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By Stephen McDowell For PDF Version: Why We Celebrate Thanksgiving Innumerable blessings have been bestowed upon the United States of America. Concerning these blessings President Lincoln wrote: “No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God.” President Lincoln went [...]
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By Stephen McDowell One great factor in the secularization and decline of America is the teaching of revisionist history in our schools. As an example of this, a friend recently wrote me that two American Indian history teachers at Minnesota State University told him that Thanksgiving was the celebration of the massacred 600 Pequot Indians [...]
For PDF Version: Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England America’s tradition of celebrating days of thanksgiving dates from our earliest history. The first Americans were predominantly Christians who embraced the doctrine of Divine Providence, seeing God in history as “directly supervising the affairs of men, sending evil upon the city . . . [...]
The First Prayer in Congress, September 1774 Stephen McDowell Several years ago, a bill was introduced in Congress recommending—not requiring—Americans to observe a national day of prayer and fasting in response to various violent acts in America. It was voted on under special rules for non-controversial bills and thus needed a two-thirds [...]
Stephen McDowell The winter of 1777-1778 was one of the most important in our nation’s history, for that winter was the turning point of the American Revolution. During that winter the American Army faced as great an ordeal as any army in history. Before the American Army moved into Valley Forge in December of 1777, [...]
Valley Forge: Crucible of Freedom Stephen McDowell The winter of 1777-1778 was one of the most important in our nation’s history, for that winter was the turning point of the American Revolution. During that winter the American Army faced as great an ordeal as any army in history. Before the American Army moved into Valley [...]
by Stephen McDowell According to the National Commission on Excellence in Education, America is “A Nation at Risk.” The 1980s report stated: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”[1] The consequences of this [...]
By Stephen McDowell The Founders of America had a providential view of history. In an address to the United States Congress in 1866, historian George Bancroft reflected this predominant philosophy when he said: “that God rules in the affairs of men is as certain as any truth of physical science.”[1] American history is filled with [...]
