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The Weight of Testimony
There is no currency in this world that
passes at such a premium anywhere as good
Christian character.... The time has gone by
when the young man or the young woman in the
United States has to apologize for being a
follower ofChrist ... No cause but one could have
brought together so manypeople, and that is the
cause ofour Master.
-- William McKinley, 1894
On my honor, I will do my best to do my
duty to Godandmy country; andobey the Scout
Law. To help other people at all times; to keep
myself physically strong, mentally awake, and
morally straight.
-- Boy Scouts of America Oath, 1910
Almost every man who has by his life work
added to the sum of human achievements of
which the race is proud, almost every such man
has basedhis life work largely upon the teaching
of the Bible.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
A man has deprivedhimselfofthe
best
there
is in the world who has deprived himself of a
knowledge of the Bible.
-- Woodrow Wilson
Here is the nation God has builded by our
hands.
-- Woodrow Wilson, July
4,
·1913
They (Puritans) were intent upon
establishing a Christian commonwealth in
accordance with the principle ofself-government
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