Letters to the Editor: June 1996

Re: “Why Home Schooling Is Important For America,” by Samuel Blumenfeld, Chalcedon Report #370, May 1996

While generally appreciating very much articles by Samuel Blumenfeld concerning home schooling, I find I must respectfully disagree with his opinion that George Washington and the other architects of the current United States federal constitution “implicitly understood.... [and] upheld God's sovereignty over man.”

My research over ten years has brought me to the opposite conclusion, namely, that the designers of the current federal U.S. constitution purposely excluded all acknowledgment in the actual written document to God Most High and Messiah, the mediatorial Prince over all nations, including in the matter of biblically required national civil confession and covenanting pursuant to the terms of the Psalm 2 Mandate.

Several months after the completion of a dissertation focused on this, I was provided a facsimile copy of an 1832 work by James Willson, D.D., then pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) Congregation of Albany NY. Dr. Willson was 164 years closer to the ratification of the current federal constitution, and much closer, in my opinion, to understanding the blatant infidelity of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, and Monroe. Willson cites in his work several incidents where various ministers of the gospel asked Washington to declare, straight up or down, whether he was a believer in Jesus Christ pursuant to biblical criteria. Willson tellingly relates how Washington managed to evade ever making a forthright declaration wither for or against Jesus Christ, concluding, as did Jesus, that those who are not for Him are ipso facto against Him. Willson's book is on deposit in the McCartney Library of Geneva College, Beaver Falls PA, for any who wish to read it for themselves.

Sincerely,

Rev. Marshall Pierson, Ph.D.