Continental Congress (October 6, 1777) meeting in York, Pennsylvania, appointed a third Chaplain, the Congregationalist Timothy Dwight, to serve a brigade of Connecticut troops. In a 1777 sermon, Timothy Dwight stated:
<Nothing obstructs the deliverance of America but the crimes of its inhabitants...Independence and happiness [are] fixed upon the most lasting foundations, and that Kingdom of the Redeemer...[is] highly exalted and durably established on the ruins.> 1777CC103
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Endnotes:
1777CC103. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Timothy Dwight, 1777, Sermon. Continental Congress. Introduction to book by Ira Stoll, Sam Adams-A Life (Simon & Shuster, 2008) http://books.simonandschuster.com/Samuel-Adams/Ira- Stoll/9780743299114/excerpt/2 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel04.html