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Welcome to From the Pulpit.

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Each week we bring you a different message

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from some of history's greatest speakers in the

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Christian faith and powerful sermons from modern preachers

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This week we have D.

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James Kennedy with his message, America at the

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Tipping Point.

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During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln said at

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Gettysburg that this was a nation which was

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conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition

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that all men were created equal.

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He went on to say that they were

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engaged in a great civil war testing whether

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that nation or any nation so conceived and

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so dedicated could long endure.

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Today, my friends, we're engaged in another war,

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another struggle, even more fundamental in its character

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than that.

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The question before our nation today is not

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whether men are created equal, it is whether

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they are created at all.

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Whether they are creatures made by God who

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have certain inalienable rights or whether they are

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merely an accident of time and matter.

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Whether indeed this is a nation under God

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which can have a new birth of freedom.

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Our scripture text today said, Blessed is the

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nation whose God is the Lord.

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And the Bible asks, If the foundations be

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destroyed, what shall the righteous do?

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There is no doubt that this is indeed

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a nation which was built upon the foundation

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of God.

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That the Lord indeed was the God of

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this nation.

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That he was founded upon the principles of

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God's word, upon the teachings of Christianity, and

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for the advancement of the kingdom of Christ.

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All of that is under enormous attack and

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has been for the last few decades.

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In fact, so effective has been that attack

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that the historical revisionists have all but removed

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every vestige of our Christian heritage from our

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textbooks and school.

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Even the very monuments in the nation's capital

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are being changed and removed that point to

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the Christian origins of this country.

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You and I were born in a Christian

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nation that may not be said for your

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children or grandchildren.

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That is a concept which has been so

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systematically blotted from the collective memory of this

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country as to sound in the ears of

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most people in America to be an alien

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philosophy.

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An intrusion of religion into the tranquility of

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a secular country.

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I would like to simply review with you

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first of all today some of the evidence

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to the fact that this is a Christian

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nation.

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Was founded as such and what we ought

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to do to maintain it and pass it

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on as such.

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All nations that have ever existed have been

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founded upon some theistic principle.

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Either some theistic or anti-theistic principle.

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Whether we think of the Hinduism of India,

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the Confucianism of China, the Mohammedanism of Saudi

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Arabia, or the atheism of Albania, Soviet Union.

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We think of America, if we know our

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history, we know that this was a nation

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founded upon Christ and his word.

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Those foundations indeed are crumbling in our time.

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There are those in our country today who

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are busily tearing apart that foundation who would

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gnash their teeth at the idea that this

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is a Christian nation.

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And will not be satisfied until they have

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removed every vestige of our Christian heritage from

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not only the minds but the monuments of

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But let's go back to the beginning.

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To those intrepid pilgrims that set sail from

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Holland to come to this country after fleeing

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their native England 12 years before.

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Their governor for 30 or more years was

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of course William Bradford who gives us the

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only history of that period.

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And before they set sail from Holland, he

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described their motives in coming.

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He said they had, quote, a great hope

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and inward zeal of laying some good foundation

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or at least to make some way there

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unto for the propagating and advancing of the

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gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those

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remote parts of the world.

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Yea though they should be but even a

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stepping stone unto others for the performing of

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so great a work.

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That is why they came, said their governor.

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They came for the propagating and advancing of

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the gospel of the kingdom of Christ.

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And after a fearful journey of 66 days

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without ever being allowed up onto the deck

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of the Mayflower because of the great gales

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and storms.

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They had last sighted the inhospitable shores of

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a winter New England coast.

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They harbored there in the bay and before

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going ashore they met in the captain's cabin

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and wrote the first contract of government or

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as they would call a covenant, the first

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constitution of America.

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Its birth certificate as it is called, we

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call it the Mayflower Compact.

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It begins with these words, in the name

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of God, Amen.

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That's where America began.

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And it goes on to say, quote, having

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undertaken for the glory of God and advancement

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of the Christian faith a voyage to plant

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the first colony in the northern parts of

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Virginia.

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And so they themselves here officially declare and

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sign that which their governor had said about

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them before they left Holland.

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That they came for the glory of God

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and the advancement of the Christian faith.

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That's how America began.

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But there are those who don't like to

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hear that.

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And surely that must have ended with those

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first pilgrims, but my friends it did not.

