Faith of Our Founding Father: The Spiritual Journey of George Washington - Hardcover

Connell, Janice T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1578261562 ISBN 13: 9781578261567

Publisher: Hatherleigh Press, 2003

Synopsis

In Faith of Our Founding Father, author Janice T. Connell examines the spiritual life of our first president. She takes us on a journey from his boyhood, scarred by the early death of his father, to the pinnacle of the Presidency.
Washington was no stranger to sorrow, cold, hunger, persecution, violence or terrorism. His great accomplishment was to face misfortune and conquer it. He achieved his victory by discipline, commitment, prayer, and the graced ability to bend his will under the yoke of Divine Providence. Faith of Our Founding Father contains the entire text of the Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation, a text he learned by heart as a young schoolboy and which governed his code of behavior throughout his life. It also contains the full text of his daily prayers, which provided him solace and enriched his faith until the day he died.

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From the Inside Flap:

George Washington is the "Father of Our Country." A dedicated patriot, brilliant general, and gifted leader, he guided our fledgling nation through bitter revolution and became our first president. He was first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen. Above all, he was a deeply spiritual man.

A devout Christian, Washington's religious beliefs influenced his life as a young surveyor on the dangerous frontier through his heroics as a militia leader in the French and Indian War to the dark days of Valley Forge and the triumph of the Presidency. He was held in the highest regard by his fellow citizens and history has canonized him as the most esteemed of the Founding Fathers. At the root of that esteem was his spirituality.

In Faith of Our Founding Father, bestselling author Janice T. Connell examines the spiritual life of our first president. She takes us on a journey from his boyhood, scarred by the early death of his father, to the pinnacle of the Presidency.

Washington was no stranger to sorrow, cold, hunger, persecution, violence, or terrorism. His great accomplishment was to face misfortune and conquer it. He achieved his victory by discipline, commitment, prayer, and the graced ability to bend his will under the yoke of Divine Providence.

Faith of Our Founding Father contains the entire text of the Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation, a text he learned by heart as a young schoolboy and which governed his code of behavior throughout his life. It also contains the full text of his daily prayers which provided him solace and enriched his faith until the day he died.

In a world wracked by wars, terrorism, disease, starvation, immorality and tyranny, George Washington has much to reveal to us. His accomplishments and writing disclose that Providence was in him, around him, and always with him. George Washington's faith shines like a beacon to light the way for all to peace and liberty on earth and happiness thereafter.

From the Back Cover:

"Faithful commitment to daily duty makes Americans targets for a new kind of warfare, hideous in its sleuth, deceit, and monstrosity. Americans who die at their posts to defend freedom do not die in vain. God always brings good out of evil. Their sacrifice on the frontier of liberty unmasks segments of the world inhabited by lost souls wallowing in the darkness of revolution, steeped in greed, selfishness, avarice, envy, lust, and hatred. The perpetrators send their executioners to the four winds but they will not prevail. They never have in the past, not since Cain killed Abel. Washington's spirit reaches through the centuries to remind every freedom loving person of the sacred duty to rout evil from the planet."—Janice T. Connell

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1578261562
• ISBN 13: 9781578261567
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232