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FROM THE ARCHIVEApr 20, 1887·Augusta, Maine

DAY OF PUBLIC HUMILIATION PROCLAIMED

Scanned from Daily Kennebec Journal [Microfilm Reel], Apr 20, 1887
DAY OF PUBLIC HUMILIATION PROCLAIMED
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Dafttj tnuefow foutmal iiniU Wednesday Moraine April 20 STATE OF MAINE By the Governor A PROCLAMATION B J the advice of the Executive Council. I do hertby appoint Thursday he TwentyFist Day of April AH A DA Y OF Public Humiliation Fasting and Prayer. And I do most earnestly recommend to the people of this State that in accordance with u time honore d and much revered custom inaugurated by the Christian fathers of. New England thy will observe the day.

In a manner befitting the sacrd designation it bears Let all abstain from secular labor on that day and devote it to attendance upon public worship and private meditation in their homes. In humilia tion acknowledging our dependence upon Him whose mercy endureth forever let us ask that we may re oeive n continuance of His loving favors Given at the Council Chamber at Augusta his thirtieth day of March in the vear of our Lord one thousand eiirht hundred and eighty sevenand of the independence of the United States ot America the one hundred and eleventh JOSEPH It BODWELL By the Governor OKAMANDAI SMITH Secretary of State Massachusetts Republicans. The enthusiastic character ot the meet ing at the.

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