The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-11-02
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
L vi LINCOLN.
Governor of the Commonw ealth of Massachusetts
A PROCLAMATION

A PROCLAMATION
FOR DAY OF PUBLIC THANKSGIVING AND
| PRAISE.
! The season having required, in which it
has been usual for the Executive Authority
to set apart day as a religious festival, in
public and solemn recognition of the mercles
and blessings of Divine Providence through
the preceding year, and there being the most
abundant cause for present acknowledgment
and gratitude TO Almighty God, do, by and
with the advice and consent of the Council,
appoint THURSDAY, the Ttcsnty-f fourth dag
| Of NOUe1nber next, to De observed as day of
THANKSGIVING and PRAISE throughout
this Commonwealth. And do recommend to
ministers and people, of every religious demo-
mination, to assemble on that day in their
respective places of public worship, and to
offer to the Author of all their enjoyment,
their Creator, Protector and final Judge, the
incense of hearts deeply sensible of his good
ness:
That through the past year, and especially
in a season Of unusual heat and exhaustion,
He has generally preserved the health of the
people Of this Commonwealth that He has
prospered them in their ordinary pursuits, and
in schemes of laudable enterprise that He
has given to the husbandman propitious seed
time, and rewarded his labours, in the cult
walton of most of the fruits and products of
the earth, with an abundant harvest that
our fisheries have been successful. navigation
and. trade unmolested and profitable ;-usnu-
! features and the arts improving and widely
and usefully extended that the means of
education are greatly diffused, and more
wisely and generally appreciated and enjoy
ed that the institutions of religion are held
sacred, and all the people, in the possession
of the holy scriptures, and by the support of
a pious and learned ministry, have opportuni-
ties for instruction in the great truths and Goc-
trines, which pertain to their final accounta-
bility and future state Of existence let
thanks be given to GOD for the favors con-
ferred upon US in common with the other States
of the Union, that we have an able and Impair
tial administration of the General Government:
that spirit Of Cancellation and mutual conf.
dence prevails among the people and that
peace, prosperity and happiness are pre-emi-
nently the enjoyment and the distinguishing
condition of the nation.
And while we rejoice in the mercies which
we have experienced, let us supplcate the
! Throne Of Grace for humbling sense Of our
personal unworthiness, for forgiveness of our
sins, and for q spirit OF wisdom and piety to
reform our lives and regulate our future con-
duct. And with our praises let our PRAYERS
also be addressed to Heaven in behalf of our
beloved country; that Almighty God would
be pleased to continue to us the blessings of
peace and friendly and beneficial intercourse
with other nations that He would preserve
the union Of the States, their confidence in
each other, and harmony between their res
Ipective governments and the government Of
the nation; that de would mercifully regard
the President Of the United States, and all
others who are called to the discharge of pub
lie duties in the General and State Govern
ments, and enable them faithfully and ac-
ceptably to execute the trust reposed in them
that He would look with especial favor upon
the Institutions OF Learning, and'increase the
disposition to cultivate the means of literary
and religious Improvement with which we are
so highly favored that lie would restore ioy
TO those places which have been visited with
the sadness of pestilence, and be the health
Of the counteuance Of His people through
} every part Of our land that lie would give
success TO the labors Of industry, and prospe,
every lawful employment and undertaking.
: And in our prayers may we not be unmind
{ full Of the condition of our fellow men in othel
regions Of the world, but earnestly and fer
vently commenting them to the mercy o
a God, beseech Of Him, that He would extent
the blessings Of civil liberty and of Jus
government to the oppressed and struggling
! nations of the earth; that the arm of despot
y ism may be arrested, and man, in state o
= civil society, may rise to the dignity Of hi