HARDING, Warren G., President . Typed letter signed ("Warren G. Harding") as President, to Elizabeth Nicholson White, Washington, D.C., 30 May 1921. 1 page, large 8vo, on White House stationery, integral blank . A fine, unusually considerate and thoughtful reply -- a little over two months after taking office -- to a request that he issue a presidential proclamation for "a day of prayer throughout the nation." Harding writes that he "can well understand the reverent spirit and beautiful thought which inspired this suggestion," and "it would be wholly becoming to have a day designated for prayer for the Nation," but "we have very much such a service throughout the country every Sabbath morning, though the prayer is not precisely the same in every instance." In fact, "I am reluctant to set aside a special day by proclamation" because "I have been called upon to make a number of extra proclamations to further movements which have very insistently sought my attention," so he suggests that the matter be postponed until "we can combine it with our national Thanksgiving Day," which "would have the additional appeal of being a special consecration quite apart from our accustomed Sabbath worship." During the campaign, Harding had proclaimed that "the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God."
HARDING, Warren G., President . Typed letter signed ("Warren G. Harding") as President, to Elizabeth Nicholson White, Washington, D.C., 30 May 1921. 1 page, large 8vo, on White House stationery, integral blank . A fine, unusually considerate and thoughtful reply -- a little over two months after taking office -- to a request that he issue a presidential proclamation for "a day of prayer throughout the nation." Harding writes that he "can well understand the reverent spirit and beautiful thought which inspired this suggestion," and "it would be wholly becoming to have a day designated for prayer for the Nation," but "we have very much such a service throughout the country every Sabbath morning, though the prayer is not precisely the same in every instance." In fact, "I am reluctant to set aside a special day by proclamation" because "I have been called upon to make a number of extra proclamations to further movements which have very insistently sought my attention," so he suggests that the matter be postponed until "we can combine it with our national Thanksgiving Day," which "would have the additional appeal of being a special consecration quite apart from our accustomed Sabbath worship." During the campaign, Harding had proclaimed that "the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God."
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