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CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 1776
“The Congress, do earnestly recommend a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer that we may with united hearts confess and bewail our manifold sins and transgressions and, by a sincere repentance and amendment of life, appease His righteous displeasure, and through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain His pardon and forgiveness.”

Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, Author of the Declaration of Independence
Governor of Virginia, June 2, 1779, until June 3, 1781.