This is worth
remembering, because it is true. It's familiar territory,
but those of you that graduated from school after the early
60's were probably never taught this. Our courts have seen
to that!
Did you know that 52 of the 55 signers of "The
Declaration of Independence" were orthodox, deeply
committed, Christians?
That they all believed in the Bible as the divine truth,
the God of scripture, and His personal intervention.
It is the same Congress that formed the American Bible
Society, immediately after creating the Declaration of
Independence, the Continental Congress voted to purchase and
import 20,000 copies of Scripture for the people of this
nation.
Patrick Henry, who is called the firebrand of the
American Revolution, is still remembered for his words,
"Give me liberty or give me death"; but in current
textbooks, the context of these words is omitted.
Here is what he actually said: "An appeal to arms and the
God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight
our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the
destinies of nations. The battle, sir, is not to the strong
alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased
at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God.
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give
me liberty, or give me death."
These sentences have been erased from our textbooks. Was
Patrick Henry a Christian?
The following year, 1776, he wrote this: "It cannot be
emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation
was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on
religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that
reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded
freedom of worship here."
Consider these words that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the
front of his well-worn Bible: "I am a real Christian, that
is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have
little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to
the unity of our creator."
He was also the chairman of the American Bible Society,
which he considered his highest and most important role.
On July 4, 1821, President Adams said, "The highest glory
of the American Revolution was this: "It connected in one
indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with
the principles of Christianity."
Calvin Coolidge, our 30th President of the United States
reaffirmed this truth when he wrote, "The foundations of our
society and our government rest so much on the teachings of
the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if
faith in these teachings would cease to be practically
universal in our country."
In 1782, the United States Congress voted this
resolution: "The Congress of the United States recommends
and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools."
William Holmes McGuffey is the author of the McGuffey
Reader, which was used for over 100 years in our public
schools with over 125 million copies sold until it was
stopped in 1963. President Lincoln called him the
"Schoolmaster of the Nation." Listen to these words of Mr.
McGuffey:
"The Christian religion is the religion of our country.
From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on
the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines
are founded the peculiarities of our free Institutions. From
no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from
the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the
Bible, I make no apology."
Of the first 108 universities founded in America, 106
were distinctly Christian, including the first, Harvard
University, chartered in 1636..
In the original Harvard Student Handbook, rule number 1
was that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek
so that they could study the Scriptures: "Let every student
be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider
well, the main end of his life and studies, is, to know God
and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, John 17:3; and
therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation for our
children to follow the moral principles of the Ten
Commandments."
James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of
the United States, said this: "We have staked the whole
future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity
of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the
moral principles of the Ten Commandments."
Today, we are asking God to bless America. But, how can
He bless a Nation that has departed so far from Him?
Most of what you read in this article has been erased
from our textbooks.
Revisionists have rewritten history to remove the truth
about our country's Christian roots.
Let you and I share the truth of our nation's history and
let it be told.
Example: John 3:16. "For God so loved the world, that he
gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
shall not perish but have eternal life! "
This information shared is only a drop of cement to help
secure a foundation that is crumbling daily in a losing war
that most of the country doesn't even know is raging on, in,
and around them...