America’s Christian tradition is undeniable since history has documented it. We should be brought back to these timeless beliefs since they are relevant to the problems facing our country right now.

The charter of Rhode Island in 1683 states “We give our bodies life, estates, and lives to the God Jesus Christ, the King of King and Lord of Lords and to all of the absolutely and complete laws He has given in His Holy Scripture.”

One of the first official actions of the president George Washington was to proclaim the first Thanksgiving Proclamation declaring that “…it is the obligation of every nation to recognize the goodness of Almighty God and to abide by his commands, to be grateful for the blessings he has given us and humblely request His protection and favour.”

Noah Webster, who wrote the first dictionary of the English language in America believed that “The moral precepts and moral principles found in the Scriptures should be the foundation of all the laws and constitutions of our civil society.”

In 1776, when John Adams signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 John Adams said “I am inclined to believe that this will be commemorated by subsequent generations as a great anniversary celebration. It is a good idea to commemorate it by naming it the Day of Deliverance, by sacred acts of worship toward God All-Powerful.”

In 1777 during the American Revolution, Bibles were out of stock because the Bibles that were previously shipped from England were stopped. An extra committee in Congress requested the shipment of 20,000 bibles that came from Holland, Scotland, and other countries to be shipped to various states.

Abraham Lincoln once said, “It is the obligation of all nations and of people, to acknowledge their dependence on the supreme authority that is God and to acknowledge the awe-inspiring truth that is revealed within the Holy Scriptures and proven by every era, that nations that are blessed only if God is God.”

On the stern of the Arabella in 1630, off in 1630 off the Massachusetts coast in 1630, John Winthrop said, “We will be an urban city on an hill. The eyes of the entire world are focused on us, which means that if we do not deal correctly with our God in the work we’ve done and force Him to withhold His assistance to us at this time We will become an untold story and a word all over the world.”

Winthrop remembered Moses his farewell to Israel in Deuteronomy 30, “Beloved, there is today before us the eternal and the ineffable as well as good and evil,”in the commandment to us today to be devoted to God the Lord our God and to love each other, to walk in His ways, and to follow His commands and ordinances and laws…But when our hearts be turned away, and we don’t obey and be enticed by the gods of other gods or gain profits will be devoted to them…we are certain to die of the blessed land…Therefore make a choice to choose life so that we and our children may be able to live.”

The President Ronald Reagan once said, “Without God, democracy will never and will not endure…If we think we’re not a One Nation under God We will be a country gone under.”

What are we able to do? In accordance with 2 Chronicles 7:14, those of us who are called by His name should be humble to pray to Him, seek His face, and repent of our wicked ways. Then He will restore our land.


Jan White has compiled a collection of her columns in her book “Everyday The Faithful Daily Life.”

The article History reaffirms the American’s Christian heritage was originally published at The Andalusia Star-News.