cingular
02-13-2006, 08:07 AM
HISTORY IGNORED & 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
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
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