Dear friends:

Have a happy and blessed Fourth of July Weekend!

Let us remember and give thanks to our Founding Fathers whom God used to give us this nation, the vast majority of whom honored Him.

Below are some notable quotes from a few of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.  Those people would have driven the ACLU and the secularists absolutely insane (or sane).

For my series of eight fact-filled essays on America's Christian Heritage (and more quotes), and what has gone wrong, see my Web site at http://www.choicesforliving.com/spirit/part4/america.htm

Jim
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Roger Sherman, Signer of the Declaration of Independence:

"I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the same in substance equal in power and glory. That the Scriptures of the Old and New testaments are a revelation from God and a complete rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy Him…. I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy and immediately taken to glory: 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."

John Witherspoon, Signer of the Declaration of Independence:

"I shall now conclude my discourse by preaching this Savior to all who hear me, and entreating 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."

"Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country."

John Quincy Adams, sixth President

"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: It connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government and the principles of Christianity."

"The birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked to the birthday of the Savior . . . the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth . . . it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity."

Samuel Adams, signer of the Declaration of Independence:

"May every citizen in the army and in the country have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind and an impression of the declaration recorded in the Bible, ‘Him that honoreth me I will honor, but he that despiseth me shall be lightly esteemed’ [1 Samuel 2:30]."

"The Supreme Ruler of the Universe, having been pleased in the course of His providence to establish the independence of the United States of America...we ought to be led by religious feelings of gratitude and to walk before Him in all humility according to His most holy law...That with true repentance and contrition of heart we may unitedly implore the forgiveness of our sins through the merits of Jesus Christ and humbly supplicate our heavenly Father." (in proclaiming a Day of Public Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, 1795)

Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence:

"Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments."

Benjamin Rush, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (and father of the public school system):

"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!"

 

(Amen, brother Ben!)