Happy 4th 0f July !
“Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"?
John Quincy Adams--1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts.
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Blessings,
~Myrna
I love the history you continue to share which all and it gives us true meaning to the day. Happy 4th of July to you and yours...I'll wave a sparkler at you from Washington!
ReplyDeleteGo get 'em Myrna! I just wish the gov't would get back to its roots and embrace Jesus once again.
ReplyDeleteSuch a nice post... first the vintage photo and then the quote! Happy 4th of July.
ReplyDeleteand I love that christmas tree everytime I come over here. I'm not American but love the post....HOpe your 4th of July was the best
ReplyDeleteInteresting quote. I had never heard that before. Happy 4th of July!
ReplyDeleteI never read that before, thank-you.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Ginger
Thank you for sharing this information. What a shame it isn't taught to everyone in this wonderful country.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Charlotte