It seems I’m not the only person to struggle with the competing claims of my faith and my love of country. President Andrew Johnson said, “I do believe in Almighty God! And I believe also in the Bible…Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: “Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,” and exclaim, Christ first, our country next!”
That is such a strong statement from a “lame duck” president. We visited his home and more humble beginnings than his are a rarity. He had to fill the shoes of a great President and that was an impossible task and yet his whole demeanor was that of a Godly man – caught in a political holocast.