"May the God of your parents for many generations past seal instruction
to your soul and lead you to Himself, through the blood of His too generally
despised Son, Who, notwithstanding, is still reclaiming the world to God
through that blood, not imputing them their sins, to Him be glory forever."
-Excerpt from a letter written by New Jersey Founding Father
Elias Boudinot (1740-1821) to his soon-to-be wed daughter, Susan.
Thomas Sully
(1783-1872)
American portrait painter
After the second part of Thomas Paine's "The Age of Reason"
a Deistic attack on the Christian faith, was published in 1795,
a concerned Elias Boudinot took pen in hand and refuted
Paine -whom advocated that while God existed, the
miracles and supernatural occurrences in the Bible
were nothing but myths- with a work of his own entitled:
"The Age of Revelation, or the Age of Reason Shown
to be an age of Infidelity", which took the form of a
pamphlet and was also written with his
daughter in mind. Boudinot wrote:
"May that God, Who delighteth in the meek and humble
temper which trembleth at His word, lead you to the
Cross of Christ: and there, by His Holy Spirit, direct you
into all truth. May He instruct you in His holy word, which
is able to make you wise unto salvation...In short, were you
to ask me to recommend the most valuable book in the world,
I should fix on the Bible as the most instructive, both to
the wise and the ignorant."
Elias Boudinot, a humble man of deep faith, clearly recognized the
subtle satanic infiltration, through human pride and self-centeredness,
to blacken the name of Jesus Christ within the minds of the people
in the fledging nation America, a precursor to the Marxist
influence which is so prevalent within our society today.
In 1816, he helped to found the American Bible Society and
served as the organization's first President. His involvement
in the Bible Society was not unique among the Founding Fathers
of America. Roughly 40% of them were not just members, but,
officeholders of various local, state, and national Bible societies.
Information for this post:
God's Plan for America
"The Light and the Glory"
1492-1793
By Peter Marshall Jr.
and David Manuel
(1977)
Revell Publishing Company
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