Sermon – Thanksgiving – 1864

You can not have failed to notice how small a part of the peculiar rhetoric of war has ever come from the great makers and masters of war…

Sermon – Thanksgiving – 1863

It is the usage of the divine Word to speak of God’s mystery as the believer’s peace. Concealment, we are told, is a part of the glory of God; and the very darkness…

Sermon – Thanksgiving – 1862 New York

Alexander Hamilton Vinton (1807-1881) graduated from Yale in 1828 and from a theological seminary in 1835. He was pastor of congregations in: Portland (1835-1836)…

Sermon – Thanksgiving – 1853

Charles Wadsworth (1814-1882) graduated from Union College in 1837. He was pastor of congregations in: Troy, NY (1842-1850)…

Proclamation – Thanksgiving Day – 1944

The following is the text of a national Thanksgiving proclamation issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on November 1, 1944. The Thanksgiving day was to take place on November 23, 1944. The images of the Proclamation are from the National Archives and Records Administration.

Proclamation – Thanksgiving Day – 1933

I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do set aside and appoint Thursday, the thirtieth day of November 1933, to be a Day of Thanksgiving for all our people….

Georgia and Prayer

On February 5, 2026, David Barton was selected by the Georgia State Senate as Chaplain of the Day and opened its session with prayer. In his prayer, he thanked God for the blessings bestowed upon the state and its leaders, and asked that the prayers offered over Georgia across the previous three centuries would be […]

Freemasonry in the Founding Era

As a result of the increased attention that Americans are now paying to Freemasonry, there has been a growing number of claims about the relationship of Freemasonry to America’s Founding Fathers and the nation they created. From the outset, we must acknowledge: Freemasonry is a non-Christian organization that, especially after the early 1800s, became an [...]