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In the closing of the year, as the grateful and trusting heart recounts its manifold
blessings and mercies, it takes up the words of inspiration and love: “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is
within me, bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits. O give thanks
unto the Lord, for He is good: for His mercy endureth forever.”
In grateful recognition of this devout and dutiful feeling our fathers established
for its public and social expression our time-honored and deeply cherished Thanksgiving day.
In accordance with their pious usage I hereby, with the advice and consent of the
Council, appoint THURSDAY, the twenty-fourth day of Vovember current, as a day of public thanksgiving and praise.
Let us on that day, in forms most congenial to conscience, faith and love, at our
altars and our firesides, in our places of worship and in our happy homes, lift up our hearts in thanksgiving and
praise to God for all His loving kindness and tender mercy to our Nation, Commonwealth and people.
As our hearts go forth in joy and thanksgiving, let us ever remember, alike in the
church and the home, that our gratitude and our homage to God are never so pleasing as when they ascend to
His throne fragrant with the holy incense of a charity and love that recognizes every human being as His child,
entitled to every right and sympathy of the common brotherhood.
Given at the Council Chamber, in Boston, this ninth day of November, in the year
of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America
the One hundred and seventeenth.
TVVII ILIAM E. RUSSELL.
By //7's Ata-ce//ency ſhe Governor, with the Advice and Consent of the Counci/.
WILLIAM M. OLIN,
Secretary.
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