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!

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:
These sentences have been erased from our textbooks. Was Patrick Henry a Christian? The following year, 1776, he wrote this:

Consider these words that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the front of his
well-worn Bible:

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
practically universal in our country."


William Holmes McGuffey is the author of the McGuffey Reader, which
"The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it 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
that students seeking entrance must know Latin and Greek so that they

James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United
States, said this:


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