My, how things have changed…
And not for the better!
It was about 1957. I was in the 2nd grade in a public school.
The mornings began with a pledge to the flag… and a PRAYER. The teacher would allow volunteer students to pray aloud as the rest of the class bowed their heads to pray.
At lunch, a volunteer student would pray again, and bless the meal.
This was not the only classroom praying. It was not the only year prayer was openly allowed. I never recall a teacher proselytizing. What I do recall is that it helped instill in students a reverence for God and a respect for what is right. One parent objected to their child saying the pledge of allegiance to the American flag. That student was allowed to leave the room during the pledge. It didn’t prevent the rest of the class from participating, and the student was not ridiculed by others.
This picture is quite a contrast to public school classrooms today.
Society is quite different today too. Do you think we are better off today?
The farther we go away from God, the closer we are to bondage. Will America make the connection before it’s to late?
My prayer is that we turn quickly, before it is too late to turn.
***Gordon Howie is an author and CEO of Life and Liberty Media***
Friend me on Facebook to get DAILY updates.
“America needs to take a turn in the right direction”
YOU can help!! Share this message with your email list, facebook friends… and click the Donate button on this page NOW!!
Gordon, thank you for posting this. I think one might find a correlation between the banning of prayer in schools with the quick decline in our educational system. I teach in a public college and find it refreshing to sometimes see a student bow his/her head in silent prayer just before taking an exam.
Gordon,
Happy New Year!
As discouraged as I am with the so called leadership of our country I have to understand that none of this has taken God by surprise. The Bible says he holds the heart of kings in his hand. I sometimes wonder if he is allowing all this to get the attention of the so called “church”. We have been playing church for so long we have forgotten to be the church and the true soul winners.
The further the people get away from the land, its principles and disciplines the more selfish, vile and evil they become. Consolidation of animals or people either one are not a good thing.
Keep pressing on. All I know to do is to be faithful walking each day doing the best I know to do to fulfill the calling he has placed on my life.
Lowell
I remember some of these things from the early 1970s…and society was much better off.
How sad that we now have such contempt for the wisdom of the founders of our nation. Men like Benjamin Rush who said:
I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them. We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.