Klarinet Archive - Posting 000749.txt from 2004/11

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Happy Thanksgiving
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:11:46 -0500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Hausmann [mailto:bhausmann1@-----.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 7:07 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] Happy Thanksgiving
>
> At 10:55 PM 11/29/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >Was the religious repression exclusive to England?
> >
> >Forest Aten
>
> Certainly not.
>
>
>
> Bill Hausmann
>

Bill,

Ahhhh....

So my relatives....the ones who left Holland for Scotland (because of
religious repression)....and then moved on to Jamestown Settlement in
America (because of religious repression)....count?
(soon after arriving, had the first boy baby in the settlement)

They were Huguenots.
See: http://www.geocities.com/hugenoteblad/hist-hug.htm

Americans have no exclusivity on giving "thanks". To designate a particular
day to give "thanks" could have been done for any variety of reasons.
Political, commercial....you name it. Maybe both.

And here you have the "first" Thanksgiving proclamation in America. Date:
June 20, 1676

On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts
instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of
thanksgiving, our first. That proclamation is reproduced here in the same
language and spelling as the original.

"The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive
dispensations in and by the present Warr with the Heathen Natives of this
land, written and brought to pass bitter things against his own Covenant
people in this wilderness, yet so that we evidently discern that in the
midst of his judgements he hath remembered mercy, having remembered his
Footstool in the day of his sore displeasure against us for our sins, with
many singular Intimations of his Fatherly Compassion, and regard; reserving
many of our Towns from Desolation Threatened, and attempted by the Enemy,
and giving us especially of late with many of our Confederates many signal
Advantages against them, without such Disadvantage to ourselves as formerly
we have been sensible of, if it be the Lord's mercy that we are not
consumed, It certainly bespeaks our positive Thankfulness, when our Enemies
are in any measure disappointed or destroyed; and fearing the Lord should
take notice under so many Intimations of his returning mercy, we should be
found an Insensible people, as not standing before Him with Thanksgiving, as
well as lading him with our Complaints in the time of pressing Afflictions:
The Council has thought meet to appoint and set apart the 29th day
of this instant June, as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and praise to God for
such his Goodness and Favour, many Particulars of which mercy might be
Instanced, but we doubt not those who are sensible of God's Afflictions,
have been as diligent to espy him returning to us; and that the Lord may
behold us as a People offering Praise and thereby glorifying Him; the
Council doth commend it to the Respective Ministers, Elders and people of
this Jurisdiction; Solemnly and seriously to keep the same Beseeching that
being perswaded by the mercies of God we may all, even this whole people
offer up our bodies and soulds as a living and acceptable Service unto God
by Jesus Christ."

Go here for more: http://www.2020tech.com/thanks/

More here:

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/thanksgiving/main.html

One of the more interesting holiday traditions.....

Forest Aten

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