Head Quarters, New York, May 15, 1776:
“The Continental Congress having ordered Friday, the 17th instant, to be observed as a day of “Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, humbly to supplicate the mercy of Almighty God, that it would please him to pardon all our manifold sins and transgressions, and to prosper the arms of the United Colonies, and finally establish the peace and freedom of America upon a solid and lasting foundation,” the general commands all officers and soldiers to pay strict attention to the orders of the Continental Congress, and, by the unfeigned and pious observance of their religious duties, incline the Lord and Giver of victory to prosper our arms.”
— George Washington (1732-1799) Father of the Country, 1st President of the United States