Friar Luke's Domain                                         
                                                      Truths Of American History

Christ And America

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."- First Chief Justice of Supreme Court John Jay.

"Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in the school? Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?"- United States Supreme Court, 1844

"The highest story of the American Revolution is this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."- President John Adams

War Between The States

"If you bring these leaders to trial it will condemn the North, for by the Constitution secession is not rebellion." -Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court privately delivered this opinion on charging captured Confederate officers with treason.

"I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation." -Robert E. Lee spoke these words to his army's chaplains.

"Hello, Massa; bottom rail on top dis time." -A black Union soldier spoke these words to a Confederate prisoner he recognized--his former master.