The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-11-14

Proclaims Thursday, the Twenty.
sixth Day Of November a
Is. | Day Of Prayer.
Proclamation.

once again the season is at hand
when, according to the ancient custom
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 spower. During
the century and a quarter that has,
elapsed since our entry into the circle
ct independent peoples we save, grown
and eprospered in material things to q
degree never known before and not;
known In any other country. The
thirtee colonies which struggled along
the sea coast of the Atlantic and were
hemmed in but few miles west Of
tidewater by the Indian haunted will
derness have been transformed into
the mightiest republic which the
world has ever seen. It's domains
stretch across the continent from one
to the other of the two greatest
oceans, and It eercisexs dominion
alike in the Arctic and tropic realms
The growth in wealth and population
has surpassed even the growth in ter
ritory. 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 mate
rial well-being we have thus abound
ed, we owe it to- the Almighty to show
equal progress in moral and spiritual
things
with a. nation, as with, the indi-
viduals who make up a. nation, ma
terial well -ebing 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 upon heap, those things
which minister n1erel yto the pleasure
of the body and to the power that
rests only on wealth. Upon material
well-ebing as a 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-
conplish al THAT we 50 ardently hope
and desire. The things of the body
are good; the things Of the intellect
! are better; but best OF all the things
Of the SOUL for, in the nation az in the
Individual, in the long run it Is char
acter that counts. Let US, therefore,
ezS a. pCOpAC, SCI Jul 1dCCS(# ACoOAuICAy
against, evil and with broad charity,
with kindliness and good will toward
all men, but with 1unflinching deter
mination to smite down wrong, strive
, with all the strength that Is given US
for righteousness in public and in pri-
vate life. 4 .ss@ss & 4 e. ss..s S#>s:1 H
Now therefore, I, Theodore Roose-
ve1t, 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 recommend that the people shall
cease from their daily work. and In
i 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
they may be. given strength 50 to ord
er their lives as. to deserve 9 continu-
alton Of these blessings In the future.
'.In witness whereof have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
o 1.-THE United States to be, affixed. !. !.
Done at the cit yof Washington
this thirty first da yof October, IN
the year Of our Lord one Thousand
nine hundred and eight, and Of the IN
dependence Of the United States the
one hundred and thirty third.
z4,tg sE THEODORE ROOSEvElT.''' p = /.
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