He told his army that fine as it was to be a patriot it was finer still to be a Christian.

It is an odd fact that, though he attended the Anglican Communion service before and after the war, he did not partake of the Communion during the war.

What was in his mind we do not know.

He was disposed, as he said himself, to let men find "that road to Heaven which to them shall seem the most direct," and he was without Puritan fervor, but he had deep religious feeling.

During the troubled days at Valley Forge a neighbor came upon him alone in the bush on his knees praying aloud, and stole away unobserved.