Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-13
GOVERNOR HAS
NAMED TWO DAYS
Asks People to Go to Sunday
School and to Cultivate
Their Families

Sunday. November A, was to-day
proclaimed by Governor Brumbaugh
as ''go to Sunday school Sunday for
Pennsylvania and Thursday, Novem-
ber Is, as Father and Son day."
when fathers and sons should unite
in fellowship meetings so that great
er intimacy may be created between
parents and children.
The proclamation d e S / n ing
these two days is the first on record
to set aside two separate days and
the Governor says that the idea is
to have the same general principle,
better living and a closer under
standing, apply to both.
The proclamation Is as follows:
Whereas, 1t is particularly impor-
tant during war times that the spir-
itual interests of people should be
developed and conserved in the most
effective manner because from the
| spiritual life of nation flows it's
strength its stability, Ats perma-
| nence; and
Whereas, The Sunday school has
splendid record of service in i'm
parting spiritual guidance to the
! young people of the Nation and has
| unmatched resources in bringing q
knowledge of the Bible to the con-
science of the people;
Therefore, l, Martin Grove Brum-
| baugh, Governor of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, hereby desig-
nate Sunday, November fourth, 1917,
! as a "Go-to-Sunday-sc day,
upon which day l call upon all peo-
pie of this Commonweal to assem-
! BILE themselves in their respective
places of worship and elsewhere, for
| the purpose of emphasizing the I'M
portance of the Sunday school and
through the Sunday school the inn
portance of spiritual training to our
/ people. Early impressions are most
/ enduring Impressions The train
! ing, therefore, of childhood in relig-
ious matters is of vital moment to
the Nation. The power of example
is vastly more important than the
teaching of precepts. For that rea-
son the adult population should lead
the way to childhood and approve by
their presence the movement hereby
designated. Let us all keep in mind
the sublime fact that a nation that
forgets it's God will perish. and a
nation that Loyalty and devoutly
serves Him shall endure.
Moreover, it seems wise to me to
encourage the greatest intimacy be-
tween fathers and their sons, to the
end that the experience of a fathers
life may besmost effectively impart-
ed to his sons
I, therefore. set aside Thursday
November fifteenth, 1917, as 8
Father and Son" day, having for itt
purpose the same general functions
to be observed on November fourth
On Thursday, November fifteenth
I request all fathers to unite will
their sons in a fellowship meeting
to which other sons, who may have
suffered the loss of a father, shall
be invited to participate, and thai
the peeting be made an occasion fol
the creation of such an intimacy
between fathers and sons, to the end
that the religious and moral senti-
ments of one generation may be
transmitted unimpaired and en-
larged to the generation that is tC
be.
Given under my hand and the great
seal of the state at the City OF
Harrisburg, this thirty-first day
of July in the year of our Lord,
one thousand nine hundred and
seventeen, and of the Common
wealth the one hundred and forty
second.
MARTIN G. -BRUMBAUGH,
BY the Governor
CYRUS e. WOOD,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.