Happy Thanksgiving 2013!!!
1. Question – Have you ever given George Washington
more thought than just history? The more I know about this
founder the more American I become.
2. Thought – Thanksgiving Proclamation
President George Washington
City of New York, October 3, 1789
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the
providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be
grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his
protection and favor, and Whereas both Houses of Congress
have by their joint Committee requested me “to
recommend to the People of the United States a day of
public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by
acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors
of Almighty God, especially by affording them an
opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government
for their safety and happiness.”
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th
day of November next to be devoted by the People of these
States to the service of that great and glorious Being,
who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was,
that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in
rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his
kind care and protection of the People of this country
previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and
manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his
providence, which we experienced in the course and
conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of
tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since
enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner in which we
have been enabled to establish constitutions of government
for our safety and happiness, and particularly the
national One now lately instituted, for the civil and
religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means
we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge and in
general for all the great and various favors which he hath
been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering
our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler
of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and
other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public
or private stations, to perform our several and relative
duties properly and punctually, to render our national
government a blessing to all the People, by constantly
being a government of wise, just and constitutional laws,
discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed, to protect
and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as
have shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good
government, peace, and concord. To promote the knowledge
and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease
of science among them and Us, and generally to grant unto
all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he
alone knows to be best.
George Washington was the only U.S. President who did not
attend college. Notice his prose. Wouldn’t you like
to meet him someday?
Have a wonderful day!
Mark Remick
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