Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Plucking the Eagle's Wings

D.C., The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904, Vol. XIV, p. 385). "I think the Christian religion is a Divine institution; and I pray to God that I may never forget the precepts of His religion or suffer the appearance of an inconsistency in my principles and practice" James Iredell, U.S. Supreme Court Justice under President George Washington (Source: The Papers of James Iredell , James Iredell, Don Higginbotham, editor, Raleigh: North Carolina Historical Commission, 1976, Vol. 1, p. 11). "My only hope of salvation is in the infinite, transcendent love of God manifested to the world by the death of His Son upon the Cross. Nothing but His blood will wash away my sins. I rely exclusively upon it. Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly!" Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration (Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush , Benjamin Rush, George W. Corner, editor, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948, p. 166). "I believe that there is only one living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the same in substance, equal in power and glory. That the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God and a complete rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy Him" Roger Sherman, signer of both the Declaration and the Constitution (Source: The Life of Roger Sherman, Lewis Henry Boutell, A. C. McClurg and Co., 1896, pp. 272 273). "I shall now entreat ... you in the most earnest manner to believe in Jesus Christ, for `there is no salvation in any other.' [Acts 4:12] ... [I]f you are not clothed with the spotless robe of His righteousness, you must forever perish." John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration (Source: The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon , John Witherspoon, Edinburgh, J. Ogle, 1815, Vol. V, pp. 276, 278, from "The Absolute Necessity of Salvation Through Christ," on January 2, 1758)

America's Role as a Lighthouse to the World

America has been instrumental in carrying the light of the Gospel of Christ to the darkest corners of the earth. But America has

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