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OUR FOREFATHERS\u2019\r\nCOVENANTS<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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June 19, 2020<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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We continue today with our discourse on Daniel Webster and his\r\nhistory.\u00a0 <\/span>As noted last week, few names\r\nare more discussed or mentioned in today\u2019s discussions than that of Daniel\r\nWebster.<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Losing a\r\nrace in 1836 for the Presidency on the Whig ticket, he nonetheless gained more\r\nin national prominence, and when William Henry Harrison ran for President in\r\n1840, he was offered the position of Vice-President.\u00a0 He declined with a\r\ndry but humorous phrase he would use again eight years later when Zachary\r\nTaylor ran for Presidency, \"I do not propose to be buried until I am\r\ndead.\"\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

He did,\r\nhowever, accept Harrison's offer to become Secretary of State, and it was a\r\nposition he held during the Tyler administration following Harrison's\r\ndeath.\u00a0 In 1845, he was reelected to the Senate where he took up a very\r\nstrong abolitionist stance, allying himself with Henry Clay and John C.\r\nCalhoun.\u00a0 When Henry Clay proposed what later became the Compromise of\r\n1850 in which an effort was made to make peace between the northern non-slave\r\nand southern slave states, and Webster joined his effort, preachers vilified\r\nhim with the kinds of accusations we've heard in the past few years against\r\nPresident Bush.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Rev.\r\nTheodore Parker said in one of his sermons that, \"No living man has\r\ndone so much to debauch the conscience of the nation<\/i>.\"\u00a0 Horace\r\nMann described him as being \"a fallen star! Lucifer descending from\r\nHeaven!<\/i>\"\u00a0 James Russell Lowell called Webster, \"the most\r\nmeanly and foolishly treacherous man I ever heard of<\/i>.\"\u00a0 Webster's\r\nattempt to bring a compromise between the North and South cost him dearly in\r\npublic opinion, and he never regained his popularity.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Riding his\r\nhorse one October day in 1852 at his home in Marshfield, Massachusetts, the horse\r\nsuddenly reared knocking Webster from his seat.\u00a0 The fall caused a\r\ncrushing blow to his head, and he died the morning of October 24, 1852 from a\r\nresulting brain hemorrhage.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\u00a0Over\r\nthe years, Daniel Webster had given some notable and some phenomenal speeches.\u00a0\r\nHe never argued anything for the sake of political expediency, and because he\r\nbelieved so firmly in the causes he represented, his arguments gained all the\r\nmore in forcefulness.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

