[America’s Sin of Self-Sufficiency, Citation: Richard Halverson,
"The Question Facing Us," Preaching Today, Tape 46.] In 1863
President Lincoln designated April 30th as a day of national
humiliation, fasting, and prayer. Let me read a portion of his
proclamation on that occasion: "It is the duty of nations, as
well as of men, who owe their dependence upon the overruling
power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble
sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead
to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth
announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by a history that
those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. The awful
calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a
punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the
needful end of our national reformation as ... Illustration
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