Pray daily that we will become a Christian Nation

“There is no country in which the people are so religious as in the United States. The great number of religious societies existing in the United States is truly surprising. There are some of them for everything, for instance there are societies to distribute the Bible, to distribute tracts, to encourage religious journals, to convert, civilize, educate, to take care of their widows and orphans, to preach, extend, purify, preserve, reform the faith, to build chapels, endow congregations, support seminaries, to establish Sunday Schools, to prevent drunkenness.”Archille Murat a French Observer of America wrote in 1832.

With those good words about our nation written by a Frenchman 184 years ago I would like to share with you some words of our former Presidents of the United States.

George Washington said, “It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.”

John Adams said, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Thomas Jefferson said, “And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

John Quincy Adams said, “Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of this nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precept of Christianity?”

Now allow me to share with you some comments of Supreme Court Justices that served on the high court over the past years.

John Jay, First Chief Justice said, “The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the Word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”

Justice Jay also said, “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”

James Wilson, Original Justice of the Supreme Court said, “Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is Divine. Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other.”

Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice said, “One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law. There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundations. I really believe that Christianity is necessary to support civil society.”

Congress’ Senate Judiciary Committee report on January 19, 1853 said, “We are a Christian people not because the law demands it, not to gain exclusive benefits or to avoid legal disabilities, but from choice and education and in a land thus universally Christian, what is to be expected, what desired, but that we shall pay due regard to Christianity.”

It would be wonderful if our great nation would return to the Christian principles that it was established on. Pray with me daily that this will happen when our next President and members of Congress are elected.

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