The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-11-05
Thanksgiving Proclamation.

Washington, Oct. 2S.-President
Wilson today issued proclamation
designating Thursday, November 26,
as Thanksgiving day.
The proclamation, which refers tt
the fact that the United States it at
peace while he rest of the world is
at war, follows :
by the president of the United
States of America:
ut has long been the honored GUS
tom of our people to turn in the
fruitful autumn of the year in praise
and thanksgiving to Almighty God
for His many blessings and mercies
to us as a nation. The year that is
now drawing to a close since we last
observed our day of national thanks
giving has been while year Of dis
cipline because of the mighty forces
of war and of change which have dis
turbed the world, also year CT spe-
cial blessings for US.
1T has been vouchsafed to us to
remain at peace, with honor, and in
some part to succor the suffering and
supply the needs of those who are
in want. We have been privileged
by our own peace and self control
in some degree to steady the coun-
sells and shape the hopes and pur-
poses of a day of fear and distress.
Our people have looked upon their
own life as a nation with deeper
| comprehension, a fuller realization
of their responsibilities as we'll as
of their blessings, and keener sense
of the moral and practical signi1l-
canoe of what their part among the
| nations of the world may come to
| be.
"The hurtful effects of foreign
| war in their own industrial CONNER
cial affairs have made them feel the
more fully and see the more clearly
their mutual inter-dependence upon
one another and has stirred them to
helpful cooperation, such as they
have seldom praticed before. They
have been quickened by a great NOR
al stimulation. Their unmistakable
ardor for peace, their earnest pity
and disinterested sympathy for those
who are suffering, their readiness to
help and to think of the needs OF
others, has revealed them to them
selves as we'll as to the world.
"Our crops will feed all who need
food; the self-possession of our peo-
pie amidst the most serious anXietles
and difficulties and the steadiness
and resourcefulness of our business
men will serve other nations as we'll
as our own.
THE business of the country has
been supplied with new instrumental
ties and the commerce Of the world
with new channels of trade and inter-
course. The Panama canal has been
opened to the commerce of nations.
The two continents of America have
been bound in closer ties of friend
ship. New instrumentalities of in
ternational trade have been created
which will be also new instrumental
ties of acquaintance, intercourse, and
mutual service. Never before have
the people of the United States been
so situated for their own advantage
or the advantage of their neighbors,
or so equipped to serve themselves
and mankind.
"Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Will
son, president of the United States
of America, do hereby designate
Thursday, twenty-sixth Of November
next, as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer and invite the people through
out the land to cease from their
wonted occupations and in their sew
eral homes and places of worship
render thanks to Almighty God.
'In witness hereof have hereun-
to set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington,
this twenty-eighth day Of October IN
the year of Our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and fourteen and of
the independence of the United States
of America the one hundred and
thirty ninth.
WOODROW WILSON,"
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