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When finally the New England settlements at last

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got together and they formed their first bond

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in what is known as the New England

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Confederation.

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They said in that that we all came

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to these parts of America for one and

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the same end and aim.

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To advance the gospel of our Lord Jesus

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Christ.

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One and all they came for that end

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they declared in the New England Confederation.

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The documentary evidence is voluminous.

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It would take hours even to quote it.

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It was thoroughly studied by the Supreme Court

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of the United States in 1892.

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And they gave us what is known then

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as the Trinity decision.

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And in that the Supreme Court of the

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United States declared, quote, That

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is where this nation began.

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That is the place from which we came.

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John Quincy Adams, President of the United States,

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said that the highest glory of the American

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Revolution was what?

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It secured our independence from England.

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It got rid of the stamp tax, tea

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tax.

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What was the highest glory of the American

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It dissolved our bonds with Parliament and the

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King.

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No, listen well, said President John Quincy Adams.

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The highest glory of the American Revolution was

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this.

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It connected in one indesirable bond the principles

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of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

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One indesirable bond.

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Government and Christianity.

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Well, they have come with their solvents of

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unbelief, skepticism, atheism, Marxism, humanism, secularism.

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And they are doing everything in their power

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to totally dissolve that indissoluble bond.

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And we need to give ourselves to that

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task that that bond not be dissolved.

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Or else the principles of Christianity will be

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replaced by the secular principles of humanism and

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atheism.

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And life will lose its significance and its

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meaning.

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Life will become cheap as it certainly presently

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is in this country as humanistic principles are

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prevailing in more and more spheres of our

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nation.

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Now someone will say, but yes, doesn't the

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First Amendment say that there should be a

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wall of separation between church and state?

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I wonder if we went out in the

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street and took a survey, how many people

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would say yes to that question.

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Yes, the First Amendment says that there should

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be a wall of separation between the church

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and state.

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I wonder how many here might still believe

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Well, if you do, let me remind you

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of something.

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The First Amendment never mentions a wall.

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It never mentions separation.

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It never mentions the church.

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And it never mentions the state.

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Other than that, they're pretty close.

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The First Amendment says, quote, Congress shall make

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no law respecting an establishment of religion or

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prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

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It was Thomas Jefferson in a private letter

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to the Danbury Baptist who used the phrase

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a wall of separation between church and state.

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And they are by no means the same

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thing.

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A wall inhibits people equally on both sides.

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The First Amendment only inhibits the Congress.

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Congress shall make no law establishing a religion.

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Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free

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exercise thereof.

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The First Amendment says absolutely nothing about what

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Christians or people adhering to any religion or

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ministers or clergymen or churches may or may

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not do.

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Joseph Story, who was the great commentator on

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the Constitution, who lived through the formation of

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this government, and as a justice on the

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Supreme Court, wrote his great work on the

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commentary on the Constitution in 1828.

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And he said that an attempt to level

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all religions, Christianity and other religions, all to

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one level and make it a matter of

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state policy to hold all in utter indifference,

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would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal

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indignation.

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You see, my friends, most people don't realize

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what this nation was like in the beginning.

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Even as late as 1776, 150 years after

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the Pilgrims landed, this was the makeup of

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America.

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98%, 98% Protestant Christians.

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1.8% Catholic Christians.

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.2 tenths of 1% Jews.

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That was the makeup of this country as

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late as 1776.

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That's why Charles Hodge, who was the greatest

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theologian America ever produced, who was the glory

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and jewel and crown of Princeton, said, quote,

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the proposition that the United States of America

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is a Christian and Protestant nation is not

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so much the assertion of a principle as

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the statement of a fact.

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But today people seem to think that in

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some way religion in general and Christianity in

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particular are in some way inimical to good

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government and that the purpose of the government

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is to keep religion away from the governors

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of our land.

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A very different view than held by George

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Washington who said, quote, true religion offers to

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government its surest support.

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In fact, Washington said that without God and

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the Bible, it would be impossible to govern.

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George Washington, our wise father, the father of

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America, said that without God and the Bible,

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it would be impossible to govern.

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And perhaps that is why, having banished the

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Bible and having attempted to banish God from

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all spheres of public life, we have found

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that our Congress cannot even make a budget

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that is becoming increasingly impossible to govern this

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nation.

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In America, it was religion which was the

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surest support of good government and it was

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the principles of Christianity which were united in

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an indesirable bond in the establishment of this

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country.

