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STATE OF VERMONT.
a PROC. 9 NIATTDN.

The Lord is good TO all, and his tender mer.
ces are over over all bis works. lie is full
of compassion and gracious. His loving kind
ness is excellent. 1t becomes us at all times,
to utter abundantly the memory of his great
goodness and to sing o! his righteousness
Especially should we do this, at the close of
the season of the year when the earth, in the
mysterious strength of its productive power,
has been made to yield the precious fruits,
adapted, in the WIS lon and goodness of the
Creator, to the nonrisAment and sustenance
OF man.
| d.. therefore. appoint THURSDAY THE
TWEEN rY-SEVEN FL DAY OF NOVEM.
Der instant, 10 he observed as day OF THANKS.
GIVING and PRAISE tlnsughout :his State
recommending 10 all the people thereof, to sus-
pend, on that day, their ordinary labors and recre-
atoms, and assemble in their respective places OF
public worship, to send up the cheerful homage
II grateful hearts to God our Creator and Bene.
factor.
Let us come before his presence with thanks
giving and enter his courts with praise. Let Us
praise him for his goodness, for his holiness, for
his justice, his mercy, his lahin'ncss and his
trulh-ail beautifully and Unanimously blended
in the Gross, where God the Savior loved and
died"
lie, Us thank him for Chisis mission Of love
To man. and for the agency Of the Holy Spirit in
reprovins the world Of sin, and guiding It into
| all truth.
Let us praise him for our temporal mercics--
that he hath given US rain from heaven, and fruit
ful seasons, filing our hearts with food and glad
ness tina, he hath blessed US with means Of
moral and intellectual improvemen,--that lie
hath favored us with social blessings and civil
| rights, and hath given us institutions which pro-
| tect us in tho onjoyme'tHi them
Let us give thanks for our exemption from
| he scourgc Of WARRIOR the advancing spirit Of
peace-for the prevalence OF better views of the
| true scope of Chrlsr's teachings on This subject,
and for the hope we are permitted to entertain
| that the time will como, when the meek sIAall
| inherit the earth, and delight themselves in the
abundance of peace, when the work of right
eousness shall be peace, and the effect Of
righteousness shall be quieiness and assurance
| forever.
And let there be mingled with our 'hanksgv-
mrs, fervent love to the universal brotherhood
of man, irrespective Of the accidents of birth,
condition, or color. Amid the joy of our hearts,
let US think of the frendless and desilute--,he
widow and ialherless-the stranger and the
bondman, ng Just sense OF our rela-
ton TO the whole human family--remem berlng
that all are created equal and are members one
of another. and that, by the law OF Christian
charity, we are not permitted to live unto our
selves, but should live and labor for the good
of all.
And in corsidcrip- <ye condition Of men, lot
us endeavor TO form a Just conception of their
spiritual wants, illustrated as they are, in every
part of the world, by unculivated or perverted
intellect, by practical forgetiuness of God--by
Indifference to his claims upon human obedI.
ence, and by the train of temporal evils To ndi.
vlduals and nations connected herewith and
let our season Of thanksgiving and praise be
signalized by the elevation of our feelings Of
compassion. and our purposes of good,to nearer
approximation to the feelings and purposes which
characterized the mission and life of the Saviour
of men.
Given under my hand at Mdllebury, this
eighth day of November, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty
five, and of the Independence Of the United
States, the SEVENTEEN.
WILLIAM SLADE.
BY the Governor
GEO. II, BEAMAN, Secretary.