sentences:  Prompted by Sarah Josepha Hale,
  in the fall, Lincoln issued the first Federally mandated Thanksgiving Day to be kept on the last Thursday in November.Reflecting on the successes of the past year, Lincoln said,
  
  No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things.They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.