On March 30th, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a historic Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day: Whereas, the Senate of the United States devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for national prayer and humiliation: And whereas, it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon…..
”Here for the first time in all the thousands of years of man’s relation to man…the founding fathers established the idea that you and I had within ourselves the God-Given right and ability to determine our own destiny.” Quote from President Ronald Reagan taken from the book, America’s God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations by William Federer