State of Connecticut.
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
MARCUS H. HOLCOMB,
GOVERNOR
Fºl HROUGH the ages Christendom has been looking
| | | | to the figure of the Christ upon the cross as the
ha;=l highest symbol of the humility and the glory of
Uºº!) sacrifice. Now, in a peculiar degree that symbol
ought to appeal to the minds and hearts of all men. Daily
across the seas men and women are as willingly offering
themselves to a no less bitter fate, are as humbly laying
aside wealth and honor and position for the grim suffering
of war. For us the call is yet faint. Largely we go about
our usual ways, we even profit from the untoward circum-
stances of other peoples, we are prone to wrap about us a
mantle of smug content. Yet distance should not dull our
sympathies to others' pain, nor blind our eyes so that we see
not how they are fighting to uphold for us all the standards
of human progress. Nor should we forget that the future is
big with possibilities that we too must assume the red badge
of war. In no formal compliance, then, with ancient custom,
but answering to the need of the times, I designate Friday,
April the twenty-first, as a day of .
35uatitu, alth Irauer,
summoning all citizens of the State on that day humbly to
call their God to witness that their hearts are open to a ready
sympathy, their minds to a quickened understanding, and
that their wills are steadfast to answer any call to sacrifice
that He may send to them. | -
Given under my hand and the seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford,
this fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine
hundred and sixteen, and of the independence of the United States
the one hundred and fortieth. - -
By His Excellency's Command:
- CHARLES D. BURNES,
Secretary.
MARCUS H. HOLCOMB.




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