National Day of Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer for April 30, 1863
Proclamation 97 - Appointing a Day of National Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer
March 30, 1863http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=69891#axzz1IEEkA4EC
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"Whereas the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the supreme authority and just government of Almighty God in all the affairs of men and of nations, ..."
"Whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow,
yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history,
that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord;"
"And, insomuch as we know that by His divine law nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the
awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation
as a whole people?"
"It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."
"Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do by this my proclamation designate and set apart Thursday,
the 30th day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer."
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March 30, 1863
By the President of the United States of AmericaA Proclamation
Whereas the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the supreme authority and just government of Almighty God in all the affairs of men and of nations, has by a resolution requested the President to designate and set apart a day for national prayer and humiliation; and
Whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow,
yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history,
that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord;
And, insomuch as we know that by His divine law nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the
awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation
as a whole people? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in
numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied
and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and
virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the
God that made us.
It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do by this my proclamation designate and set apart Thursday,
the 30th day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer. And I do hereby request all the people to abstain on that day from their ordinary secular pursuits,
and to unite at their several places of public worship and their respective homes in keeping the day holy to the Lord and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties
proper to that solemn occasion.
All this being done in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the divine teachings that the united cry of the nation will be heard on high and
answered with blessings no less than the pardon of our national sins and the restoration of our now divided and suffering country to its former happy condition of unity and peace.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 30th day of March, A. D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State .
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Citation: John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA.
Available from World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=69891.
© 1999-2011 - Gerhard Peters - The American Presidency Project
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From Columbia Christians for Life:
Righteousness cannot be done in a land of forgetfulness.(see Psalm 88:12, KJV).
Steve Lefemine
CCL
March 31, 2011
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George Mason 1787 Constitutional Convention quote:
George Mason ('Father of the Bill of Rights'), Virginia delegate, August 22, 1787, in the Constitutional Convention:
"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgement of heaven upon a country.
As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain
of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities."
The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
by James Madisonwww.constitution.org/dfc/dfc_0822.htm
www.adena.com/adena/usa/rv/rv009.htm
www.partyof1776.net/p1776/fathers/Mason%20George/quotes/contents.html www.christianheritagemins.org/articles/Founding%20Fathers'%20Anti-slavery%20Addresses%20and%20Legislation .htm
Spoken prophetically in 1787, the national sin of American Slavery brought National Calamity, at the Hand of God,
in the 1861-1865 War Between Americans (War Between the States, Civil War), killing over 600,000 Americans.
And so it is today, the national sin of Child-Murder/Sacrifice-by-"Abortion" is bringing judgment and calamity upon America now,
and unless repented of, especially by Christians (for the sins of both commission and omission, including failing to do all that is possible
to ESTABLISH JUSTICE and END the killing), will bring National Calamity and destruction of today's America, at the Hand of God.
Establish Personhood now !
Steve Lefemine
"As much as I value a union of all the States, I would not admit the Southern States into the Union unless
they agree to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade [slavery]."
- United States Founding Father, "Father of the Bill of Rights", Constitutional Convention Delegate, George Mason,
"Elliot's Debates", Vol. III, pp. 452-454, June 15, 1788 www.partyof1776.net/p1776/fathers/Mason%20George/quotes/contents.html
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AMERICA IN 2011 - A NATION ONCE AGAIN UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT
- Especially for murdering 3,000+ pre-born children per day,
when establishing " Personhood" could end the slaughter in a week.
2 Chronicles 7:14 - God's remedy for America to be healed is for we who are CHRISTIANS to REPENT !
"If My people [Christians], which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray,
and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [sins of commission and omission]; then
will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation]."
Our only hope is REPENTANCE before God for our national sin, especially our national Bloodguilt.
Establishing " Personhood" for pre-born human beings, at fertilization, with no exceptions, would Establish Justice,
and demonstrate to the One, True, Holy, and Almighty God, that we are sincere in our desire to bring America's 38+ year
Child-Murder-by-"Abortion" Holocaust to an end.
