Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-04-04

BELLOWS FALLS, APRIL 4, 1862.
State of Vermont.
BY FREDERICK HoLBRooK,
GOVERNOR.

BY FREDERICK HOLBRooK,
GOVERNOR.
n PR CLAMA TION.
The pious heart ever finds comfort and
strength in the belief that an eternal Mind
superintends the affairs of the universe,
and with reverence and devotion adopts
the sublime sentiment of the Psaimist !:
Lord thou hast been our dwelling place
in all generations. Before the mountains
were brought forth, or even thou hadst
formed the earth and the world, even from
everlasting to everlasting thou art God.'
A humble trust in Gods providence, and
deep sense of his dominion, is prostitu-
tion of the mind, which even in our darkest
hours, lets in bright rays of comfort, and
amid the changes and trials of life. fills the
heart with cheerful hope and unruflled tran
guilty; and when extensively pervading a
people, affords the surest safeguard to them
and their institutions, amid the catastrophes,
vicisSitudes and shocks 10 which STATES and
Empires are subject.
At this benefcient spring-time of the
year, when the sun is rising in its strength,
and loosening the rigors of winter, and the
earth is preparing 10 unfold itself in beau
ty and bounteousness, the dictates alike of
Christian sentiment and of hallowed Gus
tom. call for day in which TO devoutly
acknowledge Gods providence and our
dependence on Him. In nobed,ence there
TO, do appoint THURSDAY, THE
TENTH OF APRIL, next, TO be OBJ
served by people the of this State as day of
FAsTING, HUMILIATION and PRAYER and
| invite them to abstain fipm usual secular
employments on that day. and to assemble
in their accustomed places of worship, to
recount their blessings realizing that it has
been in secure habitations, and amid
quiet resting-places," thai Providence has
given them, for long time, their repose ;
to call past ways to remembrance and
strict review, and TO offer Prayer to AL
mighty God that troubled minds, and
hearts mourning departed ones, may be
comforted by heavenly influences that a
spring-time of the heart may visit us all
that the labors of the husbandman in the
coming season may be crowned with sue
] cess. the early and siIe latter rains and the
genial sunshine gladdening the fields and
perfecting timely and abundant harvests +;
that the people may be prospered in their
varied industrial pursuits and enterprises
that health and domestic peace and COM
fort may prevail; that the educational,
charitable and religious institutions of the
State may be prospered, and fruitful in
benign Influences on our population; that
no secret nor public vices may be indulged
to undermine our morals or the fabric OF
our prosperity that we may rise superior
10 every former failure, and prove equal
to our duties as citizens of the Republic in
the present crisis, remembering that he
has already lived too long who has sur
vived the rain of his country that wisdom
and virtue may be given US, and we pre-
serve firm, elevated and patriotic tone
of mind, whatever conflicts or sorrows we
may be called to encounter.
Especially in the present period of trial
and calamity to our country, let us inn
/ Mora Aimiohtv God To ,,r.,s;da ox-ar o,,r
destinies, to guide our councils and bless
our arms, sensible that Except the Lord
keep the city, the watchman walketh but
in vain" And let it be our petition that
the blessed sun Of Liberty and Union may
chase away the darkness covering a por-
ton of our land, and that the prayer of
ETHIOPIA, there stretching forth her hands
for deliverance. may in Gods good time
| find a generous answer. His providence
pointing her way out Of bondage.
Let us remember particularly on that day.
the brave men, who with such alacrity have
gone forth from US to endure the hardships
and meet the perils of war, for their coun-
try's sake, and if fall some or many of them
must, in so grand a cause, whether by sick
ness or ON the battlefield, let our tears of
res spect and affection ever belew their mem.
ory, and cur bereavement find 81 lace in the
reflection that they unsellishly offered them
selves a sacrifice to country, and found the
grave of a soldier in the performance of the
highest duty of the patriot.
Giieen under my hand, and The Seal Of The
State, iH Erecutice Chamber, at Braitle.
borO,' tbs toentieth Of March, IN he gear
Of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sir,y-t,ro. and ot'Me Independence Of
The United States the eiiglty-sisth.
FEEpERIcK HoLBRooK.
BY His Exoellency the Governor,
SAMUEL WILLIAMS,
Sec'y of Civil and Military Affairs.
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The brave and pious Com. Foote receiv-