The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-06
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..o GIVE THANKS TO GOD. SAYS
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
IN THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
--.sY,ive PENS Notable Document In
Appointing November 20 as An
nuaI Day Of Thanks.

washington. ID. c.. Special: The
prssidents Thanksgiving proclama-
tion Is as follows:
p,ce again the season Is at hand
u,bsn according TO the ancient GUS
,an, of our people. it becomes the
5,tv Of the President TO appoint day
OF prayer and OF THANKSGIVING 10 God.
Ysar bv year this nation grows in
strength and worldly power. During
fhe century and quarter that has
oiansed since our entry into the circle
~ independent peoples, we have
grown and, prospered In material
Things 10 aNdegree never known be
fore. and not now known in any other
ro,,nfrv The thirteen colonies which
efraealed along the seacoast of the
Atlantic and were hemmed IN but a
few miles west of tidewater by the
ian.haunted wilderness, have been
Transformed into the mightiest repub-
rc which the world has ever seen.
III domains stretch across the CONT
mont from one 10 the other OF the two
greatest oceans, and 1t exercises do
nain alike In the Arctic and tropic
realms. The growth in wealth and
population has surpassed even the
growth IN territory. Nowhere else in
Tie world Is the average of individual
comfort and material well being as
hieh as i'm our fortunate land.
For the very reason that in materi-
al wen being we have thus abounded
We owe ID 10 the Almighty to show
egni progress in moral and spiritual
thin1s. With a nation. as with the in
divguals who make up a nation, ma
ferial well being is an indispensable
foundation. But the foundation
ayaiis 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 10 the
power that rests only on wealth
Tp0n material well being as a founda-
ton must be raised the structure Of
the lofty life of the spirit. If this ma
ti0n IS properly TO iii its great mis-
sion ana % accomplish all that We so
ardsnty hope and desire The things
81 the body are good; the things Of
tile intellect better: but best of all
are the things Of the soul; Sor. in the
nation as in the individtSl, in the
long ruin 10 is character that counts
Let as therefore. as a people. set our
faces res0lutely against evil and with
broad charity, with kindness and
good viii toward all men. but with un-
flnch.ng determination TO smite down
wrong strive with all the strength
that Is given us for righteousness in
public ana private life.
Now. therefore /. Theodore Roosc-
welt. President OF the United States.
DO set apart Thursday. the 26th day
oi 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
their homes or in their churches most
devogi'y 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 10 deserve a con
tnraton OF these blessings in the
future
DO witness whereof | have hereunto
SET my hand and caused the seal OF
The United States to be affixed.
Done al the City Of Washington. this
3ist dag Of October. in the year Of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred
ana eight. and OF the independence Of
fhe United States the one hundred
and thirty-third