The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-28
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To-day has been set apart by the
President as day of Thanksgiving and
Prayer. to be observed by the people of
the United States. The Governor of
West Virginia has Joined in recommend
ing the observance of the occasion. In
compliance with these recommendations
business will be generally suspended
throughout this city. AS the employees
of the REGISTER will unite with other
good citizens in abstaining fIom follow
ing their usual avocations to-day, no
paper will be issued from this Office to-
morrow.
The occasion upon which our people
turn from worldly work and business
to the special duty of Offering thanks
to the Supreme Being for manifold
blessings, is naturally suggestive of
inquiry relative TO their general pro-
gress and prosperity. A moments re-
Election assures US that our condition
as q nation is surrounded with many
practical manifestations of Providen-
tial care.
I True, in the past year, we have not
been exempt from the ills that are Incl
dent to the lot of humanity. The pros
perity of many has been interrupted by
such disasters as no foresight can aatici-
pate; business prospects have here
and there been blasted by such
calamities as no ordinary pru-
dence can avert. Error and wrong
have not wholly passed away;
vice still counts her victims; want and
wretchedness sit at many hearthstones;
domestic peace is not universal; shame
and misery, a part of the heritage of
sin, still proclaim that men are not yet
perfect. Many households miss to-day
familiar form or face, that q twelve
month ago was bright and glad, and the
shadow of the death-angel has darkened
many happy home.
But such has ever been the portion
of mortality. Each day bears its bur-
den of mingled joy and sorrow, aud the
era is yet far future when all will be
gladness and happiness and peace. Our
gratitude is to he expressed, not COR the
felicity of the millennium, but for the
Divine care and mercy that have min
gled many blessings with few misfor-
tunes, and laden the passing year with
80 much goodness, that the burden of
bitterness is made light and easy to
bear.
Peace rests like Heavens benediction
over the thronging millions of our entire
country. The footsteps of the wasting
pestilence have been stayed, e'er yet
the wall of universal mourning has pro-
claimed the presence of the destroyer.
The golden fruitage of abundant har-
vests has gladdened the heart of labor.
laughs in our marts; COM
merce crowds Our ports. Learning
the growing and ripening in
tellect of the land. Morality is resum-
ing her sway, so long usurped by the
vices that thrive when passion rules.
Liberty and law find unfettered advo-
Gates in a fearless press, and in the
voices of undaunted freemen. Religion
builds her temples, carries captive her
votaries, and inculcatcs her virtues.
the success of her mission,
the hearts of our long estranged
are forgetting their en-
mites, and uniting in obedience
to that sublimest of precepts,
''Peace on earth, good will toward
man." 1t is for such blessings-bless
ings extending to the material, the
social, the intellectual, the political
and the spiritual welfare of tho nation
that the people will to-day gather
around the altars of the most High God
and uplift the voice of gratitude, adora-
tion and praise.