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Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. The
Book of Deuteronomy is the fifth book. This course is
based on Moses�s fifth book.
The east-side of the U. S. Supreme Court building is
decorated with an eighteen-foot high sculpture of
Moses holding the Ten Commandments. The governmental
buildings and monuments of Washington
D.C. contain hundreds of Bible quotations.
In our nation�s capitol building, in the chambers of
the House of Representatives, thirteen of history�s
greatest legislators are honored in sculpture. Moses
has the most honored position. Moses is in the cen -
ter position on the north wall directly across from
the Speaker�s seat. Symbolically, Moses watches
over our nation�s law-makers and they look to Moses
for instruction.
At the time of the Exodus, Pharaoh was the governor
of Egypt. Moses was the governor of Israel. People
often assume that the Bible is about religion, not
government. The Bible is about government
Moses was the head of the nation�s government.
(Aaron was the High Priest and head of the church.)
Joshua succeeded Moses as governor of Israel. The
books of Joshua, Judges, Kings and Chronicles are
about Kings and governors. Joshua was governor
after Moses. Next the nation was ruled by judges.
Finally Israel had several kings. This national
governmental history is recorded in the Bible�s books
of Joshua, Judges, Kings and Chronicles.
The kings of Israel wrote several books of your Bible;
Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and The Song of
Solomon.
The prophets, such as Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel
were sent to the government of the nation. They
delivered God�s word to the king. The Gospels are
about the Kingdom of Heaven. In Acts 9:15, Paul
was commissioned by Christ to bear His name before
kings. Revelation 5:10 reads, ..and we (Christians)
shall reign on the earth. In fact, at least 71% of your
Bible is about government.
As previously mentioned, two sculptures of Moses
are in our nation�s Capitol building. One is in the
subway for all visitors to see. The other is on the
north wall, in the chamber of the House of
Representatives. It is directly across from the
Speaker�s seat. How about that! Christian art in a
government building!
Of all the men on earth, Moses was the most qualified
to give instruction in government. Why?
Because, in addition to experience in the governments
of Egypt, Cush and Israel. Moses received
personal instruction by God.
The legislation recorded in Deuteronomy is inspired
and unique. If applied, it would solve all the problems
facing American government today. Problems
in areas such as crime and punishment, health and
safety, economics, inflation, national debt, foreign
relations, civil rights, unemployment, race relations,
gun control and so on. Moses shows the citizen, clergyman
and politician the only way to health, prosperity,
and liberty. Moses was inspired to show us
the way to economic and military strength, peace,
financial stability, and a plentiful supply of goods
and services. The result, the abundant realization of
the American dream instead of the present situation
that is rapidly becoming a nightmare.
When Moses was 120 years old, he gathered his people
together for a farewell address. He delivered the
message on the plains of Moab at the border of the
Promised Land. The Book of Deuteronomy records
the words of Moses. This book contains much more
than just The Ten Commandments as given at Mt.
Sinai. Moses reviewed and summarized the nation�s
history. He included admonition, counsel, exhortation,
instruction and warnings to our ancestors. He
repeated certain very important points over and
over. He did this to help these people to continue as
one nation under God.
Moses urged and commanded, parents, civil leaders
and clergy to teach all this as a part of the public
education system. Children were to begin with The
Ten Commandments. Moses commanded that every
man, woman and child receive additional instruction
at least once every seven years. (Deuteronomy 6:7,
11:19, 31:9-13) You may have heard the saying �ignorance
of the law is no excuse.� It came from these
words spoken by Moses many years ago. Today, most
of us, including the clergy, lack knowledge about, or
have never studied Moses� instruction. And for some
unexplained reason the liberal clergy, politicians and
bankers go to a great deal of trouble to keep this
knowledge from you.
Moses� First Speech
Deuteronomy 1 - 4
The Book of Deuteronomy contains four lectures.
The first lecture is in chapters one through four.
Moses began by reviewing Israel�s history. The Bible
contains several examples of this teaching technique.
The seventh chapter of Acts is a good Bible
example. In Acts Stephen was asked a question
about current events. His answer began with a history
lesson.
Romans 9, 10 and 11 is another example of doctrinal
instruction preceded by a history lesson. 39% of the
verses in these three chapters are quotations of the
Old Testament. Think about this: If New Testament
Christians do not know that the Old Testament is
being quoted, and if they haven�t studied the quoted
Old Testament verses, then how in the world are
they to understand Paul�s message?
In addition, we said all this just to make a point
about Luke 4:4 and Deuteronomy 8:3. In Luke 4:4,
when Jesus Christ was tempted by the devil, He
said, �It is written, that man should not live by bread
alone, but by every word of God.� Jesus Christ was
quoting Moses� words as found in Deuteronomy 8:3.
The temptation was the current event. It is written
is the history that must be understood to comprehend
the current event. We cannot understand Jesus
Christ�s answer to the devil; �Man does not live by
bread alone,� unless we first understand the portion
of the Old Testament being quoted.
Notice Deuteronomy 8 begins with the words, All the
commandments which I command you this day shall
ye observe to do, THAT YE MIGHT LIVE. Jesus
Christ was explaining that man must live by God�s
law or he would, in a manner of speaking, starve to
death. As you look about America you see a nation
starving to death but well fed on the laws of humanists
and liberals.
The New Testament quotes the book of Deuteronomy
about eighty times. Jesus Christ quoted from
Deuteronomy more than from any other book.
Today�s clergymen do not teach from or quote
Deuteronomy. As a direct result, you see Christians
and men in government without a knowledge of
God�s commandments and ignorant of Moses�
instructions. Strangely, the clergy seem to be making
sure it stays that way with proclamations that
God�s law (food for our nation) is done away.
Lessons Two and Three analyze Moses� first speech
covering subjects such as qualifications for public
office, money, inflation, Humanism, zoning laws,
segregation vs. integration, the �Doctrine of
Balaam,� bilingual education and much more.
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Luke 4:1-5
(1) And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost
returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit
into the wilderness.
(2) Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in
those days he did eat nothing: and when they were
ended, he afterward hungered.
(3) And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son
of god, command this stone that it be made bread.
(4) And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written,
That man shall not live by bread alone, but by
every word of God.
(5) And the devil, taking him up into an high
mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of
the world in a moment of time.
Deuteronomy 8:1-11
(1) All the commandments which I command
thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may
live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land
which the Lord sware unto your fathers.
(2) And thou shalt remember all the way which
the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the
wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee to
know what was in thine heart, whether thou
wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
(3) And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to
hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou
Moses� Second Speech
(Deuteronomy 5 - 25)
In Deuteronomy chapter 5, Moses restated the ten
commandments. In the following chapters Moses
explained the basic commandments and applied
them to a vast array of situations.
In Deuteronomy 31 you will find Moses commanding
the clergy and civil leaders to repeat this instruction
in God�s Law as delivered in the Book of
Deuteronomy. This book is not just for the church. It
is not just for the individual. It is, also, instruction
by a man in government for men in government.
One of Moses� commands to politicians is that they
have their own personal copy of this book. They are
to study it all the days of their lives. Today, we, and
our leaders lack knowledge of this inspired life-giving
instruction. In addition, our public schools have
left us ignorant about:
1. The United States Constitution.
2. Our State Constitutions.
3. The Christian History of America.
Test yourself, What are your rights as listed in the
Bill of Rights? Have you read the Constitution? Are
these same rights in your state constitution? Have
you ever seen a copy of your state constitution? What
did you learn about America�s Christian history in
the public school? What are you learning from the
T.V. by way of docu-dramas?
Lessons Four to Fourteen are based upon Moses�
second lecture. They cover subjects such as, divorce
and remarriage, rules of war, money, banking, interest,
crime and punishment, foreign policy, abortion,
the right to keep and bear arms, treatment of aliens,
perjury, bribery, juvenile delinquency, weights and
measures, food, race relations, loans and collateral,
welfare, theft, health and safety, and much more
such as license, permit and corporate status. If you
are a minister and if your church is incorporated,
then you must stay tuned for this very important
information. A later lesson reveals how the second
commandment has been completely misunderstood.
A correct understanding of this commandment is
startling and powerful information.
Moses� Third And Fourth Speeches
Deuteronomy 26 - 28)
In Moses� third talk he explained how nations are
blessed in every way if they do what�s right in God�s
eyes. Likewise, he showed how God will curse us if
we violate His rules or if we choose to live by a different
standard. If America is not living by God�s
Law, then we must be living by some other moral
code.
Moses concluded his series of lectures with, �I call
heaven and earth to record this day against
you, that I have set before you life and death,
blessing and cursing, therefore choose life,
that both you and your children might live.�Or
in Christ�s words, It is written, (by Moses in the book
of Deuteronomy) that man does not live by bread
alone, but by every word of God. Moses� third speech
is prophetic. Lesson 15 shows how Moses� third
speech is about America. Proof is in the fact that
Moses prophesies are coming to pass in America
right now! If you are interested in prophecy, stay
tuned.
Moses� Final Words
Moses was 120 years old when he told God�s people
to pass over the Jordan and take possession of the
Promised Land. Lesson 16 is entitled: Applying
The Ten Commandments In Today�s World.
Lesson One - Page 3
knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he
might make thee know that man doth not live
by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of the Lord doth
man live.
(4) Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither
did thy foot swell, these forty years.
(5) Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that,
as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God
chasteneth thee.
(6) Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments
of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to
fear him.
(7) For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good
land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and
depth that spring out of valleys and hills.
(8) A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig
trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil, and
honey;
(9) A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without
scareness, thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it; a
land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills
thou mayest dig brass.
(10) When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou
shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land
which he hath given thee.
(11) Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy
God,in not keeping his commandments, and his
judgements, and his statutes, which I command
thee this day:
Just like America?
This last Lesson shows God�s way to finish the job
started by America�s founders. They crossed the
Atlantic ocean to take possession of a land the Bible
calls �The appointed place.� In this lesson we will
relate information about America�s Christian
History.
* The Colonial Charters.
* The Presidents and the Presidency.
* The State and National Constitutions.
* Congress and the Bible.
* The Public Schools.
* The Courts.
* The war against Christian America.
The Colonial Charters
The Colonial Charters were documents written up in
the colonists home country. The king issued the
charter. The Charter granted to the Colonists:
1. Certain lands in the new world;
2. Established the general rules and laws of the
colony;
3. And, stated the purpose or purposes for founding
the colony.
April 10, 1606. The first Charter was granted by
James I of England. It was for the settlement and
possession of Virginia. Now, keep in mind that this
is a government document. This document
speaks of the colonists who erected our first governmental
institutions in America as having; �desires
for the furtherance of so noble a work which
may, by the providence of Almighty God, hereafter
tend to the glory of His divine Majesty, in
the propagating of the Christian religion to
such people as yet live in ignorance of the true
knowledge and worship of God, and may in
time bring the infidels and savages, living in
those parts, to human civility, and to a settled
and quiet government.�
November 2, 1620. The Charter of Plymouth council
was granted by James I. It states one purpose of the
settlement was in hope thereby to advance the
enlargement of the Christian religion, to the glory of
God Almighty.
The Pilgrims drew up The Mayflower Compact in
November of 1620. It begins, �In the name of God,
Amen. We, whose names are underwritten . . .
having undertaken, for the glory of God and
the advancement of the Christian faith, . .
.combine ourselves into a civil body politic, for
our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance
of the ends aforesaid.�
The Charter for the Maryland government closed
with the requirement that no interpretation of its
contents should be allowed whereby God�s holy and
true Christian religion might in any wise suffer.
On March 4, 1644, Charles I issued the Charter for
the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. It mentioned the
orderly conduct of the colonists to the knowledge and
obedience of the only true God, and the savior of
mankind, and the Christian faith.
The Rhode Island Charter directs the civil government
to �be in the better capacity to defend
themselves in their rights and liberties against
all enemies of the Christian faith.�
The April 3, 1644 records of the Colony and
Plantation of New Haven read, �It was ordered
that the judicial laws of God, as they were
delivered to Moses . . . be a rule to all the courts
in this jurisdiction in their proceeding against
offenders . . .�
There are thousands of other documents. They are
ignored in the modern school classroom. They are
not mentioned from the church pulpit. Was America
founded upon Jesus Christ and Christianity? Or, are
the atheists correct in saying America is a pluralistic
society, not a Christian nation? NO! America was
bounded upon Jesus Christ and Christianity!
These are not church or missionary documents.
These are civil documents signed by the king or
another authorized person in the government. Like
our constitution, their main purpose was to put in
writing the order of government and the purposes of
that government. These documents are foundation
stones, not of American churches, not of religious
movements, but the foundation stones of the
American government.
The left-wingers and the anti-Christs are not afraid
to let you find out that Christians founded churches
or missions. But they are desperately afraid that you
might find out that Christians organized government
in North America. They don�t want you to
know that Christians organized our government
upon Jesus Christ, the Bible and Bible Law?
That is why the left-wingers and the humanists
defame and ridicule America�s early Christian
inhabitants. That is why they call these Christians
bigots, straight-laced, blue noses, puritanicals and
so on. They are trying to prevent you from finding
out that real Christians founded America and founded
its original government.
