On NOVEMBER 18, 1807, Thomas Jefferson replied to Captain John Thomas of the Newhope Baptist Church:
"Among
the most inestimable of our blessings is that...of liberty to worship
our Creator in the way we think most agreeable in His will;
a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support."
On NOVEMBER 18, 1869, after the Civil War, the most popular preacher in America, Henry Ward Beecher, stated:
"In the unity of the nation...we hope much from religion; very little from sectarian churches;
much from the Spirit of God blessing the Truth of his Word to the hearts of individual men;
much from the individual men that are nobler than their sect;
much from free men whose adhesion to forms and ceremonies is the least part of their existence;
much from religion as it exists in its higher forms in individual nature and in public sentiment;
very little from dogmas; very little from theology as such...
Let
us implore the God of our fathers, by his own wise providence, to save
us from our wanton passions, from impertinent egotism, from pride,
arrogance, cruelty, and sensual lusts, that as a nation we may show
forth his praise in all the earth."
On
NOVEMBER 18, 1886, President Chester Arthur died. The son of a Baptist
minister from Ireland, he was an abolitionist lawyer who defended the
rights of African Americans, and the Union's Inspector General during
the Civil War.
President Chester Arthur stated October 25, 1882:
"The blessings demanding our gratitude are numerous and varied...for...moral education of our youth;
for
the influence upon the conscience of a restraining and transforming
religion...for these and for many other blessings we should give
thanks...
I do recommend...that the people, ceasing from their
daily labors...draw near to the throne of Almighty God, offering to Him
praise and gratitude for the manifold goodness which He has vouchsafed
to us."
On NOVEMBER 18, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated in Savannah, Georgia, :
"We
are celebrating the planting of the Colony of Georgia... which had its
roots in religious teachings and religious liberty, a State in which the
first Sunday School was established...
Let me...read to you a very short passage from...a great son of a great Georgia mother, Theodore Roosevelt. He said:
'Spiritually
and ethically we must strive to bring about clean living and right
thinking. We appreciate that the things of the body are important; but
we appreciate also that the things of the soul are immeasurably more
important.'"
On NOVEMBER 18, 1992,
The New York Times printed Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice's statement:
"The
less we emphasize the Christian religion the further we fall into the
abyss of poor character and chaos in the United States of America."
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On NOVEMBER 18, 1957, Julius Caesar Watts, Jr., better know as J.C. Watts, was born.
A
college and pro football player, he was a youth minister and, in 1994,
was elected to the U.S. Congress, where he was chosen House Conference
Chairman.
In response to the President's 1997 State of the Union Address, Congressman J.C. Watts stated:
"I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children.
I
was taught, in the words of Martin Luther King, to judge a man not by
the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.
And I was taught that character is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking."
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