Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-11-08
THANKSGIVING DAY.
kIssOURrs GOVERNOR FIXES
THE DATE, NOVEMBER 20
FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP.
MUCH TO Be THANKFUL FOR.
Governor Stephens Says Business Of ell
Kind has Wonderfully Pros
pered During the Past
Twelve MOnths-The
Goodness of God.

JEFFERSON CRY, NO., Nov. 3.-The
following Thanksgiving Day procla-
nation was issued to-day by Governor
Stephens:
Executive Department, State of
Missouri, City Of Jefferson.-The pres
ent year closes the most wonderful
century in the history Of mankind. The
time is most appropriate for reviewing
with gratitude, the auses which, un-
der the blessing Of God, have, during
the past 100 years, conspired to give
us the first place among the people Of
the earth.
The fields, mines and orchards OF
the Commonwealth have abundantly
responded during the past twelve
months to the intelligent labor of our
people.
The countless agencies represented
in shop, factory and store, for sending
our products abroad, and for bringing,
in turn, the resources Of other states
to ourselves have been unusually
active. A thousand instrumental
ties, from day to day, to make every
home the center Of comfort and plen-
ty. All the complex activities of COM
merce united to place every person
into corresponding relations with all
the world has to offer for food, raiment
and for shelter.
But better and higher than all the
ministries which supply the physical
necessities Of the people, we should
recognize with profound gratitude the
constant and varied increase Of the
blessings which satisfy the hunger of
the heart, the mind and the spirit.
The parental providence Of father
and mother more and more tend to
mirror the all-guarding providence of
our Heavenly Father, and this is fol-
lowed by the increase of flial tender
ness and devotion, and also by the en-
largement Of the confiding affection
which binds together the hearts Of
brothers and sisters.
We should remember with deep
thanksgiving, the growing disposition
on the part of those who have beenf for
tunate in the accumulation Of great
wealth, to establish institutions, the
object Of which is to give to the whole
people, in higher FORMS, the riches
they Ihave secured by toll and self
sacrifice. The money they acquire by
the application Of intelligence and
skill to the raw material furnished by
the bounties Of nature they use to feed
the commend mind, through instltu-
lions Of learning, through public
libraries, and through galleries Of art.
The culture, the high ideals, and the
noble aspirations fostered by such
public institutions, tend infinitely
more 10 enrich a state than more
expanse Of territory, OF vast material
wealth, unwisely boarded for selfish
ends. With science, learning, art and
religion pouring their soft and mel
lowing light upon the lives Of all our
people, abundant scope and opportu-
nifty will be furnished for the develop
ment, not only of the richest country
the world ever saw, but also for the
fullest growth Of the wisest and the
most humane. That citizens Of our
State within the past year have given
to the cause Of education amounts OF
sucn magnitude as TO excite the atten-
tion of the world, is cause sufficient
to thrill the hearts of our people.
We should remember with profound
gratitude that we have been preserved
from great loss by fire, or flood or
storm, and that our people have re-
sponded with hearty unanimity to the
calls for help which have come to us
from sections of the country that have
suffered.
Therefore, l proclaim Thursday, the
Doth day Of November, 1900, a day Of
general and public thanksgiving, rec
ommending that the people of this
State suspend their secular avocations
and assemble in their respective places
of worship and render grateful offer
ings of praise to the bountiful Giyer
of all good, with devout supplication
for his abiding favor and protecting
care. In these services charitable
consideration for the poor and sympa-
thy for the sorrowing will not be
wanting. 1t will be well to remember
the words of the prophet Nehemiah,
spoken with reference to a thanks
giving day appointed more than twen-
ty-three centuries ago:
'This day is holy unto the Lord
your God; mourn not, nor weep; go
your way, eat the fat, and drink the
sweet, and send portions unto them
for whom nothing is prepared; fol
this day Is holy unto our Lord; neither
be We sorry, for the Joy OF the Lord is
your strength"
In testimony whereof, l hereunto
set my hand and cause to be affixed
the great seal of the State OF Missouri
Done at the City of Jefferson, this
third day OF November, in the year Of
our Lord one thousand nine hundred,
LON V. STEPHENS.
BY the Governor:
A. A. LEsUEUR, Secretary of state
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