US Government

NINTEENTH CENTURY

• Restored in the Brethren movement:
  • The sufficiency of the Word of God in church affairs and daily walk.
  • The Body of Christ composed of believers.
  • The priesthood of believers.
  • Weakness in the Brethren movement:
  • Doctrine without the anointing of the Holy Spirit becomes dead letter. "The letter killeth"  2 Corinthians 3:6 
• Restored in the 1858 outpouring.
  • Evangelistic fervor and missionary enterprise.
• Under General Booth, the social implications of the gospel and the believers union in death and resurrection.
• Weakness of the 1858 outpouring:
• Lack of unity.
• Each group had a part, but each group thought that they had the whole.
• A great worldwide missionary movement started.

   

  Degradation:
• By the Nineteenth Century, most of the liberal intelligentsia had rejected much of biblical revelation.
• Atheist lawyer, Charles Lyell, launches all-out attack on biblical history, introducing the concept of uniformitarianism and no global flood by inventing an alternate story to compete what what God says happened.  Lyell was not a good scientist but was an excellent lawyer, selling his story successfully to a degenerate church.
• Darwin was born and raised as at least a third generation Atheist, attending church as a social exercise.  Darwin was greatly influence by Charles Lyell's anti-biblical work.

• 1809 Charles Darwin born
• 1816 American Bible Society founded
• 1821 Mary Baker Eddy born
• 1824 Sunday School Union
• 1830 Brethren movement
• 1830 Mormons founded
• 1830-1833 Lyell publishes The Principles of Geology (anti-biblical effort)
• 1834 Charles Spurgeon born
• 1837 Dwight L. Moody born
• 1847 Karl Marx
• 1852, The first U.S. compulsory school attendance laws.
• 1858 outpouring
• 1859 General Booth of the Salvation Army
• 1859 J S Mill writes Essay on Liberty
• 1864 Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races
• 1867 Karl Marx Das Kapital
• 1871 Jehovah Witnesses founded
• 1875 Theosophical society founded
• 1875 Charles Finney dies
• 1882 Charles Darwin dies
• 1888 The Washington Monument, Washington D.C.
• 1889 T. H. Huxley Agnosticism
• 1899 Dwight L. Moody dies

• 1801-1809 Thomas Jefferson President
• 1809-1817 James Madison President
• 1817-1825 James Monroe President
• 1825-1829 John Quincy Adams President
• 1829-1827 Andrew Jackson President
• 1837-1841 Martin van Buren President
• 1841-1841 William Henry Harrison President
• 1841-1845 John Tyler President
• 1845-1849 James Knox Polk President
• 1849-1850 Zachary Taylor President
• 1850-1853 Millard Fillmore President
• 1853-1857 Franklin Pierce President
• 1857-1861 James Buchanan President
• 1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln President
• 1865-1869 Andrew Johnson President
• 1869-1877 Ulysses Simpson Grant President
• 1877-1881 Rutherford Birchard Hayes President
• 1881-1881 James Abram Garfield President
• 1881-1885 Chester Alan Arthur President
• 1885-1889 Grover Cleveland President
• 1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison President
• 1893-1897 Grover Cleveland President
• 1897-1901 William McKinley President