficult to understand why Amer icans of 1960 are less cognizant of their blessings-or at least, less grateful for them-than their Puritan forefathers were. The visitor would discover from our history books that tne Puritans actually had it pretty tough. They had to scratch their livelihood from an untamed wilderness, and sometimes it was nip-and-tuck whether they survived. Today, the visitor would observe, Americans are enjoying the most luxurious standard of living that any nation has ever known. With 8 per cent of the world's population, they are consuming 50 per cent of its wealth. What has happened to America's sense of gratitude? Abraham Lincoln put his finger on the answer 97 Thanks givings ago. He said: "We have forgotten the Gracious Hand which has pre served us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strength ened us. "We have vainly Imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some super ior wisdom and virtue of our own. "Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserv ing grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us." If that diagnosis was true in 1863, it is still more starkly appropriate today. It is something to think about next Thursday, between the turkey dinner and the football game. , Pondering over Mr. Cassels' words, we asked Pal Peg Tribune church editor, if Zion Lutheran church scheduled a Thanksgiving service, and she answered in the affirmative. We were especially interested in Ziort Lutheran, because Mrs. Paul Evensen and her children, Who posed for today's Thanksgiving page, attend that church. As organist for the church, Mrs. Evensen is scheduled to take part in the service. While checking on Zion Lutheran's service, Pal Peg noted that union Thanksgiving services are planned in Talent, Medford and Ashland, and that usually these services are well attended. In addition, 11 churches are holding traditional services. The Medford union service is to be at First Church of the Nazarene, with the Rev. George R. V. Bolster of St. Mark's Episcopal church delivering the sermon, When Potpourri asked Manager Melvin Hall of the Groce teria if we could take pictures in the store for a Thanks giving page, he said "Happy to have you. The store is yours." Today's front page of The Mail Tribune women's department proves that Photographer Robert Vroman and the Evensen family made out very well on the assignment. Lorraine Even sen is friendly and gracious Mrs. E. and her two healthy and happy children were the best of subjects. ' One line of Mr. Cassels' article rings in our ears: "With 6 per cent of the world's population, they (United States) are consuming 50 per cent of its wealth.M-O.S. 'Spur-of-Moment' Party Is Given Gold Hill - Women of Sar dine Creek road responded to a "spur of the moment" kaf feeklatsch given at the home of Mrs. Leonard McMahan Thursday, November 17. At 9 a.m. Mrs. McMahan and Mrs. James Wilson unex pectedly notified their neigh bors that "the coffee pot is on, come as you are." 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