The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1900-11-15
Thanksgiving Proclamation.

tory OF mankind. The time is
most appropriate for reviewing,
with gratitude, the causes, which,
under the blessing of God, have,
during the past one hundred years,
conspired to give US first place,
among the people Of the earth.
The fields, mines and orchards
of the Commonwealth have abun-
dantly responded during the past
twelve months to the intelligent
labor of our people.
The counties agencies represent
ed 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 thou
sand instrumentalities combine,
from day to day, to make every
home the center of comfort and
plenty. All the complex activi-
ties of commerce unite to place
every person into corresponding
relation with all the world has to
offer for food, for raiment and
for shelter.
But 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 tend to mirror
the ah-guarding providence of our
heavenly Father, and this is followed
by tho increase of filial tenderness
and devotion. and also by the enlarg-
ment of the. confiding affection which
! binds together the hearts of brothers
and sisters.
We should remember with deep
Thanksgiving the growing dispo sition
on the part of those who have been
fortunate in the accumulation of
great wealth, to establish institutions,
the object Of whicc is to give to the
people, in higher forms. the riches
they have secured by toll and self
sacrafce. 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 common mind, through in
stitutions Of learning, through public
libraries, and through galleries of art.
The culture, the high ideals, and the
noble aspiration fostered by such
public institutions, tend infinitely
more to cnrich state than expanse
| of territory, or vast material wealth,
unwisely boarded for selfish ends.
With science. learning, art and re-
| ligion pouring their soft and mellow
ing light upon the lives Of all our
people, abundant scope aud oppor-
tunity will be furnished for tie de-
vcIopment, not only of the richest
country the world ever saw, but also
for the fullest growth of the wisest
aud the most humane. That citizens
of our own stase have within the pas.
year given to the cause of education
amounts of such magnitude as to ex-
cite the attention of the world, is
cause sufficient TO thrill the hearts Of
all our people.
We should remember with pro-
found gratitude that we have been
preserved from great loss by fire,
flood, or storm, aud that our people
have responded. with hearty unani-
nifty to the calls for help which have
come to us from sections OF the
country that have suffered.
Therefore, proclaim
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1900
A Gay of general and public thai K ).
| giving, Recommending that tie peo-
pie of tnis state suspend their secular
avocation and assemble in their. re-
| spective places Of worship and rem
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