Message to the Children and Youth of America
By the President of the United States
H. Clay Trumbull, the editor of the Sunday School Times, wrote the President of the United States and requested him to write a message to the children and young people of America. The President graciously responded:
"WASHINGTON, June 6, 1876.
To the Editor of the Sunday School Times, Philadelphia.
Your favor of yesterday, asking a message from me to the children and youth of the United States, to accompany your Centennial Number, is this moment received.
My advice to Sunday Schools, no matter what their denomination, is: Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your heart, and PRACTICE THEM IN YOUR LIVES.
To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization, and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
‘Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.’
Yours respectfully, U. S. Grant"
Praise the Lord! I want this message to get to every child and youth of America in 2015 as well!
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