Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1888 — GIVING THANKS. [ARTICLE]

GIVING THANKS.

Tlie President Proclaims Thursday, Nov. SB, as a Day of Thanksgiving. The President has issued the following proclamation: “Constant thanksgiving and gratitude are due from the American people to Almighty God for His goodness and mercy -which have followed them since the day He made them a nation and vouchsafed to them a free government. With loving kindness he has constantly led us in the way of prosperity and greatness. He has not visited with swift punishment our shortcomings but with gracious care He has warned us of our dependence upon His forbearance, and has taught us that obedience to Hie holy law is the price of a continuance of His precious sifts. “In acknowledgment of all that God has done for us as a nation, and to the end that on an appointed day the united prayers and praise of a rateful country may reach the throne of grace, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 29th day of November, instant, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, to be kept and observed throughout tho land. “Cn that day let all our people suspend their ordinary work and occupations, and in their accustomed place of worship, with prayer and songs of praise, render thanks to God for all His mercies, fur the abundant harvests which have rewarded the toil of the husbandman during the year that has passed, and for the rich rewards that have followed the labors of our people in their shops and their marts of trade ana traffic. Let us give thanks for peace and for social order and contentment within our borders, and for our advancement in all that adds to national greatness. “And, mindful of the afflictive dispensation with which a portion of our land has been visited, let us, while we htmble ourselves before the power of Gol, acknowledge His mercy in setting bounds to the deadly march of pestilence, and let onr hearts be chastened by sympathy with our fellow-countrymen wio have suffered and who mourn. “And as we return thanks for all the blessings which we have received from the bands of our Heavenly Father, let us not forget that He has enjoinea upon us clar.ty; and on this day of thanksgiving let us generously remember the poor and needy, so that our tribute of praise and gratitude may be acceptable in the sight of the Lord. “Done at the city of Washington, on the first day of November, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, and in the year of independence of the United States, the one hundred and thirteenth. “In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Grover Cleveland, “By the President: T. F. Bayard, “Secretary of State.”