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Supporters to Stage “I’m with Kim” Rally at Jail [Grayson, KY]
Liberty Counsel ^ | September 4, 2015 | lc.org

Posted on 09/04/2015 8:00:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

Grayson, KY – Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, will join supporters at a rally outside the Carter County Detention Center on Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. ET.  The “I’m with Kim” Rally is organized by Gov. Mike Huckabee. Liberty Counsel is willing to join any group that stands in support of Kim Davis.

“Not long ago 75 percent of Kentuckians passed the state’s marriage amendment. Today a Christian is imprisoned for believing what the voters affirmed, that marriage is between a man and a woman,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “Five people on the Supreme Court imposed their will on 320 million Americans and unleashed a torrent of assaults against people of faith. Kim Davis is the first victim of this tragedy.”

“I visited with Kim today, and she is good spirits,” Staver said. “I went to the jail to encourage her, but she encouraged me! Her opening and closing comment was, “All is well!”

“Kim Davis supporters have been calling, emailing, and using social media to ask, ‘What can I do to help Kim?’” Staver said. “I have already heard from pastors who are sending buses of supporters to the rally on Tuesday. If you are near Kentucky, here is a great opportunity to stand against judicial tyranny and the unlawful imprisonment of Kim. Join us on Tuesday, September 8, at 3:00 p.m.!”

                                       Tues., Sept. 8, 2015 at 3:00 PM ET

                                       Carter County Detention Center

                                       13 Crossbar Road, Grayson, KY

Liberty Counsel is an international nonprofit, litigation, education, and policy organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and the family since 1989, by providing pro bono assistance and representation on these and related topics.


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To: caww
According to the founding principles set forth in the Declaration, we the people are the final arbiters. And the same document lays out our recourse when the government we instituted becomes destructive to these principles.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Obviously, these black robed federal tyrants are working at cross purposes to the founding principles and to we the people when they overrule the laws and constitutional protections we've set up through our state legislative processes. The US Constitution clearly leaves these matters to the states and the people. Control over marriage is not an enumerated power for the feds. Never has been. We did not and do not grant our consent for the federal government to unlawfully grab these unjust powers.

61 posted on 09/05/2015 2:20:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson
Does anyone see what is really going on with the tremendous abuse and usurping of power that is has taking place in this country . That the two unelected branches the Judicial Branch and Executive Branch [only the President is voted on] and of our government are completely out of control and exercising powers that our constitution and the founders never gave them or ever intended them to have.

Now we get to the Legislative Branch the guardians of the people that where given the honor, privilege, trust and power to protect themselves their families and millions of others rights, freedoms, monies, property, hope and future.

To them and them alone was given the right to make all law and to them and them were given the control of the purse strings,the money, and the lands that belong to you, to me, to them and to each of our families. The present state we are in clearly speaks for their performance

This Branch was given another great responsibility, that of oversight and it has been AWOL in that extremely vital sworn duty since the early sixties.

They are totally responsible for keeping the other two branches in line and for the last fifty or sixty years they have ducked that responsibility and willing let and even encouraged the courts, and presidents, to make and establish abusive laws that have for all practical purpose have created a yet to be put into total effect, police state.

Instead of these Congressmen both state and federal, and conservative legal action groups people cheering her on they should be taking quick action to loudly condemn the illegal act of this judge.

He certainly does not have any constitutional power either state or federal to place a state worker in jail for not doing her job. What is the charge did he issue a warrant and who served it. He has no police force nor the power to enforce law especially state law.

You don't put people in jail for not doing a job. You fire them.

But that's not what this is about anyway. The government is using this seeming minor incident to do what they have doing with these environmental laws and hate crimes laws, that is not to protect rights of these groups but to continue in very subtle way to gain power to jail people that refuse to do what the Federal government says is law no matter how immoral , wrong , or inhuman.

This is a classic example of how people can be conditioned to do horrible things that they will swear right now that they would never do. This is how brainwashing works and is so devastatingly effective when it is done over long periods of time.

Like I said the courts / government does not care about these people's rights. What they are getting people to do, is what they say is law and right to do..

They are setting the precedent that any employee who refuse to do what they are told can be not only be fired but jailed. They are preparing the near future when the government death panels orders the hospitals staffs .nurses and doctors to kill the people who are aged, infirm or who are too much of a financial drain on the government. That is only the starting point. I guess they will sale what body parts they can and burn the rest.

