Posts Tagged ‘history’
Samuel Sherwood, the Church’s Flight Into the Wilderness: an Address On the Times
Called Unto Liberty, Samuel Sherwood: 1776, Founding Era Sermons Samuel Sherwood (1730–1783). Perhaps the most frequently cited sermon of the revolutionary era on the millennialist theme in politics, The Church’s Flight into the Wilderness of 1776 is the second of the two Sherwood sermons that survive. The first, Scriptural Instructions to [...]
Louis Pasteur
American Minute with Bill Federer He developed vaccines for rabies and anthrax, revolutionized medicine with his germ theory of disease, and laid the foundation for the control of tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria and tetanus. While Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at Lille University in France, he developed the process of "Pasteurization" of [...]
John Adams: A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 7
Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 Democratical Republics: GLARIS My dear Sir, THE canton of Glaris is a mountainous country, of eight miles long and four wide, according to their own authors, perhaps intending German miles; but twenty-five miles in length and eighteen in breadth, according to some English accounts. The commerce of it is [...]
The Federalist Papers No. 80: Alexander Hamilton
Liberty Letters, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 80 Saturday, June 21, 1788 TO JUDGE with accuracy of the proper extent of the federal judicature, it will be necessary to consider, in the first place, what are its proper objects. It seems scarcely to admit of controversy, that the judicary authority of the Union ought to extend to [...]
Sam Adams
American Minute with Bill Federer Crying "No taxation without representation," he instigated the Stamp Act riots and the Boston Tea Party. After the "Boston Massacre," he spread Revolutionary sentiment with his Committees of Correspondence. Known as "The Father of the American Revolution," Samuel Adams, who was born SEPTEMBER 27, 1722, [...]
The Pulpit and the American Revolution: Samuel Cooper
Leonard O. Goenaga Article Series: The Pulpit and the Patriots WEEK 3: The Pulpit and the American Revolution: Samuel Cooper (1725-1783) A second minister worthy of mention is Samuel Cooper, Pastor of Brattle Street Church in Boston. Born March 28, 1727, Cooper was the third child of Rev. William Cooper and Judith, the daughter of the [...]
Conspiracy of Dunces
by Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #26 Still ON TARGET: July 12, 2000 Part 2 It is difficult to think of Bill Clinton as part of the elite, but he is. Most people in government, academia, foundations and large corporations are. They move easily in and out of the agencies and institutions that rule us or shape policy or opinion. They [...]
Daniel Boone
American Minute with Bill Federer Daniel Boone served with George Washington in 1755 during the French and Indian War. In 1765, Daniel Boone explored Florida. Virginia Governor Patrick Henry sent Daniel Boone to survey Kentucky and in 1775, the Pennsylvania Company had him erect a fort on the Kentucky River, which he named Boonesboro. In [...]
John Marshall
American Minute with Bill Federer "The power to tax is the power to destroy," wrote John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who was born SEPTEMBER 24, 1755. No one had a greater impact on Constitutional Law than John Marshall. Sworn in February 4, 1801, Marshall served 34 years and helped write over 1,000 decisions, [...]
“I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!” — John Paul Jones
American Minute with Bill Federer "I have not yet begun to fight!" shouted John Paul Jones when the captain of the British ship Serapis asked him to surrender. Their ships were so close their cannons scraped and masts entangled, yet his American ship Bonhomme Richard, named for Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, refused to give up. When two [...]
The Heresy of Constantine
By Robert F. Beaudine Most of the great thinkers of the past agreed on two aspects of truth: Truth was difficult to ascertain and rarely dwelt in the crowds. Humorist Josh Billings observed that as scarce as truth is, the supply always exceeds the demand. There are different paths to truth, through logic, through the senses, and through the [...]
Nathan Hale
American Minute with Bill Federer "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" were the last words of 21-year-old American patriot Nathan Hale, who was hanged by the British without a trial on SEPTEMBER 22, 1776. A Yale graduate, he almost became a Christian minister, as his brother Enoch did, but instead became a teacher at [...]
Holy Name Society addressed by President Coolidge
American Minute with Bill Federer On SEPTEMBER 21, 1924, America's 30th President, Calvin Coolidge, addressed the Holy Name Society in Washington, D.C., saying: The worst evil that could be inflicted upon the youth of the land would be to leave them without restraint and completely at the mercy of their own uncontrolled inclinations. Under [...]
Fisher Ames
American Minute with Bill Federer He sat beside George Washington in St. Paul's Chapel at the church service following Washington's Presidential Inauguration in New York City. He was a Congressman from Massachusetts and helped ratify the U.S. Constitution. He authored the final House language of the First Amendment. His name was Fisher [...]
Anonymous, A Constitutional Answer to Wesley’s Calm Address
Called Unto Liberty, Anonymous: 1775, Founding Era Sermons Hard on the heels of John Wesley’s A Calm Address to Our American Colonies (number 13 herein), there appeared this anonymous rebuttal and attack entitled A Constitutional Answer to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley’s Calm Address to the American Colonies, which was also published in London [...]
