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Last night at 10:45 after a visit to Walmart, I noticed 5 Bryant Policemen running across Reynolds Road and Murphey and I pulled in a parking lot to see all the action. Evidently someone tried to rob the McDonalds and then he ran across the street to the Taco Bell parking lot where he was handcuffed and surrounded by these 5 policemen.

Later firetrucks and an ambulance showed up with several police cars. That is the first excitement we have had in Bryant since seeing a drunk getting stuffed into a car by 3 policeman who had to kick the back of his legs in as he resisted getting into the car. My kids eyes were as big saucers that day, but I wanted them to see the end results of drinking and driving.

I found this on David Barton’s website. This is the text of George Washington’s October 3, 1789 national Thanksgiving Proclamation; as printed in The Providence Gazette and Country Journal, on October 17, 1789.

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

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; and whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.

G. Washington.

Trivia about George Washington:

Washington’s birth record does not include a middle name.

—Washington’s formal education ended when he was around 15 years old.

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1 Of 3 / Faith Of The Founding Fathers / American Heritage Series / David Barton

My friend Sherwood Haisty Jr. is a minister in Santa Monica, California and he has done a lot of studying on the Founding Fathers. One of his favorites is George Washington. I am going to invite him to comment on the Farewell Address of George Washington.

Two of my sons, Hunter (22yr) and Wilson (14yr) are flying out to California on Spring Break to help Sherwood when he preaches at the Santa Monica Promenade.

In the picture below at Santa Monica Promenade there are 35 people gathered around and the person speaking is a former follower of  Islam, but he identified himself  as an atheist and on this occasion he was speaking in favor of evolution.

 

This is a small portion of a Sermon Preached by Sherwood Haisty Jr. in Santa Monica

In the next few days I will post portions of the speech (which really was just a newspaper article) but since it is so long I will put an outline of the speech that is provided by David Barton of Wallbuilders.

1. Religion and Morality.
   1. Are “indispensable supports” for “political prosperity.”
   2. Are the “firmest props of the duties of Men and Country.”
   3. The oaths in our courts would be useless without “the sense of religious obligation.”
   4. “And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.”
   5. “Reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
   6. “Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.”

Little known fact about George Washington:

Some anecdotes bring out the character of Washington very well. During the election campaign, there was a bitter war of words. A man called Payne felt that Washington had crossed the line by insulting him. He decided to settle the matter with the help of a hickory stick. The following day, Washington set up an interview with Payne. Payne expected that Washington would seek revenge. However, Washington apologized for insulting him and shook his hand.

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David Barton commented on this part of the Farewell Address:

Washington in his “Farewell Address,” Washington reminded the nation:

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness. . . . The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.

Washington – indisputably a constitutional expert – declared that religion and morality were inseparable from government, and that no true patriot, whether politician or clergyman, would attempt to weaken the relationship between government and the influence of religion and morality.

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