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Show FAST DAY SET BY A. LINCOLN B. Y. U. Students Observe Lincoln's Birthday by Reading Read-ing His Proclamation. Teahcers and students of the Theology classes of the Brigham Young university commemorated the birthday of Abraham Lincoln . by reading the following proclamation of a fast day by Lincoln in March 1SG3 and commenting on the patriotic patri-otic aud religious character of the martyr president as reflected therein there-in : "Whereas, the Seuate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the supreme authority and just government gov-ernment of Almighty God in all the affairs of men and of nations, has by a resolution requested the president presi-dent to designate and set apart a day for national prayer and humiliation humili-ation : "And Whereas, it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling overrul-ing power of God: to confess their sins and transgressions to humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mer-! cy and pardon and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord : "And insomuch as we know that by his divine law nations like individuals, are subjected to punishment punish-ment 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 presumptous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation refor-mation as a whole people? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. "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 full concurring in the views of the Senate, I do by this proclamation designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th day of April, 1803, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the people peo-ple to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits and to unite at their several places of public pub-lic worship and their respective homes in keeping with the day holy to the Lord and devoted to the humble hum-ble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion. "A LINCOLN. "By the President : "William II. Seward, Secretary of State." |