Endowed by their Creator

Colleges know all about endowments. Without those monetary gifts many (maybe most) would fail.

Our greatest gift from our Creator is His only Son, Jesus. But we have so many other gifts, otherwise known as blessings. Even the poorest among us is rich compared with people in other countries and throughout history. When we take these blessings for granted, we forget their source and eventually we stop appreciating them.

Our founders recognized that the gifts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness came from God, not man. When man forcibly takes those gifts from fellow men, they attempt to take the place of God. Tyranny results with all its inherit evils: the taking of life, enslavement of the populace, and misery.

“It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.” Patrick Henry