It was in\r\n1820 that a decision was made to separate Maine from the Commonwealth of\r\nMassachusetts.\u00a0 Massachusetts' Constitution to this time was the same one\r\nadopted in 1780.\u00a0 Inasmuch as its constitution was an adaptation of John\r\nWinthrop's original charter which held (in part) that \"no\r\nman shall be qualified to hold office unless he be a Christian, swearing\r\nallegiance to Jesus Christ,\"<\/b><\/a>delegates thought to modify the\r\nwording so that \"a simple oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth, together\r\nwith the oath of office, should be taken by all persons chosen or appointed to\r\noffice. . . . and that a profession of belief in the Christian religion no\r\nlonger be required as a qualification for office.\" (source: The Writings\r\nand Speeches of Daniel Webster, Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1903)<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Daniel\r\nWebster was the chairman of this convention and he took to the floor to argue\r\nagainst this change.\u00a0 His speech was easily one of the most powerful and\r\neffective in his entire life and career.\u00a0 It puts the lie to the specious\r\n\"separation of church and state\" claim of the liberal left,\r\ndemonstrating constitutionally the right of the people to make such\r\nrequirements without impinging on the liberties of those who choose otherwise.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Following\r\nis a small extract of Webster's speech:<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"It is obvious\r\nthat the principal alteration proposed by the first resolution is the omission\r\nof the declaration of belief in the Christian religion as a qualification for\r\noffice in the cases of the governor, lieutenant-governor, councilors, and members\r\nof the legislature. I shall content myself on this occasion with stating,\r\nshortly and generally, the sentiments of the select committee, as I understand\r\nthem, on the subject of thisresolution.
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\r\nTwo questions naturally present themselves. In the first place, Have the people\r\na right, if in their judgment the security of their government and its due\r\nadministration demand it, to require a declaration of belief in the Christian\r\nreligion as a qualification or condition of office? On this question, a\r\nmajority of the committee held a decided opinion. They thought the people had\r\nsuch a right. By the fundamental principle of popular and elective governments,\r\nall office is in the free gift of the people. They may grant or they may\r\nwithhold it at pleasure; and if it be for them, and them only, to decide\r\nwhether they will grant office, it is for them to decide, also, on what terms\r\nand what conditions they will grant it. Nothing is more unfounded than the\r\nnotion that any man has a right to an office. This must depend on the choice of\r\nothers, and consequently upon the opinions of others, in relation to his\r\nfitness and qualification for office. No man can be said to have a right to\r\nthat which others may withhold from him at pleasure.
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\r\nThere are certain rights, no doubt, which the whole people, or the government\r\nas representing the whole people, owe to each individual in return for that\r\nobedience and personal service, and those proportionate contributions to the\r\npublic burdens which each individual owes to the government. These rights are\r\nstated with sufficient accuracy, in the tenth article of the Bill of Rights, in\r\nthis constitution.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cEach individual in\r\nsociety has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life,\r\nliberty, and property, according to the standing laws.\"\u00a0 <\/span>Here is no right of office enumerated; no\r\nright of governing others, or of bearing rule in the State. All bestowment of\r\noffice remaining in the discretion of the people, they have of course a right\r\nto regulate it by any rules which they may deem expedient. Hence the people, by\r\ntheir constitution, prescribe certain qualifications for office respecting age,\r\nproperty, residence, and taxation. But if office, merely as such, were a right\r\nwhich each individual under the social compact was entitled to claim, all these\r\nqualifications would be excluded. Acknowledged rights are not subject, and\r\nought not to be subject to any such limitation. The right of being protected in\r\nlife, liberty, and estate is due to all and cannot be justly denied to any,\r\nwhatever be their age, property, or residence in the State.
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\r\nThese qualifications, then, can only be made requisite as conditions for office\r\non the ground that office is not what any man can demand as matter of right but\r\nrests in the confidence and good-will of those who are to bestow it. In short,\r\nit seems to me too plain to be questioned that the right of office is a matter\r\nof discretion and option, and can never be claimed by any man on the ground of\r\nobligation. It would seem to follow, then, that those who confer office may\r\nannex any such conditions to it as they think proper. If they prefer one man to\r\nanother, they may act on that preference. If they regard certain personal\r\nqualifications, they may act accordingly, and ground of complaint is given to\r\nnobody. Between two candidates otherwise equally qualified, the people at an\r\nelection may decide in favor of one because he is a Christian and against the\r\nother because he is not. They may repeat this preference at the next election\r\non the same ground and may continue it from year to year.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

As David\r\nBarton (President and Chairman of Wallbuilders) notes, \"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span>Daniel Webster's remarks regarding the committee's report\r\nprovides compelling reasoning which should be considered by every American\r\nvoter today. Webster's comments emphasize the importance of Christian leaders\r\nand Christian principles in civil government.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

