1849-1850
Little is known about Taylor's religious views, though he is widely believed to have been an Episcopalian. With little documentary evidence to go on, a biographer wrote, "In the secret communion of his heart with heaven, who can say he did not die a Christian?" Like Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson before him, Taylor did not issue a proclamation calling for a national day of prayer and fasting while president. He explained his reasoning in a letter dated Nov. 5, 1849: "While uniting cordially in the universal feeling of thankfulness to God for his manifold blessings, and especially for the abatement of the pestilence which so lately walked in our midst, I have yet thought it most proper to leave the subject of a Thanksgiving Proclamation where custom in many parts of the country has so long consigned it, in the hands of the Governors of the several States."
Little is known about Taylor's religious views, though he is widely believed to have been an Episcopalian. With little documentary evidence to go on, a biographer wrote, "In the secret communion of his heart with heaven, who can say he did not die a Christian?" Like Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson before him, Taylor did not issue a proclamation calling for a national day of prayer and fasting while president. He explained his reasoning in a letter dated Nov. 5, 1849: "While uniting cordially in the universal feeling of thankfulness to God for his manifold blessings, and especially for the abatement of the pestilence which so lately walked in our midst, I have yet thought it most proper to leave the subject of a Thanksgiving Proclamation where custom in many parts of the country has so long consigned it, in the hands of the Governors of the several States."
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