The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1863-04-15
National Prayer ana IIumiIfatiOr.

A PROCLAMATION BY TIE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMtEICA.
WHEREAS. The Senate Of the United
States. devontly recognizing the supreme
authority and just government of Almighty
God in all the affairs Of men and Of nations
has, by resolution, requested the Press
dent to designate and set apart day for
Natiolal PRAYER and humiia,fen and,
WHEREAS. 1t is the duty Of nations as
we'll as Of men, to own thcir dependence
upon the overriding power OF God, TO con.
Tess their sins and transgreSSion. in humble
sorrow, yet with assured hope TINT genuine
repentance will lead to mercy and pardon.
and to recognize the sublime tre' his announ.
cc'l in the Holy Scriptures and proven by
all history, that those nations e..'y are
blessed whose God is the Lord
And inasmuch, as we know that, bv His
divine law, nations, like Individuals, are s, b.
jccted TO punishmcnts and chastiSe,nents in
this world, may We not justly fear tha1 the
awful calamity OF civil war, which now DIES
'olatcs the land. may he but a punishment
inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins,
to the nce,lful emil Of orr national reforma-
ton rs a whole People ? We have been
Heaven. We have been preserved these
MANY years. in peace and prosperity. We
have grown IN nembcrs, wealth, and power
a. no other nation has ever grown. But we
have forgotten God. We have forgotten
the gracious hand which preserved IA in
peace. and multiplied and enriched and
strengthened US: and we have vainly imac
in"d, in the dcceitfn|ness Of orr 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 neces.
sity Of redeening and preserving grace. too
proud to prav to the God that made Us
It behooves MS. then. to hnmble ourselves
h,fore the offended Power. to confess ot,r
national swat, and to pray for clemency and
forgiveness.
Now, therefore. in compliance with The
request, and fully concurr;ng in the VIEWS
OF the Senate do by this nv proclsns-
ton designate and set apart Thursday tho
3oth dav of April, 1863, As day of nation.
al humiliation, fasting and PRAYER. And I
do hereby reHses. all the people to abstain
on that day from their ordinary secular pur.
suits, ard to unite, at their several places
"fpuhlic worship and their respective homes
in keeping the day holy to the Lord. and
devoted to the humhle discharge Of the re-
'ic'ous duties proper to that solemn occasion
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All this being done, in sincerity and truth
let us then rest humbly in the hope, author
ICED by Divine teachings that the united
CRY It the nation will be heard on high. and
answered With b'essin.s no ieSs than the
pardon 4" eur National sins and the srestor-
alton o. oar now divided and suffering conn.
try te'ss former happy condition Of unity
ard peace
In wisaesswhercof have hereunto ct
my hand. and caused the seal Of the Tn,tsd
States to b affixed. - - :
Done in the city Of Washington this so,,
day Of March. in the year Of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty. tire
and d thss isdepen.lAnes .of The United
Ssstes the eisA.y seventh So.
u j. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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