Benjamin Franklin believed in God, and he also believed in the power of prayer. He was eighty-one when he attended the Constitutional Convention at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in 1789. He made a motion for the delegates to begin each day’s session with prayer, and he told them: “In the beginning of the contest with…
Category: The American Revolution
George Washington’s Address to His Troops
“The time is now near at hand, which must probably determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own;