Editor, Thehenryettan.com
This time of year we as a nation are again reminded of Thanksgiving Day.  And rightly so as we are of all peoples most blessed yet today, and have much to be thankful for.  
This country without a reasonable doubt owes its unique prosperity and freedoms to the fact that its founders and a large segment of its society recognized in unique humility and devotion that those blessings came from God and Christ, and thus a day of thanksgiving was proclaimed on more than one occasion to them.  
After Christopher Columbus’ first successful voyage to this area in 1493 he wrote to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that they, with all their dominions ought “To give thanks to our Savior Jesus Christ who has granted us such a victory and great success…”  
In 1620 the Mayflower Compact written for the settlement of the first colony in Virginia stated, “for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith…”  
In 1776 Continental Congress President John Hancock issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation “..to the colonies that it was their indespensible duty with true penitence of heart, and the most reverent devotion publicly to acknowledge the overruling providence of God…”  
Abraham Lincoln said it well in his 1863 proclamation for National Day of Prayer:  That it was the duty of nations and man to, “own their dependence upon the overruling power of God…”, “And to recognize the sublime truth “… that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord…”
Sincerely,
N. D. Blevins,
Sand Springs