[CS-FSLUG] Some U.S. History

[Fred A. Miller]

  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. 

      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... 

      Please do your bit and share this with as many as possible and make the 
ill-informed aware of what they once had.

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