The following proclamation, taken from abrahamlincolnonline.org, was
written by our Senate in 1863, and placed on the desk of President
Lincoln to sign. I first posted it last July. Ted Cruz and maybe three
or four other Senators might be able to pen such a proclamation today
but it would evoke hoots and howls of derision if placed on our
president's desk and the media would unmercifully castigate its authors.
Each and every thought in this proclamation may have you ask...who were these people? The answer is that they were Americans....we are no longer America! Maybe you read the news bulletin of a few weeks ago where we were informed that 53 of 76 highly ranked colleges and universities, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford, do not even require history majors to study American history....and we often wonder why Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton can get away with the things that they do!
Read every sentence.....please.....the game doesn't start for another ten minutes....and The Bachelorette has probably been preempted by news on the latest terror attack. Read and maybe weep as I do, for this was America. We are now a nation of prodigals, mesmerized by the image on our Facebook page, our intellects hamstrung by Groupthink, and our individualism purposely eroded by a century of 'Progressive' education. May God have mercy on this nation that historically must rank no higher than the first quartile in its ability to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and discern God's warnings in His Word and the signs of the times, yet considers its church services rather spiffy and its discernment fine and dandy in God's eyes.
Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day
Washington, D.C.
By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation.
Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the
Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the
affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the
President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and
humiliation. And whereas 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 only are blessed whose God is the Lord. And,
insomuch as 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 but 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 behooves
us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our
national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness. Now, therefore,
in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of
the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart
Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national
humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People
to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to
unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective
homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble
discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion. All
this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the
hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the
Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than
the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided
and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this
thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States
the eighty seventh. By the President: Abraham Lincoln
Each and every thought in this proclamation may have you ask...who were these people? The answer is that they were Americans....we are no longer America! Maybe you read the news bulletin of a few weeks ago where we were informed that 53 of 76 highly ranked colleges and universities, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford, do not even require history majors to study American history....and we often wonder why Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton can get away with the things that they do!
Read every sentence.....please.....the game doesn't start for another ten minutes....and The Bachelorette has probably been preempted by news on the latest terror attack. Read and maybe weep as I do, for this was America. We are now a nation of prodigals, mesmerized by the image on our Facebook page, our intellects hamstrung by Groupthink, and our individualism purposely eroded by a century of 'Progressive' education. May God have mercy on this nation that historically must rank no higher than the first quartile in its ability to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and discern God's warnings in His Word and the signs of the times, yet considers its church services rather spiffy and its discernment fine and dandy in God's eyes.
Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day
