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INS:Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation for a National Day of Prayer
"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 strength- ended
us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts,
that all these blessings were produce 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 foregivenesss."
April 30, 1863
President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation for a National Day of
Fasting Humiliation and Prayer