_For a Day of Public Prayer._
IT having pleased Almighty God to visit this Province with
another severe Drought, which, if it should continue much
longer, cannot fail of bringing great Distress upon the
Inhabitants thereof--We are again called upon to supplicate
the Interposition of Divine Providence to relieve this
Country from the imminent Danger with which it is threatned,
by dispensing timely and plentiful Rain.
I HAVE therefore thought fit to appoint, and I do, by and
with the Advice of His Majesty's Council, appoint Wednesday
the Twenty-eighth Day of this Instant _July_ to be a Day of
Public Prayer throughout the Province: Whereon the whole
People may as at one Time humble themselves before Almighty
God, acknowledging their great Unworthiness, and confessing
their manifold Sins, and imploring the Supreme Dispenser of
all Good, that He would be graciously pleased not to
with-hold from them the Fruits of the Earth, but by
seasonable and refreshing Rains bring what yet remains
undestroyed to a due and seasonable Maturity.
AND WHEREAS some Places have been exempted from the general
Want of Rain; and it is to be hoped that before the Day
appointed as aforesaid, many others, and possibly the whole
Province, may have a gracious and timely Relief: It will be
our Duty to intermix Thanksgiving with Humiliation, in such
a Manner as the State of the Province, and particular Parts
thereof, shall at that Time require.
And I do order the said Day to be observed as a Day set
apart for Religious Worship, and that no servile Labour or
Recreation be permitted thereon.
_GIVEN at the Council-Chamber in_ Boston, _the Ninth Day of_
July, 1762, _in the Second Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord_ GEORGE _the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of_
Great-Britain, France, _and_ Ireland, _KING, Defender of the
Faith_, &c.
_Fra. Bernard._
By His Excellency's Command,
A. OLIVER, Secr'y.
GOD Save the KING.
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