Most of the 55 founding fathers who worked on the Constitution were members of Orthodox Christian churches, and many were evangelical Christians.

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1856 - A Maryland history textbook contained a story of George Washington and how he was miraculously spared during a battle through direct intervention from God.

1. America was involved in the French & Indian War (1754-1763).
   
2. The British fought against the French for ownership of Ohio and Mississippi rivers and lands.
   
3. Britain sent 2,300 troops to Virginia to align themselves with the American militia.
   
4. George Washington was only 23 years of age and Colonel of the Virginia Militia
   
5. Washington joined British General Braddock.
   
6. July 9 1755 - Washington and Braddock walked into an ambush.
   
7. The French & Indians opened fire on Washington & the British.
   
8. The British lined up in the style they had been trained and were massacred.
   
9. At the end of the battle, 714 of the 1,300 British & American troops were killed.
   
10. Only 30 French & Indians were killed.
    
11. There were 86 British and American officers involved in the battle.
    
12. Orders had been given to the French and Indians to shoot the American officers first.
    
13. Washington was the only officer left on horseback, after the battle, without being shot down.
    
14. Washington had found four bullet holes in his jacket after the battle, and many horses were shot from under him. He never received a wound.
    
15. An Indian Chief confessed 15 years later that he had shot at Washington 17 times without effect. Orders had been given to shoot the officers. The Indian Chief came to pay homage to the Great White Leader who could not be killed. The Chief said, "I have come to pay homage to the man who is the particular favorite of Heaven, and who can never die in battle."
    

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John Adams: "The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God."

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1813 - The American Tract Society wrote the New England Primer: It became the first Primer in America: In order to memorize the alphabet, the Primer attached a Bible phrase to each letter of the alphabet. Early educational leaders were also early political (religious) founders. Early founders of the constitution wrote many of the tracts.

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John Quincy Adams, at 14 years old, received a Congressional appointment as ambassador to the Court of Catherine The Great in Russia.

When asked why July 4th and the birth of the Savior were America's two most joyous and venerated holidays? John Quincy Adams replied:

"Is it not, in the chain of human events, the birth day of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birth day of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity."

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