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State of Maine.

By the Governor of the State of Maine:

A Proclamation,

For a day of Public Thanksgiving and Praise.

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with the advice of the Council, I appoint Thursday the twenty ninth day of November next as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise.

Let us on that Day, praise and thank God that he has made a Revelation to man, inspired him with an understanding by which to comprehend its spirit, given him the power of self-determination for its execution and bestowed the best enjoyments in this life and the hope of felicity in the next on those who imitate the purity and charity of His divine herald Jesus Christ.

May we piously rejoice in the wisdom of our Constitutions of Government which secure freedom of conscience, and keep open all the avenues of truth to every citizen.

Sensible of the benefits flowing from the moral government and physical principles of the universe, may we avoid insulting the goodness of its Author by any vice; and, while grateful for every blessing, may we meet the ills of life with that courage which shall prove our consciousness of the Supreme wisdom and infinite perfection of the system to which we belong.

I recommend to the citizens of this State, in addition to religious exercises, to worship God by literality of sentiment and by open handed beneficence, by instructing the ignorant, guiding the erring, and relieving the unfortunate, by aiding the poor and sick, going and doing good as the good Samaritan did; and teaching and practising [practicing] the duty of kindness prescribed by a devout veneration of that Being who created every living thing and “saw that it was good.”

Enoch Lincoln,

By the Governor:

Amos Nichols, Secretary of State,

Council Chamber

Portland October 18th, 1827.