Battle Hymn of the Republic

Words: Julia Ward Howe, 1861

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are
stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
Glory! glory, hallelujah! Glory! glory , hallelujah!
Glory! glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
Glory! glory, hallelujah! Glory! glory , hallelujah!
Glory! glory, hallelujah! His day is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d rows of steel,
"As ye deal with My contemnors, so with you My grace shall deal;"
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel
Since God is marching on.
Glory! glory, hallelujah! Glory! glory , hallelujah!
Glory! glory, hallelujah! Since God is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat.
O be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant my feet!
Our God is marching on.
Glory! glory, hallelujah! Glory! glory , hallelujah!
Glory! glory, hallelujah! Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free;
While God is marching on.
Glory! glory, hallelujah! Glory! glory , hallelujah!
Glory! glory, hallelujah! While God is marching on.
My Country, Tis of Thee
Words: Samuel Francis Smith, 1832
My country, tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims pride,
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring!
My native country thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love:
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet freedoms song:
Let mortal tongues awake,
Let all that breathe partake:
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our fathers God, to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing:
Long may our land be bright
With freedoms holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King!

God Bless America
Words: Irving Berlin, 1918
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer.
God bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, my own home sweet home, my home sweet home
America the Beautiful
Words: Katherine L. Bates, 1893
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thorough-fare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood,
From sea to shining sea!
The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every
respect there shall be a separation of Church and State.
Rather, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in
which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on
the other... Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to
each otherhostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly. -United
States Supreme Court, 1952, Zorach v. Clauson The Americans combine
the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it
is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other. -Tocqueville
...Christianity, general Christianity, is, and always has been, a
part of the common law not Christianity with an established
church but Christianity with liberty of conscience to all men.
-United States Supreme Court, 1892, Church of the Holy Trinity v. U.S.
And ye shall
know the truth,
and the truth
shall make you
free. John 8:32
Where, say some, is
the King of America?
Ill tell you, friend,
He reigns above.
-Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Greater love hath
no man than this,
that a man lay
down his life
for his friends.
John 15:13
Let every thing
that hath breath
praise the LORD.
Praise ye the
LORD.
Psalm 150:6
In this age, there can be
no substitute for Chris-
tianity... That was the
religion of the founders
of the republic and they
expected it to remain
the religion of their
descendants. -
Congress, U.S. House
Judiciary Committee, 1854
...the Christian religion
must be the basis of any
government intended to
secure the rights and
privileges of a free people.
Noah Webster
We have staked the
whole future of Ameri-
can civilization upon
the capacity of each and
all of us to govern
ourselves, to control
ourselves, to sustain
ourselves according to
the Ten Commandments
of God. -James
Madison, Father of the
Constitution
God who gave us
life gave us liberty.
-Thomas Jefferson
The Star-Spangled Banner
Words: Francis Scott Key, 1814
O say, can you see, by the dawns early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous
fight,
Oer the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thru the night that our flag was still there:
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
Oer the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foes haughty host in dread silence reposes.
What is that which the breeze, oer the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the mornings first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
Oer the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battles confusion
A home and country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
Oer the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes and the wars desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: In God is our trust.
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
Oer the land of the free and the home of the brave!


Eternal Father: The Navy Hymn
Words: Rev. William Whiting, 1860
Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep,
Its own appointed limits keep.
Oh hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea! Amen.
O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at Thy word,
Who walkedst on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
Oh hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea! Amen.
Most Holy Spirit! Who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea!
Oh Trinity of love and pow'r,
Our brethren shield in danger's hour,
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect them where so e'er they go.
Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea! Amen.
Taps
PA Military College, 1862
Day is done, gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky;
All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.
Fading light, dims the sight,
And a star gems the sky, gleaming bright.
From afar, drawing nigh, falls the night.
Thanks and praise, for our days,
'Neath the sun, 'neath the stars, neath the sky;
As we go, this we know, God is nigh.
Sun has set, shadows come,
Time has fled, Scouts must go to their beds
Always true to the promise that they made.
While the light fades from sight,
And the stars gleaming rays softly send,
To Thy hands we our souls, Lord, commend.
But it is good for
me to draw near to
God: I have put my
trust in the Lord
GOD, that I may
declare all thy
works. Psalm 73:28
From the Wills of Our Founding Fathers:
In the name of God, Amen. I...commend my soul to my blessed Re-
deemer -Daniel St. Thomas Jenifer, Signer of the Constitution
I...recommend my Soul to that Almighty Being who gave it ...relying
upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins. -Samuel
Adams, Father of the American Revolution, Signer of the Dec. of Ind.
...I commend my soul to the infinite mercies of God in Christ Jesus,
the beloved Son of the Father, who died and rose again -John Langdon,
Signer of the Constitution
To the eternal, immutable, and only true God be all honor and glory, now
and forever, Amen!... -Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Signer of the Const.
... I bequeath my soul to God the Creator believing and hoping for
eternal life thro the merits of my dear, exalted Redeemer Jesus Christ.
Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut, Patriot
Unto Him who is the author and giver of all good, I render sincere and
humble thanks...especially for our redemption and salvation by His beloved
son. -John Jay, First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, President
of Congress, Author of the Federalist Papers, Gov. of N.Y., Diplomat
This is all the inheritance I can give to my dear family. The religion of
Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed. Patrick Henry,
Governor of Virginia, Patriot
I entreat you in the most earnest manner to believe in Jesus Christ, for there is
no salvation in any other -John Witherspoon, 1758, Signer of the Dec. of Ind.
I believe that there is one only living and
true God, existing in three persons, the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost that
the Scriptures of the Old and New Testa-
ments are a revelation from God that God
did send His own Son to become man, die in
the room and stead of sinners, and thus to
lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and
salvation to all mankind so as all may be
saved who are willing to accept the Gospel
offer. Roger Sherman, Signer of the Decl.
of Ind., Signer of the Constitution
Words from Our Founding Fathers on the Bible:
...the Bible is the best book in the world. -John Adams, 1813; The use of
the Bible is so universal and its importance so great... -Continental Con-
gress, Sept. 11, 1777, in ordering 20,000 Bibles for troops; The Bible is
the Chief moral cause of all that is good -Noah Webster; It is impossible
to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. -George Washington;
The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed. -Patrick
Henry; The Bible is the best of all books -Chief Justice John Jay, 1784;
...were you to ask me to recommend the most valuable book in the world, I
should fix on the Bible. -Elias Boudinot, Framer of the Bill of Rights
The great, vital, and
conservative element
in our system is the
belief of our people
in the pure doctrines
and the divine truths
of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ.
Congress, 1854
As to Jesus of
Nazareth... I think the
system of morals and
His religion as He left
them to us, the best
the world ever saw or
is likely to see.
-Benjamin Franklin,
March 9, 1790
Do you promise to
tell the truth, the
whole truth, and
nothing but the truth,
so help you God?
JESUS SAVES
{John 3:16}
...it is the duty
of all nations to
acknowledge the
providence of
Almighty God, to
obey His will
-George
Washington