The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-11-21
FOR THE OBSERVATION OF
THANKSGIVING DAY.
WANT MORE RIGID LAWS
Stockmen Of The State Want Bill
Passed to Assist in Eradicating the
Cattle Tick. No Advice Given by
Farmers Union.
Governor Vardaman issued the FOL
lowing Thanksgiving proclamation:
State Of Mississippi,
Executive Department.
Proclamation.

Proclamation.
The greatest blessings that an All
Wise Providence could bestow upon
people in good conscience, good
health of mind and body, and material
prosperity. These blessings are en-
joyed in large measure by the peo-
pie of Mississippi.
A spirit of religious devotion, and
revival of civic Righteousness is ap-
parent throughout the entire state.
He has given us peace and prosperity
in our homes, and abundant har-
vest, and He has caused the sunshine
of happiness and hope to illumine our
lives.
Although difficulties and trials have
arisen in our pathway, He has uni
versally shown us a way through and
around such difficulties. AS He al
ways points the way when we trust
Him.
In dealing with the great problems
which confront us, if true to ourselves
and faithful to the right, He will
surely lead us to the proper solution
of them.
For His goodness and mercy we
should be most grateful.
To acknowledge our gratitude to
Him for these blessings is the natural
impulse of every loyal and loving
heart. Gratitude is the most beauti-
full attribute of the human soul-it
is the qualify which distinguishes the
Divine from the brute-it is the coin
of love by which the obligations of
the heart are measured, and the debts
of the soul are liquidated-it is the
fairest flower of the noblest civiliza-
tion-the mellow fruits of gentle
breeding rich aroma of God
developed and radiant life, and the
divinely perfumed atmosphere IN
which all good men and true women
live, and move, and have their being.
To give expression to our gratitude
and to evidence the profound sense
Of obligation which we feel for His
constant kidness, and even watchful
care over us, it is but meet and prop
er that we should pause for day and
devote that day to thanksgiving and
praise. And in making this aeknowl-
edgment of our obligation to Him, let
us not forget that
"In prayer the lips ne Per act the win
ming part
Without sweet concurrence OF the
heart"
Therefore I, James K. Vardaman,
governor Of the state of Mississippi
do hereby designate and set apart
Thursday the 28th day of November,
A. D., 1907, as a day of Thanksgiving
and prayer, and I do recommend and
urge that it be observed throughout
the state. On that day let all the peo-
pie suspend heir ordinary work, leave
their usual vocations, and in their ac-
customed places of worship with pray
er and songs Of praise render thanks
to God for all His mercies, for the
abundant harvests which have re-
warded the toll of the husbandman
during the year just passed, and for
the rich rewards that have followed
the labors of our people, in their
shops and their marts Of trade and
traffic.
Let us understand that service to
man is the highest service to God
"that Humanity is the core of relig-
ion-the core of the spiritual fact
that Paternity in action is the hottest
of all ideas-is the spirit of all gos-
Del and the fullfilment Of all revela-
tions.'
The brutal doctrine of the survival
Of the fittest must give way to the
divine theory "of fitting all to sur
vive,'' and "the Golden Rule must
displace the Rule of Gold.
Let it be also day of family re-
unions and the cultivation Of filial
devotions and fraternal love, the re-
newal of old time friendship and the
making of new and high resolves. Let
the memories of unpleasant incidents
be forever effaced, and also forget
the disagreeable things that doth gen
crate in our souls hatred and animos-
tiles; for he who hates hurts himself.
Hatred dwarfs the intellect, poisons
the springs Of love and disfgures the
soul. While on the other hand, love