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Courageous 20-Year Old Warns Iowa House to Serve the King of kings

Do you want to see how a godly citizen should act? Watch this, and be humbled by a courageous 20-year old.

The Rule of Duty to Christian Nations to Civil Institutions

 James Renwick Willson (1780-1853)

"Never in any form, since the United States became an independent nation, has it acknowledged the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, nor professed subjection to his law. The convention that ratified and unanimously signed the present Federal Constitution, could not have meant to do so, as is demonstrated by many solid arguments. The question was debated, and a very large majority refused to insert any acknowledgment of God, or of the religion of his Son. Had this not been done, the members were men of too much discernment, to have overlooked, through inattention, a matter of so great magnitude. If they intended to acknowledge Christ, it would have been in such terms, as to admit of no doubt. There were many deists in the convention, such as Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, Thomas Mifflin, Governor Morris, and James Madison. Governor Morris and Thomas Jefferson, affirm that General Washington was also a deist. Yet all these infidels signed the constitution. Would they have done so in the presence of those who knew them to be opposed to revealed religion had the instrument been christian. Could the Presidents of the United States, three of whom, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, were certainly infidels, numerous members of congress, Governors of States, and many other officers of the General and State governments, have sworn to the Federal Constitution, had it been understood to recognize the headship of Messiah, whom they held to be an impostor? It has never been the understanding of the nation that the constitution acknowledges the Lord Jesus Christ, or professes subjection to his laws. All infidels have sworn to the support of that instrument, and no one has ever thought of charging them with inconsistency. The present President of the United States, in his message to congress, at the opening of the extra session of 1837, says: "The will of a majority of the people is the supreme law, in all things that come within the jurisdiction of the Federal government." In all the opposition to his administration, this sentiment has never been called in question. The politicians of the nation, would generally reject with detestation, the doctrine, that the constitution binds to the acknowledgment of the Bible as the supreme rule of legislation in this commonwealth. All these arguments are sealed, by the following provision. "No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."This prohibits the passage of any law excluding gamblers, whoremongers, slaveholders, profane swearers, sabbath violaters, gross idolators, blasphemers of the divinity of Christ, deists or atheists, from access to the highest honours of the land, for to exclude any of these, would be to require a religious test. A man might be convicted of any and even of all these sins, and yet be eligible to any office. Here is a flat contradiction to the Bible. "He that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God." 2 Sam. 23:3. If the constitution acknowledged Christ, the christian religion, or Jehovah, in any article directly or indirectly, it would thereby establish a religious test, as no deist or atheist could swear to its support. This sweeping clause is found in the conclusion of a section declaring, "that all executive and judicial officers both of the United States and of the several States shall be bound, by oath or affirmation, to support this constitution." It has been pleaded that this provision acknowledges the christian religion . But how vainly? Heathens swear oaths. An atheist might come into office by an affirmation. The concluding sentence forbidding all religious tests, shews how anxious the framers were to avoid even a seeming acknowledgment of God or his holy religion."


THE WRITTEN LAW,
THE LAW OF GOD REVEALED IN THE SCRIPTURES
BY CHRIST AS MEDIATOR;
The Rule of Duty to Christian Nations to Civil Institutions by James Renwick Willson (1780-1853).

Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

Charlotte Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America's classrooms. Iserbyt is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and in the Republic of South Africa. Iserbyt is a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet Soviets in the Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad which  covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and has had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings. More information here.

Psalm 103 - 'My soul, the LORD bless...' RPC

Christian Civil Government By Pastor Schwertley

Scottish Metrical Psalms - Psalm 117

Constitution of Glasgow RP Church

Lord's Day morning the 22nd May was a historic occasion for the Scottish RP Church. For the first time in 140 years a new RP church in Scotland was constituted. Over 100 people gathered in Thornwood Primary School on the west side of Glasgow coming from Airdrie, Stranraer, Glasgow and further afield. Rev. Andrew Quigley preached on Psalm 16 and the glorious inheritance we have in Christ. Rev. Gerald Milligan, Moderator of Presbytery, then put the terms of membership to the 20 men and women who were becoming members. He then constituted the congregation on behalf of Presbytery. After the singing of Psalm 72, Rev. Kenneth Stewart, the organising minister, led in prayer and pronounced the benediction. The service was followed by a light lunch for all attending. The Airdrie Session and Rev. Kenneth Stewart have been appointed by Presbytery to be the interim Session until such time as new elders are elected.  It has been almost a year since afternoon services commenced in Glasgow with a view to a possible church plant. We rejoice in what the Lord has done and is doing in His church in Glasgow. We continue to pray for the congregation and the minister of the Glasgow RP Church. But we hope that days like yesterday will not be few and far between, but that we would have many such occasions in the future to see congregations being organised for the Lord's glory and the building of His Church in our land.

The Two Sons of Oil By Rev. Samuel Brown Wylie

Biographical Sketch

Samuel B. Wylie was born in County Antrim, Ireland, May 21, 1773.  Entered the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he distinguished himself as a scholar, and graduated with the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1797.  He began teaching a school in Ballymena, Ireland, but was compelled to flee from his native land in consequence of his connection with the efforts in favour of Irish independence.  He emigrated to America, in October, 1797, settling in Philadelphia.  In 1798, he was appointed a Tutor in the University of Pennsylvania.  He studied theology privately, and under the direction of the Rev. William Gibson, being licensed by the Reformed Presbytery, at Coldenham, New York, June 24, 1799.  He was ordained sine titulo by the Reformed Presbytery, at Ryegate, Vermont, June 25, 1800, and was the first Covenanter minister ordained in America.  He accompanied the Rev. James McKinney throughout the South to abolish slavery from the pale of the Covenanter Church.  He preached for some time in newly organized societies of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland.  He was installed pastor of the Philadelphia congregation, November 20, 1803.  At the organization of the Theological seminary in Philadelphia, he was chosen the Professor, and remained in the function from 1810 until his resignation in 1817.  He was re-elected, and served from 1823 until he resigned in 1828.  His most noted publication, "The Two Sons of Oil," first published in 1803, was lauded as the best presentation of the position of the Covenanter Church in America.  Additionally, his sermon on the "Obligation of Covenants," sets forth in clearest terms the old doctrine of the Covenanters. Wylie died, at his residence in Philadelphia, October 13, 1852. 

Psalm 98 - O Sing a New Song to The LORD

Psalm 98 (The Psalms for Singing - A 21st Century Edition)
Tune: Desert / Lyngham / Oh for a thousand Tongues to Sing

Recorded in 4 part harmony during morning worship @ Airdrie RPC on 24/4/2011

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