Today's American Minute
Black Missionaries: Lott Carey & Colin Teague to Africa; Betsey Stockton to Hawaii; John Stewart to Wyandotte Indians - American Minute with Bill Federer
Abraham J. Baughman wrote in Past and Present of Wyandot County, Ohio: a record of settlement (Chicago: The S.J. Clark Publishing Company, 1913, Volume 1, page 39-43): "At Pipetown was a considerable body of Delawares ... At this place Stewart stopped, but as the Indians were preparing for a great dance they paid but little attention to him ...
Stewart took out his hymn book and began to sing."
Haystack Prayer Meeting & World Missionary Movement, Adoniram & Ann Judson to Burma - American Minute with Bill Federer
In 1806, five Williams College students met by the Hoosic River in Massachusetts near a grove of trees to discuss how to reach the world with the Gospel. Suddenly a thunderstorm poured down torrential rain and the students hid next to a haystack till it passed. While there, they prayed and committed themselves to world missions.
"Freedom of Conscience": Rhode Island founder Roger Williams "Wall of Separation," as understood by Jefferson - American Minute with Bill Federer
" as understood by Jefferson "Freedom of Conscience": Rhode Island founder Roger Williams "Wall of Separation
On January 1, 1802, Jefferson wrote back, agreeing with the Baptists: "Gentlemen ... Believing WITH you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions..."
United Nations: Intentions vs Track Record; Whittaker Chambers vs. Alger Hiss - American Minute with Bill Federer
United Nations: Intentions vs Track Record; Whittaker Chambers vs. Alger Hiss
President Dwight Eisenhower at the National Junior Chamber of Commerce, June 10, 1963: "The United Nations has seemed to be two distinct things to the two worlds divided by the iron curtain ... To the free world it has seemed that it should be a constructive forum ... To the Communist world it has been a convenient sounding board for their propaganda, a weapon to be exploited in spreading disunity and confusion."
Socialism Warning "A government big enough to GIVE YOU EVERYTHING YOU WANT is a government big enough to TAKE FROM YOU EVERYTHING YOU HAVE"-President Ford - American Minute with Bill Federer
President Ford addressed the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Bay Area Council in San Francisco, CA, April 4, 1975: "Over the 25 years that I had the privilege of serving in the House of Representatives ... well-motivated Members of the House of Representatives would get up and argue effectively and convincingly and certainly in the highest motivation for this social program or that social program. Pretty soon, we started to have this proliferation, and believe me, it has proliferated ...
I recall most vividly sitting there on many occasions and thinking to myself, don't they realize that a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have?"