This is exactly how millions of men, women and children where butchered in the most horrible fashion and the other millions of people in Hitler's Germany, people just exactly like you and me turned our heads and did and said nothing .

It's already being done in this country that I have lived in, loved and given thanks to God for.

May He have mercy on us all.

62 posted on 09/05/2015 3:19:22 AM PDT by mississippi red-neck (Free?We are the economic slaves on the corporate plantation of the world's rich elite.)
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To: caww
That's a "keeper".
63 posted on 09/05/2015 3:27:29 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: KC_Lion

Oh. So tempted to go. I’m debating on going to the Stop Iran rally in DC, and this would fall right in my driving schedule. I could hit both.

Problem is I’m a pretty antisocial person that hates crowds.


64 posted on 09/05/2015 3:43:29 AM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Crazieman
Problem is I’m a pretty antisocial person that hates crowds.

Might be a good fit if there are counter-demonstrators.

65 posted on 09/05/2015 4:33:33 AM PDT by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: catfish1957

Bttt


66 posted on 09/05/2015 5:08:31 AM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: Guenevere

The ‘Salt and Light Brigade’ is calling for supporters to be there TODAY (Saturday) at 11 a.m.


67 posted on 09/05/2015 5:15:07 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Windflier

Good job! :)


68 posted on 09/05/2015 5:20:36 AM PDT by luvie (Cruz or Lose!)
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To: Jim Robinson; All

Can anyone make some catchy “Free Kim Davis” bumper stickers? Something reminiscent of the Free Mumia or Free Nelson Mandela stickers we’ve call seen. Let’s turn the Left’s tactics against them. Maybe even a Kim Davis as Che Guevara poster ...

Then sell them and donate the money to Mrs. Davis or a church of her choice. Or to her legal team to bring a civil rights suit against the judge.


69 posted on 09/05/2015 5:20:40 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Jim Robinson

‘where is honor to be won by the soldier but in the center of the battle’
......(from my morning devotion, Charles Spurgeon)

I wept through my devotional this morning......it spoke directly to what we are facing

Decisions to be made......

God has put us where we are .....in this time.....
.....we don’t know the outcome....but He does

He calls us to be in the present.

GOD BLESS KIM DAVIS


70 posted on 09/05/2015 5:29:14 AM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: hosepipe

I am deeply troubled by this judge’s ruling of contempt, but it is way past time to bring the liberal idea of separation of church and state to an end.

My very real question is ...what happened to the 1st Amendment? You know the part about....”FREE EXERCISE THERE OF?” I know the liberals have waged the separation of church & state war for decades....well isn’t this where the it hits the fan?

Under the 1st Amendment they cannot jail Kim or anyone for practicing religious beliefs(whether they hold office or not).

And this business of the judge not fining her because it would be paid by her supporters is really none of the judge’s concern.

And if the judge was ‘afraid’ impeachment efforts would fail to remove her from office...is that really his concern too at this point?

Jail? Putting her in JAIL for contempt is actually cruel and unusual punishment, a violation of her 1st Amendment Rights.

I just do not see this any other way. The Supreme Court ruled, but how many states have made the effort to codify the ruling into their law books? Either Congress must do this or the States must do this and it must codify the ruling with how to deal with religious objectors. Because...here is the real twist...any priest, preacher, minister can be jailed for refusing to perform homosexual weddings as they are actors of the state. Even objecting judges can now be found in contempt too!

Law of the Land? So is “FREE EXERCISE THERE OF.” It is time to push this back. Those 4 words should be protecting people of all religions from this insane agenda, but they are not. Those Amendments were meant to protect We the People from the government. Not just priests or religious hospitals, churches...it was meant to protect US...the people.


71 posted on 09/05/2015 5:38:30 AM PDT by EBH (There's a sucker born every minute)
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To: who knows what evil?
Can you be in Grayson, KY today to stand up for Kim Davis?
72 posted on 09/05/2015 6:04:46 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Publius; LUV W; JustAmy; LucyT; KC_Lion

Thanks for the pings.

Marriage licensing. $tate sponsored? $ubmit and/or become incarcerated, indebted by the state or spouse.

/sarc

Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat

http://www.usdebtclock.org

Who’s in your bedroom? What’s in your wallet?

/sarc

U$$C ALERT! United $ocialists $upreme Court.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism

20. Infiltrate the press.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion.

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools…

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history…

25. Break down cultural standards of morality...

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture…

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm


73 posted on 09/05/2015 6:05:05 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Jim Robinson

Thanks for the post. Wish I could be there.


