Hi All,

Oh, it sure is cold this morning here in Michigan. I really think it's time all you southerners invite me to your place to speak! I'm in need of some sunshine and of being barefoot. I think it went below zero last night so the cold goes right into your bones and makes you want to stay tucked under the covers as long as possible.

I had to get up, though, because the Holy Spirit spoke to me while the covers were up over my head. He said I should share the beginning of my new book, Why We Are Right, so that His people would have a clear understanding of the power that comes when we walk in unity. Now, for all of you who might think I'm going to ask you to reach out and connect with more brothers and sisters in the faith, I'm not going to do that today. What I'm going to give you this morning is something that we can all do individually that becomes a corporate thing and results in something powerful and wonderful for the whole world. Sound amazing?

I came upon an essay that was written by Mark Twain way back in 1905 and that's what I'm sending to you today. Please feel free to forward, copy and paste, print, mail, however you get important things to others. My posts are public domain so please share.

Apparently, Mark Twain was hostile to Christianity and wrote this article as a satire on Christians. His words still ring true today and even though he meant to bring harm to Christians, God can use a skeptic like Mark Twain to help us come together for God's eternal purposes. Amen?

It will be conceded that every man's first duty is to God; it will also be conceded, and with strong emphasis, that a Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code of morals to the polls and vote them. Whenever he shall do that, he will not find himself voting for an unclean man, a dishonest man. Whenever a Christian votes, he votes against God or for Him, and he knows this quite well. God is an issue in every election; He is a candidate in the person of every clean nominee on every ticket; His purity and His approval are there, to be voted for or voted against, and no fealty of party can absolve His servant from his higher and more exacting fealty to Him; He takes precedence of party, duty to Him is above every claim of party.

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

No church organization can be found in the country that would elect men of foul character to be its shepherd, its treasurer, and superintendent of Sunday School. It would be revolted at the idea; it would consider such an election an insult to God. Yet every Christian congregation in the country elects foul men to public office, while quite aware that this also is an open and deliberate insult to God, who can not approve and does not approve the placing of the liberties and well-being of His children in the hands of infamous men. It is the Christian congregations that are responsible for the filling of our public offices with criminals, for the reason that they could prevent it if they chose to do it. They could prevent it without organizing a league, without framing a platform, without making any speeches or passing any resolutions -- in a word, without any concert of any kind. They could accomplish it by each individual resolving to vote for God at the polls -- that is to say, vote for the candidate whom God would approve. Can a man imagine such a thing as God being a Republican or a Democrat, and voting for a criminal or a blackguard merely because party loyalty required it? Then can we imagine that a man can improve upon God's attitude in this matter, and by help of professional politicians invent a better policy? God has no politics but cleanliness and honesty, and it is good enough for men.

...If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country -- a country whose Christians have betrayed it and are destroying it.

Mark Twain, Colliers Magazine, September 2, 1905.

So, my friends, I think Mark Twain said it pretty straight forward for us. I have written a simple booklet called Why We Are Right - Realizing our Potential to Reclaim America for God.  The booklet gives God's opinions on critical issues that we use in our voting decisions, such as abortion, same sex marriages, religious liberties, poverty, bioethics, stem cell research, cloning, the separation of church and state, and other important matters.

I encourage you to get it from me and get it into the hands of every Christian you know. You can make copies in abundance and quote whatever parts you need. I think it's that important. WE really can vote for God this November and reclaim America without making any kind of public uprising. What an incredible statement of power!

Until the whole world hears,

Laura Smith

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