"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown, but we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious had which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. 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. "
"I still have the confidence that the Almighty, the Maker of the universe, will, through the instrumentality of this great and intelligent people, bring us through this as He has through all the other difficulties of our country."
------Abraham Lincoln, March 30, 1863
I wanted to put this out there for us. I was going through some old picture frames and switching pictures out and this was one of the papers behind the picture. At first I discarded it because I was in a hurry. Then, when I saw who the author was, I felt like I needed to take the time. Once I read it though, I thought, what's changed? I have faith. Let me know what you think about my sudden history lesson. I was a bit surprised but am glad I took the time to see what is in my home.
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This could have been written today. I am glad you found it.
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