Timely Quote by Jedidiah Morse

Prescient quote for our times by Jedidiah Morse, father of Samuel Morse in his April 25th, 1799 Election sermon given at Charleston, MA:

To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. In proportion as the genuine effects of Christianity are diminished in any nation, either through unbelief, or the corruption of its doctrines, or the neglect of its institutions; in the same proportion will the people of that nation recede from the blessings of genuine freedom, and approximate the miseries of complete despotism. All efforts to destroy the foundations of our holy religion, ultimately tend to the subversion also of our political freedom and happiness. Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all the blessings with flow from them, must fall with them.

One could equally apply this dire warning to the Church.

When churches worship Christ in vain, and national institutions dutifully eject God and Jesus Christ at the behest of ACLU types, then what can we expect for the future of this once great nation?