HISTORY FORGOTTEN
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? The other three 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 word 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?
Prior to September 11, He was not welcome in America.
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.
You are encouraged to share with others, so that the
truth of our nation's history will be told. 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...the culture war. So, America,
what’s it to be: A Christian world view and a pagan
world view?
Please do your bit and share this with as many as
possible and make the ill-informed aware of what they
once had.
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!
Thanks for
sharing this with us Loren |