![]() Washington said to his troops after Valley Forge, “To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should to be our highest Glory to add the more distinguished Character of Christian.” And on it goes. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are.” He said in 1783 to all the governors of the states that unless we as a nation imitate “the divine Author of our blessed religion” (that would be Jesus), we can never hope to be a happy nation. But he said to the Delaware Indian chiefs in 1779: “You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. Washington supposedly avoided the name of Jesus.Washington spoke of God so reverently that he would use fancy words to describe the Almighty-which was also a custom of the evangelical preachers of America in his day. Lillback notes that that was his baroque style. Washington used elaborate names for God.Also, Lillback notes that the Masons in Washington’s day held an annual Christian worship service where an evangelical minister would preach. Yet he only attended Masonic functions about once a decade. He was a Mason, and therefore could not have been a Christian.He did on occasion receive communion after that, even in the Episcopal Church, such as on the day he was inaugurated, Apat the two-hour Christian worship service at St. ![]() Then when he led the rebellion against King George III, the head of the Church of England (the Anglican Church, which became in America the Episcopal Church), he ceased to commune in those churches (not other churches)-at least as long as the war lasted. ![]() He participated in communion earlier in life.
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