A PROPHECY FOR AMERICA

 Many things that Abraham Lincoln said ring true. In what's known as "The Lyceum Speech" of 1838, given in Springfield, Illinois, Lincoln said:

"We find ourselves in the peaceful possession of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings.

"We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them — they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors. Theirs was the task (and nobly they performed it) to possess themselves, and through themselves, us, of this goodly land; and to uprear upon its hills and its valleys, a political edifice of liberty and equal rights; ’tis ours only, to transmit these, the former, unprofaned by the foot of an invader; the latter, undecayed by the lapse of time and untorn by usurpation, to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know. This task of gratitude to our fathers, justice to ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for our species in general, all imperatively require us faithfully to perform.

"How then shall we perform it? — At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? — Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

As a companion quote to the above, these words have been attributed to Lincoln: 

"The philosophy of the schoolhouse in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next."

The philosophy in our classrooms is humanism and relativism run rampant. Our schoolhouses are training camps, training the youth to live as if they exist during the time of the Judges in Israel--trained to do what's right in their own eyes from K-college. 

Each schoolhouse is hermetically sealed to keep the Bible itself out and any principle or verse derived from or quoted from the Bible is a punishable offense. That is the philosophy infusing the school houses. If Lincoln's right in his assessment, that philosophy is now entering the government.

The long-neglected antidote consists of Deuteronomy 6:6-9;  Matthew 19:13-14; II Timothy 3:15. The principles in those texts produced the Josephs, Samuels, Davids, Hannahs, and Daniels of yesteryear.