The College Fix

There is so much hatred and vitriol coming out of our American college campuses today, and a large helping of the blame lies with the professors who have taught our young people to despise America and all that she stands for.

These professors often use secondary sources – not primary ones – but textbooks and other writings by scholars analyzing the Founding Fathers rather than directly quoting them. Such texts often twist and malign our nation’s great history into one that fits their anger-filled narrative.

That’s why it’s so refreshing and heartwarming to read something from the early days filled with the love, thankfulness and faith in God that so embodied who our original founders were as people. The sincerity they had for this country, founded on God’s love and principle that all men, and indeed all humans, are created equal.

Thanks to Wallbuilders for publishing the text of the Continental Congress’ Nov. 1, 1777, national Thanksgiving Day proclamation, as printed in the Journals of Congress. It was penned 16 months after the Declaration of Independence, and two years into the Revolutionary War.

It is my hope it touches you as much as it touched me.

Forasmuch as it is the indispensable duty of all men to adore the superintending providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with gratitude their obligation to him for benefits received, and to implore such farther blessings as they stand in need of; and it having pleased him in his abundant mercy not only to continue to us the innumerable bounties of his common providence, but also smile upon us in the prosecution of a just and necessary war, for the defense and establishment of our unalienable rights and liberties; particularly in that he hath been pleased in so great a measure to prosper the means used for the support of our troops and to crown our arms with most signal success:

It is therefore recommended to the legislative or executive powers of these United States, to set apart Thursday, the 18th day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise; that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts, and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor; and that together with their sincere acknowledgments and offerings, they may join the penitent confession of their manifold sins, whereby they had forfeited every favor, and their humble and earnest supplication that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance; that it may please him graciously to afford his blessings on the governments of these states respectively, and prosper the public council of the whole; to inspire our commanders both by land and sea, and all under them, with that wisdom and fortitude which may render them fit instruments, under the providence of Almighty God, to secure for these United States the greatest of all blessings, independence and peace; that it may please him to prosper the trade and manufactures of the people and the labor of the husbandman, that our land may yield its increase; to take schools and seminaries of education, so necessary for cultivating the principles of true liberty, virtue and piety, under his nurturing hand, and to prosper the means of religion for the promotion and enlargement of that kingdom which consisteth in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Thanks for our freedom. Thanks for our liberty. Thanks for those who sacrificed so much for our freedoms. Thanks for the Lord’s blessings – even in times of turmoil.

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