Subject: Forgotten but Unalterable History


This speaks volumes about how much we've forgotten about why /how our
country was formed. Anyone know where a country like this can be found
nowadays? If so, I'd like to move there...


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 our country was founded on and what has
happened.

"In God We Trust "

Author Unknow

I am the vine, you are the branches.He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. John 15:5

John Trevino