State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
MARCUS H. HOLCOMB
GOVERNOR
E face dark days. Our citizens have been slain
upon the high seas. The principles upon
which our country was founded and which
have been the breath of life within its nostrils
have been brought into contempt. We have
endured until endurance became a reproach; and now we
question whether long peace and great prosperity have
not sapped our strength to resist. It is a time for heart-
searching, a time for every man to ask himself whether
liberty, equality and brotherhood are for him more than
empty words, whether for them he is ready to suffer and
if need be to die. Such times breed humility of spirit, a
desire for wise guidance, and the consciousness of a need
of some strength beyond our own upon which to lean.
When danger threatened and the future loomed dark,
our fathers were never ashamed to turn to God for help
and the example of their faith points out the way for us.
The knowledge of a just cause and the heavy burden of
responsibility resting upon us should force us, then, on
the Friday before Easter, which each year we designate as
a day of
3fasting alth Irauer
in all humility, in all sincerity, and in all faith, to bow
ourselves before the God of our people, asking of him
light to guide our steps, a clear vision of the goal we still
must seek, courage to act, if act we must, and if pain
must be our lot, steadfastness to endure unto the end.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford,
this twenty-third day of March, in the year of Our Lord one thousand,
nine hundred and seventeen, and of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and forty-first.
By His Excellency’s Command:
Secretary.





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