74 posted on 09/05/2015 6:08:16 AM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: Jim Robinson

See What Paris Looks Like When Angry Farmers Drive 1,700 Tractors to Town

http://news.yahoo.com/see-paris-looks-angry-farmers-drive-1-700-201414915.html

So, everyone wear black judicial robes and carry copies of the constitution?


75 posted on 09/05/2015 7:04:40 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Yep!


76 posted on 09/05/2015 7:25:54 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: mississippi red-neck
This is a classic example of how people can be conditioned to do horrible things that they will swear right now that they would never do. This is how brainwashing works and is so devastatingly effective when it is done over long periods of time.

Cf. the famous Milgram experiments. The real experiment was not on the "testees" -- who were faking -- but on the subjects to see how far they could be pushed to obey by authority figures who were urging things that were evil. It seemed for many, a white cloaked "scientist" was enough to get them to do things that bore all the signs of literal torture and killing.

77 posted on 09/05/2015 7:54:10 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Jim Robinson
As a reference, please read this post citing Psalm 2:1-3.

Additionally, the following paragraph is excerpted from the CENTENNIAL Thanksgiving Sermon, DELIVERED BY REV. B. W. ARNETT, B. D., AT ST. PAUL A. M. E. CHURCH, URBANA, OHIO 1876 - available in the "Library of Congress - Historical Collections" - "African-American Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection," 1820-1920; American Memory, Washington, DC.

This historical treasure is one which should be prominent in our national discussions, especially now, when our philosophical foundations are being challenged, and when the views of a learned man like Dr. Arnett might shed light on centuries-old ideas about America's history. His theme: Righteousness Exalteth a Nation, but Sin is a Reproach to any People."

"Withdraw from Christendom the Bible, the Church with its sacraments and ministry, and Christian morality and hopes, and aspirations for time and eternity; repeal all the laws that are founded in the Christian Scriptures; remove the Christian humanities in the form of hospitals and asylums, and reformatories and institutions of mercy utterly unknown to unchristian countries; destroy the literature, the culture, the institutions of learning, the art, the refinement, the place of woman in her home and in society, which owe their origin and power to Christianity; blot out all faith in Divine Providence, love, and righteousness; turn back every believer in Christ to his former state; remove all thought or hope of the forgiveness of sins by a just but gracious God; erase the name of Christ from every register it sanctifies—in a word annihilate all the legitimate and logical effects of Christianity in Christendom—just accomplish in fact what multitudes of gifted and learned minds are wishing and trying to accomplish by their science, philosophy, and criticism, and what multitudes of the common people desire and seek, and not only would all progress toward and unto perfection cease, but not one of the shining lights of infidelity would shine much longer. Yes, the bitterest enemies of this holy and blessed religion, owe their ability to be enemies to its sacred revelations - to the inspiration and sublimity of that faith which reflects its glories on their hostile natures. They live in the strength of that which they would destroy. They are raised to their seats of opportunity and power by the grace of Him they would crucify afresh; and is it to be thought that they are stronger than that which gives them strength? Can it be supposed that a religion which civilizes and subdues, and elevates and blesses will succumb to the enmities it may arouse and quicken in its onward march? Are we to tremble for the ark of God when God is its upholder, and protector, and preserver?” - Dr. Benjaming W. Arnett, St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Urbana, Ohio, Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon, November 1876
Dr. Arnett, an A.M.E. Minister and Ohio State Legislator, was invited to publish this remarkable sermon commemorating the Centennial of the Declaration of Independence by the following method:

To:

Rev. B. W. ARNETT, B. D.

Dear Pastor:

Will you please prepare your “Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon” for publication: together with whatever matter pertaining to the colored people of this city, you deem worth preserving.

We make this request of you, believing that the publication of such matter, will be of benefit to the present and succeeding generations.

Yours Respectfully,

J GAITER
J. DEMPCY
C. L, GANT
Trustees W. A. STILGASS, W. O. BOWLES

Urbana, O.

December 7th, 1876

J GAITER, J. DEMPCY, C. L, GANT

Trustees W. A. STILGASS, W. O. BOWLES

Yours is at hand, requesting me to prepare my "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" for publication. If you think that my words will be of any advantage to you, and those whom you have the honor of representing, I am willing to leave it to your judgement and will prepare my feeble effort for the press: hoping that, if there is nothing new in it, at least I may awaken some one to follow "the Moccasin tracks of Righteousness, and the Foot Prints of sin on the sands of time," and be better prepared for the duties they owe to themselves, their families, their country, and their God.