Most of all, child-sacrifice/murder-by-"abortion" is an offense to God Himself. Mankind is created in His image (Gen. 1:26,27).
God says, to commit child-sacrifice to Molech, is "to defile My sanctuary, and to profane My Holy Name." Leviticus 20:3
If child-murder-by-"abortion" were to end today in America, there would still remain the need to REPENT
for all the innocent blood which has already been shed (over 52 Million murdered by surgical "abortion" alone,
not counting the likely multiple times that number destroyed chemically by dual action contraceptive/abortifacient
"birth control" pills, Depo-Provera, etc., ad nauseam).
Numbers 35:33; Jeremiah chapter 19; Psalm 106:37-44; 2 Kings 24:1-4 (KJV) - the shedding of innocent blood
(e.g., child-murder/sacrifice-by-"abortion") incurs the righteous judgment of God upon a nation.
There is corporate bloodguilt upon the land, and upon we who dwell in America, for the 52+ Million
pre-born human beings slaughtered in their mothers' wombs by surgical abortion, and for perhaps
multiple times that amount destroyed by chemical "abortion" (including " Birth Control" pills, which
act both contraceptively and abortifaciently).
Genesis 4:10; Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 19:10; Deuteronomy 21:1,2,7-9; Proverb 6:16,17;
Jeremiah 26:15; Jeremiah 32:35,36; Ezekiel 35:6; Hosea 4:2; Matthew 27:24,25 (KJV).
For those who need to come out of denial (all of us to one degree or another) about the gruesome nature of child-murder-by-"abortion"
- view the video of the commission of an actual child-murder-by-"abortion" at: www.AbortionNo.org
- or look at pictures at: www.abortionno.org/index.php/abortion_pictures/
[ CCL Note: The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) is unfortunately also an ecumenical organization,
yoking with followers of the false religion of Rome. ]
"America Repent" (music video)Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLlOdkO9jak
Video (4:34) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvu6hHLSpzk
Video (4:33)
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,...
seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Hosea 4:6, KJV
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From: www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net, "Events" page:
FIFTH ANNUAL "REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT" OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE IN COLUMBIA, SC
(since January 2003)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, South Steps, SC State House, Columbia, South Carolinahttp://christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-05.doc
Just as the national sin of American slavery brought God's judgment of war upon both the North and the South in 1861,
so is the national sin of child-murder-by-"abortion" bringing wars, terrorism, domestic violence, illegal immigration (foreign invasion),
economic hardship (and potential economic catastrophe), national deficits, national debt, tyrannical rulers (Psalm 106:37-44, KJV), etc.,
as divine judgments upon our rebellious, wicked nation today (Psalm 9:17, Proverb 14:34, KJV).
It is God alone Who can bring peace, safety, and security to a land (Leviticus 26:5,6, KJV), and ... Foreign invasion and War
divine consequences upon a nation, any nation, for the shedding of innocent blood (e.g., 2 Kings 24:1-4, KJV)...
When child-murder-by-"abortion" ends one day in America (when Christian pro-lifers stop following the false leadership (Isa. 3:12, Isa. 9:16, KJV) of the National Right to Life Committee, originally founded under the auspices of the American Roman Catholic Bishops [ appointed by the Pope ],
in incessantly finding new ways to incrementally "regulate" child-murder, instead of applying God's requirement for Biblical JUSTICE to END abortion),
there will still remain the need for the Nation, the States, the Churches, Families, and Individuals, throughout America, to Repent, because
if child-murder-by-"abortion" were to end TODAY (March 31, 2011), there would still be a need to REPENT for the 52 Million+ already murdered(and this does not count the likely multiple tens of millions aborted chemically by "Birth Control" pills, Depo-Provera, etc., ad nauseam.
GOD'S REQUIREMENT FOR MURDER IS JUSTICE, NOT INCREMENTAL REGULATION !!!
