American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Georgia Provincial Congress (July 4, 1775) stated: <The Congress being returned, a motion was made and seconded, that the thanks of this Congress be given to the Rev. Doctor Zubly, for the excellent Sermon he preached this day to the Members; which was unanimously agreed to.> 1775GP001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1775GP001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Georgia Provincial Congress, July 4, 1775. Verna M. Hall and Rosalie J. Slater, The Christian History of the American Revolution (San Francisco: Foundation for American Christian Education, 1976),...

Continental Congress (June 12, 1775) less than two months after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where "the shot heard 'round the world" was fired, declared Thursday, July 20, 1775, as a Day of Public Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer: <As the Great Governor of the World, by his supreme and universal Providence, not only conducts the course of nature with unerring wisdom and rectitude, but frequently influences the minds of men to serve the wise and gracious purposes of His indispensable duty, devoutly to acknowledge His superintending Providence, especially in times of impending danger, and public calamity, to reverence and...

Massachusetts Provincial Congress (May 31, 1775) just three weeks after the victory of Fort Ticonderoga, invited Samuel Langdon, President of Harvard College, to address them. He declared: <We have rebelled against God. We have lost the true spirit of Christianity, though we retain the outward profession and form of it....By many, the Gospel is corrupted into a superficial system of moral philosophy, little better than ancient Platonism.... My brethren, let us repent and implore the divine mercy. Let us amend our ways and our doings, reform everything that has been provoking the Most High, and thus endeavor to obtain the gracious...

Mecklenburg County Declaration of Independence (May 20, 1775) written in Charlotte, North Carolina by a convention of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. These county resolutions, prepared by the elder Ephraim Brevard, were sent by special courier to the Continental Congress. It reads: <We do hereby dissolve the political bands which have connected us with the mother-country, and hereby absolve ourselves from all allegiance to the British crown.... Resolved, That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people; are, and of a right ought to be, a sovereign and self-governing Association, under control of no power other than that of our God...

Massachusetts Provincial Congress (April 15, 1775) just four days before the Battle of Lexington, declared a Day of Public Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, signed by President of the Provincial Congress, John Hancock: <In circumstances dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that, whilst every prudent Measure should be taken to ward off the impending Judgments....All confidence must be withheld from the Means we use; and reposed only on that GOD who rules in the Armies of Heaven, and without whose Blessing the best human Counsels are but Foolishness-and all created Power Vanity; It is the Happiness of...