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...call to prayer from the pen of the present President of the United States." He felt "impressed with the crying need of such a summons at a time like this." So Editor Hartman printed on the cover of his last week's issue a call to prayer by Abraham Lincoln and on his editorial page he sorrowfully flayed Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Zion's Herald's cover was a proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.* In this, one of at least three calls to prayer uttered by President Lincoln, he reminded the nation that "we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown; but we have forgotten God." Indeed, wrote the President, "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...
Accordingly Abraham Lincoln designated April 30, 1863 as a day of "national humiliation, fasting and prayer." Citizens were to abstain from secular pursuits "and to unite at their several places of public worship and their respective homes in keeping the day holy to the Lord." Concluded the proclamation: "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...
...Abraham Lincoln never joined a church. Said he: "Whenever I find a church that takes as its creed, 'To love God with all one's heart and soul and strength and mind and one's neighbor as himself,' I will join that church...
Troubled with gallstones, Mexico's Boss Plutarco Elias Calles summoned Dr. Abraham Ayala Gonzalez, chief of the Federal Health Department, to his ranch in Sinaloa. Minister of Communications Rodolfo Calles chartered an airplane, flew with his father and Dr. Ayala Gonzalez to Los Angeles. There General Calles was operated upon, his condition afterwards declared "very satisfactory...