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Many Americans DO NOT know the true history of our Thanksgiving Day holiday. Here we have Lincoln's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation as it was given to the Congress of the United States. It has been said the President cited Second Chronicles 7:14 as his precedent. Mr. Lincoln thought this great country had fallen from grace and could be redeemed as a nation. How far from this we have fallen? Can we, as a nation, be restored today?
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It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess
their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and
pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those
nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.
Know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.
May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be a punishment
inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people?
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace
and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.
But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and
enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings
were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become
too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made
us.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with
one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the
United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe
the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the
heavens.
A. Lincoln, October 3, 1863.
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