Saturday, December 3, 2022

LIGHT and GLORY

 

Isaiah 60:1-3

King James Version

60 Arise, shine; 

for thy light is come, 

and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

2 For, behold, 

the darkness shall cover the earth, 

and gross darkness the people: 

but the Lord shall arise upon thee, 

and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, 

and kings to the brightness of thy rising.


Do you want to know the beginnings of America?

How GOD shone His light upon a nation, through His ministers?

And to read a book that is unlike any other historical account?

Then, it's time to read the Peter Marshall and David Manuel book, "The Light and the Glory".

Peter Marshall is the son of the chaplain to American presidents, Dr. Peter Marshall.

The original 1977 copy I got is a 359-page book filled with America's CHRISTIAN beginnings.

Here are the personalities, places, and events, that shaped the rich history of America:

Christopher Columbus

Pilgrims

Puritans

George Whitefield

Robert Hunt (chaplain)

Francis Higginson

John Winthrop

John Cotton (minister)

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Perry Miller

Cotton Mather

Thomas Hooker

Michael Wigglesworth

John Eliot (missionary)

Samuel Sewall

H. Richard Niebuhr

Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

George Whitefield

Henry Scougal

William Tennent

David Brainerd

Jonathan Shipley

Josiah Quincy

George Washington

Revolutionary War

Lexington and Concord 

Bunker Hill

Benedict Arnold

Ethan Allen

Deism

Unitarianism

William Prescott

Peter Muhlenberg

John Witherspoon

Henry Knox

Rufus Putnam

George III

Richard Henry Lee

John Adams

Samuel Adams

John Glover (general)

Saratoga

Valley Forge

Isaac Potts 

Washington prayer

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

Benjamin Tallmadge

Alexander Hamilton

Timothy Dwight IV

Benjamin Franklin

Federalist Papers

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Paine

Declaration of Independence


Other important links:

New World

Mayflower

Wampanoag 

Brownist


Related material:

A REASON to GIVE thanks

Being MARSHALLED to the MARSHALLS

FAITH of presidents


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