Subject:  American Minute - October 3 - First National Thanksgiving
Date:  Mon, 03 Oct 2005 03:15:40 GMT
American Minute with Bill Federer
October 3

On October 3, 1789, from the U.S. Capitol in New York City, President George Washington issued the first Proclamation of a National Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer to Almighty God," as just one week earlier the first session of the United States Congress finally approved the wording of the First Ten Amendments limiting the power of the Federal Government.
The First of these Amendments begins:
"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Washington proclaimed:
"Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God...
I do recommend and assign Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of November next, to be devoted by the People of these United 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 the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government...
and particularly the national one now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed...to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue.”
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