Funny how no one made a Happy Fourth of July folder.
In light of current events: Sad! Just sayin'
America - Founded on Biblical Precepts
(READER): We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
(CONG.): Have we not all One Father? Hath not One God created us? Why do we deal treacherously, a man against his brother?
(READER): We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish a Constitution for the United States of America.
(CONG.): Justice, justice shalt thou pursue, that thou mayest live in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
(READER): Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
(CONG.): Proclaim liberty throughout the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof.
(READER): Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.... Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
(CONG.): It hath been told thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord doth require of thee: Only to do justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.
(READER): For happily the government of the United States which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
(CONG.): Righteousness maketh a nation great, but sin is a reproach to any people.We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
(READER): Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
(CONG.): With firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
(READER): Let justice well up as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
(CONG.): In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world; freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world; freedom from want which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world; freedom from fear, which means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor -- everywhere in the world.
(READER): And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid.
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That post put a lump in my throat and sent chills down my back. Thank you and Amen.