Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-09-20

harmony and unity throughout our borders and
hasten the establishment of fraterna relations
among all the countries of the earth.
Done at the city of Washington this 10th
day of April, A. D., 1862, and of the independ-
ence of the United States the eighty-sixth.
(seal) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Proclamation: Whereas, The senate of the
United States. devoutly recognizing the supreme
authority and Just government Of Almighty God
in all the affairs of men and of nations, has by
resolution requested the president to desig-
mate and set apart day for national prayer
and humiliation; and
Whereas, 1t IL the duty of nations as we'll as
Of men TO own their dependence upon the over
ruling power of God, to confess their sins and
transgPessions in humble sorrow, yet with the
assured hope that genuine repentance will lead
TO mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sub
lime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures
and proven by all history, that those nations are
blessed whose God is the Lord:
And, inasmuch as we know that by His d.
vine law nations, like individuals, are subjected
to punishments and chastsements in this world
may we not Justly fear that the awful calamity
OF civil war which desolates the land may
be but punishment inflicted upon us for our
presumptuous sins, to the needful end OF our
national reformation as a whole people? We
have been the recipients of the choicest bountles
OF heaven; we have been preserved these many
years in peace and prosperity; we have grown
in numbers, wealth and power as no other ma
ton has ever grown. But we have forgotten
God We have forgotten the gracious hand
which preserved us in peace and multiplied and
enriched and siren gthened us. and we have
vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our
hearts, that all these blessings were produced
| by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have be-
come too self-sufficient to feel the necessity OF
redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to
| pray to the God that made u.s.
1t behooves us, then to humble ourselves be-
fore the offended Power to confess our national
sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness
Now, therefore, in compliance with the re-
| quest and fully concurring in the views Of the
senate. do by this my proclamation designate
and set apart Thursday. the 3Oth day OF April,
1853, as q day OF national humiliation, fasting
and prayer. And l do hereby request all the
people to abstain that day from their ordi-
nary secular pursuits, and to unite at their sew
eral places OF public worship and their respec-
tive homes in keeping the day holy to the Lord
and devoted to the humble discharge Of the re-
ligious duties proper to that solemn occasion.
All this being done in sincerity and truth
let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized
by the divine teachings that the united cry of
the nation will be heard on high and answered
with blessings no less than the pardon of our
national sins and the restoration OF our now
divided and suffering country to its former
happy condition of unity and peace.
Done at the city OF Washington this 30th
day Of March, A. D.. 1868. and of the independ-
ence of the United States the eighty-seventh
(Seal.) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
| Proclamation; II has nleased Almighty Gnd