The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-08
CALL FOR THANKSGIVING.
President Issues Annual Proclama-
ten For a Day.

ing day proclamation, setting aside
Thursday, November "a, ito be OBJ
served as! day of festival and
Thanksgiving by all the people of the
United States at home and abroad"
The proclamation reads:
"By the President of the United
States of America-A Proclama-
ton:
ut has pleased Almighty God to
bring the American people in safety
and honor through another year, and
in accordance with long unbroken
custom handed down to us by our
torefathers, the time has come when
a special day shall be set apart in
which to thank Him who holds all
nations in the hollow of His hand for
the n1ercies thus vouchsafed to US.
During the century and a quarter
Of Our national life we as a people
have been blessed beyond all others,
and for this We owe our heartfelt
thanks to the'Author Of all blessings.
The year that has closed has been
one CT peace within our own borders,
as we'll as between US and all other
nations
The harvests have been abundant,
and those who work, whether with
hand or brain, are prospering greatly.
Reward has waited upon honest ef-
fort We have been enabled to do
Our duty to ourselves and to others.
Never has there been time when re-
lisious and charitable effort has been
more evident. Much has been given
to us and much will be expected from
us. : We speak of what has been done
by this nation in no spirit of boast
fulness or vain glory, but with full and
reverent realization that our strength
IS as nothing unless we are helped
from above. Hitherto we have been
given, the heartiest strength to do the
tasks allotted to us as they severally
arose
"We are thankful for all that has
been done for US in the past, and we
pray that in the future we may be
strengthened in the active struggle
in Our duty fearlessly and honestly
with charity and good will, with re-
spect for ourselves and with love to-
ward our fellowmen. In this great
republic the effort to combine nation
al strength with personal freedom is
being tried on scale more gigantic
than ever before in the worlds his
tory. Our success will mean much,
not only for ourselves, but for the fu-
ture of all mankind; and every man
or woman in Our land should feel
the grave responsibility resting upon
him Or her, for in the last analysis
this success must depend upon the
high average Of our Individual cit
izenship, upon the way in which each
of us does hs duty by himself and his
neigbor.
"Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roos-
evelt, president of the United States,
. do hereby appoint and set apart
Thursday, the 24th of this November,
to be observed as day of festival
and Thanksgiving by all the people of
the United States, at home or abroad,
and do recommend that on that day
they cease from their ordinary occu-
pations and gather in their several
places of worship or in their homes,
devoutly to give thanks unto Al
mighty God for the benefits He has
conferred upon us as individuals and
as nation, and to beseech> Him that
in the future His divine favor may be
continued to US.
SIN witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
"Done at the city of Washington,
this first day of November, in the year
of Our Lord one thousand nine hum
dred and four, and of the indepen-
dence of the United States one hun