The Presidents and Presidency
JAMES MADISON was our fourth president. He is
called the architect of our federal Constitution. In
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1788, he wrote in The Federalist Papers: �We have
staked the whole future of the American
Civilization, not upon the power of Government, far
from it. We have staked the future .. upon the capacity
of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to sustain
ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments
of God.�
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, our sixth President said,
�The highest glory of the American Revolution was
this: it connected in one indissoluble bond, the principles
of civil government with the principles of
Christianity�. On July 4, 1821 President Adams also
said, �From the day of the Declaration . . . They (the
American people) were bound by the laws of God,
which they all, and by the laws of the Gospel, which
they nearly all, acknowledged as the rules of their
conduct.�
The Most Amazing Law In 70 Years
In October of 1982 the U.S. Congress passed Public
Law 97-280. It set aside 1983 as �The Year of the
Bible.� Congress said that the Bible is the Word of
God. Congress mentioned our national need to study
and apply the teachings of the Holy Scriptures.
That statement is in Congress�s resolution asking
the President to declare 1983 the year of the Bible.
That new law is so startling in its implications that
we present the complete text of both the law and the
Proclamation.
Public Law 97-280 - Oct. 4, 1982
97th Congress 96 STAT. 1211
Joint Resolution
Authorizing and requesting the President to proclaim
1983 as the Year of the Bible-Oct.4, 1982
(Senate Joint Resolution. 165)
Whereas the Bible, the Word of God, has made a
unique contribution in shaping the United States as
a distinctive and blessed nation and people:
Whereas deeply held religious convictions springing
from the Holy Scriptures led to the early settlement
of our Nation:
Whereas Biblical teachings inspired concepts of
civil government that are contained in our
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of
the United States:
Whereas many of our great national leaders-among
them Presidents Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, and
Wilson-paid tribute to the surpassing influence of
the Bible in our country�s development, as in the
words of President Jackson that �the Bible is the
rock on which our Republic rests:�
Whereas the history of our Nation clearly illustrates
the value of voluntarily applying the teachings
of Scriptures in the lives of individuals, families,
and societies;
Whereas this Nation now faces great challenges
that will test this Nation as it has never been tested
before; and Whereas that renewing our knowledge of
and faith in God through Holy Scripture can
strengthen us as a nation and a people: Now, therefore,
be it.
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled. That the
President is authorized and requested to designate
1983 as a national Year of the Bible in recognition of
both the formative influence the Bible has been for
our Nation, and our national need to study and
apply the teachings of the Holy Scriptures.
Legislative History - S.J. Res 165:
Approved October 4, 1982.
Congressional Record. Vol 128 (1982):
Mar. 31 considered and passed Senate.
Sept. 21 Considered and passed House.
Year of the Bible, 1983 By the President of the
United States of America
A Proclamation
Of the many influences that have shaped the
United States of America into a distinctive Nation
and people, none may be said to be more fundamental
and enduring than the Bible.
Deep religious beliefs, stemming from the Old
and New Testaments of the Bible, inspired many of
the early settlers of our country, providing them with
the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary
to withstand great hardship and danger in this
new and rugged land. These shared beliefs helped
forge a sense of common purpose among the widely
dispersed colonies-a sense of community which laid
the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was
to develop in later decades.
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis
for the Founding Fathers� abiding belief in the
inalienable rights of the individual, rights which
they found implicit in the Bible�s teachings of the
inherent worth and dignity of each individual. This
same sense of man patterned the convictions of those
who framed the English system of law inherited by
our own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
For centuries the Bible�s emphasis on compassion
and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional
and governmental expressions of benevolent
outreach such as private charity, the establishment
of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery.
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Many of our greatest national leaders-among
them Presidents Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, and
Wilson-have recognized the influence of the Bible on
our country�s development. The plain-spoken
Andrew Jackson referred to the Bible as no less than
the rock on which our Republic rests.
Today our beloved America and, indeed, the
world, is facing a decade of enormous challenge. As a
people we may well be tested as we have seldom, if
ever, been tested before. We will need resources of
spirit even more than resources of technology, edu -
cation, and armaments. There could be no more fitting
moment than now to reflect with gratitude,
humility, and urgency upon the wisdom revealed to
us in the writing that Abraham Lincoln called the
best gift God has ever given to man . . . But for it we
could not know right from wrong.
The Congress of the United States, in recognition
of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping
the history and character of this Nation, and so
many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution
165 authorized and requested the President to designate
the year 1983 as the Year of the Bible.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN,
President of the United States of America, in recog -
nition of the contributions and influence of the Bible
on our Republic and our people, do hereby proclaim
1983 as the Year of the Bible in the United States. I
encourage all citizens, each in his or her own way, to
re-examine and rediscover its priceless and timeless
message.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand this third day of February, in the year of our
Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-three, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the
two hundred and seventh.
signature
Congress And The Bible
Many Liberals and Humanists objected to this law
making 1983 a national �The Year of the Bible.� The
news media gave it almost no coverage at all. Did
you read about �The Year of The Bible� in your newspaper?
Did you hear about it on television? Probably
not. Here are a few other almost unknown or
unmentioned historical events.
May 17, 1776: Congress appointed a day of fasting
and prayer so they might �by a sincere repen -
tance and amendment of life, appease God�s
righteous displeasure, and through the merits
and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain His pardon
and forgiveness.�
September 11, 1777: Because the domestic supply
of Bibles was short, the Continental Congress wrote,
directing the Committee of Commerce to
import (from Europe) 20,000 copies of the
Bible, the great political text book of the patriots
. . . The Congress also authorized chaplains to be
in the Continental Army. General Washington had
chaplains appointed in each regiment. What did
Congress call, the great political text book of the
patriots?)
September 10, 1782: Because of the difficulties
experienced in importing Bibles from Europe,
Congress approved and recommended an edition of
the Bible printed by Robert Aiken of Philadelphia.
Congress called it a �neat edition of the Holy
Scriptures for use in schools.�
�Whereupon, RESOLVED THAT the United
States in Congress assembled . . . recommend
this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of
the United States, and hereby authorize him to
publish this recommendation in the manner
he (Robert Aiken) shall think proper.�
The United States of America
Christian From Its Beginning!
The United States was founded by Christians as a
Christian nation. The vast majority of its citizens
are Christian. Our national motto is, �In God We
Trust,� our national hymn is, �God Of Our Fathers.�
The fathers are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob of the
Bible. We Christians pledge allegiance to the United
States of America as One Nation Under God.
Our Constitution begins with, �We the people of the
United States . . .� Article Seven mentions, �the
Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred Eighty seven . . .�
Who is our Lord mentioned by �we the people?�
Few people know, and it is no longer taught in our
public schools, that eleven of the thirteen original
colonies gave religious tests for public office. These
State governments required faith in Jesus Christ
and the Bible as a basic qualification for holding
public office.
MASSACHUSETTS required this declaration: I
believe the Christian religion and have a firm persuasion
of its truth.
NEW JERSEY declared �that no Protestant inhabitant
of this colony shall be denied any civil right
merely on account of his religious principles, but
that all persons professing a belief in the faith of any
Protestant sect, who shall demean themselves
peacefully under the government as hereby established,
shall be capable of being elected into any
office of profit or trust, or being a member of either
branch of the legislature.�
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VERMONT�S constitution required every member
of the House of Representatives to take this oath: �I
do believe in One God, the creator and governor of
the universe, the rewarder of the good, and the punisher
of the wicked, and I do acknowledge the scriptures
of the Old and New Testament to be given by
divine inspiration,...�
VIRGINIA. If you visit Jamestown, Virginia you
will find the remains of a church building. This is
one of the first churches built in the New World.
There is a plaque in this church. It states that, on
July 30, 1619, Governor George Yeardley convened
the first elected legislative assembly in the New
World. It met in this church. No separation of church
and state here! The Virginia Legislature held its
meetings inside this church building. This Virginia
assembly is the second oldest legislative body in the
English speaking world. Parliament is the oldest.
Virginia denied public office to anyone who denied
the Christian religion to be true, or (deny) the Holy
Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be of
divine authority.
Christian Schools
For A Christian Nation
Remember that Congress authorized the Robert
Aiken edition of the Bible �for the use in schools.�
Section 18 of The Constitution of Mississippi forbids
�excluding the Holy Bible from use in any public
school of this state.�
Christians founded the first schools. They wanted to
give a Christian education to all who might come to
positions of leadership. Kings College, now renamed
Columbia, advertised, �The chief thing that is
aimed at in this college is to teach and engage the
children to know God in Jesus Christ, and to live and
serve Him, in all sobriety, Godliness, and
Righteousness of life with a perfect heart, and a willing
mind.�
Amherst, Dartmouth and Yale were established
for training in the Christian faith. For the first cen -
tury 40% of Yale�s graduates became ministers of the
Gospel.
Mr. Harvard, in founding Harvard University said
this, �Let every student be plainly instructed
and earnestly pressed to consider well the
main end of his life and studies is, to know God
and Jesus Christ which is eternal life, and
therefore to lay Christ in the bottom as the
only foundation of all sound knowledge and
learning.� How times have changed. Now many of
our states prohibit reading the Bible in our Public
Schools. The very schools established to teach the
Bible.
In today�s government schools, they teach your children,
Oh, yes, there were some Christians who came
over here, and they may have made some Christian
statements, and they formed churches, but most
came to America for gold or for land and therefore
the government had nothing to do with Christianity.
Don�t let them fool you my friends, for their intentions
in deceiving you are as base as their methods
of doing so.
They are forcing upon us non-Christian, even anti-
Christian laws and practices. They want a non-
Christian, even an anti-Christian, Government here
in America. However, they know that they cannot
install an anti-Christian government over America if
Christians understand that our original form of government,
both local and national, and all of our original
laws came from the Christian Bible.
They would find it very difficult, perhaps impossible,
to continue to sweep aside our Christian laws, if we
knew they were Christian laws. Let us consider a
few of the things they are doing to us today. For
example, our rulers are making treaties with non-
Christian, even anti-Christian nations. Thus giving
them aid and help in their anti-Christian activities.
Would we Christians accept that and sit by so silently
if we realized that such things are against both
God�s Law and against the founding principles of our
Christian government?
What about abortion? Have you noticed how the proabortionists
use the phrase, �We don�t believe you
should force your religion upon others.� Notice they
call the opposition to abortion-religion. And of course
the religion opposing abortion is the Christian religion.
(In Lesson 3, we will quote their own writings
to show that they do believe that they do have the
right to impose their religious beliefs upon you.)
Since our beginning as a few colonies, who opposed
abortion? Who arrested the abortionist and either
executed him or put him in prison? Was it the
churches or was it the government? It was the government!
And what was the government doing when
it acted against abortion? Well, it was enforcing
morality! It was acting according to the precepts
upon which that government was founded, the precepts
of the Christian religion.
The pro-abortionists and others know that they need
not fear today�s Christian churches. But the wicked
fear a return to Christian government! They know
that only government has the power to stop abortion
and other evil doings. They know that only a
Christian government would do so. And so, they
must keep �we the people� from knowing that our
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whole government was based upon the precepts of
the Christian Bible from its very beginning.
They know an ignorance of our true history will keep
us from insisting that our government enforce
Christian Laws. They know that a government
enforcing Christian laws would stop them in their
tracks. Two generations ago, in the United States,
performing an abortion on one of our young women
was a capital crime punishable by the death penalty.
Fifty years ago pornographers were arrested and put
in prison. We quoted colonial governmental documents
of 200 - 350 years ago. We don�t need to go
back that far. We need go back only two generations
to find enforcement of Christian law by our
Christian government. What a change!
Why do you think the anti-Christ newspapers and
T.V.�s harp and harp upon the phrase, �separation of
church and state� until its meaning is completely
distorted? Separation of church and state has
become a catch-all phrase to eliminate Christian
influence upon anything involving state or civil
affairs. Read the first amendment to the
Constitution. Surprise! The words separation of
church and state are not there! What does the First
Amendment to the Constitution really say? It says;
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the
press; or the right of
the people to assemble, and to petition the
Government for redress of grievances.
Separation of Church And State
Very few Christians know that several State
Constitutions specifically mention religion,
Christianity and the Bible, for example;
Section 7 of the OHIO - Bill of Rights: �Religion,
morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to
good government, it shall be the duty of the general
assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious
denomination in the peaceful enjoyment of its
own mode of public worship, and to encourage
schools and the means of instruction.�
The Ohio Constitution was adopted in 1802. Twentythree
years later, in 1825, a tax levy was passed to
support and set up a public school system.
Therefore, the schools mentioned in the Ohio
Constitution are private and church schools.
Christian Churches founded 106 of the first 108
schools. As written, the Ohio Constitution required
the State to protect and encourage private church
schools.
MASSACHUSETTS - Declaration of Rights, Article
2: �And every denomination of Christians . . . shall
be equally under the protection of the law.� (The law
is to protect Christians!).
VERMONT - Declaration of Rights, Article 3: �(our)
opinion shall be regulated by the word of God.� (The
Bible) . . . �Nevertheless, every sect or denomination
of Christians ought to observe the Sabbath or Lord�s
day, and keep up some sort of religious worship,
which to them shall seem most agreeable to the
revealed word of God.� (The Bible)
VIRGINIA - Article 1, Section 16: �and it is the
mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance,
love and charity towards each other.�
MISSISSIPPI - Section 18: �the rights hereby
secured shall not be construed to . . . exclude or
remove the Holy Bible from use in any public school
of this state.�
Our government has three separate branches: the
Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial. Each
branch is separate, meaning that each is independent
from the other. Even if the words separation of
church and state were in the Constitution, would it
therefore follow that separation of church and state
meant that one is cut off and cast away? No, it
means that the Church is independent from the
State. In the Scriptures we never find a God-anointed
priest or prophet taking to himself the function of
a civil administrator. Nor do we find a case where a
man anointed to serve in civil administration took
unto himself the ministry of priest or prophet, without
coming under the judgment of God. For example:
2 Chronicles 26:16-20.
Knowledge of America�s true history exposes the lie.
