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| Thoughts Across the Garden Gate
Another Inspirational - from Parson Don Farmington, Missouri - U.S.A |
| Updated: 10-October-2008
� 2008 -"Thoughts Across the Garden Gate from Parson Don" Donald R. "Don" Brown, Farmington, Missouri - U.S.A This site may be freely linked, but not duplicated in any way without permission Each devotional was written by Parson Don Website design by Marv |
| When A nation Honors God
-Part One Approximately half a century after the United States declared her independence, a Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville traveled to the U. S. to study what made America great. A critic of the political instability in Europe, de Tocqueville saw in the U. S. an opportunity to find a key with which to unlock the stifled potential in Europe. He published his findings in a two-part work called, "DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA". Here are a few of de Tocqueville's observations: "The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other." "In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country." "I sought for the key to the greatness and genius of America in her harbors. . . .; in her fertile fields and boundless forests; in her rich mines and vast world commerce; in her public schools and institutions of learning. I sought for it in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power." It is vital that we bannish, totally delete, from our current thinking, the "great wall of separation between church and state". Such concept never existed and is entirely foreign to the American Constitution. The expression was used in a letter by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association. The Colonies were still jettery, remembering the terrinany heaped on the church by the British king. Jefferson was assuring them the Constitution's Second Amendment was a wall of separation, keeping the church out of the reach of government. It is vitally urgent that a spiritual revival sweeps across America, revitalizing our churches. Of equal importance is America's return to Constitutional government. We Americans must cease voting with our pocket-books, and start voting with our hearts! At the voting booth, we must no longer ask, "What is best for me and my bank account." Rather, let us ask, "What is best for America!" .........................continued on Page 2. Just a thought from Parson Don across the Garden Gate Donald R. "Don" Brown - Farmington, Missouri - U.S.A. |
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