...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...for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. The Hebrew prophet Habakkuk wrote, "In wrath remember mercy" (Habakkuk 3:2). Though President Lincoln...

...Thanksgiving holiday in 1863. As part of his proclamation, he declared that "all our blessings are gracious gifts of the most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath never the less remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently...

...cruel rebellion." On another occasion, recounting the blessings which had come to the Union, he said: "No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal...for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy." Throughout his entire official career, — attended at all times with exacting duty and painful responsibility,...

...augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expoet continuance of years with large increase of freedom. "No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal...High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sius, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. "It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly,...

...blessings that had been bestowed upon this country even in the midst of the Civil War and acknowledged that "[t]hey are the gracious gifts of the Most High God,...for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy." In 1931, the United States Supreme Court observed that "[w]e are a Christian people, according to one...

...and military. It is, indeed, admitted, that the blessings for which we are called to give thanks •' are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who,...for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy." And we are required to render our thanks " with humble penitence for our national perverseness and...

...insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God. * * * * * No human counsel hath devised nor any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gift of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered...