The Bible and human liberty: America’s 250th birthday is July 4, 2026

In the formative days of the Republic the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the nation is conspicuously evident.  To Washington it contained the sure and certain moral precepts that constituted the basis of his action. That which proceeded from it transcended all other books, however elevating their thought.  To his astute mind moral and religious principles were the "indispensable supports" of political prosperity, the "essential pillars of civil society."  Learned as Jefferson was in the best of the ancient philosophers, he turned to the Bible as the source of his higher thinking and reasoning.  He held that the Bible contained the noblest ethical