Today we will talk about the history and origin of Thanksgiving. This is all History/origin and there is no bible verse and such but like I said when I did Halloween this sets us up for the next messages on Thanksgiving.
The very first Thanksgiving was in 1621 at Plymouth. The first Thanksgiving that took place was between the colonist of Plymouth and the Wampanoag Indians and came about because they shared an autumn harvest feast. Thanksgiving is a holiday that is English in tradition and is celebrated in the United States and Canada.
A ship called the mayflower left Egland in a city called Plymouth in 1620. All the people aboard the ship came to 102 people and were leaving England to seek a place to freely practice their faith and people who wanted a new life of riches and land in his new world. The people aboard the ship landed at what now is Plymouth and began to establish a village there.
The people who landed at Plymouth were accustomed to Thanksgivings in England they had days of Thanks and prayer for God's blessings like the victory of war or of the end of a drought. during this time there was no formal Thanksgiving, it wasn't 1798 when they proclaimed a Thanksgiving with the writing and authorization of the constitution. but after the constitution in that year, they left it up to the states to declare a Thanksgiving, and there was a debate or objection to what was the government at this time to let the government be involved in a religious practice. The practice of Thanksgiving as a national holiday was more of a controversy than a force to unify the holiday.
The holiday wasn't proclaimed as a national holiday until 1863 during the civil war when the president at that time Abrahan Lincoln declared it a national holiday. This holiday has been around since then and still is practiced but is it the same as it was then? We will look at that tomorrow when we look at the Biblical significance. Have a blessed day!!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment