Edition One --- A Foreword

One of the interesting books in my personal library is “America’s God and Country” which is an Encyclopedia Of Quotations, compiled by William J. Federer. I cannot speak for Mr. Federer but it would almost seem providential that such a compilation has been prepared because there is a group of our society that is seeking to rewrite history so it would appear that God, religion or the Bible has had no contribution whatsoever to our Nation. The mystery of this is how could anyone hold such an opinion when so many evidences are within footsteps of each other in our Nation’s capitol. Another such phenomenon is the effort of some to strike out the Holocaust as having ever occurred.

Even if all the survivors of the Holocaust were to die, and of course they will, and that personal tattoo on their forearms (an identification of their imprisonment) disappear from our view, the thousands of books, essays and articles chronicled in scrapbooks throughout the nations will not let the record of Holocaust vanish! Yet some still try to ignore the Holocaust into some limbo world. September 11, 2001 is yet another day of infamy that already some claim never happened. They say that no airplanes flew into those twin towers of the World Trade Center; they claim it was explosions, not terrorist guided airplanes. Once again, the thousands of VCR records, newsreels, newspaper photographs are the visible record that our Nation was indeed terrorized, not twice, but in four instances on that 11th day of September in 2001.

“As the Declaration of Independence was being signed by the members of the Continental Congress, August 2, 1776, Samuel Adams declared:

‘We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.’

“On October 4, 1790, Samuel Adams wrote to his cousin John Adams, who was then the Vice-President of the United States:

‘Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age, by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, of inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity and universal philanthropy, and, in subordination to these great principles, the love of their country; of instructing them in the art of self-government without which they never can act a wise part in the government of societies, great or small; in short, of leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.’ (Pages 23, 24 of America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations.)

Thus those printed words of our Founders are hereby extended yet further as evidences that religion and belief in God was a vital part of their way of life. Their personal character flaws are recorded as well, as William J. Bennett’s book, “Our Sacred Honor”, states, “The Founders certainly were no angels—often they did not live by their own advice. They themselves acknowledged that if men were angels there would be no need for government.” Do not let history be re-written to fit partisan philosophies or agendas of a God-less segment of this society.

THE WORDWRIGHT