The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-03-04
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS,.
BIZ His Ercelency LEVI LINCOLN. GoUernOr
ofthe Commonwealth Of Massachusetts,,
A PROCLAMATION,


For day Of Public Fasting, Humiliation,
and Prayer.
With the advice and consent of the Exec
utive Council, appoint THURSDAY, the
ninth day of .4prd merit, to be observed,
throughout this Commonwealth, in Fast
ING, HUMILIATION, and PRAYER.
May the people of every Class and De-
nomination assemble with deep religious
feelings, on that day, as much in the pious
spirit of their Ancestors as in imitation OF
their example of social worship, unitedly to
offer to the AUTHOR of their existence, the
SUsTAINER of their lives, and the SovER-
EIGN DIsPosER of their future destinies,
penitent confessions of Sin and Supplictions
for Pardon and Divine Favor May the
day be consecrated to solemn meditation,
and to faithful and responsible review of
the past that Offences of private commits
sion, and Defaults and Transgressions of
public character, may be remembered in
contrition, and repented of, with effectual
resolutions of amendment And may the
occasion especially be improved, to rebuke
those vices of Profanity and Imtemperance,
violations Of moral duty, and disregard of
religious obligation, which are alike baneful
to individuals, and destructive of the peace
and happiness of the community.
And as, by the opening of the spring, we
are more directly reminded of the kind
Providence of Heaven, in preparing means
for the supply of human wants, may we not
be insensble of our dependence upon the
divine blessing for the rewards of human
labor, but humbly ask in prayer, that the
succession of the seasons may continue to
be ordered to US in mercy.
Imploring the favor OF Almighty God up
on the land In which we live, and upon all
the interests of the people; upon the res
pective States of the Union, and upon the
Government of the nation let us also COM
mend to His care and protection, and 10
the guidance of His wisdom, those who are
called to the administration of the public
affairs. May we seek, with devout and
earnest supplication, that our institutions of
4 civil, literary, and religious character,
may be preserved in their purity, and enjoy
ed with an increased and wide spreading
usefulness ;-that, through their instrument
tality, knowledge, and the charities of So
cial fellowship and kindness, may be culti-
waited, and the people, justly approaching
their rights, and sensible of the precious
worth Of their privileges, may be animated
to the faithful discharge of the duties of
citizens, and to fulfiment of the obliga-
tons, which bind them to a higher and
more solemn accountability, as Christians.
The people Of the Commonwealth are re-
quested to abstain from recreation and un-
necessary labor on the day of the appointed
Fast And, through divine grace, may the
appropriate religious observance of the oc-
casion be eminently blessed to their tenn
poral and spiritual improvement.
Given at the Council Chamber, in Boston,
this twentieth day of February, in the wear
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-nine, and the ffty-third of the
Independence of the United States Of
America. LEVI LINCOLN
BY His Excellency the Governor, by and
with the advice and consent of the Council
EDWARD ID. Bangs, Secretary.
God saUe the Commonwealth of ssachusetts