Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-11-20
THANKSGIVING
NOVEMBER 26
This Bay Set Aside By President Roose
reIt, for Thanksgiving and Prayer.

Washington, ID. C., oct. 3I.-1he
presidents Thanksgiving proclamation
is as follows
Thanksgiving the president OF
the United States OF America.
A Proclamation again the sea
son is at hand when, according to the
ancient custom of our people, 1t be-
comes the duty of the president to ap
point day of prayer and of thanks
giving to 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 circle
of independent peoples we have grown
and prospered in material things TO d
degree never known before, and not
now known in any other country. The
thirteen colonies which struggled along
the sea coast of the Atlantic and were
hemmed in but a few miles west OF the
tide water byth Indian haunted will
derness have been transformed into the
mlghtest republic which the worlo has
ever seen. It's domains stretch across
the continent from one to the other OF
the two greatest oceans and 1t eXer-
cises dominion alike in the artic and
tropic reals. The growth in wealth
and population has surpassed even the
growth in territory. Nowhere else 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 material
-well-being we have thus abounded, we
owe it 10 the Almighty to show equal
progress in moral and spiritual things.
What a nation, as with the individuals
who make up Il nation, material we'll
being is an Indispensable foundation
But the foundation avails nothing by
itself That life is wasted, and worse
than wasted which is spent in plllng,
heap upon heap, those things which
minister merely to the pleasure OF the
BODY and to the power that rests only
on wealth. Upon material well-belng
as a foundation must be raised the
structure Of the lofty life of the spirit
if this nation is properly TO fulfill It's
great mission and to accomplish AL
that we so ardently hope and desire.
The thing of the body are good; the
things of the intellect better; but best
OF all are the things of the soul, Tor, IN
the ration as in the individual, in the
oA~ lint
Let US, therefore, as peopls set our
faces resolutely gainst evil, and with
broad charity, with kindliness and good
wiII toward all men, but with untilnch
ing effort to smite down wrong, strive
with all the strength that is given us
for righteousness in public and in pri"
waite life.
Now, therefore, /, Theodore Roose"
Welt, president of the United States, do
set apart Thursday, the 10th day OF
November, next, as a day OF general
thanksgiving and prayer. and on that
seaay recommend that the people shall
tease from their daily work, ana, II ,
their homes or in their churches most
devqpt!y thank the Almighty for th F.c
.=aoasg abb sFeat Vlessl-t :gs.thev havere-
esiyea Ii re past, and TO pray that
They may be given strength so to oroer
xaeir lives as to deserve continuation
Of these blessings in the future.
In witness whereof, l have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal OF the
United States to be affixed
Done at the city of Washington TINS
3lst day of October in the year OF our
Lord, 1908, and of the independence OF
the United States, 1873
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
By the President.
Alvy A. Adee, Acting Secretary