GOD IN AMERICA

By Ray Barmore

(Article 3 on the Early Years)

An appeal to arms and to God of Hosts is all that is left us! There is a just God who presides over all destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to be strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. 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!

Patrick Henry
Partial Oration given at St. John’s Church,
Richmond, Virginia, March 23, 1775

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The last of the 16 articles in the Virginia Bill of Rights, authored by George Mason, and forerunner to the United States Bill of Rights, reads: That Religion, or the Duty which we owe to our Creator, and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only by Reason and Conviction, not by Force of Violence; and therefore, all Men are equally entitled to the free exercise of Religion, according to the Dictates of Conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian Forbearance, love, and Charity, towards each other.

Article XVI
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
June 12, 1776

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It is interesting to note that in Noah Webster’s first dictionaries, he often used Scripture verses to describe and explain the meanings and import of much vocabulary and syntax.

How is it then, that scripture, prayer and Christian values which were all so prevalent in America’s foremost textbooks and dictionaries, have been in recent years expunged from all of Webster’s original works – and banned from the public schools domain.

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Abraham Lincoln

“that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and this government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”

Taken from the Gettysburg address
November 19, 1863

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The Star-Spangled Banner

Most people don’t know that the Star-Spangled Banner actually has 4 versus. We normally hear only the first verse. The last verse is reprinted here.

O thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and war desolation!
Blest with victory and peace may the Heaven rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must when our cause it is just
And this be our motto: In God is our trust.
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

September 14, 1814
Francis Scott Key


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The Early Years

By Ray Barmore

(continued from last month)

Andrew M. Allison: Like the Framers themselves, many Americans in the early years of the Republic truly regarded the Constitution as a miracle. Not only did they praise the competence, wisdom, and motivations of those who served in the federal convention of 1787, but they declared that the formation and adoption of our new system of federal government represented a political achievement unprecedented in human history. They looked upon it, moreover, as an event that was actually "influenced, guided and governed" by the hand of God. Thus it is not hard to understand why our Founding Fathers believed that the Constitution was destined to bless all mankind—and that it was "incumbent on their successors" to preserve and defend our national charter of liberty. These convictions, articulated in the statements quoted below, should move today's Americans to serious reflection and appropriate action during the Bicentennial and beyond.

James Madison: The great objects which presented themselves to the Constitutional Convention] . . . formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were not concerned in the execution of it. Adding to these considerations the natural diversity of human opinions on all new and complicated subjects, it is impossible to consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

Benjamin Rush: Doctor Rush then proceeded to consider the origin of the proposed [Constitution], and fairly deduced it [was] from heaven, asserting that he as much believed the hand of God was employed in this work as that God had divided the Red Sea to give a passage to the children of Israel, or had fulminated the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

Benjamin Franklin: "I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] . . . should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being."

James Madison: "The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a linger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution."

Charles Pinckney: "When the general convention met, no citizen of the United States could expect less from it than I did, so many jarring interests and prejudices to reconcile! The variety of pressing dangers at our doors, even during the war, were barely sufficient to force us to act in concert and necessarily give way at times to each other. But when the great work was done and published, I was not only most agreeably disappointed, but struck with amazement. Nothing less than that superintending hand of Providence that so miraculously carried us through the war . . .could have brought it about."

The above excerpts are from a book entitled: A MIRACLE That Changed the World by W. Cleon Skousen

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