Fast Day Proclamation of the Continental Congress

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Fast Day Proclamation of the Continental Congress

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Guest Essayist: George Landrith, President, Frontiers of Freedom

The Founders’ proclamations on fasting and prayer are relevant today

by George Landrith

Today, many Americans think that government and even public life must be strictly separated from religious life and faith. Few know what the Constitution actually says about religious freedom or what the Founders believed about the concepts of liberty, God, and religion. But our history paints a very clear picture.

On March 16, 1776, the Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia issued a proclamation calling for a day of fasting and prayer. Read more

March 14, 2013/3 Comments/by Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie

Fast Day Proclamation of the Continental Congress – Reprinted from The U.S. Constitution, A Reader, Published by Hillsdale College

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The petition of this Fast Day Proclamation was echoed repeatedly by Congresses in early American history.

December 11, 1776

Whereas, the war in which the United States are engaged with Great Britain, has not only been prolonged, but is likely to be carried to the greatest extremity; and whereas, it becomes all public bodies, as well as private persons, to reverence the Providence of God, and look up to him as the supreme disposer of all events, and the arbiter of the fate of nations; therefore, Read more

March 14, 2013/0 Comments/by Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie