Thanksgiving Prayer

Mother, is Maxwell House really the only coffee in the world? Well, your father says so, and your father knows Beth. Yes, it's Father Knows Beth's transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young as father. A half hour visit with your neighbors the Anderson's, brought to you by America's favorite coffee, Maxwell House, the coffee that's always good to the last drop.

So once and every year we throng upon a day apart to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart. In November of the year 1621, our pilgrim father sat down to a table piled high with the fruits of a bountiful harvest.

They offered their thanks in humble reverence and thereby established a precedent that we, the most fortunate people on earth, have followed with joy and gratitude for some 330 years. Thanksgiving Day is an American holiday, typically in exclusively hours.

So let's spend the next half hour in the dining room of an average American home, the Anderson's. And see how they and average American family are celebrating the most American Day of the year Thanksgiving.

Like this. Everybody close their eyes. Well! Here comes the bird, the turkey! Boy am I of a hungry. There you are. Mother, it's gorgeous. Put it right down here honey. It sure smells good, Mom.

Thank you, dear. I get a drumstick, mother. Bud, keep your fingers out of there. I just wanted a piece of celery. Father hasn't said grace. Oh, excuse me. Don't forget, I get a drumstick. Alright, Cathy. Go ahead, dear.

You know, I found something very interesting the other day. Holy cow. Father, can't you tell us after Betty? This pertains to the grace I'm about to say. And then I get a promise check. I was looking through some old books at the library, and I ran across a prayer of thanks written by Benjamin Franklin in the year 1728.