Year: 1874

A PROCLAMATION.


1t behooves people whose granaries
are full, whose basket and store are over
flowing with the good things of earth,
whose homes have been preserved from
pestilence and plague, whose civil and re-
ligious liberty has been neither impaired
nor imperiled, whose altars of worship
have not been thrown down or despoiled,
whose educational privileges free to all
have been improved and enlarged, whose
wealth has increased with unexampled
rapidity, whose commercial enterprises
have widened and prospered and to
whom peace, plenty, and social happiness
have been vouchsafed in immeasurable
abundance to acknowledge the goodness
of that God in whose hands are the issues
of harvest and health, peace and war,
mind and matter, and to assemble in
places of public worship, and at the fam
lily fireside, to render praise and thanks
giving to His holy name


Therefore, /, CYRUS C. CARPENTER,
Governor of the State of Iowa, in COM
pliance with custom, in accordance with
the appointment Of the President of the
United States, and in obedience to the
christian sentiment of the American peo-
pie, do designate and set apart


THURSDAY, THE TwENTY-sIXTH DAY OF
NOVEMBER, A. d, 1874.
as day of thanksgiving and praise to
Him who is Lord over ALL


And | do advise and request all good
people throughout the State observe the
same by public worship and prayer and
praise and by such other acknowledge
ment OF dependence upon an overruling
Providence as may seem to an intelligent
and christian people fitting and appro-
| pirate.


And | ask the people to consider, that
while met together, and lifted to a spirit
of gratitude for the blessings of the year,
we can make no acknowledgement more
consistent with the sincerity of our thank
fullness for the abundance with which
God has blessed us than by giving our
surplus to preserve from hunger and cold
those of our neighbors who have been
stricken by misfortune


Permit me, therefore, to suggest that
in all the public assemblies ON that day
contribution be made for the benefit of
the unfortunate and the suffering, and
that, where these contributions are not re
quired in aid of local charities, they be
! sent to those northwestern counties of the
State whose settlers have been reduced to
destitution through the recent incursion
by grasshoppers from the western plains
Doing this, we will fulfill those divine ut.
terances which were not more true long
centuries ago than they are to-day: "For
the poor shall never cease out of the
land: therefore | command thee, saying,
Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto
thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy,
in thy land" 'Every man according as
he purposeth in his heart, so let him give
not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God
loveth cheerful giver.


In TESTIMONY WHEREOF / have here


unto set my hand and


caused to be affixed the


GREAT SEAL of the State


of Iowa


Done at the city of Des


Moines the seat of govern


ment of the State. this
l.. 5. sixth day of November in


the year of our Lord, one


thousand eight hundred


and seventy-four, of the in


dependence Of the United


States the ninety ninth, and


and of the State of Iowa


the twenty-eightk


G. c. CARPENTER.
By THE GOVERNORS:


JOSIAH Il. YOUNG,


Secretary of State.