...for imbuing inaugural addresses with religious imagery, declaring in his first address, for instance: "No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the...Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent...

...instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge — No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the...Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the...

...good," he continued, "I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own. . . . No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the...Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States." Every step in establishing the republic demonstrated God's "providential...

...charge. Washington goes on in this vein to describe the historic task of this young federation of states: No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the...Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent...

...instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of man more than those of the United States. Every step by which we have advanced to the character of...

...statements (Chapter 8), and then in his private life (Chapter 9). O / O WASHINGTON'S PUBLIC PRAYERS No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore 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...

...emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ."23 CHAPTER 1 A Purpose-Driven Foundation "No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the...of men more than the people of the United States." — Father of our Nation, George Washington, April 30, 1789 [Acknowledging and adoring an overruling...

...myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow-citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge...Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent...

...Washington captured that natural national faith in his first inaugural address, delivered on April 30, 1789: "No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the...Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. . . . [May] the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the...

...own (ibid.). The particular virtue of the American democracy is expressed through the assertion that 'no people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the...Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States', as every step of its progress in achieving the character of an independent...