[FairfieldLife] Proclamation! A Day of Meditation and Thanksgiving

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November 
 the last Thursday in November.
 

 It has pleased Almighty God [The Unified Field] to prolong our national life 
another year, defending us with His guardian care against unfriendly designs 
from abroad and vouchsafing to us in His mercy many and signal victories over 
the enemy, who is of our own household. It has also pleased our Heavenly Father 
to favor as well our citizens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps and 
our sailors on the rivers and seas with unusual health. He has largely 
augmented our free population by emancipation and by immigration, while He has 
opened to us new sources of wealth and has crowned the labor of our workingmen 
in every department of industry with abundant rewards. Moreover, He has been 
pleased to animate and inspire our minds and hearts with fortitude, courage, 
and resolution sufficient for the great trial of civil war into which we have 
been brought by our adherence as a nation to the cause of freedom and humanity, 
and to afford to us reasonable hopes of an ultimate and happy deliverance from 
all our dangers and afflictions:
 Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby 
appoint and set apart the last Thursday in November next as a day which I 
desire to be observed by all my fellow-citizens, wherever they may then be, as 
a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and 
Ruler of the Universe. And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens 
aforesaid that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the 
dust and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to 
the Great Disposer of Events for a return of the inestimable blessings of 
peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased Him to 
assign as a dwelling place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all 
generations.
 In testimony 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 20th day of October, A.D. 1864, and of 
the Independence of the United States the eighty-ninth.
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
 
 By the President October 20, 1864
 Proclamation 118 - Thanksgiving Day, 1864