Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-10-25
STATE OF MAINE.
BY TIE GOVERNOR
= r. o OLA VI A T | o N

a L IL u | l. n WI "A L | u IN
FOR DAY OF
PUBLIC PRAISE & TuANKsGivING.
The people of this State, having at the
commencement Of the year, at the request
of the Executive and in accordance with
the established custom, unitedly and pub
lcv confessed their transgressions, and
imflorcd blessing upon the labors Of the
coming season and the Almighty Ruler
of the Universe having been pleased TO re-
member and bless us with more than com
mon mercies; it becomes us in compliance
with another venerable custom of our ia
Tiers, at the close of the ingathering of the
bounteous harvest, and in the midst Of the
abundant productions of the earth, to unite
in the observance of q day of Thanksgiving
and Praise to the Author of all mercies
do, therefore, with the advice and con-
sent ofthe Council, appoint THURsDAY,thc
TwENTY-NINTH DAY OF NOVEMBER NEXT,
to be observed as day of Thanksgiving;
and the people ofthis State are requeted to
assemble on that day, in their respective
places of public worship, and to unite in
religious exercises appropriate to the occa-
sion
May it be day consecrated to the hight
and holy purpose Of devout gratitude to Al
mighty God, for his mercies and blessings,
unmerted and yet unnumbered Let us
thank God, that our civil and religious lib
erty is continued tous; that our rights have
been protected and indicated, and that
peace, the first desire and greatest blessing
of civilized and christian nations, has been
uninterruptcdy enjoyed by our State; that
pootitonoo has N
visited us, and that health and strength
have been so remarkably preserved to our
people,; that the earth has been clothed In
beauty and magnilicence for the gratifca-
ton as well as comfort of man; that the
seed committed to it in conhden ce and hope,
watered and qnickened blythe rain and
dews and sunshine Of heaven, has yielded
| plentiful harvest; and that we are now sur,
rounded by the abundant productions of,
our soil, at once the gift and the proof OF
the kindness of our Father and our God.
While We remember and recount our
temporal merces, let us acknowledge, with
still deeper gratitude, those which relate to
our moral and religions interests
| Let us thank God fol the means of edu-
cation and intellectual improvement, which
reach even the humblest citizen of our re-
public; for all the moral influences which
arc in operation to enighten, to purify
and TO elevate the whole communl-
ty and the whole family of man and
above ALL that in the midst of the cor
ruptions and wckedness of the land, and OF
the jealous efforts of atheism and infdelity,
the pure and holy and sanctifying religion
of Jesus Christ is yet &C a lamp TO our feet
al Ill mil, ~ ,hv
influence the only sure foundations of civil
government, and sustaining by its ?romls-
es the hopes of the humble, and by its prin-
ciples the virtue and holiness Of the devout
disciple.
As we assemble around the table of
Coos bounty, on this our annual festival,
and remember in gratitude and with thanks
giving, his mercies to us as people, apd as
individuals in our social and domestic rela-
tons, let us remember in kindness and
sympathy, the poor, the oppressed and the
destitute let us cherish those kind and be-
nevolent affections, which shall smooth the
rough paths Of life, regarding each other in
the spirit of charity, as brethren of one
common Father, and bound together by
the indissouble ties of common nature
and common destiny.
And the people Of this State are request
ed to abstain from their usual labor on that
day, and from all recreations, inconsistent
with the due observance of a solemn fes-
tiva oil devout thanksgiving.
Given at the Council Chamber, in Au-s
Qnsta, this second day Of October, in
the year of our Lord, one thousand !
eight hundred and thirty-eight, and in
the sixty-third year Of the independ-
cnce ofthe United Statas of America.
EDWARD KENT.
BY THE GOVERNOR.
SAMUEL p. BENSON, Scc'ry Of State.