Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-11-10
Thanksgiving Proclamation.

fiS>iaSht riaraing mas ISSUED the FOL
lowing proclamation designating
Thursday, November cath, as a day
Of national thanksgiving:
That season has come when, alike
in pursuance Of devout peoples time
honored custom and in grateful recogni-
ton Of favoring national fortunes, it is
proper that the President should, sum-
mon the nation to day Of devotion, OF
thanksgiving for blessings bestowed
and of prayer for guidance in modes Of
life that may deserve 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 into relations of
amity with all nations, after long
period of struggle and turbulence. In
thankfulness therefore We may well
unite in the hope that Providence will
vouehsafe approval TO the things we
have done, the aims which have guided
us, the aspirations which have inspired
us. We shall be prospered as We shall
deserve prosperity, seeking not alone
for the material things but for those
of the spirit as we'll; earnestly try
ing 10 help others; asking before all
else the privilege of service. As we
render thanks anew for the exaltation
which came TO us, we may fittingly
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
steadier, their purposes strengthened.
in answer to our prayers.
Ours has been favored nation
in the bounty which God has bestowed
upon it, The great trial of humanity,
though indeed we bore our part as we'll
as we were able, left us comparatively
little SCARED. 1t is for us 10 recognize
that we have been thus favored, and
hen we gather at our affairs to offer up
thanks we will do we'll to pledge, in
humility and all sincerity, our purpose
to prove deserving. We have been
raised up and preserved in national
power and consequence as part Of a
plan whose wisdom we can not ques-
tion. Thus believing, we can do not
less than hold our nation the willing
instrument of the providence which
has so wonderfully favored us. Op-
portunity for very great service awaits
us if we shall prove equal to it. Let
our prayers be raised for direction in
the right paths. Under God, our re-
sponsibility is great; to our own first, to
all men afterwards: to all mankind in
Gods own justice.
Now, therefore, I, Warren G. Hard
ing, President of the United States
hereby designate Thursday, the TWEEN
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 affairs they will give thanks for
all that has been rendered unto them,
and will pray for continuance OF the
Divine fortune which has been shower
ed so generously upon this nation.
In witness whereof have hereunto
set my hand and caused to be affixed
the seal of the United States of Amer
lea.
Done at the Capital Of the United
States, this 3ist day of October, 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 c. HARDING,
BY the President.
CHARLES E. HUGHES.
Secretary of State