Project started in 1999, with all major assemblies completed by 2006. It’s been sitting ever since, and I’m unlikely to ever finish it at this point in my life.
“The Bible has been the book that has held together the fabric of Western Civilization. … The civilization we possess could not come into existence and could not have been sustained without it.”
H.G. Wells
A shade over 25 years after this photo was taken, the last sibling (John) passed away today. As my pastor once said, “Now we start burying each other.” Sadly, not all of the siblings professed faith in Christ, but John did, having believed late in life.
Our 36th annual family Christmas letter may be viewed using the link below:
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
~Benjamin Franklin
“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.”
~President Calvin Coolidge, speech on the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence
