Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1844-11-21
STATE or yERMoNr.
a PROCLAIM ATGON,

good. wise and holy, Just and true.
All His works praise Him. They pro
claim His wisdom and His power
while A sense Of His goodness is inn
pressed on the heart of man, by every
object that meets has eyes, or ministers
10 his wants, In the creation which
surrounds him. Aud this impression
is deeycned, when he considers hisown
mental and moral constitution his
capacity Of knowing God, of delight
ing in His Projections, Of relishing the
beautiful aud sublime Of His works, OF
pcrceiving the excellency of His truth,
the glory of His justice, and the riches
OF His revealed mercy TO man.
To these motives of gratitude, which
press upon every individual heart there
are superadded those which demand
an acknowledgment Of Gods goodness
from us, as community. He has
favored us with a government, founded
on the great truth, that "all men are
created equal" He has permitted us
the privilege Of selecting our own ru-
lers from among ourselves. lie has
enabled them 10 enact wise and good
laws for our government. lie has CIV
en- us the Bible commissioned His
ministers to proclaim its truths, and so
impressed them upon the hearts OF
the people, that sense of responsible
~ 10 Him as the great Law giver, takes
| the place Of that force which, other
wise, could alone secure obedience to
law.
These great blessings, with the I'M
VARYING alienation of summer and
winter. seed time and harvest, and the
possession of an earth, yielding to the
inbors Of man, an unfailing and album
dani supply for his wants,are the fruits
of the goodness Of our Heavenly Faith
er. who maketh His sun to rise on the
evil and on the good, and sendeth His
rain on the just and on the unjust.
do, therefore at the close of this
year, which has been signally crowned
with Gods goodness to us as peo-
pie, appoint THURSDAY the FIFTH
DAY OF DECEMBER next, TO be observ-
ed as day of THANKSGIVING and
PRAISE, throughout this State.
Let the people, on that day, with one
accord, suspend their accustomed la
bors, and in their several places Of
worship, and in the joyous gatherings
of their family circles, pour out the
thanksgiving of full hearts to their
Heavenly Father, for his multiplied
and Astounding mercies to them. Let
us praise him for the general health He
has permitted us to enjoy, during the
past year. Let us look upon our gath
cred harvest OF good things, and sur
round our tables loaded with His boun-
ties, and thank Him for the earth, the
air, the rain and the sunshine which
have produced them. And let us con-
slider the value of the spiritual bless
ings He has bestowed on us that we
have the Holy Scriptures, able to make
us wise unto salvation,-the Sabbath,
made for man, the living Ministry, to
preach Christ cruci6ed, and the eX-
ample for our imitation, of His spotless
life, His active goodness, and His self
sacrificing love. Let us give thanks
that the truth is made mighty,in work
ing ont the results of practical reform
in individual character, and in the con-
dition of human society. Letus thank
God for the success Of the Temperance
Reform,--for the increasing regard for
the Sabbath--for the growing, though
too reluctant interest for the Cypress
ed-for the advancing spirit of Peace,
and for the active and successful eff
forts to dispel the darkness of henthen-
ism, and substitute for its burdensome
and bloody rites, the simple worship
of the living and the true God.
And while enjoying the Bible, and
the institutions of freedom, of whose
continuance the incubation and grow
ing influence Of its truths are the only
guaranty and pledge, let us think of
the millions in heather, and nominally
christian lands, and even in our own
land, who are destitute of these bless
ings-enveloped in the darkness of ig
norance, and crushed beneath the foo
of oppression; and let us prove ou
gratitude to God, by bearing them OF
, our hearts TO the throne of His grace
! and cheerfully and literally ministerins
, of our abundance, to their wants-free
. ~ giving, as we have freely received
e from The benevolent Father of us all
!. And let not the poor whom we hav
e with us, be forgotten, but let us excit
i in their hearts emotions of gratitude t
Y God, by becoming the aImoners of FIJI
T. bounty To them, in their loneliness an
- dcstitution.
T. And finally, let the JOY OF this festiv
= !, season be chastened by the recolle'
~ y ton Of our mortality, Of which the Fl
a ded, fallen giories of the expiring ye'