Great words by a great man. Don’t expect any lefty to repeat that proclamation today because it has the word God in it and we know how those three letters drive them crazy.
I haven’t checked out the Thanksgiving Proclamation by Lincoln-yet—IT was made Oct.3,1863-—I see much of this reflected in the March 30 ,1863 Presidential proclamation for a National Day of Fasting,Humiliation and Prayer—while I have seen evidence that Lincoln repeated the line about it being written in Scripture and proven by history that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.-thus he may have repeated the idea that we have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven....But we have forgotten God... Intoxicated by unbroken success we have become so self sufficient that we no longer feel the need of redeeming and preserving grace ,too proud to pray to the God that made us.(seen in the March 30,1863 proclamation.)