The Second Great Awakening was a Christian revival movement in the United States. It started in 1795 and lasted until 1835. One of its leaders was Timothy Dwight. Dr. Dwight was the grandson of Jonathan Edwards and he was president of Yale College from 1795 until 1817. Charles G. Finney was another one of its…
Category: American History
The Shining City on a Hill
Jesus said to his followers, “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine…
Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing
If Jesus can calm a storm on a lake, he can calm the storm in your heart.
The Gettysburg Address
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We…
The Declaration of Independence
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which…
America Was Founded on Christianity
Noah Webster was the founder of American Education. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, a Founding Father, and the creator of Webster’s Dictionary. He said: “Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America, the foundational religion…
