The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-11-03
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
Pre-. fd"it Designates November 90
a hay for Giving Thanks


bay for Giving Thanks.
ashington, Nov. THE presi-
dents annual Thanksgiving procla-
nation has been issued This year
Mr.. Roosevelt gives it in the nature
OF sermon as significant of the
day of its publication. 1t is as fol-
lows:
y Proclamation by the President of
the United States of America
Once again the season is at hand
when, according to the ancient Gus
tom OF our people, it becomes the
duty of the president to appoint a
day of prayer and of Thanksgiving
10 God
Year by year this nation grows in
strength and worldly power During
the century and quarter that has
elapsed since our entry into the cir
Gle of Independent peoples we have
grown and prospered to degree
never known before, and not now
known in any other country. The 13
colonies which struggled along the
sea coast of the Atlantic and were
hemmed in but a few miles west of
itidewater by the Indian-haunted will
derness, have been transformed into
the mightiest republic which the
world has ever seen. Its domains
stretch across the continent from
one to the other of the two great
oceans and ii exercises dominion
alike in the arctic and tropic realms.
| The growth in wealth and population
has surpassed even the growth in
! territory Nowhere in the world is
| the average of individual comfort
and material well-being as high as
| in our fortunate land.
For the very reason that in ma
terial we'll being we have thus
abounded we owe it to the Almigh-
ty to show equal progress in moral
and spiritual things With a nation
as with the individuals who make
up a nation, material well-beng is
an indispensa BILE foundation But the
foundation avails nothing by itself.
That life is wasted, and worse than
wasted, which is spent in piling
heap upon heap those things which
minister merely to the pleasure of
the body and to the power which
rests only on wealth. Upon material
well-being as a foundation must be
| raised the structure of the lofty life
| of the spirit. if this nation is prop
erly to fulfill it's great mission and
| to accomplish all that we so urgently
hope and desire. The things of the
body are good; the things of the In
tellect better; but best of all are the
things of the soul; for in the nation
as in the individual, in the long run
it Is character that counts. Let us,
therefore, as people, set our faces
resolutely against evil and with
broad charity. with kindliness and
good will toward all men, but with
unflinching determination to smite
down wrong, strive with all the
| strength that is given us for right
eousness in public and in private
| life
Now, therefore, l. Theodore
Roosevelt president of the United
States, do set apart Thursday, the
Goth day of November next, as
day of general thanksgiving and
prayer, and on that day | recon-
mend that the people shall cease
from their daily work, and. in their
homes or in their churches, most de-
voutly thank the Almighty for the
many great blessings they have re-
ceived in the past and to pray that
they may be given strength so to
order their lives as to deserve con-
tinuation of these blessings in the
future.
In witness whereof | have hereun-
to set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed
Done at the city of Washington
this 3 LIST day of October, in the year
OF our Lord 1908, and of the indie
a g ~ T,;t hn
1891
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
BY the President: Alvey A. Adee,
Acting Secretary of State.
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