Remembering Christopher Columbus
CHARLOTTE - From his diary: "It was the Lord who put it into my mind, (I could feel His hand upon me), the fact...
Lemuel Haynes
CHARLOTTE - Lemuel means “consecrated to God” and his life was true to his name. Abandoned by his parents, he was given his name...
The Fighting Parson
CHARLOTTE - The role of a pastor is not easily defined. The Bible makes clear the qualifications required, but the potential responsibilities are many...
Roger Sherman
CHARLOTTE - Unfortunately, many United States’ citizens would be challenged to name more than a few of our founding fathers. However, if we are...
Constitutional Rights
CHARLOTTE - Do we have Constitutional rights? Does the term imply that our governing document is the source of those rights? Our founding document,...
Wentworth Cheswell
CHARLOTTE - “Listen, my children, and you shall hear; Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere…” Although Henry Longfellow’s 1860 poem has aided our...
John Wise
CHARLOTTE - In his 1953 book, “Seedtime of the Republic”, Cornell University Professor Clinton Rossiter lists six individuals that he considered to be the...
Independence Day
CHARLOTTE - On America’s 61st birthday, our 6th President, John Quincey Adams began his commemorative speech with rhetorical questions:
“Why is it friends and fellow...
John Quincy Adams
CHARLOTTE - “Duty is ours’, results are God’s” – with that phrase, America’s sixth President answered a question posed by a reporter: why did...
North Carolina Education
CHARLOTTE - Section 1 of Article IX of the North Carolina Constitution titled “Education” reads: “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools, libraries, and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
Obviously, it was presumed that religion and morality were...