These fundamental objects of the Constitution are in perfect
harmony with the revealed objects of the Christian religion.
Union, justice, peace, the general welfare, and the blessings of civil and religious liberty, are the objects of Christianity, and always secured under its practical and beneficent reign.
The state must rest upon the basis of religion, and it must
preserve this basis, or itself must fall. But the support that
religion gives to the state will obviously cease the moment religion loses its hold upon the popular mind.
This is a Christian nation, first in name, and secondly because of the many and mighty elements of a pure Christianity which have given it character and shaped its destiny from the beginning. It is preeminently the land of the Bible, of the Christian Church, and of the Christian Sabbath……..
The chief security glory of the United States of America has
been, is now, and will be forever, the prevalence and domination of the Christian faith.
( From the book, “The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of United States.” By Benjamin Franklin Morris)
may you and yours have a blessed 4th – thank you again the lesson/reminder now to get this back in schools.