The so called constitutional requirement of separation
of church and state. They want to separate the
Christian religion from the State.
The Supreme Court has declared that the United
States of America is a Christian nation. (Holy
Trinity Church v. United States 143 U.S. 457 - 1892,
McGowen v. Maryland 366 U.S. 420 at 561 - 1961.)
In addition, a State court said, �By our form of government,
the Christian religion is the established
religion; and all sects and denominations are placed
on the same equal footing, and are equally entitled
to protection in their religious liberty.� (Runkel vs.
Winemiller, 4 Harris & McHenry (MD) 429, 1 AD
411, 417). And there is more information in Lessons
11 and 14.)
On the other hand, the Constitution of Soviet Russia
reads, �the state shall be separate from the church,
and the church separate from the school,� and the
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ninth doctrine listed in the Humanist Manifesto II
reads, �The separation of the church and state... are
imperatives.� (More about Humanism in Lesson 3)
The Bill of Rights was added to our Constitution in
1791. How did the Court understand the First
Amendments Congress shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion? Runkel vs. Winemiller
et al is a Maryland court case decided in 1799. This
Court decision was decided only nine years after the
adoption of the Bill Of Rights.
Runkel vs. Winemiller et al.
Your local law library at the Court House or
University has a copy of Runkel vs. Winemiller et al.
(4 Harris & McHenry). Here we have reproduced the
title page summarizing the court�s decision. Notice
the third paragraph that reads, �The Christian
religion is the established religion by our form
of government and all denominations are
placed on an equal footing and equally entitled
to protection in their religious liberty.�
While we do not have an established church (denomination,
i.e, an establishment of religion) we do have
an established religion. In the law book at our local
law library the case takes up seventeen pages. Pages
276 to 292. On page 288 at reference number 450
we found these words;
�Religion is of general and public concern, and on its
support depend, in great measure, the peace and
good order of government, the safety and happiness
of the people. By our form of government, the
Christian religion is the established religion; and all
sects and denominations of Christians are placed
upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled
to protection in their religious liberty. The principles
of the Christian religion cannot be diffused,
and its doctrines generally propagated, without
places of public worship, and teachers and ministers,
to explain the Scriptures to the people, and to
enforce an observance of the precepts of religion by
their preaching and living. And the pastors, teachers
and ministers, of every denomination of
Christians, are equally entitled to the protection of
the law, and to the enjoyment of their religious and
temporal rights.
And the Courts are of opinion, that every endowed
minister, of any sect or denomination of Christians,
who has been wrongfully dispossessed of his pulpit,
is entitled to the writ of mandamus to be restored to
his function, and the temporal rights with which it is
endowed.�
On this and the following pages we present the complete
text of the United States Supreme Court decision
Holy Trinity Church v. United States. It is in
every University and Court House Law Library. In
this document we find the highest court of the land
stating and proving that The United States is a
Christian nation. It is interesting reading, but you
do not need to read all of it. You can skip ahead and
start reading on page 15 at margin reference number
466.
War Against Christianity
Separation of church and state is a non
Constitutional battle-cry in the war against
Christianity. It is used to frighten godly Americans
out of the polls, out of government, and back to the
pews. Separation of church and state is a blatant
distortion of the intent of the framers of the First
Amendment. Are the wicked afraid that Christianity
and government are somehow going to unite in the
future? No, they are fearful because they know that
Christianity and government were already united
here in America. It is the connection between
Christianity and government that they have to
destroy if they ever hope to take complete control
over America.
To sever the connection between Christianity and
government, they have to separate us from the
knowledge of our Christian history. They must keep
us ignorant of the truth that government in America
was Christian from its very beginning.
Most patriots realize the left-wing and the anti-
Christ want to destroy Christianity. Marx, Lenin,
Stalin, all communist leaders have made that plain
in a thousand different ways. Well, if it is
Christianity that they are against, why don�t they
just try to change our religion? The answer is obvious.
They do, but they also realize that they cannot
destroy the Christian religion until after they have
prevented the government from upholding and protecting
the Christian religion. How do they stop the
American government from being a protector of
Christianity? Well, they cause Americans to forget
their Christian history. They re-write history, put it
on television and call it a Docu-drama. They remove
from our history books or distort the writings of our
Colonial founders. They keep us from reading the
Maryland Charter that ended with a proviso that no
interpretation of the charter should be allowed
whereby God�s holy and true Christian religion
might in any wise suffer. They deny us the knowledge
that our forefathers wrote into the Rhode
Island Charter that the very reason for the Rhode
Island government was that the people might be in
a better capacity to defend themselves in their rights
and liberties against all the enemies of the Christian
faith.
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When we Christians want to have a say in the selection
of public school text books, cries of outrage come
forth; book burners, separation of church and state,
and �who are you to impose your morals on us?� In
short, they want to deny us and our children the
truth that government was established in America
for the protection of Christians in the practice of
their Christian faith. That was the main purpose of
colonial government. Through control of the T.V.,
movies, schools and pulpits, they have denied to us
and our children the knowledge of the origin of our
government and the origin of its laws in the
Christian Bible. In a future lesson we enclose a
reprint from Clark�s Biblical Law (1944). It details
this connection of government and Bible Law. It
cites many U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
Consider how helpless this situation has made those
of you who oppose the wicked. Think of the various
corruptions that are destroying your children: drugs,
alcohol, abortion, pornographic material in magazines,
movies and television. Free love rather than
marriage, and if married, easy divorce. When
Christians oppose these things they call us bigots,
right-wingers, extremists, kooks and fascists. They
claim we cannot insist on the enforcement of laws
against these things because, after all, we are a pluralistic
society, or we are not a Christian nation. You
even hear well known T.V. evangelists using those
same phrases. (Whose side are they on anyway?) You
can�t answer them if you don�t know that we are a
Christian nation. If men in government don�t know
America is a Christian nation, then they cannot
enforce God�s Law as the law of the land. They often
say, you can�t enforce morality. That is exactly what
early America did. America enforced God�s Laws. We
enforced morality!
You may not have thought of it that way. Perhaps
your minister has joined the chorus saying, �we can�t
enforce Bible Laws.� But the writers of the New
Testament knew that it was the job of government to
enforce morality. See Romans 13 where civil rulers
are called ministers of God to punish evil doers. In
other words, to punish those who violate Bible Laws.
Yes, the New Testament says that government is to
punish those who break God�s Laws. Our Christian
forefathers knew that. Our founding fathers
believed that was the essence of Christian
Government.
And here is more from the New Testament for those
who have been persuaded that God�s Laws have
been put away or cannot be used by government to
punish evildoers, 1 Timothy 1:8-10; Do Romans 13 or
1 Timothy 1:8-10 sound like we should not enforce
morality?
Nonsense! Romans 13 makes it plain that is exactly
the duty of government. To punish the evildoer, to
enforce morality!
It�s A Mystery!
While everyone knows that today�s Supreme Court
has forbidden prayer and Bible reading in the public
schools, very few know that President George Bush
declared 1990 The International Year of Bible
Reading! (Why do the newspapers, radio and T.V.
harp on the one and never report the other?) In this
proclamation President Bush said,
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Romans 13:1-4
(1) Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.
For there is no power but of God: the powers
that be are ordained of God.
(2) Whosoever therefore resisteth the power,
resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that
resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
(3) For rulers are not a terror to good works,
but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of
the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt
have praise of the same:
(4) For he is the minister of God to thee for
good. But if thou do that which is evil, be
afraid; for he bearth not the sword in vain:
for he is the minister of God, a revenger to
execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
(5) Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only
for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
(6) For this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are
God�s ministers, attending continually upon this
very thing.
(7) Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to
whom tribute [is due]; custom to whom custom;
fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
(8) Owe no man any thing, but to love one another:
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the
law.
(9) for this, Thou shalt not commit adultery,
Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal,
Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt
not covet; and if there be any other commandment
it is briefly comprehended in this saying,
namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
(10) Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore
love is the fulfilling of the law.
(11) And that, knowing the time, that now ii is
high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation
nearer than when we believed.
�In acknowledgment of the inestimable value and
timeless appeal of the Bible, the Congress, by Senate
Joint Resolution 164, has designated the year 1990
as the International Year of Bible Reading and has
authorized and requested the President to issue a
proclamation in observance of this year.�
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH,
President of the United States of America, do hereby
proclaim the year 1990 as the International Year of
Bible Reading. I invite all Americans to discover the
great inspiration and knowledge that can be
obtained through thoughtful reading of the Bible.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand this twenty-second day of February, in the year
of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the
two hundred and fourteenth.
How can the same government both promote and
forbid Bible reading? The answer is in the little
known fact that, while we have one nation we have
two governments! These two governments even have
two different flags. The flags are similar but different.
The difference is so slight that most people
never notice. You know the familiar words, �I pledge
allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands. One nation,
under God, with liberty and justice for all.� Notice
that this is a pledge to a republic, not to a democracy!
The flag of the republic (under God) is the traditional
red, white and blue star spangled banner.
However there is a second flag. This second flag is
very similar except that it has a yellow fringe. It is
found in many places especially court rooms. This is
the flag of the Legislative Democracy. What is the
difference between a republic and a democracy? Is
the United States a republic or a democracy? The
answer, it is both. President Bush is the president of
both nations. The Christian Republic under God
proclaimed 1983 The Year Of the Bible and 1990,
The International Year of Bible Reading. But it was
the humanist, pluralistic, legislative democracy�s
government that forbid prayer and Bible reading in
public schools. It is a mystery, when understood,
that answers many questions about what is happen -
ing in America. You will find more about this in later
lessons.
Statement Of Belief: In 1831 a famous French historian,
Alexis de Tocqueville, visited the forty year old
United States and made the following observation:
�On my arrival in the United States the religious
aspect of the country was the first thing that struck
my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the
more I perceived the great political consequences
resulting from this new state of things . . . Religion
in America takes no direct part in government of
society, but it must be regarded as the first of their
political institutions . . . The sects (different denominations)
that exist in the United States are innumerable.
They all differ in respect to the worship
which is due the Creator; but they all agree in
respect to the duties which are due man to man.
Each sect adores the Deity in its own peculiar manner,
but all sects preach the same moral law in the
name of God . . . All the sects of the United States are
comprised within the great unity of Christianity . . .
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in
her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and
it was not there; in her rich mines and vast world
commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went to
the churches of America and heard her pulpits
aflame with righteousness did I understand the
secret of her genius and power. America is great
because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be
good, America will cease to be great.�
This Is Our Statement of Belief, (1) Let each denomination
adore the Deity in its own peculiar manner
and (2) Let all sects preach the same moral law in
the name of God. In this course we teach this same
moral law mentioned in (2) but we do not get
involved in (1). So, whatever your denomination,
whether you are Protestant or Catholic, this course
is for you and your church. Let all sects preach the
same moral law, God�s Law.
The Method Of Study: One of the biggest problems
with religious tracts, booklets, etc., is simply this:
they very rarely result in real learning. The information
is either:
1.Accepted as accurate or reliable because it is from
a trusted source.
2.It agrees with what the individual already
believes.
3.The reader rejects the information as that
author�s, preacher�s or church�s interpretation.
Therefore, this course has a question-answer format.
The questions are ours. The answers are yours.
Whatever you learn by taking this course will be the
result of your own study of your own Bible.
Hopefully, your answers will agree with our
answers, and both answers will be Biblically correct.
For this reason we will send along with your future
Lessons our Answer Sheet in replacement of yours.
It will give you our opinion about the correct
answers which you are free to accept or reject.
When we receive your Answer Sheet, we compare
your answers to ours. Most students� answers agree
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with ours more than 95% of the time. If many students
provide answers different from ours, then (1)
we will change the called for Answer, or (2) we will
rewrite that part of the lesson to clarify the point we
wish to make.
Revisions to this course follow suggestions, criticisms,
or new information provided by students. If
any student suspects that something in this course
is not 100% correct, or if you have something to add
to the course, then it would be appreciated if you
would share it with us. In a manner of speaking,
because of prior suggestions, criticisms and disagreements,
this course was, in part, written by
prior students. So, again, if you read something that
you disagree with, well, each Christian believes that
he is right, and you might be, so don�t drop this
course. Instead, put the answer you believe is correct
on the answer sheet or write a letter about your
point of view. These comments often result in revisions
to benefit future students.
Controversial Points of View: Much of the Bible is
easy to understand. However, many verses are not
clear, some are mistranslated, and many are controversial.
As a result, you will find members of the
same church sitting in the same pew and not in full
agreement on many points. Please be kind to us by
keeping in mind that this course is written for the
public and Christians of all denominations. No matter
how hard we try, we simply cannot please everyone
on every point.
The United States
Supreme Court
Honoring Moses and the
Ten Commandments
Luke 19:40 reads, I tell you that, if these should hold
their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Jesus was not talking about our Supreme Court, but
its stone pediment does cry out concerning the
Court�s attitude in times past. In a recent Supreme
Court Decision concerning prayer in school, Wallace
v. Jaffree, in a dissenting opinion Justice William
Rehnquist complained that since 1947 the Court has
virtually ignored the true history of the crafting and
implementation of the religion clause. Recent court
decisions on the religion clause of the First
Amendment, he said, are in no way based either on
the language or intent of the drafters.
