By Chuck Baldwin
December 23, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

As we approach the celebration of Christ's birth, I am reminded of the words of John Quincy Adams. On July 4, 1837, he spoke these words:

"Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? . Is it not
that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly
linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event
in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration
of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation
of the Redeemer's mission upon earth. That it laid the cornerstone of
human government upon the first precepts of Christianity, and gave to
the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies
announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Savior and predicted
by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets six hundred years before?"

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