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林肯1863年感恩节宣言
建立依靠全能上帝之心和谦卑痛悔之灵是每个国家和个人当尽的责任；他们当存着这样一个坚定的盼望：真诚的忏悔将带来怜悯和宽恕；他们当认识圣经里所宣告的，并被历史所证实的一个至高真理，那就是：尊崇上帝的国家必蒙祝福。我们都知道按着这位至高者神圣的律法，不管是国家还是个人，我们都本应当受到惩罚和整治。难道我们不相信这场使土地荒凉、性命失丧的内战之灾是对我们放肆之罪的惩罚吗？作为一个国家、一个民族，我们当悔改在上帝面前。
我们曾经接受过来自天上的丰盛祝福；我们享受了多年的和平和昌盛；我们在人数、财富和国力上的增长都是其他任何的国家所无法相比的。然而，我们却忘记了上帝。我们忘记了那曾保守我们和平，那使我们人数加增，又赐予我们财富与力量的恩手，我们被心中的虚假所欺骗，以为所有的这些祝福都来自于我们自己超人的智慧和美德。我们如此陶醉于不断的成功，沉迷于自我满足，以致不再向那创造我们的上帝祷告。
我认为我们应该做的是：全地美国人民当以庄严、恭敬和感恩的心，同声合一地承认上帝的作为。因此，我恳请全美各地的每一为公民，包括那些旅居海外的美国人，把十一月的最后一个星期四作为"感恩节"来庆祝，赞美我们那居在天上的仁慈之父。
Abraham Lincoln
亚伯拉罕 林肯 总统
于1863年10月
Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation
Lincoln 's Thanksgiving Proclamation that follows is taken from the collection of Lincoln 's papers in the Library of America series, Vol II, pp. 520-521.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States , and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.
Abraham Lincoln
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