Items of Interest November 3, 1934 Issue

Items of Interest

Inquiries received by the Directors of The Mother Church as to whether the Reconstruction and Furnishing Fund of The Mother Church is still receiving contributions have led to this statement that the need has not yet been fully cared for. Contributions have been generous from branch churches and societies and also from individuals. The contributions at the services of The Mother Church on the third Sunday of each month are devoted to this fund, and announcement is made that they will be thus allocated until the need has been met. This Fund was first announced by the Directors in September, 1933, contributions being invited "for the reconstruction projects which The Mother Church now has under way, . . . for the furnishings required in the new Publishing House at One, Norway Street, as well as in the Administration Building." The major item still remaining to be taken care of is the entire cost of remodeling the former Publishing House for the use of The Mother Church administrative offices. The Field will be informed by the Directors when the Reconstruction and Furnishing Fund no longer needs financial support.

The American Thanksgiving Day originated in Massachusetts with the early Pilgrim settlers, who, on an appointed day immediately following their first harvest in 1621, gathered to praise God and humbly thank Him for His manifold blessings. One or more days of thanksgiving were appointed by different colonies in America more or less regularly throughout the following years until, in 1864, the President, Abraham Lincoln, appointed the fourth Thursday of November as a day of national thanksgiving. The day was customarily a feast day as well as one of religious observance, for the harvest had been gathered and the fruitage of the summer's work was then available for the winter's needs. So the American Thanksgiving Day became a recognized occasion in this nation, and, as the years passed, following President Lincoln's proclamation, a day was set aside annually by each President and, too, by governors of the respective states. The Presidents' proclamations uniformly include a recommendation that on this day the people gather in their churches as well as their homes to give praise for blessings received.

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