Bill Text: MN SR10 | 2015-2016 | 89th Legislature | Draft
Bill Title: A Senate resolution recognizing the first Thursday in May as a day of statewide prayer, fasting, and repentance
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-20 - Author added Anderson [SR10 Detail]
Download: Minnesota-2015-SR10-Draft.html
1.1A Senate resolution
1.2recognizing the first Thursday in May as a day of statewide prayer, fasting,
1.3and repentance.
1.4WHEREAS, in his 1863 proclamation of a national day of prayer, President Abraham
1.5Lincoln noted that the Congress had called upon him to appoint such a day "devoutly recognizing
1.6the supreme authority and just government of Almighty God in all the affairs of men and of
1.7nations"; and
1.8WHEREAS, Lincoln noted further in his proclamation that
1.9"it is the duty of all nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling
1.10power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope
1.11that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth,
1.12announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed
1.13whose God is the Lord....."
1.14"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved,
1.15these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no
1.16other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand
1.17which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have
1.18vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some
1.19superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too
1.20self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the
1.21God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess
1.22our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness";
1.23NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Minnesota
1.24that it affirms the sentiments of President Lincoln and commends them to Minnesotans to be
1.25applied to their daily lives.
1.26BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Senate recognizes the first Thursday in May of
1.272015 as a statewide day of prayer, fasting, and repentance.
1.2recognizing the first Thursday in May as a day of statewide prayer, fasting,
1.3and repentance.
1.4WHEREAS, in his 1863 proclamation of a national day of prayer, President Abraham
1.5Lincoln noted that the Congress had called upon him to appoint such a day "devoutly recognizing
1.6the supreme authority and just government of Almighty God in all the affairs of men and of
1.7nations"; and
1.8WHEREAS, Lincoln noted further in his proclamation that
1.9"it is the duty of all nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling
1.10power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope
1.11that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth,
1.12announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed
1.13whose God is the Lord....."
1.14"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved,
1.15these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no
1.16other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand
1.17which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have
1.18vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some
1.19superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too
1.20self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the
1.21God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess
1.22our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness";
1.23NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Minnesota
1.24that it affirms the sentiments of President Lincoln and commends them to Minnesotans to be
1.25applied to their daily lives.
1.26BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Senate recognizes the first Thursday in May of
1.272015 as a statewide day of prayer, fasting, and repentance.
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JoAnne M. Zoff Secretary of the Senate |
Thomas M. Bakk Chair, Senate Committee on Rules and Administration |
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David M. Brown State Senator, District 15 |
