I suggest a lesson in history for your reader(s) who don't think the united States is a Christian nation. It is, in fact, the first nation in the history of the world that recognized ,from its inception, that people get their rights from God, not from a queen or king or monarch, not from government either, but from God. The first document signed in this nation was the Mayflower Compact which mentioned God 14 times and said, ''we whose names are underwritten... having undertaken for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian religion. Many nations at some part of their history, became Christian, but their earlier heritage was rooted in pagan rites and customs. It is an old and accepted adage that in settling this country, the Bible and musket went hand in hand. The Christian church was the center of the life of the settlers. All schools were Christian schools, as well as the early collages. The seal of Havard is "Christo et Ecclesie."
According to the Encyclopedia Britiannica, 1953 edition, Thomas Jefferson writing in 1823, "I am a Christian sincerely attached to his (Jesus') doctrines in preferance to all others." George Washington sent an order to the Continental Congress to procure chaplains for each regiment, stating, "the General hopes and trusts that officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier." Our sixth president, John Adams stated "the highest glory of the American Revolution was it connected in one indissolvable bond, the principles of civil goverrment with the principles of Christanity." From the Works of Daniel Webster, 1851 Vol. 1, "Let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journed by its light and labored by its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political or literary." In Peoples vs. Ruggles, the New York Supreme Court ruled, "the people of this state in common with the people of this country profess the general doctrines of Christianity."
The Declaration of Independence expressed the quintessence of Americanism; that the doctrine of human rights being derived from God are "inalienable", and they cannot be taken away for any reason. The Bible tells us "blessed is that nation whose God is Lord." Is it any wonder why God has so richly blessed our country? May it always be so!
THE ENEMY WITHIN
A nation can survive it. fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, but he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the. hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.
CICERO (106-43 B.C.)
For further information:
Stan Smith, Pres. EGCCA
Phone:281-444-1190
Email:stanleym4241@att.net
or
Christina Appelt, 713-498-9649
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