Show thanksgiving proclamation president sets apart thursday november 26 as day of thanksgiving and prayer washington wash in aton alio th a president has issued sol ed tho the annual thanksgiving proclamation setting apart thursday november ver riber 26 as aa a day of thanksgiving and prayer drayer year by year declares the proclamation la this nation grows lu in strength and worldly power during the century and a quarter that has hag elapsed since our entry into the circle ot of independent peoples we havo have grown growa and prospered in material things to a degree never before known and not known in any other country the thirteen colonies which straggled along the seacoast of the tha atlantic and were hemmed in but a few miles west of tidewater by tho the indian haunted wilderness have been transformed into the mightiest republic which the world has ever seen its domains stretch across the continent from one to the other of tho greatest oceans and it exercises dominion mike alike in the arctic and tropic realms the growth in wealth and population has surpassed even tho the growth in territory nowhere else in the world Is the tha average of individual comfort and material well being as aa high as idour fortunate f or tuna at land for the akery r reason s a 1 that in material a well eing being we tave thus abounded we owe to the almighty t to 0 show equal Jr progress ogress in moral and spiritual opi ritual things with a nation as aa with the individuals who make up a nation na tion material well being is an indispensable pen sable foundation but the frandal j tion avails nothing by itself that lito Is wasted and worse than wast wasted eoll yh which ich is spent in piling heap on heap those things which minister merely to tile pleasure of the body and to the power that rests only on wealth upon material well being as a foundation must be raised the structure 0 of the lofty life of the spirit it if this na tion is properly to fulfill its ita great mission and accomplish all we so ardently hope and desire the things of the body are good the things ot of the intellect better but best of all things of the thelo poul for in the nation as in the in the long run it is character that counts let us ua therefore as a people set our faces resolutely against evil and with broad charity with friendliness and good will toward all men but with unflinching determination to amito down wrong strive with all the tha strength that Is given us for j I 1 public and in private life |