The Thanksgiving Few Remember

Editor, Wisconsin Christian News:
   Now that the candy collected on Halloween is just about gone, the pumpkins are all smashed and the kids’ costumes put away for another year, maybe we should begin to think about the uniquely American celebration of Thanksgiving. 
   If your children or grandchildren go to public school, they are taught that Thanksgiving is a day set aside by the early Pilgrim fathers to thank the Indians for helping them get through their first harsh winter in this new country.  But the truth is, that’s what non-Christians  want us to believe and it is NOT the truth!
   If we go back in time and read Governor William Bradford’s journal, we learn that the little ship Mayflower, with its passengers all seeking to escape the terrible religious persecution in England, set sail from her shores on Sept. 6,1620, which was late in the year to be sailing on the ocean to a far away land. But, ten treacherous weeks later, they arrived at Cape Cod, 60 miles from their destination, not knowing where they were or what they were going to do now! They had obviously been blown off their course and had to decide -- should they sail south, or stay where they were?
   After much discussion and many prayers, they decided to stay. Some disagreed however,and dissension occurred.  But, because they had a charter with a company that was only good at th ...