HISTORIC BELIEFS ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

 HISTORIC BELIEFS ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWWCINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM - TUES. NOV. 3, 2020

 

CALENDAR NOV. 1 - 3, 2020 - "THE GLORY OF AMERICA" FOREWORD BY BILL BRIGHT,

BY PETER MARSHALL AND DAVID MANUEL, 1999

 

1. As we approach our national election day, we need to pay heed to these words of Charles Finney, America's great 19th century evangelist:

 

"The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics, or the Lord will curse them ... God cannot sustain this free and blessed country, which we love and pray for, unless the Church will take right ground. Politics are a part of religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part their duty to God." Finney, Lectures, 297

 

 

2. Like Charles Finney, Samuel Adams felt that the Christian must take an active interest - and if called to, an active role - in the governance of the Republic.

 

"He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries to promote its virtue and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man ... The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become virtuous people." Hall, Christian History, 364b

 

3. In 1777, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, John Jay expressed his concern that it was the duty of men of faith to become actively involved in their government:

 

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

 

 

George H. Kubeck,

 

    President Obama said we are not a Christian nation, however the Supreme Courts begs to disagree.

 

"On October 30, 1892, the United States Supreme Court made an exhaustive study of the connection between Christianity and the government of the United States. After researching hundreds of volumes of historical documents, the Court asserted: "these references add a volume of unofficial declaration to the mass of organic utterances that this is a religious people ... a Christian nation."

 

Similarly, in 1931, Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland ... reiterate that Americans are a "Christian nation." And in 1952m Justice William O. Douglas affirmed "we are a religious people and our institutions presupposes a Supreme Being."  Foster, Covenant, 19.