I am, yours,

BENJAMIN W. ARNETT

____________________

At another point in his long "Thanksgiving Sermon," Dr. Arnett made the following assertion about America and "wherein lies its greatness":

"Let us see what it is that makes us so great; wherein lies our strength. What has made us one of the greatest powers of the earth, politically and intellectually? Have we come to the conclusion that it is Righteousness that exalteth a nation? We have met to-day at the request of the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and also the Governor of our beloved State, Rutherford B. Hayes. For what? Why call us from our homes? Why come to the house of God? Why not go to the hall of mirth and to the places of amusement to-day? No that is not what they want us to do. We are commanded to go to our 'several places of worship, and there offer up thanks to Kind Providence which has brought our nation through the scenes of another year, and blessed the land with peace, plenty and prosperity.' Then as Americans we have reason to rejoice and congratulate ourselves on the greatness of our beloved country; at this the close of the first hundred years of experimental government of the people, by the people, and for the people. To be a citizen of this vast country is something, and to share in its privileges and duties is more than something." - Dr. Benjaming W. Arnett, St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Urbana, Ohio, Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon, November 1876

78 posted on 09/05/2015 7:54:21 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: PGalt
Thanks! Americans were provided another warning list of specific ways by which its Constitution's principles would/could be undermined and destroyed.

Back in 1876, a Black Minister and Ohio State Legislator, Rev. Benjamin W. Arnett, delivered the "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon," celebrating the Declaration of Independence, at St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Urbana, Ohio. The Sermon, which examined the nature of governments, and the history of nations, can be read online IN ITS ENTIRETY at the American Memory Section of the Library of Congress, in the African-American Collection. Below is a relatively small excerpt from that Sermon's conclusion. In it, Rev. Arnett warned about a movement among "liberals" to remove the ideas underlying America's founding documents. See if you don't recognize those ideas in what you have observed in recent years:

"The Danger to our Country.

"Now that our national glory and grandeur is principally derived from the position the fathers took on the great questions of right and wrong, and the career of this nation has been unparalleled in the history of the past, now there are those who are demanding the tearing down the strength of our national fabric. They may not intend to tear it down, but just as sure as they have their way, just that sure will they undermine our superstructure and cause the greatest calamity of the age. What are the demands of this party of men? Just look at it and examine it for yourselves, and see if you are willing that they shall have their way; or will you still assist in keeping the ship of state in the hands of the same crew and run her by the old gospel chart! But ye men who think there is no danger listen to the demands of the Liberals as they choose to call themselves:

"'Organize! Liberals of America! The hour for action has arrived. The cause of freedom calls upon us to combine our strength, our zeal, our efforts. These are The Demands of Liberalism:

"'1. We demand that churches and other ecclesiastical property shall no longer be exempt from just taxation.

"'2. We demand that the employment of chaplains in Congress, in State Legislatures, in the navy and militia, and in prisons, asylums, and all other institutions supported by public money, shall be discontinued.

"'3. We demand that all public appropriations for sectarian educational and charitable institutions shall cease.

"'4. We demand that all religious services now sustained by the government shall be abolished; and especially that the use of the Bible in the public schools, whether ostensibly as a text-book or avowedly as a book of religious worship, shall be prohibited.

"'5. We demand that the appointment, by the President of the United States or by the Governors of the various States, of all religious festivals and fasts shall wholly cease.

"'6. We demand that the judicial oath in the courts and in all other departments of the government shall be abolished, and that simple affirmation under the pains and penalties of perjury shall be established in its stead.

"'7. We demand that all laws directly or indirectly enforcing the observance of Sunday as the Sabbath shall be repealed.

"'8. We demand that all laws looking to the enforcement of “Christian” morality shall be abrogated, and that all laws shall be conformed to the requirements of natural morality, equal rights, and impartial liberty.

"'9. We demand that not only in the Constitution of the United States and of the several States, but also in the practical administration of the same, no privilege or advantage shall be conceded to Christianity or any other special religion; that our entire political system shall be founded and administered on a purely secular basis; and that whatever changes shall prove necessary to this end shall be consistently, unflinchingly, and promptly made.'

"'Let us boldly and with high purpose meet the duty of the hour.'

