What Makes America Great`
"I went at your bidding, and passed along their thoroughfares of trade. I ascended their mountains and went down their valleys. I visited their manufactories, their commercial markets, and emporiums of trade. I entered their judicial courts and legislative halls. But I sought everywhere in vain for the secret of their success, until I entered the church. It was there, as I listened to the soul-equalizing and soul-elevating principles of the Gospel of Christ, as they fell from Sabbath to Sabbath upon the masses of the people, that I learned why America was great and free, and why France was a slave.."From: Empty Pews & Selections from Other Sermons on Timely Topics, Madison Clinton Peters; Zeising, 1886, page 35.
This is often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville. In his 1835 Book, Democracy In America, de Tocqueville did say "...liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith;"
Peters said that what makes America great is the preaching of the "
soul-elevating principles of the Gospel of Christ." And de Tocqueville said that liberty cannot be established without morality which is dependent on faith.
We can say that knowledge of and belief in the Truth of the Gospel of Christ - all the counsel of God (Acts 20:27)- is necessary for the establishment of morality in society as taught by its Christians.
"And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth." John 17: 19
We can be sanctified by the Truth of the Gospel of Christ,the entire counsel of God,and that sanctification is the basis of morality which can be communicated to the people of a nation.
But if the churches are,after the falling away of II Thessalonians 2:3-4 teaching false doctrines instead of the Truth,then the churches have lost their spiritual strength and cannot teach a nation morality.
"I went at your bidding, and passed along their thoroughfares of trade. I ascended their mountains and went down their valleys. I visited their manufactories, their commercial markets, and emporiums of trade. I entered their judicial courts and legislative halls. But I sought everywhere in vain for the secret of their success, until I entered the church. It was there, as I listened to the soul-equalizing and soul-elevating principles of the Gospel of Christ, as they fell from Sabbath to Sabbath upon the masses of the people, that I learned why America was great and free, and why France was a slave.."From: Empty Pews & Selections from Other Sermons on Timely Topics, Madison Clinton Peters; Zeising, 1886, page 35.
This is often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville. In his 1835 Book, Democracy In America, de Tocqueville did say "...liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith;"
Peters said that what makes America great is the preaching of the "
soul-elevating principles of the Gospel of Christ." And de Tocqueville said that liberty cannot be established without morality which is dependent on faith.
We can say that knowledge of and belief in the Truth of the Gospel of Christ - all the counsel of God (Acts 20:27)- is necessary for the establishment of morality in society as taught by its Christians.
"And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth." John 17: 19
We can be sanctified by the Truth of the Gospel of Christ,the entire counsel of God,and that sanctification is the basis of morality which can be communicated to the people of a nation.
But if the churches are,after the falling away of II Thessalonians 2:3-4 teaching false doctrines instead of the Truth,then the churches have lost their spiritual strength and cannot teach a nation morality.
