In his First Inaugural Address, one of those vitals that President Thomas Jefferson listed as making of Americans a "happy and prosperous people," was this: "[America and its people had been] enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter."

He was speaking of the general influence of Christianity, an influence we must ever have if we expect to remain happy and prosperous. SF.

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