John Hancock on the Lord’s Day in the early American Republic

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Haeralis

Puritan Board Freshman
An excellent observation from one of our more underrated Founding Fathers:

"A due observation of the Lord's Day is not only important to internal religion, but greatly conducive to the order and benefit of civil society. It speaks to the senses of mankind and, by a solemn cessation of their common affairs, reminds them of a Deity and their accountableness to the great Lord of all. Whatever may be necessary to the support of such an institution, in consistence with a reasonable personal liberty, deserves the attention of civil government. Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of the youth; in both these instances our [Puritan] fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory."

—John Hancock, "Inaugural Address as Governor of Massachusetts," 1780.
 
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