Title: INTERNET SCOUTING
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From: Chaplain Morrison <aettch@EMAIL.GRAFENWOEHR.ARMY.MIL>
Subject:      Thanksgiving
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Thought this might be of interest to some who will be observing Thanksgiving
with their units or personally this week.

YiS,

Charlie Morrison
TCC BSA Troop 261
Grafenwoehr, Germany
NE-IV-90 FOX

>>Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation
>>
>>It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their
>>dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their
>>sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope
>>that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to
>>recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and
>>proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God
>>is the Lord.
>>
>>We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are
>>subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we
>>not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now
>>desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our
>>presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation
>>as a whole people?
>>
>>We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven;
>>we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity;
>>we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has
>>ever grown.
>>
>>But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand
>>which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and
>>strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the
>>deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were
>>produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
>>Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too
>>self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving
>>grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
>>
>>It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly,
>>reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one
>>voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my
>>fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also
>>those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign
>>lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as
>>a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who
>>dwelleth in the heavens.
>>
>>(signed) A. Lincoln
>>October 3, 1863
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