Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1816-02-13
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4oR a DAroF PUBLIC FASTING, KUAaTL.
IA77ON AND PRA7ER.
# A SENSE Of our dependence on the
~ Divine Being for all the necessaries
oelile will incline us 10 have recourse to
Hin, by PRAYER and supplication, for His
Msssine or cur various labors nd enterpri
.es. With such view of their dependant
condition, the people of this Stale have been
accustomed to set apart day, at an earl,
eason of the year, uni,edly to acknowledge
! heir obligations for His former unmeri,ed
/ goodness, aud their reliance upon His fu
s lure favors and from Consciousness OF
cur gull, and necessities, It becomes us, In
like public manner, 10 confess our sins be-
fore Cop, to en,rea, His forgiveness, and
bsseerh Him to prosper our undertakings
and supply our wants and to afford us His
gracious support under all the trials which
His Providence shall order, or permit:
Therefore, with the advice and consent
Of the Council. appoint Thursday The
fourth day Of y8tru nerf, 10 be observed IN
tits State, as day of PUBLIC FAS TING
and PRAYER: And the ministers and
people Of each religious denomination, are
requested to assemble on this day, in their
respective places OF public worship, tina, We
may caiiour past waysto RENE mbrance and
humble ourselves in deep repentance be
fore the Supreme Being, and implore His
pardon and blessing, through the mediation
Of His SON CHRIST JESUS and beseech
Him, that, in he course ofthe ensuing year,
He would gran, us the good things we need,
snd preserve us from tue evils to which We
may be exposed: That He would con-
tinue 10 Us the enjoyment OF Peace and
tina, in due season He would renew the face
of,he Earth, and make il soft with showers,
and crown the year with plentys ihst He
would Cause the air 10 be salu,ary, and pre-
serve US from wasting and contagious dis
eases and that He would prosper ourcom-
merce, manufactures and fisheries, and bless
Us in all our lawful employments and per
suits.
That He would srcceed the means ORE
hgicrs Instruction, and smile upon our pub
lie Seminsies, and the Institutions which
have been established for improving the
morals ofthe people, and training our youth
TO knowledge and virtue: That He would
dispose us to the exercise OF charity and be-
nehfence 10 each other, and enable Us 70
discharge oil the duties He has enjoined up
on us, without reluctance, and to submit t.
all His dispensalions without murmering !;
and that We may employ ourselves diligeni.
" in our proper business, and be soliciioas
TO approve ourselves 10 Him who has ap-
pointed Us our several parts, and will here
AFTER reward us not according TO the height
OF our stations, but according to the intee-
rity with which we have behaved ourselves
in them.
That He would bless the Government oil
The United States, and direct the President
and Congress to such measures as shall
tend to preserve the peace OF the nation,
and The rights OF The citizens That He
would guide and protect the inhabitants Ut
this State, and remember US with the favour
that He bears 10 His people ; and that our
children after US, may have such porter
o. temporal good things as he sees will be
best for them, and share in the blessings
OF that future inheritance, wherein dwell
righteousness, purity and joy.
That He would prevent the renewal OF
those .sangullary scenes which have long
afflicted the human race, and control the
rage OF humal passions, so that the Earth
may no more be covered with violence and
itainsd with blood: T. hat in our days the
righteous may flourish, and the virtues Of
humanity and peace be cherished in all tn,
labnsto ns OF men: That the Day Sh,n.g
rom on high may visit the hea,hen, to give
hghtto them who sill in darkness, and 10
tnide thei, feet into The way of peace and
hs, all naions whom He has made, my
tome ard worship before Him, and glorify
His name.
And the people are requested to abstain