Garwood Presbyterian Church

341 Spruce Avenue, Garwood, New Jersey 07027

Phone: 908-789-0360

Patriotic Matching Game

Match the American patriot, landmark, or symbol with their statement about the Christian faith. Some answers may be used more than once.

  1. "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." Lev. 25:10 ____
  2. "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" ____
  3. "Men must be governed by God, or ruled by tyrants." ____
  4. "... Christ's cross is Christ's way to Christ's crown. This is the subject of the following discourse ... that thou mayest be won to Christ, or if won already, brought nearer to Him. It is the path which God in his everlasting kindness guided my feet into ... when about two and twenty years of age. I rejoice in my experience, and dedicate it to thy service in Christ." ____
  5. "Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust!' " ____
  6. "Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our constitutions are emphatically Christian ... . ... this is a Christian nation." ____
  7. "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars ... ." ____
  8. "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." ____
  9. In prayer in his library on his knees with his Bible open before him both morning and evening. ____
  10. "Let me live according to those holy rules which thou has this day prescribed in thy holy word; make me to know what is ac-ceptable in thy sight, and therein to delight, help me to examine myself concerning my knowledge, faith and repentance, in-crease my faith, and direct me to the true object Jesus Christ the way, the truth and the life." ____
  11. "In God We Trust" ____
  12. "... the New Testament according to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ." and "In God We Trust, God With Us." ____
  13. A picture of Moses and the 10 commandments. ____
  14. "Praise be to God" ____
  15. "Search the Scriptures" and "Holiness to the Lord" and "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." ____
  16. "What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly and love mercy And walk humbly with thy God." And "The heavens de-clare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork." ____
  17. As was said 3,000 years ago, so it still must be said, 'The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' " ____
  18. "God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a na-tion be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." ____
  19. "I Pray Heaven to bestow THE BEST OF BLESSINGS ON This House and All that shall hereafter Inhabit it, May none but Hon-est and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof." ____
  20. Began each day with this prayer, "O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to per-form what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me." ____
  21. "... the light of Christianity." ____
  22. "And brethren and fellow-countrymen, if it was ever granted to mortals to trace the designs of Providence, and interpret its manifestations in favor of their cause, we may, with humility of soul, cryout, not unto us, not unto us, but to thy name be the praise ... ." ____
  23. "I am resolved to rise with the sun and to study the Scriptures ... ." ____
  24. Said July 4th should be "commemorated as the day of deliver-ance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty from one end of the Continent to the other ... ." ____
  25. "I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught ... ." ____
  1. John Adams
  2. Samuel Adams
  3. Benjamin Franklin
  4. Patrick Henry
  5. The House of Representatives
  6. The Jefferson Memorial
  7. Thomas Jefferson
  8. The Liberty Bell
  9. The Library of Congress
  10. The Lincoln Memorial
  11. James Madison
  12. William Penn
  13. The Rotunda of the Capital
  14. The Senate of the Capital
  15. The Star-Spangled Banner
  16. The Supreme Court
  17. U.S. Supreme Court Decision
  18. George Washington
  19. Inside the Washington Monument
  20. On Top of the Washington Monument
  21. The White House

PATRIOTIC MATCHING GAME - ANSWERS

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  18. F (and G)
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