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History
Forgotten
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 deleted. 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 on 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 notions 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 our new nation not upon the power of government;
far from it. We have staked the 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.
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