The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-11-02
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.
), Stephens ProcIaims Thursday,
Nov. goth, the Day on Which to
Make Our Acknowledgements.

/ Nov. goth, the Day on Which to
1 Make Our Acknowledgements.
| Jefferson City, Mo, Oct. 28.-The
hoIowing proclamation for Thanks
living Day was issued by Governor
Etephens to-day;
1 The season approaches i'll which 1T
las been the long established and
Ijeeply cherished national custom to
Iseet and set apart one day as the
Iime to offer Thanksgiving to Al
huighty God for the blessings OF the
hear. A calling to mind OF the mani
sod favors, which we have been per-
smitted, through the days and nights
IN another twelve months, to enjoy,
HI once enriches and enobles our lives
ls people. To recognize and pub
IBcly acknowledge the divine source
hi all the good gifts of life, begets a
Ipverent and IL grateful spirit, and
Emakes our realization of those gifts
more vivid, and our sence OF obliga
5ion to the giver OF all good keener
land more immediate.
The sons and daughters go back to
1.-The old home, that they may gather
round the family hearthstOne and fill
with Joy the hearts OF father and
mother, grandmother and grand
iather, and i'll loving fellowship reknit
1.-The tender ties, broken by months,
land perhaps years, OF separation.
This reunion tends to sweeten and
7soften the hearts Of both old and
Hyoung.
The celebration OF the Ihanks4iv-
gmg family festival under the old rooi
Iytree, awakens a long line of tender
memories, lightens the burdens that
Hare hard to bear, and conserves all
that is pure and holyn domestic lille.
aWhile such festival has at all times
aa suitable place in the family year
book, it possesses an especial apprO-
spriateness in Il season like the pres
Ient. Not in any period OF the history
a0f the commonwealth has it ever been
POSSIBLE to find greater cause for
Sgratitude to our heavenly Father
than at the close of the present year.
-FOUR common inheritance III the uni
iyersal bounties Of nature, made up Of
lair and light. rain and sunshine
Ianiling fields, flowing streams and
lnehly stored mines, has not failed
tus.
4 While we should be thankful for the
temporal blessings OF which we have
been the recipients, yet it should be
the subject of profound gratitude TO
| the Ruler of nations. that He has
| given to us that spirit of liberty which
has made our nation the asylum Tor
the oppressed of all other nations.
I'VE should he especially grateful that
as nation there lies asa foundation
5stone the universal brotherhood OF
man, and that if we sometimes forget
4 our duty to our fellow man we have
q potent remedy in the voices OF the
whole people-the final arbiter OF our
Ldyil rights. Let us therefore earnestly
Hpray that the time yet hidden in the
great future may speedily come when
God shall Judge among the nations
and shall rebuke many people and
they shall beat the swords into plow-
shares and their spears into pruning
hooks. Nations shall not lift up the
] sword ADMINISTRATIONS. Neither shall
l they learn war any more.
A growing disposition on the part
Of the strong and well-to-do to found
and foster institutions, the object of
which is to make it possible for the
many to share the wealth and privi-
hges of the benificent few is a note
worthy Indication of the coming of a
better time, and is cause sufficient for
Profound thanksgiving. ''This also
eometh down from the Lord of
Hosts, wonderful in council and ex-
eellent in working Through schools