decree, the last Thursday in November as a day of national thanksgiving. Since that year, no President has failed to issue an annual Thanksgiving Proclamation. The autumn of 1863 was memorable for two classics which came from the mind of Abraham Lincoln. One is the immortal Gettysburg Address, which was

Cadiz, Ohio, in 1811, he was an intimate of Edward M. Stanton (Secretary of War in Lincoln's Cabinet) and John A. Bingham (prosecutor of Lincoln's murderers), both of whom were also natives of Cadiz. Moreover, while living in Evanston, Illinois, he had gained the friendship of Abraham Lincoln, and even

the vote in Lancaster County. Let no business — let no kind of weather prevent your attendance on the day of election. Let not a man remain at home. Let even those whose hairs have grown grey with the rays of time and the fatigues of life make one more manly struggle. Let them reflect that by such

hospitality and at great meet- ings fifty and even one hundred have been entertained at his house. Returning to the journal of Bishop Asbury we have record of one day that he spent in Lancaster County in 1892. THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1792—Rode to Abraham Keaggy at Stras- burg. It was Harvest Home. I feel it my duty

of the bar. He served at times in the State Legislature and the State Sen- ate. When the state militia was organized in 1858, he was appointed a Major General, hence the title which he carried. Failing eyesight and ill health kept him from active service during the Civil War. Back in Lancaster, the

negro of the Civil War years and the post-war period. From 1841 until his death he was in constant demand in Europe and in our nation as a lecturer. From 1871 until 1881 he also held the office of United States Mar- shal for the District of Columbia and from 1889 to 1891 he was U.S. Minister to Haiti