State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
CHARLES A TEMPLETON
GOVERNOR
NTNUR fathers founded this nation upon the rock of
| faith. Connecticut from earliest times has
observed the great days of the religious year
along with those of the national year. In
with ancient usage, I designate Friday the
eighteenth of April next to be a day of
Fastitu, alth Irager
Through the ages the Savior's death stands as a
reminder that suffering and death are not of themselves
evil; that comfort and safety are not of themselves good;
that only as a life is lived for others is it worth the living.
This day of commemoration affords us an opportunity to
ask ourselves whether the spirit of sacrifice is yet alive in
us; whether we are still ready to give ourselves for others
as did those of this nation and other nations who died
that the world might be saved from oppression and wrong.
And I recommend that on this day, without distinction
of creed, we assemble in our places of worship to pray to
the God who has made and preserved us a nation that in
our prosperity we may be delivered from selfishness, from
greed, from contempt of law; to pray that we may have
courage to stand and if need be to suffer on the side of right.
Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this
third day of April, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-four and of the independence of the United States the one hundred
and forty-eighth.
By His Excellency’s Command: º &e=
Secretary.





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