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
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
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
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
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
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...
Share this if you
will. It's good to be reminded of what we once had. And tell
our children!
This letter has been circulated on the internet and was sent as a letter to the editor.
Dan Hartley,
North Beach