The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1921-11-02
NATION is CALLED
TO GIVE THANKS
Thanksgiving Proclama.
ton Issued Monday
NATION SUMMONED
VO DEVOTION
The Year has Brought Us, Says the
PRESIDENT, Again Into Relation OF
Amity with all Nations After n Long

President, Again Into Relation Of
Amity with all Nations After a Long
Period of Struggle and Turbulence.
Washington, Oct 81. President
Harding issued proclamation des-
ignating Thursday, November "a, as a
day Of Thanksgiving, devotion and
prayer and urging the people to give
thanks for all that has been rem
dered unto them" and to pray "for
continuance Of the divine fortune
which has been showercd so generous
ly upon this nation" The proclama-
ton follows:
That season has come when, alike
in pursuance OF devout peoples
time honored custom in grateful rec
ognition Of favoring national fortunes,
it is proper that the president should
summon the nation TO a day Of devo-
ton, Of thanksgiving for blessings be-
slowed and of prayer for guidance
on modes Of life that may deserve CON
tinuance 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 we'll
unite in the hope that providence will
vouchsafc approval to the things we
OF, ;nl
cd us, the aspirations which have in
spired us. We shall be prospered as
we hall deserve prosperity, seeking
not alone for the material things but
for those of the spirit as we'll; earn
estly trying to help others, asking be-
fore all else the privilege of service
Ae we render thanks anew for the
eXaltation which came to us, we may
fit.ingly petition that moderation and
wisdom shall be granted to rest upon
all who are in authority in the task
they must discharge, their hands will
be stcadied, their purposes strength
ened in answer to our prayers.
Ours has been a favored nation in
the bounty which God has bestowed
upon it. The great trial Of human
ity, though indeed we did our part as
we'll as we are able, left us compara-
lively unscarred 1t Is for us to rec
ognize that we have been thus favored
and, when we gather at our affairs to
offer up thanks, we will do well to
pledge, in humility and all sincerity,
our purpose to prove deserving. We
nave been raised up and preserved in
national power and consequence, as
part OF a plan whose wisdom we can
not question. Thus believing, we can
do no less than hold our nation the
willing instrument Of the providence
which has so wonderfully favored 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. Under God, our
responsibility is great, to our own
first, to ell men afrerward; to all man
kind in Gods own Justice.
Nov, therefore, I, Warren G..
Harding, president Of the United
States, hereby designate Thursday,
the oath day Of November, to be OBJ
served by the people as day Of
THANKSGIVING, devotion and prayer;
urging that at their hearths and their
affairs, they will give thanks for all
that has been rendered unto them,
and will pray for continunce OF the
divine fortune which has been show
cred so generously upon this nation.
I'm 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 United
States this 31st day of October in the
year OF our Lord, 1921, and OF the in
dependence Of the United States, the
146th.
Warren G. Harding.
by the president:
Charles E. Hughes.
Secretary OF State"