"I call on the state of Massachusetts that all of us should pray with true contrition of heart to confess their sins to God and implore forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior." - Samuel Adams
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[In declaring New Hampshire's official day of prayer] "I call on the people of New Hampshire to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ....that the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made known to all nations, pure and undefiled religion universally prevail, and the earth be fill with the glory of the Lord."  - Josiah Bartlett
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"Let us enter on this important business under the idea that we are Christians on whom the eyes of the world are now turned… [L]et us earnestly call and beseech Him, for Christ’s sake, to preside in our councils." - Elias Boudinot