The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-11-14
The Presidents Thanksgiving Proc
lamation.
Following is the customary Thanks
giving proclamation made by the
President:
4 PRCLAMTION BY THE PRESI-
DENT.


A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESI-
DENT.
Once again the season of the year
has come when, in accordance with
the custom OF our forefathers for
generations past, the President APP
points a day as the especial occasion
for all our people to give praise and
thanksgiving to God.
During the past year we have been
free from famine, from pestilenca,
from war We are at peace with all
the rest of mankind. Our natural
resources are at least as great as
those of any other nation. We be-
lieve that in ability to develop aud
take advantage of these resources
the average man OF this nation
stands at least as high as the aver
age man of any other. Nowhere else
in the world is there such an oppor-
tunity for free people to develop to
the fullest extent all its powers of
body, of mind, and of that which
stands above both body and mind
character.
Much has been given Us from on
high and much will rightlybe expect
ed of us i'm return. Into our care the
ten talents have been entrusted; and
we are to be pardoned neither if We
squander or waste them, nor if we
hide them in a napkin; for they must
be fruitful in our hands. Ever
throughout the ages, at all times
and among all peoples, prosperity
',as been fraught with danger, and it
behooves us to beseech the giver of
all things that we may not fall into
love of ease and luxury; that W may
not lose our sense OF moral re-. .onsi
bility; that we may not forget our
duty to God and to our neighbor.
A great Democracy like ours, a
Dem ocracy based upon the princi-
pies of orderly liberty can be perpetu
ated only if in the heart OF the ordi-
nary citizen there dwells a keen sense
of righteousness and Justice. We
shald earnestly pray that this spirit
of righteousness and Justice may
grow ever greater in the hearts of all
of US, and our souls may be inclined
evermOre both toward the virtues
that tell for gentleness and tender
ness, for loving kindness and for
bearance one with another, and to-
ward those no less necessary virtues
that make our manliness and rugged
hardihoOd-for without these quail
ties neither nation norindividual can
rise to the level of greatness.
Nnw tbnrof,,ro 7 Nhao1nra Rnnco
welt, President of the United States,
do set apart Thursday, the 2Sth day
of November, as a day of general
thanksgiving and prayer, and on
that day | recommend that the peo-
pie shall cease from their daily work,
and, in their homes or in their
churches meet devoutly to thank the
Almighty for the many and great
blessings they have received in the
past, and to pray that they may be
given strength SO to order their lives
as to deserve a continuation of these
blessings in the future.
In witness whereof l have hereunto
set my band and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed. [Seal.1
Done at the city of Washington the
twenty-fifth day of October, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and seven and of the indie
pendence of the United States the
one hundred and thirty-second.
(Signed.)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
By the President:
ELIHU Roof, Secretary of State.