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A RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING APRIL 30, 1974 AS A DAY OF
HUMULIATION, FASTING AND PRAYER IN THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY
WHEREAS, we know that we have been the recipients of the choicest
bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and
prosperity; we have grown in number and wealth, and
WHEREAS, we have often forgotten the gracious hand which preserved
us in peace, and multiplied and enriched us; and we have vainly imagined, in
the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some
superior wisdom and virtue of our own; and
WHEREAS, intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too
self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud
to pray to the God that made us; and
WHEREAS, we have failed to respond, personally and collectively to
the needs of our fellow man; as a people, we have become so absorbed with the
selfish pursuits of pleasure and profit that we have blinded ourselves to God's
standard of justice and righteousness for this society; and
WHEREAS, it therefore behooves us to humble ourselves before Almighty
God, to confess our sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
OF THE CITY OF PADUCAIi, KENTUCKY:
That the City hereby proclaims that April 30, 1974 be a Day of Humiliation,
Fasting and Prayer; and calls upon the people of our city to humble ourselves as we
see fit, before our Creator to acknowledge our final dependence upon Him.
Mayor
Adopted
Adopted by the Board of Commissioners April 9, 1974
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, April 9, 1974.