The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1904-11-09
Thanksgiving Proclamation.

President Roosevelt has issued the an
nual Thanksgiving proclamation, which
is as follows:
1t has pleased Almighty God to bring
the American people in safety and honor
through another year, and in accordance
with the long unbroken custom handed
down to US 10y our iorefathers, the time
has come when special day shall be set
apart in which TO thank him who holds
all nations in the hollow of his hand for
the mercies thus youchsafed to us. Dur
ing the century aud a quarter of our
national life we as a people have been
blessed beyond all others, and Tor this v g
owe humble and heartfelt thanks to the
author of all blessings.
The year that has closed has been one
of peace within our borders as well as
between us and all other nations. The
harvests have been abundant, and those
who work, whether with hand or bran,
are prospecting greatly. Reward has
waited upon honest effort. We have been
enabled to do our duty to ourselves and
to others. Never has there been time
when religious and charitable effort has
been more evident. Much has been given
to us and much will he expected from us.
We speak of what has been done by
this nation in no spirit of boastfulness or
yainglory, but with full and reverent
realization that our strength is MS nothing
unless we are helped from above. Hither-
to We haYe been given the heart and the
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 unending
struggle to do our duty iearlessly and
honestly, with charity ard good will,
with respect for ourselves aud love to-
wards our fellow men.
In this great republic the effort to com
bine national trength with pc sonal free
dom is being tried on a scale more g,gan-
tic than ever before in the worlds his
tory. Our success will mean much not
only for ourselves, but for the future OF
all mankind ; and every man or woman
in our land should feel the grave respou.
sibIhty resting upon him or her, for in
the last analysis this success must depend
upon the high average of our individual
citizenship, upon the way in which each
of us does his duty by himself and his
neighbor.
Now, therefore, |, Theodore Roosevelt,
president OF the United States, do hereby
appoint and set apart Thursday, the
twenty fourth OF this November, to be
observed as a day of festival and thanks
giving by all the people OF the United
States at home or abroad, and do recon-
mend that on that day they cease from
their ordinary occupations and gather in
their several places of worship or in their
homes, devOutly to give thanks unto AL
mighty God for the benefits lie has con
| ierred upon us as individuals and as a
nation. and to beseech Him that IN the
/ future His divine favor may he continued
| to us.
In witness whereof, | Lave hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to bo affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
first day of November in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and
four, and of the Independence of the
United States the one hundred and TWEEN.
| ty-ninth. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.