Hosier's sermon "The Barren Fig Tree," preached in 1781, was the first sermon by a black preacher that was copied down and printed. Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, exclaimed that Harry Hosier preached the greatest sermon he had ever heard.
"Communism ... has infiltrated into positions of public trust and responsibility -- into journalism, the press, the radio and the school. It seeks through covert manipulation of the civil power and the media of public information and education to pervert the truth, impair respect for moral values, suppress human freedom and representative government, and in the end destroy our faith in our religious teachings."
LISTEN Inauguration History ... click here for video Originally, Presidential inaugurations were held on March 4th, unless that day fell on a Sunday, in which case, out of respect for the Lord's Day, it was moved to Monday, March 5th. This was the case with James Monroe in 1821, Zachary Taylor in 1849, Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877 and Woodrow Wilson in 1917. Unfortunately, there was a problem. The period between the elections in November, after harvests were taken in and before winter storms, and the spring, when politicians could take the long trip to the...
Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom: "Almighty God hath created the mind free, and ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments ... tend only to begat habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone."
Democrat Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan reasoned, September 17, 1913: "There is a powerful restraining influence in the belief that an all-seeing eye scrutinizes every thought and word and act of the individual ... A religion which teaches PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY TO GOD gives strength to morality”
