STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
Office of the Governor
KIRK FORDICE
Whereas, in 1994, we again reflect on the goals set forth in past years to understand and recapture our Christian Heritage and to reestablish our original freedom of religious concepts; and
Whereas, we are reminded of the words of James Madison who in 1778 said, “We have staked the whole future of 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”; and
Whereas, James Madison also advocated, “The diffusion of the light of Christianity in our nation” in his Memorial and Remonstrance; and
Whereas, let us now refrain from excluding from our teachings, our textbooks and our thoughts the importance of religious values and activities in America’s private, public and political life; and
Whereas, may we also remember the words in the Declaration of Independence when the Framers noted, “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor”:
Now, therefore, I, Kirk Fordice, Governor of the State of Mississippi, hereby proclaim November 20 through November 26, 1994, CHRISTIAN HERITAGE WEEK in the State of Mississippi and encourage our citizens to join in remembering that individual faith if the power that inspires men of goodwill to lay foundations and to pursue noble goals for themselves and their country.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Mississippi to be affixed.
DONE at the Capitol in the City of Jackson, August 24, 1994, in the two hundred and nineteenth year of the United States of America.
KIRK FORDICE
GOVERNOR
BY THE GOVERNOR
DICK MOLPUS
SECRETARY OF STATE
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