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For many years the United States has been adrift. Our
moral compass has been pointing away from the direction
the Founding Fathers started us in. We have a society
that has turned its attention from Almighty God, disguises
evil as good, and simply disregards truth. The Bible says
that "The truth shall set you free" and as we
have turned from truth, we are turning away from real
freedom. We can now see the natural casualities in our
lives ranging from the regular and casual abortion of
human beings, the breakdown of the traditional family
and out-of-wedlock births higher than ever, desired acceptance
and celebration of homosexuality, fiscal disasters looming
at all levels -- from our homes all the way to the halls
of Congress, increasing numbers of wars abroad, increased
lawlessness and an inability to rehabilitate those in
prison, a desire for government to serve all of our needs
from cradle to grave, and much more -- all running counter
to the intent of this nation and its founders' vision.
Some say that this nation is secular and that we will
benefit from multiple religions or no religion at the
helm. However, some of the best contrarians to this view
would be the Founding Fathers themselves. For example,
President George Washington in his Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
of 1789, stated:
"Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge
the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to
be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore
His protection and favor..."
In fact, it is the very return to those priniciples that
we desperately need. With a return of the conservative
Christian prinicples that our nation was founded on, we
may be able to salvage ourselves from a dark future or
none at all. John Winthrop, Puritan leader who later became
the first governor of Massachussetts said in his "A
Model of Christian Charity" in 1630:
“For we must consider that we shall be a city upon
a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that
if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we
have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present
help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword
through the world...But if our hearts shall turn away,
so that we will not obey, but shall be seduced, and
worship other Gods, our pleasure and profits, and serve
them; it is propounded unto us this day, we shall surely
perish out of the good land whither we pass over this
vast sea to possess it. Therefore let us choose life,
that we and our seed may live, by obeying His voice
and cleaving to Him, for He is our life and our prosperity.
Let's make sure that we are more than just a story and
byword for historians of the future to write about. For
that we will need to recapture the uniquely American spirit
that the Founders of this great nation left for us and
return it to its rightful place as the best the world
has ever seen.
We hope that you will join with us because it's
time to restore our heritage...
"You will never know how much it cost us to preserve
your freedom. I hope that you will make a good use of
it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever
took half the pains to preserve it." - John Adams
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Rev.
Marshall, the son of the late Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall,
was our first speaker all the way back in April of 2001.
In fact he spoke to approximately 5,000 people in the Evansville
area on three separate occasions from April 2001 to October
2004. He was a terrific orator, captivating audiences with his graphic stories of our nation's founders. Rev. Marshall spent hours, days, weeks, even months dredging through material with David Manual at university libraries in search of content that few others had even touched upon. We are grateful for his inquisitive spirit and dynamic character.