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Thanksgiving Proclamations by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Roosevelt, & others - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 27, 2024 • & others • Jefferson • Lincoln • Madison • Roosevelt • Thanksgiving Proclamations by Washington

Traitor Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point was thwarted. The Continental Congress proclaimed a Day of Thanksgiving, October 18, 1780: "In the late remarkable interposition of His watchful providence, in the rescuing the person of our Commander-in-Chief and the army from imminent dangers, at the moment when treason was ripened for execution ... it is therefore recommended ... a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer ... to confess our unworthiness ... and to offer fervent supplications to the God of all grace ... to cause the knowledge of Christianity to spread over all the earth."

"Squanto ... a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation"-Pilgrim Governor William Bradford - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 26, 2024 • "Squanto ... a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation"-Pilgrim Governor William Bradford

Governor Bradford wrote: "Squanto was a native of these parts, and had been one of the few survivors of the plague hereabouts.

He was carried away with others by one Hunt, a captain of a ship, who intended to sell them for slaves in Spain ..."

William Brewster & How Pilgrim "Covenant" twisted into "Social Contract," then Socialism - American Minute with Bill Federer

November 26, 2024 • " then Socialism • William Brewster & How Pilgrim "Covenant" twisted into "Social Contract

In recapping:

Pilgrims had a covenant where they cared for each other because each person was personally accountable to God;

Covenant turned into social contract during the Age of Enlightenment, with God being distant and uninvolved -- an impersonal force;

Social contract with a distant God turned into social contract with NO God during the French Revolution;

In the 19th century, social contract with NO God turned into socialism, where the state is god.

John Knox (c.1514-November 24, 1572)

November 25, 2024

John Knox (c.1514-November 24, 1572) was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland. To appreciate the significance of John Knox, the historical setting of Europe must be explained. The King of France, Francis I, caused a scandal in Europe by making an alliance with Muslim Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent against Italy, Spain and England. Francis I ordered the punishment of religious dissidents known as Waldensians. Over the next century, religious wars between Catholics and Protestants resulted in tragic atrocities. Lorenzo de' Medici, to whom Niccolò Machiavelli dedicated his notorious book, The Prince, 1515, had his daughter, Catherine de' Medici, marry the next...

Ambroise Pare' (1510-December 20, 1590)

November 25, 2024

Ambroise Pare' (1510-December 20, 1590) was a pioneer French surgeon, who greatly raised the standard of surgery. Rising to fame as a field surgeon in the French army, he discarded the common practice of cauterization, (using hot irons and boiling oils in the sealing of wounds), in favor of cleansing wounds with ointments and performing ligatures, surgically tying off major arteries. Ambroise Pare' was so successful that he was appointed to the court and served four different kings. The favorite saying of Ambroise Pare' was: <I treated him, God cured him.> 1510AP001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All...