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Building a Nation
PATRICK HENRY
HISTORY
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
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. For 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."
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 this with others, so that the truth of our nation's history will be told.To find out
more,look up government and the T.E.A.
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