It was 145 years ago, (October 3, 1863, to be exact) that Abraham Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Thanksgiving, creating the official holiday that we will celebrate this week. Interestingly enough, this came about nine months after signing the Emancipation Proclamation and about a month and half before delivering the Gettysburg Address. Of course, all this is within the Civil War. The photograph here is of Lincoln in that very year.
While I wish Lincoln had been more Christ-centered in his theology, in many ways he had a more robust theology than most contemporary evangelicals. Read the Proclamation of Thanksgiving, or his justly famous Second Inaugural Address.
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