When Americans were still British citizens before the Revolution, it had been illegal to print English-language Bibles in America, but with the final American victory over the British at Yorktown, that policy was terminated. Robert Aitken, a local Philadelphia printer, therefore approached Congress, seeking permission to print an English language Bible on his presses, [...]
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Silas Deane, also a member of that Congress, declared that it was “a prayer . . . worth riding one hundred mile to hear” 3 (i.e., that it was worth spending three days on horseback to arrive in time for that prayer), and that as a result of that prayer, “even Quakers shed tears.” 4 [...]
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Does America really have a Godly heritage? It definitely does, and abundant proof of this fact is available in tens of thousands of historic documents. In fact, copious evidence is readily visible in a consideration of the individuals and incidents in and around just one small building: Independence Hall in Philadelphia – the birthplace [...]
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Yet many Americans today, including many Christians, have fallen into believing that Christians should not be involved in civil government – that there should be some sort of a compartmentalization – that faith should be kept in one arena, real life in another, and the two should never meet. The Bible does not teach that; [...]
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