The Pilgrims: Light Bearers”

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We get all up in the air when some “minority race” is discriminated against.  And well we should.  We get very angry when any hint of prejudice surfaces against women; while much of that is even unfounded.  We now are hearing a constant outcry that homosexuals should have equal rights, which really means accepting their lifestyle as being right—which is both Biblically and Constitutionally wrong!  But there is virtually no outcry against the greatest discrimination occurring in our nation today.  There is almost no voice being raised against the greatest lie that is being spread in America at this hour.

The indoctrination has been so widespread by the “educational elite” in Washington and in state bureaucracies, as well as in the national media, that we’ve believed it with hardly a thought.  What discrimination do I speak of?  What group of Americans has been so lied about?  It is the Pilgrims and Puritans of the 1600s.  But, thank God, Dr. Billy Graham helped to set the record straight about the great people who pioneered this nation.  I continue to quote from his article in Decision Magazine, November 2002:

Dr. Graham declares: “…The Pilgrims were evangelists who set us an example in sharing their spiritual and material blessings with others.”

“In the Mayflower Compact the Pilgrims committed themselves to the ‘advancement of the Christian faith.’  The Pilgrims at Plymouth were followed by the Puritans at Massachusetts Bay.  Together they built churches and schools.  In 1636 Harvard College was founded to train men for the ministry.  By 1663 the first Bible was printed (the Algonquin Bible) for the Native Americans in their own tongue.”

“These settlers came to the new world not only to find freedom for themselves, but also to tell others of their faith.”

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“The Pilgrims: People Of Law”

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Sometimes the ignorance is so great you feel like you need a hammer and a chisel to free someone’s mind!  Such is often my frustration as I talk with people about the Pilgrims and Puritans who laid the foundation of this nation.  They have been so maligned by the media and liberal educators that almost no one knows the truth about them.  This is why I’ve chosen to share with you Dr. Billy Graham’s words this whole month.  His article in Decision magazine, November 2002, really reveals who the Pilgrims were and how they thought. Let’s continue Dr. Graham’s writing:

He says, “…The Pilgrims have left us the example of freedom under law.  The Mayflower Compact, forged before the Pilgrims left the ship, was the wedge that opened the door to a government controlled by the people; a government that has endured in the United States for centuries.  Most historians agree that the Mayflower Compact was the forerunner of the Constitution of the United States.  This little band of people searched for an equitable manner of earning a living and for a way of survival.  They tried living a communal lifestyle, but according to Governor Bradford: ‘This communal system conceived by Plato was found to breed much confusion.’  When communal living failed, they assigned a parcel of land to every family; with individual enterprise, prosperity came to the colony.”

“In some parts of the world rebellious young people live, enjoying what they call ‘absolute freedom.’  They are free to take narcotics, free to experiment with sex, free to go unwashed, free to dress as they please, and do what they like.  They remind me of a man in a hospital who had to be fed through a tube.  Having tired of the tube with its discomfort, the man tore the tube from his body and declared that he was free.  Free?  He was free only to die, because he had removed himself from his hope of life.”

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The Pilgrims: Who Were They?

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November is the month of the Thanksgiving Day holiday in America.  But why do we have Thanksgiving?  We know the Pilgrims held the first Thanksgiving Day in 1621, which was the first harvest time they had here.  They wanted to thank the Lord Jesus Christ for His protection and provision in this new world they had entered.  They indeed, wanted it to be a new world!  They came here to start a new culture based on the Word of God; and that’s exactly what they did!

One of the greatest descriptions of the Pilgrims I’ve ever read was written by Billy Graham in the November, 2002 issue of Decision magazine.  I want to quote him at length:

Dr. Graham begins: “Emerson once said that ‘all history resolves itself…into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.’  It is appropriate at this season that we honor ‘a few stout and earnest’ Englishmen—the Pilgrims—who left their native land in search of freedom to worship God.”

“This is a day of cynicism, yet no amount of cynicism or ridicule can take away what the Pilgrims did more than 380 years ago.”

“The Mayflower’s voyage to the new world was a ‘survival test’ on a huge scale.  The passengers had sold their possessions and had to work for years to pay for their passage.  The ship had no heat or plumbing.  Storms raged, and a main beam cracked in mid-ocean.”

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