Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-29
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THANKSGIVING PRO.
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Once again the season of the :.
= year has come when, in accord =
= ance with the custom of our fore :.
= fathers for generations past, the {.
: president appoints a day as an I:
i especial occasion for all cur PEG. !.
i pie to give praise and thanksgiv- !.
:. ing to God. >= @.i~- :.
: During the past year we have :.
: been free from famine, from pes {.
= thence, from war. We are at :.
! peace with all the rest of man. !:
{. kind. Our natura! resources are !,
I. at least as great as those of any s.
. other nation. We believe that in {.
Z: ability to develop and take advan- .
{. tage Of these resources the aver :.
s age man of this nation stands at 8
= least as high as the average man :.
= Of any other. Nowhere else in =
!: the world is there such an oppor- j.
= tunity for free people to de- .
8 veIop to the fullest extent all it's !.
= powers Of body and of mind, and :.
:. of that which stands above both :.
I: body and mind-eharacter. 1:
: Much has been given US from :.
I: On High, and much will rightly :.
!: be expected Of US in return. Into i.
= our care ten talents have been s.
: entrusted and we are to be par. =
= doned, neither If we squander :.
= and waste them, nor yet If we g
!: hide them In a napkin, for they :
:. must be fruitful in our hands, =
4 = Throughout the ages, at all times, e
4: and among all peoples, prosperity =
I. has been frausht with danger !.
= and it behooves US to beseeck the {.
Z. Giver of All Things that we may !:
4. not fall into the love of ease and !.
. luxury; that we may not lose our !.
:: sense of moral responsibility; {:
Z. that we may not forget our duty :.
= to God and to our neiehbor. ::
A great democracy like ours, &
. democracy based upon principles q
= of orderly liberty, can be perpetu- :.
Z. ated only II in the heart of the s.
. ordinary citizen there dwelIs a :.
:: keen sense of Righteousness and &
:: jaatice. We should earnestly g
8 pray that this spirit of righteous j.
= ness and Justice may grow ever :.
8 greater in the hearts of all Of us s.
u and that our souls may be in :.
- ciined ever more both toward the {.
:: virtues, that tell for gentIeness &
g and tenderness, for loving kind :
9 ness and forbearance, one with 8
. another, and toward those no less T.
8 necessary virtues that make for :
- maniiness and rugged hardwood, 8
= for without these qualities mel 8
& ther nation nor individual can !:
:: rise to the Ieve! Of greatness. 8
. Now, therefore, J, Theodore 4:
= Roosevelt president Of the Uni ::
/. ted States, do set apart Thurs ::
:. day, the twenty-eishth day of Mo- :
Z. vember, as a day Of general I:
{. Thanksgiving and prayer, and on Z
u that day recommend that peo- {
I: pie shall cease from their daily I
= work and, in their homes or in I
= their churches, meet, devousiy to
= thank the Almighty for the many
Il q and great blessings they have re-
=. ceiyed in the past, and to pray "
y that they may be given strength
Z. so to order their lives as to de- :
= serve a continuation of these !
q BLESSINGS In the future. 4.
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