Later lessons reveal startling information from the
Supreme Court concerning religion and Bible Law.
Lesson Four contains a reprint of a Supreme Court
decision saying, (The Sabbath day) is a day consecrated
by the resurrection of our Savior. Concerning
the powers of the State, �...there is an authority
higher than the authority of the State; that there is
a moral law which the State is powerless to alter;...�
Could the United States Supreme Court be referring
to the law of Moses? Stay tuned to see for yourself.
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Justice, the Guardian of Liberty, the pediment located on the east facade
of the Supreme Court, is about 18 feet tall and 60 feet long, It emphasizes
the contributions of Eastern and Mediterranean civilizations to the development
of the law. Moses, with the tablets containing the Ten
Commandments, is the central figure.
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY v. UNITED
STATES
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW
YORK.
No. 143 Argued and submitted January 7, 1903 -
Decided February 20, 1905.
The act of February 26, 1885, �to prohibit the importation
and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract
or agreement to perform labor in the United
States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia, �23
Stat. 332, c. 164, does not apply to a contract between
an alien, residing out of the United States, and religious
society incorporated under the laws of a state, whereby
he engages to remove to the United States and to
enter into the service of the society as its rector or minister.�
The case is stated in the opinion.
Mr. Seaman Miller for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Assistant Attorney General Maury for defendant in
error submitted on his brief.
MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the
court.
Plaintiff in error is a corporation, duly organized and
incorporated as a religious society under the laws of
the State of New York. E. Walpole Warren was, prior to
September, 1887, an alien residing in England. In him,
by which he was to remove to the city of New York and
enter into its service as rector and pastor; and in pursuance
of such contract, Warren did so remove and
enter upon such service. It is claimed by the United
States that this contract on the part of the plaintiff in
error was forbidden by the act of February 26, 1885, 23
Stat. 332, c. 164, and an action was commenced to
recover the penalty prescribed by that act. The Circuit
Court held that the contract was within the prohibition
of the statute, and rendered judgment accordingly, (36
Fed. Rep. 303) and the single question presented for
our determination is whether it erred in that conclusion.
The first section describes the act forbidden, and is
in these words:
�Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled. That from and after the passage
of this act it shall be unlawful for any person, company,
partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever,
to prepay the transportation, or in any way assist or
encourage the importation or migration of alien or
aliens, any foreigner or foreigners, into the United
States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia, under
contract or agreement, parol or special, express or
implied, made previous to the importation or migration
of such alien or aliens, foreigner or foreigners, to perform
labor or service of any kind in the United States,
its Territories, or the District of Columbia.�
It must be conceded that the act of the corporation
is within the letter of the section, for the relation of rector
to his church is one of service, and implies labor on
the one side with compensation on the other. Not only
are the general words labor and service both used, but
also, as it were to guard against any narrow interpretation
and emphasize a breadth of meaning, to them is
added �of any kind;� and, further, as noticed by the
Circuit Judge in his opinion, the fifth section, which
makes specific exceptions, among them professional
actors, artists, lecturers, singers, and domestic servants,
strengthens the idea that every other kind of
labor and service was intended to be reached by the
first section. While there is great force to this reasoning,
we cannot think Congress intended to denounce
with-penalties a transaction like that in the present
case. It is a familiar rule, that a thing may be within the
letter of the statute and yet not within the statute,
because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of
its makers. This has been often asserted, and the
reports are full of cases illustrating its application. This
is not the substitution of the will of the judge for that of
the legislator, for frequently words of general meaning
are used in a statute, words broad enough to include
an act in question, and yet a consideration of the whole
legislation, or of the circumstances surrounding its
enactment, or of the absurd results which follow from
giving such broad meaning to the words, makes it
unreasonable to believe that the legislator intended to
include the particular act. As said in Plowden, 205:
�From which cases, it appears the sages of the law
heretofore have construed statutes quite contrary to
the letter in some appearance, and those statutes
which comprehend all things in the letter they have
expounded to extend to but some things, and those
which generally prohibit all people from doing such an
act they have interpreted to permit some people to do
it, and those which include every person in the letter,
they have adjudged to reach to some persons only,
which expositions have always been founded upon the
intent of the legislature, which they have collected
sometimes by considering the cause and necessity of
making the act, sometimes by comparing one part of
the act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances.�
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143 U.S. The Holy Trinity Church vs. United States 143 U.S.
In Margats Pier Co. v. Hannam, 3 B. & Aid. 266,
270, Abbot, C.J. quotes from Lord Coke as follows:
�Acts of Parliament are to be so construed as no man
that is innocent or free from injury or wrong be by a literal
construction, punished or endamaged.� In the case
of the State v. Clark, 5 Dutcher, (29 N.J. Law) 96, 98,
99, it appeared that an act had been passed making it
a misdemeanor to willfully break down a fence in the
possession of another person, clark was indicted under
that statute. The defense was that the act of breaking
down the fence, though willful, was in the exercise of a
legal right to go upon his own lands. The trial court
rejected the testimony offered to sustain the defense,
and the Supreme Court held that this ruling was error.
In its opinion the court used this language: �The act of
1855,� in terms, makes the willful opening, breaking
down or injuring of any fences belonging to or in the
possession of any other person a misdemeanor. In
what sense is the term willful used? In common parlance,
willful is used in the sense of intentional, as distinguished
from accidental or involuntary. Whatever
one does intentionally he does willfully. Is it used in that
sense in this act? Did the legislature intend to make the
intentional opening of a fence for the purpose of going
upon the land of another indictable, if done by permission
or for a lawful purpose! . . . We cannot suppose
such to have been the actual intent. To adopt such a
construction would put a stop to the ordinary business
of life. The language of the act, if construed literally,
evidently leads to an absurd result. If a literal construction
of the words of a statute be absurd, the act must
be so construed as to avoid the absurdity. The court
must restrain the words. The object designed to be
reached by the act must limit and control the literal
import of the terms and phrases employed.� In United
States v. Kirby, 7 Wall. 482, 486, the defendants were
indicted for the violation of an act of Congress, providing
�that if any person shall knowingly and willfully
obstruct or retard the passage of the mail, or of any
driver or carrier, or of any horse or carriage carrying the
same, he shall, upon conviction, for every such offense
pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.� The
specific charge was that the defendants knowingly and
willfully retarded the passage of one Farris, a carrier of
the mail, while engaged In the performance of his duty,
and also in like manner retarded the steamboat
General Buell, at that time engaged in carrying the
mail. To this indictment the defendants pleaded specially
that Farris had been indicted for murder by a
court of competent authority in Kentucky; that a bench
warrant had been issued and placed in the hands of
the defendant Kirby, the sheriff of the county, commanding
him to arrest Farris and bring him before the
court to answer to the indictment; and that in obedience
to this warrant, he and the other defendants, as his
posse, entered upon the steamboat General Buell and
arrested Farris, and used only such force as was necessary
to accomplish that arrest. The question as to the
sufficiency of the plea was certified to this court, and it
was held that arrest of Farris upon the warrant from the
state court was not an obstruction of the mail, or the
retarding of the passage of a carrier of the mail, within
the meaning of the act. In its opinion the court says; �All
laws should receive a sensible construction. General
terms should be so limited in their application as not to
lead to injustice, oppression or an absurd consequence.
It will always, therefore, be presumed that the
legislature intended exceptions to its language which
would avoid results of this character. The reason of the
law in such cases should prevail over its letter. The
common sense of man approves the judgment mentioned
by Puffendorf, that the Bolognian law which
enacted �that whoever drew blood in the streets should
be punished with the utmost severity,' did not extend to
the surgeon who opened the vein of a person that fell
down in the street in a fit. The same common sense
accepts the ruling, cited by Plowden, that the statute of
1st Edward II., which enacts that a prisoner who breaks
prison shall be guilty of felony, does not extend to a
prisoner who breaks out when the prison is on fire, �for
he is not to be hanged because he would not stay to be
burnt.� And we think that a like common sense will
sanction the ruling we make, that the act of Congress
which punishes the obstruction or retarding of the passage
of the mail, or of its carrier, does not apply to a
case of temporary detention of the mail caused by the
arrest of the carrier upon an indictment for murder.�
The following cases may also be cited. Henry v. Tilson,
17 Vermont, 479; Ryegate v. Wardsboro, 30 Vermont,
746; Exparte Ellis 11 California, 222; Ingraham v.
Speed, 80 Mississippi, 410; Jackson v. Collins, 3
Cowen, 89; People v. Insurance Company, 15 Johns.
858; Burch v. Newbury, 10N.Y. 874; People v. N.Y.
Commissioners of Taxes, 95 N.Y. 554, 558; People v.
Lacombe, 99 N.Y..43.49; Canal Co. v. Railroad Co., 4
G. & J.,1,152; Osgood v. Breed, 12 Mass. 525,530;
Wilburv. Crane, 18 Pick. 284; Gates v. National Bank,
100 U.S. 239.
Among other things which may be considered in
determining the intent of the legislature is the title of the
act. We do not mean that it may be used to add to or
take from the body of the statute, Hadden V. The
Collector, 5 Wall 107, but it may help to interpret its
meaning. In the case of United States v. Fisher, 2
Cranch, 858,886, Chief Justice Marshall said: �On the
influence which the title ought to have in construing the
enacting clauses much has been said; and yet it is not
easy to discern the point of difference between the
opposing counsel in this respect. Neither party contends
that the title of an act can control plain words in
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the body of the statute; and neither denies that, taken
with other parts, it may assist in removing ambiguities.
Where the intent is plain, nothing is left to construction.
Where the mind labors to discover the design of the
legislature, it seizes everything from which aid can be
derived; and In such case the title claims a degree of
notice, and will have its due share of consideration.�
And in the case of United States v. Palmer, Q Wheat
610, 631, the same judge applied the doctrine in this
way: �The words of the section are in terms of unlimited
extent. The words any person or persons are broad
enough to comprehend every human being. But general
words must not only be limited to cases within the
jurisdiction of the State, but also to those objects to
which the legislature intended to apply them. Did the
legislature intend to apply these words to the subjects
of a foreign power, who in a foreign ship may commit
murder or robbery on the high seas! The title of an act
cannot control its words, but may furnish some aid in
showing what was in the mind of the legislature. The
title of this act is, 'An act for the punishment of certain
crimes against the United States.' It would seem that
offenses against the United States not offenses against
the human race, were the crimes which the legislature
intended by this law to punish.�
It will be seen that words as general as those used
in the first section of this act were by that decision limited,
and the intent of Congress with respect to the act
was gathered partially, at least, from its title. Now, the
title of this act is, �An act to prohibit the importation and
migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or
agreement to perform labor in the United States, its
Territories and the District of Columbia.� Obviously the
thought expressed in this reaches only to the work of
the manual laborer, as distinguished from that of the
professional man. No one reading such a title would
suppose that Congress had in its mind any purpose of
staying the coming into this country of ministers of the
gospel, or, indeed, of any case whose toil is that of the
brain. The common understanding of the terms labor
and laborers does not include preaching and preachers;
and it is to be assumed that words and phrases are
used in their ordinary meaning. So whatever of light is
thrown upon the statute by the language of the title indicates
an exclusion from its penal provisions of all contracts
for the employment of ministers, rectors, and
pastors.
Again, another guide to the meaning of a statute is
found in the evil which it is designed to remedy; and for
this the court properly looks at contemporaneous
events, the situation as it existed, and as it was
pressed upon the attention of the legislative body.
United States v. Union Pacific Railroad, 91 U.S. 72,7S.
The situation which called for this statute was briefly
but fully stated by Mr. Justice Brown when, as District
Judge, he decided the Case of United States v. Craig,
28 Fed. Rep. 795,798: �The motives and history of the
act are matters of common knowledge. It had become
the practice for large capitalists in this country to contract
with their agents abroad for the shipment of great
numbers of an ignorant and servile class of foreign
laborers, under contracts, by which the employer
agreed, upon the one hand, to prepay their passage,
while, upon the other hand, the laborers agreed to work
after their arrival for a certain time at a low rate of
wages. The effect of this was to break down the labor
market, and to reduce their laborers engaged in like
occupations to the level of the assisted immigrant. The
evil finally became so flagrant that an appeal was made
to Congress for relief by the passage of the act in question,
the design of which was to raise the standard of
foreign immigrants, and to discountenance the migration
of those who had not sufficient means in their own
hands, or those of their friends, to pay their passage.�
It appears, also, from the petitions, and in the testimony
presented before the committees of Congress,
that it was this cheap unskilled labor which was making
the trouble, and the in flux of which Congress sought to
prevent. It was never suggested that we had in this
country a surplus of brain toilers, and, least of all, that
the market for the services of Christian ministers was
depressed by foreign competition. Those were matters
to which the attention of Congress, or of the people,
was not directed. So far, then, as the evil which was
sought to be remedied interprets the statute, it also
guides to an exclusion of this contract form the penalties
of the act.
A singular circumstance, throwing light upon the
intent of Congress, is found in this extract from the
report of the Senate Committee on Education and
Labor, recommending the passage of the bill: �The
general facts and considerations which induce the
committee to recommend the passage of this bill are
set forth in the Report of the Committee of the House.
