Show thanksgiving proclamation designating as thursday november as thanksgiving day I 1 proclamation by tho president of the united states 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 ho made them a nation and vouchsafed them a free government with loving landness he has constantly led us ia the way of prosperity and greatness he has not visited with punishment our shortcomings but with gracious care he has warned us of our dependence upon his forbearance and has taught us that obedience to his holy law is theorice the price of a continuance of his precious gift in acknowledgement ac of all that god has done for us as a nation and to the end that on the appointed day the united prayer and praise of the grateful people of the country may reach the throne of grace I 1 grove r cleveland hereby designate and set apan thursday the twenty ninth day of november 1888 as a day of thanksgiving and prayer to be kept and 0 astred throughout the land on that day let all our people suspend and operations and assembling sem bling in their accustomed places of worship with prayer and songs of paraiso render thanks to god for all mercies for the abundant harvests which have awarded the year that has passed for the rich reward of our people in their shops and marts of trade and traffic let us give thanks j for the peace and social order and contentment within our borders and for oar advancement in all that adds to a cat ions greatness and mindful oi the afflictive dispensation with which a portion of our land has been visited let us whilo we humble ourselves before the power of god acknowledge his mercy in setting bounds to the deadly march of the pestilence and let our hearts be chasteney chastened chast ened ly sympathy with our fellow countrymen who have su offered and who mourn and as we return thanks for ill the blessings which we have received from the hands of our heavenly father let us not forget that he has enjoined upon us to be charitable and upon this day of thanksgiving let us generously remember the poor and needy so that our tribute arid gratitude may be acceptable in the sight of the lord done at the city of washington on tho of november eighteen aad eighty eighty and in th year of tho independence of the states the one hundred and thirteenth in witness whereof JL have here signed my name and caused the seal of states to be fixed by the president i i TP T P baraka secretary of state |