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April 17

William Penn, the Quaker leader who once said, “Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants,” founded the colony (now state) which bears his name. On this day in 1681, a letter was on its way to a friend, in which he said of Pennsylvania:

“For my country, I eyed the Lord in obtaining it, and more was I drawn inward to look to Him, and to owe it to His hand and power than to any other way. I have so obtained it and desire to keep it, that I may not be unworthy of His love.”

STONE, PENNSYLVANIA, III.

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March 21

During the last days of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, in the spring of 1865, saw almost continual revival. The following resolution was adopted by five brigades of Georgia troops:

“That we hereby acknowledge the sinfulness of our past conduct as a just and sufficient ground for the displeasure of Almighty God; and that, earnestly repenting of our sins, we are determined, by His grace, to amend our lives for the future; and, in earnest supplication to God, through the mediation of His Son, Jesus Christ, we implore the forgiveness of our sins and seek the Divine favor and protection.”

BENNETT, REVIVAL, 420.

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March 14

Om this day in 1901, Benjamin Harrison died. The 23rd President of the United States, he was the grandson of the 9th President, William Henry Harrison, and great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence. To his son Russell he once wrote:

“It is great comfort to trust God----even if His providence is unfavorable. Prayer steadies one, when he is walking in slippery places----even if things asked for are not given.”

McCOLLISTER, HELP, 107.

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March 8

As the Great Revival of 1800 spread beyond the Yale campus, one of its converts was New Haven resident Noah Webster. In 1807 he would write:

“In my view, the Christian religion is...one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed…. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”

MARSHALL & MANUEL, FSSS, 412