Great post! I saved a copy of the sermon.
Thanks!
The excerpt provided in this thread only includes his "warning" about the dastardly challenges to the founding ideas being proposed by F. E. Abbott and his fellow "liberals" of the time.
His tracing of the history of nations, and especially, his documentation of his restatement of the ideas underlying America's Constitution and State Constitutions, is remarkable and puts the lie to what "liberals" and "progressives" have, for over 100 years, attempted to erase from the minds of citizens, as they have censored the nation's textbooks and public discourse of such documentation.
I came across the Centennial Sermone several years ago. As time goes by, it seems to take on even more significance than when I first read it.
Here is a link through which, by clicking on Arnett's name, anyone may access and read a full text version. As you can see, this alphabetical listing is only one section of the alphabet. There are other works in that Collection which could serve to correct some of the "progressive" movement's claims also.
Arnett, in his Sermon, however, provides his own documentation of the Christian foundations of the Republic, as gleaned from the writings, documents, State Constitutions, and various other means available to him, or within his own memory.
Someone on another thread last week provided the same listing of "demands" of "liberals," except the source was Disraeli, not Arnett.