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News President Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving day of praise to ‘beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens’
President Abraham Lincoln’s powerful Thanksgiving proclamation, issued amid the carnage of the Civil War, gave the holiday its statement of purpose. It is “to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next,” the president said on Oct. 3, 1863, “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in…
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