IN GOD WE TRUST
“Is it not the claim in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?–that it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth?–That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?”
John Quincy Adams:Statesman;
Diplomat; Sixth President of the
United States
“We are a Christian people. . .not because the law demands it, not to gain exclusive benefits or to avoid legal disabilities, but from choice and education, and in a land thus universally Christian, what is to be expected, what desired, but that we shall pay due regard to Christianity?”
Senate Judiciary Committee Report, Jan. 1853
“At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged…In this age there can be no substitute for Christianity. . .That was the religion of the founders of the republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.”
House Judiciary Committee Report, Mar.27, 1854
“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 Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of Him (Proverbs 2,3). Every one shall so exercise himself in reading the Scriptures twice a day that he shall be ready to give such an account of his proficiency therein.”
Harvard 1636 StudentGuidelines
“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness, which mankind now enjoys. . .Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government–and all the blessings which flow from them–must fail with them.”
Jedediah Morse:Patriot and Educator, called
“The Father of American Geography”y
“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the Word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts. . .Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”
John Jay: Co-Author of the Federalist Papers; First
Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court
“One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law. . .There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundations. . .I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society.”"
Joseph Story: U. S. Supreme Court Justice; “Father of American Jurisprudence,” Placed on the Court by President James Madison
“The Americans combine the notions of Christianity in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more did I perceive the great political consequences resulting from this state of things, to which I was unaccustomed. In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other; but in America I found that they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country.”
Achille Murat, French observer of America in 1832
These are some of the quotes on a full-page in our Lake Charles
American Press on July 4, paid for by the Hobby Lobby, Hemispheres and Mardel Stores.
These are the last two quotes:
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD.”
Psalm 33:12a
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14
Amen!
Politics, of course!
