{"id":4433,"date":"2020-11-11T14:56:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2020-11-11T14:59:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:59:19","slug":"pulpits-aflame-with-righteousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4433","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;PULPITS AFLAME WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Not until I went into the churches of <em>America<\/em> and heard her <em>pulpits aflame with righteousness<\/em> did I understand the secret of her genius and power.&#8221;&#8212;&#8211;Alexis de Tocqueville<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was almost two centuries ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If only it could be said of America today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preachers, seek God&#8217;s message, and fire away, this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the rest of the quote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the end, the state of  the Union comes down to the character of the people. &#8230; I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, and it was not there. I sought for it in the fertile fields, and boundless prairies, and it was not there. I sought it in her rich mines, and vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with  righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.&#8221;&#8212;&#8211;Alexis de Tocqueville That was almost two centuries ago. If only it could be said of America today. Preachers, seek God&#8217;s message, and fire away, this week. And the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4435,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/4435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}