Wednesday, November 24, 2010
This announcement was made 387 years ago by William Bradford the Governor of Plymouth Colony.
To All Ye Pilgrims
Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as He has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience; now, I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and little ones, do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill, between the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time, on Thursday, November ye 29th of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-three, and the third year since ye Pilgrims landed on Pilgrim Rock, there to listen to ye pastor, and render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all his blessings.
Ye pastor is not asking you to gather at our church, but as you gather with your family and friends be sure to give thanks for God is good and His mercy endures forever. Here are some great Thanksgiving Scriptures.
I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. - Psalm 69:30
Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. Psalm 95:2
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. - Psalm 100:4
Forever grateful to God,
Pastor Tim
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