America's Founders on Easter
Apr 14, 2017 08:02:45 #
America's Founders on Easter
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Easter is celebrated across the world as one of the most significant Christian holy days -- as a time when we pause to remember the great sacrifice of Jesus on the cross as well as the ultimate triumph of His resurrection. America's Founding Fathers often commented on Easter.
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For example, Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence, viewed Easter as the power for salvation, explaining:
The approaching festival of Easter, and the merits and mercies of our Redeemer copiosa assudeum redemptio [with the Lord there is plentiful redemption] have lead me into this chain of meditation and reasoning, and have inspired me with the hope of finding mercy before my Judge, and of being happy in the life to come -- a happiness I wish you to participate with me by infusing into your heart a similar hope.
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Benjamin Rush, another signer of the Declaration, pointed out how Jesus' resurrection not only redeemed man to God but also to each other. He noted:
He forgave the crime of murder on His cross; and after His resurrection, He commanded His disciples to preach the gospel of forgiveness, first at Jerusalem, where He well knew His murderers still resided. These striking facts are recorded for our imitation and seem intended to show that the Son of God died, not only to reconcile God to man but to reconcile men to each other.
Easter is indeed a special day, not only from an historical viewpoint but also from a spiritual one. As early American clergyman Phillips Brooks accurately noted, because of Easter "Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in His resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise'."
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Easter is celebrated across the world as one of the most significant Christian holy days -- as a time when we pause to remember the great sacrifice of Jesus on the cross as well as the ultimate triumph of His resurrection. America's Founding Fathers often commented on Easter.
http://links.emagnify.com/files/amf_emagnify/project_113/CharlesCarroll.jpg
For example, Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence, viewed Easter as the power for salvation, explaining:
The approaching festival of Easter, and the merits and mercies of our Redeemer copiosa assudeum redemptio [with the Lord there is plentiful redemption] have lead me into this chain of meditation and reasoning, and have inspired me with the hope of finding mercy before my Judge, and of being happy in the life to come -- a happiness I wish you to participate with me by infusing into your heart a similar hope.
http://links.emagnify.com/files/amf_emagnify/project_113/BenRush2.jpg
Benjamin Rush, another signer of the Declaration, pointed out how Jesus' resurrection not only redeemed man to God but also to each other. He noted:
He forgave the crime of murder on His cross; and after His resurrection, He commanded His disciples to preach the gospel of forgiveness, first at Jerusalem, where He well knew His murderers still resided. These striking facts are recorded for our imitation and seem intended to show that the Son of God died, not only to reconcile God to man but to reconcile men to each other.
Easter is indeed a special day, not only from an historical viewpoint but also from a spiritual one. As early American clergyman Phillips Brooks accurately noted, because of Easter "Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in His resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise'."
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