Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-20
STATE OF VERMONT.
A PR 0CLAM ATI0N
BY THE GOVERNOR.

The Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are
over all his works. He is full of compassion and gra-
clous. His loving kindness is excellent. 1t becomes
us at all times, to utter abundantly the memory of his
great goodness and to sing of his righteousness. Es-
pecially should we do this, at the close of that season
ofthe year when the earth, in the mysterious strength
of its productive power, has been made to Weld the pre-
cious fruits, adapted, in the wisdom and goodness of
the Creator, to the nourishmenta and sustenance of man.
do, therefore, appoint THURSDAY the TWETY-
SEVENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER instant, to be
observed as a day of THANKSGIVING and PRAISE
throughout this State,-recommending to all the peo-
pie thereof, to suspend, on that day, their ordinary la
bors and recreations, and assembled in their respective
places of public worship, to send up the cheerful hom-
age OF grateful hearts to God our Creator End Benefac-
tor.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving,
and enter his courts with praise. Let us praise hun
for his goodness, for his holiness, for his justice, his
mercy, his faithfulness and his truth-all beautifully
and tremendously blended in the "Cross, where God
the Saviour loved and died."
Let us thank him for Christs mission of love to man,
and for the agency Of the Holy Spirit in r%eproving the
world of sin, and guiding it into all truth.
Let us praise him for our temporal mercies-that he
hath given us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons,
filling our hearts with food and gladness,-that he hath
blessed us with means of moral and intellectual i'm
provement,-that he hath favored us with social bles-
sings and civil rights, and hath given us institutions
which protect us in the enjoyment of them.
Let us give thanks for our exemption from the
scourge of WARRIOR the advancing spirit of peace-for
the prevalence of better views of the true scope of
Christs teachings on this subject, and for the hope we
are permitted to entertain that the time will come, when
the meek shall 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 q%uietness and assurance forever.
And let there be mingled with our thanksgivings,
fervent love to the universal brotherhood of man, ire
spective of the accidents of birth, condition, or color
Amid the Joy of our hearts, let us think of the friendless
and desttute-the widow and the fatherless-the stran-
ger and the misunderstanding a just sense of our
relation to the whole human family-rememberng
that all are created equal and are members one Of an
other, and that, by the law of Christian charity, we are
not permitted to live unto ourselves, but should live
and labor for the good Of all.
And III considering the condition OF men, let us en-
deavor to form a Just conception of their spiritual wants
illustrated as they are in every part Of the world, by
uncultivated or perverted intellect, by practical forget
fulness of Colby Indifference TO his claims upon hui
man obedience, and by the train of temporal evils to
individuals 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 a nearer approximation to the feel
ings and purposes which characterized the mission
and life of the Saviour of men.
Given under my hand at Middlebury this eighth
day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thou
sand eight hundred and ~torty-ive, and of the hide
~pendence of the United States the seventeen.
WILLIAM SLADE.
By the Governor:
GEO. H. BEAMAN, Secretary.
NoTE The proclamation is not published, as here.
%tofore, in handful form. The Clergymen of the sew.
eral denominations, who may be disposed to read j
from their pulpits, are, therefore, requested to use, fol
that purpose, the papers in which they may find it pub.
lished.