12/16/2012
Forgive
me for such a graphic picture, but my heart cries as well for the loss
of over 50 million of our children through abortion by our own hands.
If the second most dangerous place for our children is in our schools,
the first would be in their mother's womb!
What are we becoming? What kind of people are we to be? We remove prayer from our schools and teach them they are descendants of animals and apes. We remove the 10 Commandments and tell them morality is relative. We want to free them from religious bondage to teach them safe sex and pass out condoms.
We lead by example by electing leaders who not only support such but introduce measures to expand this cultural view. We lead by example by giving our children broken homes and fulfilling our own selfish and lustful desires. We lead by example by giving our lives to this selfishness and to the acquirement of material possessions. We lead by example by telling them that by doing the same they too will be a success too.
Rev. Mathias Burnet, you spoke to the Connecticut legislature on May 12, 1803. What would you perhaps say to us now some 210 years later?
"To God and posterity you are accountable [for your rights and your rulers] . . . . Let not your children have reason to curse you for giving up those rights and prostrating those institutions which your fathers delivered to you." ~ Rev. Mathias Burnet. An Election Sermon, Preached at Hartford, on the Day of the Anniversary election, May 12, 1803 (Hartford, CT: Hudson and Goodwin, 1803). P.27.
What are we becoming? What kind of people are we to be? We remove prayer from our schools and teach them they are descendants of animals and apes. We remove the 10 Commandments and tell them morality is relative. We want to free them from religious bondage to teach them safe sex and pass out condoms.
We lead by example by electing leaders who not only support such but introduce measures to expand this cultural view. We lead by example by giving our children broken homes and fulfilling our own selfish and lustful desires. We lead by example by giving our lives to this selfishness and to the acquirement of material possessions. We lead by example by telling them that by doing the same they too will be a success too.
Rev. Mathias Burnet, you spoke to the Connecticut legislature on May 12, 1803. What would you perhaps say to us now some 210 years later?
"To God and posterity you are accountable [for your rights and your rulers] . . . . Let not your children have reason to curse you for giving up those rights and prostrating those institutions which your fathers delivered to you." ~ Rev. Mathias Burnet. An Election Sermon, Preached at Hartford, on the Day of the Anniversary election, May 12, 1803 (Hartford, CT: Hudson and Goodwin, 1803). P.27.
Mr.
Douglass, you served as a political leader both before and after the
War between the States, a most troubling time in our history, in this
time of our distress do you have any words for us?
"I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible.
It is in substance, 'Righteousness exalteth a nation; sin is a reproach to any people.' Sir, this constitutes my politics, the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics. . . . I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people" ~ Frederick Douglass. The Fredrick Douglass papers, ed. John Blassingame (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982. Vol. 2, p. 397.
"I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible.
It is in substance, 'Righteousness exalteth a nation; sin is a reproach to any people.' Sir, this constitutes my politics, the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics. . . . I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people" ~ Frederick Douglass. The Fredrick Douglass papers, ed. John Blassingame (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982. Vol. 2, p. 397.
Rev.
Grimke Sir, you witnessed our people also in a period of our history
when we were much divided and facing many challenges, what perhaps could
you say to us today?
"The Stars and Stripes, the old flag, will float . . . over all these states. . . . If the time ever comes when we shall go to pieces, it will . . . be from inward corruption, from the disregard of right principles . . . from losing sight of the fact that 'Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people' . . . . The secession of the Southern States in 1860 was a small matter with the secession of the Union itself from the great principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence, in the Golden Rule, in the Ten Commandments, and in the Sermon on the Mount.
Unless we hold and hold firmly to these great fundamental principles of righteousness . . . our Union . . . will be 'only a covenant with death and an agreement with hell' [Isaiah 28:18] If it continues to exist, it will be a curse and not a blessing." ~ Rev. Francis Grimke. From the equality of Rights for all Citizens, Black, and White, Allike, March 7, 1909.
Strange Sir that you and Mr. Douglass should use the same scripture. Thank you all for your insight, I hope our people will take them into consideration and survey your thoughts!
May God bless each of you,
David
"The Stars and Stripes, the old flag, will float . . . over all these states. . . . If the time ever comes when we shall go to pieces, it will . . . be from inward corruption, from the disregard of right principles . . . from losing sight of the fact that 'Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people' . . . . The secession of the Southern States in 1860 was a small matter with the secession of the Union itself from the great principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence, in the Golden Rule, in the Ten Commandments, and in the Sermon on the Mount.
Unless we hold and hold firmly to these great fundamental principles of righteousness . . . our Union . . . will be 'only a covenant with death and an agreement with hell' [Isaiah 28:18] If it continues to exist, it will be a curse and not a blessing." ~ Rev. Francis Grimke. From the equality of Rights for all Citizens, Black, and White, Allike, March 7, 1909.
Strange Sir that you and Mr. Douglass should use the same scripture. Thank you all for your insight, I hope our people will take them into consideration and survey your thoughts!
May God bless each of you,
David
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