The committee reports the bill back without amendment,
although there are certain features thereof which
might well be changed or modified, in the hope that the
bill may not fail of passage during the present session.
Especially would the committee have otherwise recommended
amendments, substituting for the expression
'labor and service' whenever it occurs in the body
of the bill, the words 'manual labor' or 'manual service,'
as sufficiently broad to accomplish the purposes of the
bill, and that such amendments would remove objections
which a sharp and perhaps unfriendly criticism
may be urged to the proposed legislation. The committee,
however, believing that the bill in its present form
will be construed as including only those whose labor
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or service is manual in character, and being very
desirous that the bill become a law before the adjournment,
have reported the �bill without change.� 6059,
Congressional Record, 48th Congress. And, referring
back to the report of the Committee of the House there
appears this language: �It seeks to restrain and prohibit
the immigration or importation of laborers who would
have never seen our shores but for the inducements
and allurements of men whose only object is to obtain
labor at the lowest possible rate, regardless of the
social and material well-being of our own citizens and
regardless of the evil consequences which result to
American laborers from such immigration. This class of
immigrants care nothing about our institutions, and in
many instances never even heard of them; they are
men whose passage is paid by the importers; they
come here under contract to labor for a certain number
of years; they are ignorant of our social condition, and
that they may remain so they are isolated and prevented
from coming into contact with Americans. They are
generally from the lowest social stratum, and live upon
the coarsest food and in hovels of a character before
unknown to American workmen. They, as a rule, do not
become citizens, and are certainly not a desirable
acquisition to the body politic. The inevitable tendency
of their presence among us is to degrade American
labor, and to reduce it to the level of the imported pauper
labor.� Page 5359, Congressional Record, 48th
Congress.
We find, therefore, that the title of the act, the evil
which was intended to be remedied, the circumstances
surrounding the appeal to Congress, the reports of the
committee of each house, all concur in affirming that
the intent of congress was simply to stay the influx of
this cheap unskilled labor.
But beyond all these matters no purpose of action
against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state
or national, because this is a religious people. This is
historically true. From the discovery of this continent to
the present hour, there is a single voice making this
affirmation. The commission to Christopher Columbus,
prior to his sail westward, is from �Ferdinand and
Isabella, by the grace of God, King and Queen of
Castile,� etc., and recites that �it is hoped that by God's
assistance some of the continents and islands in the
ocean will be discovered,� etc. The first colonial grant,
that was made to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584, was from
�Elizabeth, by the grace of God, of England, France
and Ireland, Queen, defender of the faith,� etc.; and the
grant authorizing him to enact statutes for the government
of the proposed colony provided that �They be not
against the true Christian faith now professed in the
Church of England.� The first charter of Virginia, granted
by King James I in 1606, after reciting the application
of certain parties for a charter, commenced the
grant in these words: �We, greatly commending, and
graciously accepting of, their Desires for the
Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the
Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the
Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian
Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and
miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and
Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and
Savages, living in those parts, to human Civility, and to
a settled and quiet Government; DO, by these our
Letters-Patents, graciously accept of, and agree to,
their humble and well-intended Desires.�
Language of similar import may be found in the subsequent
charters of that colony, from the same king, in
1609 and 1611; and the same is true of the various
charters granted to the other colonies. In language
more or less emphatic is the establishment of the
Christian religion declared to be one of the purposes of
the grant. The celebrated compact made by the
Pilgrims in the Mayflower, 1620, recites: �Having
undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of
the Christian Faith, and the Honor of our King and
Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern
Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly
and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another,
covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil
Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation,
and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid.�
The fundamental orders of Connecticut, under
which a provisional government was instituted in 1638-
1639, commence with this declaration: �For as much as
it hath pleased the All mighty God by the wise disposition
of his divine prudence so to Order and dispose of
things that we the Inhabitants and Residents of
Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting
and dwelling in and upon the River of Connecticut and
the Lands thereunto adjoining; And well knowing where
a people are gathered together the word of God
requires that to maintain the peace and union of such
a people there should be an orderly and decent
Government established according to God, to order
and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons
as action shall require; do therefore associate and convene
our selves to be as one public State or commonwealth;
and do, for our selves and our Successors and
such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter,
enter into Combination and Confederation together, to
maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the
gospel of our Lord Jesus who we now profess, as also
the discipline of the Churches, who according to the
truth of the said gospel is now practiced amongst us.�
In the charter is privileges granted by William Penn
to the province of Pennsylvania, in 1701, it is recited:
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�Because no People can be truly happy, though under
the greatest Enjoyment of Civil Liberties, if abridged of
the Freedom of their Consciences, as to their Religious
Profession and Worship; And Almighty God being the
only Lord of Conscience, Father of Lights and Spirits;
and the Author as well as Object of all divine
Knowledge, Faith and Worship, who only doth enlighten
the Minds, and persuade and convince the
Understanding of People, I do hereby grant and
declare,� etc.
Coming nearer to the present time, the Declaration
of Independence recognizes the presence of the Divine
in human affairs in these words: �We hold these truths
to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the
pursuit of Happiness.� �We, therefore, the
Representatives of the United States of America, in
General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the
Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our
intentions, do, in the Name and by Authority of the
good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and
declares,� etc.; �And for the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance upon the Protection of Divine
Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our
Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.�
If we examine the constitutions of the various States
we find in them a constant recognition of religious obligations.
Every Constitution of every one of the fortyfour
States contains language which either directly or
by clear implication recognizes a profound reverence
for religion and an assumption that its influence in all
human affairs is essential to the well being of the community.
This recognition may be in the preamble, such
as is found in the constitution of Illinois, 1870: �We, the
people of the State of Illinois, grateful to Almighty God
for the civil, political and religious liberty which He hath
so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a
blessing upon our endeavors to secure and transmit
the same unimpaired to succeeding generations,� etc.
It may be only in the familiar requisition that all officers
shall take an oath closing with the declaration �so
help me God.� It may be in clauses like that of the constitution
of Indiana, 1816, Article XI, section 4: �The
manner of administering an oath or affirmations hall be
such as is most consistent with the conscience of the
deponent, and shall be esteemed the most solemn
appeal to God.� Or in provisions such as are found in
Articles 36 and 37 of the Declaration of Rights of the
Constitution of Maryland, 1867: �That as it is the duty of
every man to worship God in such manner as he thinks
most acceptable to Him, all persons are equally entitled
to protection in their religious liberty; wherefore, no person
ought, by any law, to be molested in his person or
estate on this account of his religious persuasion or
profession, or for his religious practice, unless, under
the color of religion, he shall disturb the good order,
peace or safety of the State, or shall infringe the laws
of morality or injure others in their natural, civil or religious
rights; nor ought any person to be compelled to
frequent or maintain or contribute, unless on contract,
to maintain any place of worship, or any ministry; nor
shall any person, otherwise competent, be deemed
incompetent as a witness, or juror, on account of his
religious belief; Provided, He believes in the existence
of God, and that, under His dispensation, such person
will be held morally accountable for his acts, and be
rewarded or punishes therefor, either in this world or
the world to come. That no religious test ought ever to
be required as a qualification for any office of profit or
trust in this State other than a declaration of belief in
the existence of God; nor shall the legislature prescribe
any other oath of office than the oath prescribed by this
constitution. �Or like that in Articles 2 and 3, of Part 1st
of the Constitution of Massachusetts, 1780: �It is the
right as well as the duty of all men in society publicly
and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being,
the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. ... . As
the happiness of a people and the good order and
preservation of civil government essentially depend
upon piety, religion and morality, and as these cannot
be generally diffused through a community but by the
institution of the public worship of God and of public
instruction in piety, religion and morality: Therefore, to
promote their happiness and to secure the good order
and preservation of their government, the people of this
commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature
with power to authorize and require, and the legislature
shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several
towns, parishes, precincts and other bodies-politic
or religious societies to make suitable provision, at their
own expense, for the institution of the public worship of
God and for the support and maintenance of public
Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality in all
cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.�
Or as in sections 5 and 14 of Article 7, of the
constitution of Mississippi, 1832: �No person who
denies the being of a God, or a future state of rewards
and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil
department of this State . . . Religion, morality and
knowledge being necessary to good government, the
preservation of liberty, and the happiness of mankind,
schools and the means of education, shall forever be
encouraged in this State.� Or by Article 22 of the constitution
of Delaware, 1776, which required all officers,
besides an oath of allegiance, to make and subscribe
the following declaration: �1, A.B., do profess faith in
God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and
in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and
I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and
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New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.�
Even the Constitution of the United States, which is
supposed to have little touch upon the private life of the
individual, contains in the First Amendment a declaration
common to the constitutions of all the States, as
follows: �Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof,� etc. And also provides in Article 1, section
7, (a provision common to many constitutions,) that the
Executive shall have ten days (Sundays excepted)
within which to determine whether he will approve or
veto a bill.
There is no dissonance in these declarations. There
is a universal language pervading them all, having one
meaning; they affirm and reaffirm that this is a religious
nation. These are not individual sayings, declarations
of private persons: they are organic utterances; they
speak the voice of the entire people. While because of
general recognition of this truth the question has seldom
been presented to the courts, yet we find that in
Updegraph v. The Commonwealth, 11 S.& R.394, 400,
it was decided that, �Christianity, general Christianity,
is, and always has been, a part of the common law of
Pennsylvania; . . . not Christianity with an established
church, and tithes, and spiritual courts; but Christianity
with liberty of conscience to all men.� And in The
People v. Ruggles, 8 Johns. 290, 294, 295, Chancellor
Kent, The great commentator on American law, speaking
as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York,
said: �The people of this state, in common with the people
of this country, profess the general doctrines of
Christianity, as the rule of their faith and practice; and
to scandalize the author of these doctrines is not only,
in a religious point of view, extremely impious, but,
even in respect to the obligations due to society, is a
gross violation of decency and good order. . . . The
free, equal and undisturbed enjoyment of religious
opinion, whatever it may be, and free and decent discussions
on any religious subject, is granted and
secured; but to revile, with malicious and blasphemous
contempt, the religion professed by almost the whole
community, is an abuse of that right. Nor are we bound,
by any expressions in the Constitution as some have
strangely supposed, either not to punish at all, or to
punish indiscriminately, the like attacks upon the religion
of Mahomerot of the Grand Lama; and for this
plain reason, that the case assumes that we are a
Christian people, and the morality of the country is
deeply ingrafted upon Christianity, and not upon the
doctrines or worship of those impostors.� And in the
famous case of Vidal v. Girard Executors 2 How. 127,
198, this court, while sustaining the will of Mr. Girard,
with its provision for the creation of a college into which
no minister should be permitted to enter, observed: �It
is also said, and truly, that the Christian religion is a
part of the common law of Pennsylvania.�
If we pass beyond these matters to a view of
American Life as expressed by its laws, its business, its
customs and its society, we find everywhere a clear
recognition of the same truth. Among other matters
note the following: The form of oath universally prevailing,
concluding with an appeal to the Almighty; the custom
of opening sessions of all deliberative bodies and
most conventions with prayer; the prefatory words of all
wills, �In the name of God, amen;� the laws respecting
the observance of the Sabbath, with the general cessation
of all secular business, and the closing of courts,
legislatures, and other similar public assemblies on
that day; the churches and church organizations which
abound in every city, town and hamlet; the multitude of
charitable organizations existing everywhere under
Christian auspices; the gigantic missionary associations,
with general support, and aiming to establish
Christian missions in every quarter of the globe. These,
and many other matters which might be noticed, add a
volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic
utterances that this is a Christian nation. In the face
of all these, shall it be believed that a Congress of the
United States intended to make it a misdemeanor for a
church of this country to contract for the services of a
Christian minister residing in another nation!
Suppose in the Congress that passed this act some
member had offered a bill which in terms declared that,
if any Roman Catholic church in this country should
contract with Cardinal Manning to come to this country
and enter into its service as pastor and priest; or any
Episcopal church should enter into a like contract with
Canon Farrar; or any Baptist church should make similar
arrangements with Rev. Mr. Spurgeon; or any
Jewish synagogue with some eminent Rabbi, such
contract should be adjudged unlawful and void, and the
church making it be subject to prosecution and punishment,
can it be believed that it would have received a
minute of approving thought or a single vote! Yet it is
contended that such was in effect the meaning of this
statute. The construction invoked cannot be accepted
as correct. It is a case where there was presented a
definite evil, in view of which the legislature used general
terms with the purpose of reaching all phases of
that evil, and thereafter, unexpectedly, it is developed
that the general language thus employed is broad
enough to reach cases and acts which the whole history
and life of the country affirm could not have been
intentionally legislated against. It is the duty of the
courts, under those circumstances, to say that, however
broad the language of the statute may be, the act,
although within the letter, is not within the intention of
the legislature, and therefore cannot be within the
statute.
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Why the President Said No
[Grover Cleveland, February 16, 1887]
I return without my approval House bill No. 10203, entitled "An act to enable the
Commissioner of Agriculture to make a special distribution of seeds in the droughtstricken
counties of Texas, and making an appropriation [of $10,000] therefor."
It is represented that a long-continued and extensive drought has existed in certain
portions of the State of Texas, resulting in a failure of crops and consequent distress
and destitution.
Though there has been some difference in statements concerning the extent of the
people's needs in the localities thus affected, there seems to be no doubt that there has
existed a condition calling for relief; and I am willing to believe that, notwithstanding the
aid already furnished, a donation of seed grain to the farmers located in this region, to
enable them to put in new crops, would serve to avert a continuance or return of an
unfortunate blight.
