Tag: America the Beautiful

50 States acknowledge God "from sea to shining sea" American Minute with Bill Federer "O Beautiful, For Spacious Skies, For Amber Waves of Grain ..." ​ Almost chosen...

American Minute with Bill Federer "O Beautiful, For Spacious Skies, For Amber Waves of Grain..." Almost chosen as the National Anthem in 1926, "America the Beautiful"...

American Minute with Bill Federer   "O Beautiful, For Spacious Skies, For Amber Waves of Grain..." Almost chosen as the National Anthem in 1926, "America the Beautiful"...

American Minute with Bill Federer "O Beautiful, For Spacious Skies, For Amber Waves of Grain..." Almost chosen as the National Anthem in 1926, "America the Beautiful"...

American Minute with Bill Federer "O Beautiful, For Spacious Skies, For Amber Waves of Grain..." Almost the National Anthem, "America the Beautiful" was written by...

In today's American Minute Bill Federer tells the history behind Katherine Lee Bates hymn, America the Beautiful, and Ronald Reagan recounts a spiritual moment with the singing of that hymn in South Korea.

One of our sacred American hymns pleads for America that "God [might] mend [her] every flaw," and most importantly, "confirm [her] soul in self-control, [her] liberty in law." The hymn's poetess apparently knew what most of America's Founding Fathers knew, what common sense knew, what every adult and every school child needs to, ought to, must know today as yesterday: liberty without restraint, without law, without government, without the teaching of, the believing in, and the practicing of morality is not liberty at all.