The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1908-11-19
ThanksEiving....l90S

Thanksxiving....l908
BY the President of the United
States "A proclamation:
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
day of prayer and of thanksgiving
to God. Year by year this nation
grows in strength and worldly
power. During the century-and-a
quarter that has elapsed since our
entry into the circle of independ-
ent peoples we have grown and
prospered in material things to
degree never known before and
not now known in any other coun-
try. The thirteen colonies which
struggled along the sea-coast of
the Atlantic and were hemmed in
but few miles west of tide water
by the Indian-haunted wilderness
have been transformed into the
mightiest republic which the world
has ever seen. The growth in
wealth and population has sur
passed even the growth in terri
tony. Nowhere else in the world
is the average of individual COM
fort and material well-being as
high as in our fortunate land.
For the very reason that in
material well-being we have thus
abounded we owe it to the AL
mighty to show equal progress in
moral and spiritual things. With
a nation as with the individuals
who make up a nation, material
well-being is an indispensable
foundation. But the foundation
avails nothing by itself. That life
is wasted and worse than wasted
which is spent in piling heap on
heap those things which minister
merely 10 the pleasure of the body
and the power that rests only on
wealth. Upon material well-being
as foundation must be raised the
structure of the lofty life of the
spirit. if this nation is properly to
fulfill its great mission and to ac-
complish all that we so ardently
hope and desire.
The things of the body are
good; things of the intellect better;
but best of all are the things of
the soul, for in the nation IS 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 kindli-
ness and goodwill toward all men,
but with unflinching determina-
tion to smile down the wrong, and
strive with oil the strength that is
given US for righteousness in pub
lie and private life.
Now, therefore, l, Theodore
Roosevelt, President of the United
States, do set apart Thursday, the
26th day of November next as a
day of general thanksgiving and
prayer, and on that day l recon-
mend 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
strength SO to order their lives as
to deserve q continuation of these
blessings in the future.
In witness whereof / have here
unto set my hand and cause the
seal of the United States to be
affixed. Done at city of Washing
ton this 31st day of October, in
the year of our Lord, one thou
| sand nine hundred and eight, and
of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and thirty
third. THEoDoRE RoOsnvBLr.
BY the President;
Alvey A. Adee, Acting Secre-
tary of State.
Teachers examination for first,
second, and third grade certificates
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