Carl Strom Comments: "..it is increasingly evident that our moral treasury has been laid to waste and with it our greatness."

 

Reply From: Carl Strom
Date: 4/24/2014 1:21:06 AM				Reply
Re: Calvin Coolidge on the Declaration of Independence
Coolidge was right. And the reverence that the forefathers had for things holy was like banking moral capital. As we grew in accordance with the principles on which we were based, our moral capital grew. But it is increasingly evident that our moral treasury has been laid to waste and with it our greatness. There is a profligate vanguard which pays homage to the latest visionaries instead of heeding the adjurations of reality and the spiritual truth our founders knew. We may not be totally gone, but we are moving at an increasing rate ever closer to a despotic condition.   This is what Mr. Strom was referring to in his Email on Calvin Coolidge:   "No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped."  - From Coolidge's speech at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence  July 5, 1926.