The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-11-01
DAY OF THANKSGIVING
Set for Thursday, November %, By Presi-
dent in Proclamation to People
of United States.

Pesident Roosevelt Saturday issued
his Thanksgiving Day proclamation,
through the secretary Of state, naming
the last Thursday in November, the
28th. The proclamation follows:
"Once again the season of the year
has come when, in accordance with
the custom Of our forefathers for gen
creations past, the president appoints
day as the especial occasion for all
our people to give praise and thanks
giving 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 that in abil-
ity 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. No
where else in the world Is there such
an opportunity for free people to de-
velop to the fullest extent all its pow
ers 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 be rightly expected
of us in return. Into our care the ten
talents have been entrusted and we are
to be pardoned neither If we squander
and waste them nor yet If we hide
them in napkin, for they must be
fruitful in our hands. Ever through
out tae ages, at all times and among
all peoples, prosperity has been fraught
with danger, and 1t behooyes us to be-
seech the Giver of All Things that We
may not fall into love Of ease and Of
luxury; that we may not lose our
sense of moral responsibility; that we
may not forget our duty to God and to
cur neighbor.
"a great democracy like ours, a
democracy based upon the principles Of
orderly 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, that our souls
may be inclined ever more both toward
the virtues that tell for gentleness and
tenderness, for loving kindness and for
bearance on one another, and to-
ward those no less necessary virtues
that make for manliness and rugged
hardlhood--for without these qualities
neithee nation or individual can rise to
the level of greatness.
Now, therefore, /, Theodore Roose-
welt president of the United States, do
set apart Thursday, the twenty-eighth
Gay Of November, as a day OF general
Thanksgiving and prayer, and on THAI
day / recommend that the people shall
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their homes, or in their chuches, meet
devoatly to thank the Almighty for the
many and great blessings they have re.
ceiyed in the past, and to pray that
they may be given the strength SO to
order their lives as to deserve con
tinuatlon Of these blessings in the fu-
tHre.
On witness whereof / have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal Of the
United States to be affixed
Done at the city Of Washington, this
twenty-aftb 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,
Secretary Of State"