Like many of the founding fathers, George Washington believed in God and acknowledged His hand in saving the Continental army and the revolution. Charles Bracelen Flodd noted that there were at least sixty-seven desperate moments that George Washington admitted would have potentially destroyed the cause had the hand of God not intervened in behalf of their struggle for independence. (Charles Bracelen Flood, Rise and Fight Again, Dodo, Mead & Co., New York, 1976, p. 377.)
The following comes from President Washington's first inaugural address:
"No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency." (Fitzpatrick, Writings of George Washington, 30:292.)
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