THANKSGIVING FROM NICHOLS NOTES
At the end of my article you will find the history involved in how we have this day to celebrate each year. I believe it is truly worth learning what our holiday called Thanksgiving is supposed to be about. Read it and share it with others.
As for my article, I thought I would list things that I think we
should all be thankful for as this special day approaches.
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God, thank you for giving Jesus to this world in order for our
sins to be forgiven. I only regret that most of us do not seem to do
our part to be forgiven.
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God, thank you for giving us this great Nation for all of us to live in. I am only sorry that more of us did not rise up when a Judge ruled to take Your Commandments out of our legal system in Alabama.
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God, thank you for still allowing us to have hero's in our military. People willing to give their lives to protect the rest of us. I hope that they're being used wisely.
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God, thank you for giving us a President that is willing to fight terrorism. Please give him the wisdom to know how to do it.
- God, last but not least, thank you for all of our families and friends that we have to share this holiday with. Times sure seem hard now, but they could be a lot harder, without the one's we love.
Well, that is my list and I hope you know I consider all of you in
number five (5).
P.S. God, I would like to add one early Thanksgiving thank you for
next year. I pray you do not mind me throwing in a little request
and that is to thank you in advance for not letting Hillary run for
the Presidency in 2004 or well actually, ever. Amen
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S 1789 THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
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 and 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 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 has been pleased to
confer on 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 to us), and to
bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the
knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase
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.
Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October,
A.D. 1789.
Signed G. Washington
Shortly after the Thanksgiving Proclamation was written it was lost
for over a hundred years. It was apparently misplaced or attached to
some private papers in the process of moving official records from
one city to another when the capital was changed. However, it
happened the original manuscript was not in the official archives
until 1921 when Dr. J. C. Fitzpatrick, then assistant chief of the
manuscripts division of the Library of Congress "found" the
proclamation. It was at an auction sale being held at an art gallery
in New York. It was written in long hand by William Jackson,
secretary to President Washington and was signed by George
Washington. Dr Fitzpatrick purchased the document for $300.00 for the
Library of Congress, where it now resides.
(Note: Having seen this Proclamation before and knowing just how many
things like this that you read on the Internet are false, I contacted
the Library of Congress and spoke with a gentleman that is known
there as Mr. Thanksgiving, Marvin Kranz, who graciously took the time
to go over it in detail, correcting a few minor errors so that
Nichols Notes readers could read it just as George Washington wrote
it. Mr. Kranz went on to say that after the original proclamation,
Thanksgiving as a national holiday was somewhat ignored until Abraham
Lincoln brought it back into favor and it became the institution that
it is today. ~Editor)
See You Next Week and May God Bless,
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
Quitting is a shortcut to losing.
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