**Previously Recorded by Phyllis Schlafly**
On previous Thanksgiving Days, I’ve recited George Washington’s first Thanksgiving Proclamation given in 1789. Today, I’m going to share with you from another national Thanksgiving Proclamation written and issued by George Washington in 1795 so we can join with the Father of Our Country in giving thanks for the blessings of living in America.
“It is in an especial manner our duty as a people, with devout reverence and affectionate gratitude, to acknowledge our many and great obligations to Almighty God, and to implore Him to continue and confirm the blessings we experienced. Deeply penetrated with this sentiment, I, George Washington,
President of the United States, do recommend to all religious societies and denominations, and to all persons whomsoever within the United States, to set apart and observe Thursday next as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, and on that day to meet together and render sincere and hearty thanks
to the great Ruler of nations for the manifold and signal mercies which distinguishes our lot as a nation; particularly for the possession of constitutions of government which … establish liberty with order; for the preservation of our peace, foreign and domestic; … and generally for the prosperous condition of our affairs, public and private, and at the same time humbly and fervently beseech the kind Author of these blessings graciously to prolong them to us; to imprint on our hearts a deep and solemn sense of
our obligations to Him for them; to teach us rightly to estimate their immense value; to preserve us from the arrogance of prosperity, and from hazarding the advantages we enjoy by delusive pursuits, … to diffuse and establish habits of sobriety, order, and morality and piety, and finally to impart all the blessings we possess or ask for ourselves to the whole family of mankind.”
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