County of monument: Hartley County
Location of monument: 9th St. & Main St., Channing
Monument text:
(Proper right base):
IN GOD WE TRUST MONUMENT
Love the Lord Your God with all your heart
And with all your soul and with all your mind
And with all your strength
Love your neighbor as yourself
Mark 12:30
One nation under God indivisible with liberty,
and justice for all
Pledge of Allegiance
So help me God
Oath of office, Judiciary Act 1789
(Proper left base):
The religion that has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his Apostles. This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government
Noah Webster
You do well to wish to learn our arts and our life and above all the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a great and happier people than your are. Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this intention.
George Washington
And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty through all the land and all its inhabitants.
Lev. 25:10 on the Liberty Bell
(Proper Front Base):
Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of an other
John Adams
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, preceed [sic] from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible
George Washington
In living by the Bible man becomes both humanized and civilized
Benjamin Rush
This law of righteousness fullfilled [sic] in the blood of Jesus on the cross
(rear base): Blank
(Top panel): The Ten Commandments [King James Version]
1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.