The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-27
THANKSGIVING
 PROCLAMATION
President Appoints Day For
 Special Services.
PEACE WITH ALL MANKIND
People Are Urged To Give Thanks for Freedom From War and PestiIence and Famine and for
 Great, Free Country.

7 Washington. October 26-President proclamation, through the Secretary of State, naming the last Thursday in Mo- vember, the 18th.
 The proclamation follows:
 'Once again the season of the year has come when, in accordance with the custom of our forefathers for generations past, precedent appoints day as the especial. occasion for all our people to give praise to God
 During the past year we have been free from famine, from pestilence, 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 believe in ability to develop and take advantage of these resources the average man of this nation stands at least as high as the average man of any other. Nowhere else in the world Is there such an opportunity for free people to de- veIop to the fullest extent all it's pow CTS of body, of mind and of that which stands above both body and mind-char- acter
 Much has been given us from on high and much will rightly be expected of us in return. Into our care the 10 talents have been entrusted and we are to be pardoned neither if we squander anu waste them; nor yet if we hide them in q napkin; for they must be fruitful in our hands. Ever throughout the ages, at all times and among all peoples pros haa urith on. .I it behooves us to beseech the giver of all things that We may not fall into love of ease and luxury: that we may not lose our sense of moral responsibility; that we may not forget our duty to God and our neighbor
 "A great democracy like ours, dem ocracy based upon the principles of or derly liberty, can be perpetuated only if in the heart of the ordinary citizen there dwells a keen sense of righteous ness and justice. We should earnestly pray that this spirit of righteousness and justice may grow ever greater in the hearts of all of us and that our souls may be inclined evermore both to- ward the virtues that tell for gentle ness and tenderness, for loving kindness and forbearance toward each other. and toward those no less necessary virtues that make our manliness and rugged hardihood-for without these qualities, neither nation or individual can rise to the level of greatness.
 Now. therefore, l. Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United States, do set apart Thursday, the 18th day of No yember, as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer and on that day l recommend that the people 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 the strength so to order their lives as to de- serve continuation of these blessings in the future.
 Tn witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. (Seal)
 Done at the city of Washington this 18th day of October. in the year of Our Lord, one thousand, nine. hundred and seven. and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty second THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By the President: ELIHU ROOT.
 .sgecretary of State.'