The Republican., 1921-11-10
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
issued byPresident Harding Designat-
ing November oath As Day of
Thanksgiving and PRAYER.

AhdhhoSNiiS anu L ITdyeT.
President Harding has issued his
proclamation designating Thursday,
November oath, as a day of devotion
and prayer and urging the people to
give thanks for the many blessings
they have received. The proclama
tion follows:
A PROCLAMATION
THAT season has come when, alike
in pursuance of a devout peoples
time-honored custom and in grateful
recognition of favoring national for
tunes, it is proper that the president
should summon the nation to day of
devotion, of thanksgiving for bless
ings bestowed, and of prayer for guild
ance in modes of life that may de-
serve the continuance of Divine favor.
Foremost among our blessings is
the return of peace, and the approach
to normal ways again. The year has
brought US again to relations of amity
with all nations, after a long period
of struggle and turbulence. In thank
fulness, therefore, we may well unite
in the hope that Providence will
vouchsafe approval to the things we
have done, the aims which have guild
ed us, the aspirations which have in
spired us. We shall be prospered as
we shall deserve prosperity, seeking
not alone for material things but for
those of the spirit as well, earnestly
trying to help others; asking before
all else the privilege of service. AS
we render thanks anew for the exal-
tation which came to US, we may fit
tingly petition that moderation and
wisdom shall be granted to rest upon
all who are in authority, in the tasks
they must discharge. Their hands
will be steadied, their purposes will
be strengthened in answer to our
prayers.
ours has been a favored nation in
the bounty which God has bestowed
upon it. The great trial of humanity,
though indeed we bore our part as
well as we were able, left US compar-
atively little SCARED. 1t is for us to
recognize that we have been thus fav-
ored, and when we gather at our al
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to pledge, in humility and all sincerity,
our purposes to prove deserving. We
have been raised up and preserved in
national power and consequence as
part of plan whose wisdom we
cannot question. Thus, believing, we
can do no less than hold our nation
the willing instrument of the Provi-
dence which has so wonderfully fav-
ored US. Opportunity for very great
service awaits US if we shall prove
equal to it. Let our prayers be raised
for direction in the right paths. Un-
der God, our responsibility is great;
to our own first, to all men afterword; !;
to all mankind in Gods own justice.
"Now, therefore, 1, Warren G. Har-
ding, president of the United States,
hereby designate Thursday, the twen-
ty-fourth day of November, to be OBJ
served by the people as a day of
thanksgiving, devotion and prayer;
urging that at their hearth sides and
their altars they will give thanks for
all that has been rendered unto them,
and will pray for continuance of the
Divine fortune which has been show
cred so generously upon this nation.
"In witness whereof, l have here
unto set my hand and caused to be af-
fixed the seal of the United States of
America.
Done at the capitol of the United
States, this 31st day of October in the
year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and twenty-one and of the independ-
ence of the United States the one hun