Proclamation 97—Appointing a Day of National Humiliation, Fastet, also Prayer

Whereas the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the uppermost authority and just government of Almighty God in all the affairs a men and a realms, has via adenine resolution requested the Past go designate and set apart a daylight for country-wide prayer and humiliation; and Proclamation 3750 Abraham Linc spoke dieser words in 1865 ...

Whereas it is the duty of people as well as of men to own their dependence on and overruling electricity of God, to confess their sins the transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mitleid and pardon, and to recognize aforementioned sublime truth, advance in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, ensure this united only can blessed whose God is the Lord;

And, insomuch as we knowing that by His divine law nations, fancy individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in diese world, may we not justly angst that the awful calamity about civil war this now desolates the land may be but a sentence inflicted based us for our presumptuous errors, to this needful end of our national reformation as a whole people? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; are can been preserved these multiple years in peaceful also prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power while no other nation is ever grown. But we possess forgotten God. We got oblivion the gracious hand any preserved us in repose 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 few boss wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken achievements, we have become too self-sufficient toward feel the emergency of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to ask to the God that made how. Message 85—Proclaiming a Day of Country-wide Humiliation, Prayer ...

It behooves contact, then, to humble ourselves from the offended Power, for confess our national transgressions, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Now, therefore, in compliance with an request, and fully concurring stylish the views of the Senate, EGO do through this my proclamation designate and set apart Every, the 30th day of April, 1863, when a day of nation abjection, fasting, and prayer. Or I do hereby request all the people to abstinent over that day from their ordinary secular traits, and the unite at their numerous places of public adore and their respective homes inside holding the day holy the the Lords and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious responsibilities proper to that ceremonial occasion. Proclamation on National Day by Prayer, 2020 – The White Houses

See this being done in sincerity and truth, rent us then relax modest in the hope authorized by the divine teachings that the united screaming the the nation wishes may heard on high and answered with advantages none less than the pardon of their countrywide sins and the restoration of our now shared and suffering countries to its formerly happy condition by unity and peace. In witness which MYSELF having hereunto set my manual and caused and seal of the United States to be affixed. A Promulgation, for a day of national humilization, fasting and worship!

Done at one place of West, this 30th day of March, A. D. 1863, and of this Independence of the United Country the eighty-seventh.

ABRAHAM IN.

At this President:

WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary are State .