Similarly, regarding slavery, there remains the need for the Nation, the States, the Churches, Families, and individuals of both the North and South, to Repent,
where it has not been done already, for the national sin of slavery, which was not ENDED until 1865 by the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
after Americans fought our most costly war (over 600,000 dead), against each other !!! The 13th Amendment stopped the perpetration of the sin
and crime of unbiblical American slavery, but that's not the same as repenting, saying we as a nation are sorry, for what had already been done
during 250 years (from colonial Jamestown, VA until 1865) of "unrequited toil," as Lincoln said in his March 4, 1865 Second Inaugural Address.
Even the ecumenical Southern Baptist Convention repented in its 1995 national convention in Atlanta, GA, for slavery and racism.
[ May leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention also repent of their ecumenical "culture war" efforts with followers of the false religion of Roman Catholicism. ]
Resolution On Racial Reconciliation On The 150th Anniversary Of The Southern Baptist Conventionwww.sbc.net/resolutions/amResolution.asp?ID=899
June 1995
And even leaders of the pro-abortion, pro-sodomite, women - priests - ordaining, apostate Episcopalapologized
"for their ancestors' slave ownership" in a "solemn repentance service" in Philadelphia, PA in October 2008.
[ May the apostate Episcopal Church USA also repent of being pro-abortion, pro-sodomite, and of ordaining women priests. ]
In February 2007, the Virginia state legislature also apologized:
Virginia state lawmakers pass slavery apologywww.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-02-24-virginia-slavery_x.htm
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Child-murder-by-"abortion" is a national sin.
9-11 was a national calamity.
More and greater divine judgment is coming upon America, unless we repent of the national sin of "abortion". If we will not repent of the national sin of "abortion", then the America of today will be destroyed, just as God destroyedthe kingdom of Judah, with successive waves of foreign invasion in 605 BC, 597 BC, and 586 BC (2 Kings, chapters 24 and 25).
We've already been attacked on September 11, 2001. Consider the undeclared / unconstitutional wars, calamities, and
other dangers America has suffered since 9-11: War in Afghanistan (2001 to today), War in Iraq (2003 to today), Katrina (2005),
ongoing Illegal Immigration (Foreign) Invasion, Economic "Great Recession" (?).
What will it be next, America ? What will it be next, Church ?
Repentance finally, or further and greater divine judgment ?
Abraham Lincoln, President, March 4, 1865 Second Inaugural Address:www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html
[ excerpts, emphasis added ]
"One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the
Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and
powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war."
"If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence
of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills
to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to
those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine
attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently
do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it
continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of
unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall
be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still
it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." "
In spite of all his failings, Lincoln was right in his March 4, 1865 Second Inaugural Address,when he said God gave "this terrible war" to BOTH North and South for the offense of slavery.
And today, God is bringing (increasing) divine judgment on America in the year 2010,
for our ongoing, unrepented, national sin of child-murder/sacrifice-by-"abortion".
Child-sacrifice is an offense to God.
God says child-sacrifice defiles His sanctuary, and profanes His Holy Name.
Leviticus 20:3, KJV
What is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in America doing to Establish Justice to END this offense to our Creator ?! Establish Personhood now !
As has been said, it's now either Christ, or Chaos (and then Tyranny)...
"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty." 2 Corinthians 3:17, KJB
,Repent, Church ! Repent, America !
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No King but King Jesus! (Yeshua Messiah)Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America’s Colonial Charters, State Constitutions,
and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc
"Where there is no vision, the people perish: ..." Proverb 29:18, KJV
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,...
seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Hosea 4:6, KJV
Christ is Ruler of the Nations !
Psalm 2; Psalm 24:1; Psalm 47:7,8; Psalm 50:12; 1 Timothy 6:15, KJV
"For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations."
Psalm 22:28, KJV
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; ..."
Psalm 33:12a, KJV
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah)
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
USA
(803) 794-6273
Columbia Christians for Life www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeactofSC.net
www.LefemineForLife.net
US Army active duty, 1977-1982, CPT, FA
US Army Reserves, 1982-1993, MAJ, FA
USMA 1977
March 31, 2011
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