Show thanksgiving proclamation president sets apart thursday november 26 as day of thanksgiving and prayer washington the president has Is sued the annual thanksgiving proclamation setting apart thursday november 26 as a day of and prayer year by year declares the proclamation la this nation grows in strength and worldly power during the century and a quarter that has elapsed since our entry into the circle of independent peoples we havo have grown and prospered in material things to a degree never before known and not known in any other othe r country the thirteen colonies which straggled along the seacoast of the atlantic and were hemmed in but a few miles west of tidewater by the indian haunted wilderness have been transformed into the mightiest lie which the world has ever seen its domains stretch across the conti nent from one to the other of tho the greatest oceans and it exercises dominion alike in tho the arctic and tropic realms the growth in wealth and population has surpassed even en the growth in ili territory nowhere else in tho the world Is the average of individual comfort and material mate ilal well being as ae high as in our fortunate land for the very reason that in ma aerial well being we have thus abounded we owe to the almighty to show equal progress in moral and spiritual things with a nation ne as with the individuals who make up a nation material well being Is an indis india pen foundation but tho the dounda tion lion avails nothing by itself that life Is wasted and worse than wasted which is spent in ili piling heap leap on oil heap heal those things which minister merel to the pleasure plea suie of the body and in to the power that rests only on oil wealth upon material well being as a dounda tion must be raised the structure ol of the lofty life of the spirit if tills this na uon lion is properly to fulfill its great mission and accomplish all we so ar dently hope and desire the things of the body are arc good the things oi of the intellect better but best of all things of the soul for in the as in the individual in the long run it is character that counts let us its therefore as a people set our faces resolutely against evil and with broad charity chai ity with friendliness and good will toward all men but with un tin flinching determination to smite down wrong strive with all the strength that is given us its for righteousness ness in ili public and in private lifo |