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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1907. 2157 nation. We believe that in ability to develop and take advantage of these resources the avera e man of this nation stands at least as high as the average man of any other. Nowhere else in the world is there such an opportunity for a free people to develop to the full~ est extent all its powers of bod, of mind, and of that which stands above both body and mind, cliaracter. Much has been given us from on high and much will rightly be expected of us in return. Into our care the ten talents have been entrusted; and we are to be pardoned neither if we squander and waste them, nor yet if we hide them in a napkin; for they must be fruitful in our hands. Ever thruout the ages, at all times and among all peoples, prosperity has been fraught with danger, and it behooves us to beseech the Giver of All Things that we may not fall into love of ease and of luxury; that we may not lose our sense of moral responsibility; that we may not forget our duty to God and to our neighbor. A reat democracy like ours, a democracy based upon the principles ofg orderly liberty, can be perpetuated only if in the heart of the ordinary citizen there dwells a keen sense of righteousness and justice. We should earnestly pray that this spirit of righteousness and justice may grow ever greater in the hearts of all of us, and that our souls may be inclined ever more both toward the virtues that tell for gentleness and tenderness, for lovincr kindness and forbearance one with another, and toward those nodess necessary virtues that make for manliness and rugged hardihood-—for without these qualities neither nation nor individual can rise to the level of greatness. • Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United Thursday, No States, do set apart Thursday, the 28th day of November, as a day of §'f,T:f',i&,1°€}g 'E,} general thanksgiving and prayer, and on that day I recommend that {*:;*°°*l *¤¤¤k¤¤*'· the people shall cease from their daily work, and, in their homes ` or in their churches, meet devoutly to thank the Almighty for the many and great blessings they have received in the past, and to pray that they may be given the strength so to order their lives as to deserve a continuation of these blessings in the future. · In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be ailixt. Done at the City of \Vashington this twenty-fifth day of October, iu the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [sam,.] seven and of the independence of the United States the one hundred aud thirty-second. Tmzonomu Roosavmxr By the President: _ Enum Roor Secretary of State. BY THB Pnssinmw or rm; Uxrrno Sranzs or .XMEBICA ‘ 0¤¢<>b¤¤ 26. 1901 A PROCLAMATION WVHEREAS, it a pears that the public ood would be romoted Laesw Y’¢¤k Naby adding to the Lalgsen Peak Natiohal Feist certain lands. within miiiil-aiiii»i$t’ Cai the State of California, which are in part covered with timber; ‘°'· 3* *’· 3°°3· Now. therefore. I. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United I B¤g¤d¤1‘i¤= ¤¤· States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of aygnf so, p. sc. Congress, approved June fourth. eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, P°"·*’· 2***** entitled. "An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes," do proclaim that