The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-11-03
ANNUAL
DOCUMENT
ISSUED
President Theodore Roose-
welt Puts Thursday, Nov.
26, AS the Day of Prayer
and Thanksgiving For the
American People.

washington. Now 3-The presidens
has ISSUED the following Thanksgivint.
prociamation.. sTE.anlsgfying--A proe-
lamatiOn by the president of the United
States of Americas. Once again the
season is st 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 thanIxs-
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
a degree never known before, and not
now known in any other country. The
thirteen colonies which struggled along
the seacoast of the Atlantic and were
hemmed in but a few miles west of
tidewater by the Indian haunted wild
erness. have been transformed into he
mightiest republic which the world has
ever seen. Its domains stretch across
the continent from one to the other
of the two greatest oceans. and it exer-
| cises domain alike in the Arctic and
tropic realms. 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 tnat in material
well being we have thus abounded. we
owe it to the Almighty 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 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 being
| as a foundation must be raised the
structure of the lofty life Of the spir-
( it, if this nation is properly to fulfill
] its great mission and to accomplish
| all that we so ardently hope and de-
! sire. The things of the body are good !;
| the things of the intellect 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 a people.
set our faces resolutely against evil
and good will toward all men, but with
unfiinching 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. Theodore Roose-
Welt, 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 1 recommend that the people shall
cease from their daily work and. in
their homes or in their churches most
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 or
! der their lives as to deserve con-
: tinuation of these blessings in the fu-
) ture.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal Of the
United States to be affixed.
J Done at the city of Washington this
: 31st day of Octover. in the year of oul
e Lord 1908 and to the independence oi
e the United States the 1880
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.