History Rewritten

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. 


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!