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George Read
American History, Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian History, September Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence
September 21, 1798 Death of Signer, George Read George Read (September 18, 1733 – September 21, 1798) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware and Chief Justice of...Read more... Read more... -->
The Godless Constitution?
American History, Christian History, Christian Social Influence, Christian Witness
September 17, 1787 Constitution adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Since the 1940s, Christians in America have been waging polemical warfare against usurpationists and their claims of a godless Constitution. In 1996, Cornell University professors Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore published a joint work titled, The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness (W. W. Horton). The title of the work was an apt description of their thesis—the Constitutional Fathers were completely irreligious in their efforts to provide a federal government...Read more... Read more... -->
Abraham Clark
American History, Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian History, September Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence
September 15, 1794 Death of Signer, Abraham Clark Abraham Clark (February 15, 1726 – September 15, 1794) was an American politician and Revolutionary War figure. He was delegate for New Jersey to the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence and later served in the United States House of Representatives in both the Second and Third United States Congress, from March 4, 1791, until his death in...Read more... Read more... -->
John Penn
American History, Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian History, September Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence
September 14, 1788 John Penn, signer of the Declaration of Independence, passed away John Penn (May 17, 1741 – September 14, 1788) was a signer of both the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation as a representative of North...Read more... Read more... -->
The Christian Founding of Harvard
American History, Christian History, Role of Pastors
September 8, 1636 Harvard first convenes classes Only eighteen years after the Pilgrims landed in the New World, Harvard College, the first of the Ivy League schools, was established for the sake of educating the clergy and raising up a Christian academic institution to meet the needs of perpetuating the Christian faith. All of the Ivy League schools were established by Christians for the sake of advancing Christianity and meeting the academic needs of the New World. No better summary of this effort can be offered than the one provided by the founders themselves: After God had carried us...Read more... Read more... -->