"Now we must not think that we have nothing to do in this great work, for the men who are at the head of this movement are men of culture and intelligence, and many of them are men of influence. They are led by that thinker and scholar, F. E. Abbott, than whom I know but few men who has a smoother pen, or who is his equal on the battle-field of thought. He says in an address on the duty of his leagues:

"'My answer may be a negative one to all who see nothing positive in the idea of liberty. The conviction I refer to is this: that, regarded as a theological system, Christianity is Superstition, and, regarded as an organized institution, Christianity is Slavery. The purpose I refer to is this: that, whether regarded as theological system, Christianity shall wholly cease to exercise influence in political matters. Although the national Constitution is strictly secular and non-Christian, there are many things in the practical administration of the government which violate its spirit, and constitute a virtual recognition of Christianity as the national religion. These violations are very dangerous; they are on the increase; they more and more give Christianity a practical hold upon the government; they directly tend to strengthen the influence of Christianity over the people, and to fortify it both as a theology and a church; and they are therefore justly viewed with growing indignation by liberals. Not unreasonably are they looked upon as paving the way to a formidable effort to carry the Christian Amendment to the Constitution; and the liberals are beginning to see that they must extinguish the conflagration in its commencement. I believe all this myself, with more intense conviction every day; and therefore I appeal frankly to the people to begin now to lay the foundations of a great National Party of Freedom. It is not a moment too soon. If the liberals are wise, they will see the facts as they are, and act accordingly. Not with hostility, bitterness, defiance, or anger but rather with love to all men and high faith in the beneficence of consistently republican institutions, do I urge them most earnestly to begin the work at once.'

"He acknowledges that this is a religious nation and wants all men to assist him in eliminating the grand old granite principles from the framework of our national union. Will you do it freeman; will we sell the temple reared at the cost of so much precious blood and treasure? These men would have us turn back the hands on the clock of our national progress, and stay the shadow on the dial plate of our christian civilization; they would have us call a retreat to the soldiers in the army of Christ; the banner of the cross they would have us haul down, and reverse the engines of war against sin and crime; the songs of Zion they would turn into discord, and for the harmony and the melody of the sons of God, they would give us general confusion; they would have us chain the forces of virtue and unloose the elements of vice; they would have the nation loose its moorings from the Lord of truth and experience and commit interest, morally, socially; religiously and politically to the unsafe and unreliable human reason; they would discharge God and his crew and run the ship of State by the light of reason, which has always been but a dim taper in the world, and all the foot-prints it has left are marked with the blood of men, women and children. No nation is safe when left alone with reason.

"But we have no notion of giving up the contest without a struggle or a battle. We are aware that there is a great commotion in the world of thought. Religion and science are at arms length contending with all their forces for the mastery. Faith and unbelief are fighting their old battles over again, everything that can be shaken is shaking. The foundations of belief are assaulted by the army of science and men are changing their opinions. New and starting theories are promulgated to the world; old truths are putting on new garbs. Error is dressing in the latest style, wrong is secured by the unholy alliances, changes in men and things, revolution in church and state, Empires are crumbling, Kingdoms tottering; everywhere the change is seen. In the social circle, in the school house, in the pulpit and in the pews. But amid all the changes and revolutions there are some things that are unchangeable, unmovable and enduring. The forces that underline the vital power of Christianity are the same yesterday, to-day, to-morrow and forever more. They are like their God, who is omnipotent, immovable and eternal, and everywhere truth has marched it has left its moccasin tracks.

"The Conclusion of the Whole Matter.We have patiently tried to examine the record of the nations of antiquity and learn the cause of their decay and decline, their fall, why their early death; and why so many implements of destruction around and about their tombs, and everywhere, in the silent streets, mouldering ruins, tottering columns, mouldy and moist rooms, and the united voice from the sepulcher of the dead past is, "sin is a reproach to any people." We see it written on the tombs of the Kings, and engraven on the pages of time, "sin is a reproach to any people." These are the principles of governments, Right and wrong; and the people who are the advocates of Right have bound themselves together and by their united effort they have brought light out of darkness and forced strength out of weakness.

"We as a nation have a grand and glorious future before us. The sun of our nation is just arising above the horizon and is now sending his golden rays of peace from one end of the land to the other. The utmost extremities of the members of the body politic are warm and in motion by the commercial and financial activities of the land. Her face is destined to blush with beauty when peace and justice shall be enthroned. The grand march of progress shall mark her in her onward advancement in moral strength, intellectual brilliancy, and political power. Then we can say that we give to every man, woman and child the benefit of our free institutions, giving all the benefits of our common school and the freedom to worship God under their own vine and fig tree. Then will we see written, on the banner of our free, redeemed and disenthralled country, the sublime words written, not in the blood of men, but in the sun-light of truth, that "Righteousness exalteth a nation." It will fall like the morning dew on the lowly; it will descend like the showers of May on the poor; and like the sun it will shine on the good and bad, dispensing from the hand of plenty the blessings of a government founded on the principle of justice and equality.

