State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
MARCUS H. HOLCOMB
GOVERNOR
# rurlamatium
T a time when bitter suffering has become the common lot of much
of the world and anxiety is gnawing at the hearts of many of us,
there is no room for the light-hearted rejoicing which has so often
marked the coming of the Thanksgiving season. For our full
lives, for all our throbbing commercial life, we have abundant reason for
thankfulness; but we see in them now, not a goal attained, only the means
to an infinitely nobler and greater end. They, whose battle is our battle,
look to us for armament and Sustenance. Largely we can give, for largely
has it been given unto us. He, Who has made the way straight for us,
Who has given us courage to raise the gage of battle, Who has inspired us
with faith in the ultimate victory, has wonderfully strengthened our arms for
the conflict. For that we owe Him thanks. But to Him, to our country, to
the high cause which we have made our own, to the devotion of those who
are offering their lives as sacrifices upon the altar of that cause, we owe
more than thanks. Ours is the duty to see that these resources which have
been made ready for us shall be so husbanded, so shaped, so used that they
may attain the greatest possible effect.
On Thursday, November the twenty-ninth, which old custom marks
as a day of
Chaukauiutiuſ
let each of us, then, reverently and sincerely, return thanks to God, for His
gifts to us, but let us also, there in His presence, no less reverently and
sincerely, steel our hearts in the firm resolve that no word or deed of ours
shall dull the weapons He has shaped to our hands.
Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this sixteenth
day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and seven-
teen, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and
forty-second.
By His Excellency's Command:
Governor.
Secretary.





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