Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1885 — TURKEY and thanks. [ARTICLE]

TURKEY and thanks.

President Cleveland Proclaims the Last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. The following proclamation has been issued by President Cleveland: By the President of the United States— The American people have always abundant prosperity for which to be thankful to Almighty God, whose watchful care and guiding hand have been manifested in every stage of their national life, guarding and protecting them in time of peril and safely leading them in the hour of darkness and danger. It is fitting and proper that a nation thus favored should one day in every year, for that purpose especially appointed, publicly acknowledge the goodness of God and return thanks to Him for all His gracious gifts. Therefore I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 20th day of November instant, as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, and do invoke the observance of the same by all the people of the land. That day let all secular business be suspended, and let the people assemble in their usual places of worship-and with prayer and songs of praise devoutly testify their gratitude to the giver of every good and perfect gift for all that He has done for us in the year that has passed; for our preservation as a united nation, and from our deliverance from the shock and danger of political convulsion; for the blessings of peace, and for our safety and quiet while wars and rumors of wars haqas agitated and afflicted other nations of the eartaVofour security against the scourge or pestilence which in other lands has claimed ife dead by thousands and filled the streets with mourning; for plenteous crops which reward the labor of the husbandman and. increase of our nation’s wealth, and for /the contentment throughout our borders which follow in the train of prosperity and abundance. And let there, also, be on the day set apart a reunion of families, sanctified and chastened by tender memories and associations, and let the social intercourse of friends with pleasant reminiscences renew the ties of affection and strengthen those of kindly feeling. And let us by no means forget, while we give thanks and enjoy the comforts which have crowned our lives, that truly grateful hearts are inclined to deeds of charity, and that a kind and thoughtful remembrance will double the pleasures of our condition, and render our praise and thanksgiving more acceptable in the sight of the Done at the city of Washington this 2d day of November, eighteen hundred and eighty [l. s. ] five, and of the independence of the United States the one hun'dred and tenth. Gboveb Cleveland, President By the President: Thomas F. Bayard, Secretary of State.