President and God

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Dear Prabhu,

PAMHO.ALGTSP.

George Washington had great love and respect for God. take a peek at the

Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789.

your servant behind the camera,

Pandava vijaya dasa

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Thanksgiving Proclamation

 

[New York, 3 October 1789]

 

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By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.

 

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of

Almighty God, to obey his

will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection

and favor-- and whereas

both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to

recommend to the People

of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed

by acknowledging with

grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by

affording them an opportunity

peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.

 

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November

next to be devoted

by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious

Being, who is the beneficent

Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be-- That we may

then all unite in rendering unto

him our sincere and humble thanks--for his kind care and protection of the

People of this Country

previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies,

and the favorable

interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and

conclusion of the late

war--for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have

since enjoyed--for the

peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish

constitutions of

government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One

now lately instituted--for

the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we

have of acquiring and

diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various

favors which he hath been

pleased to confer upon us.

 

and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and

supplications to the great

Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other

transgressions-- to

enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our

several and relative duties properly

and punctually--to render our national government a blessing to all the

people, by constantly being a

Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and

faithfully executed and obeyed--to

protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn

kindness unto us) and

to bless them with good government, peace, and concord--To promote the

knowledge and practice

of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and

us--and generally to grant

unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to

be best.

 

Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the

year of our Lord

1789.

 

Go:G. Washington