"No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Divine Hand in the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.  Every step by which they have advanced to the status of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.  We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself has ordained."  

Stop and think, America, about these words of our first President.  Washington recognized clearly God's Hand in our founding and, if you will,  "prophesied" our demise if we turn away from God and His Word.   It is also extremely significant that George Washington is the only President in our history to have taken his oath of office with his hand on an OPEN Bible....opened to the pages of Deuteronomy 28, which outlines the blessings for obeying God's commandments and the curses that come on those who don't.

During the Constitutional Convention, the same man said this:  "If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work?  Let us raise a standard to which the wise
and the honest can repair.  The event is in the hand of God."  The delegates to the Constitutional Convention determined to form a government that would serve the best interests of the people rather
than cater to their fleeting whims.

A few years later, President John Adams said this:  "Our constitution was made only for a moral and righteous people.  It is wholly inadequate for the governing of any other."   In more recent times,
President Harry S. Truman declared:  "The fundamental basis of our nation's laws were give to Moses on Mt. Sinai."

What would these men say today about

• an America in which God is not welcome in public institutions;
• an America in which U.S. military veterans wander homeless in the streets while a known serial
  adulterer sleeps in the White House for 8 years; 
• an America which was shocked by the explicit details of the Starr Report but sympathetic to the man whose activities were described; 
• an America where the word "tolerant" has come to mean "indifferent" to moral and biblical standards and "intolerant" describes those who still believe that family, morality and integrity and the standards of God and His Word are still - and will ever be - valid, as Truman professed just fifty some years ago; 
• an America in which the Ten Commandments may not be displayed in public unless there is also a disclaimer disavowing them; 
• an America that in the name of "freedom" has murdered in the womb thirty-five million, two hundred seventy three thousand, seven hundred and ninety two American citizens, along with the contributions they may have made to this society and the world.
  

These were not like the army veterans who put themselves on the front lines of war zones to preserve America's freedom. These were citizens, arbitraily murdered for the sake of "convenience."   Some
supporters of abortion have suggested that it is better never to be born than to be born into poverty and deprivation.  To that remark, I would simply reply that the generation of recent times that has
earned the nickname of "The Greatest Generation of Americans" lived through two World Wars and the Great Depression.  Why not ask them if it would have been better not to be born?  Or was it better to become heroes because of what they endured?

History again and again shows that it is those who know how to sacrifice and give their lives to the causes of true freedom, morality and justice who become great; not the self-indulgent.
During our 225 years, the United States has fought the Revolutionary War,

• the War of 1812,
• the Mexican War,
• the Civil War,
• the Spanish-American War,
• World Wars I and II,
• Korea,
• Vietnam and the
  
• Gulf War. 

The Defense Department puts the fatality figure for all of those wars at 1,178,863 lives....almost 1.2 million.   What did they die for?