https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation/transcript.html

The Emancipation Proclamation:

“And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.

By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN

WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.”

1) “the gracious favor of Almighty God”

2) “in the year of our Lord” January 1st 1863

3) exactly 163 years from today and 87 years from the birth of our nation

4) “an act of justice…upon military necessity”

In remembrance…God bless…