Litchfield enquirer., 1844-03-21
BY HIS FxCELLENcY,
BY HIS ExCELLENcY,
CHAUNCEY F. CLEVELAND.
Governor of the State of Connecticut,
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| In compliance with an immemoral usage yen-
Grated by ancestors, and hallowed by the most
sacred observance5 and insOlemn commemoration
OF the suferings and Affections of Him who died
upon the cross for the redemption and salvation of
sinful world Ihave thought proper to appoint,
and do hereby appoint, Friday, THE FIFTH
pay OF APRIL NEXT, as a day Of Humila-
ton, Fasting, and Prayer, throughout this State
And invite the people on that day. to abstain from
their ordinary advocations and employments and
engage In such religious exercises both public and
private, as become community whose God is the
Lord. And especially do invite them to assem-
bic together at their usual places of public wor-
ship, and there, with minds suitably impressed
with sense of our unworthiness in the sight of
God, and of our deep ingratitude in resisting the
injunctions of His holy law, seek forgvness of
our manifold sins, and through the aid of the Di-
vine Spirit, form resolutions OF amendment and
obedience for the government of our life hereafter
Let us also with feelings of devout gratitude to
our Heavenly Father for His past goodness in the
bestowment of unmerited blessings, implore con-
tinuance of His watchful Providence over the well
fare of our State and Country THAT He will cause
the earth to bring fourth its fruits in abundance for
our bodily sustenance and comfort and mercifully
grant peace may remain in our berders-health in
our habtations-and prosperity in every lawful
pursuit and department of business THAT He will
enlighten with true wisdom the President of the
United States and all other civil rulers and magis-
trates enabling them to discharge with fidelity the
artuous duties ofitheir respective stations That
He will be pleased TO regard with favor our col
leges, academies, and common schools, and shed
upon the charitable and benevolent institu-
lions of our country the dews Of His heavenly grace
and the blessed influence of His Holy Spirit -
That he will continue to smile upon the efforts of
those who are struggling to Danish the evil of in
Temperance from our land, and enablethem speedi-
" to complete the great moral revolution which
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the exertions of the philanthropist and christian
make them instrumental in improving and eleva-
ting the conditioned the human race and the sure
means of advancing the cause of sound morality
and true religion THAT He will cause us proper
ly to estimate the value of those instructions which
secure to us the blessings Of civil and religious
freedom-anable us ta.slseserve them uatarnished
for the employment of those who come after US
and ultimately extend their happy influences and
invaluable privileges to the whole family of man
kind.
And would earnestly call upon the good people
Of the State humbly to beseech God in his mercy
to give us charitable hearts and pure Affections
spirit of forgivness, as we hope to be forgiven
and disposition to obey the Divine precept of
doing unto others would that they should do
unto us THAT he will avert from lis the conse-
quences of every error deliver us from envy, ly-
pocrisy, malice and selfshness rebuke iniouity
and corruption wherever they may exist; arrest the
progress of vice and wickedness in our lands save
people from all demoralizng influences and ten.
denotes, and make us ever mindful of the important
truth that righteousness alone can exalt us as ma
ton.
~, Given under my hand, and the Seal of
L. s. the State, at Hampton, this eighth day of
eu-~O' March, in the year of our Lord , one thou
sand eight hundred and forty four and of the Inde-
pendence of the United States the sixtv-eighth.
CHAUNCEY F. CLEVELAND. ID
By the Governor
NOAH A. PHELPS, Secretary of State