We've\r\nspent most of today's Coffee Break, thus far, dealing with the historical\r\noutline of Daniel Webster's life but let\u2019s dig into more of his speech to the\r\nMassachusetts Constitutional Convention along with portions of other speeches\r\nand forceful arguments in favor of Christianity and Christians in government.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Let's\r\ntake a look at an address he made at Dartmouth.\u00a0 This speech must easily\r\nhave taken an hour or more to deliver, and it would take a week of Coffee\r\nBreaks to try and cover the whole thing, so let me rather take some extracts\r\nfrom his address -- and address which clearly denotes his personal convictions\r\nand thought processes concerning the Lord and His interaction with\r\nmankind.\u00a0\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Darwin had not yet published his\r\n\"Origin of the Species,\" but it is clear that the concept of\r\nevolution had already begun to run amuck among atheists.\u00a0 Webster\r\nridicules the concept and refutes it with his inestimable logic.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Take a look at a small portion of what he\r\nhad to say:<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"It is an account of the good effects upon our own\r\nhappiness and the welfare of Mankind, that we are commanded to love God with\r\nall our powers and affections.\u00a0 But in order to obey this command, it is\r\nindispensably necessary that we should form for ourselves such a character of\r\nGod as is altogether lovely.<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"This character of God we may imperfectly form, from a\r\ncorrect intelligent and enlarged examination and contemplation of his works, as\r\nexhibited to our senses on this globe; in which we cannot fail at every glance\r\nto discern evidence of his infinite power and wisdom.\u00a0 Mankind has in\r\nevery age been struck with the power of these two attributes.\u00a0 But not so\r\nwith his goodness, the most important attribute of all and which essentially\r\nconstitutes his moral character; without which we might indeed fear and revere,\r\nbut never love him. <\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/span>\r\n\r\n

