Thanksgiving became a holiday | Rapp Report Daily 0188 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. So the first Thanksgiving was in 1621.
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- You may not realize that it wasn't until 1863, under President Abraham Lincoln, that it was proclaimed a national holiday.
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- It hadn't actually been celebrated in 1622. No, it was 1623 when
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- Governor Bradford called for a religious fast because of the fact that there was a long and threatening drought that year that was threatening harvest.
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- And he called for a religious fast, and the breaking of that was a time of thanksgiving.
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- But that ended up starting a time of giving thanks. It was not universal throughout all the colonies.
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- They celebrated at different times, always in November, it seemed. But you end up seeing that our country didn't actually have a holiday known as Thanksgiving.
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- But thanks to a woman, Sarah Hale, and we're going to get to her a little bit more on the next episode.
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- But what you see with her is she put on a 30 -year letter writing campaign. Who is she?
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- Well, you may know of her. She is the author of a nursery rhyme, Mary Had a
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- Little Lamb. She spent 30 years writing to Congress to make the holiday
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- Thanksgiving a holiday, to nationalize it. And it was Abraham Lincoln who finally had done that.
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- She did so because she had read about the Puritans and saw what they had done and wanted to have a day of Thanksgiving for what they had done when they came to this country.
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- Tomorrow, we're going to talk about what they ate. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content, or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.