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Show mSON-PROCLAIMS DAY I OF PMAYER FOR SUCCESS I OF AMERICANS IN WAR I WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 President Wilson by proclamation today declared Sunday, October 21, as a day of prayer for tho success of tho American Ameri-can array in the war, in accordance with the recent resoltuion of congress. The president's- proclamation is as follows: "Whereas, Tho congress of the United States, by a concurrent resolution reso-lution adopted on the fourth day of tho present mouth of October, in view of the entrance of our nation into tho vast and awful war which now afflicts the greater part of the world, has requested re-quested me to set apart by official proclamation a day upon which our people should be called upon to offer concerted prayer to Almighty God for Ilis divine aid in the successes of our arms; and, "Whereas, It behooves a great free people, nurtured as we have been in the eternal principles of justice and of right a nation which has sought from the earliest days of its existence to be obedient to the divine teachings whlpb have Inspired it in the exercise of its liberties to turn always to the Supreme Master and cast themselves in faith at II is feet, praying for His aid and succor in every hour of trial, to the end that the great aims to which our JM fathers dedicated our power as a peo- pie may not perish among men, but be always asserted and defended with 'll fresh ardour - "and novotion and, f through the divine blessing, set at fl last upon enduring foundations for the benefit of all the free peoples of the earth; ( "Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, J president of the United States, gladly responding to the wish expessed by ' the congress, do appoint October 28, being the last Sunday of the present month, as a day of supplication and jH prayer for all the people of the nation, honestly exhorting all my country- IH men to observe the appointed day, ac- IH cording to their several faiths in solemn prayer, that God's blessings IH may rest upon the high task which Is , IH laid upon to the end that the cause - JH for which we give our lives and treas- ' IH lire may triumph and our efforts be blessed with the high achievement." IH |