"Standing on the threshold of the second century of the nation's life, with the experience of the past lying at our feet, we are saluted by the shout of triumph from the millions who left their homes and business and attended the Great Exposition of the skill and genius of the world, collected at Philadelphia. We were permitted to receive the greetings from the oldest to the youngest nation of the earth. Egypt and the United States clasped hands over the waste of 5,000 years, and lay their treasures at the feet of our civilization. The material, intellectual and mechanical deterioration of the one, and the unprecedented progress of the other, stand in great contrast; in all that makes the nation great,—morally, religiously and socially, the young nation is ahead.

"Following the tracks of righteousness throughout the centuries and along the way of nations, we are prepared to recommend it to all and assert without a shadow of doubt, that "Righteousness exalted a nation"; but on the other hand following the foot-prints of sin amid the ruins of Empires and remains of cities, we will say that "sin is a reproach to any people." But we call on all American citizens to love their country, and look not on the sins of the past, but arming ourselves for the conflict of the future, girding ourselves in the habiliments of Righteousness, march forth with the courage of a Numidian lion and with the confidence of a Roman Gladiator, and meet the demands of the age, and satisfy the duties of the hour. Let us be encouraged in our work, for we have found the moccasin track of Righteousness all along the shore of the stream of life, constantly advancing, holding humanity with a firm hand. We have seen it “through” all the confusion of rising and falling States, of battle, siege and slaughter, of victory and defeat; through the varying fortunes and ultimate extinctions of Monarchies, Republics and Empires; through barbaric irruption and desolation, feudal isolation, spiritual supremacy, the heroic rush and conflict of the Cross and Crescent; amid the busy hum of industry, through the marts of trade and behind the gliding keels of commerce.”

"And in America, the battle-field of modern thought, we can trace the foot-prints of the one and the tracks of the other. So let us use all of our available forces, and especially our young men, and throw them into the conflict of the Right against the Wrong.

"Then let the grand Centennial Thanksgiving song be heard and sung in every house of God; and in every home may thanksgiving sounds be heard, for our race has been emancipated, enfranchised and are now educating, and have the gospel preached to them!

"Sons of freedom, sing the glad hymns of praise on the Western plains! Daughters of sorrow shout the joyful tidings amid the savannahs of the South-land! Proclaim it on the Atlantic's western stand and declare it on the slopes of the Pacific! Humble followers of the Son of Mary, chant the eternal truth in the temple of the Most High, that “Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”

"We invite every nation, kindred, tongue and people, to come to our land. Come from the bogs of Ireland; come from the dykes of Holland; come from the mountains of Switzerland; and from the sunny plains of Italy; and enjoy a government made for man! Come from the jungles of Africa or Egypt, the university of the infant world; come from Asia the cradle of humanity; come and bring your gifts from the Islands of the South Sea and spice land! Come ye men of every clime and race and see a nation founded in Righteousness, guarded by Justice, and supported by truth and equity, and defended by God!

"When thus united in one grand commonwealth of nationalities the universal prayer will be:

"Show us our Aaron, with his rod of flower!
Our Miriam, with her timbrel soul in tune!
And call some Joshua, in spirits power,
To praise our sun of strength at point of noon.
God of our fathers! over sand and sea,
Still keep our struggling footsteps close to thee." - (End of Excerpt from "Righteousness Exalteth a Nation, but Sin is a Reproach to Any People")

So said Rev. Benjamin Arnett in 1876. Where is the leader who will declare these things today? Arnett, the learned statesman and minister, chose as his theme, "Righteousness Exalteth a Nation, but Sin is a Reproach to Any People."

Might such outspoken thoughts enlighten the minds of Americans today as they discuss the topic of this thread?

79 posted on 09/05/2015 8:02:26 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Cold Heat

Interesting.

I stopped going to Starbucks because they priced their coffee beyond what I was willing to pay.

Don’t get me wrong, I can easily afford the price increase.

The Lord words in mysterious ways.


80 posted on 09/05/2015 8:09:11 AM PDT by stylin_geek (Never underestimate the power of government to distort markets)
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