Henry Van Dyke,The First Christmas Tree, 1906, of Saint Boniface - Wynfred chopped down Thor's oak tree: "''Bring the axes' ... they grasped the axe-helves and swung the shining blades ... A strong, whirling wind ... gripped the oak ... Backward it fell ... crashing as it split asunder ..." 'And here.' said he, as his eyes fell on a young fir-tree, standing straight and green ... Let us call it the tree of the Christ-child ..."
Franklin D. Roosevelt promised, September 11, 1940: "I stand, with my party ... on the platform ... adopted in Chicago ... It said: 'We will not participate in foreign wars, and we will not send our Army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas, EXCEPT IN CASE OF ATTACK.'"
In 17th century England, John Bunyan was in a farm house near Bedford, England, when it was raided by the police.He was bound, arrested, and dragged away, all because he was having an unauthorized religious meeting and for preaching without the permission of the government.
The first Europeans to explore the northern Mississippi,Jacques Marquette gave his account in Voyage et De'couverte de Quelques Pays et Nations de l'Amerique Septemtrionale (translated 1852, The Jesuit Relations, Volume LIX): "We came to ... the Folle Avoine (Menominee). I entered their river to go and visit these people to whom we preached the Gospel ... in consequence of which, there are several good Christians among them ... I told ... of my design to ... discover those remote nations, in order to teach them the mysteries of our holy religion ..."
