The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-08
ruE NATIONAL THANKSGIVING DA,Y,
Proclamation by the President Of hs Una 20
States FiIinq Thursday, Nou 30.

Proclamation by he President Of hs Una 20
States Fi1ing Thursday, Nou 30.
wAsn1NaroN, Oct. 2e.-The following wal
issued this afternoon
By The President ef1te United States Of American
PROCLAMATION.
The completed circle of summer and winter,
seed-time and harvest, has brought to US the
accustomed season at which q religious people
celebrates with praise and thanksgiving the en-
during mercy of Almighty God. This devout
and public confession of the constant depend
ence of man upon the Divine Father for all good
gifts of life and health and peace and happi-
ness, SO early in our history made the habit of
our people, finds in the survey of the past year
new grounds for its joyful and grateful mani
festation. In all blessings which depend upon
benignant seasons this has indeed been men-
orable year. Over the wide territory of our
country, with all its diversity OF soil end climate
and products the earth has yielded bountltul
return to the labor of the husbandman. The
health of the people has been blighted by no
prevalent or wide spread diseases No great
disasters of shipwreck upon our coasts, or to
our commerce on the seas have brought loss
and hardship to merchants or mariners, and
clouded the happiness of the community with
sympathetic sorrow. In all that concerns our
strength and peace and greatness as a nation |;
in all that touches the permanence and security
of our government and the benefcent institu-
tions on which it rests in all that affects the
character and dispositions of our people, and
tests our capacity to enjoy and uphold the
equal and free condition of society, now per-
manent and universal throughout the land, the
experience of the last year is conspicuously
marked by the protecting providence of God,
and is full of promise and hope for the coming
generations. Under sense of these infinite
obligations to the Great Ruler of times and
seasons and events, let us humbly ascribe it to
our own faults and frailties, if, in any degree
that perfect concord and happiness, peace and
justice, which such great mercies should diff
fuse through the hearts and lives of our peo-
pie do not altogether and always and every
where prevail. Let us, with one spirit and with
one voice, lift M praise and Thanksgiving to
God for his manifold goodness to our land and
his manifest care for our nation.
Now, therefore. /, rutherford b. Hayes,
President of the United States do appoint
Thursday, the Goth day of November next, as a
day of national thanksgiving and prayer, and
earnestly recommend that, withdrawing them
selves from secular cares and labors, the people
of the United States do meet together ON thst
day in their respective places of worship, there
to give thanks and praise to Almighty God for
His mercies, and to devoutly beseech their con-
tnuance.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the City OF Washington this twenty
ninth day OF October. in the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
IL. 8. .lseventy-seven, and of the Independence
of the United States the one hundred
and second. r. b. HAYES.
By the President:
WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs, Secretary of State.