The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-11-09
THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION.
Thursday, Nov. 7oth Set Apart by
Missouri's Governor.

Thanksgiving proclamation. 1t
follows:
Executive Department, State of
Missouri, City Of Jefferson.-The
present year closes the most won
derful century in the history of
mankind. The time Is most APP
propriate for reviewing, with graf
itude, the causes which, under 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 abund-
antly responded during the past
twelve months to the intelligent
labor of our people.
The countless agencies repre-
sented in shop, factory and store
for sending u products abroad
and for bringing, in turn, the re-
sources of Their States to ourselves,
have been unusually active. A
thousand instrumentalities COM
bine, from day to day, to make
every home the centre of comfort
and plenty. All the complex ac-
tivities of commerce unite to place
every person into corresponding
relations with all the world, has to
offer for food, for raiment and for
shelter.
But better and higher than all
the ministries which supply the
physical necessities of the people,
we sould 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 o ffather
and mother, more and more tend
to mirror the all-guiding provi-
dence of our Heavenly Father, and
this is followed by the increase OF
flial tenderness and devotion, and
also by the enlargement of the con-
fding affection which binds to-
gether the hearts of brothers and
sisters.
We should remember with deep
thanksgiving, the growing dis
position on the part of those who
have been fortunate in the accu-
mutation of great wealth to estab-
lish institutions, the object OF
which is to give to the whole
people, in higher forms, the riches
they have secured by toll and
self sacrifice. The money they ac-
auire by the application of in
telligence and skill to the raw ma
terial furnished by the bounties
of nature they use to feed the COM
mon mind, through institutions 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
mor to enrich a state than more
cxpanse of territory, or vast ma
terial wealth, unwisely boarded
for selfish ends. With science,
learning, art and religion pour
ing their soft and mellowing light
upon the lives of all our people,
abundant scope and opportunity
will be furnished for the develop
ment, not only OF the richest coun-
try the world ever saw. but also
for the fullest growth of the wisesi
and the most humane. TIL citizens
of our own state have within thu
past year given to the cause o
education amounts of such mag
tude as to excite the attention o
the world is cause sufficient Il
thrill the hearts of all our people.
We should remember with pro
found gratitude that we have beef
preserved from great loss by fire
or flood, or storm, and that GU
people have responded with heart,
unanimity to the calls for he'll
which have come to us from sec
tons of the country that have SUI
fered.
"Thercfore, | proclaim Thursda,
the Doth day of November, 1900,
day OF general and public thanks
giving, recommending that tn
people of this state suspend the
secular avocations and assembled
their respective places of worshi
and render grateful offerings {
praise to the bountiful giver OF q
good, with devout supplication Il
his abiding favor and protectin