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Marcie

  A City on a Hill

    This following article was taken from Above Rubies e-newsletter. 

“PRAYER CONCERN:

     On September 25th there will be a national prayer gathering of Muslims on the west front of the U.S. Capitol Building. They are expecting at least 50,000 to attend from mosques all across  America. They’ll gather to pray from 4:00 am until 7:00 pm. The
gathering will take place by the site where U.S Presidents have been inaugurated since 1981. The organizers say that it was Obama’s inauguration speech in January and his speech broadcast from Egypt in June that gave them the idea for this prayer gathering on Capitol Hill. 

     One of the Sheikhs who is leading the gathering, stated, “Muslims should march on the White House. We are going to the White House so that Islam will be victorious, Allah willing, and the White House will become into a Muslim house.”

 The website is www.islamoncapitolhill.com

 …  Notice the words at the end:

“ OUR TIME HAS COME!”

Marcie   

    “¹⁴ if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. ”

II Chronicles 7:14

My friend, Kathy, over at Teachinggoodthings.com, had a great link to a Quiz on the Constitution, so google on over to

TEST YOUR CONSTITUTION IQ

and have a little fun.  This site has lots of information. 

     Last week, my family watched a seminar from Ken Hamm of Answers in Genesis about the State of the Nation.   My daughter and I heard Ken Hamm speak at a Homeschool Convention in Mississippi a few years ago.  He is a very funny man!  We laughed so hard we hurt! Well, this seminar was not funny, but it is full of truth.  It is kind of lenghty, so set aside some time, gather your family around, watch and be reminded of our foundations.  

 http://www.answersingenesis.org/media/video/ondemand/state-of-the-nation/state-of-the-nation

As a famous lady said to me, ( a re-enactress of Stonewall Jackson’s wife) “Never give quarter to the enemy”. 

Lord, may we be found faithful.

Marcie

 Posts from Constitutions of original 13 colonies, completed:

Georgia Constitution of 1777:                  

states “Every officer of the state shall be liable to be called to account by the House of Assemble,” and that every member of that House “shall be of the Protestant religion.”

South Carolina Constitution of 1778:      

Directed its Legislature to “choose by ballot from among themselves, or from among the people at large, a governor and commander-in-chief, a lieutenant-governor, and privy council, all of the Protestant religion.”  Also that no man was eligible to a seat in the Legislature “unless he be of the Protestant religion”.

Massachusetts Contitution of 1780:          

“That the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion, and morality; and as these can not be generally diffused through a community but by the institution of the public worship of God and of public instruction in religion, and morality:  therfore, to promote their happiness, and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this commonwealth have a right to invest their Legislature with power to authorize and require, and the Legislature shall from time to time authorize and require the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the institution of the public worship of God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily: and the people of this commonwealth have also a right to, and do, invest their Legislature with authority to enjoin upon all the subjects an attentance upon the instructions of the public teachers aforesaid, at stated times and seasons, if there be any one whose instructions they can conscientiously attend;” and goes on to add that every person “chosen governor, lieutenant-governor, senator, or representative, and accepting the trust’” shall solemnly affirm that he “believes the Christian religion, and has a firm persuasion of its truth.”

                                     These were our Founding Fathers. 

Tomorrow, I’ll post a fun link to a constitutional quiz and more thoughts about our country.

Marcie           

Many of these constitutions speak of the Protestant religions.  These documents are not intended today to be anti-Catholic.   Just to put this into historical perspective, Protestants had been  under terrible persecution for centuries.    That is why the Puritans and Pilgrims came here.  Our Founding Fathers knew this and knew they were not just signing a document saying they wanted to govern themselves.  They were signing a document that amounted to their own death warrant.  Please read A Tale of Two Cities and Foxes Book of Martyrs for a real look at the kinds of torture commonly used during this time period.

A little personal note:  In my mother’s family history, one of our forefather’s in Ga. was going to arrest someone for practicing the baptist religion.  ( This was when Georgia was still under the King).  The arrest never happened, but the adoption of my forefather by the King of Kings did!

To continue the Constitutions:

Delaware:           

Required all persons elected or appointed to the Legislature to make this declaration: “I do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ his Son, and the Holy Ghost , one God, blessed forevermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriputres of the Old and New Testaments to be given by divine inspiration.”

North Carolina:            

Provision declared “No person who should deny the being of God, or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine authority of either the Old or New Testament, or who should hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the state, should be capable of holding any office or place of trust in the civil government of the state.”

Tomorrow, I’ll  post parts from the  final contitutions of the original 13 colonies.

       Today we celebrate the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, but what exactly were our forefathers making a declaration against and what were the making a declaration in support of?  Was it merely about taxation as our government books teach?

     As a homeschooling mom, I have had the great privilege of teaching from my choice of books, many being biographical.  Frankly, I was left feeling cheated, and deceived by my government history texts.  Ours is a rich history.  When the Puritans and Pilgrims came here to establish “A city on a hill”, it was for the Lord.  When our Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence,  they understood that the form of government they were establishing could ONLY be preserved by a people whose God is the Lord, thus the Committee on Intercolonial Correspondence stated “No king but King Jesus”.

     These are our foundations.  For decades, schools have been teaching that one form of government is not necessarily any better than another; it is just an alternative.  In the days of King Josiah, the laws of Israel were found.  The people did not even know they were missing.   Today, our constitutions have been lost, and our people do not know it.  We must rediscover our foundations.  We were a set apart nation.  That is why we were blessed by God, the God of the Bible. 

     Over the next few days I will be posting excerpts from the Constitutions of the original 13 colonies.  These were taken from a book entitled Christianity and the American Commonwealth by Charles B. Galloway.  This material was originally delivered in Chaple at Emory College, March 1898.

New Jersey Consitution of 1776:       

” All persons professing a belief in the faith of any Protestant sect, and who shall demean themselves peaceably under the government, should be capable of being members of either branch of the Legislature, and should fully and freely enjoy every privilege and immunity enjoyed by other, their fellow citizens”  Also guaranteed to citizens the “inestimable privilege of worshiping Almighty God in a manner agreeable to the dictates of his conscience”.  (It was understood who Almighty God was).

New Hamphire Constitution:    

Affirmed “that morality and piety, rightly grounded on the evangelical principles, would give the best and greatest security to government,” and “that the knowledge of these was most likely to be propagated by the institution of the public worship of the Deity, and the public instruction in morality and religion.  The towns were authorized to make provision for the maintenance of “public Protestant teaches of piety, religion, and morality.”