Wednesday, September 10, 2008

George Washington ....A Man of Prayer


Oh that we should have leaders such as this today. We have lost our way...ask God to put us back on the right path. Pray for our country....

From President George Washington's Inaugural Address, April 30th, 1789, addressed to both Houses of Congress. Do you suppose that one side refused to applaud ....I think not....they were patriots then.

"Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the council of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States."...."Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency."