QUOTES OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS AND OTHERS SINCE
"The Church must take right ground in regard to politics...The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics...Christians have been exceedingly guilty in this matter. But the time has come when they must act differently...God cannot sustain this free and blessed country which we love and pray for unless the Church will take right ground...It seems sometimes as if the foundations of the nation are becoming rotten and Christians seem to act as if they think God does not see what they do in politics. But I tell you He does see it, and He will bless or curse this nation according to the course Christians take in politics." - Rev. Charles Finney
"Now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature...If the next centennial does not find us a great nation...it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces." - James Garfield, 20th U.S. President
"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were...the general principles of Christianity. Now I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that these general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God." - John Adams
"It is a great mistake to suppose that the paper we are to propose will govern the United States. It is the men whom it will bring into the government and interest they have in maintaining it that are to govern them. The paper will only mark out the mode and the form. Men are the substance and must do the business." - John Francis
"I rely upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins." - Samuel Adams
"On the mercy of my Redeemer I rely for salvation and on His merits; not on the works I have done in obedience to His precepts." - Charles Carroll
"I entreat you in the most earnest manner to believe in Jesus Christ, for 'there is no salvation in any other.' Acts 4:12... If you are not reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, if you are not clothed with the spotless robe of His Righteousness, you must forever perish." - John Witherspoon
"I am constrained to express my adoration of...the Author of my existence in full belief of...His forgiving mercy revealed to the world through Jesus Christ, through Whom I hope for never ending happiness in a future state." - Robert Treat Paine
"I subscribe to the entire belief of the great and leading doctrines of the Christian religion,...and I exhort that the way of life held up in the Christian system is calculated for the most complete happiness that can be enjoyed in this mortal state." - Richard Stockton
"My only hope of salvation is in the infinite transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins. I rely exclusively upon it. Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly!" - Benjamin Rush
"Rendering thanks to my Creator...for my birth in a country enlightened by the Gospel...to Him I resign myself, humbly confiding in His goodness and in His mercy through Jesus Christ for the events of eternity." - John Dickinson
"To the triune God - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost - be ascribed all honor and dominion, forevermore. Amen." - Gunning Bedford
"I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost...and that at the end of this world there will be a resurrection of the dead and a final judgment of all mankind when the righteous shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment." - Roger Sherman
"Unto Him who is the author and giver of all good, I render sincere and humble thanks for His manifold and unmerited blessings, and especially for our redemption and salvation by His beloved Son...Blessed be His holy name." - John Jay
"OLD DELUDER SATAN"
As another example of how far our nation has forgotten her Christian roots, the following comes from David Barton's DVD, "Influence of the Bible," with information on the "Old Deluder Satan" from the Connecticut Code of 1650:
"Let’s move beyond the Pilgrims and go forward in time a few decades to the year 1647. By that time, many more settlers had arrived in America. As settlements and towns began to spring up, particular needs became apparent to the settlers – one of which was education for their children. Addressing that need resulted in America’s first public education law.
Significantly, that first education law was directly shaped by the experiences of those settlers. They were very familiar with civil atrocities. In fact, not only were they aware of the numerous civil atrocities that had occurred in Europe under the name of Christianity (such as the Inquisition, and the tortures during the Crusades) but many of those settlers had personally experienced persecution simply for practicing their own faith.
They wanted to prevent such atrocities from occurring in America; and they were convinced that the atrocities in Europe were the result of widespread illiteracy in general and lack of Biblical knowledge in particular. Because citizens had lacked Biblical knowledge, it had been possible for civil and religious leaders in Europe wrongly to teach the masses that the Bible required church and state leaders to be heavy-handed. And since the people were illiterate and could not read the Scriptures to learn otherwise, they allowed and even participated with their civil leaders in those atrocities.
Having thus seen, and even experienced, the abuse of power that can be imposed on a Biblically-illiterate people, the American settlers were convinced that if the common people could read and learn the Word of God for themselves, they would resist evil government. Therefore, in 1647 they passed that early public education law. That law is contained in this book The Code of 1650.
And what was the name of that first education law? It was appropriately titled, “The Old Deluder Satan Act.” That law declared:
It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues, that so that at least the true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded and corrupted with false glosses of saint-seeming deceivers; and to the end that learning may not be buried in the grave of our forefathers, in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
It is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to fifty households shall forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those that order the prudentials of the town shall appoint; provided those that send their children be not oppressed by paying much more than they can have them taught for in other towns.
And it is further ordered, that when any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university.
That law, having first set forth that the purpose of public education was to ensure that students had a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures, then required that public schools be started in each community so that American students would not merely receive a sound academic education but a sound academic education based on God’s Word. Who today…(in light of the current rantings about “separation of church and state” and “civil liberties”) would have imagined that America’s public schools were started because of the positive influence of the Bible, and used curriculum based upon the Bible."
You can read the above from the online text at the following link. Look on page 90 under the title of "SCHOOLES":
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