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Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor, and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their Joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanks-giving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness"
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th. day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for His kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the greatest degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge and in general for all the great and various favors which He hath been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to all the People, by constantly being a government of wise, just,and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executived and obeyed, to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations(especially such as to have shown kindness to us) and to bless them with good government ,peace, and concord. To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and Us, and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
Seven years of "offering prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations" to "render our national government a blessing to all the People, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed" hasn't worked, when it comes to the Dubya Administration.
Seven years of "offering prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations" to "render our national government a blessing to all the People, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed" hasn't worked, when it comes to the Dubya Administration.
This is Washingtons Thanksgiving proclamation. Not Dubya
Geo Washington was a Deist, not a Christian. He couldn't be elected President today because of his religious beliefs! But General Peter Pace (Peter Pace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) could! And General Pace is no George Washington!
Think about it!
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On June 8, 2007, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that he would advise the President not to renominate General Pace because of concerns about contentious confirmation hearings in the Democratic-controlled Congress. The President nominated the former Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Mullen to replace Pace.[1][11][12] On October 1, 2007, General Pace officially retired at Fort Myer, Virginia. [13]
On October 1, 2007, the editors of the National Review encouraged Virginia voters to draft Pace to run for the Senate seat that will be vacated by retiring Senator John Warner. The magazine cited Pace's conservative Catholic beliefs, and opined that Virginia should do as "National Review" demanded. [14]On October 2, 2007, the Wall Street Journal's Political Diary ran a piece about Virginia Republicans attempting to persuade Gen. Pace to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. John Warner in 2008.
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Thanks for posting this! Good to be reminded of the faith that the office of the President has consistently held for all these many, many years.....
George Washington's 1789 Proclamation is evidence that:
1) He wasn't a true Christian and that religion to him was nothing more than a public utility, or,
2) He was a Christian, but would sacrifice Christian principles for political gain.
A true Christian would have known that Jesus instructed us not to mix the things of God with those of Caesar.
President Washington screwed up big time by not telling Congress that he had no power under the Constitution over over the religion of the American people. If he had, he would have gone down in history as the great champion of religious freedom. Instead, he left that title on the table to be taken by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
Executive religious proclamations were never popular during the early years of the Republic. By 1796, they had become so unpopular that 10,000 Republicans marched in the streets of the U. S. Capitol to protest a fast recommendation proclaimed by President John Adams. The mob surrounded the residence of the President with torches. President Adams swore they would have killed him if the state militia had not come to his rescue.
The angry crowd, according to Adams, was heard to whisper, "Let us have Jefferson, Madison, Burr, any body, whether they be Philosophers, Deists, or even Atheists, rather than a Presbyterian President." Adams believed that he was turned out of the White House in the election of 1800 by "the The National Fast recommended by me."
The American people, wrote Adams, "connected [Adams' fast proclamation of 1796] with the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church..." which had "allarmed and alienated Quakers, Anabaptists, Mennonists, Moravians, Swedenborgians, Methodists, Catholicks, protestant Episcopalians, Arians, Socinians, Armenians, & & &, Atheists and Deists might be added. A general Suspicon prevailed that the Presbyterian Church was ambitious and aimed at an Establishment of a National Church. I was represented as a Presbyterian and at the head of this political and ecclesiastical Project...Nothing is more dreaded than the National Government meddling with Religion."
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