“The remarkable Christian character of the Americans preceding and during the Revolution suggests that we look for its cause, that lessons for today can be learned. We find this cause rooted in the importance given the home and the church, with education supporting both.”   ~ Vern Hall

…What could they have done but for the home-sentiment to which they appealed, and which sustained them in the hour of trial and success?… The feeling which wrought thus powerfully in the community depended, in a great part, upon the women… there was time for the nurture, in the domestic sanctuary, of that love of civil liberty, which afterwards kindled into a flame, and shed light on the world. The talk of matrons, in American homes, was of the people’s wrongs, and the tyranny that oppressed them, till the sons who had grown to manhood, with strengthened aspirations towards a better state of things, and views enlarged to comprehend their invaded rights, stood up prepared to defend them to the utmost. Patriotic mothers nursed the infancy of freedom. Their counsels and their prayers mingled with the deliberations that resulted in a nation’s assertion of its independence. They animated the courage, and confirmed the self-devotion of those who ventured all in the common cause. They frowned upon instances of coldness or backwardness; and in the period of deepest gloom, cheered and urged onward the desponding. They willingly shared inevitable dangers and privations, relinquished without regret prospects of advantage to themselves, and parted with those they loved better than life, not knowing when they were to meet again.

How the influence of women was estimated by John Adams, appears from one of his letters to his wife, “I think I have some times observed to you in conversation, that upon examining the biography of illustrious men, you will generally find some female about them, in the relation of mother, or wife, or sister, to whose instigation a great part of their merit is to be ascribed…”

The venerable Major Spalding of Georgia, writes, in reply to an application to him for information respecting the revolutionary women of his state: “I am a very old man, and have read as much as any one I know, yet I have never known, and never read of one—no, not one!—who did not owe high standing, or a great name, to his mother’s blood, or his mother’s training. My friend Randolph said he owed every thing to his mother. Mr. Jefferson’s mother was a Randolph, and he acknowledged that he owed every thing to her rearing. General Washington, we all know, attributed every thing to his mother…”

From all portions of the country thus rose the expression of woman’s ardent zeal. Under accumulated evils the manly spirit that alone could secure success, might have sunk but for the firmness and intrepidity of the weaker sex. It supplied every persuasion that could animate to perseverance, and secure fidelity…

~ Excerpts from The Women of the American Revolution, by Elizabeth F. Ellet*, New York, 1849

~ Verna M. Hall, Excerpts from The Christian History of the American Revolution: Consider and Ponder (San Francisco: Foundation for American Christian  Education, 1976), 72–75.

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Article II Overview

Today we’re looking at Article II from The Making of America by Cleon Skousen. If you’ve been with us since the beginning, you know that it’s taken us about 2 1/2 years to get through Article I. That’s because Article I is more than half of the Constitution! Isn’t that fascinating?

As we’re covering the Executive Branch, we see the president has six areas of Constitutional responsibility:

1. He’s the President..
2. He’s the commander in chief over the military.
3. He’s the chief executive officer over the whole Executive branch.
4. He’s oversees foreign relations.
5. He’s recommends needed legislation and
6. He has power to grant reprieves and pardons.

Unfortunately over the last 100 years, we have come to expect the president to be over twenty areas of responsibility that aren’t Constitutional. These are: employment, agriculture, housing, energy, private loans, natural disasters, the welfare program, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, education, labor union management disputes, health agencies, environmental protection, federal land, and its resources, all major energy resources, regulating all United States industries, supervising all radio and television, broadcasting, monitoring food and drugs, and all different types of federal programs.

The problem with giving this much authority to one man in the executive branch is that it is unreasonably expensive. It makes government function poorly, it places too much authority on the executive department and it has fostered the Deep State to effectively administer all these things. So praise God that President Trump has said he wants to give the government back to the people. Let’s prepare ourselves so we can carry it for God’s glory, in Jesus name, Amen!(1)

1. Cleon Skousen, The Making of America. p. 508-9.

 

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