\"The belief that\r\nthis globe existed from all eternity, or never had a beginning; never obtained\r\na foothold in any part of the world, or in any age.\u00a0 Even the infidel\r\nwriter, of modern times, however, in the pride of argument they may have\r\nasserted it but believed or not, for they could not help perceiving that if\r\nmankind with their inherently intellectual powers, and natural capacities for\r\nimprovement, had inhabited this Earth for millions of years, the present\r\ninhabitants would not only be vastly more intelligent than we now find them,\r\nbut there would be vestiges of the former races, to be found in every\r\ninhabitable part of the Globe.\u00a0 Floods and Earthquakes notwithstanding;\r\nUnless we adopt Lord Manboddo's supposition that Mankind were originally\r\nMonkeys, it is impossible to admit the idea that they could have existed\r\nmillions of years without making more discoveries & improvements than the\r\nearly histories of nations warrant us to believe they had done. <\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"The belief in an\r\nuncreated, self existent intelligent first cause, takes possession of our minds\r\nwhether we will or not, because if Man could not create himself nothing else\r\ncould; and matter, if it were not external could produce nothing but\r\nmatter.\u00a0 It could never produce thought, nor free will, nor consciousness.\r\n<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"There must have\r\nbeen therefore, a time when this globe and its inhabitants did not exist. The\r\nquestion then arises, what gave it existence?\u00a0 We answer God, the great\r\nfirst cause of all things. What is God?\u00a0 We know not.\u00a0 We know him\r\nonly through his creation and his revelation.\u00a0 What do these teach\r\nus?\u00a0 They teach us, first this - incomprehensible power, next his infinite\r\nMind, and lastly his universal benevolence - or Goodness.\u00a0 These terms\r\nexpress all that can know or believe of him; his omnipresence is included in\r\nthe Idea of infinite power; his omniscience in that of infinite wisdom, and his\r\njustice, Mercy, Holiness and truth in that of infinite benevolence or\r\nLove.\u00a0 The whole of his attributes may therefore be expressed in three\r\nwords Power, Wisdom and Goodness and these are inherent self existence eternal\r\nand unchangeable.<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"We can only\r\nreason from what we know and believe; our knowledge is extremely limited, and\r\nour belief often unsound.\u00a0 It is therefore with great humility I venture\r\nto ask the question, What gave birth to Creation?\u00a0 Which of the qualities\r\nthat we ascribe to the Universal father, could have induced this Infinitely\r\nHoly and consequently Infinitely happy being, to create any thing?\u00a0 So\r\nthis we are forced to answer - Infinite Goodness. Wisdom alone may contrive;\r\nPower alone may create but neither, alone, or united, would suggest or prompt\r\nto action; because neither can desire, neither can furnish <\/span><\/i><\/b>motive<\/span><\/b><\/em> for itself.\u00a0 The first step in\r\nCreation was therefore made by infinite benevolence.\u00a0 Infinite Wisdom next\r\ndevised the plan to satisfy the wishes of benevolence, and infinite power,\r\nexecuted the work without defect so that the divine mind when contemplating the\r\nprinciples and structure of its glorious work could truly say, - It is Good.<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"How shall we\r\ncultivate and strengthen this glorious principle of Love?\u00a0 By endeavoring\r\nto obey the first and great commandment.\u00a0 But do we have no power over our\r\nlove?\u00a0 Love is an effect resulting from a cause.\u00a0 True, but happily\r\nfor us, Jesus Christ has furnished us with causes in abundance.\u00a0 The\r\nApostle John says, \"We love God, because He <\/span><\/i><\/b>first<\/span><\/b><\/em> loved us.\"\u00a0 This is the\r\nonly true and natural foundation of love for God - in Man. Love as necessarily\r\nbegets love, as Hatred begets hatred.\u00a0 Our task is easy!\u00a0 Our duty a\r\npleasure!\u00a0 We have only to look around to scrutinize - to reflect.\u00a0\r\nThe proofs of God's love to us are presented at every glance are inhaled with\r\nevery breath.\u00a0 As the Psalmist David says, \"His mercies are over all\r\nhis works.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"But how shall we\r\nreconcile contradictory facts? God is good, and yet man is not happy. He is\r\nincessantly looking beyond his possessions; forever coveting some unenjoyed\r\ngood and trampling upon present blessings.<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"This difficult\r\nproblem admits of but one solution but it is a solution which unfolds the\r\ngreatest and most important truth in nature; a truth that reconciles Man to his\r\nmaker, and to the world; a truth which solves all mysteries and harmonizes all\r\napparent contradictions. <\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"This glorious truth\r\nmay be expressed in three words <\/span><\/i><\/b>Man is Immortal!<\/span><\/b><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 His body is but his\r\nhabitation; his undying intellectual is himself and his moral feelings &\r\ncapacity constitute his essence, and his worth. <\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"These spiritual\r\nqualities in Man, fit him for eternity; every other animal soon arrives at a\r\nfixed degree of perfection, of body and mind beyond which it cannot pass; But\r\nwhere can you fix limits to the reasoning power; to the very principle of\r\nintelligence? which like gravitation grows stronger and stronger as the\r\nmaterial upon which it acts accumulates.<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"In this view of\r\nhuman nature, and its intellectual, its moral, its spiritual endowments, we may\r\njustly say, If there be no resurrection (through Christ) into life eternal, we\r\nof all creatures, are the most miserable.\u00a0 Our wonderful powers are given\r\nus in vain; and our constant endeavors to attain happiness are also vain.<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

But thanks be to God,\r\nwhose nature is love, Whose wisdom is infinite, who saw before creation the end\r\n& operation of His work, with whom nothing is uncertain, nothing\r\ncontingent, He, has given us assurances both internal and external, that we\r\nshall all pass through those states or processes of purification which are\r\nnecessary, to fit us, for the full enjoyment of the perfectly happy existence He\r\noriginally designed for us, whose pain or sorrow shall be known no man for\r\never.\u00a0 Where discontent shall be swallowed up in Bliss.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Webster's\r\nthought processes are clearly a product of logic -- and his logic IS\r\nfascinating -- but what interests me the most in his commentary is the fact\r\nthat this is a man who invested his life in the defense of a Constitution for\r\nthese United States, who labored long and hard to establish right principles\r\nand foundations upon which future generations could build.\u00a0 We are blessed\r\nto have had this man among our nation's founding fathers.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Next week,\r\nwe will take a look at the life of Alexander Hamilton.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

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We continue today with our discourse on Daniel Webster and his history. As noted last week, few names are more discussed or mentioned in today\u2019s discussions than that of Daniel Webster.
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