Thomas Jefferson was enraptured to remark: "My God! How minute do my countrymen cognise what cherished blessings they are in rights of, and which no other general public on world enjoy!" NOT until drought, famine, and magic disasters remove our cupboards bare, and EMPTY our mart shelves, will we know how apposite we've had it! Only once America goes hungry, will she think how overloaded she was!
President Abraham Lincoln announced April 30, 1863, as a NATIONAL DAY OF FASTING, HUMILIATION AND PRAYER, and radius these words: "We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of promised land. We have been preserved, these tons years, in order and financial condition. We have mature in numbers, privileged circumstances and power, as no remaining nation has ever fully grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the refined paw which corned us in peace, and increased and enriched and strong us; and we have in vain imagined, in the craftiness of our hearts, that all these blessings were create by quite a few high-performance content and virtuousness of our own. Intoxicated with uninterrupted success, we have change state too self-sufficing to perceive the need of redemptive and protective grace, too boastful to pray to the God that ready-made us! It behooves us, after to common ourselves past the displeased Power, to divulge our national sins, and to commune for mildness and release."