RELIGION or POLITICS ? The Presidency and the Constitution, Finale.

(Wisdom from Imprimis published Hillsdale College. The article is by Mike Pence, Representative of Indiana's 6th Congressional district.")


Hey people, here we are at Hump Day and already looking forward to another glorious weekend, right?
Of course, at least, at this point we can still look forward to something in the future we can enjoy, but don't look long term that way unless you realize, recognize,  and prepare for possible hard times. At least be forewarned and accept the potential reality of what I am saying.  If you are not listening to Glenn Beck you will never learn the hard side of our present economic plunge. LISTEN TO BECK,  !!!!!!

And now to complete the subject matter of the past few blogs. Hope you are filing this in your memory.


     The presidencey, a great and complex subject upon which I have only touched, has become symbolic of overreaching.   There are many truths that we have been frightened to tell or face.  If we run from them, they will catch us with our backs turned and pull us down.   Better that we should not flee but rather stop and look them in the eye.

     What might our forebears say to us, knowing what they knew, and having done what they did?   I have no doubt that they would tell us to channel our passions, speak the truth and do what is right, slowly and with resolution;   to work calmly, steadily and without animus or fear; to be like a rock in the tide, let the water tumble about us, and be firm and unashamed in our love of country.

    I see us like those in Philadelphia in 1776 . Danger all around, but a fresh chapter, ready to begin, uncorrupted, with great possibilities and -- inexplicably, perhaps miraculously -- the way is clearing ahead.   I have never doubted that Providence can appear in history like the sun emerging from behind the clouds, if only as a reward for adherence to first principles.   As Winston Churdhill said in a speech to Congress on December 26, 1941: " He must indeed have a blind soul who cannot see that some great purpose and design is being worked our her below, of which we have the honor to be the faithful servants.

     As Americans, we inherit what Lincoln in his First Inaugural called "the mystic chords of memory stretching from every patriot grave."   They bind to the great and the humble, the know and the unknown of Americans past --and if I hear them clearly, what they say is that although we may have strayed, we have not strayed too far to return, for we are their descendants.   We can still astound the world with justice, reason, and strength.  I know this is true, but even if it was not we could not in decency stand down, if only for our debt to history.   We owe a debt to tose who came before, who did great things, and suffered more than we suffer, and gave more than we give, and pledged their lives, theri fortunes, and their sacred honor for us, whom they did not know.   For we "drink from wells we did not dig" and are "warmed by fires we did not build," and so we must be faithful in our time as they were in theirs.

     Many generations are gone, but by the character and memory of their existence they forbid us to despair of the republic.  I see ehm crossing the prairies in the sun and wind.  I see their faces looking out from the steel mills and coal mines, and immigrant ships crawling into harbors at dawn.    I see them at work, and at peace.   I see them, long departed, looking into the camera, with hopeful and sad eyes.   And I see them embracing their children, who became us.   They are our family and our blood, and we cannot desert them.   In spirit, all of them down to all of us, in a connection that, out of love, we cannot betray.

They are silent now and forever, but from the eternal silence of every patriot grave the is yet an echo that says  "It is not too late; keep faith with us, keep faith with God, and do not, do not ever despair of the republic."


That is it my friends, and I sincerely hope you get the true American spirit that motivated the writing of this article by Mike Pence,   Wisdom from Imprimis published Hillsdale College. The article is by Mike Pence, Representative of Indiana's 6th Congressional district."   See you all soon.  cheer,    CJ