Often
one is tempted to turn backward in thought to contemplate past pleasures or pains and to dwell longingly or fearfully, as the case may be, upon them.
Today
when war work or the call to the armed services has taken many a husband, brother, daughter, or son from the family circle, we need truly to learn to "loose him, and let him go.
The
season of Thanksgiving may bring to the minds of some, harvest thanksgiving festivals of earlier days, when churches were decorated with fruit and flowers, the air was laden with the fragrance of blossoms, the scent of apples and pears, and the finest of the earth's produce was displayed as a thank offering to God for another harvest safely garnered.
