Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-11-18
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1921.
I thanksgiving PROCLAMATION

THANKSGIVING rkOCLA1A Jun
Pre- sident Harding has issued
he following proclamation de-
ignatipg Thursday, Nov. oath,
as day of national thanksgiv-
ing:
That season has come when,
alike ID pursuance of a devout
peoples time-llonored custom and
III grateful recognition of favor
ing national fortunes, it is proper
that the President should summon
the nation to a day of devotion,
of thanksgiving for blessings be-
slowed and of prayer for guild
ance in modes of life that may de-
serve continuance of Divine favor
Foremost among our blessings
is the return Of peace, and the ap
proach to normal ways again.
The year has brought us again
into relations of amity with all
nations, after a long period of
struggle and turbulence. In thank
fulness therefore we may we'll
unite in the hope that Providence
will vouchsafe approval to the
things we have done, the aims
which have guided us. the aspir-
ations which have inspired us.
We shall be prospered as we shall
deserve prosperity, seeking not a.
lone for the material things but
for those of he spirit as we'll;
earnestly trying to help others;
asking before all else the privilege
of service. AS we render thanks
anew for the exaltation whicl Il
came to us. we may Gttingly pet
i:ion that moderation and wisdom
shall be granted to rest upon all
who are in authority, in tile
tasks they must discharge. Their
hands will be steadier, their pur-
poses strengthened, in answer to
our prayers.
Ours has been a favorite nation
in the bounty which God has be-
slowed upon it. The great trial
of hum anity, though Indeed we
bore our part as well as we were
able, left us comparatively little
SCARED. It is for us to recognise
that we have been thus favored
and when we gather at our altar
to offer up thanks we will do wei
to pledge. in humility and all sin
certify, our purpose to prove de
serving. We have been raised III
aud preserved in national pow er
and consequence as part of pla
whose wisdom we cannot question
Thus believing. do not less than
hold our nation the willing inst
rument of the providence which
has so wonderfully favored US
Opportunity for very great ser
vice awaits us if we shall prove
equal to it. Let our prayers be
raised for direction in the right
paths. Under God, our RESPONSE.
bility is great; to our own first
to all men afterward; to all man.
kind in Gods own justice.
Now, therefore, l. Warren G.
Harding. President of the United
States, hereby designate Thurs
day, the twenty-fourth day of
Nov. to be observed by the PEG.
pie as a day of thanksgiving, de-
votior and prayer; urging that
at their liearth-sides and their al
tars they will give thanks for all
that has been rendered unto them
and will pray for a continuance
of the Divine fortune which has
been showered so generously upon
this nation.
In witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused to
be affixed the seal of the United
States of America.
Done at the Capital of the Un-
tied States, this 81 day of Oct,
in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and twenty-one and of
the independence Of the United
States the one hundred and forty
sixth.
Signed, WARREN G. HARDING,