“Congress recommends a day of … thanksgiving and praise so that the people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts … and join … their prayers that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, to forgive our sins and … to enlarge His kingdom which consists in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.”
Continental Congress 1777
written by Samuel Adams and Richard Henry Lee
excerpt quoted from “Thanksgiving in America” by David Barton
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