Preparing for Thanksgiving Part 3
Sarah Hale
This lady “Sarah Josepha Hale”
Spent 36 years preparing America
For a national holiday called Thanksgiving
What are you doing to insure your family
Will give thanks on that day?
Sarah Hale
The first Thanksgiving was in November, 1621.
In 1817, New York became the first of several
states to officially adopt an annual Thanksgiving
holiday, the American South remained largely
unfamiliar with the tradition.
Sarah Josepha Hale born in 1788,
became a school teacher in 1811.
This educated woman married, David Hale on
October 23, 1813, and they had five children.
Sarah’s husband, David, a lawyer died
in 1822, and in perpetual mourning,
Sarah wore black for the rest of her life.
This young widow with five children published a
collection of poems the year after her husband died.
She continued to write,
inspiring children, women and men.
She was a powerful influence in shaping America.
Her most famous poem is… “Mary had a Little Lamb”.
But her writing influenced American women’s
fashion, domestic architecture and morals.
Sarah wrote a book, “Life North and South”, which
opened up the minds that a slave was also our brother.
The premise of her book is just that…
While slavery hurts and dehumanizes slaves absolutely, it also
dehumanizes the masters and retards the psychological,
moral and technological progress of their world.
Sarah was the advocate for a national holiday of Thanksgiving.
For 17 years, some say for 36 years, she
worked to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.
She wrote letters to five presidents, until Abraham Lincoln finally heeded
her request in 1863, at the height of the Civil War, in a proclamation
entreating all Americans to ask God to, “commend to His tender care
all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers
in the lamentable civil strife” and to “heal the wounds of the nation.”
Thanks to Sarah Hale, the third Thursday in November,
is the national holiday of Thanksgiving.
It is now up to you and I as to whether it will
be a day of thanks in our families.
What preparations are you making to
ensure your family is giving thanks?
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1 Timothy 2:1-7 NIV
1 I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers,
intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone—
for kings and all those in authority, that we may live
peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.
3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior,
4 who wants all men to be saved and
to come to a knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
6 who gave himself as a ransom for all men —
the testimony given in its proper time.
7 And for this purpose I was appointed
a herald and an apostle
1 Timothy 4:3-5 NIV
3 They forbid people to marry and order
them to abstain from certain foods, which
God created to be received with thanksgiving
by those who believe and who know the truth.
4 For everything God created is good,
and nothing is to be rejected if it
is received with thanksgiving, because it is
consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
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