And yet I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan, as proposed by this bill,
to indulge a benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public
funds for that purpose.
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not
believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the
relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service
or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty
should. I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly
enforced that though the people support the Government the Government should not
support the people. [Emphasis added.]
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to
relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately
demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on
the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while
it prevents the �indulgence� among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct
which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
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1. If a verse of the Old Testament is quoted in the New Testament, for a full understanding what must be
done?
( ) a. Well, we can understand the New Testament verse without the Old Testament because the
Old Testament is not for us today.
( ) b. To understand the New Testament verse, we must study the part of the Old Testament con
taing to quoted verse.
2. Congress, in Public Law 97-280, stated that the Bible is �the word of God.�
( ) True. ( ) False.
3. According to Congress, Biblical teachings inspired concepts of Civil Government that are contained in our
Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States.
( ) True ( ) False
4. The statement, �the Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests� is a quotation of:
( ) Rev. Billy Graham. ( ) President Andrew Jackson.
5. According to Congress, we have a �national need to study and apply the teachings of Holy Scripture.�
( ) True. ( ) False.
6. Who is �our Lord� mentioned by �we the people� in the United States Constitution, President Reagan in
the �Year of the Bible� proclamation, President Bush in his �International Year of The Bible Reading� proclamation,
and the United States Supreme Court in Holy Trinity Church vs. United States?
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7. Was America founded upon Jesus Christ, the Bible and Christianity or are the atheists, liberals and others
correct in saying, �America is (and always has been a pluralistic society, not a Christian nation?�
( ) a. America is a Christian Nation. ( ) b. America is a pluralistic society.
8. What do the wicked fear we Christians might find out?
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9. During the first 100 years of this university, 40% of its graduates became ministers?
( ) a. Amherst. ( ) b. Dartmouth. ( ) c. Yale.
10. When Christians speak out against various evils, such as abortion, or pornography, the wicked often
complain �we don�t believe you should force your religion upon other people.� Do their words indicate that
their religion approves of abortion and pornography?
( ) Yes. ( ) No.
11. When the wicked are punished, who does the punishing, church or state?
( ) The Church ( ) The State.
12. Who has the power to enforce morality?
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13. What do the wicked fear?
( ) a. Today�s Christian churches.
( ) b. A Christian government with laws based upon the Bible.
14. What does the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution require?
( ) a. Separation of Church and State.
( ) b. That congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise
thereof:
15. Based upon Runkel vs. Winemiller and Trinity Church vs. United States, the constitutions of
Mississippi, Virginia, Vermont and Massachusetts, the presidential proclamations; would the prohibition of
the Bible and prayer in public schools be a violation of the First Amendment?
( ) Yes. ( ) No.
16. When spoken by a liberal or humanist, �separation of church and state� means;
( ) They are independent bodies.
( ) The Christian religion must, by all means, be kept out of the U.S. Government.
17. From Romans 13:10 what is love?
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18. How does a civil ruler show love for his constituents? (Romans 13:4)
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19. Do Romans 13 and 1 Timothy call for the enforcement of morality by government?
( ) Yes. ( ) No.
20. How did you hear about this course? _____________________________________________________________
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Bible Law Course - Lesson One - Test Sheet Cont.
1. If a verse of the Old Testament is quoted in the New Testament, for a full understanding what must be
done?
( ) a. Well, we can understand the New Testament verse without the Old Testament because the
Old Testament is not for us today.
(X) b. To understand the New Testament verse, we must study the part of the Old Testament con
taing to quoted verse.
2. Congress, in Public Law 97-280, stated that the Bible is �the word of God.�
(X) True. ( ) False.
3. According to Congress, Biblical teachings inspired concepts of Civil Government that are contained in our
Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States.
(X) True ( ) False
4. The statement, �the Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests� is a quotation of:
( ) Rev. Billy Graham. (X) President Andrew Jackson.
5. According to Congress, we have a �national need to study and apply the teachings of Holy Scripture.�
(X) True. ( ) False.
6. Who is �our Lord� mentioned by �we the people� in the United States Constitution, President Reagan in
the �Year of the Bible� proclamation, President Bush in his �International Year of The Bible Reading� proclamation,
and the United States Supreme Court in Holy Trinity Church vs. United States?
JESUS CHRIST
7. Was America founded upon Jesus Christ, the Bible and Christianity or are the atheists, liberals and others
correct in saying, �America is (and always has been a pluralistic society, not a Christian nation?�
(X) a. America is a Christian Nation. ( ) b. America is a pluralistic society.
8. What do the wicked fear we Christians might find out?
THAT CHRISTIANS FOUNDED AMERICA ON JESUS CHRIST AND THE BIBLE
9. During the first 100 years of this university, 40% of its graduates became ministers?
( ) a. Amherst. ( ) b. Dartmouth. (X) c. Yale.
10. When Christians speak out against various evils, such as abortion, or pornography, the wicked often
complain �we don�t believe you should force your religion upon other people.� Do their words indicate that
their religion approves of abortion and pornography?
(X) Yes. ( ) No.
11. When the wicked are punished, who does the punishing, church or state?
( ) The Church (X) The State.
12. Who has the power to enforce morality?
ONLY GOVERNMENT HAS THE POWER TO ENFORCE MORALITY
Bible Law Course
Lesson One
Answer Sheet
13. What do the wicked fear?
( ) a. Today�s Christian churches.
(X) b. A Christian government with laws based upon the Bible.
14. What does the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution require?
( ) a. Separation of Church and State.
(X) b. That congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise
thereof:
15. Based upon Runkel vs. Winemiller and Trinity Church vs. United States, the constitutions of
Mississippi, Virginia, Vermont and Massachusetts, the presidential proclamations; would the prohibition of
the Bible and prayer in public schools be a violation of the First Amendment?
(X) Yes. ( ) No.
16. When spoken by a liberal or humanist, �separation of church and state� means;
( ) They are independent bodies.
(X) The Christian religion must, by all means, be kept out of the U.S. Government.
17. From Romans 13:10 what is love?
LOVE IS THE FULFILLING (ENFORCEMENT) OF THE LAW
18. How does a civil ruler show love for his constituents? (Romans 13:4)
BY USING HIS CIVIL AUTHORITY TO BRING VENGEANCE UPON HIM
THAT DOETH EVIL. (Romans 13:4)
19. Do Romans 13 and 1 Timothy call for the enforcement of morality by government?
(X) Yes. ( ) No.
Bible Law Course - Lesson One - Answer Sheet Cont.




Deuteronomy Chapter One
It is important to read this chapter
before continuing.
(1) (Verse 3, use the King James Version) “And it
came to pass ... that Moses spake unto the children
of Israel according to ______ that the Lord had given
him in _________________________ unto ________".
Qualifications For Leadership
(2) In Deuteronomy l:13 Moses gave three qualifications
for elected leaders:
a. __ __ __ __.
b. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __.
c. __ __ __ __ __.
(3) In verses l6 and l8, Moses used the words "at that
time." "That time" is recorded in Exodus l8:13-27.
Four additional qualifications for leaders are listed.
They are:
a. __ __ __ __ MEN
b. Such as __ __ __ __ __ __ __.
c. MEN of __ __ __ __ __.
d. Hating __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __.
(4) Deuteronomy 32:18 says that Moses and Israel
followed “the Rock.” In 1 Corinthians 10 Paul is
explaining the Old Testament. In verse 20 Paul
quotes Deuteronomy 32:17. The God of the Old
Testament was called “the Rock.” In 1 Corinthians
10:4 Paul tells us,
“That Rock was _____________________”.
(5) So, in today’s world, those who “fear God” (The
Rock) and, therefore, meeting one of Moses’ qualifications
for public office are:
( ) Atheists.
( ) Christians.
( ) Agnostics.
( ) Humanists.
(6) In Holy Trinity v. United States, Supreme Court
Justice Brewer declared that The United States of
America is a Christian Nation. If Moses were alive
today, whom would Moses disqualify from political
office in our Christian land?
( ) Atheists.
( ) Christians.
( ) Agnostics.
( ) Humanists.
In the Maryland and Texas Bill of Rights, public
office is forbidden to atheists. In fact, eleven of the
first thirteen colonies required faith in Jesus Christ
and the Bible as a basic qualification for holding
public office. For example; the Delaware
Constitution of 1776 prescribes this formal oath:
“I, ____, do profess faith in God the Father, and
in Jesus Christ, His only Son, and in the Holy
Ghost, one God blessed for evermore; and I do
acknowledge the Holy Scriptures in the Old
and New Testament to be given by divine
inspiration.” Have you studied your State
Constitution?
Here A Little - There A Little
How to find answers to your questions.
A key to Bible understanding, and finding the
answers to your questions is in the “here a little,
there a little” principle mentioned in Isaiah 28:9-11.
At first glance Exodus l8:l3-27 and Deuteronomy
1:9-18 appear to be two accounts of the same event.
Closer examination revealed that qualifications for
leaders contained in one are not found in the other.
We had to examine both accounts to find all the qualifications.
A great deal of the Bible is written this
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The Ten Commandments
Bible Law Course
Qualifications for Public Office - Bible Law on Money
Deuteronomy 32:18
Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,
and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
1 Corinthians 10:1-5
(1) Moreover, brethern, I would not that ye
should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were
under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
(2) And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud
and in the sea;
(3) And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
(4) And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for
they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed
them: and that Rock was Christ.
way. For example; Samuel, Kings and Chronicles are
parallels similar to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Examples are:
a. Solomon’s prayer and God’s answer in l Kings
8:22-9:9 and 2 Chronicles 6:l2-7:22.
b. 2 Samuel l0 and l Chronicles l9.
c 2 Kings l8:l3-l9:37, 2 Chronicles 32:l-23 and
Isaiah 36 & 37.
d. 2 Kings 20:l2-2l and Isaiah 39.
Quoting from page 14 of The Biblical Basis of the
Constitution by Dan Gilbert, Justice Holmes said,
“At the foundation of our civil liberty lies the
principle which denies to government officials
an exceptional position before the law and
subjects them to the same rules of conduct that
are commands to the citizen.” This central principle
of the American Constitution --- that no one is
above the law, nor beneath the law, that all citizens
are ‘equal before the law’ is derived directly from the
Bible. In Leviticus 19:15, it is provided: Ye shall do
no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt
not respect the person of the poor, nor honor
the person of the mighty. The American Colonists
were the first group of men in the history of the
world to write into the enduring law, the
Constitution, of their nation a confirmation and
enforcement of this Divine Commandment.” Chief
Justice Taft said, “Equal protection of the laws
means and safeguards ‘equality of treatment of all
persons’. The Divine principle, ‘Ye shall not respect
persons in judgment’, was given its highest human
expression in the American Constitution’s provision
for a “government of laws not of men.”
The very oath which each Justice of the United
States Supreme Court takes upon ascending the
Bench is based upon Deuteronomy 1:16-17. That
oath is, “I do solemnly swear that I will administer
justice without respect of persons, and do equal right
to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully
and impartially discharge and perform all the duties
incumbent upon me as Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, according to the best of my abilities
and understanding, agreeably to the
Constitution and laws of the United States: So help
me God.”
(7) May Congress make a law or may a judge interpret
laws to favor the poor, wealthy, or a minority?
(Deuteronomy 1:17 also 1 Peter 1:17)
( ) Yes. We need more affirmative action and “civil
rights” laws.
( ) No. Before God’s Law all men are treated equally.
(8) Why did the Israelites have to wander forty years
in the wilderness? (What were they told to do and
did they do it?)
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(9) In addition to the children of the people who
began the Exodus from Egypt forty years
ago, who else was allowed to enter into the promised
land? (Verse 36 & 38)
J __ __ __ __ __ and C __ __ __ __.
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Deuteronomy Chapter Two
Read before continuing
(10) What does God do to prepare the way for His
armies?
He puts F__ __ __ and D__ __ __ __ of us upon His
enemies.
The Bible And Money
(11) When Jesus Christ went to Church, where did
He sit? (Mark 12:41-44)
( ) a. In the front. ( ) c. At the door.
( ) b. In the back. ( ) d. Beside the collection
box.
(12) Why did He sit there?
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Money is one of the things that interest people most.
Money is the one thing that many people believe is
to be of no interest to the average Christian. We
seem to think that the Bible, the prophets, and Jesus
Christ had no interest in money, except perhaps to
“give it to the poor.”
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Isaiah, Money And America
Read Isaiah 1:21-24 before continuing
First we are going to see how Isaiah 1:22 has come
to pass in our lifetime, in America, before our very
eyes. Next, we will see how the violation of just one
little Bible Law made all this possible.
Isaiah 1:22 reads, “Thy silver has become dross,
thy wine mixed with water.” The word translated
“silver” is the same word translated “money.”
“Dross” is worthless. If Isaiah were alive today, he
might say, “Your money has become worthless
and your coffee cream has become a non-dairy
product.”
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If you are like most people, it happened right before
your eyes but you never noticed it. Let’s begin with a
discussion of Article 1, Section 10 of the United
States Constitution.
In the book of Deuteronomy, Moses uses the word
“money” nine times. Deuteronomy 2:6 is the first
mention of the word money. There are the nine
places in Deuteronomy using the word “money”: (To
discover the Bible’s teaching on a subject, look up the
key words in a good concordance such as Strong’s.)
