Thanksgiving Proclamations: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Roosevelt, & more (Happy Thanksgiving!)

American Minute ^ | November 25, 2020 | William J. Federer

[Perseverando]

During the days of America's founding, colonies would declare:

days of prayer when times were bad;

days of fasting when times were real bad; and

days of thanksgiving when things turned around.

This developed into many colonies, like New Hampshire and Massachusetts, having annual days of fasting, often on Good Friday.

This is evidence that colonists were not deists, who believed God set the laws of nature in place and then let the world run on its own.

America's founders believed in a living relationship with God, where:

if people sinned, He would call them to repent;

if they did not repent, He would let judgement come; and

then when they repented, He would send deliverance.

During a threaten war, Ben Franklin published a proclamation of a General Fast in the Pennsylvania Gazette, December 12, 1747:

"The calamities of a bloody war ... seem every year more nearly to approach us ... and there is just reason to fear that unless we humble ourselves before the Lord and amend our ways, we may be chastized with yet heavier judgments.

We have ... thought fit ... to appoint ... a Day of Fasting ... to join with one accord in the most humble & fervent supplications that Almighty God would mercifully interpose and still the rage of war among the nations & put a stop to the effusion of Christian blood."

Thomas Jefferson drafted a Day of Fasting for Virginia in 1774 to be observed on the day British ships blockaded Boston's harbor.

"With apprehension ... from the hostile invasion of the city of Boston ...

[Perseverando]

Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!

Time for another great American (and world) history lesson from American Minute.

[tflabo]

For this particular Thanksgiving Day ‘The battle Hymn of the Republic’ resonates so loud and deep. Take a listen here..
Praise His Holy name— All thanks and Praise to Him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDuVApacL7Q

[Georgia Girl 2]

Happy Thanksgiving to you too and the whole Freeper battalion. We are going to dine on some stuffed Kraken and Federalist cabernet. 🦃

[StoneWall Brigade]

Least we forget Jefferson Davis’s Thanksgiving day proclamation.