THE GLORY OF AMERICA
Peter Marshall & David Manual
April 17
William Penn, the Quaker leader who once said, “Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants,” founded the colony (now state) which bears his name. On this day in 1681, a letter was on its way to a friend, in which he said of Pennsylvania:
“For my country, I eyed the Lord in obtaining it, and more was I drawn inward to look to Him, and to owe it to His hand and power than to any other way. I have so obtained it and desire to keep it, that I may not be unworthy of His love.”
STONE, PENNSYLVANIA, III.
