Today's American Minute — National Day of Prayer: "We have forgotten God..." Lincoln
National Day of Prayer Presidential Proclamations - American Minute with Bill Federer
"Awful calamity ... may be but a punishment ... for our presumptuous sins" National Day of Prayer: "We have forgotten God..." Lincoln
Lincoln stated "Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."