helpful to consider the background of the Founding Fathers themselves, the most common denominator being their Christian Faith. This is not something attributed to them by others, but something established by their own writings and background. Out of the fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Christianity was the religion of at least fifty. This means that 90 percent of the delegates were Christians. For an excellent 415 page book covering this subject, we recommend Christianity And The Constitution by John Eidsmoe published by Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan. To learn the truth about the beliefs of the Founding Fathers, Eidsmoe personally read 5,000 letters written by these men. Not only were the Founding Fathers well versed in Scripture, they were also well educated in history. One thing that made the founding of the American Republic possible was the high rate of literacy and high standard of education among the colonists. Eidsmoe gives us an idea of this level: The high caliber of learning at that time is evident from the entrance requirements for colonial colleges. In the 1700s an undergraduate freshman at William and Mary College had to be able to read, write, converse, and debate in Greek. When John Jay applied for admission to King's College in New York at the age of fourteen, one of the entrance requirements he had to fulfill was to translate the first ten chapters of the Gospel of John from Greek into Latin.” 58 The Secret Side of History