2:6. “Ye shall buy meat of them for money...”
2:6. “shall also buy water of them for money..”
2:28. “Thou shall sell meat for money...”
2:28. “give me water for money, that I may...”
14:25. “Then thou shalt turn it into money...”
14:25. “and bind up the money in thine hand...”
14:26. “And thou shalt bestow that money for...”
21:14. “thou shalt not sell her at all for money...”
23:19. “usury of money, usury of victuals, usury...”
In the book of Deuteronomy the word silver is used
six times:
7:25. “thou shalt not desire the silver or gold...”
8:13. “thy silver and thy gold is multiplied,..”
17:17. “multiply to himself silver and gold...”
22:19. “him and a hundred shekels of silver,..”
22:29. “damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver...”
29:17. “wood and stone, silver and gold...”
In each case the word translated money is word
#3701 in the Hebrew dictionary of Strong’s
Concordance. (Strong’s Concordance is available at
any book store.) The word translated money is the
exact same word which is translated “silver.” Also
word #3701 Silver!
(13) Therefore, what did Moses call money? (Also
Genesis 23:15-16)
The Coinage Act of 1792 and the United States
Statute Codes both declare thus: “The money of
account of the United States shall be expressed in
dollars...” Reference 31U.S.C. 371 and Coinage Act of
April 2, 1792, Section 20. This Coinage Act also
defined a dollar as 375 & 1/4 grains of fine silver. A
“dollar” is a coin containing, by weight, 375 & 1/4
grains of fine silver. The act did not establish a
“gold” dollar. Rather gold coins were valued in relation
to silver. That is, a ten “dollar” gold piece called
an “Eagle” contained ten silver dollars worth of gold.
The act also affixed the death penalty for the crime
of debasing the coinage.
(14) Gasoline is expressed in gallons, concrete is
expressed in cubic yards, money is expressed in:
__ __ __ __ __ __ __.
(15) A gallon is a measure of gasoline.
a. ( ) True. ( ) False.
A gallon is gasoline.
b. ( ) True. ( ) False.
A dollar is a measure of value
c. ( ) True. ( ) False.
A dollar is value.
d. ( ) True. ( ) False.
A shekel is also a measure of money.
e. ( ) True. ( )False.
(See Deuteronomy 22:19,29)
Isaiah 1:16-27
(16) Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil
of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do
evil;
(17) Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the
oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the
widow.
(18) Come now, and let us reason together, saith
the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall
be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.
(19) If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the
good of the land:
(20) But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be
devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the
Lord hath spoken it.
(21) How is the faithful city become an harlot! it
was full of judgement; righteousness lodged in it;
but now murderers.
(22) Thy silver is become dross, thy wine
mixed with water:
(23) Thy princes are rebellious, and companions
of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth
after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither
doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
(24) Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts,
the mighty One of Israel, Ah I will ease me of
mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
(25) And I will turn my hand upon thee, and
purely purge away thy dross, and take away all
thy tin:
(26) And I will restore thy judges as at the first,
and thy counsellers as at the beginning: afterward
thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the
faithful city.
(27) Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and
her converts with righteousness.
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Most people think that a dollar is money. We just
read in the Coinage Act of 1792 that “money . . .
shall be expressed in dollars.” Here are the definitions
of “money” and “dollar.”
Money: A medium of exchange. Money is a tool to
transfer property from one person to another just as
a wagon hauls goods from one place to another.
Simply put, money is a medium of exchange.
(Examples of money: Federal Reserve Notes, United
States Notes, Money Orders, Checks, Postage
Stamps, Coins, Tokens, Food Stamps, in prison, it is
not unusual for cigarettes to be used as money.)
Our nation’s Christian founders knew the Bible’s
requirements for just weights and measures. They
also knew Amos 8:4-7 and its application to the
banking community, “Hear this, O ye that swallow
up the needy, even to make the poor of the
land to fail . . (by making). . . the ephah small
and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances
by deceit”
To help prevent monetary deceit the Founding
Fathers made money a function of government by
writing into the Constitution:
“Congress shall have the power . . to coin
money, (and) regulate the value thereof, . . and
fix the standards of weights and measures”
Article 1, Section 8 Clause 5
“No State shall. . . coin money, emit bills of
credit, make anything but silver and gold coin
a tender in payment of debts. . . “Article 1,
Section 10 Clause 1.
To “fix the standards of weights and measures”
of money the dollar was defined by law:
Dollar: A measure of money equal in value to 375 &
1/4 grains of fine silver. The “silver dollar” is a coin
containing 375 & 1/4 grains of silver.
Today we carry in our pocket or purse pieces of paper
called “dollars.” We also have coins called half-dollars,
quarter-dollars and dimes. In times past they
contained silver metal. However, today none contain
silver metal. As a result, some “dollar” coins have
more value than others. Our paper “dollars” have
one value today and less next year. In the foreign
exchange the dollar’s value changes day by day.”
Today’s dollar does not have a fixed value. Someone
or some system has “redefined” the dollar.
(“Redefining” and “redefinition” as a doctrine of the
Humanist Religion is found in Lesson Three. Stay
tuned!)
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Before Continuing, Read Haggai 1:1-7.
(16) In verses 5-7, Haggai told us to consider our
ways. In verse 6 he talked about wages. Haggai compared
a paycheck to “a bag full of holes.” The holes
could be F.I.C.A., Federal Taxes, State Taxes, Local
Taxes, Union Dues, Health Insurance, etc.. You
brought home the remainder of your paycheck and
guess what, you wondered where it went! What did
God say he did to the paycheck? (See Haggai 1:9)
“I (God) did __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __.”
He blew it away! At that time God was displeased
because the people were not building His house.
Perhaps ministers would argue that the people had
money problems because they were not contributing
to the church, i.e., not building the Lord’s house. In
this course you will discover we have a different
answer. When America, and the people in America,
have money problems, it’s because they have
(unknowingly) violated God’s economic laws. (We are
not talking about tithing.) We have violated His economic
laws on the job, in government, in the banks,
EVERYWHERE! And, if we obey God’s Law on
money, we will, as a nation, be wealthy, in fact,
overnight!
Before continuing, read Deuteronomy 28:1-14 concerning
wealth resulting from keeping God’s Law.
Then read Deuteronomy 28:15,43,44 and 48 about
the poverty that is coming upon us for violating
God’s Law, including His laws on money. As you
read, notice the repetitive wording, “the Lord shall.”
(Think about the words “the Lord shall.” Is it simple
cause and effect or is God alive and actively bringing
this to pass today?) Is Jesus Christ in control in
America today, or is it simply cause and effect?
You say, but wherein have we violated God’s Law on
money? I didn’t even know that God had laws about
money! First some background information;
At one time we had a Constitutional 100% silver
“dollar” containing 375 & 1/4 grains of pure silver.
Our paper dollars had the exact same fixed value.
That silver dollar coin was replaced with a 40% silver
Eisenhower “dollar.” That coin was replaced by a
Audit the FED --- No Way!
Hidden in the 14th Amendment --- The national debt
shall not be questioned.
In Section 4 it reads, “The validity of the public
debt of the United States . . . shall not be questioned.”
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debased copper/nickel “dollar” containing no silver
whatsoever. That non-silver “dollar” was replaced by
the Susan B. Anthony “dollar” that looked like a
quarter. Most of us noticed the decreased purchasing
power, but we do not see the other ways used to
plunder our pay check.
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Money and Government
In England, on December 17, 1945, the Duke of
Bedford was speaking before the House of Lords
about the Brenton Woods International Monetary
Agreement, he said, “Then there is the very
grave objection indeed that we are proposing
to hand over control of our economic life, in a
very large measure, to a gang of representa -
tives of Wall Street finance who are responsible
to no one and are above every
Government.” The Duke said, “(Wall Street
Bankers) are responsible to no one and above every
Government”.
New York’s international bankers lend credit and
money to all of the world’s governments. Several
New York banks have offices in Moscow. Few
Americans are aware that the mighty Red empire
was in debt to the New York Banks for billions of dollars.
Even fewer know that the Communist revolution
of 1917 was funded by loans from New York
bankers. The United States of America and the
other nations are in debt to the very same Bankers!
Who ran the Soviet Union? Was the Red Communist
Party or was it the Banker that advances credit or
refuses it? In Proverbs 32:7, King Solomon wrote,
“the borrower is servant to the lender.” Does
this apply only to individuals, or is it also true of
governments?
The Duke of Bedford pointed to the international
bankers and said they are “responsible to no one and
are above every Government.” The Banking (lending)
families control the (borrower) governments.
They also own or control business and industry
including “ships in the sea.” One of our past
Presidents, James A. Garfield wrote, “Whoever con -
trols the volume of money in any country is absolute
ruler of all industry and commerce.”
The type of government, the national religion, the
political system, even war between nations has no
effect on the multinational merchants of the earth.
They continue to gather wealth unto themselves
whether the nations are at peace or at war. How was
this accomplished?
The answer is in The Ten Commandments that God
gave at Mt. Sinai . The connection between banking
and two of these ten commandments is a mystery. In
this course we will solve this mystery. By course end
you will know more real knowledge about money
than a College graduate in Economics. This is
important information for Christians, Why?
Marriages succeed or fail often over money problems.
Sick people live or die depending upon their
ability to afford health care. Businesses succeed or
fail, all over money. If businesses do not make money
they can not keep their work force. Government
problems are almost all related one way or another
to money.
To implement The Ten Commandments, God gave
additional instructions. In Leviticus 19 He commanded
exact measurements for merchandise. Verse
35, “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment,
in meteyard (a yardstick), in weight, or
in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just
ephah (a grain measure), and a just hin (a liquid
measure), shall ye have.” The chapter concludes
with, “Therefore ye shall observe all My
statutes, and all My judgments, and do them: I
am the Lord”. Notice this verse, like many others
ended with “I am the Lord”. When Congress
or a Legislature writes a law, that law includes a
statement is to show the authority for writing that
law. In God’s case he just says, “I am the Lord.” And
that is why we are to observe “all” His law even
these statutes commanding just and exact measurements.
Why? Simply because He says so. (God says,
I am the boss, that’s why.)
The Christians who wrote the United States
Constitution in compliance with God’s Law ordered
Congress: “To coin money, regulate the value
thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standards
of weights and measures.” (Article 1, Section 10)
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16 KJV
(13) Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers measures,
a great and a small.
(14) Thou shalt not have in thine house divers
measures, a great and a small.
(15) But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight,
a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that
thy days may be lengthened in the land which the
Lord thy God giveth thee.
(16) For all that do such things, and all that do
unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord
thy God.
Proverbs 11:1 KJV
(1) A False balance is abomination to the Lord: but
a just weight is his delight.
It is easy to understand how merchants could steal
if they are allowed to change the size of the bushel,
gallon or pound. You can see that. What if the service
stations could set their pumps to show more gallons
than you received? Or the feed store to set their
scales to whatever they wanted? It is easy to see
that, under these circumstances, trade and commerce
could not function. Exact measurements
known and understood by all parties are an absolute
necessity for civilized society.
God commands exact standards for the pound, gallon,
inch, foot, and so on. Christian government does
much to eliminate confusion and keep merchants
honest by “fixing the standards of weights and measure.”
Milk must contain so much butter fat. Ten
penny nails are all the same length. All of these are
set by law for the good of the people and to establish
honesty and stability in business and commerce. But
today’s government regulates and “fixes” everything
except the value of the dollar. The dollar is the one
thing that measures all others. The dollar has its
purchasing power controlled by a privately owned
banking business deceitfully named “The Federal
Reserve.” After 1913 our government no longer controlled
the value of the dollar as called for in the
Constitution. These Banking families own or control
governments, corporations, radio, T.V. and newspapers.
They make their fortunes in money and credit.
In economic areas, they make the rules and they set
the measurements. They establish or change interest
rates at will. They control the actual amount of
money or credit available to the people and to our
government. (More in later lessons.)
Their method of control is hidden, secret and
unknown to the public. It is a mystery. The Banker’s
method makes the modern dollar an unjust balance
and a diverse weight. It is a crafty way to rule the
world while plundering the producer and enriching
the money lender. God said through Amos, “They
make the ephah small and the sheckel great
and falsify the balances by deceit that they
may buy the poor for silver and the needy for
a pair of shoes”. How this is done is a mystery. We
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will start to solve the mystery in this lesson.
Now, let’s examine the paper “dollar.” In your pocket
you will find a Federal Reserve Note labeled “ONE
DOLLAR”. The writing on this document states that
it is a “note,” specifically, a Federal Reserve Note.
According to Black’s Law Dictionary, for a “note” to
be a real “note,” it must meet four qualifications; (1)
Identify who is paying; (2) State what is being paid;
(3) State who is being paid; and, (4) State when payment
is made.
Some time ago we had Silver Certificates. Below is a
sample of the writing on a U.S.Government Silver
Certificate. It Identifies:
(1) Who is paying --- The United States of America;
(2) Who is being paid --- The bearer;
(3) It states what is being paid ---Silver;
(4) When payment is made ---On demand.
In 1913 the Congress gave up their Constitutional
mandate to “coin money and regulate the value
thereof” according to Article 1, Section 8 of the
United States Constitution. Private businessmen
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Ima Student date
777 My Street
Anytown, USA
Pay to the order of Remnant Publications $10.00
Ten and no/100 Dollars
Your Town Bank
Anytown, USA By (Signed by Ima Student
(1) Who is paying?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . You through your bank.
