Today is Monday, May 30th, 2011; Karen's Korner #2076
Happy Memorial Day!
Taken from "In God We Still Trust", a 365-day devotional by Dr. Richard G. Lee:
Religion and Democracy
circa 1831
"He who looks into the perfect law of liberty....
and is a doer of this work,
this one will be blessed."
~ JAMES 1:25
"In 1831, French nobleman Alexis de Tocqueville spent nine months traveling America, spending most of his time in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. He interviewed people from every walk of life and then shared these amazing observations in Democracy in America:
"'Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country
was the first thing that struck my attention......
In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion
and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other;
but in America I found that they were intimately united,
and that they reigned in common over the same country.....
"'There is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion
retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America....
its influence is most powerfully felt over the most
enlightened and free nation of the earth.
"'Religion in America takes no direct part in the government of society,
but it must nevertheless be regarded as the foremost of the political
institutions of that country......
"'The Americans combine the notions of Christianity
and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them
conceive the one without the other.'"
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Patriot's Prayer:
"Heavenly Father, forgive us for straying from our Christian roots.
Call us back to Your principles and the liberty we find there."
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Patriot's Promise:
"'Creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption
into the glorious liberty of the children of God' (Romans 8:21).
We do not have to live at the mercy of the corruption of this world."
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