This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...Mass in C, Hadyn's Creation, Mendelsohn's Elijah, Handel's Messiah, Meyerbeer's 91st Psalm, and selections from the works of these composers, and of Mozart, Weber, Spohr, and others. The performances were well attended, and the several pieces admirably performed; but the pecuniary results were not so beneficial to the charities as on former occasions. 13. Thanksgiving Fob The Harvest.--The labours of the farmer in gathering in the crops being now completed in most parts of the United Kingdom, and the returns unanimously agreeing that they were almost unprecedented in quantity and quality, and had been garnered in most excellent condition, it seemed to the Government becoming that the nation should express its gratitude to the Almighty that He had vouchsafed to us so great a blessing--a boon of unspeakable value always, but a mercy doubly felt as following a state of things approaching closely to scarcity. The following Proclamation was therefore issued:--" Thanksgiving for the Harvest. "At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of September, 1854. Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. " It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council, that his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury do prepare a form of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the present abundant harvest; and that such form of prayerand thanksgiving be used in all churches and chapels in England and Wales, and in the town of Berwick-onTweed, on Sunday the 1st day of October next "And it is hereby further ordered, that her Majesty's printer do forthwith print a competent number of copies of the said form of prayer and thanksgiving, in order that the same may be forthwith sent round and read in the several churches and chapels of England and Wales, ... |