Some years ago, I debated an ACLU attorney around the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays on an NPR station in Atlanta. The exchange was typical until I pulled out a Xerox copy of The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States, first published in 1864, and said to her: “Until you answer this book, the ACLU can’t make a case against America’s Christian founding.”
She was shocked when she saw it. She asked where I had gotten it. The only thing that gave her relief was the fact that the book was not in print. In 2007 American Vision brought Christian Life and Character to life again. It’s available once again!
The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States
The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States is back in print! Retail price $45.00. Special American Vision price $39.95 plus shipping. Order today. A limited number of copies available.
Buy NowLeftists are all about rewriting history. They are involved in a vast coverup of much of America’s Christian past.
Leftists with their cancel culture tactics and reimaging of America’s history are exposed in this marvelous book. If you are looking for an antidote to revisionist history, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States is it.
Morris packs Christian Life and Character with page after page of original source material making the case that America was founded on Christian principles. The evidence is unanswerable and irrefutable. The content in this 1000-page book is transformational. Every family needs a copy in their home library. If you don’t have a home library, you can start with this book.
Keep in mind that it was published in 1864 and was out of print for more than a century and often unavailable in libraries. It has been newly typeset using a readable font and added subheads. The Foreword is written by my long-time friend Dr. Archie Jones that describes the background of the book and provides a brief biography of the author.
When American Vision reprinted Christian Life and Character in 2007, it was an immediate best seller. We couldn’t keep it in stock. One of these days, I’ll tell you the story.
This is a high-quality smythe-sewn hardback with a beautiful, updated cover and several formatting improvements. Don’t miss out on the fantastic wealth of information this 1000+ page book has in store. Your children and grandchildren are not being taught the truth of history in public school, and this book will correct that travesty!
Christian Life and Character could very well be responsible for rediscovering the truth of Americas biblical foundation. This book should be the cornerstone of any personal, professional, church or school library for as Chaplain Sunderland (1819–1901) of the 37th Congress stated: “It may become the morning star of the mightiest day of national regeneration the world has yet beheld!”
The following Preface was written by Rev. Byron Sunderland, D.D., late Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington City, and Chaplain to the Senate of the United States in the Thirty-Seventh Congress.
This volume is committed to the American people, in the firm assurance that the invaluable facts which it records will be grateful to every patriotic and pious heart. In it, as from the richest mines, has been brought out the pure gold of our history. Its treasures have been gathered and placed in this casket for the instruction and benefit of the present and future. We have a noble historic life; for our ancestors were the worthies of the world. We have a noble nation, full of the evidences of the moulding presence of Christian truth, and of the power and goodness of Divine wisdom in rearing up a Christian republic for all time. That this was the spirit and aim of the early founders of our institutions, the facts in this volume fully testify.
The field through which the reader will walk, in this work, must give wider expansion to his political views, quicken the pulses of his loyalty, add to his conscious dignity as an American citizen, strengthen his confidence in our future, and impart a higher tone to his piety.
The single object of the compiler was to link, in a connected form, the golden chain of our Christian history, and to reveal the basis on which our institutions stand.
The documents and facts are authentic, and have been collected, with laborious diligence, from standard historical works and from the political and Christian annals of the nation. The volume is the voice of the best and wisest men of the republic. It must, therefore, have weight with the American people, and be a political and Christian thesaurus and text-book to the scholar, the teacher, the patriot, the politician, the statesman, the jurist, the legislator, the divine, and, in a word, to all classes of American citizens. The work is not speculative or theoretical, but a series of facts to unfold and establish the Christian life and character of the civil institutions of the United States, in the light of which every American citizen can trace to its source the true glory of the nation and learn to appreciate its institutions and to venerate and imitate the great and good men who founded them.
It has been a delightful task of patriotism and piety to the compiler to prepare the volume, and to lay it as a grateful offering upon the common altar of his country and of Christianity.
The work has been the labor of years, performed in various States of the Union, and in the capital of the nation, within sight of the tomb of Washington, during the most eventful year of the Rebellion; and its last pages were prepared for the press in Philadelphia, where so many of the sacred scenes of the Revolution transpired.
The volume, therefore, has in its preparation a national feature, and the reader will be impressed with the importance and appositeness of the facts to the present time.
It is also the ardent hope of the compiler that the facts and principles recorded in this volume, and in which, in our early struggle, all denominations of Christians uttered with such harmony their convictions that the only sure and stable basis of our civil institutions was in the Christian religion, may contribute to strengthen the union of patriotism and piety in all parts of the country, to save the nation from the perils of a wicked rebellion, and be the brightest hope of the future.
Care has been taken to give each author credit for his thoughts and language, though in a few instances it may have been overlooked.
It was neither the desire nor the design of the compiler to elaborate his own views—though they are found in the volume but to give those of the great leading minds of the republic, both past and present.
His grateful acknowledgments are tendered to the Librarians of the Young Men’s Mercantile Library Association, and of the Mechanics’ Institute Libraries of Cincinnati; of the State Library of Ohio; of the Historical and Astor Libraries of New York; of the Mercantile Library and Library Association of Philadelphia; of the Libraries of Congress, and of the Interior Department; to the Chief Clerk in the Department of State, for access to the manuscript papers of Washington; to Peter Force, of Washington City, for frequent examinations of his large and invaluable collection of books and periodicals illustrative of the early history of our country; and to the Honorable Thomas Corwin, of Ohio, for numerous visits to his valuable library.
His thanks are due also to the late Honorable Samuel W. Parker, of Indiana, for the frequent use of his large political and historical library, and to the late Judge John McLean, of Ohio, who imparted to the compiler valuable suggestions in reference to the preparation of the work.
Its high Christian tone and sentiment, its finished literary excellence, and the important truths it so forcibly enunciates will render it well worthy of the attention of the reader.
The volume is committed to the blessing of God and to the judgment and favor of the American people, in humble trust that it may aid in preserving and perpetuating to future generations the Union of the States, the integrity of the best government ever instituted by the wisdom of men, and the nationality of the American Republic.
The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States
The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States is back in print! Retail price $45.00. Special American Vision price $39.95 plus shipping. Order today. A limited number of copies available.
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