BY HIS EXCELLENCY
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
A PROCLAMATION
For a Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer.
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 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 truths announced in the Holy Scriptures, and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord;
And, inasmuch 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 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 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 people to abstain 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 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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
By the President,
William H. Seward, Sec’y of State.
Shalom Natsarim,
I came across this beautiful piece of our history today as I was studying. ABBA laid it on my heart to share with you, so that we can remember America was not always ruled by evil people serving the agenda of hasatan. NO. We once had great leaders with humble hearts who loved Yahuah. One of the best was Abraham Lincoln!! Many of his words echo in my heart! Let us remember the following; those of us who live in Virginia in these end days–it is not merely one state at stake for losing our constitutional rights but by what will happen in Virginia be the either the spark that ignites the fire of revolt or be the extinguisher that puts out the spark that was set as a trap for all Americans!! How fitting for YaH to remind us of what was!!
Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.—Abraham Lincoln
Sir;my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right. –Abraham Lincoln
Shabbat Shalom!
Amaliyah bat Yahuah
Stay Aware, Awake and have NO FEAR!
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