GIVING THANKS TO GOD AND HONORING OUR FOREFATHERS
The Pilgrims believed that religious liberty preceded civil liberty
11-27-2024
The National Monument of our Forefathers was dedicated in 1889. Upon this dedication, William C.P. Breckinridge stated, “ ...in the name of the Fathers we dedicate this monument and ourselves. For ages it will stand the enduring witness to grave and resolute conduct; to privations and sacrifices; to thrift and frugality; to domestic love and unaffected piety; to rectitude in thought as well as in life; to earnest principles and true beliefs; to Christian fidelity and faith... here and now we rededicate ourselves to a more fervent love for man as man; to a braver allegiance to truth for truth’s sake, and this ‘in the name of God’ and Amen and Amen!”
The monument came to be 269 years after the pilgrims arrived and now there has been another 135 years since that monument was dedicated. This nation has done a lot of growing, and we’ve been through many wars, including a civil war. Is there anything that we can point to that would be worthy of a monument such as the Faith Monument?
https://400th.org/blog/americas-covenant-of-liberty-and-the-forefathers-monument
In the last few years, we’ve witnessed the destruction and removal of many historical statues. In January 2023, New York erected a new statue supposedly representing women’s rights and honoring the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg for her stand on abortion. Abortion, in my opinion, has demeaned women and devalued life. The statue is satanic looking and puts our nation to shame. https://www2.cbn.com/news/us/ny-elevates-horned-statue-paying-homage-rbg-and-abortion-critics-say-it-looks-satanic
There are many in our nation and high up within our government, who refuse our Christian heritage, and would like nothing more than to remove it, and us, completely.
President Barack Hussein Obama made the comment that, “We are not a Christian nation, and we never were a Christian nation.” Is he completely ignorant of history or simply an anti-American and anti-Christian advocate?
The Faith Monument is significant proof that our “beginning” as a nation was grounded in the Christian faith, and by some very exceptional people! If you remember, Obama did not believe in American Exceptionalism. The Pilgrims in 1620, landed on Plymouth Rock seeking religious freedom and planned to establish such in a new world, America. Eventually our Founding Fathers declared Independence from that “old world and the king,” and America became a New Nation - The United States of America.
There is a war going on now in America. It is a war between good and evil.
Dr. Paul Jehle has observed: “The Pilgrims believed that religious liberty preceded civil liberty. The first was internal, the second external. Religious liberty gave rise to civil liberty in society.”
Would it not be a logical conclusion that today we seem to have very little civil liberty in America because we no longer cling to our Religious Liberty?
Visit 400th.org https://400th.org/blog/americas-covenant-of-liberty-and-the-forefathers-monument
The 400th is a project of The Leyden Preservation Group, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
Teach the history of this great nation’s beginnings. Teach about those who were most definitely the exemplification of American Exceptionalism to your children and grandchildren. While not perfect people, the Pilgrims are the true founders and heroes of America!
American Exceptionalism! It is real!
Dr. Charles Wolfe stated, The Pilgrims were the very embodiment of “American exceptionalism” - their lives demonstrated an exceptionally clear understanding of and deep commitment to the principles of liberty with order, tangibly expressed in spiritual, religious, political, and economic self-government under a written constitution: a prototype of “one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.” Dr. Charles Wolfe was a founder of the Plymouth Rock Foundation and an executive committee leader for the Plymouth 350th anniversary celebration.
Salt and Light
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 5:13-16 KJV
The Pilgrims and our Founding Fathers believed this nation should be the salt of the earth. Without Faith in our God, we have lost our savor. Without America’s shining light unto the world, the world is in chaos.
“Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah have all the praise!” ~William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.” Matthew 5:14 KJV
The war between good and evil is evident in the heinous crimes we have witnessed in the past years and presently. College students protesting and calling for the annihilation of the Jewish sect of people, is proof of evil in a nation once founded in Christianity. The LEFT ridicule colonialism yet they colonialize their own hate and violence.
Once attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville, “America is great because America is good. And if she ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
All that is good comes from God! Without God, America is not good and will not be great. We cannot make America great again until we first Make America Godly Again and Bring America Home to our foundation which landed on Plymouth Rock by the great providence of our God!
Upon the dedication of the Faith Monument, those Americans rededicated their lives. If we Americans today would rededicate our lives to God, perhaps our next monument will honor “America’s Returning.”
Happy Thanksgiving!
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