Lincoln's Thanksgiving Address
President Abraham Lincoln
Despite "the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battlefield," Lincoln mustered the faith to list all the reasons God had "shed his grace on thee," the American people.
"It is "to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next," the president said on Oct. 3, 1863, "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship,
The axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore … Population has steadily increased.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things,
They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy."
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/president-lincolns-thanksgiving-proclamation-proved-091540323.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
https://www.history.com/news/abraham-lincoln-and-the-mother-of-thanksgiving
Despite "the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battlefield," Lincoln mustered the faith to list all the reasons God had "shed his grace on thee," the American people.
"It is "to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next," the president said on Oct. 3, 1863, "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship,
The axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore … Population has steadily increased.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things,
They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy."
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/president-lincolns-thanksgiving-proclamation-proved-091540323.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
https://www.history.com/news/abraham-lincoln-and-the-mother-of-thanksgiving
