Daily Devotion 335

Posted on Monday, December 1, 2008 at 04:24 by Sister Lori - 0 Comments - Link

'Under God' pastor dead at 97

Posted on Mon 1 Dec 2008 at 1:20 AM by GrandmaRosie - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

ALEXANDRIA, Pa. - The Rev. George M. Docherty, credited with helping to push Congress to insert the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance, has died at 97.

Docherty died on Thanksgiving at his home in central Pennsylvania, according to his wife, Sue Docherty.

She said her husband of 36 years had been in failing health for about three years.

"George said he was going to live to be a hundred and he was determined," she said in a telephone interview Saturday. "It's amazing that he was with us this long."

Docherty, then pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, just blocks from the White House, gave a sermon in 1952 saying the pledge should acknowledge God.

He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and was unfamiliar with the pledge until he heard it recited by his 7-year-old son, Garth.

"I didn't know that the Pledge of Allegiance was, and he recited it, 'one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,'" he recalled in an interview with The Associated Press in 2004. "I came from Scotland, where we said 'God save our gracious queen,' 'God save our gracious king.' Here was the Pledge of Allegiance, and God wasn't in it at all."

There was little effect from that initial sermon, but he delivered it again on Feb. 7, 1954, after learning that President Dwight Eisenhower would be at the church.

The next day, Rep. Charles G. Oakman, R-Mich., introduced a bill to add the phrase "under God" to the pledge, and a companion bill was introduced in the Senate. Eisenhower signed the law on Flag Day that year.

Todays Quote......Thomas Watson

Posted on Sun 30 Nov 2008 at 11:58 PM by GrandmaRosie - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

Prayer Request

Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 10:01 PM by Marseeya - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

My Aunt Malinda is facing lung cancer and surgery. However, the review of her EKG showed significant heart issues. She is going to have further testing to determine if she can withstand surgery or if she will need to have heart surgery prior to the lung cancer surgery. Her tests are on Tuesday. Please pray for healing and wisdom for the doctors.

Thanks prayer warriors!

Marcia

New addition to our family!

Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 9:51 PM by Marseeya - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

After much thought and prayer we have ventured into the land of pets! We have added the most beautiful little girl to our family. Her name is Bailey Sarah and she is of the Beagle variety. Needless to say that we have had our hands full the last few weeks getting acquainted. She is 6 mos old and just a joy. She is crate training and working on sit, stay, up, down and pottying outside. She is at least 50% trained in all except for stay, which is about 25%. If any of you have any training tips please feel free to share with me. Our boys are overjoyed with our new baby girl and have even taken to cleaning up her messes occasionally. Here is a photo of our beautiful baby Bailey!