This Is the Way...
'For Such a Time as This'
by Robin Webber
M any men and women through history have stood up for what they believed was right and just, even when the majority was against them. Such courage serves to encourage us, whether on the home front or in the halls of power.
In 1955, then Sen. John F. Kennedy wrote a book titled Profiles in Courage. The book contains a number of short stories that depict Americans who made a difference in their time, including John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Sam Houston and a little-known figure, Edmund G. Ross. Mr. Kennedy opened the profile of Mr. Ross by focusing the reader "on a lonely grave, forgotten and unknown, [where] lies 'the man who saved a President.'"
Edmund Ross was the freshman senator from Kansas who cast the pivotal vote of "not guilty" that ultimately derailed any possible conviction of President Andrew Johnson in his 1868 impeachment trial.
The die is cast
Let's understand the times and the man. The Civil War was over. The victorious North, through the "Radical Republican" majority in Congress, was in the process of imposing a harsh peace on the vanquished Southern Confederacy. Mr. Kennedy stated that Abraham Lincoln "prior to his death had already clashed with extremists in Congress, [who] had opposed his approach to reconstruction in a constitutional and charitable manner and sought to make the Legislative Branch of the government supreme."
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Table of Contents that includes "'For Such a Time as This'"
Other Articles by Larry Walker
Courage:
- _When There Is No Road
- _What Is True Leadership?
- _Esther: A Woman of Faith and Courage
- _Why Did He Have to Die?
- _Profiles in Faith: Paul's Beloved Friend and Companion
- _America's Values War
- _Christianity Isn't For Wimps
- _Comfort Zones: Meant to be Broken
- _Courageous Olympic Moments-and the Race We Run
- _Courage Under Fire
- _Courage in an Age of Apathy
- _Eleanor Had It Right
- _What Is True Leadership?
- _For Such a Time As Now
- _When the Angel Leaves the Storm, Part 2
- _Troubling Times for Three British Institutions!
- _Restoration...Person of the Year
- _What We Don't Know Can and Will Hurt Us
- _An Angel of Light?
- _Money in Marriage
- _Bringing Up a Moral Child
- _Financial Security and Peace of Mind
- _Marriage: Foundation of the Family
- _Must We Obey God's Commandments?
- _Teaching Youth Religious Values
- _Right Values: Light in an Age of Confusion
- _The Erosion of Our Moral Ozone
- _The Visionary Insight of J.B. Priestley
- _What Is Your Children's Future?
- _Wrestling With God: A Political and Moral Dilemma
- _How Can You Counter a Degenerating Culture?
- _Values Turned Upside Down in a Generation's Time
- _America's Child Sacrifice
- _Letters From Our Readers - Nov/Dec 2004
- _Will the Family Survive?
- _You Can Win the War Against the Family
- _Is the United States Still a Moral Nation?
- _Liberte! Egalite! Fraternite!
- _10 Practical Ways to Teach Your Children Right Values
- _How Correct is Political Correctness?
- _Christian Values Under Attack
- _Question Whose Authority?
- _Christian Through College
- _What's It Worth to You?
- _Are You Up for the Challenge?
- _Hold on to Your Christian Values... Even in College
- _Going After the Good Stuff
- _Choosing to Cheat
- _When the Angel Leaves the Storm, Part 2
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