Faith of our early national leaders

No one can not know the future,and Jonathan Trumbull, governor of the Connecticut Colony did not when on this date in March 24th, he proclaimed the 19th of April, 1775 to be as a day of prayer and fasting.

What he did not know was that the 29th of April would be the day the War for Independence would break out leading to the birth of a new nation and a world force.

What he wrote in his proclamation:

"God would graciously pour out His Holy Spirit on us to bring us to a thorough Repentance and effectual Reformation that our iniquities may not be our ruin; that He would restore, preserve and secure the Liberties of this and all the other British American colonies, and make the Land a mountain of Holiness, and Habitation of Righteousness forever."
Hall American Revolution Page 407
PS. A prayer worth repeating, often.