Thanksgiving By Faith

We wish you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving.  As we stop to count our many blessings and reasons to be thankful to God we include love and friendship from our family and friends. 

God Bless you always, John and Ann Short

Heroes of Faith by Edgar De Witt Jones

By faith the voyaging Mayflower embarked from Old England and

 found harbor off the bleak New England shores.

By faith the Pilgrim Fathers set up a government on a new continent dedicated to God and

inspired by a desire to do His will on earth as it is done in heaven.

By faith Thomas Jefferson was stirred to strike a blow for political independence and wrote the

thrilling document that declared that all men are created equal and

endowed with certain inalienable rights.

By faith he said, "Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself."

By faith George Washington left his spacious mansion at Mount Vernon

and espoused the cause of the tax-burdened colonists.

By faith he forsook ease and comfort, choosing rather to suffer hardship with his men at Valley

Forge than to enjoy the favor of a king.

By faith he became the President of the newly born republic and

endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

By faith Alexander Hamilton established the financial credit of the nation. In the eloquent words of Daniel Webster: "He touched the corpse of public credit and it sprang into life. He smote the rock of national resources and abundant streams of revenue flowed."

By faith James Madison gave richly of his scholarly mind to form the Federal Constitution.

By faith Andrew Jackson fought the battle of the impoverished and

underprivileged many against the privileged few.

By faith Abraham Lincoln bore the awful burden of four purgatorial

years seeking to preserve the Federal Union.

By faith he carried a dreadful war to its conclusion without hate in his heart, saying,

 "I have not only suffered for the South, I have suffered with the South."

By faith Woodrow Wilson in the dreadful heartbreak of a world war dreamed a dream of a war less world in which the nations should be leagued together to keep the peace.

By faith he glimpsed that promised land which, like Moses, he might not enter.

And what shall I more say?

For time would fail me if I should tell of that unnumbered host, the unnamed and obscure citizens

who bore unimagined burdens, sacrificed in silence and endured nobly, that

 a government of the people, for the people, and by the people might not perish from the earth...