Abraham Lincoln’s
Proclamation of Prayer & Fasting
A Proclamation.
Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the
Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the
affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the
President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and
humiliation.
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their
dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins
and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that
genuine repentance will lead to mercy 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 punishments 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 presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our
national reformation as a whole People?
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