Washington’s Farewell Address
American Minute with Bill Federer The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolken tells of man's lust for "the ring of power." Kings killed to get power and kings killed to keep power. George Washington had that power, and gave it up...twice! After Washington's victory over the British at Yorktown, King George III asked American-born portrait painter [...]
Constitution Day
American Minute with Bill Federer "Done...the SEVENTEENTH DAY of SEPTEMBER, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven." This is the last line of the U.S. Constitution. A study by Professors Donald S. Lutz and Charles S. Hyneman, titled "The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late 18th-Century American [...]
Pilgrims Set Sail
American Minute with Bill Federer SEPTEMBER 16, 1620, according to the Gregorian Calendar, 102 passengers set sail on the Pilgrims' ship, Mayflower. Their 66-day journey of 2,750 miles encountered storms so rough the beam supporting the main mast cracked and was propped back in place with "a great iron screw." One youth, John Howland, was swept [...]
John Wesley, a Calm Address to Our American Colonies
Called Unto Liberty, John Wesley: 1775, Founding Era Sermons John Wesley (1703-1791). Like his younger brother Charles, the founder of Methodism John Wesley was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England. He was graduated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1724 and ordained by the Church of England in 1728. Wesley returned to Oxford the following year as [...]
A President Who Was Chief Justice
American Minute with Bill Federer The only U.S. President to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he had previously been appointed by President McKinley as the first governor of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War. He was later appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as Secretary of War. The largest President, weighing [...]
Rev. John Harvard
American Minute with Bill Federer Son of a butcher, his family died when a plague swept England, leaving him an estate. He attended Emmanuel College, was ordained, married and sailed for Massachusetts where he pastored the First Church of Charlestown. At age 31, he died of tuberculosis on SEPTEMBER 14, 1638. His name was Rev. John [...]
Pratt House Conspiracy or Just Power Hungry Elites?
by Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #25 Still ON TARGET: July 06, 2000 Part 1 Remember back in high school there was always that certain group of kids universally known as the "in" crowd. The rest of the denizens in the teen-age hell halls were usually a subgroup with a theme. There was the artsy crowd, the nerds, the greasers, the dweebs, [...]
Francis Scott Key
American Minute with Bill Federer Just weeks after the British burned the U.S. Capitol, they set out for Baltimore. On the way they caught an elderly physician of Upper Marlboro, Dr. William Beanes. The town feared Dr. Beanes would be hanged so they asked a young lawyer, Francis Scott Key, to sail with Colonel John Skinner under a flag of truce [...]
Thomas Cooley
American Minute with Bill Federer The dean of the University of Michigan Law School was Thomas Cooley, who died SEPTEMBER 12, 1898. Thomas Cooley was Chief Justice of Michigan's Supreme Court, President of the American Bar Association and the first Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. His commentaries were influential in shaping [...]
Islamic Terrorist Attacks
American Minute with Bill Federer "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended," spoke President Bush, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, after Islamic terrorists hijacked passenger jets, flying two into New York's World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and one which crashed in Pennsylvania. That evening [...]
Justice Joseph Story
American Minute with Bill Federer The Son of one of the Boston Tea Party "Indians," he graduated from Harvard and eventually became Massachusetts Speaker of the House. At age 32, he was appointed as the youngest Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, where he served 34 years and helped establish the illegality of the slave trade in the Amistad [...]
Two Cities Destroyed
American Minute with Bill Federer In 2005, just days after the U.S. persuaded Israel to evacuate Gaza in exchange for peace, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. On SEPTEMBER 8, President Bush declared a Day of Prayer and Remembrance, saying: Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters in our Nation's history and has caused [...]
First Prayer in Congress
American Minute with Bill Federer The Journals of the Continental Congress recorded: Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 7, 1774, 9 o'clock a.m. Agreeable to the resolve of yesterday, the meeting was opened with prayers by the Rev. Mr. Duche'. Voted, That the thanks of Congress be given to Mr. Duche'...for performing divine Service, and for the excellent [...]
The Remarkable Marquis de Lafayette
By Phyllis Schlafly Today is the birthday of one of the genuine heroes of the American Revolution, who was also one of history's most unique and remarkable individuals, the Marquis de Lafayette. Born September 6, 1757, his father died before he was two years old, his mother died when he was 12, and he inherited a fortune. He joined the French [...]
Marquis de Lafayette — The Man Who Helped The U.S. Revolution
American Minute with Bill Federer Born SEPTEMBER 6, 1757, his father died before he was two-years-old and his mother died when he was twelve, leaving him to inherit their fortune. At 14-years-old, he joined the French Military and, at age 16, became a captain. He married Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles, whose family was related to King [...]
