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"These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full", John 15:11.
  • Jul 6
    2010


    Jesus said that men:  “…loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil”  John 3:19,  contrast some of the latest shenanigans of some of today’s elected officials with the values, virtues, and character displayed by some of our leaders from the past.

    John Adams was the second president of the United States.  He saw the need for religious values to provide the moral base line for society.  He stated in a letter to the officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts:  “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.  Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

    Two hundred years after the establishment of the Plymouth colony in 1620, Americans gathered at that site to celebrate its bicentennial.  Daniel Webster was the speaker at this 1820 celebration.  He reminded those in attendance of this nation’s origins:

    “Let us not forget the religious character of our origin.  Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion.  They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope.  They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their inhibitions, civil, political, or literary.”

    Biblical Christianity was an important foundation to this republic we call the United States.

    Benjamin Rush talked about the religious freedom of the republic that demanded virtuous leadership.  He said that, “the only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid on the foundation of religion.  Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object of life of all republican governments.”

    Consider the statement from our first President, George Washington during his farewell address:  “And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.  Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

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