Uppermost in the minds and hearts of the people of the United States as they join in tomorrow in the annual festival of Thanksgiving will be gratitude for victory and peace.

After weary years of war, sacrifice, of separation and bitter loss, the great blessing of peace has returned to us. To our God, for the strength that sustained us through our hour of trial, and enabled us to contribute to the victory, we should express our gratitude.

But we should not allow thankfulness to fill our thoughts to an extent that excludes other things to which we should devote our attention.

We should, on this day of closeness to God, ask of Him for the strength we need for the battle which lies ahead of us — the battle to establish in the world the things for which we fought.

We should pray that we would rid ourselves of the faults of greed, hate, striving, fear and over weaning pride, to that in that humility, sincerity, consecrated to a determination to do the will of God, we may be worthy of His gifts and do our part to bring them to all the peoples of the world.

We should pray, above all things, that to the establishment of peace and justice we may devote ourselves as loyally, unselfishly and nobly as we have toward the winning of the war.