Today is another birthday of our Country. Happy 4th of July! For me, it is always worth celebrating. It is also my mother's birthday. This year I cannot make it to her party (the first time we have missed it that I can remember). So I am dedicating this post to her. In my life, our family cannot separate the two birthdays. The 4th of July is about celebrating Mom's birthday with sparklers and firecrackers. And celebrating our country's birthday is all about making a birthday cake and gathering around home. I will miss it this year.
So anyway, I thought I would search out a nugget of truth for my Truthseeker blog for this occasion. Below is a statement that was made on my mother's 3rd birthday by the President of the United States. He is talking about the Declaration of Independence and the troubling notion that we have come far and are perhaps now more modern than those who signed it.
So anyway, I thought I would search out a nugget of truth for my Truthseeker blog for this occasion. Below is a statement that was made on my mother's 3rd birthday by the President of the United States. He is talking about the Declaration of Independence and the troubling notion that we have come far and are perhaps now more modern than those who signed it.
About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
That was written by Calvin Coolidge on the 4th of July, 1926. It helps us to remember that some very special things like the principles that established our country - - and my mother - - grow more valuable with age.
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probably few others who read your blog know your mother. She is deserving of lots of praise and admiration, for because of her faithfulness and her prayers, we perosnally know freedom in Christ! What a heritage we can celebrate each year on the Fourth of July!
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