Christianity - Lincoln - Kennedy

In pursuit of the truth - http://cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Friday, Nov. 22, 2013

Revised and Updated, The Glory of America, Foreword by Bill Bright - Peter Marshall and David Manuel

The Glory of America: October 30:

 

"In 1892 the United States Supreme Court made an exhaustive study of the connection between Christianity and the government of the United States. After researching hundred of volumes of historical documents, the Court asserted: "these references add a volume of unofficial declaration to the mass of organic utterances that his is a religious people ... a Christian nation."

 

Similarly, in 1951, Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland ... reiterated that Americans are a "Christian people." And in 1952 , Justice William O. Douglas affirmed "we are a religious people and our institutions presuppose a Supreme Being." - Foster, Covenant, 19.

 

The Glory of America: November 19:

 

"At the new burial ground at Gettysburg on this day in 1865, the great orator Edward Everett, had just spoken for two hours. Following him, President Lincoln kept his remarks to a few minutes:

 

"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we hear highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation under God shall have there new birth of freedom - and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth." Johnson, Lincoln, 126

 

The Glory of America: November 21:

 

"On this day President Lincoln wrote to Mrs. Lydia Bixby of Boston who had lost five sons in the war:

"I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so over-whelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and last, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Your, very sincerely and respectfully,

A. Lincoln" - Lincoln, Works, VII, 116-17

 

The Glory of America: November 22:

 

On this day in 1963, President John F. Kennedy was cut down by an assassin's bullets. He had been on his way to deliver a speech that ended with these words"

"We in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we exercise our strength  with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for our time the ancient wisdom of peace on earth, goodwill toward men. That must always be our goal ... For as was written long ago, "Except the Lord keep the city, the watchmen walketh but in vain."

GEORGE H. KUBECK