Jedediah Morse (1761-1826) was an American Geographer and Preacher, and the father of Samuel F. B. Morse. He wrote these wise words and warnings in 1799, which are so applicable to today:
“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation, either through unbelief, or the corruption of its doctrines, or the neglect of its institutions; in the same proportion will the people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom, and approximate the miseries of complete despotism.”
“All efforts to destroy the foundations of our holy religion ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness.”
“Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican form of government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.”
—Submitted by STARRS Connecticut State Leader Lt. Col. Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73
We would also add from John Adams, in an October 11, 1798, letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Massachusetts Militia:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
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