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State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
JOHN H. TRUMBULL
GOVERNOR
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Aſſ IORE than three hundred years ago, our fathers instituted the
|V| | first Thanksgiving Day in New England. They were living
sº simple lives, full of hardship and empty of material comforts.
Sºº). They were in constant peril from the attacks of wild beasts and
hostile Indians. And yet they were full of a serene confidence that every
difficulty would yield to the power of God’s providence. They possessed
an abiding conviction that there was no need of the flesh, no require-
ment of the spirit, that could not be supplied through His merciful care.
Hardship, for them, was an opportunity for courage; adversity was a test
of faith. They found justification for their thankfulness in the simplest
of every-day blessings. Seed-time and growth and harvest; the strength
to work and the health to enjoy the fruits of labor; the peace of their own
firesides and the freedom to praise God for it; these were the riches for
which they rightly deemed a lifetime of grateful service all too small a
recompense.
The greater plenty, the many added comforts, the increased safeguards,
with which our generation is blessed, has not always seemed to connote
a correspondingly larger sense of obligation and appreciation. And yet
I believe that lack to be more apparent than real. Abundance may in a
measure have dulled our perception of need, but not our response to a
want once recognized. A complicated and practical world may have
reduced church-going, but I believe it has increased Christian living.
Methods of appreciation are no less effective because they seem less spec-
tacular. The praise of God is no less reverent as it becomes more frequently
evidenced in terms of practical service. In the firm belief that our hearts
are still alive to the blessings of Providence, and that we still welcome the
occasion dedicated by long and pious usage to the united expression of
our gratitude, I designate Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of November
next, as a day of general
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and I commend to all people of this commonwealth an observance of the
day, not only in a spirit of festival, but in a spirit of humility, and of high
resolve to prove worthy of our good gifts. Honest gratitude looks for-
ward as well as backward. Unusual bounty brings with it unusual
opportunity. “Freely ye have received, freely give.”
Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this fourteenth day of
November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five and of the
independence of the United States the one hundred and fiftieth.
By His Excellency’s Command:
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Secretary.




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