(4) When payment is made?
. . . . . . . . . . . . The date you write on the check.
(3) Who is being paid?
. . . . . . . . . . The person you name on the check.
(2) What is being paid?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The amount of the check.
The checks that you write out of your checkbook are also notes. The check identifies:
Isaiah 47:10 KJV
(10) For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou
hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy
knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast
said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
5 Silver Certificate 5
This certifies that there is on deposit in the treasury of
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
This certificate is
legal tender for all
debts, public and private
(Signed by) (Signed by)
N. O. Woode A. W. Melton
Treas. of U.S. Sec. of Treasury
FIVE DOLLARS
5 In Silver Payable to the bearer on demand 5
1
3
2
4
were authorized by Congress to set up the “Federal”
Reserve Banking System. (A deceptively named, privately
owned corporation.) Most people believe that
the Federal Reserve System is a part of the U.S.
Government. But it is “Federal” only in name, but no
more a part of our government than Federal
Products Corp. or Federal Steel Erectors Inc. If you
believe the Federal Reserve Bank is a part of the
Federal Government, simply look in the telephone
book under U.S. Government. Then look under
“Federal” in the private business pages.
The very first Federal Reserve Notes were literally
“as good as gold,” just as United States Government
Silver Certificates were “as good as silver.” - -Here
is the writing on the first Federal Reserve Note
issued in 1914. On the reverse side of this note, we
could read the following: “This note is receivable by
all National Banks and Member banks and for all
taxes, customs and other public uses. It is
redeemable in gold on demand at the Treasury
Department of the United States in the city of
Washington, District of Columbia or in gold or lawful
money at any Federal Reserve Bank”.
This ad below appeared in the July 16, 1979 issue of
Computer World. Notice the first paragraph of the
ad states that the Federal Reserve is not a branch of
the Government. At the bottom of the ad notice the
seal containing the “Inc.” This is the private seal of
a private company. “Inc” means incorporated.
Over the years words have been removed from
the Federal Reserve Notes, a few words at a time.
The words gradually and quietly removed included,
will pay, to the bearer, on demand, gold, silver,
redeemable and lawful money. These gradual
changes took many years and their importance went
unnoticed by the general public. If you take an older
Federal Reserve Note to your bank, point out the
“redeemable in lawful money statement”, then ask
for “lawful money”, if the teller understands your
request, she will have to say, “I’m sorry sir, but we
have no lawful money.” What is “lawful money?”
What were you asking the teller to give you in
exchange for the paper dollar?
Definition of “Lawful Money”: “The terms ‘lawful
money’ and ‘lawful money of the United States’ shall
be construed to mean gold and silver coin of the
United States.” 12 U.S.C. 152
The teller had no silver coins. Therefore, the Bank
had no “lawful money!” Today’s Federal Reserve
Notes have no promise to pay. They do not state that
they can be redeemed for anything such as “lawful
money,” silver or gold. They claim to be money (legal
tender). They are not issued by the government but
by a private banking corporation. The government
now says the “notes” of private corporations (banks)
were now lawful money (legal tender). With all these
changes, are these “notes” still “notes”? What does
the law dictionary say?
According to Black’s Law Dictionary, for a “note” to
be a real “note”, it must (1) Identify who is paying;
(2) State what is being paid; (3) State who is being
paid; and, (4) State when payment is made. For
example, the Silver Certificate, a real note, stated:
1. Who is paying? --- The United States of America
2. What is being paid? --- Silver (Measured in dollars)
3. Who is being paid? ---The bearer
4. When payment is made? ---Upon demand
The older 1928 Federal Reserve Note above stated:
1. Who is paying? --- The United States of America
2. What is being paid? --- Ten Dollars (Like “ten gallons”)
3. What is being paid? ---The bearer
4. When payment is made? --- Upon demand
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July 16, 1979 Computerworld
position announcements position announcements
Programmers
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Some people still
think we’re a branch of the Government. We’re not. We’re the
banker’s bank.
At the San Francisco Fed, our Computer Services Group
continues to be a model for the National Federal Reserve
System. We are using 2 IBM system 370/158’s running under
CICS. Our branch data centers all run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .rtunity for advancement in your
career, we’ll be pleased to receive your resume addressed to
K. Campbell, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, P.O. Box
7702, San Francisco, CA 94120. An equal opportunity
employer m/f/h.
Federal
Reserve
Bank of
San Francisco
At the bottom of the ad there
was their Corporate Seal containing
“Inc.” This is the private
seal of a private company.
“Inc.” means incorporated.
Now, to illustrate some of the modern day deception,
let’s compare a modern Federal Reserve Note alongside
a Monopoly Game “dollar.” Here is a picture of
a one dollar note from a Monopoly game and the
writing on a newer Federal Reserve Note. Now fill in
the blanks for a Monopoly Game dollar note. Be sure
to fill in the blanks according to the writing on the
note. Not what you may think may be written upon
it. If the answer is not written upon the note, write
“does not say.” (Or perhaps “quietly removed”.)
ON THE MONOPOLY GAME NOTE:
1. Who is paying? ____________________
2. What is being paid? ________________
3. Who is being paid? _________________
4. When payment is made? _____________
ON THE FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE:
Now fill in the blanks for a modern Federal Reserve
Note. Be sure to fill in the blanks according to the
writing on the note from your pocket. Not what you
may think may be written upon it. For example:
“The United States of America will pay,” not just
“The United States of America.” If the answer is not
written upon the note, write, “does not say.”
1. Who is paying? ____________________
2. What is being paid? ________________
3. Who is being paid? _________________
4. When payment is made? ____________
(17) Does a modern Federal Reserve note state
specifically who will pay someone else?
( ) Yes. ( ) No.
(18) Does the Fed note say what, if anything, will be
paid?
( ) Yes. ( ) No.
(19) Does the Fed note say who is to be paid?
( ) Yes ( ) No.
(20) Does a Monopoly game note state specifically
who will pay someone else?
( ) Yes. ( ) No.
(21) Does the Monopoly note say, if anything, will be
paid?
( ) Yes. ( ) No.
(22) Does the Monopoly note say who is to be paid?
( ) Yes. ( ) No.
(23) Does the Fed note say when anyone will be
paid?
( ) Yes. ( ) No.
(24) Is the modern Federal Reserve Note a “note” by
meeting the four requirements of Black’s Law
Dictionary?
( ) Yes. ( ) No.
(25) Does the Monopoly note say when anyone will
be paid?
( ) Yes. ( ) No.
(26) Is the Monopoly Game note a “note” by meeting
the four requirements of Black’s Law Dictionary?
( ) Yes. ( ) No.
(27) Monopoly game money has value as long as the
players play the game. When the game is over, the
Monopoly money has no value at all. Likewise,
Federal Reserve “Notes,” which contain no promise
to pay, work as money in our society as long as all
the citizens play the game. If the public (or the
banker) quits playing the game, how much value
will the Federal Reserve Notes have? ____________.
Lesson Two - Page 8
1 Federal Reserve Note 1
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
This note is legal tender
for all debts, public and private
(Signed by) (signed by)
Treas. of U.S. Sec. of Treasury
1 ONE DOLLAR 1
(28) Is it as Isaiah said in Isaiah 1:22? “Your silver
has become dross...” Or more accurately, since the
word translated “silver” could also be translated
“money” and “dross” is worthless, “your (money) has
become (worthless)...”
( ) Yes.
( ) No.
To find out how we, as a nation, have been robbed,
given worthless paper, and placed in unpayable
debt, we need to see how we have violated only one
of God’s Laws.
God, in His mercy, has provided a quick cure.
National obedience to this other Bible Law can get
us out of this mess literally overnight.
This other law on money is not tithing but has to do
with the Scripture quotation on our liberty bell
which reads,
“Proclaim Liberty Throughout All The Land
Unto All The Inhabitants Thereof....”
So that there is no misunderstanding; In this
Lesson, we are not necessarily teaching you that
Checks, Federal Reserve Notes or Money Orders are
“bad”. The mystery of money is more complicated
than that. It is not only religious, but it is also political
and economic. Details in later lessons.
You often hear of Bankers foreclosing on Farmers
and Businesses, but you never hear of a Farmer or
Businessman foreclosing on a Bank! How do they do
it?
How is it that Bankers, who produce no tangible
product, make millions, while Farmers and
Businessmen, who produce the nations goods and
services, are always in debt to the nonproducing
Banker? The answer is in future lessons. “Stay
tuned.”
In this lesson we spent much of our time on an introduction
to the Bible’s Money Laws. Many other
areas of national life are developing into areas of
chaos and trouble. Does God approve of our present
day public policies? Does God have solutions to our
other modern day national problems? The answer is
“Yes”.
Christians are the only people who can solve
America’s problems. But few Christians know how to
do it. You are about to learn the secret. The wicked
will flee when we shine the light of truth on them.
We can have victory in Jesus. We can have fun doing
it.
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Some aids to your study.
With your first two lessons, this is a perfect
time to obtain a 3-ring binder to contain
these and future lessons in an orderly manner.
You will notice that your lessons come
already punched for this purpose.
A 1-inch binder will suffice, at least at
the beginning. You may want to move up to
a 2-inch one later, especially if you want to
keep any extra reference items in addition
to the Bible Law Course.
While you are at the office supply store
you might wish to pick up a set of index
dividers to keep your lessons separate and
easy to find.
What Bible to use?
One of the first questions many have is
what version of the Bible do you recommend?
You will find this course was originally
written around the KJV (King James
Version.) However, some reference is made
to other versions.
We don’t want to start a fight with the
KJV only vs. anything but the KJV crowd.
You can, also, use what is referred to as a
“Parallel Bible.” These are Bibles that have
two or more versions printed “parallel,”
that is: the King James Version will be in
the left column while another version(s)
will be in the right column(s). The compared
version will usually be the American
Standard Version or the Amplified Version.
If you are a Catholic you will find The
New Revised Standard Version or the more
traditional “Douay” version will work fine
with this course.
If you are a serious student some other
versions are worth your consideration: The
Septuagint and the Ferrar Fenton Versions.
Beside your Bible or Bibles as the case
may be, a most useful aid is the Strong’s
concordance. Not only does it list every
word in the Bible but, also, has a Greek and
Hebrew dictionary of the same words.
Throughout this course you will find references
to Strong’s Hebrew dictionary as to
the meaning of certain words. Each word in
Strong’s is given a number which refers to
where its definition is located in either the
Hebrew or Greek dictionary sections.
We would be safe to say that the
Strong’s Concordance is a necessity for any
serious student of the Bible. They can be
purchased for as little as $20.00 at some
Christian book stores.
Bible Law Course
Lesson Two
Test Sheet
1. According to ______ that the lord had given him
in __________________________ unto _________
2. a. _____________ 3. a. __________ men.
b. _____________ b. Such as _______________
c. _____________ c. Men of ________________
d. Hating ________________
4. _______________ 5. ( ) Athiests.
( ) Agnostics.
( ) Christians.
( ) Humanists.
6. ( ) Athiests. 7. ( ) Yes. ( ) No.
( ) Agnostics.
( ) Christians.
( ) Humanists.
8. _____________________________________________
_____________________________________________
9. ___________________ and ____________________
10. He puts ______________ and ________________
upon his enemies.
11. ( ) a. ( ) b. ( ) c. ( ) d.
12. ____________________________________________
____________________________________________
13. ______________ 15. a. ( ) True ( ) False
b. ( ) True ( ) False
14. ______________ c. ( ) True ( ) False
d. ( ) True ( ) False
e. ( ) True ( ) False
16. I (God) did ___________ _________ ____
17. ( ) Yes. ( ) No. 18. ( ) Yes. ( ) No.
19. ( ) Yes. ( ) No. 20. ( ) Yes. ( ) No.
21. ( ) Yes. ( ) No. 22. ( ) Yes. ( ) No.
23. ( ) Yes. ( ) No. 24. ( ) Yes. ( ) No.
25. ( ) Yes. ( ) No. 26. ( ) Yes. ( ) No.
27. ________________ 28. ( ) Yes. ( ) No.
Bible Law Course
Lesson Two
Answer Sheet
1. According to All that the lord had given him
in Commandment unto Them
2. a. Wise 3. a. Able men.
b. Understanding b. Such as Fear God
c. Known c. Men of Truth
d. Hating Covetousness
4. Christ 5. Christians
6. Athiests 7. No.
8. They were told to possess land of Canaan.
They rebelled against God’s commandment
9. Joshua and Caleb
10. He puts Fear and Dread
upon his enemies.
11. ( ) a. ( ) b. ( ) c. ( X ) d.
12. To see who was making contibutions.
To see how much each person gave.
13. Silver 15. a. ( X ) True ( ) False
(Not gold)
b. ( ) True ( X ) False
14. Dollars c. ( X ) True ( ) False
d. ( ) True ( X ) False
e. ( X ) True ( ) False
16. I (God) did Blow Upon It
17. ( ) Yes. ( X ) No. 18. ( ) Yes. ( X ) No.
19. ( ) Yes. ( X ) No. 20. ( ) Yes. ( X ) No.
21. ( ) Yes. ( X ) No. 22. ( ) Yes. ( X ) No.
23. ( ) Yes. ( X ) No. 24. ( ) Yes. ( X ) No.
25. ( ) Yes. ( X ) No. 26. ( ) Yes. ( X ) No.
27. None 28. ( X ) Yes. ( ) No.