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Yes, my friends, you and I were born

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in a Christian nation.

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I'm afraid our children or grandchildren will be

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born in an atheistic one.

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Just at a time when the atheistic states

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of communism around the world are crumbling and

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people are clamoring for the word of God,

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so much so that they jammed up completely

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the book fair in Moscow when 50,000

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Bibles were given away.

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They stopped all traffic in every direction, trying

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desperately to get their hands on one.

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Just at a time when the rest of

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the world is realizing the folly of unbelief

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and the fatal results in the lives of

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people, America continues a pace down the foolish

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pathway toward godlessness and secularism.

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There were in the beginning and there are

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today those who believe that this which we

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have received as our patrimony, a nation of

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freedom and liberty and only where the Spirit

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of God is, is there liberty.

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Those that have been willing to fight and

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to die for such a country, and if

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a nation is built on such exalted principles

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as these, if it was created for such

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noble purposes as the advancement of the kingdom

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of Jesus Christ and the glory of God,

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then indeed such a nation deserves our sacrifice

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and our support.

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It was felt that way in the beginning.

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It is felt that way by many today.

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Patrick Henry was the golden-tongued orator of

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the revolutionary period.

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He was a Christian patriot.

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He said in his will, I have now

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disposed all my property to my family.

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There is one other thing I wish that

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I could give to them, and that is

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the Christian religion.

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For if they have that, and I should

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not have left them a shilling, they would

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be rich indeed.

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And if they have not that, though I

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should leave them the world, they are poor.

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Knowing the foundations of liberty, knowing the bedrock

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of Scripture and the Christian foundations of this

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nation, Henry was willing to sacrifice even his

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life to defend it.

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The battle, sir, is not to the strong

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alone, but to the vigilant, the active, the

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brave.

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Besides, there is no election.

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If we were base enough to desire it,

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it is too late to retire from the

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contest.

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There is no retreat but in submission and

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slavery.

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Our chains are forged.

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You may hear their clanking on the plains

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of Boston.

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The war is inevitable.

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And let it come.

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I repeat it, sir.

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Let it come.

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It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter.

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Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace.

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There is no peace.

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The war has actually begun.

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The next gale that sweeps from the north

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will bring to our ears the clash of

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resounding arms.

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Our brethren are already in the field.

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Why stand we here idle?

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What is it the gentlemen wish?

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What would they have?

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Is life so dear and peace so sweet

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as to be purchased at the price of

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chains and slavery?

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Forbid it, almighty God.

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I know not what course others may take.

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But as for me, give me liberty or

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give me death.

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So said the Christian patriot and founder of

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our nation.

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Thankfully there are yet those in our time

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with similar sentiments.

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The greatest military genius America ever produced was

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General Douglas MacArthur.

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For 50 years, he devoted his life to

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this country.

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He was a man of deep and abiding

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faith and love for country.

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The only conqueror in the history of the

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world who having conquered the nation of the

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Empire of Japan said that what is needed

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now are tax collectors to collect the taxes

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for the conquerors.

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No, he didn't say that, did he?

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He said what is needed now are 10

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,000 missionaries for Japan.

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They didn't come.

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We see now how right he was.

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Snatched tragically at the pinnacle of his career

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out of his command brought back in humiliation

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to this country.

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He found that he received not jeers but

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an incredible outpouring of love and appreciation.

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He spoke to the Congress of the United

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States.

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You probably saw it on TV as I

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did.

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But I think that perhaps the most moving

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and touching of his speeches was his last

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which he made at his own beloved West

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Point as they sat there, these soon to

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be officers in the core of the United

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States Army.

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And MacArthur, now an old man, 50 years

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of service behind him, said, the shadows are

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lengthening for me.

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The twilight is here.

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My days of old have gone and vanished,

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tone and tint.

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They've gone glimmering through the dreams of things

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that were.

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Their memory is one of wondrous beauty watered

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by tears and coaxed and caressed by the

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smiles of yesterday.

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I listen vainly but with thirsty ear for

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the witching melody of faint bugles blowing revelry,

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of far drums beating the long roll.

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In my dreams I hear the crash of

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guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange mournful

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mutter of the battlefield.

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But in the evening of my memory always

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I return to West Point.

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Always there echoes and re-echoes in my

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ear duty, honor, country.